skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree with the article because author seems to miss the point of a lot of comments in here and is reaching simplistic conclusions.

Lots of people don't nag about whiteboard interviews at FAANG, I think a lot of people who are commenting here don't even send their CV to any of those companies. People nag about other companies using whiteboard interviews as some kind of "silver bullet" of hiring. Most of the time I see negative comments about it, it is that some small startup which is trying to get people to work below market price is grilling people on interview like Facebook or Google. (as a side note there is whole list of bad stuff that medium/small companies do just because "goog/fb does that", but they should never do)

Other negative that I see in discussions is, technical interviewers are assholes that want to show you how smart they are. Which FAANG interviewing style is helping to spread. Asking random algo question, that you know answer to and the person you are interviewing does not, makes it easy to feel superior.

Being thoughtful about hiring... Yes if hiring manager has resources to do that then he might build amazing hiring engine. Again most of the companies have scarce resources, and entrepreneurs probably spend more time on sales than on hiring, because you should hire only if you really have to. Probably hiring is also not their core business.
I have an iPad using a four-year-old chip that's perfectly snappy. If this drift exists on iOS (it probably does) it is generally less pronounced compared to the life of the device.
Yes. I endorse your corrections. I was eliding systemic errors in the interest of brevity.

The main point I was trying to make is that mass failures that occur with a degree of simultaneity where the failure can not be corrected between failures are relatively rare outside of internet-connected software due to an access problem. Even the cases you mentioned are generally less dangerous because you can stop usage when an error is detected. If you discover that after 10,000 hours of operation the brakes on all of your cars stop working while driving, it is unlikely that everybody will encounter this problem at the same time. A few will encounter the problem first which will let you detect the error and then work to rectify it or recall your cars before it becomes a truly catastrophic error. It is a truly rare problem where a mass produced product contains a catastrophic defect that will affect a large percentage of them simultaneously. The only ones I can really think of are drugs with long-term unexpected side effects or a response to an equally massive cause like the Carrington Event coronal mass ejection which blew out the electrical grid in 1859.
Given the wonders of the US legal system Facebook can probably throw a few million in legal fees into fighting the NYU researchers who will have to back down as unable to afford their own legal fees irrespective of who's right or wrong.
Typical NPC response
I hadn't thought of this, but this is a great suggestion and I hope your suggestion gets implemented!
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You are not the target market. You probably have LTE, and most likely a number of providers to choose from.

To the people who are the target market - these things are of little consequence.
Can anyone comment on the authors book?

https://www.holloway.com/g/technical-recruiting-hiring/about
We actually had an instance of Reddit that someone at my company hacked together an integration with our ActiveDirectory and we used it like an internal wiki and discussion board. It was better than anything else I've used.
Only one way to add more!

Well, disregarding (h/c)racking the server or some other abuse I suppose.

Edit: Honestly, I think it's more important that it exists than that it gets heavy use. As it is now, it allows Blender to A) Have a better platform to link people to, and B) Have a fallback if Youtube starts causing problems.

I honestly think A is more important.
How does the existence of Google Docs and Word say anything about how hard it is to create real-time collaboration on a web application versus a native application?
Good practice, yes. However what if those bored/annoyed people decided you were a failure and couldn't feed your family if a single unseen problem is not done in 15 minutes?
In general time-to-sleep is still the defining factor in keeping battery life long. Sure, there are low-power cores, but I believe most UI code will not run at it since it's given high priority by the system.
> I don't understand why public health officials

Public health officials don't actually care about public health. Another critical issue they've willfully chosen to ignore is the dramatic comorbidity of COVID-19 and obesity.

We are told to mask up and social distance, but nobody in the public health sphere has suggested eating less.

They are not serious people.
I think the one caveat is whether a tool works for 'everyone' as well. I love Sketch for where it works, though also respect how electron apps Figma/Miro have a place for designing together especially in educational environments where people may not all be on macs.
You cannot verify that the researchers won't change the plugin to malware in the future.
> Ok, but do you think there needed to be a misinformation campaign led by devious ne'er-do-wells to make raising taxes unpopular?

The only sensible implementation of a carbon tax is the one in which all of the money is refunded to the population.

A program that causes everybody to get ~$1000 while only paying ~$500 in taxes because large corporations are responsible for the majority of carbon emissions would seem to be very popular, absent a misinformation campaign, since the average person would net ~$500 (out of the pockets of Exxon et al).
There's no guarantee a doctor will know what their procedures will get coded as. Doctors who join hospital networks are also often surprised when their learn what their patients get billed. You can literally get a degree in medical coding, and practices employ medical coders to extract as much money from medicare and insurance as possible by exploiting the system. The salaries of these coders might appear on your hospital bills. Consulting groups, CMOs and billing departments might change codes depending on what insurance or medicare will accept. Like trying to bill one surgery as three separate codes. There's corrupt back room work that doctors may never see depending on the practice.

There are some corrupt doctors who work in specialist networks to suggest how to code the most profitably for procedures, but I consider that different than doctors who do regular day to day practice for a larger entity and know less about how their work gets billed (and might not have a direct say in it either unless they're on the board).
Not really. It all comes down to a network protocol to sync changes. I collaborated with others just fine in desktop-first apps like CounterStrike or Diablo long before web became a viable platform.

The reason MS Office struggles with this is that rebuilding an app that wasn't originally supposed to work in such mode is way harder than building from scratch, and they probably don't really need it that much to push themselves in such an adventure.
47 if people complaining about this particular point bothered to skimm linked article.
So wireless results in about 10% efficiency loss? So if half of the iPhone 12 users adopt wireless charging that's about 36 billion charge cycles per year (100 million phones charged daily). Those are big numbers. It seems like it would add up.
Or you have commands which randomly reverse the meaning of the confirmation prompt:

Continue: yes or no?

Don't continue: yes or no?

As long as operators know to expect this, they also know to wait and actually read the prompt before answering (as in turn of auto reaction)...
The first use of a new security product my manager insisted we roll out (as a duplicate to an existing tool from another group) was to quarantine a change in a system file that seemed to be spreading through all of the PCs.

Except the change was to quarantine explorer.exe which was being changed with a patch that just got pushed out. The net result was about 6 hours of the desktop group wondering "why the hell are all of the PCs not logging in right after this patch" followed by about a month of rolling tickets from seldom used computers that had just been powered off.

His excuse was it only showed a file hash in the main screen and you had to view details to see the name plus he had a 3 day change open to roll out the system. Never understood how he got away with that one but such things did catch up to him about 2 years later.
Antitrust laws are based around competition. This behaviour is shitty, but not anticompetative. I'd look to consumer protection law (although consumer protection law on this stuff is pretty weak at the moment).
If a doctor can be interviewed without being asked to operate on people, or an architect without being asked to build a home, can we not interview without asking someone to write code?
Mac sales by volume are about 10% of iPhone sales.
The idea would be that all stills, instead of being just a single still, are actually multiple stills that can be stacked on top of one another in order to reduce noise and reduce motion blur, as well as increase dynamic range.

Of course, this would need a camera with much faster sensor readouts, which should be possible with Sony's next generation of stacked sensors.
Cultural fit sucks, but working with developers who cannot communicate clearly and effectively also sucks.
The "how to interview" discussion must always focus on what sucks less as the whole framework of thinking sucks here.
Agreed, lots of companies have Google style interviews when they are clearly not Google.

You better have quality work to do and equivalent perks as Google to put candidates through their style of interviews.

Otherwise those companies are delusional and I have the world's smallest violin for their recruiting woes.
> That is to say, what is the answer to that question where there is no PR story, where Facebook doesn't look bad?

How about don't have political ads at all, if this question is so difficult to answer...
Pro tip - If you make under 39k and live in Massachusetts you can literally get free LED lightbulbs through Mass save! It's an awesome program. https://www.masssave.com/en/saving/income-based-offers
Obviously they’re feeling the heat from Figma which is browser-based.

I do absolutely agree that native apps are a much better experience. I prefer Paw over postman every time for this reason too.

However creating a Sketch plugin which downloads a simple JSON was an absolute nightmare.
> You are not wrong, but if the world where not full with even worse build systems it'd be a bit saying I prefer to drink from puddles because I find them wherever I go.

That assertion is quite wrong. If you really want to go with that metaphor them the alternative to drinking from all the puddles you have readily available is to ignore them all and instead resort to waste time digging your own hole in the ground each and every single time you feel a little thirsty.

Then, in the only practical and conceivable advantage you get from all the extra work is to allow you to enjoy a particular earthy flavour that in the end can't be objectively described as an improvement.
Savings (not like I have choice). I’m also looking to establish some cred that just can’t be ignored. I’m fairly good at that kind of thing; it just takes time.
I have decided to use the HN favorite function for the first time today, and I used it on your post.

Thank you for this quote!
Would be a catastrophe because I haven't seen a no-code system that can successfully reproduce and elevate itself into a fungible foundation on which significant new technologies can be build --- like for example CPU microcode breathes life into the hardware and makes it execute all that assembly code, a simple concept which has produced trillions and trillions of economic value and is not just done yet. The leverage from the combination of engineering and the sciences we have in building computation and presentation systems has IMO not be used fully by a long way. Maybe we will go faster until we can elevate technology one level higher, but I don't see it coming just yet, where these so-called "no code platforms" could become the new microcode. This is complimentary to my observation that a huge mass of people have not yet overcome and probably will never overcome the stage of technology consumption as apposed to creation in their lifetimes.

And can it really be called no-code if new technology could be encoded reliably at scale in that one higher level of technology?
Ask HN: Good tool to build a web interface on top of SQL Data
Hello, I was wondering if there was a good tool that could function as a web interface for SQL data. Ideally something I could define the queries for but also have a customizable search front end. Thanks.
This reminds of a quote from, I think, Discworld.

> You're a survivor.

> But I've nearly died, dozens of times.

> Exactly.
Reminds me of Blackberry that decided to stick to keyboard and went bankrupt.

Users don’t care about native or not , they care only about innovation.
You can't expect the headline to contain whole article. The population prevalence of vitamin D deficiency is in it.

It is absurd when people complain about lacking data that are available in two logical clicks as if it would be fault of articles they don't read.
> software that takes advantage of the reliability and consistency of that ecosystem

probably true ~4-5 years ago, but not so much today. Catalina broke a lot of apps (due to SIP?). Big Sur is likely to break even more existing apps. In one case, it was seen that Apple apps do not obey the same rules that third party developers must abide by (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24838816).

I use a mbp at this point because it's not Windows.
How is any of this remotely related to gender studies?

The bizarreness of linking feminism to climate change notwithstanding, I think that in the interest of productive discussion on HN, an interesting point can be found within it.

A lot of the fuel for the opposition to both feminism and climate change comes from the way both are portrayed in the media. When people are repeatedly brow-beaten with an idea, and anyone who dissents is ostracized and insulted, it causes onlookers to move away from the position that is being shoved in their faces.

These techniques are sometimes misapplied in both equal rights and climate change, which ultimately hurts both causes. These techniques might strengthen an already committed base, but they polarize and antagonize everyone not already sold.

This comic [0], linked last week in a different thread [1], shows the same thing in visual form, and I think there's merit to the concept that overly vociferous opposition to idea X actually increases support of idea X.

[0] https://pbfcomics.com/comics/deeply-held-beliefs/ -- I don't know anything about the site hosting the comic, but I think the comic stands on its own

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24832003
Yeah, I had the same reaction. Was that parent comment posted in the right thread? Mobilizon is about events and that comment seems to have nothing to do with the link.
I think it's far more likely that there are numerous 1.5x improvements to be made along the entire funnel than that there exists a 10x solution at any one point. Making each person who 'owns' a piece of the process accountable for optimizing their portion is going to yield far better results than passing the buck.
For people wanting to read the source (aka study): [1]

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.20.20215863v...
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Which I always mindlessly copy and paste...
>On the other hand, if you’re a brilliant engineer who struggles with being told what to do or doing work that you can’t immediately connect to something intrinsically motivating to you, that FAANG interview just did both you and the company a favor by weeding you out of the process.

Or maybe the candidate is willing to do that type of work during work hours, but lacks the time and motivation to do it at home after work.
I've seen people argue _against vitamin D supplementation_. WTF? I mean, sure, it's not "proven" to work, and there haven't been any "gold standard" studies. But why not just have everyone take 5000IU a day for the duration? What's the downside here?
Mobilizon is intended to put events on the activitypub protocol. In that sense, it's a replacement for a slice of Facebook. I wouldn't say it's a replacement for all of Facebook.
I think people tend to be bad at difficult tasks they are not specifically interested in, and we're all better served if people tend to be able to work on what they're interested in. I suspect that's going to end up better than if we somehow create a list of world problems ranked from the most to the least important and get the entire world to work from the top of the list down. (Never mind the difficulty of creating such a list.)

There are charities that focus on reducing human hunger. There are also charities that focus on reducing child hunger. Why should the latter exist, since it's a subset of the former? Isn't everyone working on the child hunger charities ignoring the problems of adult hunger? Of course not. There are just some people who, for whatever reason, are specifically interested and motivated in fighting child hunger, and I strongly suspect that overall outcomes are better when those people have the opportunity to focus their work on child hunger.
Why do we need diversity if it is more or less the same job? you need people who can do the job and it is likely they will have some common traits
There is nothing interesting here. So called "Hackers" simply told the generators relay to close out of phase causing the generator and grid currents to violently crash into each other. This means the magnetic fields of the rotor and armature were not aligned. Obviously the grid has much larger generators backing it so the little diesel gen set rotor was no match for the now grid energized armature. The armature field tries to violently pull the rotor into phase resulting in catastrophic physical forces on the generator mechanics. After a few of these devastating blows the diesel engine's crank shaft, connecting rod or perhaps the flywheel coupler violently fails.

The only code needed would be to completely ignore line and gen set phasing or flip them 180 to really let the bolts fly.

Any generator will succumb to this no matter the prime mover. They must be in sync with the grid or other operating generators before connected across the line/bus. This is power house practice 101 level stuff.
The industry isn't nearly as accepting of them as it was ten or twenty years ago.

To those downvoting: if Linus Torvalds was 30 years younger and just as competent, yet completely unknown, do you really think he wouldn't have a lot of trouble getting hired at a FANG company because of his poor social skills?
Some words on that subject from the README and a link.

"I wanted JavaScript to be homoiconic and have modular macros written in the same language. I feel like this is the adjacent possible in that direction. Sweet.js exists for macros, but theyre awkward to write and aren't JavaScript. Various JavaScript lisps exist, but most have featuritis from trying too hard to be Lisp (rather than just being a JS syntax), and none have macros that are just JS functions"

https://github.com/anko/eslisp/blob/master/doc/comparison-to...
Sketch is not libre software, so there's not much difference as long as you can export.
I found the the best thing with it is that it can be done with one hand. I would consider it way more convenient for me and I can’t wait til a 3rd part releases a car mount.
> why don't we efficiently allocate resources, when we know that we could?

Huh? How do we know that we could? I thought we knew that we couldn't.
Well it's not just you [1]. I don't have any data to support it, but I'm personally guessing either it's a ridiculously massive update, some overzealous ACR, or they may have setup some kind of p2p streaming system for who knows what reason. If you don't want to turn off wi-fi to the TV entirely, maybe try disabling ACR [2] to see if that does anything.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/VizioTV/comments/96gtti/vizio_tv_us...

[2] https://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/how-to-turn-off-smar...
The same thing happened with iPods back in the day. The first couple generations came in these fat cubic boxes with cables, headphones, an installation CD, a printed manual, and a charging brick. The 3rd gen was probably peak packaging as it also game with plastic adapter inserts for licensed 30-pin adapter products and both FireWire and USB cables. The 5th gen iPod came in a much flatter box, probably a third the height of the old ones. That meant an freight container or UPS truck could carry three times more iPods. The iPod mini vs nano was very similar in terms of packaging savings.

Besides the better shipping efficiency it's also worth considering the real estate. Retailers, including Apple's own stores, have finite storage space for products. The new iPhones come in multiple colors for each model. Shrinking the packaging dimensions means a wider selection can be kept in stock in the same space as a narrower selection of the previous model.

Regardless, at the scale of Apple selling iPhones a small decrease in weight and/or better packing efficiency can mean huge CO2 savings. A gallon of diesel producers about 20 pounds of CO2. Doubling the iPhone/mile because of smaller packages halves the CO2/iPhone production.
I was curious and looked up how this compared to the computer my family had 20 years ago: a Dell XPS tower with a Pentium III. The A14 has more than 1,000x as many transistors as what Intel was doing 20 years ago on a 128mm^2 die. Pretty incredible.
Since it's just a representation of Javascript AST in s-expressions, that certainly seems possible.
How does it handle symbols that aren't legal javascript identifiers? Is that on the user or are the some safety conventions in place in the compiler?
Thanks for the feedback, and glad to see more engineers interested in deeper topics!
I know a few people in some companies who managed to move to cheaper locations, switch to remote and keep their salary.
Imagine a recruiter trying tl convince them to work for Gitlab but having to move back to a big city and WFH in a tiny condo or otherwise get paid 50% what they make now lol
It makes absolutely zero sense from demand/supply PoV and eventually they will have to catch up to the times.
Fully remote isn’t an exclusive perk anymore
Saying your hiring people anywhere in the world then telling the candidate the offer is shitty bc they don’t live in an hyper-inflated real-estate area is not just silly but insulting
My iPad does this except the icon is TechCrunch's. Not sure why.
They would overdose on D. Too much of that vitamin from pill is bad for you.
Of course, thanks for pointing that out. Wayland should have been the Y system ;)
I think that the pandemic really accelerated this. Our team uses Sketch, but we're quickly coming up on a project that'll involve a lot of collaboration, and Sketch simply won't be able to handle it. If we were in person, that would be different, but we aren't, and so I'm trying to get us Figma licenses.
Moving to a doctor-style credential model would probably make the interview process less intense. But it also adds years of additional education and certifications. And it's unclear whether it would cause a net reduction of stress and pointless studying: pre-med and medical students aren't known for their laid back progression to gainful employment. A lot of the people here would clearly be shocked to discover just how adversarial jobs outside of software engineering can be.