skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn't seem too different from the 4-7 hour-long interviews tech companies have candidates doing nowadays.
Yup, exactly! The interviewer gets annoyed, since it's "so obvious" how to solve the problem... much like anything becomes obvious if you've done it a few dozen times.

Or they tune out. Or they dismiss any variation as "wrong" rather than giving it a chance.
I remember that also. Save the trees, use plastic. But I think it was earlier than the late 90s.
Yes, it depends on the facial feature, but some parts are fairly highly heritable.

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep45885
What happened to the Makani refugees at G?
It was very much a blue-sky project. A very highly ambitious one. Other kite power companies are generally taking much more affordable routes by necessity.
There are more ways to learn to code now than ever. Just Google. YouTube has thousands more of great videos.
That's not how that works.

Simple systems tend to fail in boring ways. Complex systems tend to fail in interesting ways. Learning more about a complex system, while rewarding in many ways, will not change that identity.
Some of those places you listed crashed hard after 2008 and others didn’t. I think there are trends in vacation destinations that can cause speculation. Also, many of the the buyers are leveraging wealth from equities that is more variable than the salaries the average homeowner uses. If there’s a prolonged stock market drop during a recession, many may be forced to liquidate when buyers are fewer and poorer (you’d prefer not to sell anything in a downturn, but the vacation home might be the first to go). I saw people take huge losses on vacation properties after 2008.
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I agree. Microsoft's strongest argument was that the features of an "OS" are fluid, ever-evolving, and un-definable. OS'es were all text-based, until one day they weren't and the GUI dominated. Win 95 had no Winsock or TCP/IP stack built-in, 98 did. File Explorer. Start Button. And as you say, the presence of MS Paint and the Calculator and Solitaire show that exact inclusions/exclusions are arbitrary. MS could have argued that it was it's responsibility -- obligation even -- to add new features and abilities to its OSes. Force the govt to "prove" that a browser is definitely an application and somehow cannot be a core part of the OS (otherwise there's no "bundling"). They wouldn't have been able to do that.
I think the main obstacle is these things often contain licensed code the company does not have permission to open source.
I think you and I are talking past one another.

Currently, f(a[]) with declaration void f(int a[]) passes a pointer to the first element, with no additional overhead.

Under the proposal, f(a[]) with declaration void f(int a[]) passes a pointer to the first element, with no additional overhead.

Help me understand why "other people would care"? What is the negative impact on someone who would not use the a[..] functionality?
Although another 'Einstein' making breakthroughs is totally possible, AGI gives me a lot of solace as a sort of back-up plan.

If we have indeed hit some type of human wall, AGI at least gives us some long term option to potentially leap it.

I'm not sure how much longevity research would help on that front, given the age distribution of scientists making breakthroughs, but it's nice in its own right.
I’m not sure it’s that useful though. Someone who wishes it was like it was on 2019 would answer affirmatively to “would you like the opportunity to work from the office again?”

I like working from home right now, but I’d sure love the world to be working such that we could reasonably go back to the office.
How do I get interviewed by any of the people posting about their great candidate-friendly interview processes in this thread?

There's always a ton of posts, but I have never had a pleasant or unbiased interview experience in my life.
Err, I disagree with your assessment of Youtube's recommendation engine being "poor." It is probably the most powerful recommendation engine in the world.

5 billion YT videos, comprising 1 billion hours, are watched every day, a meteoric rise ever since they improved the recommendation engine.

That recommendation engine has also been accused of contributing to the rise in polarization and conspiracy theories world-wide. So it may not be a force for good. But it's damn powerful.
While I am now strictly WFH oriented (been remote for 10 years) office workers contribute to local businesses. Lunch options, funding public transportation, etc.

There’s a balance to be had, which remains to be seen. I personally will choose a flexible company that allows remote work 100% of the time. I prefer to work in increments spread throughout the day, not a strictly regimented 9-5 which office environments encourage.
I live in a 2 bedroom 900 square foot condo with a toddler. The kitchen table acted as my “desk” before COVID, usually in a pinch if I really had to. Currently I have half of our bedroom stuffed with a desk so I can work full time during the day.

Not everybody’s situation is the same. I really liked my situation before COVID. I had a 10 minute walk to work, a large public park across the street where the city maintained the “yard”, and I saw my daughter for hours most evenings. Many co-workers who lived further out barely saw their kids during the week.

Obviously, COVID has caused a lot of people who love urban living to take a hard look at it. Living in a city loses its appeal when all the amenities are closed/gone, but the real estate “is not a cost” is not true for everybody. An extra bedroom where I live would have been hundreds of thousands more. We elected not to spend the money because, well, I had a desk at the office and we were only going to have one kid.
Ah yea. Good beers took a while to come to my area (maybe 5-10 years ago). I'm guessing other parts of the country might have been a little different, especially as Big Beer tried to catch the craft wave and smaller breweries didn't have any distribution yet. Maybe it's different now in most areas (hopefully)
I admit that I haven't been reading about dark matter lately. Last I checked, it had not been verified via experimental evidence. Is that still the case?

There is a difference between observations and _experimental_ evidence, which I think the GP was referring to.
I never stick with formal lists, but often ask something like these...

1. Tell me briefly about your professional development, including challenges you have faced, mistakes you have made, how you overcame them and what you have learned. Have there been any critical mentors or resources? What motivated you in each position and how did that lead to your current application.

Opens a floodgate of possibilities for discussion, generally gives a sense of career pattern or path, potentially personality.

2. What are you learning right now and why?

Screens for curiosity and/or goal orientation.

3. Choose any recent technical or business idea you have had and explain why you considered it to be interesting.

Possible insight in to how prolific their idea generation may be, and whether it is circumscribed by professional domain or not.

With a bit of two-way questioning on these, you should have a basic sense of their capacity as a communicator as well as personality.

Important: Predominantly co-workers and direct managers should interview, not random HR departments, external contractors or disconnected tiers of management.
By home, do you mean house? Sub-million dollar homes show up all the time in Mountain View, even before Covid. Thinking anything less than a house is unlivable for a family is not the norm in most other parts of the world.
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> performing sweeping changes across an entire codebase in lockstep

This thinking right here, sounds like a reason why Google retires a lot more services at much higher frequency compared to other companies?

In https://thehftguy.com/2019/12/10/why-products-are-shutdown-t..., the HFT guy brought up the "5 years upgrade pain" as the reason why a service would be retired, at the time when the pain from upkeeping outweights the gain from revenue.

By regularly making backward incompatible API change, as afforded by the monorepo, while also having engineers moving freely between projects, the upgrade pain cycle becomes way shorter for Google services.

By the way, this line of thought also leaks into public facing source code, with guava being the poster child of breaking backward compatibility, althought it has learned its lesson starting with version 21.
This is the normal approach in a lot of other fields. I'm still floored it's not more common in tech.

I've done a lot of both traditional interviews (presentation on research or previous work followed by 1:1) and "tech" interviews (coding challenges and whiteboarding) from both sides. Tech-style interviews evaluate a much narrower swath of skills are are much more easily gamed.

I feel that a presentation evaluates broader things: how well do you communicate and how comfortable are you discussing and answering questions about a topic you know well.

It's a better indicator of job performance, i.m.o.
Years ago, vaguely describing it as “formulas not adding up” would have been fair enough but there are quite a few studies now giving a much more detailed picture than that. Some galaxies seem to have quite a lot of it, some galaxies not much at all, so it’s harder and harder to just tweak formulas for the visible matter in a way that explains all the evidence.
You are assuming this thing exists because it has properties to fit your observations, and then using that as evidence that said thing exists. I'm not saying DM doesn't exist..it probably does, but your logic is flawed
How are they unsubstantive if article is no longer visible and title says "flagged" ?
Yup, we do an hour. After that, it feels like there's diminishing returns. There's absolutely no expectation anyone will "finish", and we make that clear. It's the journey we're interested in, not the destination.

One that we tend to do a lot is creating an image gallery using Flickr or Unsplashed's API. It's vague enough that people can take it in whatever direction they want, and simple enough that you can get pretty far in an hour.
It already is. I live in a semi-rural area that's lovely, but the commute is a hassle (there's a ferry to downtown, if you can walk/bus from there it's ok, but long, if you have to drive from there, you have to fight for limited car spaces on the ferry, and traffic is awful around downtown, etc; and friday afternoons its hard to get a car on the ferry because of weekend trips). This summer a lot of people have moved from the other side of the ferry, because they can WFH (for now) and would prefer more space right now. Real estate prices are up and inventory is down. Of course, if they need to be in the office 4 or 5 days a week, they will likely move back.
And further complicated by the fact the the same person may want different things at different stages in their life. Ive evolved, like many in my workplace, to be on site in the office as needed, occasionally (we work in hardware). We've learned to do most everything from home, with a few on site activities as needed.
Ok, we've added currency above.
A brown man laying down on NYC subway floor, helped by white guys
I made the account just to tell this story.

I am a brown man. I've been living in new york city for almost 8 years. Tonight, Saturday September 12th 2020, I have experienced something that does not happen in my life very often. I got a bit carried out on a Saturday event so i was so wasted, i fell in the subway car. I don't remember much but i was laying down on the subway car floor while some white folks on top of me asking whether i was OK. Not only that, but while i was trying to collect myself to answer them, there was that other white dude offering me to sit in his seat. I was stoned of course, so i didn't think so much. I just said thank you, i got up from the subway floor and sat down in his seat. I did say thank you though.
What even crazier, a few mins later after i sat down, a person, who worked with the subway company, came to me asking whether i needed a medical assistant! I said no of course.

I just can't be any more thankful to this city and to the folks who helped me. I am writing this post while i'm still under the same condition. I just got back home. And I so want to let the world know about this experience before i sleep and forget what just happened to me.
My point is i was so freaking laying down on the subway floor!!! i was so fucking wasted!!! And the only people who helped me and offered to help me, were white folks. I'm just so fucking thankful to them and to this city.

Stay safe everybody.
Hot desking is a damn plague on offices, and the reason WFH has been so nice. No hot-desking. My space is my own and I can make it the way I want, leave what I want around and not worry about theft etc.
The problem you are presenting is about protest voting and VSE. There are much better ways to address that problem, such as cardinal styles of voting like Approval and STAR. These also have other properties that help. I am perfectly okay with a "none of the above" option available as well.
https://archive.is/e8tAx
The longevity is really healthful and youthful longevity, not longevity for its own sake.

I recommend looking into longevity forums, SENS foundation, Aubrey de Grey talks, etc, etc.
You mean MacStadium resources, since that's the 3rd party company that provides the actual backend service.
More of a MUSH.

I bet you could interact with telnet too.
That's a pretty poor argument for govt intervention. Why? Because all of that Windows-only stuff existed, and the market ultimately rejected it. ActiveX controls? Yeah I remember those. Same with Java applets, Flash, Silverlight. The government didn't need to get involved in getting rid of any of these.
In this case it means cryptocurrency though.
Because I haven’t spent time with another human in person since March. It’s depressing.
Ask them to explain it to you. The quality of the understanding that you gain, and their willingness and ability to engage with your curiosity, is one measure of the candidate. A coarse-grained qualitative measure perhaps, but certainly one aligned to dev team productivity.
Germany's nuclear power plants are from the 70's and early 80's. How can it be backwards now? Building new plants, while it may safer today than it was back than is just not economical when compared to renewables.
Hindsight is 20/20 in regards to the Nvidia stock gains. $5-$8 billion profit plus whatever they managed to extract in-between is a pretty astounding investment.
Unless you dick around in someone elses org and get them booted.
Thats on you buddy
Having worked in the industry a bit, yes, likely both are true. There are very complex engineering problems to solve and Makani was taking one of the more complicated approaches to the problem. Some other kite power companies (including the one I worked at) have the generator on the ground and use an ascending figure 8 pattern of flight to pull the tether thus generating power (at the top of the cycle the kite goes into a sort of controlled stall to lose altitude, the tether is rewound and the cycle continues) - that approach certainly has issues as well.

I often think that maybe most of us were taking a much more complicated approach than is actually needed. Perhaps (thinking out loud) something much simpler like a soft kite with a sort of trap-door which closes as it ascends and opens to let it fall to a lower altitude would be a much simpler approach - essentially a bag kite with an end that can be opened and closed - obviously it would be smaller scale, but most of the kite power companies are working at a much smaller scale than Makani was.
I'm not a physicist or even a researcher of anything but I sometimes watch youtube videos of people experimenting with material sciences and chemistry and a trend I have seen is that even things that we consider to be very basic have a huge lack of good quality information available.

One youtuber I saw spends time looking at new research papers for ideas and has found that they are just impossible to reproduce. Following the steps exactly as well as every possible variation doesn't produce anything close to the results described in the paper. In another video [0] he attempts to make glass and finds that almost all of the information available on the internet about making glass is not enough to actually make glass since they contain only enough information to register a patent but not enough to make from scratch.

I wonder if we will see huge gains by just making complete and unobfiscated information available to the public since it looks like even the foundations of society are secret company internal information.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUcUy7SqdS0
Reminds me of the countdown clock on predator's hand-mounted display in Predator[0]. Maybe they took inspiration from the Mayan counting system.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predator_(film)
Same here. I used to regard http://jordi.inversethought.com/blog/i-hate-git/ as my hero, and then I had to start using git in a new gig, and never touched mercurial since. If the goal of using a vcs is to have meaningful atomic commits, nothing beats git staging area and interactive rebase.
Does code released have to have commercial applicability to other organizations to be relevant?

It seems like a post-mortem code dump.
These threads get pretty emotional and dogmatic. I think it’s not actually that complicated: some people really enjoy remote, some people don’t. Perhaps we should learn to be more comfortable with “live and let live” instead of feeling the need to convince everyone to be the same way we are.

In my case, I worked remotely for a lot of my career pre-COVID, and of course have been remote since. I don’t like the Bay Area housing situation, and the freedom to look elsewhere is appealing... but I really do miss the office.
What about just building a ring then? There’s probably enough material in this solar system to do that.

The sphere is merely a Gedankenexperiment, taking some factors to their logical extrema. Nothing wrong with that.
As someone who can look down from above into the recycling trucks I don't know what to make of the fact that they empty the separate collecting containers for green, brown and white glass into the back of the truck. Without any separation at all. Once I asked a driver why that is, and he answered: "I'm just the driver, no clue." The trucks are just regular "Muldenkipper / Dump Truck" which have a little crane behind the drivers cab, crane hooks into their tops, lifts them up over the back, does something to the top hook, shakes a little, bottom opens up, glass falling down, empty container back to the curb.

I mean... "Wat soll dat? / WTF?!"
Surely the company website is only going to put up photos where their predictions closely match reality. You don't get to see all their failures.
I’m doing this exact search! What’s been your best resource for finding fiber? Are you plugging in addresses to the providers webpage?
It's no wonder nobody wants to touch it considering what an unhelpful piece of crap the nftables CLI configuration utility is

$ nft list
Error: syntax error, unexpected newline
list
^
$ nft show
Error: syntax error, unexpected newline, expecting string
show
^
$ nft help
Error: syntax error, unexpected newline, expecting string
help
^
They don't lose any capital until it's re-valued or sold. It's purely a short-term loss in income.

Eat the loss, move on -- that's what most landlords would tell their tenants in the opposite situation.

I am playing the world's smallest violin for them as a class.
I wonder if this will make it easier to build up larger pre-IPO positions.
I get the impression that cryo electron microscopy is now the big new(ish) technique for structure determination.
Yup. Many rural areas like ours have weekly garbage collection. It's an ancient truck, with the same 3 guys ever since I moved here nearly 10 years ago. They hand toss every single bag. And when the truck breaks down they collect the trash in a pickup truck and handle it twice, once loading it and once unloading it.
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New versions of macOS deprecate support for older hardware. Sierra dropped support for Xserves.
This is a fascinating story. I wish you could provide more details, or even name what the article was about.
It certainly is when you phrase it as "Quit your nationalistic jerking"!
Sounds a bit like leap seconds, except there were 22 leap seconds before 2001.
Depends on the MMO. Final Fantasy XIV and Guild Wars 2 were both incredibly friendly experiences for me.
I moved west to avoid the bizarre laws that are common in the south -- weird restrictions on arbitrary divisions of product, state constitutional amendments banning gay marriage, laws demanding that schools teach creationism, and so forth. When I lived in Fayetteville, you could buy beer at a grocery store, but liquor was only for sale by the state government. I bought a house once that required a lot of legal fees and paperwork to have a covenant removed from the property prohibiting its sale to black people. All these little quality of life setbacks added up to a real desire to get out of the south as soon as my military work was done.

I'm just not sure the allure is there, depending on which of these issues actually affects you.
The CA law was to get Uber drivers into the Teamsters. Anything else was collateral damage.
You can't do compile time bounds checking, if that's what you're implying.
Google details a list of Chromebooks and their support end-date in a single list [0]. I randomly picked a couple with support ending this year and it seems like a decent chunk of the devices being EOLed in 2020 were released in ~2015. ~5 years of support for a <$300 laptop is pretty good IMO.

[0]: https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6220366#Acer&AOpe...
> I feel that this also gets at a sort of toxic notion that I've noticed some high energy physicists in my own department have (not all, but you probably know the people that I'm talking about). The notion is that if you aren't working on 12 dimensional quantum theories of gravity or the holographic principle and black hole physics, then you aren't a real physicist. Somehow they think that if your work has a real world impact, then it's tainted in some way. I'm not sure how it's gotten this way, but I've actually been told as much by another grad student that my field should be moved to the engineering department because we aren't doing real physics.

I got told that by a professor when I was looking at PhD options, I ended up in the maths department physics group because it was much nicer.

It's an odd kind of self selection. People who aren't there to feel smart don't sign up for the course so high energy theoretical physics gets ever more filled with insufferable assholes.

Not to say that the whole group was, but while every other group had the one token dickhead everyone avoided it seemed that the high energy theoretical group was run by them and the non-dickheads in the group were barely tolerated and mainly there to boost citations.
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