skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our interview process is far more advanced.

We place the candidate in a room with a large whiteboard for 15 minutes alone with the lights off. I then walk in with a 6 piece dresser [1] from IKEA (obviously keeping the lights out). I explain to the prospect that this particular dresser is missing one piece - BUT we need the dresser assembled then disassembled and placed back into the box [without anyone seeing]. More than HALF the candidates become violent and demand to see my github account - some even suggest I have a mental issue. I am often able to calm the candidate down - this way we can get into the REAL debate: KOPPANG vs MALMs. Any candidate caught assembling the IKEA dresser is quickly dismissed out of spite. This technique is from Boz at facebook - it is how all* senior principle engineers are screened at FB and the reason everyone codes PHP (but swears they do not).

HR has complained that my techinques are "ridiculous" or borderline illegal - but so far my successful candidates perform, tend to have a solid grasp of typescript and quickly move into senior management.

https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/koppang-6-drawer-dresser-black-...
Thanks for the writeup! Would BD be much different? Do you recommend converting x264 to x265 for Blu-Ray sources?
But they support Gopher. And Clazilla exists.
> Economic activity isn't a cure-all.

A flood of tax money due to Amazon has flooded into the city. If the city doesn't spend it well, they aren't going to do better if prosperity flees the city.
There is statistical data saying the opposite: http://chrisparnin.me/pdf/stress_FSE_20.pdf

That whiteboard interviews are actually testing how you perform under stress rather than how good you are at your job.

Additionally, in my opinion, it measures how good the interviewer is. If you get a bad interviewer or even just one in a bad mood, just pack your bags because you aren't getting it.

Whiteboards are incredibly arbitrary in my opinion, if taken alone. If it is part of a complete assessment, ehhhh.
Sears eventually decided that not enough people returned the tools, and eventually started selling low-quality Craftsman products. I bought a water wand for spraying the yard and dog (mainly the dog, he really loved biting the spray), and had to return it 10 times for a replacement over the course of two years. Thing kept breaking in the metal rod. Then they had to give me a different design, got another 10 replacements that consistently broke below the handgrip. Eventually the store down the block from me closed, and Sears sold the Craftsman brand while it still had value.
yup. and GitHub's useless for value adds like management, marketing, recruiting, or product skills.

for that matter, GitHub is useless if the projects you contribute to are on BitBucket or GitLab. that contributions graph has a lot of assumptions baked in.
Same way as you can walk or run in a harmful way, it maybe that the way you are breathing is sub-optimal.
You could be surprised on which browsers does Google still work. It will work under IE5 and Windows 98 for example.
BDs usually aren't interlaced or overscanned, so the hard part is done for you :)

I do usually re-encode from from AVC to HEVC but with a more usual HD tuning. Not mine, but check out https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1u9fKNsRcLgc-1oVV5GhB...
I don't know the details behind it but I can imagine a number of factors.

- Inability of us to efficiently consume large quantities of food so we pass more calories than we would for smaller levels.
- Changes to metabolism to adjust.

I think at the end of the day it is still calories in/calories out but you may be taking in less than go in your mouth and may be using more than you usually would.
When I was working for Kink (one of the largest hardcore sites based in San Francisco) and developing their new site, we intentionally picked MaleWank to be the first site we converted over to the new platform.

Looking at that content all day long was a lot of motivation to get the site done faster and provided endless hours of quality entertainment. It was done in the early days of the company and wasn't particularly high traffic or quality so it made a good test case.

The whole 'not safe for work' thing didn't apply at the company at all. You don't go work for a company like that without being fully aware of what you're going to see.

Long after I left, they re-did the platform again and that site disappeared and now just redirects to the main site. =(
> I don't really see how you come to the conclusion that there is much of a choice for a cancer patient.

Because I know several people who've had dire cancers, and they all had choices and made choices among the treatment options.
This is a great list. Thanks for sharing it.

I actually had the pleasure of interviewing at one of these companies before. They had a take-home project, which was to choose and implement and couple enhancements to a toy app. In the subsequent conversations, we discussed how I approached the problem, details of my design, technical tradeoffs, etc -- all the sorts of things you would expect a professional sw engineer to be able to do on the job. It was challenging but fair, and I was struck by how reasonable the process was. It left a wonderful impression on me.

Take-home projects are not a perfect solution to the interview problem. A major issue is that they require candidates to have free time outside of work to complete them. Personally, though, I'd much rather spend a few hours per application working on projects than countless hours prepping for stressful whiteboarding puzzles. As a developer who prefers to digest problems slowly, I look forward to the demise of on-the-spot whiteboarding interviews.

If you work at a company that subjects candidates to such high-stress algorithmic riddles, and you have the ability to make your process more sane, please consider following the lead of cos on this list.
Let’s hope the life on Mars was just as robust.
Hi, TimescaleDB cofounder here. Nice to read about your journey in time-series data, and always welcome another database that can satisfy a specific type of developer needs.

I also commend you on your desire to rebuild everything Postgres offers from scratch. We took a different route by building on top of Postgres (which e.g. allowed us to launch with native replication, rock-solid reliability, window functions, geo spatial data, etc without sacrificing performance). But there are many ways up this mountain!

As a quick thing, however: While it’s not very representative of the workloads we typically see, I tried your simple 1B scan on a minimally-configured hypertable in TimescaleDB/PostgreSQL, and got results that were >12x faster on my 8-core laptop than what you were reporting on a 48-core AWS m5.metal instance.

I think the Hacker News community always appreciates transparency in benchmarking; looking forward to reading a follow up post where you share reproducible benchmarks where all databases are tuned equivalently.
The advantage of leetcode is that you study once and then it applies for every job you interview for. Like democracy it's a horrible system except for all the others.

Take home project? There goes 4-12 hours per company that gives you one and sometimes more. Companies have no incentive to cut it down or not give it to even marginal candidates so you'll get a lot more of them than full in-person interviews.

Pair programming? That's basically white boarding with a better white board or, in the remote interview world, just regular white boarding. Sure the problem is more real world, in theory, but then you get issues of knowing the same frameworks, etc. So to do well you need to spend a lot of time beforehand studying their specific frameworks and code bases if they ask you to do an issue on their open source project.
> It would have been easy to offer kml links and "force" the users into Google Earth.

How so?
Ask HN: How to land at fair shares distribution between founders
I am about to meet with a colleague who I'd like to invite to my side gig.

I call this side gig, but I already validated the idea and I know who needs the product, I also have some connections who are decision makers and in genuine need for a product I'm about to build.

I'm coding myself, so I will be contributing (though this colleague is more skilled than myself).

What would be the fairest distribution of shares? In the past I had some bad experiences where decisions like this was left till the end causing tensions. This time I would like to settle everything upfront so everything is fair.

Does validated idea count like something valuable enough to translate into more shares than colleague? Or should I just do straight 50/50? I was reading lots of stories where people advice against 50/50 to avoid blockages in making decisions.

I was thinking about decision power and share in financial matters. I don't mind to do 50/50 when it comes to financial stuff, though based on above thoughts I think it's fair to talk and negotiate about decision power.

Or maybe I'm totally wrong and should not even think about these matters at this stage?
Where do you think those extra dollars go to? C-suite or stock buy back if public.
There is nothing anti free market about unions.
Create an empty epub in calibre or vellum or any other editor that will create epubs for you; then unzip it and edit it raw.

You can do the same thing with a professionally published epub.

In either case, you can rip out the metadata files (opf, ncx, etc.) and create templates from them, which you can reuse in your own projects without beginning in an epub editor or generator.

You still probably want to run an epub through checking before you publish it, to make sure the metadata is consistent with the contents, and that you're not violating epub[23] rules (unless you know the standard perfectly as it applies to to subset you're using, and you never make any mistakes), but you don't have to be using any bloated tooling during the main phase of writing and editing the book.
Dioxin tainted shaving soap... Bad times.

Had no idea it wasn't legit until I started having crazy dermal issues and saw a doctor.

Paid crazy amounts to have a sample tested to see if there was anything I could do to solve it.
The legion was lost in Teutoburg Forest

Quintili Vare, legiones redde! (Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions!)
CDC Director: Threat of Suicide, Drugs, Flu to Youth ‘Far Greater’ Than Covid
ActivityPub lets you mark a comment as a "reply" to a post (or any web resource), then all you need is a trackback-like facility to link from the post to comments on it. It doesn't need to be centralized.
/raises hand

And Elvie! (If you make it to ‘E’)

We’re hiring right now :)
https://elvie.workable.com
This doesn’t make sense to me. The reason interest rates are negative is that the demand for USD is so high that you have to pay for the privilege of storing your wealth in USD.
OP is neither, it is in Python, but this merely demonstrates that accounting can be incorrect in any language.

The problem isn't just terminology, but when people use the term double-entry accounting interchangeably with double-entry book-keeping, they reveal how little they know about the subject matter, and how unqualified they are to be implementing either.
Gender is a social construct.
We are probably both right - and the difference is in the size of company. For a start up you probably don't want a BA. Well you do, but as a role not a title. That person you call "developer" is really a hydra with many hats.

For a bigger company, the BA path (or SME - Subject Matter Expert, might be a better term) is like bringing in a expert in the team on finance. No different to bringing in a MongoDB tuning expert, or a React expert. Yes the developers need to learn some MongoDB/React/Finance etc, but the expert is worth having.

And having the expert reduces your need for unicorn people, the 10xers etc, and you can hire regular coders who are keen to learn a bit of subject matter (they should always be!) and the smart thing to do is send them on a course (rarely see this done in the real world - the normal approach is to let them introduce a bunch of bugs, get heat from QA and learn that way).
100% agree with everything you said. I knew about non-broad basked ETFs but I think you knew that I knew anyway.

Crowdfunding looks nice, but I just want protection for the public at the same time as I want high-skilled technologists to be able to invest in obviously undervalued startups.
"Hamblin started to notice that he smelled less pleasant when stressed." I guess I just worked with a bunch a stressed people..
I'm getting an "Infinite loop detected in logic" error trying to understand your point here.. Normal is just what most people are doing at the moment?
That's the most famous product of the Direct Instruction project-- the idea that you could break down subjects into explicit, tiny pieces that students can master effectively, and standardize the most effective curriculum you develop after years of experiments.

It works far better than most educational programs, but teachers tend to hate it because it doesn't give them latitude for creativity and planning their own lessons!
As long as it does something beneficial who cares after all what the bias is? Placebo may play a role in it but once again, what do we care about here, whether something is beneficial or whether it can be explained why it is beneficial? For some the former and for some the latter, ofc depending on perspective.
Can't be ignored means we have not found a non destructive means of energy production yet. Waste from current renewables will build up. We still need to be on the look out for better technologies for the future. That is not to say they are not a huge leap forward but it does have to be considered.
A nuclear physicist working on graphics software sounds like underemployment to me.
I'm not sure that actually helps you? If you license a library from Microsoft, anyone could claim to hold a copyright on it; you might be able to get Microsoft to refund what you paid for it, but you're still liable for whatever distribution you did. I don't think library licencors normally indemnify you against that, and if anything you have less ability to defend yourself from trolls since you're unlikely to get a full VCS history the way you usually would with an AGPL library.
I've been looking into dropping out of my tech job specifically to start a consulting practice helping individual and teams through such things, because there are some common threads that everyone seems to struggle with. You said some of them yourself - areas out of your control, responsibility without authority, self-identity wrapped up in work. I hear those three all the time.

So you are not alone.

You are on the right track with how to cope - identify the problems and take some vacation time. The next step would be to discuss the problems with your boss - tell them what you need, and what you want. Tell them you aren't OK where things stand right now. Draw some boundaries about what is or is not OK in your work environment.

Also take some time to think about what areas of your work are truly your responsibility. Do people count on you because it is your job description to be the linchpin holding your team together? Or do they count on you because they know you can be counted on, without that actually being your role? I typically hear from people in the latter case - and when you bring it up with your boss, tell them that something needs to change - if you are the key person, your job title and compensation need to match that responsibility. You also need the autonomy to control everything you will be held accountable for. If they do not grant you those things, then you should step back and tell people to count on someone else, because they aren't giving you the tools you need to fulfill that role. Push the pressure you feel uphill to your boss, who is truly accountable for your team.

Those conversations can be tough. But in a situation like your where you don't hate the job, you just hate how it makes you feel, your employer wants the same thing you do (usually) - to make it a place where you want to work. Help them get you to that place by talking to them. Odds are, you'll work something out. If not, it is time to look for new work, but cross that bridge only if and when you come to it... for starters, just get the conversations going. After all, you have nothing to lose - if you don't fix this, you'll quit at some point anyway when the mental strain grows too much. So give them a chance to help you fix your job.
> What Google is doing by refusing to publish the archive or even share it with parties like the Internet Archive is completely unjustifiable and anathema to everything they once stood for.

Couldn't a copyright claim (or something under the GDPR or UK's DPA) be used to regain access to those though?

Just because something is published to a public forum doesn't mean you relinquish your rights.
Is there any way to setup a sharding solution for Prometheus? Like instances per AZ or that only scrape a certain set of nodes? On our larger clusters we had issues even with the optimized Prometheus instance in kubecost, and it's starting to look like metrics collection/processing may be a big driving force on our cluster scaling designs.
The corresponding FSM usually isn't too bad. I've personally never really used regexes that much in production code, but I guess I don't work with strings very often.
Stanford students form Venture Club to Invest in Classmates’ Startups
A truly practical approach that can be stretched/applied to other fields of life, including business, relationships, etc.

+1
The graphical user interface still looks gorgeous! And it brings me a slight shudder that the look and feel might be more consistent that what we have today, even on the Mac.
I don't use as little soap as the article suggests, but I use less than many people do. I don't want to smell bad, and I know it's harder to judge your own smells. But there's one piece of trivia that gave me the confidence to try it.

Humans have two types of sweat glands: eccrine and apocrine. Eccrine sweat glands are found all over the body. Apocrine glands are found in armpits (and a few other areas), and they only activate at puberty. The smell is related to bacterial activity in the "apocrine sweat". Armpits don't smell because they sweat more; they smell because it's a different kind of sweat.

So I use soap for my armpits. If I don't, I'll notice the smell easily in a day or two. But for most of my skin, I can go pretty much indefinitely with just water. I don't notice any bad smells, and I have asked some close friends, and they don't smell anything either.
The author Terry Pratchett collected a lot of material on this topic, and eventually wrote the novel Monstrous Regiment about it.
>This concern could also be addressed by introducing a trial period.

Why would I leave a stable well paying job for a job that basically says they don't trust me enough to not fire me in two weeks?
You earn several hundred thousand per year?!

Just quit when you can't take it anymore. You might need to move to a lower cost of living area or adjust your lifestyle, but you are in the 1% and would be fine.
One of the simplest ways is to offer economic incentives to people who have fewer (or no) children instead of the opposite (which is our current policy).
While true of plastic, no edge, snowboards it does hold true to a point. Rentals of middling quality and some instruction go a long way to get a rough feel for something before dropping top dollar.
One small correction, which is that the housing crisis in SF is a function of the region's housing policies, not just the city's failures. Some of the governance problems here are just structural, that there's no one with authority to tell Palo Alto that they can't be a leafy suburb anymore and need to build high-rises.
Are you opposed to katakana too? Enough with the virtue signalling already.
Makes me think that panspermia isn't so outlandish. 100 million years will get you from star system to star system with plenty of time to spare.
Man, you’re just giving out ideas like this for free?
I'd much rather do a take-home project at my own pace funded by the company, seeing as how my personal GitHub is a barren wasteland (well...it was before I started working for an OSS company).
You can and it happens.

source: work at a place that does this
If you're willing to associate your username with your personal identity, you could link to your projects/CV in your profile. Other commenters may be able to identify what recruiters are looking for and why your resume was dismissed.

Also, to the point of the post, do you consider whiteboard interviews to be good or bad for your situation? With covid it's harder for companies to find which applicants should be interviewed in the first place, and short questions are helpful for filtering out people who can't code at all.
Bret Victor is the modern day equivalent of Alan Kay. Hopefully in a decade we will see the fruits of his ideas everywhere in tomorrow's software and machines.
ECJ Invalidated the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework
How do you despam that?
I have no reason to doubt you, you may smell just fine.

But that brings up a question, back when mariners and seamen traversed the seas and didn’t bathe, some came upon the Japanese isles for the purpose of trade, and legend is they got called smelly foreigners... so, how come?
When it comes to cost to performance ratio your best option is avoid cloud providers like the plague and go for good old bare-metal servers (from a third-party or on-premises if your scale warrants it). You'll get a 10x improvement without having to change any software at all. Then if that's still not enough you can consider switching languages.
This is extremely cool. Would be interested to see OS9 too; the emulator situation is kind of a hassle at the moment.
Who are the Matt Levines of other fields?
Yes, and I have 100% of the D newsgroups archived back to the very first post. Anyone can get them from the D NNTP server. I also wrote a program to create static web pages from them:

https://github.com/DigitalMars/ngArchiver

and the generated pages:

https://digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/index.html

When we were working on the history of the D programming language paper, this was an invaluable resource.
yes, i regret using "only"; i meant "only" that theorems are still subject to experimental verification and also a single theorem can support multiple interpretations.
Society is a social construct. Gender was here way before society. Gender is biological.
1nm, then 0.8nm around 2030.

All assuming things according to plan and wired stuff like quantum tunnelling effect dont kick in.
Gotta disagree on pairing, as that gives you an actual computer. If it's your own environment, you're at least comfortable with that. You don't have to worry about penmanship and can get IDE suggestions. It's frustrating not being able to get your ideas down quickly enough like when writing code on a board.
"The economy" seems to favour the current generation of Einsteins working on optimizing ad impressions for Google, spreading fake news for Facebook and sucking unimaginable amounts of money into Bezos' pocket, the consequences be damned.

We could use a lot less of this, and a lot more Einsteins in research laboratories and universities.
So no one is keeping you from doing so. No reason to hope some one will do it.
Consider applying to companies directly rather than going via recruiters. Recruiters often just look at past job experience, but hiring managers will look at your actual skillset.
Not sure about Vietnam but Southern China is very big on fermentation, pickling, and salting and doing that to most every food: fish, vegetables, eggs, etc... It’s quite possible it came from Rome but the basic techniques are deeply embedded in the culture. I suspect that it is the case for most cultures in that region of the world.