skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interviews, and in fact, most first meetings between people, are often shibboleths: a perfunctory test of similitude to prevent outsiders from getting in and causing unnecessary angst by thinking differently. (In Biblical times, apparently, the word "shibboleth" could not be pronounced by The Other Tribe, who pronounced it "sibboleth", and were denied entry or worse, killed by the guards).

If you're OK with this, then interviews can be an enjoyable game with rather predictable behaviours (and even predictable questions, probably taken from "Cracking the Coding Interview" or equivalent online course). You just have to learn to jump through the hoops. Just look at leetcode or google, "how to pass tech interviews" and pay up for a course on it. Just remember to not roll your eyes during the interview. (The real issue arises if you start hating this process or the thinking behind this in the industry).

You could get lucky and find employers / interviewers who assess general intelligence, or better, find employment through your network of friends, ex-colleagues, and mentors, which would bypass this process.

All the best!
"Freiburg: the German citiy whose politics align best with our (the BBC's) ideology" would have been a more accurate title.

They have some bicycles and some solar cells, and the major is from the leftist Green party.
The problem is that the browser market is not actually a direct market for browsers. People don't buy browsers. They buy OSes, computers, phones, tablets, cars, fridges and other devices that happen to have browsers in them.

So the incentives are very skewed, the available resources too. Google will always out-compete Firefox in a relatively short time on whatever metric Mozilla comes up with. (If Google wants to of course. That's why Apple is doing all this privacy marketing thing and providing subpar but privacy-aware products.)

Ideally the browser and the web ought to be unbundled. People who pay for the Internet access should have a voice in where the Web goes. The ISPs should transfer some money to browser vendors. Sounds crazy? Yes, but that would at least provide different market forces. (And maybe browser vendors should be prohibited from accepting any other sources of revenue. Okay, but what about pull requests? Yeah, good question, this was never an easy problem.)
Europe isn't able to compete with American tech salaries, plain and simple. American tech salaries, on the other hand, are inflated by exaggerated tech stock valuations.
I think that comparing only the technology sector gives a wrong perspective on the amount of research being done:
According to the National Science Foundation of the USA https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsb20206/publication-output-by-re...
The EU actually produces more research papers than China or the US. (of course that isn't a perfect metric, but it's still an indicator)

I think that many people conflate "innovation" with "big companies" which isn't the case:
You don't need a google/Apple/Facebook equivalent to innovate (and having such towering companies may hurt in the long run, but wether or not big "googlesque" companies are a good thing is an entirely different question)

There are also a lot of unknown companies that have huge influence on the overall market by being global leaders in very narrow non-consumer facing areas, so called "hidden champions".
These companies have become more important due to globalisation.
To give a concrete example: While your phone wasn't built in the EU, odds are that it was at least partially produced with machines by ASML, a company that produces lithography machines for ~80% of chip manufacturers.

Also, due to this site here literally being "hackernews" and the pervasiveness of digital systems in normal life, we are getting a pretty skewd look at the industry as a whole: For example, the biggest chemical company in the world is BASF, a european company and the chemical company Bayer now owns a majority share of agricultural chemistry.
None of those things is murder, which is unlawful killing, usually premeditated. Maybe there is a society which doesn’t hold murder to be wrong, but I’ve never heard of it, and it’s hard to see how it could last.
Anyone else find it ironic that Google is the subject of one of the biggest anti-trust cases in recent history, and now Schmidt is blaming the US for not innovating enough?

Maybe if so much of the tech industry's wealth and resources weren't pooled together into a handful of massive monopolists who have nearly complete control over whether any competitor lives or dies, the US (and really, the entire world) would have more opportunity to innovate.
I feel Firebug is one of those developer tools that would have been highly monetized in the current start era. I owe a lot of my own career path as a Web software engineer to Firebug.
Humans are not a chaotic collection of random emotions and opinions. You'll find that those who like to eat dirt and murder others are far outnumbered by those who like chocolate and want to live in harmony.
Sadly I can't recall the name of the book I read as a kid, but it was all about dangerous animals. The kind of stuff pre-teen boys are super into.

Well, I was hoping for adventure stories, but the book ended up being a dry and technical description of incidents. Yet, still interesting. One horror story I recall was of Orcas harassing an Inuit family in their canoe. And them having to throw one of their kids overboard to get away.

No idea idea if the stories in the book were real or made up. But just based on the dry and technical descriptions, part of me has always suspected they might have been real.
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I like the idea that morality is something that is built by mankind and that needs to be extracted by studies.

For instance, economists have found the value at which US society estimates an American's life by seeing at which point risks balances costs in some hazardous investments.
Yandex Maps is much better in Russia than Google Maps. I also found Yandex's image text translation capabilities to be much superior than Google
Can anyone name a single, legitimate company that has ever been "taken down" by short-sellers? A company which had a great business going, but short-sellers ruined it? I don't even think it's possible.

On the other-hand, frauds brought down by journalists and short-sellers are abundant.

In my experience, CEOs (in this case, the board Chairman) whining about traders is a huge red flag. What do they care what a bunch of people are doing with their ownership in the company? It's irrelevant to the day-to-day operations of the company, but certainly harms the narrative.
If God didn't mean for people to eat other people, they wouldn't be made of meat. ;)

(To paraphrase Flanders' and Swann's song, "The Reluctant Cannibal"):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjAHw2DEBgw

"Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not."

"I won't let another man pass my lips!"
> these jobs aren't worth having

Are you making that decision for yourself, or for others? Offer the job, and see if there's takers. If there aren't, then you'll actually know that the job isn't worth having.
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There is an even simpler explanation: some moral principles push people towards a game-theoretic optimum, so evolution selects for it.

Eg, a society that allows random murders will be at a staggering disadvantage. By magic, most (all?) societies have strong moral arguments against murder. Ditto honesty - honest societies have structural advantages.

Any cooperative species will have something that looks like morality. Even ants practice first aid.
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For non-fiction, I'd add The Hell of Treblinka, by Vassily Grossman, a Red Army journalist who was one of the first to enter the death camp. One of the hardest things i've read.

"It is the writer's duty to tell the terrible truth, and it is a reader's civic duty to learn this truth. To turn away, to close one's eyes and walk past is to insult the memory of those who have perished."
"I very much doubt it would be appropriate to take Twitter as source in that case"

Editors also didn't like it when I added info from his website. Basically, they didn't want anything he said in his own defense to make it to his Wikipedia page.

"Also, it seems like you are not aware that it is very much possible to be a pro-Israel antisemite, e.g., the Nazis at one point supported Jewish Zionist emmigration to Palestine."

I'm aware of that. This person also said he encouraged Jews to join a political organization he ran.

But anyway, I tried to be very clear: I was not saying the citations which claimed this guy was an antisemite should be removed. I'm saying it was worth including this person's own statement of their political views as well.
A buddy of mine in grad school (he was an HEP postdoc), once told me (computational condensed matter), that I was working in the dirt left over from the "real" physics. He was a nice guy, but enjoyed ribbing me a bit.

That said, I do recollect mostly condescending attitudes from the HEP folks.

After finishing my Ph.D., I moved on to a successful career with building, deploying, supporting supercomputers, and the codes that run on them. My friend meanwhile, wound up working in condensed matter physics, modeling semiconductors (which is what I wrote my thesis on) for a large chip company.

It seems reality sometimes has a sense of humor.
> American tech salaries, on the other hand, are inflated by exaggerated tech stock valuations

How does a company’s stock price affect salaries? Companies only receive capitalization (via stock) at IPO.

Stock market valuations do enable higher total comp through RSUs / options.
Bart Streumer is mentioned in the piece. His book "Unbelievable Errors: An Error Theory about All Normative Judgements" begins with a pretty cool sentence:

> You cannot believe the view I will defend in this book. I therefore will not be able to convince you that this view is true.
>The people of Hiroshima

You know what I found most fascinating about the Hiroshima memorial in Japan? They go on about how bad the bombing was but literally have a statement to the effect that if Japan was invaded they would have fought to the last man, woman and child. Millions would have died on both sides and the country would have been a wasteland. So unpleasant as it is, sometimes ethics does require the lesser of two evils as there is no good choice.
> Milton indicated that the company will provide no further in-depth public comments until the SEC "finishes their work."

How about showing media outlets the truck going up that 3% grade from a cold start?

Or showing the solar panels on the company’s roof?

Many of the allegations would be trivial to disprove, if they are in fact false, and doing so seems unlikely to anger the SEC.
There has been a strong movement to more unity in Europe. But, this has not been accompanied by democratisation.

To stay competitive Europe needs unity in the political process, defense and border security for example, and not in regulations in economy, finance, immigration etc, which are excessive already.
Does it make much of a difference though? Take the hyped Rust for example. Most useful stuff is in crates, i.e. an external dependency. No one seems to have a problem with that.

Personally I do not mind using libraries typically installed by the Linux distribution's package manager anyways.

If the question is whether or not I think the C standard library could be improved, then yes, I would say it could, but I do not want it to have a hash table and all sorts of stuff like that, because there are lots and lots of ways to implement them, and they might not suit my needs. C is great, because you can build it from the ground up (if you want to) to make it specifically for your use case. It gives you the building blocks. I believe I have a comment regarding this somewhere, that I like C because it does not implement stuff for you that is in some ways "generalized", which is often a bad thing. This is my problem with "it should have hash tables at least". You cannot implement it in such a way that it suits everyone's needs.
Spoken like someone sitting in the ivory tower of a FAANG.

> some time

Perhaps it was my fault in not explaining the amount of effort I did put in, but if the implication is i need to learn the intricacies of the architectures of every platform out there, then truly this is not the industry for me.
For broadcast programs, yes.

The NES, and many other early computer/game systems, don't bother sending an interlaced display. Basically, they omit the half scan line at the end of one frame that positions the next frame lines in between the prior frame.

That's what 288p is.

And the result is half the vertical resolution but at full frame rate. 50fps

Pal, intended for viewing movies, television broadcast does output that half scan line for the full vertical resolution, and the result is a full frame is seen every other frame.

That's what 576i is.

Twice the vertical resolution, half the frame rate or 25fps.
I don't think so.

Orcas had many chances to kill and eat humans but they never did it. They don't see us as food. Probably their intelligence makes us interesting to them. And they don't have problems getting food from any source they want, so I'd take hunger out of the equation.
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Property portfolios = people paying your pension one day.
For all X, if X matters, hire a lawyer. If X does not matter, then it doesn't matter.
I’m not sure he “sees right through it.” His his view is sorta clouded by cynicism. The world is not all bad, after all. Or at least not as bad as he makes it out to be.

Full agreement on his not giving a fuck though. He’s the kinda guy that would fart at a party and then laugh at the people offended by it.
Why would it be unethical to cut out the middle man??

Oh nooo!?!?! How dare I hire that blogger directly, I'll go to jail/be fined for not going through a hiring agency!?!?!

You realize that stupid opinions exist, right?
Yup, agreed. Likewise, concepts such as the taste of sweet, salt, sour; colors such as red, blue and yellow; behaviors such as aggressive, calm, afraid; emotions such as happy, angry, sad; evaluations such as beautiful, ugly, plain;

All of these are from nature and nurture, they don't exist as mathematical laws or any sort of foundational aspect of how the universe works. It's all just subjective and arbitrary inventions we have created to categorize and make sense of what we observe.

Yet they are all immensely important to us! Even though they don't have objective grounding. We base our entire societies, our ways of life, our ways of thinking, around these incredibly non-justified categories of things.

Yet, there is a whole lot of people who seem to want to exclude morality from this box. It has to be thrown out, because it's not objective, not justified, not "real". But in contrast to what exactly?
Been out of physics for 23 years, but, yes. Without the studio laugh track, and generally humor. Also add in lots of politics.
Is there a list of things that are not in AOSP only delivered through Play but are basically required to have a functioning Android phone?
Or maybe his sordid past gives him deep experience that qualifies him for more "time at the mic" than other HN randos speaking from places of inexperience.
I agree, asking 7 billion people to individually decide to change their habits is not an effective way to solve the problem. But regardless it is something you can currently do to help, even if in the end more will be needed.
Perhaps they meant, "isn't simply about execution," rather than, "simply isn't about execution?"
Dagnabbit I overslept!

I use BitBar on my macbook to display the epoch second on my menu bar in a format like this: { 1,600,003,345 }

The script to do that is:

EPOCH=$(/bin/date +%s | /usr/local/bin/sed ':a;s/\B[0-9]\{3\}\>/,&/;ta')

echo "{" "${EPOCH}" "}"

Separating the epoch into thousands was done with the help of this Stackoverflow question: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/113795/add-thousand...

EDIT: This is a much simpler way of writing it, thanks to GNU Coreutils' "numfmt"

EPOCH=$(/bin/date +%s | /usr/bin/numfmt --grouping)
If I wanted to do this, are there certain fee-based lawyers that I can hire to read the document? What should I look for?

By the SEC definition, I am a qualified investor but this would be the first such investment I'd make and I don't want to mess up
I have one of these candy bar style Nokia phones, and its surprisingly good, but warning to the user: they don't work on 3G..

This isn't a problem unless your provider no longer supports 2G which is the case with the aptly named "3" provider. (Both in Sweden and the UK).

Getting a payG SIM card for another provider isn't too much of a pain but I bought this as a backup for my main phone and only noticed it in an emergency. :(

Other nitpick quirks include: being able to unlock the device with one keypress (when locking is at least 2 keypresses) and no discernible way to update the firmware.
Well, with poo it is quite easy. If you pay attention to your baby, you know, when he wants to, I can imagine it, doing without (we simply lacked the time).

But peeing he just do without warning. I would have to pay attention to him 100% the whole time - and this is not what I want or can afford.
Big problem being that for most people, it's about same susceptibility as cold, meaning, eh? (Measured by symptoms. COVID has much higher rate of very bad symptoms.)

The people who are susceptible to colds will be just as susceptible to COVID-19 and supplements will do about nothing.

Much less than religiously washing hands and wearing quality masks, preferably respirators, for sure.
This conception is highly susceptible to Goodhart's law.

It favours the quantitative over the qualitative which is a good way to trip over the McNamara fallacy.
Firebug, along with web developer toolbar, changed everything for me. I learnt web development on IE6 by editing html in notepad. I switched to Firefox for tabbed browsing and because it was faster. When I discovered firebug I almost couldn't believe it. What the hell had I been doing up to this point? Why doesn't everyone know about this? Later I discovered that Chrome had it built in and still most web devs hadn't heard of firebug.
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> But Part B bans all subcontracting within an industry.

I don't see the problem here. It's not obvious to me that subcontracting should ever have been legal in the first place -- the majority of the time, I've generally only seen subcontracting used to do something immoral, unethical, or irresponsible.

> Part C seems to ban people from becoming new contractors if they weren’t one already.

Is that what it actually does? Reading it, does not seem to communicate that. It seems to be saying, "if you are a contractor, you have to actually be a contractor, and not just filling out contractor-like legal paperwork because your employer forced you to"

Uber and Lyft drivers are not actual businesses, they are employees of Uber and Lyft, picking up piecework employment, and Uber and Lyft are abusing a legal loophole to not pay them fairly. But if you run "Acme Transportation LLC" and own a vehicle that you use as your own Limo Shuttle service, you would fulfill Part C, even if it's your first day of business.

Uber and Lyft want everyone to pretend those two groups of people are the exact same. But they aren't the same, and I've not heard any good reason why the rest of us should pretend likewise.
>saves my employer ~50% of their office space. Win-win, surely?

Only if you hotel, which a lot of people don't want.

In general, I agree with you. But if that's the norm it means people still need to live at least somewhat accessible to the office. For even one day per week, a 3 hour each way commute isn't really sustainable.

And what if a team consists almost entirely of people who want to come in 3 or 4 days per week? They'll likely end up just ghosting the one person who will reluctantly drag themselves in 1 day per week.
Are you SURE you're not stupid?

Fine, maybe you're not stupid, but the alternative is immoral. One of those is under your control the other is not. Which do you want to choose?
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Did they indicate that that truck was a proper real thing, and their future trucks will be at least that capable? Or it was just a concept car, like what automakers used to do for decades?
I can’t speak to how it’s actually solved, but I can give a sketch from my experience. The game is generally to (1) consider denormalizing data and (2) rethink when you have the computer do work.

Denormalizing data refers to moving away from a model where you store one and only one copy of each ‘tweet’ in something like a relational database, to a model where you might actually store a separate copy of each tweet for each follower. That is kind of an extreme example of denormalization, but it’s a good way to illustrate how you could make it near-instant for any user to load their twitter homepage. If you stored the interesting tweets of every person I follow in a table just for me, you would make ‘reads’ (loading my homepage) incredibly cheap, but writes (someone with a lot of followers tweeting) very expensive.

Those trade offs exist everywhere in a system like this, which is (2), you get to decide when you do work. If celebrities with a million followers tweet an average of once a second, but people load their feeds a hundred thousand times a second, it is entirely acceptable to do 10000x more work for a celebrity tweet posting. This is actually the same concept behind using indexes in relational databases, but done more explicitly.

My personal answer to this question would probably start somewhat space-innefficient. I would take each tweet and put it into an event processing queue which writes a reference to it into each followers feed. This sounds nasty, but it scales with the number of writes, not reads, and we have less writes, and it scales linearly with the follower count of the writer. I would then improve efficiency by thinking about dormant accounts, caching, and maybe doing a bit more work on read.