skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> decision you've already made

Abso-fucking-lutely, pardon my French.

To be a little more precise: unless you're going into an interview totally unprepared, there is a résumé that you've read, hopefully read carefully. I make a decision, based on said résumé, whether I would like to hire that candidate. Maybe "decision" is too strong a word. Hypothesis. Yes, hypothesis is better.

That means I have some sort of mental model of what the candidate might be like, what they can do and whether and how they fit.

If the person is invited for the interview, the hypothesis is "yes, I would like to hire this person".

The purpose of the interview is to try to disprove the hypothesis. If you fail to disprove the hypothesis, hire the person.
This is how I do it too - normally I'll take a thorny real life issue we've just had and decouple it from extraneous things I don't want to test and use that.

I'm intensely suspicious of people who believe that this isn't possible.
Teeeechnically yes.

But the barriers to file transfer get larger the farther back you go.

I have two old Macs that I use for writing: a 1985 Mac SE 2/40, and a PowerBook G4 1.67ghz.

The SE is indeed pretty thoroughly cut off from the world, but this also means that if you want to get your data off the drive, you have very limited options to do so. In my case it means using an SD card-based floppy emulator, writing to virtual floppy, loading the SD onto my modern Mac with a dongle because MBP2019, renaming the virtual floppy file so that Disk Utility will still recognize it, and then finally hoping I remembered to save the file as plain text because nothing is gonna read that shit other wise.

I have experimented with a Wifi232 dongle as well, but found that getting a vintage version of Z/XMODEM to talk to a modern one is all but impossible in 2020 and I failed at almost everything I tried.

So: enter the PowerBook. At 1.67ghz it's actually beefy enough that with TenFourFox you could technically get to some websites, but other than a handful of Mac abandonware sites and the old version of Reddit, almost nothing else will work thanks to JavaScript requirements. So distractions remain minimal and the alt-tab addiction is kept at bay.

BUT, it is still internet-capable enough to be able to connect to modern WPA2 wifi (mostly, I had some compatibility issues with my old ISP router that required working around with an old Airport Express), and that means I still have ways to more directly share the fruits of my labors. Email works just as well as any modern machine of course, USB is there (albeit slow 1.0 speeds), and some of the older sites I post my work on even still work in TenFourFox. More recently, thanks to Tigerbrew, I've got working git, so I can even backup my stuff to Github.

The PowerPC line makes a very nice "bridge" generation. Just modern enough to still by able to connect to the outside world, but old enough to be relatively free of distraction, or at least to keep the Twitter habit out of the way while I work.
It does work but not 100% which makes it feel like it doesn't. Language detection is very far from totally accurate (we use the CLD3 library), so sometimes it gives the wrong language. People can also just select which language they post in because when that's done in good faith it's more reliable than language detection, but of course it can also lead to some posts not being in the language they're supposed to be in. Using language filters cuts down on a lot of posts though, even if some slip through.
The difference is it's federated, so the content is available to everyone that wants it it their server.
> It rather seems like you barely skimmed the page before deciding to shit on it for arbitrary reasons.

"People will perceive and interpret ambiguous or complex images as the simplest form possible, because it is the interpretation that requires the least cognitive effort of us."

If a website violates its own laws, that brings into question the credibility of the laws, or the credibility of the author of the website. Without credibility, it feels like a waste of time to do anything more than skim... perhaps this is a failure of UX?

Fair point about 15, but neither you nor the website managed to express Hick's Law any better than KISS.
Come for the fun of having to setup and admin you own server, stay for the feeds of furries pics and posts in languages you don't speak.
People are always talking about switching to Blender (me included) - but they don't. Because as sad as it is, once you start to actually work with it in serious projects, you noticed all the things that hobbyists who hail Blender as the second coming never care about.
I wanted to give Blender another got at replacing Cinema 4D for us (since their new licensing). I got used to the UI, though it's not nearlly as intuitive as C4D, but when I started working with larger scenes, it came out that Undo steps in large scenes could take 20 seconds easily. I mean...wtf? That is probably one of the most essential functions you can have in an editor.
Apparently they are working on fixing that. Eventually.
As someone who was working in the physical engineering world when that video came out ... I am not convinced that design software specifically actually empowers engineers to be any faster at designing new and novel engineering (over pen and paper -- with isometric style drawings, etc.). Both software and paper design require a huge amount of training upfront and a huge amount of effort per project.

Anything that is standardized (engineering-wise -- and many things are) does not actually need a designer working with design software. It needs a generation algorithm (a script) with input parameters.

The biggest problem of why this area does not get more attention? We just don't build shit anymore. So, there is less money and opportunity than ever in it. Like really. We don't build shit. We need to fix corruption in politics long before we fix the lack of a proper marketplace to create incentive for maximizing the engineering potential of our society.
Stop using the invasive malware that is Chrome.
Wouldn't it make sense, as a part of the same study, to answer the question of how many EU citizens are getting the _UK_ citizenship? The fact that this is not even discussed suggests that the study is designed to confirm an underlying agenda.
Magazines and newspapers that literally nobody is reading eventually go bankrupt. The system has ways to keep that in check. Not so in academia, which is immune to market forces.
i think the problem is that the poster could have used the free plan now
Can confirm that you could do IRC just fine on a stock A1200.

You can browse wikipedia on one of those, too.
I just use a plain black background.
To be fair this is not new. Autodesk has had this MO for decades.

I remember in 1999, I was interning for a company that was getting into CAD, choice was to get 3D Solidworks that no one had heard of, or get the software that literally everybody used - 2D AutoCAD.

That company still uses Solidworks today and has never touched a single Autodesk product. I can guarantee the opposite would not be true if the other decision was made.

We knew in 1999 that Autodesk was never going to innovate, or allow us to.
> Banks kind of had to move their headquarters out of London

Which ones have done this?

IIRC JPMC have increased their office capacity in Ireland, but I haven't heard of multiple banks moving headquarters (though I heard lots of rumours that they would)
I would actually recommend trying MacPorts first, because it can uninstall cleanly, whereas TigerBrew is a fork from before Homebrew got around to thinking that might be a thing people would want. Which means you won't be able to try MacPorts if TB doesn't have what you want, which is likely IME, as a lot of the builds are broken these days and it's barely supported anymore.
Your being unsure doesn't make me feel unsure.
As a FreeCAD user I don't understand why FreeCAD absolutely despises chamfers and fillets. The dedicated chamfer and fillet tools are just bad. I can do the fillet by hand without any problems. Just create a sketch and revolve the cut or sweep the cut along the chamfered edge. Works perfectly fine but it takes much longer than it should.
Ringtones barely made a blip amidst the rapidly declining CD revenue. CD revenue started to decline after Napster was released in 1999 and the music industry never fully recovered. Good chart here:

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/music-industry-sales/
I could've phrased that better. You're making a prediction about your ultimate hiring recommendation, not about whether they complete the problem or answer your questions correctly or not. The point of this exercise is not to produce useful data but to draw your attention to your own decision-making.

> not to come up with a BFS

But it's not about whether they solve the problem, it's about observing their problem-solving process... right? ;)
Yes. "Non-assistance à personne en danger" is a crime in France punishable by up to 5 years in prison. Personally I'm absolutely fine with people being punished for not helping save someones life.

However this must only be if doing so does not pose any risk to the helper. See [0] for a list of countries with similar laws.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty_to_rescue#Regulations_by_...
No imprint, no privacy rules, no terms of service. Big no from me.
It literally does not work on my laptop: it stutters all the time when scrolling, navigating, etc. It's unusable even with the greatest degree of patience. This happens in both Chrome and Firefox, both with the default settings (uBlock improves things slightly, but not by much). I genuinely thought there must be something wrong with my setup, but several of my friends have reported similar experiences across different platforms.

Granted, I have a cheap not very fast laptop, but it's less than a year old and almost everything else works just fine – certainly not as horrendously slow as Reddit. These problems seem to disappear if you gave a faster machine from what I've been told.

But, yeah; it's broken for millions of people who have low-end to medium hardware. I genuinely don't understand how they could ship something so dysfunctional for so many people.
> Brexiteers won't be reasoned with and being reasonable is seen as weakness by them.

This “reasonableness is weakness” thing seems to be a more and more clear trend in western culture... It’s quite disturbing and seems very dangerous to me.

Or is it something that’s been circulating for a long time, just that I haven’t noticed?
> Users often perceive aesthetically pleasing design as design that’s more usable.

Is that right? Personally I feel like the opposite is true; I'll take an ugly looking but very usable UI over one that has all the bells and whistles but is actually a nightmare to use. Surely when the UI is bad and the UX is also bad the effect is compounded, and first time users might very well perceive the combination of bad UI/good UX as much worse than good UI/bad UX, but I really don't think this should be given out as good advice.
> I prefer this formulation: what's moral is what minimizes overall human suffering, now and in the foreseeable future.

Isn't that easier to find loopholes we wouldn't like, such as exterminating all humans to prevent any future suffering? Or generally doing all sorts of killing of people who suffer.
A lot of companies instruct their interviewers to "default to no" when making hiring recommendations. Effectively the opposite of what you're suggesting.

I knew a lot of interviewers at those types of companies who wouldn't bother to read resumes, either. They'd cite "bias" or something.
Strongly agree about the PocketBook website. It was so slow to load I assumed it was broken and left.
For what it’s worth, first hand experience here, Autodesk’s PLM is IMO quite awful.
Extended mission after Hayabusa2 returns to Earth
The gut has its own nervous system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enteric_nervous_system . Usually the effects of antidepressants on the gut are considered an unwanted side-effect, but in your case it was the intended effect.
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An Interactive JavaScript Slide Rule
And of course there will always be torrents, usenet, irc, or whatever.

Even if that weren't the case, the final choice is "don't buy that song".

There is always competition, and that will always keep a lid of prices to an extent.
Or “Lead the way, get behind me, or get out of the way.”
The ambiguity of human language is one of the hardest problems in IT.

I wouldn't hold my breath.
But it also means that if someone challenges the token, the token creator responsible for answering said challenge gets information about services used by the user. So it isn't really a privacy preserving solution.
I'm guessing they have a non-writeable root partition and rwroot is for things that would normally be on the root partition that need to be writable.
>that's true for every corporation

As a cynical person I agree, but Google is special in this case, because their core function is spying on people and selling their data to advertisers, and they are extremely successful.
It really depends on whether you are a native English speaker from the other side of the Ocean and never heard of other languages, you come from the Old Continent and etymology for you means "Greek and Latin only" or you are from everywhere else and just don't care.

Pleroma means

> (Koinē Greek: πλήρωμα) generally refers to the totality of divine powers

It is also used in the new testament with different meanings, such as

- to fill up an empty thing (e.g. Matthew 13:48), or

- to complete an incomplete thing (e.g. Matthew 5:17);

It sounds good to me as branding.

TBH it also sounds similar to plèura s. f. [Greek πλευρά «side of the body, rib»]. which is the membrane that covers the lungs
Correct, we're on good terms.
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Why not pay the ransom, then track down the perpetrators for an uncomfortable private chat with hired paramilitary types?

There has to be a stick or these folk will keep demanding more carrots.
It also appears to omit that a lot of skilled workers from EU countries are doing the exact same but in reverse. I always liked the Guardian, but their stories on brexit have been terrible, to the point that you can't trust them at all.
I thought this was going to be another blog about how Javascript isn't a real programming language and web apps are cancer.

It's not.

It's actually a very nice article about the BAFTA acceptance speech that John Carmack gave.

> I do hear sometimes from programmers who are kind of sad that they don't have the opportunity to write game engines from scratch like I did and have it matter or make an impact...

> here's where some perspective really helps - I can remember when I was a teenager, I thought I had missed the Golden Age of 8-bit Apple 2 gaming, that I was never going to be Richard Garriott...time went by, and I got to make my own marks in things after that. And, in that time, I also see so many opportunities that have come by.

> The 90s PC wave was great - I was happy to be there, and I'm glad I took a swing and knocked one out of the park with that. But since then, we've seen mobile games, and web games, and free-to-play games, the Steam revolution...and now virtual reality. And all of these are amazing!

> So, yeah, the opportunities that I had aren't there for people today - but there are new and better ones. And personally, I'm more excited about these than anything that's come before. So, thank you very much for this honor, but I'm just getting started.

> -John Carmack (BAFTA acceptance speech)
The problem that I ran into was the lack of clear visual cues that you are supposed to scroll, which is why I was referring to everything as slides. I simply clicked on the things that it looked like you were supposed to click on. If you approach the site in that way, you miss out on virtually all of the content.

In a way, I should know better. I landed on a news article earlier in the day that started with one of those dynamic infographics that you interact with through scrolling. I was at the point of backing out of the page, concluding that the article was the infographic, when a hint of an actual article popped up on the screen. While it is a visually, I also find it a very annoying waste of time when I am trying to find information.

(Incidentally, I didn't run into the performance issues that others have been mentioning even though I was using an 8 year old computer.)
I actually spent a bit of time learning about Slide Rules a few weeks ago as my Dad had put together a very cool interactive slide rule in JavaScript that I wanted to have a play with.

https://adit.co.uk/sliderulev2.html

One thing that struck me was that it does require a good instinct for the magnitude of numbers to use. Lots of fun though and surprisingly quick to use.
You might want to read Whatsapp terms of service, in particular the part where they claim copyright and even the right to make derivative works on anything you transmit over their platform.
I put in my contracts with architects that I want the source files to any drawings they make. Not a single one has ever refused to work with me for that reason. Surveyors, too.
>Autocad - not Autodesk - has many 100's of years of development done to it

What does this mean? Wikipedia said the first version of AutoCAD released at 1982, and it was based on a software from 1977.
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The Leap Motion is still on sale. https://www.ultraleap.com/product/leap-motion-controller/

I had one when they first came out and while the tracking accuracy was quite good, it wasn't good enough for doing any precision work. Every so often the tracking would skip and glitch.
"once you have paid him the Dane-geld, you never get rid of the Dane."
"had to move move their headquarters" No, they didn't. They've certainly started opening offices in places like Dublin though.
Don't disagree, they hate when you do that.
> quite hard to get a visa for many EU Countries.

It’s much easier to illegally immigrate.

I don’t get it - why would a Brit want to go to the EU. Those who are already stuck in there, fine.

I bet in 1-2 years net balance will be in favor of the UK.

Even now, if we accounted for those EU people who will attempt to stay in the U.K., I doubt there will be any brain drain.

The EU is done.
We already have separate countries to contain conflicting cultures. Isn't that enough? They all want to impose their culture on each other but are held apart by the threat of war.
> Does this mean we’ll see another PowerPC desktop computer or laptop in the future? Not likely.

This project https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/ is pretty advanced in that regard.
This article makes grand statements and that makes a glaring omission even more so: Releasing code and picking a license for it must involve your employer/University beforehand, they have a say and they have a legal department.

As for permissive v. copyleft licenses, you really need to think about the aim and the pros and cons. Again, lawyers will have good insight on this, it's not about "liking" one sort over the other.
Yep, nearly everyone on my team is from outside UK. Mostly EU, brexit hasn't affected them at all.
I recently applied to the Civil Service in the UK and they asked me to produce an anonymised CV, namely remove my name and contact details

In principle I like the idea but I think they should ask to also remove the company names and perhaps dates, as it could be straight forward to work out who you are based on companies and dates.

As to how effective to remove bias, it's hard to say as I've not seen any A/B testing done with this, but give the massive push to get minorities on board, I'd hazard a guess that it's not as effective as they had hoped
It's a whole package, a default user interface is bundled with the server. If you want to learn what Mastodon is, check out https://joinmastodon.org
Yes. That was the straw that broke the camel's back, so to speak.

There had been a long string of problematic incidents before that which didn't come into the public though. Frustration and anger about China had been rising for years, and there was a very delicate power balance between Larry, Sergey and Eric going on in which Sergey didn't want to be there, Larry was sort of indifferent (if I recall correctly) and Eric very much wanted to be there. So it led to a lot of tension. When the huge hack happened, it ended up tipping things in Sergey's favour. Probably the lack of ability to make progress in China against Baidu, due almost exclusively due to the PRC's playing-field-tipping incidentally and not Baidu's skill, ended up stripping Eric of most of his intellectual ammo.
What spend another few million on an illegal adventure well outside their area of expertise? Great idea. Why not reintroduce blood feuds to the Toy manufacturing business too!
It looks like this could also be partly due to the recessions in 2001 and 2008, based on the chart, as well as the decline in physical media.
Precisely. Until they begin moving for purely economic reasons rather than personal/political, it’ll continue resembling the USA -> CAN trickle, not the deluge the other way around.

EU -> UK numbers should prove interesting.
A nice try, but I think I'll stick to the current minimalist design without the scroll.
And yet, these hacks tend to be done with some social engineering and no insider knowledge. Many companies aren't well protected, you don't need an insider to hack them.
The economy held up pretty well, all things considered, and apparently much to the chagrin of the prophets of doom (not saying you are one or anything).
Being in Junior College in 1973, some of the kids had 4 function calculators hanging off their belt. The rest of us in a tech track usually carried a slide rule.

I did take a technical math class that involved programming a desktop calculator. Basically the first programming class I had.

I wish I remembered what brand it was, I'd like to try to pick one up if I could find one.
I don't really understand vwhy people who need to encrypt thing to stop from going to prison, don't encrypt multiple times using different algorithms.
Surely that buys centuries of time.
It has concurrency allready, LWT and a solution from Jane Street. Parallelism is dropping soon.
Is there a decent repository for these kind of short animated backgrounds? Ideally pixel graphics like the one in the preview video. I'd like to experiment with this, but a quick duckduckgo search didn't turn up much; some sites were advertising images as animated but they were in fact still images, and most of the others had gifs of varying quality, and weren't even consistently 1080p.
It's the 'movie' version of negotiating that plays to a populist crowd.

It intersects with other 'tough guy' identity tropes that are being (successfully) used in domestic political battles to gain power, and then are repositioned to be used in foreign relations with predictably terrible outcomes.

The problem is the audience of the negotiating stance isn't the counterparty, it's the domestic base who elected you because they were fed up with nuance and are suspicious of the counterparty.

This isn't just a Brexit problem, but is much more widespread.

I don't know how you'd be able to align incentives any worse.