skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having watched the video it looks like the expectation is that the recruiters would define tests. I've worked with a lot of recruiters and very few would be able to write a coding test well.

Also, it doesn't look like the recruiter has any opportunity to check that their test is correct, and there's no way for the candidate to test their solution works, so if there's any issue with the way the test has been defined (eg the test was created using a signature of input:string -> string by mistake) the candidate simply can't pass. If I was taking that test and failed because the test software was incorrect I would not give the company I was applying to a second chance. Applying for a job is stressful enough without that sort of thing happening.

Lastly, as a suggestion, I'd add a feature to search StackOverflow for the function the user has entered. There'll be a lot of cases where that happens.
India bans 47 apps cloning restricted Chinese services
> Who needs the complication of a battery lease

Who needs the complication of owning a big battery?
How is that innovative? Everyone is importing immigrants like there is no tomorrow. It's actually interesting how Japan is choosing a less optimal strategy that forces them to innovate or get left behind. If it pays off they will be leaders in robotics.
That's why have licenses that forbid certain usages. Obviously those are not 'Open Source' as defined by OSI. If you use such software in ways forbidden by the license, you are liable. Companies would usually be very careful, and would not knowingly ignore the license terms.
It's a Good Life - the article mentions it was made into a Twilight Zone episode. I saw this episode like a month ago on MeTV, accidentally, late at night. Wow it was freaky. Really disturbing.

The article doesn't really do it justice. The kid in the story has God powers and can do whatever he wants, so he creates Cronenberg creatures and wantonly kills people. All of the adults have to agree that it's a good thing, otherwise he gets irritated and disappears them. So you get scenes like where a wife has to emphatically agree that it was a good thing her husband was killed.

The whole thing was like a scary David Lynch scene.
starship looks good on paper, but the fact that all plugins are by default enabled (from what I can tell from the docs) is a no-go for me.

Why do people need all that information on their prompt? I understand showing the git status, but is it really necessary to know that your battery is discharging and you're currently using node v10.12.3 and elm v1.2.3 every single time you run a command in some directory?
> … original spelling despite changes in pronunciation.

An accident of history: the printing press and the first dictionaries started arriving and codifying spelling just before the shift occurred:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift
This is why I asked [1] (and was summarily downvoted) who actually are the trustworthy experts competent to implement crypto. Whole narrative "don't roll your own crypto" seems to me iffy.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23951387
That, or using a very restrictive copy left license.
Why American needs and existential awakening
>Moral of the story? Search is hard, but Google does it better than everyone else.

True, but they do it worse and worse.

Google still has some margin before their usability declines to the level of their competitors, but they're headed there quite fast.
> it felt like a product being made worse by its business model.

Something even worse than this has has forced me to ddg out of necessity: fucking CAPTCHA.

Which is essentially discrimination against anyone with a mobile internet connection who blocks google's tracking.

I just can't use google search anymore, it's a special kind of torture, after years of getting used to using google for everything and now getting this thrown in my face every single fucking time - way to permanently train users away from your search engine. It's time we had more competitors, google search is a monopoly and it's only going to abuse it's users more.
"Fragile" would be the closest translation of "breakable". It has the same meaning as in English.
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Show HN: Stretchbit – your personal health coach
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This is so true, even relationships within your organization. These are the networks and skills the current WFH era is going to lack. Similar to how kids are missing out not on learning facts while out of school, but really missing out on learning how to build social bonds and networks because ultimately that's what helps you succeed in life. Twenty years from now the sociological studies on this era are going to be fascinating.
I think the article is less about 'experiences' like going on holiday or trying out stuff.

Instead it is about actual common lived experiences. Like going to work, going to the store, going to do some sport. The things you do often. These things affect you and your life very much. But, according to the article, we don't put enough priority on these things.
To be fair, CloudFront's limit is 20GB.
Microsoft (Live/Hotmail/Outlook/...) is the single worst offender against small mail servers. I have run a mail server for the last ten years spam-free and vulnerability-free. It has never been on any spam blacklists, delivery to GMail is just fine. I have implemented everything from SPF to DKIM to correct rDNS.

Yet, my IP address predictably ends up on Microsoft's "blacklist" every two months or so because of "spam behaviour or user complaints". I am rather sure that neither is true. Every time I have to fill in their appeal form, get unlocked immediately but have to do the same dance again two months later.

They have every right to reject a mail server but at least they shouldn't lie about the reason. My server's IP address gets blacklisted again and again even during months I don't send any mail to Microsoft addresses.
I can appreciate that for many, the competitive side of social media is harmful. People compare lives and feel inadequate. But I know others for whom "creating content" is a hobby like photography or film making. I personally find it all very motivating and as a result get to travel a lot and label it work. As you said - it can add purpose for some.

I create content because it preserves memories and/or more than pays for the experience, enabling more trips. I travel, take photos and videos, and then sell media afterwards. Just like other people watch TV or movies, I enjoy editing photos or putting little movies together from footage I've shot while having a glass of wine.

Last year, on a particularly large trip, I took a lot of video to document it: https://shubbo.com/us/ - now I wish I'd taken more. I love looking back over it and reminiscing, as does my family.

Sometimes I feel like you can create content or consume it. I enjoy both.
Excuse my ignorance, but what legal monopoly does USPS have? I was under the impression that any company is allowed to carry mail in the US.
On your motivation page you mention that you couldn't find something with the notification outputs you wanted. That surprises me as most of the well-known monitoring platforms support plugins/flexibility for that.

I wrote my own monitoring system which does a lot of monitoring stuff, for example:

* Testing SMTP hosts.

* Testing SSH hosts.

* Testing MySQL databases.

* Testing websites.

* (Much more too!)

There are a lot of options even for testing websites though; testing the status code is 200, testing that some specific text is present in the output, testing that the results match a given regular expression. Handling redirections, or not, submitting data via POST, etc, etc.

I wish you luck in your project, though I guess if it already meets your needs you don't need that. My own application is golang based too, and can be found here:

https://github.com/skx/overseer/
The scanned items may be downloaded as glorious 100+MiB TIFF files, if you're interested.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2004633695/
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The Computer Vision Industry in India Is Sized at $2.46 Bn:Report by AIMResearch
Very interesting, the Zoe is all the way back on 7th place here in Norway (more than 50% of all new cars here are electric), I wonder why there's a big difference compared with "mainland Europe"..

Of all time: Leaf, Golf, i3, model S, Soul, Model 3, Zoe..

In 2020: E-tron, Golf, Leaf, Kona, Model 3, Soul, Zoe.

Could be because Zoe is a picky charger. It's made to AC charge on TN power nets, and Norway has quite a bit of IT power nets, some places you'll need a heavy transformer (size of a bucket) to charge it.

https://elbilstatistikk.no
It’s hard to say whether the lack of purpose causes the addiction to social media or vice versa. I think it’s probably the reverse. It’s hard to find purpose in life when every time you’ve been bored since the age of 12 you’ve logged into a distraction machine.

What I find most troubling is that a lot of people in my age group know the detrimental effect social media has on them. They’ll knowingly waste a couple of hours everyday. And, anybody who tries to pull away from it is ridiculed for “trying to appear superior” or mocked for apparently subscribing to “back to nature” ideology. This makes it even harder to leave; it delayed my own escape by at least 1 year.

What makes it downright frightening to me is that we as a collective have several enormously difficult problems that we must solve. Information floods the brain and drowns out thoughts that should be had daily like “the past 5 years have been the hottest ever recorded.” Politics is another area that scares me. People my age are upset with the government. Yet, most could not write more than 5 tweets about why. They’ll claim the opposition has been lead astray by questionable news sources on social media sites while simultaneously participating in exactly that trap themselves.

Quick and cheap ideas became a source of easy gratification. Generations raised in such an environment are probably not prepared to face the challenge of a world sliding - admittedly slowly - towards disaster.
The London Penny Post only delivered in London. You can’t really compare it USPS or Royal Mail that deliver to every nook-and-cranny of an entire country, regardless of how wet, dry or frozen over said nook-and-cranny maybe.

> The US already has progressive income taxes and a welfare system.

The current pandemic is demonstrating how woefully under-equipped that system is, I don’t think your proposed expansion would help much.
Players to sue for hundreds of millions over use of their statistics
http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/waterfall.html

Incremental and iterative development is not an invention of Agile either. It was used before "Waterfall" existed.
The value of a search engine it's in the size of its index and the ranking it does.

The UI is less important. Those 3-4 ads appearing at the top of search results can be filtered out by browser extensions.

Bing isn't just Google, because it uses a different index and a different ranking algorithm. The results are vastly different.

If a search engine is just a shell over Bing, then there isn't much point in using that over Bing.

Note DDG provides some niceties over Bing, plus the pledge that they won't share your searches with them, but you basically have to take their word for it.
the other day I was searching "<sitename> feature" and from the results (which to be fair aren't many, since it was a fairly obscure site), once you get through the legit results on the site i was searching for, there were a bunch of markov generated spam things that had clearly scraped posts from various sites and tangled them together
I agree with you. For that kind of disrespect I would not only need to get paid for hotel and travel, but my time too. And waisting my time costs like 100x more per hour than my normal rate. Seeing as they cheapened out here by only paying hotel and travel, what does that say about how they treat their employees comp wise? Doesn't look good. For that alone I would avoid them like the plague.
> I tried to mitigate your third point by only allowing users to see your total cluster vote as opposed to your individual card votes

I find these clusters really strange. For example, this cluster:

> War on Drugs, War on Terror, Fossil Fuels, Drone Strikes, Dark Humor, Military, Police Officers

And

> Yoga, Lower Drinking Age, Gym, Alcohol, TikTok

What does Yoga and Gym have to do with lowering drinking age, or with TikTok? Very weird. So if I create a profile and I am positive towards Yoga and Gym then people are going to think that I want to lower the drinking age? And likewise, they are going to think that just because I support having a military force (which I do), that I also support the war on drugs (which I don’t).

Would be better to not do clustering at all than to group a whole lot of unrelated stuff together and give the wrong impression I think.
It is debatable whether web browser is a work tool, in the context of specialized tools. I'm using DDG for 3 years already but I still don't use bangs, even for often used websites like wikipedia, instead I always do a normal search and then click on a wikipedia result. It is obviously suboptimal and I'm doing it in the web browser, am I unfit for my job because of this?
The question to the hypothetical person who will select candidates based on googling google - did you yourself optimized ALL that can be optimized in your workflow? (this is a rhetorical question, answer to which is 100% "no", regardless of who is that person)
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I'm sorry, but it's hard to determine if you're arguing in good faith or not. The message right before this you stated that you're perfectly fine with privatizing pensions, cutting union contracts, etc, but now you claim you care about not punishing people. Furthermore, you claim to be against wealth transfers upwards, but this privatization would do exactly that.

You need to sit down and actually think about the policy results of what you're advocating for because you seem entirely confused.
Would you care to point to any of this research? Specifically the link between viewing simulated pornography and appetite for consuming real-world material, or abusing children. Further, is there any evidence that the majority of people who read simulated depictions (like underage Harry Potter fanfic) are pedophiles? Does the link similarly exist for other forms of pornography? How does fanfiction or erotica compare to visual artwork in this regard?

There's ethnographic evidence (see Patrick Galbraith, Mark McLelland, Suzanne Ost) of such fans from Japan that the assumption they are pedophiles, or that they carry over their desires from "2D" to "3D" is dubious at best. The English government, when banning virtual depictions of fictional characters, admitted they had no evidence on its effects, mode of usage, or popularity among any particular group.
A Zoe is a nice city car that sells well but only as a second car. It does not compete with the Model 3 which does replace ICE vehicles as a main car. You simply wouldn't do a cross-country trip in a Zoe -- say, from Belgium to the French Riviera -- so most families would need another vehicle (ICE, PHEV or long-range & fast charging Tesla).

They just don't share the same market. EV compete with ICEs alternative more than they compete with each others.
Link? That sounds pretty interesting.
John Oliver did an interesting video on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoL8g0W9gAQ&t=4s

TL;DR: Deliberate government action to defund them has resulted in them having way less money than you would expect.
Undefined behaviour in the STL [ C++ on Sea 2020 ]
All the work done by wage earners when the US dollar was backed by gold alone was more valuable than the gold itself.

Even after the federal gold confiscation of the 1930's, maybe more so eventually because of increased productivity.

The vast majority of that wealth not only remained in the US, but was leveraged toward greater production in the US.

This led to increasing prosperity, and back when the system was half a century closer to being of the people, by the people, and for the people, prosperity was truly felt by the vast majority of people more than what you get today.

Half the charts on the site were fully predictable the day they turned the dollar into fiat currency.

As the value of the dollar declined, the work done by the wage earners became worth less than the gold their dollars were worth, and far less than when still backed just a few years earlier. Even though they were doing the same jobs for the same pay in US dollars so it didn't seem so bad at the time.

This was a serious reversal.

US consumers were manipulated from participants in a producer economy, into targets of an extractive economy.

At the maximum rate the _market_ could bear.
Also survivorship bias. We wouldn't be having this conversation if NVIDIA had a major catastrophe like Wirecard recently had and owner of basket was unable to sell shares quickly enough for some reason.

All eggs in one basket takes some serious bravery.
> A private enterprise, on the other hand, would only hurt creditors if it can’t pay a pension.

There’s a Federal fund setup specifically to help pay pensions for companies that go bankrupt.
As a CFO myself, I notice there are a few concepts it is important for successful managers to understand to help discussions regarding performance and investment.

1) Time value of money - internal rate of return (IRR) and net present value (NPV). Both are easily learned on the web in 30 minutes.

2) Broad accounting concepts. Others have recommended learning double entry accounting on this thread. I do not think that necessary - too much in the weeds. You need to understand what is revenue, when it is created (different industries and companies have different rules), what are operating expenses, what is EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization) and why it is a good approximation of cash flow, and why capitalizing some expenses matters. In my experience, the FP&A (financial planning & analysis) team is often the best people to discuss this with as they are responsible for reporting these metrics to management in a manner consistent with how the executive team runs the company.

3) Option theory - more decisions are being discussed as options. Developing a new product idea is an option to ultimately produce and sell the product. The initial investment to blueprint the product, get regulatory approvals, etc can all be thought as the cost of the option. Importantly, you can always walk away from the option if you determine the payoff is too risky (unlikely to be realized) or too low.

While there are more finance concepts to know, they tend to build off the ones above (e.g. reading financial statements builds off the accounting ideas).

A final note, if you are looking for formal online courses on these topics, the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School has a great series of their fundamental courses for MBA students online that were free last time I looked.
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> Often for them, it is not achieving something amazing like a long bicycle trip, or summiting a mountain that brings them joy, but they are thinking about the resulting Instagram photos instead.

This reflects my experience. When you have an audience, you have a certain pressure to perform. You subconsciously start framing everything in terms of potential likes. Having fun isn't enough, you have to prove it. Checking in can easily become more important than being there.

I don't post much anymore. My profiles are all private. I do not turn moments into content. I just try to enjoy being there. It certainly improved my experience.
I interviewed recently at a defense contractor and experienced something like this. I know you’re supposed to ask questions during an interview but I usually only really come up with two: what is your git/hg workflow and what does your automated test coverage look like.

Usually the second one has an answer along the lines of “not good but we’re working on it” which is fine. This place though tried pretty hard to convince me they were using git to manage their code right up until I asked the second question. The senior engineer sort of mumbled a few things ending with something along the lines of “we’re still figuring out exactly what the transition from svn will look like.”

I’m not sure why they didn’t decide to hire me but I feel like that interaction really upset someone and may have been a big part of it.
A few things you need to build a search engine:

1. something that *understands* the question
2. something that *understands* content (web pages)
3. something that can match the output of 1 and 2 very fast and at scale
4. a way to generate revenue out of the whole thing without bothering the user or perverting the output of 1,2 and 3

In the case of Google, they have a fairly good implementation of #1,#2 and #3 and they used to have found a decent compromise for #4.

In the last 5 years though, they have completely eff'd up #3 because of the pressure that comes standard with large US-based corps: the next quarter EPS is the only thing that matters, and long-term growth is not something wall street is interested in.

Burn a patch of forest, grow something on the ashes-fertilized soil for a few years and move on to the next patch when the soil is permanently dead.
A good lamp for your desk might be cheaper than that golf club membership at least!
Ask HN: Offline video call via HDMI cables
Our conditions force us to make video call between 2 rooms almost every day for learning and teaching.

We don't have a good Internet connection here.

However, we do have 2 long HDMI cables, 2 HDMI TV, 2 laptops.

So we are trying a very simple approach that is just connecting them like the following illustration.

Room A Computer ]-- HDMI Cable --> Room B TV

Room A TV <-- HDMI Cable --[ Room B computer

Then on the 2 laptops, we just use a simple WebRTC like this one:

https://webrtc.github.io/samples/src/content/devices/input-output/

to stream the video & voice call to each other.

The WebRTC does have echo problems with computer built in microphone.

So my question is:

Does any free/open source offline software that can handle this streaming task better then WebRTC, or do you have any suggestions?

(PS: We have Ubuntu OS computers. Just in case, we can also borrow Mac computers).

Thanks HN.
Yeah, but let’s be honest, MSY is actually pretty good. I shop there all the time.
400 football players in the UK are suing the gaming, betting/gambling and data processing companies for lost income.

The article is pretty well sourced, but this is breaking news, so expect confirmation soon. If it is against HN rules, please delete.
Would the Zoe be your only car? Do you plan to do cross-country trips? If not, what would you consider other than a Tesla for long range trips (ignoring branding/marketing for a second)?
Very true but thought it was worth mentioning, the original paper is very readable and it's amusing that waterfall lasted until the 90's when it originated in 1956 and the paper covered the flaws in 1970.
> If their product doesn't work, you are entitled to a refund.

Or a fix?
I'm just guessing, but by the context of it it's videoconference, not Venture Capital.
I can evaluate any software engineer job position. In my last job grew the team to about 40 across Ruby, Python and Java.
I could be wrong, but didn't apple cannibalize its ipod business with the release of iPhone?
An alternative that a lot of people do is rent a car just for holiday, as it ends up cheaper. Or just get the train and rent on arrival.