skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interviews reveal much more about a company's culture than interviewers seem to be aware of, and this one is telling me there's a bunch of managers at this company who get away with their lack of organization.

If I'm treated like this at an interview I'm going to assume it's the kind of company where seagull managers write tickets with confusing titles and no descriptions, and expect developers to do their job.
I'm not sure if you have a script messing with scroll behavior or it's just sort-of broken lazyloading, but that page is quite annoying to read.
Zero and empty lists and dictionaries are treated as False in Python.
Interesting take, although It can be the other way around as well. Both the fool and this social media behavior come from a motivation to distract from our own weaknesses, by pointing fingers at something else.
and the FBI dropped it. This stunt is so obviously an attempt to manipulate the election at the last minute. Just like they did in 2016. That's really what the media companies are internally considering here: attempts at election fraud.

I can imagine a dystopian future in which three weeks before every election there's an explosion of insane bombshell claims about the candidates, with ever increasing effort put into them and no time to refute them before the vote. A misinformation arms war will ensue.
Just so we're clear, the black dudes in PB are white supremacist but the 100% white leftist groups are fighting for diversity? Gotcha.
Putty has coroutines coded exactly that way -- one huge file, with a case for each spot that does something that could block. A coworker said, "I love it, and I hate myself for loving it."

Clang, and Gcc up to 8, will turn a switch statement with small numeric alternatives into a bitmask constant and a test against the bits. So,

switch (c)
case'a':case'e':
case'i':case'o':case'u':
return true;
return false;

turns into a range check and a "bt" instruction, effectively

!!((1 << c-'a') & 0x40111)

BUT: Gcc-9 and Gcc-10 both generate, instead,
a jump table 168 bytes long. Microbenchmark
results notwithstanding, this seems like a
radical pessimization.
NYT has become increasingly click baitish, and leaves out facts and mis-frames stories all the time. They publish opinion pieces as if they were factual, and and leave out key facts in stories or add opinion in to frame it in a way no reasonable person looking at the hard evidence would assume is the case.

They've lost their standards a while ago. The difference with these papers is they use the same tricks other papers do, they just write in a more "intellectual" fashion so you never question it because you feel smarter just reading it. But you go check multiple sources and you find there is the same kind of spin and framing you'd expect from Fox News on a topic.
Facebook and Twitter cross a line far more dangerous than what they censor
We are still evaluating the best way to go about this, but yes, we've been looking at the way Brave approaches it as well (though of course, we'd like to do it in such a way that everyone's incentives align / we don't compromise user privacy in any way whatsoever).

Short term, I'm self-funding the company (day job + previous exit of an entirely unrelated company).
The article is refreshingly short and to the point. Unusually, it does not aim the waste the maximum amount of your time so why don't you read it.
That doesn't change the general idea of the post in any kind, although I generally agree that SE interviews are kinda borked.
Still, most companies that interview somewhat thrive despite having a far from optimal process.
There are more than two sexual orientations, so I doubt that'd work ;)
Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind?
Kinda sucks. It's decent at recognising the popular songs from 80s and 90s but as soon as I strayed away from that I get no results. It didn't recognize stuff like the national anthem of my country or even Darude Sandstorm.

It also requires to hum for relatively long, sometimes I remember like 5 seconds of a song but the app wants me to keep going for 15.
I honestly moved my main email to Microsoft outlook and I have a ProtonMail for more private communications.

Gmail is not that great anyway, it’s too heavy to use their webmail and using IMAP is a major pain due to their stupid labels and not having real folders.
4.5MB would be on the smaller side of windows or mac software downloads.
That one's at 0:37 (https://youtu.be/Cxqca4RQd_M?t=37)
Yep, if we do go that way, it'd likely be somewhat similar to Brave. Still very much evaluating options here though.
I increasingly feel that coding interviews are primarily a company's marketing tool ("Look, we have such high barriers to entry, we're exclusive!") rather than real reviews of software engineering skills.
Works for me. Ill allow it.
> when they want to block content on a political basis, they act as publishers.

You keep saying that as though it's a fact or a law when it's only an opinion. You should stop doing that.
Given that your descendants several generations removed would carry hardly any of your genetic makeup, and would have no memory of you, they might as well be the progeny of anyone. Or are you saying you also don't care what people achieve in a few hundred years from now?
Doesn't GDPR have some sort of clause against "algorithmic decision making"? So in situations like this you can deny Google automated decisions? Probably not - can anyone explain, who knows the topic?
Section 230 applies equally to any interactive computer service, whether it is operated by Twitter, Facebook, NY Times, Fox, Ycombinator, or even you or me.

The First Amendment applies to everyone in the U.S.
> What if a pill can change your politics or religious beliefs?

I would generally trust it if it persists after the actual pill wears off. This would suggest the pill has just helped you reveal something by stimulating the brain areas which had not enough power to understand that in their normal state.

By the way, I have noticed multiple occasions when alcoholic intoxication temporarily made generally liberal people far-right. I have even experienced that myself a couple of times when I was younger.
> openly converse and express spontaneous opinions with a third party in order to learn more about a subject

No, it means confidently express spontaneous opinions and made up facts with a third party with in order to look more knowledgeable then you are and push for whatever you want to push for.

Bullshiting typically involves people who are not willing to learn about a subject.
>> All US outlets other than FoxNews (obviously)

> Fox News has plenty of articles on the matter

Right.

> Can you explain?

Not 100% sure, but I think you wrote your reply without reading the complete comment you were replying to.
> concurrency solutions are often context specific and need handwritten solutions.

Wanted to second this as it sounds like a great design problem. I personally love reasoning about concurrency models.
The post isn’t by the founder.
Not slowing down. Pretty sure reverse Flynn effect has been observed.
Organize. Lobby our legislators. Put that money to use.
stderr is not missing.

> The discussion of I/O in §3 above seems to imply that every file used by a program must be opened or created by the program in order to get a file descriptor for the file. Programs executed by the Shell, however, start off with two open files which have file descriptors 0 and 1. As such a program begins execution, file 1 is open for writing, and is best understood as the standard output file. Except under circumstances indicated below, this file is the user’s typewriter. Thus programs which wish to write informative or diagnostic information ordinarily use file descriptor 1. Conversely, file 0 starts off open for reading, and programs which wish to read messages typed by the user usually read this file.
I spent a second trying to figure out that apostrophe, and found it humorous, about the same as i'f I saw a stop sign on the shoulder of a freeway.
If there was a crumb of truth you'd get to see the raw emails with DKIM signatures that a novice sysadmin could confirm in 15 minutes. At least that would prove they aren't a total fabrication that was typed up in Word.
>>> Or maybe try to do it in a quirky way

Fantastic - you have just shown an ability to play with code, indicating you are likely to be good at the basic part of the job. Honestly "fizzbuzz" is short hand for "eliminate the set of people who apply for every coding job, but have no ability to code, or can only just take existing code and twist it about"

(this last I used to think was laziness, but I think there is an ability to execute code in your head that is necessary - and if you can't do that then making any changes to a code base is scary because you cannot reason about it.)

Do I use fizzbuzz anymore? No because it has been years since I have had to go "out to market" - but if I am interviewing you then I will have checked you pass this - reading your code, talking to co workers. I don't go in cold very often any more.
Ok somebody changed the title. That is awesome. thanks!
EDIT > just to be clear, I am completely aware of the different reasons you ask for fizzbuzz, but I know that the question can be completely rehearsed and revised with a few minutes of work. If you are using it as a metric I feel you are a poor judge.

In my experience, I have been unable to comply with the fizzbuzz questions in interviews - which has generally ended with me or the interviewer slowly closing the interview.

At the same time I was one of 2 people who built a major airlines checkin system within a couple of months.

The interview for this role? A phone call, after looking through my CV.

The roles which asked me fizz buzz? generic roles in companies that since went nowhere, I even got a callback telling me the technical hiring manager had since been fired ( or left ) and if I would re consider interviewing, which I then had to turn down.

I am not saying you are wrong, I am probably wrong to judge a person if they are assessing my years of experience with a test aimed at an 18 year old.

But be aware of how fizzbuzz makes some developers react.
On the contrary, I believe the example already tells something. Consider all the boilerplate you have to put around the "print" statement when you write the same program in C++ or Java:

#include <iostream> // Needed to use std::cout

int main() { // You need to wrap the code into a "main" function
std::cout << "Hello, World.\n";
}

At least, the example shows that Neon is in the same ballpark as Python, Ruby, Nim, etc.
Fun fact: the owner of the Twinkies was a tenured biology professor at Swarthmore College (a top-rated liberal arts college in the US) who left his tenured position after 14 years. It is pretty rare for folks to leave tenured posts in academia, given the decent pay, extraordinary job security, and relative enjoyability of the work.

https://colinpurrington.com/about/

https://www.nature.com/articles/nj7425-627a
It isn't a random user. The author of the repo has quite an online presence and track record.

My top choice, all other things equal, is open source code but I know I don't read all the code and rely on a trust network.

A lot of open source code is distributed as binaries these days, in go, rust, docker, and others. Developers have an option to download the source and compile it ourselves but they don't always do it. It's convenient to be able to download a self-contained binary.

I'm not trying to spin it, just to point out that I'd have an easier time trusting this than I'd have trusting many open source projects.
Basically we have 2 days to make Sciter open-source (GPL or MIT, depending on the amount collected).

I think landing a mature cross-platform desktop app framework which is not beholden to any browser vendors is a huge goal. It will have significant consequences for the desktop app ecosystems on all major platforms.

Please take part.
Are you aware of the term "public easement"? In many jurisdictions you are not able to block public access to your "private property" once the public gets accustomed to accessing that property. Same thing should apply here. You don't get to just open your private property for everyone to use and then close it for people you don't like politically many years later.
Should Twitter ban all copyright-infringing images by saying they violate a rule against "hacking"? Almost all memes are copyright-infringing.
I agree, but companies don't work that way unfortunately. It's really hard to go ask your boss for budget to... just donate.
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The best interview I've had was at my previous job as a backend engineer. After the first two culture-fit interviews I had a technical interview with the lead dev and the CTO.

There were no programming tasks. It was a 3-tiered conceptual question on designing a backend system. They asked me how I would do this and that. How would I handle this edge case? What if the user did this? What if the data was shaped like this?

I don't think I even did that well in it, but it was the most enjoyable interview process I have had.
Self-funding! This is great, did not expect something like this coming from VC-land SF.

We at https://safing.io/ are also self-funded, but also receive a lot of public funding.
Interestingly our visions are very similar, but our technical views seem to differ a lot.

I think monetizing a privacy product without having the user pay is extremely hard. There will need to be an extremely high amount of transparency everywhere.
It hardly makes a difference, given how many seem to enjoy tailoring their octa core laptop with HiDPI screen to look like a PDP developer experience.
Open Source 15-MW offshore reference turbine released
I liked the article, but it's not entirely clear to me what the cause of the problem was. Linux delays sending out data only if the data size is less than the packet size AND the previous packet in not yet ACKed (Nagle's algorithm). My guess was that this app is doing a write, write, read and hitting the delayed ACK problem.
You seem to be using "radical" as a synonym for "bad." "Radical" means taking an ideology to an extreme. Being an incompetent grifter isn't "radical."

> - increased military spending to Iraq war levels during peace time

The defense budget is significantly smaller as a percentage of GDP than under Obama: https://www.factcheck.org/2018/07/trumps-defense-spending-ex...

> - trillion dollar deficits during boom times

Bad, but not radical.

> - fired dozens of cabinet members and other top officials whenever they didn't display dictator levels of obsequience to him

> - got impeached for using US diplomacy for personal political gains

Bad, but not radical.

> - tried to kick millions off of SNAP

Clinton did way more welfare reform than Trump.

> - had DOJ help states kick people off voter roles

Cleaning up voter rolls is required by federal law.

> - reduced confidence in the election process

Bad, but not radical.

> - changed DOJ's long standing definition of civil rights to instead protect religious people and white and asian discrimination

Not radical. In Evanston, Illinois, Asian kids are now being held back from returning to in-class instruction: https://www.wsj.com/articles/can-school-be-antiracist-a-new-.... We can debate the merits of this, but it's not radical to suggest that discrimination against asians is a violation of civil rights laws.

> - pulled out of major international agreements with little notice including the Paris Agreement and the Iran deal

It's not "radical" to pull out of an agreement we had been part of for less than a year since its effective date: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Agreement

Presidents change course on foreign policy all the time. Trump's foreign policy has been relatively successful.

> - attacked european allieas and weakened NATO

Are you talking about a concrete policy?

> - cut legal immigration in a bunch of ways including cut refugee by 80% and cut H1B.

Not radical. European countries have done the same thing recently, after realizing their 2015 actions on refugees were ill-advised. Calling a cut to H1B "radical" is hard to credit. Is every small shift to the right from a Republican President "radical?"

> And implemented draconian inhumane policies on illegal immigrants.

Very bad, maybe radical.

> - appointed hundreds of extremely ideological judges

No, just normal conservative judges. The "extremely ideological judges" are ones that think you can look at a 230-year old document and find new things in it that nobody realized were there before. We have normalized that gaslighting, but taking a view that the words on the page mean what they say isn't "radical."
What devastating effects of misinformation are you referring to? I see no devastating effects of misinformation at all. Your negative worldview is not a reason to allow the civil rights of others to be violated.
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> because while I haven't closely known anyone with a horror story

I knew a girl whose story was fairly unpleasant. However, given her trip report (its multi-day length, with paranoia and hallucinations in particular) I believe that was not pure MDMA, it probably contained Bromo-DragonFly (one of the most dangerous and longest-acting psychedelics) or something like that.
I would be very skeptical about anything becoming 'permanent' at this point. Let's get over the pandemic first and see what the brave new world looks like.
Home can equally be a place to escape an unhappy work life.

I've always tried to keep my work, domestic, and social life separate. I work in an office and I live with flatmates/roommates who aren't close friends. My work problems stay in the office, my domestic problems stay at home, and my social/relationship problems don't follow me home. It's less about one or the other being a coping mechanism, but my (lack of) capacity to deal with multiple problems simultaneously.
I think you are confusing a Twitter DM with a private communication. Note that Twitter is not intercepting your DMs, they are the ones transmitting and storing them.
Why do you think there were more people who were extremely smart? It does not seem that way to me.

Plus, there is also effect of us glorifying past people more then contemporary people.
It hardly makes a difference to running CLI with screen, bash and vim.
...or older, like my Thinkpad T42p with a 'Mobility FireGL T2' (Radeon RV350). Other than some occasional AGP-related instability which seems to be hardware-related Xorg works fine on this machine.
I wish the control was waiting for the same interval between bites. As it is, the study measures the combined effect of more chewing and slower eating.

Also, the control is 15 chews? My experience of teenage boys eating pizza is 3 chews max.
If you're used to communicating online, this is no issue. As an anti-social type myself, I'm more comfortable with communicating online and I'm confident in my ability to not commit a faux-pas that easily compared to in-person.

I think you underestimate how much WFH helps people with social issues.
4D rewrite will solve this. Labelled video datasets FTW
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What the hell are these people trying to sell? What do I get out of it? Really crappy website.
for now. mac and linux are in progress, so they will come as development goes on
Perhaps your FBI agent requested Twitter for some help figuring out your true identity.
Posted a bit about how we plan to approach this above, so just re-pasting:

> - we plan to build in something similar to HTTPS Everywhere to the product, to automatically upgrade connections (and we only route traffic on ports 80 / 443 (optionally 53)). - we also plan to build in the ability to allow peers to block certain categories of traffic from going over their connection (using blocklists similar to those used by Fortiguard -- so you could block all torrenting sites, as an example).

And yep you can actually! Can't find better article on it at the moment (lots of search history to comb through, but this kind of touches on it a little / roughly: https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/gndbod/dns_over_htt...)
The coordinating body of all 17 agencies did say there was Russian interference in the election, but not all agencies would have been relevant to such a statement. Politifact rates the 17 agencies line as true - they go into some detail as to why. At the worst, the line is a slight exaggeration/misspeak during a live event.
https://www.politifact.com/article/2017/jul/06/17-intelligen...

The DNI publicly put out a report. I recall statements by the FBI Director, CIA Director, and NSA Director referring and promoting the conclusions drawn in the report (those 3 agencies were principally involved, in addition to being the three most important and largest intelligence agencies).

https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICA_2017_01.pdf

The Senate Intelligence Committee (which is GOP controlled) has also put out several reports concurring with Russian interference in the 2016 election.

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/docu...

The initial news cycle would have been from highly valued and proven anonymous sources, which is typical for national security matters. If you are expecting a bunch of CIA analysts doxxing themselves on the front page of the NYT, you will be disappointed. That’s not how national security reporting (or reporting in general) works.

To be of excellent provenance doesn’t necessarily require a named source - if the paper and journalist have a good track record with unnamed sources in an area of expertise.
Thanks, you just gave me a more charitable observation of Our Ford's observation that "history is more or less bunk" (1916).

Assuming Ford was remembering history as taught to him in 1870-1880, it may well have been a New World variation on Alfreds and Edwards and Ælfweards and Æthelstans. Even if he were keeping up on outside reading, the earliest non-exclusively elite history I can think of at the moment wasn't written until the 1920s.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35461/35461-h/35461-h.htm

Edit: it looks grim. Ford had a point. among the collection in https://digital.library.pitt.edu/collection/19th-century-sch...
the only one which makes claims to cover anything further back than "American History" (all few centuries of it at that point) is the 1857 https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3A00z... which contains the remarkable claim that "It seems far more probable that the first settlers of America were from Egypt." Eat your heart out, Giorgio!

https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3A00z...
Unless you are stuck in MS-DOS, all modern IDEs do auto capitalization of keywords.
Yeah but extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Right now the easiest explanation is contamination, ordinary and easy to explain.
I couldn't agree more. I grew up using Pascal and am currently teaching C++ for undergrads; I often realize that some errors done by the students could have been prevented, had they used Pascal.

It's not only a matter of clarity in using an asymmetric := for assigning the right side to the left side (the "=" symbol suggests that left and right side play the same role). The biggest problem is rather the fact that it's so common for newbies to write "=" when they want to express equality. (I teach in a physics department, and the mathematical background of my students is extremely solid.)