skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fessenheim nearly got out of control in 2016 when water flooded electrical equipment racks. Control of of the reactor rods was interrupted, core temperature was rising uncontrollably. Letting the control rods fall into the core via gravity didn't work anymore either. They had to emergency flood the core with Boron, which luckily worked, the first time this has happened in a western european power reactor.

They assigned the incident level 1, the lowest one, in order to cover it up.

France has huge power demands in cold weather due to badly isolated houses heated with electricity. The power grid is already unstable, France cannot afford to loose much generator power, as they have nothing to replace it with - very few renewables.
> F-22s aren't being manufactured anymore and would far too expensive for the National Guard units these are going to

The 149th and 199th Fighter Squadrons are ANG and fly the F-22A.
Bushehr port: Seven ships ablaze in latest Iran mystery fires
So, ehm, Mobian is just an ARM build of Debian. It literally pulls from the same upstream package archives etc. Also Matrix.org is a well-regarded free software community making an open, privacy first, federated chat software. It's the sort of people you'd want if you care about free software, privacy, openness etc. I am honestly a bit shocked you haven't heard of Matrix.org - they're fairly well know in the community at this point.
lol that you're looking for people that grind leetcode
In terms of directly attributable deaths they are probably pretty similar. Both are good enough compared to coal.
That’s not what they said, they said it’s not a simple cut and dry answer and is a trade off between individual privacy and collecting data to improve the product.
The question was roles not covered by the F-22, F-35, and/or F/A-18, so that response isn't quite on point, even to the extent the F-15EX might also serve that role.
Doesn't this make it (literally) exponentially harder to hire people?
> Police officers aren't being judged or punished for the color of their skin, creed, religion, or sexuality but their choices.

No, many police officers are now being punished for being police officers.

You would just be doing your job properly - no racist actions anything unjust - and now these details leak out.

Yes there are police officers which are racist, I don't have data so I won't say few nor many, but there are. That doesn't justify this.
I stopped applying to FAANG because of the exact reason.
In practice, C2H is more like C2S, where the S is for street. As in where you'll be once bigcorp decides they don't want to pay you anymore.
>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.

These events are noteworthy because of how rare they are for such a large software-based company.
I got into coding through making my own projects and it's not as hard or scary as it may seem. Enlight encapsulates this original learning process really well!
> the only generation that has much disposable income in the U.S

I thought the target market for the Model 3 was primarily software engineers...
Efficacy of these services is not a given relative to low tax + charity.

Additionally, lower government revenue should require cuts from other areas first, like military and corporate subsidies. We shouldn’t accept that any of the supposedly missing Apple tax revenue should affect the poor or uneducated. To threaten such seems unethical.
Congratulations, you've identified a market need. If someone builds a tool to do all this (if the market isn't saturated with them already), companies will pay for it. There's plenty of tools to convert to/from Microsoft Active Directory deployments or varying quality, I don't see why Google should be any different.
I've observed that candidates hamstring themselves in ways that seem to me bizarre. Indeed the interview is an unfamiliar situation, so why would you do something like use a language other than one you know well, or code in an environment you don't feel comfortable in? I have had those happen in interviews I conduct so many times! This is for the "front-door" interview, not the on site.

Somewhere around halfway through, when the candidate is floundering and failing on an objectively quite simple problem (I promise it really is that simple), they'll say something like "sorry, I would usually have no trouble doing this in Scala". At the outset I give the option to use their own setup or Coderpad, either one works; they'll choose Coderpad and then halfway through say something about wishing they had such-and-such from their preferred IDE.

I think there is some psychology at play here, where candidates think if they do it on hard mode, it's extra points or something. I really just need them to solve a simple problem so we can be sure they know how to code. The ability to code with both arms tied behind your back is not a signal we're interested in measuring.
I think there are a lot of hidden biases in hiring that no one will overtly acknowledge e.g. personality, gender, attribute of race (yeah I know, but still there are people unaware of their racial biases), ability to take orders, if they are too good and might threaten their job or make them work harder because they will output more completed work, etc.

usually this line of thinking is summed up as the follow question: Can I see myself working with this person for 40+ hours a week?

then they bring down the axe with the following: not a good 'culture' fit and move on to the next candidate and the broken cycle continues.

This is all in addition to the broken whiteboarding challenges.
New Data on T-Cells and Cornona Virus [Sciencemag.org]
No, immigration from other countries whose fertility is not crashing.
> How about some variation of: (x, y) -> x*y for lambdas?

Why? What problem are you trying to solve here?

That syntax is inconsistent with other syntax in Python and is harder to type (lambda gets tab-completed after typing two home-row characters).

> Scala's method for dealing with laziness through views and iterators works really well.

If you're okay with generic iterables in Scala, I'm unsure what your objection to iter types in Python is.
I'd argue that memorizing solutions is the exact opposite of reinventing the wheel. You implement an existing tried and true approach rather than trying to come up with a clever solution yourself. Most of the work at large tech companies isn't innovative but rather it's tedious work that has to be done to high standards with verbose documentation. This seems to select the right people for that. Remember that selecting against doesn't mean excluding. Enough innovative people will get in to keep pushing things forward.
Right, that's part of what I was citing. But the people vehemently opposing nuclear power plants, like me, are generally also opposing fossil fuels. So that doesn't change anything.
Every year I've noticed the questions get harder too. A hard question in 2012 (off the top of my head, 2 pointer solution to linked list cycle detection) might be considered an easy question today.
Awesome. I love good research into parsing, since parsing is famously "the solved problem that isn't": https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/entries/parsing_the_solved_pro...

I hope to study this paper well (which is by the author of the above post) and understand what their algorithm is. I feel that good error messages make or break a language.

Here is the arxiv link of the same paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.07133.pdf
Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack
Top crypto currency accounts compromised
Mercedes drive hundreds of thousands of miles, they're well known for it...

http://www.mercedesmedic.com/many-miles-mercedes-benz-cars-g...
Because I'm on my work computer and my personal account is in "noprocrastination" mode.

Chill out.
It depends on who we're talking about, but for high quality candidates in software heavy cities, this isn't very true. They are getting tons of offers and there's no reason to accept a trial offer. Plus you can't trial until you've quit your current job so for many people the whole premise makes no sense. It's not like you will have to interview with fewer places, it's just that each interview takes a lot longer.
> Yes fingerprinting is a thing but I don't think it sees that much real-world use.

Fingerprinting is such a pervasive problem on the internet that Safari and Firefox both advertise fingerprinting prevention as a core privacy feature.

It's also used heavily in endpoint security products and services, and was gaining traction in financial institutions as long ago as 2010.
It's a derogatory reference to a race and culture. Can probably find it defined on Wiktionary or Urban Dictionary.
Except email labels (aka search folders) are severely limited
I had the problem with Outlook; I have to use it for work. While waiting for the help desk to get back to me on Outlook crashing, I used "quick repair" and it cleaned up the problem.

https://redmondmag.com/articles/2019/05/10/repairing-office-...
None of that is remotely true: https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&...
I've posted this before on HN: Tech interviews are designed to find people who are happy in a role where their level of responsibility begins and ends at: "Here's your coding assignment. Go do it". The interviews are designed to eliminate people looking to get in the door, then quickly move into or up to a non-coding position.
Andrew Cuomo sent around 5,000 non-critical COVID-19 patients into nursing homes entirely because of fear that healthcare systems would be overwhelmed. The fear was unjustified: During the same time period the Javits Center, the USS Mercy, and at least four leased hotels sat practically empty:

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2020/04/14/...

https://nypost.com/2020/05/02/nyc-hotels-meant-for-recoverin...

https://www.amny.com/coronavirus/brooklyn-field-hospital-shu...

I agree that ICU capacity, PPE inventory, and non-infected personnel were all in short supply at times and in places, but it's not such a simple conclusion as you claim. Consider that early venting seems to have been a terrible blunder, which also used up valuable ICU capacity:

https://annalsofintensivecare.springeropen.com/articles/10.1...
Not sure how you sleep at night with logic like that, but ok.
Rental Audis with virtual cockpit have caused me to have to pull over in order to figure out how to control features. By comparison, the Teslas I have driven seem fairly straightforward.
Yes but actual racists have since actually started using the symbol, which has the added advantage of them being able to laugh at the mainstream media, and for adding plausible deniability. Though certainly there are non explicitly racists trolls using the symbol as a joke.
It's a problem of fossil fuel combustion [1], not capitalism. The per-capita CO2 emissions of the USSR were also above the presently sustainable level for Earth's 7.8 billion people.

[1] And land use changes, larger herds of ruminant food animals, high altitude airplane contrails... But mostly fossil fuel combustion.
>. For example, in our study, all of the women who took the public interview failed, while all of the women who took the private interview passed

Talk about buying the lede. If there's any justification for abolishing this practice, that's it right there.
White Anglo-Saxon Protestant

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Anglo-Saxon_Protestant...
With the way that Elon tweets normally, someone could have done a lot of damage before anyone realized. Luckily markets have closed already.
Meh. The continuation of the species is more important than some silly desire to mix my own DNA into a new human. A kind of corollary to the Gay Uncle theory.

I also consider the memes > genes in terms of leaving a legacy. Shaping a kid's mindset doesn't require them to share half of your genes.
I do think this is true - but I also think that the ability to control anxiety (an increased tolerance for uncertainty) is a characteristic that is learned with experience and can be a marker of an experienced engineer. Someone who panics in an interview might also be inclined to panic when a manager frantically reports a bug in master, for example.
No More Flaky Clock Tests [video]
Elon Musk as well. Tweets still up, saying "Feeling greatful, doubling all payments sent to my BTC address!

You send $1,000, I send back $2,000!
Only doing this for the next 30 minutes."

As of now, 121 people have sent cash totally more than 2.5BTC.

Edit: Just seen @BillGates compromised as well, same bitcoin account.

Edit 2: Elon's tweet seems to be getting removed, and then reposted again shortly after. About $40k sent so far.

Edit 3: Interesting to watch - on both accounts, tweets seem to be deleted and then reappear as pinned a few mins later.
Details are scarce right now but I actually noticed the hacking rampage after checking out my timeline to see Elon Musk being apparently hacked as well...
> The nuclear family is an American white cultural norm.

See this UN paper [1] regarding stats on the nuclear family. The nuclear family is a phenomenon that exists on all continents. It's not the only way, but it's certainly not a "white" thing. The nuclear family is actually most prominent in Northern Africa. See figure 10 on page 19.

https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publicatio...
From your link, Toyota got the most awards this year, with Nissan and Lexus (Lexus is owned by Toyota) getting 2 awards.
It was the second time it's happened in a matter of months- the first time was in May.

It's also noteworthy because of how destabilizing this was for the immense number of apps that depend on that software.
Yes, just saying that in general if it is possible to have a representative sample (which I argue is not a thing even when you are doing opt-out, and would be willing to content is probably even less representative).
Actually you're missing the point. I'm not sad for a corporation, I'm sad that the tech mentality is still that malice/incompetence are the only possible explanations for things that on the surface don't make sense, and that they (non experts on the subject at hand) clearly know better and would do a better job. This is hubris.
Anecdotally this has been true for me. For jobs I didn't care about for whatever reason I have a much high success rate than for jobs I really wanted.

I guess it's possible that the jobs I wanted are at more prestigious companies and therefore are more picky and the interview is just harder to pass. But I suspect it's not just that, and psychology plays a part too.
I've thought about doing something like this when using matching/parsing with derivatives[1]. When the graph collapses to ∅ (indicating an error), you could back up one character, then ask the graph "what are the next valid token(s)?" This would give you a list of possible things to insert (`,` and `=` for the example given in the article, though naively implementing this would also suggest stuff like `;`).

But this article takes it a step further and suggests deletions, too. That's actually really cool. My biggest gripe with people making DSLs is the crappy error messages you get when you have a syntax error (GCL, I'm looking at you). Hopefully research like this will improve the lives of those of us that have to use DSLs.

[1]: http://matt.might.net/articles/parsing-with-derivatives/
Alright. So I go to the clinic and check in with my wife. They take her off to get ready to "receive the sample". A few minutes later they call me up to the desk. The nurse looks at me, pulls something out of the desk, hands it to me with a cup, at tells me to go to room two.

To clarify, since it's relevant, I'm a white guy, my wife is Asian, and the nurse that checked me in is Black. What she handed me was a porn DVD of hardcore Asian porn. I guess she just assumed since my wife was Asian, that's what I was into. I saw in the drawer and there was a variety of choices, but I was never asked.

So I get into the room. To the left is a sink for hand washing with a small counter next to it. In front of me is a very standard office chair, but with a fresh absorbent pad on it (like what you put down when you're house training a puppy). In front of the chair is a 20 inch old-school CRT (this was in 2014, so it was old even then) with a built in DVD player. To the left of the chair is a huge rack with porn magazines.

I evaluate my situation, and decide I'm not going to use the chair, or touch it, or touch anything in the room that I don't have to, because I don't know why it just didn't seem right. Luckily I was smart and brought my laptop with me, so I pop that open and set it on the counter. Attach to the wifi and... all the porn sites are blocked. Apparently they use the same filter as all the other medical offices.

Luckily, being the enterprising engineering that I am, I bounce an SSH session through my home server.

So I start doing my business. I'm standing there with hand occupied, facing the door, when it opens! Apparently the nurse forgot to flip the sign to say "occupied" and also forgot to warn me to lock the door (protip: Always lock the door!). She turned back around and ran out, but I had to start over so to speak.

I finished up, sealed up the sample, washed up, rang the little bell, and the nurse collected my specimen. She was the consummate professional and didn't say anything about the walk-in.

I then went and sat in the waiting room while the doctor impregnated my wife.

ps. This story is a lot better when told in person after a few drinks.
That sounds like a terrible experience. It sounds like it's hard for you to be productive working from home, so you're stressed out about your job security, and that's having an (understandably) big impact on your mood.

I hope things turn around soon for you!
> and fsharp

Come again? Is there telemetry in the F# compiler I didn't know about? Or you mean that OOTB VSCode has telemetry, so you won't use it for your F# code, opting instead for a different text editor / IDE?
Tesla doesn't have the power, legally, to prevent you (the owner of Tesla) from filling out surveys or otherwise talking about the car.

That's because of first amendment in US constitution.

What really happens is: Tesla doesn't release customer information to anyone, including JD Power.

Which is a good thing.

If you bought a Tesla, would you want your contact info to be sold to whoever asks for it, like marketers or spammers?
The only online communities I've found valuable are the ones that mirror my real-world network. People I have met in person, former coworkers, friends of friends, or at least people in the same tight-knit industry or hobby niche.

The problem with the public communities is that it doesn't take long before they're dominated by those who have the most free time on their hands. Free time to post, free time to respond, free time to upvote/downvote and direct the discussion. Generally speaking, the people who have the most free time to be online all day, every day are not the same people who are out there getting things done, doing interesting work, and otherwise having a good time in the real world. That's fine if you're looking to waste time clicking around on Reddit or Twitter, but it's not often conducive to forming real friendships, relationships, or communities. Obviously there are exceptions, but the more public and noisy the community, the more time you have to invest to filter through to the weak signal in all of that noise.
Is your comment intended to be rude? Maybe more importantly: is intended to have a point?
Funnily that old style of question is far closer to my day-to-day as an engineer than a leetcode algorithms question. Most of my job involves figuring out solutions to fuzzy problems based on unknown constraints, undiscovered requirements, and often unclear end-goals.

"How would you fill this airplane with golf balls?" is a fantastic question. If the candidate doesn't reply with "Why? What are you really trying to achieve?", they're gonna do poorly in modern software development.

Caveat: This does not apply to junior positions where you are expected to bang out code based on super fleshed out requirements and constraints.
This is one of the reasons I've always found it paradoxical that people in the US seem to think that universal healthcare would depress the labour market.

Up here in Canada not all procedures are insured, Pharma, Vision & Dental are the big three that most either pay out of pocket or purchase extended insurance for - though there are generally pretty good provincial programs to help with the costs of those. However, nobody is walking around in Canada concerned that they may get fired and then be bankrupted by a heart attack.

Companies absolutely do still bear a significant per-employee cost to support provincial healthcare and residents do need to pay a pretty light fee into a pool (with options available for financial assistance).

The end result is that companies do end up bearing pretty heavy burdens on a per-employee basis - but employees don't end up with as much of a burden forcing them to remain in undesireable employment positions, though some guaranteed income would really free up employees to have a more equal amount of power in the job market.
Letter of the law vs spirit of the law.
White Anglo Saxon Protestant
There's a Web Archive link[0] for anyone curious.

It looks like this was pretty successful for the hacker. At the time of writing they received ~3.1 BTC, or ~$29k in USD[1].

Edit: Replaced [1] with a site that appeared to have less trackers according to Privacy Badger.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20200715202030/https://twitter.c...

[1]: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n...
I am complex but, alas, have found that I am easy to use.
We found the earliest glass production south of the Sahara and what it means
I've been (perhaps naively) banking on this. We've had just about everything pass through our house in the past four years since we had our first kid. Have to imagine something in there is good for immunity.
I'd add to this the unmanned combat planes like the Predator.

As unreliable as Wikipedia can be, the unit cost of the newest upcoming Predator (Predactor-C, or Avenger) is $12-$15M each. Which is 10X cheaper and moreover easier to scale, e.g. easier to train ground personnel than pilot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Atomics_Avenger

The real kicker is the U.S. military spending is already more than the next 10 countries combined....so what is the F-15EX supposed to be fighting against? Sure it's a much better deal than the F-35, but the F-35 is already a giant money sink so not saying much...
> Bias towards authority in a way.

I think it's more "momentum". With a smaller company that affects a small number of users, the possibility of cutting your losses is quite feasible. On the other hand, with Outlook you've got your whole org using it, your servers running on it, your customers integrated with it, custom rules setup - a cut and run is just not simple.

Honestly though, I really don't get why rollback isn't more common for these larger pieces of software. Just some logic to detect multiple crashes, check if a rollback would break anything (i.e. dependencies) and then rollback. If you remove so much power from the average user in your OS, you ought to really have some amazing automated procedure for these scenarios.

I thought they also do limited roll-out as well? I think I remember the Windows anniversary bricked a bunch of machines in the limited roll-out and they just pushed it out anyway?

The complete lack of control as to when an update is performed is astounding - I know there are some settings to stop this, but apparently there are cases where that setting reverts back to auto or you need to switch it back on in order to manually update. I remember the last straw for MS and myself was accidentally clicking update just before a meeting whilst on very low battery, with no way to back out and no charger on hand. It didn't end well.

These days if something is "Windows only", it goes in a VM along with other software I don't trust.