skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem might be that you might need to interview for alot of positions and having a homework for each would add up.

The homework is no cost for the employer and you are not sure how serious about you they are when you do it (if it is in the start of the process) so I wouldn't bother if I had an alternatives to go for.
For Sigs I suppose the market still exists in the US where it wouldn't in Europe.
The Moon and Earth don't maintain a fixed distance apart, so this wouldn't be possible. The distance varies by as much as ~50 km.
> do not care about the past...

You just reminded me of a quote from an electronic music documentary 25 years ago. One of the Detroit techno artists insisted on taking the filmmakers to a historic theatre that had been left to crumble & turned into a car park:

"In America especially, nobody tends to care about these kinds of things. People in America tend to let this shit just die, let it go. No respect for the history. I, being a techno, electronic, high-tech futurist musician, I totally believe in the future! But as well, I believe in a historic and well kept past. I believe there are some things that are important. Now, maybe this is more important like this, because in this atmosphere, you can realize how much people don't care, how much they don't respect. And it can make you realize how much you should respect."

- Derrick May, DJ/Composer, Universal Techno (1996)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=tdox6H7FJBU&t=955s

The segment starts at 16:00 in the video and is about 2 minutes long.
It's not very effective against places with low US economy exposure.

Economics dont happen in a vacuum
Imagine the system requirements of this versus the original OS ; )

Cool toy though!
Still not an excuse for laxism, even if Google does it to. They can do better than Google is they want to.
A lot of people in other comments below are criticizing take-home tasks, but honestly, this sounds nice and balanced. I'd much rather have a couple days to think about a problem and a few hours to implement it over having to take time off work, pay to go all the way to your company at a time that works for both of us, and deal with a white board interview. It's a way bigger investment. So long as it's a small, confined, practical problem and not a full app, this sounds good.

Plus, if your company gives someone what they might think are ridiculous questions or they realize it's just not what they're good at, they can easily reject proceeding any farther with the interview. If someone walks into a crappy whiteboard interview, they feel kind of stuck. Seems to be better for both sides. Less pressure.
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I doubt phonics isn't fundamental to reading Chinese, though. I've learned how to read Japanese, which uses a mix of their own characters and Chinese characters. If you're reading Japanese and you don't know how to read a written word, you're basically screwed. You might be able to vaguely infer what the words mean based on the meaning associated with the characters, but that's not the same as knowing its exact definition. I guess it would also be the same for Chinese.
Sound like you care a lot
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So what is wrong with "One Laptop per Child" ?
Why do you think understanding math requires hard work?
I meant the combined study of undergraduate and graduate theoretical physics, to be conversant at the level of the arXiv preprint.
How do you figure that Amazon is the most evil company in the world? Like, more than companies whose main products literally kill the users (Altria/Phillip Morris)? The companies that develop ICBMs? Or energy companies that create false narratives to confuse the conversation around climate change? Which frankly has a non-zero chance of being the cause of a new dark age.

Am I misunderstanding what you’re saying?
The homework was maybe a capcha to waste your time to show your are acctually applying.
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Looking around in the US[1], it looks like legally the cap can be from 1:15 - 1:25 (K-3). It looks like 1/3 of states don't have any legal cap. Funny enough, this chart[2] correlating reading performance and class size stops at 1:21 for 4th and 8th grade.

[1] http://ecs.force.com/mbdata/MBQuest2RTanw?rep=KK3Q1807

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student%E2%80%93teacher_ratio#...
In this case it was a flexible timeline. It took a few hours to properly complete, and I was given a number of days to return it.
Only waiting to realize.
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You're equating philosophy with "going on cruises?"

Unfortunate. How strange that in this very thread we are engaging in a dialogue fashioned in the method of someone who "liked going on cruises" 2400 years ago.
Or just offer both options. I certainly wouldn't eliminate the opportunity for unemployed people to get a little cash, just because of contract issues that gainfully employed people might have.
> Aurelius definitely seemed to be talking about curbing both the positive AND the negative emotions

I think you're right about this. But there's nothing to say you couldn't take the useful aspects of a particular philosophy and discard the rest. For example, Cato the Younger adopted the fortitude of stoic principles to filibuster the senate, though I believe he didn't behave in the manner of the stoics during his lifetime.

But, as you say, Aurelius was particularly proud of his ability to forgo pleasure, especially when it was readily available to him. I don't think this is at-all necessary to forgo pleasure in order to reduce one's own suffering. That a buddhist monk can sit still while being set alight seems to be strong evidence that pain can be assuaged by mind training alone.

Edit: I looked up self-immolation, and it turns out 'self-mummification' is a thing too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokushinbutsu
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I would say the tedious complexity. Immense complexity of jacked together systems
When there are hundreds of applicants for 1 role of which the top 10 are all equally qualified, no interview process will seem fair.

So how do we break the tie?

Whiteboard? No whiteboard? Pair programming?

If we accept that after a certain point the process is random, why not simply break ties with first come first serve?

In the final few rounds, is a candidate who can solve the exotic DP problem just because he's seen it before really any better than the others?
Very interesting.

I don't know whether this study measures only the outcome or contributing factors. For example, in Germany, anti-COVID measurements lead to the following result: way fewer to now discussions with the umpire. Pack forming has been forbidden. Empty stadiums are only part of the measures but, in my opinion, not the contributing factors.
These factors contributed massively to the pace of the game. And if no players are trying to influence the umpire - well, you get different results.
> They're all deeply interconnected. Read a book.

I don’t really enjoy fiction books.
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I believe you are misrepresenting the situation. No one expects corporations to archive and preserve all data, especially not data that they are not associated with.

However, if they create a monopoly on that data they have an obligation to preserve it, especially in the case of a corporation outright aquiring data instead of simply "out competing" for data. And as everyone mentions, of course they are in no way legally obligated to do so, but they are by any reasonable standard ethically obligated.

I do think that the government could and should archive data, but there is currently no system in place for doing so and likely will not be for a long time, if ever. Corporations would simply have to maintain the data that they already have.
I love capitalism. It's the best of all the available systems, because it's the most conducive to personal liberty. But let's not pretend it doesn't have a long, shared history with imperialism.

India, the jewel in the British crown, was originally conquered by a private corporation. Ditto for Indonesia and the Dutch. Capitalism's other greatest hits include the transatlantic slave trade, Belgian rubber farms in Congo, blood diamonds, and modern factory farming. Sure it was great for Europeans to have cheap sugar from the Caribbean, and the traders and planters became very prosperous. But at what cost?

Capitalism needs laws, regulations, and guardrails. Capitalism didn't voluntarily renounce slavery, or child labor. It didn't provide worker safety protections or overtime or other important labor protections. It would never have done, left to its own devices. It required "intrusive government regulation" and activism.
> Am i supposed to laugh or is this considered art?

I don't know... does she have a hot ass?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.H.O.O.Q.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_sushi
I grew up in the 80s and went to the mall many friday and saturday nights to be with friends and, later, to flirt with girls.

A typical exciting night went like this: parents dropped us off and picked us up (too young to drive). Sometimes I'd carpool with friends, sometimes we would just meet there.

We might catch a movie (two screens were typical, maybe 3, so they could fit a theatre attached to a mall unlike today's 24-screen monsters).

Then we would hit the mall video arcade -- some malls even had two arcades! -- then the ice cream shop or Orange Julius ... this was before food courts... then browsing or shopping at KB Toys toy stores, Spencer Gifts, and Encore or Walden Books (especially the Dungeons & Dragons section in the book stores).

But the primary reason for going was to socialize. We would pass other groups of kids walking up and down the mall like us, looking for something do but really just enjoying being together but never admitting that to each other. That wouldn't be cool.

Sometimes we knew those other groups of kids, sometimes not, and on rare occasions a fight might break out or at least a chase through the mall.

I didnt go into the department stores really, unless they had a toy section or maybe a sports section, but i think the girls went into them for makeup, etc. Claire's didnt exist yet and neither did Victoria's Secret or Target.

When it was time to go, we'd call the parents on pay phones if we hadn't prearranged a pickup time, then wait outside if it was summer.

I remember seeing E.T. in theatres in this manner in the summer of 1982. And later, Rocky III.

Simple memories of fun childhood times when we were learning independence.
> We used to have stable rule of law, but since the protests I'm not so sure now.

The protests are not dismantling the rule of law. There is a small subset where there is destruction and violence. Many people are expressing their constitutional rights. Some are actually having them violated by the state.

> We used to value self-reliance and risk taking, but a growing chunk of America now wants a more risk-averse government-reliant (in the form of guaranteed pensions, etc) European style society.

I don’t think people have admonished self-reliance or risk. The reality is many people fall through the cracks, and we should tend to their most basic needs the best we can to reduce suffering and allow people to keep being able to contribute to society, rather than leave them alienated and unable to get back on their feet. We’re the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, and have massive wealth inequality. Large corporations and donors are able to control politicians. People are losing their jobs by the millions, and by proxy lose their healthcare (in the middle of a global pandemic). Workers productivity has gone up, but wages have not followed. It’s not about entirely destroying American society as we know it, but rather providing for our fellow Americans people claim to care so patriotically about.
K8s is sophisticated software that offers a wide range of options because people want to use it in a wide range of scenarios. But you probably don’t need most of those options. Start with something like microk8s which is on rails, add knobs only if you need them.
Fascinating. Indo-European languages share many word roots. Word that remain similar tend to be numbers and family members (mum, dad, brother etc)
Faster global warming.
Not that I'm aware of, but I haven't gone through a normal job application process in decades. At least here in the Bay Area it's a nonissue.
Enjoy liberal group think.
Some randomly selected people can transfer everything to YouTube Music. I can't, and it may be months before Google would allow me to. It's exactly that kind of treatment that makes me feel like Google has zero respect for its customers.

Spotify is generally better than Play Music though, so it was for the best in the end.
Information and perspectives that challenge your view on the world aren’t fiction. They force you to reckon with the blindspots created by your experience in the world.
Wouldn't a dmca request take down the video in 24 hours?
Sure, but hardware memory tagging is also not proven to work.

Anyway, it's unclear with which criteria you're judging "proven not to work" with as we're both typing via the software right now, unlike a hardware solution.
no, you are making an argument that is React must be used a certain way (that is incompatible with MobX). I'm not sure what makes you think you're someone who can make gatekeeping statements like that if the react team never said such thing. MobX adds reactivity to your object oriented domain code and React allows you to write functional view component, what's wrong with that?

And no using MobX and using Angular are 2 vastly different things. One can like MVVM (MobX) and dislike string template and other convoluted mechanisms Angular.
The costs for getting started with BD ones are quite steep in my mind though. It's about 100 euro to get an external BD burner with M-DISC support and then like 6 euro per 25 GB disc or 20 euro for 100 GB disc. So if you were to archive 100 GB now, you'd be paying like 120 euro. 1000 GB and it's 300 euro.
You don't think that a corporation, even now, can exceed the ability of its employees to disagree with what it's doing?

Like lobby for legislation that protects (or makes paramount) the corporate interests, even though the people within the corporation might completely object to what is being lobbied for?

I think we underestimate how much people are willing to do what their employer requires to continue to be employed, and end up doing things that are totally legal, but not desireable in the long run.
> a meal ... consisted mostly of bread

This might be pendantic, but wasn't gruel ([1]) consumed more often than bread?

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruel
Thank you! We work really hard on the GCP roadmap program, keeping it fully accountable, and pushing against interesting transparency limits.

A public GCP roadmap is also in longer plans but there's a few internal flows we want to improve first. I'm especially trying to reduce the number of sites people need to visit, and want to ultimately see it land in a common place where authenticated users also see the non-public / NDA aspects.

And seconding this advice on access. If you are a GCP customer, your account manager is able to add your account for access. My contact info is in my profile and I can reach your account team if you have difficulties.
We don't consider nuclear warheads to be covered under the second amendment because they are munitions, not arms. What you're saying is a little ridiculous - do you expect that something written on the Internet is not covered by the first amendment, simply because it didn't exist at the time the amendment was written? Of course not. Technological progress is easily covered by the Constitution.
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I'm just using that word as hyperbole. If the person above thinks that Amazon is so bad for lobbying congresspeople, wouldn't Amazon itself saying it needs to be regulated deserve some serious consideration?
So many formative moments in my life happened in my local mall. I live in the exurbs of NYC and the mall was the only sensible, safe meeting place for my friends and I. Notably, it was a place where we could hang out without parents around.

It’s hard to defend the existence of malls. I think they’re a symptom of larger problems concerning community design. I also think that they encourage excessive commercialism. Still, none of that changes what the mall means to me.
> choose and implement and couple enhancements to a toy app

I think this is a key piece why this kind of project is useful, because that's exactly what they'd do when they start in their coding role: jump into an unfamiliar code base and fix a bug, implement something tiny, make things better along the way.

When hiring for a React role, I went to find an open-source React app and simply asked the candidate to mod it a bit. We then discussed the why and how, but also how they liked the app and why.

We only gave this task to the final candidates, and the ones that had React experience were done in very little time, because typing wasn't the issue here, but reading unfamiliar code and understanding the mechanics of the app.

Writing a hello world app from scratch or coding fizz buzz doesn't tell me enough.
A professional baker who's business I spent some time getting to know would test bake a standard loaf from every batch of flour purchased. Their recipe would get micro adjustment depending on results.

Not as necessary for home baked 1kg loafs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company
I totally agree: the excuses are poor and companies don’t care. There isn’t much candidates can do. Hiring managers need to fundamentally change how they approach hiring.
Good luck, you will need lots of it.
What do you gain? What do you lose?

jQuery has a better syntax and smaller coding footprint.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidy

Governments often pump money into things seen as having long term benefits for a country. Examples: investing in agricultural independence, roads, phone networks.

An entirely free market would still have these. Government investment gives it an initial push to develop faster. Australia decided they have some fields they should prioritize for national development. The idea of people working in one industry or one company for life is long gone, so expecting a company to subsidize someone's education just isn't happening unless they're already in the company.

Furthermore, an entirely free market approach to art majors would probably have even fewer art majors. If governments didn't subsidize degrees or offer loans or funding or anything of the sort, nobody but the elite would be studying art history at the academic level at all.

So the government either remains completely neutral and funds things equally, it funds nothing at all, or it funds according to national needs. Some countries choose #1 or #2. Australia chose #3.
I'm not positive that's true. I think the most challenging thing for MOND is that basically no one will touch it unless they already have tenure because it's a death sentence.

I saw Pavel Kroupa (big name in Milgromian gravity) present in Heidelberg (big concentration of Astro), at the time Volker Springel (author of widely used LCDM simulation code "GADGET") was there and Illustris simulation sets (LCDM major project) had just been rolled out. And Pavel basically got heckled (in a very erudite and respectable way, but constant interruptions from the LCDM majority audience).

But Pavel had one slide, I can't find it now, but it was like 72 different problems that LCDM had not solved (ok, 72 is an exaggeration; you can troll his website for mentions of a lot of them https://astro.uni-bonn.de/~pavel/kroupa_SciLogs.html).

And like, Pavel's a big boy, he has some of the most cited papers in all of astronomy, he's got tenure, and he's set, so he can take it and not care. But grad students / postdocs I imagine would constantly have their work politely ignored and get shunted into underfunded groups.

I'm just trying to say that LCDM has things it can't explain, and MOND has things it can't explain, but the amount of resources in each theory is seriously lopsided so LCDM can frequently "tweak" itself to solve problems that MOND just doesn't have time or resources to to the same (for example disk formation in LCDM models used to be impossible until they had the supercomputing resources for the resolution required, and they found that the feedback coefficient could a) not promote disk growth, b) promote disk growth, and c) destroy disk growth, depending on how much they cranked it up. That's NOT a triumph of LCDM making an amazing replication of the observation, that's some grad student in a lab with enough CPU to tweak a meta-parameter until it looks good.

Also the CMB is extremely tightly constrained... and multiple huge tightly-constraining studies, WMAP, PLANCK, Gaia, are more than 3-sigma outside of each other's results, so... perhaps too tightly constrained.

Edit: Found it, here is the great astronomical bloodbath of 2014: LCDM (Springel and Rix) vs MOND (Kroupa). Great watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPVGDXNSBZM
Those examples don't contradict the claim you're denying. The claim wasn't "men had it worse than women". It was that capitalism originally hurt men (coal miners, specifically). The commenter was arguing that capitalism is not a plot by the patriarchy devised to oppress women. To contradict their claim, you need an example of capitalism originally victimizing women.

I doubt anyone here would disagree that women have suffered more from sexism.

Incidentally, and unrelated to that point, you chose oddly mild examples of bad treatment of women. I'd much rather live in a society where I couldn't vote or charge my spouse with rape than be a coal miner and suffer from black lung and be in significant danger of dying in a workplace accident. You could have gone with the awful treatment of women under the Taliban, to name one example.
Well, ours was profitable and sold for $95M, kind of a definition of economic value.
The federal forces entering the cities are concerning.

When I think of rule of law issues I think of the AG freeing friends of the president (Stone, Flynn) and punishing enemies (Cohen). I think of the Trump administration choosing Microsoft over Amazon for the Jedi contract for political reasons. Also the lies about Berman 'stepping down', firing Comey and attempting to fire/discredit Mueller, the characterization of the report with a misleading summary, current investigations into the origins of the report, targeting political enemies, seeking international assistance in taking out political rivals etc.

Rule of law definitely seems to have weakened under Barr.

Anyway, this is a really well written opening statement. I know Amazon is known for having a great culture of writing internally, but it's always nice to see it in public. I wish tech companies wrote more about themselves in public, what they get from the press is a disservice - it's a lot more interesting to hear directly from the companies.

I'd be curious what he thinks about the counterfeit items given the 'customer-centric' view. One of the main reasons I didn't by Amazon stock earlier was I thought that would be a problem. In hindsight I realized even though it is a problem, there isn't really a better non-amazon alternative in most cases and I ended up buying stock anyway. If I was there, I'd figure out how to fix that issue - some way to hold sellers to a higher quality bar.
No implication was given, just that things have costs.