skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My whiteboard coding interviews now mostly consist of asking someone to write a for loop with one state variable. That's my bar for low skill. If you can't write 6 lines of code in 45 minutes with one loop and one variable, then you and I are going to have problems working on logic problems on a whiteboard on the actual job.

I've interviewed enough people who don't even know the syntax of a for loop for the language that they chose to use.

As a general matter for how the industry as a whole interviews, I agree though; I am no longer a fan of tricky algorithmic or esoteric data structure questions in whiteboard interviews. The problem I find with other people's interviewing questions is that most people are still asking things that are way too difficult, and they don't end up judging anything other than "Did this person just cram hundreds of hours of algorithms questions?" or "Did this person get lucky and happen to know this type of problem ahead of time?".

For better or for worse, my company schedules me for like >90% system design questions now, which I prefer anyways. Start with a very simple problem and system, and then just throw wrenches.
Curious - is anyone using this via polyfill, or engaged in its ideas?

Thoughts on Temporals quality? Will people still want date/time libraries once it's out and stable?
I don't think a total split is reasonable (in both examples given). Technical implementation and design inform each other because there's always a point where limitations, performance, or some other aspect becomes relevant, and where having knowledge of both domains is very useful.

You can have a designer say, create a great UI but if they are not aware of the underlying limitations of the tech it can create a lot of headache. This may be even more relevant for language design and implementation. Ideally you have 'all-rounders' around for these issues.
How are the Kindles with PDFs that may have technical diagrams, like O'Rielly-style instructional books or CompSci textbooks?

I want a device I just use for reading, but I almost exclusively read PDFs of technical books. I'm thinking iPad Air vs Kindle
Sadly iPhone seems to be moving to zero cables, which means relying on perennially insecure basebands for Bluetooth & WiFi.

EU tried to force Apple to move iPhone to USB-C and their response was to drop all cables.

Hopefully the market rejects zero-port iPhones and Apple finally provides local USB-C for sync, audio, wired ethernet, keyboard, external displays, etc.
Apple has very little original content, but few are really good. "For All Mankind" is top notch SciFi. "See" is interesting. "The Mornign Show" was surprisingly good although I'm not typical audience.
120Hz screen looks to be the main differentiator.
It is quite odd for the iPad Air to have the A14 based CPU while the iPad Pro has the A12(Z?) CPU. I know the SOC in the Pro has more RAM and likely a better GPU than he base A12, but it's a really odd mix of processors.

This and the fact that the processor on the iPad Pro only did a half-upgrade earlier this year makes it seem like the Pro is in some weird between state. Certainly if you were on the fence between the Pro and the Air, the case for buying the Pro became a lot tougher.

Aside from the additional RAM, what are the big advantages of the Pro?

* Marginally bigger display.
* 120 Hz refresh rate (ProMotion)/ Faster GPU
* (Likely) More RAM
* Bigger base memory (128GB vs 64GB)
* Better cameras/ LIDAR.
* FaceID

I guess it's still a pretty decent bump up for the $200 price difference?
>> you're kind of "stealing" from, in that you aren't fulfilling the legal and financial obligation.

Stealing requires conscious choice. Not being able to pay a debt isn't a choice and therefore shouldn't be described as stealing.
i am not making any suggestions, I am wondering what Feeney, who has quietly donated huge sums with no fanfare or hype (example: SF UCSF children's hospital, see elsewhere in these comments, is named the Benioff children's hospital despite the fact Feeney donated more than Benioff for the hospital).
I have no idea what Feeney makes of Gates in 2020 but I'd love to know. No insinuations, me projecting what I think he thinks...
Hehe, UIC is the bane of cr.yp.to's existence, between network and power instability... Makes you appreciate what the big cloud players abstract away from us!
> I'm not so sure it is, when there are so many well-funded, concerted efforts to deliberately induce ignorance in people. Radio and books have at least some bottleneck where you can at least try to cut off deliberate falsehoods.

I don't see how you can believe these things at the same time. If these efforts to induce ignorance are indeed so well-funded and concerted, how can bottlenecks be an obstacle? Indeed why couldn't these well-funded, concerted efforts use those bottlenecks to cut off people disagreeing with them?
Today’s Apple Event in 4K60
I do take exception with “no clear direction on where the company is headed”. You have to consider who is interviewing you and the size of the company you are interviewing at. I don’t expect a low level hiring manager inside of a fortune 500 company to give some amazing elevator pitch. If they could they would likely be a C level exec. Everybody knows where companies like P&G or Coca-Cola are headed. The candidate might reasonably assume they intend to keep developing and selling new shampoo and drinks.
At first approach it seems to be substantially different from what RMarkdown is intended for, though maybe I am not seeing some outside-the-box ways of using it.

What I would like is more oriented around creating documents according to particular layout specs. Documents (books, technical documentation) that can be created using InDesign, but this time programmatically[0].

As content should be authored using semantic markup (for accessible PDFs to be produced), and styling & layout capabilities should be flexible enough, I can see how HTML+CSS paradigm could be viable (and would allow reusing many useful parts from web stack, such as self-containing components).

If going with CSS, the latest spec is close but does not yet seem to be there as far as proper print media layout capabilities. A viable path could be extending an existing engine (Chromium?) specifically where it renders for print media, enabling rendering to accessible tagged PDF, and likely even introducing new styling capabilities making the spec a superset of CSS.

(This all under assumption that it is at all feasible to achieve proper accessible PDF output using browser’s print capabilities.)

[0] I know about variables & data import in InDesign, that is still dependent on GUI so not quite applicable.
If you have YouTube Premium you have YouTube Music. It’s interesting, not why I subscribed to Red/Premium, but it didn’t cause me to cancel Spotify.
But direct integration with sports equipment seems like it would be the next logical step on the radar for Apple.

You'll be able to go on Amazon and buy [Bike/Treadmill/etc] with "Fitness+ Compatible" that streams wirelessly to your watch/phone.

Then Peleton offers no value add. They're just a treadmill maker charging 250% of their competitors.
7 was at a large enterprise software company. I don’t remember exactly how many phone screenings they did, but it was less than 20. I still thought it was too many.

Like I said, I think if you have to interview that many, your filtering process is really broken further up the pipeline. You don’t know what you want, what the job really is, the or application process isn’t properly structured.

Interviewing large numbers of people is also a huge liability unless you’re extremely consistent and well-documented in your hiring process (something which I’ve found to rarely be the case).
It isn't the pure javascript feeling without a few cross-browser quirks.
When given criticism, banning the critic from ever contributing is a ludicrously adolescent response.

I'm going to guess (at least I hope!) that you're inexperienced in the professional world. Well, in the adult world you will face criticism for what you produce constantly.

Some of that criticism will be fair and you'll be able to act on it - you can improve what you've done. Some will be fair but you can't act on it - you can't change it in time or on budget and that's not your fault. And some will be completely unfair - it's simply not accurate.

You need to develop a mature response to all these scenarios. But sticking your fingers in your ears and going, "lalala I can't hear you" is not one of them.
I can’t imagine why you moved to Seattle to escape “problematic issues” with where you lived before. Were you in Phoenix before...? Seattle isn’t exactly a place that lacks problems. I left in 2014 and as far as I can tell, it has only gotten worse with its issues.
I work at Google, and don't know anyone who'd struggle with Fizzbuzz.

That's an extraordinarily simple coding problem, and the usual ones you have to pass to get into Google are much harder.
* first they mention "10x faster machine learning"
* later they mention "70% faster machine learning"

seems not enough ML applied in the review process ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
what about altimeter?
similar to SRI currently as well.
Except in web design you rarely create a design that is literally, provably impossible to make
> A lot of people only donate to reduce their tax bill.

It's still money gone from your pocket. It doesn't save you money overall.
Seems interesting. Just signed up.
Swiss. It's been months since I was following this story, but the machines were chinese (air freighted in, along with copious supplies of masks for the interim, by our flag carrier airline, which had plenty of spare capacity at the time) and I believe the textile source is german. Our virus response the last two months has been pitiful, but we were doing well in our first wave.

Even the north koreans seem to have bought some machines, judging by their propaganda photos. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23741907

As far as making cheaper than china, the following are old links for non-N95 masks, they may be stale:

Compare masks per month:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-autos-...

with masks per day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jWt-4YKBq4
You are right, very little can be learned from history, IMO.

We get a very skewed and biased view of history on anything that matters.

If you want an example, take a look at star forts. These forts are often beautiful. And they are all over the world - UK, US (the statue of Liberty has one for its base), Canada, Japan, Russia. They are least 3-400 years old. I never learnt about these in school. But there they are. Who built them? Why did they build them like that?

http://starforts.com/
Also - does he actually "have money"?

Tesla and SpaceX don't make a profit or pay dividends. My guess is he finances his entire life from taking on debt which is secured against his stock.

So how exactly are people like him supposed to just give money away? What happens to the stock he owns then? Would he forgo control of his companies?

How would he pay taxes on that income anyway?

Lots of questions the billionaires-shouldn't-exist crowd have no concept of.
Just to confirm that I remember Moment correctly, the code in the if statement never runs because .add mutates somedate, so somedate and oneMonthLater are the same, correct?
It's a serious problem.

I have two Twitter profiles. One follows only makers, tinkerers, artists and educators. I mark "do not want to see more posts like these" if anyone posts something political.

I have another one that follows people with strong political views and the latest outrage.

Guess which one makes me feel better when I view it?

Guess which one I find myself viewing more often?
You're right.

It's the portability of being able to use Fitness+ cycle instructors on any stationary bike not just a Peloton that I think provides the most value.

When things get back to normal, you can have the instructor guide you through a workout at a hotel gym or any gym anywhere with a stationary bike.
There is an excellent Planet Money podcast about this from NPR [1]

[1] https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/912150085/waste-land
For some context--I had to look it up for myself

Release GA Date Premier Support Until
11 (LTS) September 2018 September 2023
12 (non‑LTS) March 2019 September 2019
13 (non‑LTS) September 2019 March 2020
14 (non‑LTS) March 2020 September 2020
15 (non‑LTS) September 2020 March 2021

Ref https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/java-se-support-roa...
I felt the same way. I'm not a very demanding music consumer, my ripped collection was already in iTunes, and it was just the path of least resistance and seems "fine."
Chuck Feeney embodies what Gandhi said about the rich having wealth in trust and using it for the good of society:

"“supposing I have come by a fair amount of wealth — either by way of legacy, or by means of trade and industry — I must know that all that wealth does not belong to me; what belongs to me is the right to an honourable livelihood, no better than that enjoyed by millions of others. The rest of my wealth belongs to the community and must be used for the welfare of the community.” [1]

Each time I bike past Cornell Tech, Feeney's generosity awes me. What a mensch. Makes me proud to be human.

[1] https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/mahatma-ga...
One of my biggest gripes with apple mobile design is the fact that the camera sticks out from the back of the device, making it unable to sit flat. On a phone it's much less of an issue given the usual one handed use and the fact that the vast majority of people use cases(which I don't so it's still annoying to me) but on a tablet, it's basically a deal breaker for me. If it's meant to be drawn on with a stylus, it should sit flat on a table like a piece of paper.
Musk has signed the giving pledge, so he might end up doing both. He wants to die on Mars, and it seems likely that if it would require the bulk of his fortune to make us a multi-planetary species, he would commit it.
Adobe Illustrator for iPad: available for pre-order
I wonder what that means for companies like Peloton. I can imagine an Apple Watch and a small "smart" bike trainer[1] would be infinitely more practical and affordable for most people and still allow Apple users to track all of the same metrics as Peloton.

[1] Something like this, but with an odometer and WiFi: https://www.amazon.com/Goplus-Exercise-Trainers-Flywheel-Sta...
Not the person you asked, but I think Singapore does a good job of things. Their civil servant class is exceptionally skilled.
> huge financial incentives to actually deliver and not just pay lip service

Which? It's still all closed source and tivoized, so you're still taking their word for it. At most they'd have to bullshit together some whitepaper about what they claim to do.

> and there are significant penalties waiting for them if they are lying about protecting privacy

The same "significant" penalties that were applied to Equifax?

> Also you can keep your data local with Apple hardware - it's encrypted and only available to your hardware

Based on... their claims?
Sigh, the default storage option is still 64GB...
Grey water would be a nonsensical phrase if it didn't have another meaning. No one would think it's actually referring to water that is simply grey. Open source is a phrase that makes complete sense without any context.
It is not a competition.
$1 billion to cornell? Cornell doesn't need the money
> A project can't be more stable than its dependencies

Sure it can; there's no reason a project has to take every upstream update, if, for instance, it vendors dependencies, or otherwise doesn't directly depend on the remotely maintained source.
I’d say Apple is structured substantially less like a bunch of different companies compared to one which is explicitly split into separate SBUs.
Why not order a few HEPA filter air purifiers?

I have 4 (5th is on its way).

They work extremely well and if you pair them with a Temptop AQI sensor you can see how well in real time: https://www.temtopus.com/collections/temtopus-pm2-5-pm10-mon...

Those temptop sensors are great. I've previously had awair, foobot, and purple sensors which all sucked in different ways.

Really long thread about this here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AirQuality/comments/ikf1ed/are_ther...
I only recently saw getpod.io and this is exactly the feeling i had
Depends on who you are. While I tried the iPad only lifestyle and found it wanting (ended up back with a MacBook Air) it absolutely is true for my father. He never did feel comfortable using computers, but he loves his iPad Pro - it let's him keep in contact with friends, follow news and sports, keep track of his appointments - in other words it's a tool that does things he cares about. He doesn't consider it a computer, nor does he want a computer.

I suspect that there are far more of him than there are of us - which is why having a choice of computing styles is a good thing. It always baffles me when people (not necessarily you, just making general observation) seem to get bent out of shape that every offering doesn't meet their expectations and is thus bunk. Maybe it's not bunk, but just not good for your use case.

Diversity is our strength and all that...
This is the rise and fall of civilizations, while expansion is possible in the sense of, the majority of people can "win" at their culture (or have a clear path to), a civilization is successful. In Rome, and America this usually means economic improvement. In Egyptian times, this meant falling in line with the religion. Carroll Quigley has a very nice framework for what is a civilization. Let's just say he was a very influential historian, mentor of one rather recent US president.
It’s amazing how quickly one gets downvoted for criticizing M$. But the point was legit. Whenever M$ does something it thinks is good you would hear about that. Remember how WSL was touted as a perfect solution for all your Linux needs? And then WSL2 was touted even louder? They had to forgo WSL and start again with a completely different approach because WSL never really worked well. How many bad things have you heard about WSL? None?
This feels like a no-brainer for anyone who uses Apple Music (particularly the family deal). Apple TV+ has turned out to be pretty solid, getting TV+, additional cloud storage, and Arcade for $5 more seems simple.
It's not "impossible", just not natively obvious. The solution I remember using is

0 * * * * foo()
0 * * * * sleep 30; foo()

It's not the prettiest but is a reasonable imitation of a 30 second cron.
On the other hand free trade stops wars. If each party is specialized in a needed item that the other side no longer knows how to produce, its much harder to go to war.

The fact that the US will always need steel helps ensure that they _will_ always be friends with China, so long as they also specialize in something that China needs.
Explain what this means to non twitch users?
> I was surprised recently looking into wifi options that apparently the new wifi 6 claims to handle 2400Mbps.

The entire WiFi network can handle 2400Mbps.

While a 10Gbps CAT6 cable can handle a 10Gbps connection up and down stream per wire.

In short: 10Gbps CAT6 vs WiFi6 on "apples-to-apples" terms is 20Gbps (10Gbps per direction) vs WiFi 2.4Gbps.

Note that each additional CAT6 cable you add to the network increases your aggregate bandwidth by another 20Gbps (10Gbps duplex). A 8-port 10Gbps switch can be organizing 80Gbps duplex (80Gbps to, and from, every port), or 160Gbps in WiFi terms.
Polls show trust in scientific, political institutions eroding
> But it takes a level of dedication, discipline and a moral code to take 10% of earnings for benefit of your community and do it without legal compulsion.

Absolutely, but I think that's pretty rare among the general population. IIUC, if I drop $10 into the offertory basket at Sunday Mass I'm counted just the same as a Mormon who tithes 10% of their income.
I didn't notice the tone, but there must be some of it. I think the author tried their best to sound neutral but if they strongly believe what they believed it, it's unavoidable for letting personal opinion slip in. I once asked one of the author - nerdhaspower, to remove such words as "中共" from his site because they show confirmation bias. He refused. But in this paper, they did a much better job.

I don't believe the paper implied what you said. The first reference for example, also a well-written paper, is from a Harvard researcher, who has nothing to do with the organization.
"The single files (or substantial portions of them) are not what's being distributed in this case."

If the single files are not being distributed how do we know then, then header has been changed on single files?

On the other hand: if somebody received these individual files - they were also distributed... each one of them...
Thinkpads also have nice keyboards, so are hardly representative of laptops in general.

And in line with the other commenters, my corporate HP and Dell laptop function keys aren't grouped. Fortunately, I interact with both through a nice external keyboard.
Or, more likely, he's not maximizing the impact of his donation.
It should be noted though that Dragon is very detailed especially on parsing. Thus some consider it a bad introductory book and/or even outdated. But it's good resource if you want to become better and parsing is just a part of the book.
Why? OpenJDK is free, and if you don't need the Oracle support you don't need to use their JDK, they are almost the same except the support.
Sure, but you also have the internet at your disposal, which you did not in the day of the VCR.
It could have been seen as a force multiplier. If Feeney was educated at Cornell, then that $$ to Cornell could possibly contribute to more Feeneys in the future who could also follow in the footsteps of philanthropy.
> Just know what you're getting into.

This is the whole issue. It's all so complicated. Thinking about it, I suppose it should have been obvious they can just yank comments from an altered source. Somehow I had the wrong idea that original top-level headers were left untouched. IIRC I may have even seen appended top-level lic notices in the wild. Thanks to your informative comments here, I now know otherwise. The thought occurs that OSS licenses are very much mired in du jour technology of writing code. If a future language supports metadata for code, such as history, I would think none (?) of the current batch of OSS licenses would protect the metadata.

I've been warming up to GPL flavors for a while as well now. I'm even careless enough (I seem to suffer from a tendency to "wrong think") to toss around in my head a re-evaluation of merits of non-OSS licenses as worker in this field. An unfortunate thought that keeps cropping up is that "big business and big brother the ultimate benefitiaries of OSS".
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I'm sure the president personally approved that image /s
You can try https://yoganotch.com - uses motion sensors to give feedback on yoga form
Extremely disappointed it doesn't support the apple pen 1st gen. The apple pen 1st gen is still being sold, and I just bought one 2 months ago to work with my "old" 2017 ipad pro. Why force us to spend another $130 for a 2nd gen pencil when the first gen is essentially just as good.
Thanks I do have a fairly good filter for one room in the house, where I'm holed up. Just when I have to venture out for food and stuff, I either wear a mask in the house or just cough.

The AQI in my area is closer to 300 :(
If it was 50 phone screenings, that’s still way too many for a single role. Everywhere I’ve worked, it’s been narrowed down to maybe 10 calls and 3-5 candidates. I can’t imagine who has the time to waste on 50 calls to candidates.