skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I certainly agree that vaccinations typically don't work this way, which is why I find it very odd that there seems to be an effort to quickly handwave away these uncertainties with "well all vaccines are like this."
As someone who has been on both sides of the table, I don't really know what some 45 minute HackerRank test is supposed to demonstrate that can't be learned in a 10 minute modified FizzBuzz. Probably 95% of software development jobs don't need the kind of algorithmic expertise that these HackerRank problems try to test. There just needs to be confirmation that this person's resume isn't a complete lie and they actually have the skills it states.
Only because bitcoin isn't used by anyone. I'm not willing to wait for that to switch.
Samsung and Microsoft are the two to watch.

Both have followed Apple's direction and neither is going to want to let the PC market get away from them.
Similar performance and cooling? Buy a Ryzen 4800U laptop.

Similar battery life? A good part of it is down to the software, sadly.

For the trade-off of 8 instead of 12 hours of battery life, you'll have a repairable and open computer. Seems competitive. You also get upgradeable RAM, a GPU that is actually useful because it has drivers for a useful API, and much more I/O.
I think someone who can approach a problem differently and effectively, can also follow orders just fine.

I like to try new things and approach things differently, I don't do it with every task and recognize there is value in doing it the same old way at times too.

Way too many tests and etc assume that people can only do X, or Y or Z.
A lot of immigration law seems built around the idea that workers are interchangeable cogs. I see a lot of arguments in the comments here that seem based on the same assumption.

At top tier software shops (that pay US and immigrant employees the same) you're lucky if you can find enough US employees to fill the available roles by the time the next fiscal year starts. There are plenty of people applying who call themselves "Software Engineers" but most of them aren't very good. There is also a limit to how many new grads you can take on while having the bandwidth to train them. Once every team of 3-7 has a new grad you can't really take on any more. And the places I'm talking about already pay the highest salaries and bonuses in the world for SWEs.

Doing an L1 transfer or H1b is a lot of work. Dealing with PERM is a lot of work. If there really were a glut of super capable US engineers no one would bother going through that hassle.

Just what is supposed to happen here when you're already paying 2-3x (or more) average comp, hiring hundreds or thousands of US engineers every year, and you still can't find enough people?

I guess the government thinks somehow you should use the PERM process to find a replacement for your immigrant employee when you already can't find enough qualified US candidates to fill the brand new positions your company created this fiscal year? That chain of logic just leads to an even bigger deficit in unfilled positions or a government mandate to lower hiring standards. Neither of those is good for the company's competitiveness.

I don't know if this case is politically motivated but surely the Justice Department's time would be better spent going after the many well-known H1b body shops, where mega corps are abusing the system to replace US workers with cheaper immigrants?
I wonder if the smaller companies that buy into this bullshit realize the talent they’re losing to save a few hours.
Blockchain Attempts to Secure the Supply Chain
Good assets also don't get stolen if 51% of the network becomes compromised by a bad actor.
Admittedly, reading the complaint further, it looks like there are accusations facebook did indeed do some sketchy stuff with regards to the process. For instance, if an American happened to actually apply to one of these jobs, and be qualified, they allege facebook would just abandon the process.

But honestly, I think for the same reasons that what they did was sketchy, I find myself agreeing with it more. I think that the complaint really buries the lede because not only did they have someone in mind with these PERM positions, according to the complaint, it looks like they had someone in mind who already worked for them.

Once again, I can see why the government is mad, facebook seems to have hacked their process. But while there is an accusation of a systematic dark pattern, I don't view it as a pattern of abuse. If the law is so spinlocked that you can't in good faith hire your own employees at market rates since they aren't American, I can't really blame companies trying to take their destiny into their own hands.
Then you should read A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge!
That's fine, but signing off on it just means that they were convinced that it's airworthy. Your own [1] link even says:

> “While the software upgrades and changes are enough to get the plane back in the air, the agency is still demanding the development of a so-called synthetic sensor (that will be ready in 20 to 24 months) to reach even higher safety levels.”

This seems clear that we're talking about a conditional airworthiness rather than absolute confidence, safest plane ever made, etc etc. Recall that you said "It's probably far safer now than other models". Why are you saying that given that the experts you quoted are using the paragraph above for this plane, when they don't have similar concerns and requirements for other models?
I don’t think it has tabs —- you might need to have a look at Tmux and handling tabs/split panes using that.

It’s 100% worth learning though. Tmux is available almost everywhere and it’s an easy way to increase your productivity!
That's interesting and truly insightful. Doing a good job in a previous role doesn't matter anymore because everyone relys on the leetcode score.
There's one on the Features page -- the first shot

https://scrumsheet.app/images/scrumsheet-spreadsheet.png
So, yes. Also, if the answer is "no", we're already very screwed.
were you applying for a data scientist or software engineer position?
Object recognition only and using a phone camera limits my ideas,but off the top of my head:

Actors in TV and Internet advertisements

Animal scat or Animal footprints

What the stains on someones clothes were made from (yuck)

How many jelly beans or whatever are in a jar

The freshness of produce (especially those pre-made salads that can wilt before you get them home)

Poisonous plants and mushrooms
To me, the "best" endgame is to obtain enough saved capital to found your own (small?) business to which you can generate and capture value directly.
I don’t know about the US but here I can’t pay in the supermarket with stock or buy a new appliance...
Software archaeology in a mature programming environment http://akkartik.name/post/deepness

(An excerpt from A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge)
System76 – Pangolin
> You were either hearing the wrong information or misunderstanding it. Herd immunity is absolutely real, and can occur if a virus infects enough people (or enough people are vaccinated).

I was hearing it from people arguing against the Swedish approach of managing the virus without lockdowns. "Encouraging people to go out and get infected" (i.e. actively trying to accelerate the spread and doing nothing to minimize exposure for high risk groups) is not something I see being seriously advocated even by lockdown opponents, though it is often used as a strawman version of their arguments.
I'm very sympathetic to the idea that a more objective test like interview format eliminates bias from the interviewer, as well as the idea it allows introverts or those not as well versed in storytelling to be successful opposed to traditional 'sell yourself' interviews.

However, it's a huge waste of time when so many of the questions are the same. I get it, every company wants to know if I can turn a list into a balanced BST, it's not an unfair question, it's not particularly hard, but I really get annoyed I have to keep solving it over and over.

I really wish there was some certifying body that would put me through the whiteboard guantlet once, and then I could just share my score to companies I apply to.
We do “take homes” that are paid at $65/hr. Still, biased toward people who can make the time.
Also people are seriously underestimating the impact of being able to run iPhone/iPad apps.

My partner is now able to run dozens of Korean apps which never have had a Mac equivalent.
I don't get it. What's the advantage of this compared to the "view transcript" functionality on the video page itself? It might be confined to a small window, but at least it has timestamps and isn't one long wall of text.
One thing I haven't seen is how does the M1 fare in terms of input latency (e.g. in text editors, like in those old tests done with vim, sublime, intellij, etc: https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/).

I have a hunch it eliminates some...
>Being a process node ahead is already "much better", and IS a feat. Where are the process node ahead chips from the competitors?

Not if you still don't beat them cleanly. The end result is what matters. Also, being able to pay more than other people isn't a technical feat.

>On top of that, it's Apple's own SoC design, it has its own GPU design and co-processors, tons of work into making speed optimizations all around (from the buses to memory handling), and came with a new OS release, a port to the new architecture, a bridge layer for iOS apps, and a perfectly capable x86 translation layer.

Half of that is software, which I didn't mention, and the rest is par for the course. The buses and interconnects in a Zen chip are far superior, which you notice as better I/O.

>Which mainstream PC chip in actual laptops/desktops people use has unified memory and doesn't use sockets/DIMMS?

You didn't mention Sockets/DIMMS, but literally any AMD APU has unified memory, and use memory DIMMs. Seems like the best of both worlds to me. Just as good memory performance, and it's upgradeable.

>That's a moot point, since they still carry all the x86 baggage in microcode, since tons of bad decisions leading to things like Spectra. ARM doesn't.

AMD is not affected by Spectre. ARM also uses speculative execution.
I got three cars so I could be more efficient. Use the right size for the job.

For minor little trips around town, I use the Fiat 500L. It has 5 seats in 2 rows.

For high speed, or a bit more stuff, I use the Subaru Ascent. It has 8 seats in 3 rows.

For traveling with the whole family, I use the Ford E-350 extended-length passenger van. It has 15 seats in 5 rows.

Before I bought the smaller cars, I had to drive the van everywhere. It's a beast, 3 tons empty or 5 tons full. I think I get about 12 MPG, which is efficient per-person when I'm bringing a dozen kids. As a commuter car, the van is horrible.
Thank you for the context. I don't appreciate being misled like this either.
a good portion of it
Huh? Terminal.app is one of the fastest ones. iTerm2 is much slower in comparison.
Yeah, I burned myself out really bad trying to go above and beyond for a few years at various companies. Just ended up frustrated, making no more money than people coasting in the same position, and still got laid off during downsizing instead of the people who spent time playing office politics and going out to happy hour with the supervisor.

I feel kind of guilty now though, because I actually managed to get hired at a really good company a few years ago, but I can't work up the motivation to put in as much effort as I did before. Now I'm the one coasting (still not schmoozing though), and see other new people making the same mistake I did.
I'm in the job market and I've hit a lot of these Hackerrank style tests.

They're easy. They (the people writing and administrating) the tests bend over backwards to offer the same test in many different languages. They provide unit tests and examples.

To be quite blunt: These tests just verify very basic programming skills. They're meant to filter out people who just can't code. Someone who's struggling with these kinds of tests probably needs to consider a career change.

Edit: A common gripe early in my career was the amount of incapable programmers we had to put up with. I suspect the author isn't capable of learning how to program well.
Yeah, certain drugs are heavily prohibited, often with very serious penalties. OTOH, you can walk into a pharmacy and buy basically anything else without a prescription.
> high-level whiteboarding is biased towards people who are good at whiteboarding

Shouldn't the process itself be biased towards people who can enunciate their thoughts anyway?
In your case there is no/less PR after effects
> I think you would agree that the intrinsic value of dollars as backed by the metal in USD coins is negligible compared to how many USD exist...

Yes, I agree.

> Besides, everything you said, including tax payment and keeping out of jail, also applies to the Venezuelan bolivar and quite a few other fiat currencies that completely crashed in value due to hyper-inflation.

USD will always be valuable as long as the US government exists and taxes its citizens in USD. This means that there will always be demand for USD (again, as long as the US government exists).

I don't think it's wrong to say that the US government is more stable than the other governments that print currencies that are less stable.
30 years ago software engineering was probably a few bunch of technical skills. Now it's a very big spectrum, no individual knows everything.

Someone applying to search quality team at Google that works on search algorithm really wants someone who knows algorithms..

but that may not be the case for a web of app developer.

but the same app developer needs to know have algorithmic sense to do some performance tuning.

The current interviews ignore all these nuances and simply ask a weird, sometimes boring, competitive coding question. That's fine too.. most engineers enjoy a puzzle once in a while.

But what really irritates me is sensitivity of assessment in these coding interviews.

Someone the other day was saying Cracking the Coding Interview book is no longer relevant. The problems are apparently simpler to what people ask in real interviews.

We don't just have to provide pseudocode. Write working, beautiful code, solve the edge cases and speak to the interviewer while doing all of this. I don't know since when engineers actually talk and code at the same time during working hours.

The phone interviews are a joke. In a 45mins meeting, where 10mins spent on introduction from both people has zero weight. In those days it was supposed to weed out non-serious candidates with fizz-buzz question. Well' agreed fizz buzz isn't really a good question, but neither a LeetCode Hard DP question to be solved in 30mins.
And with all things in life, the answer lies in the middle. You should ask programming questions, but they should be applicable, universal and not “trick” questions. You can do a take home, but if you do, make it 60 minutes and fun. You will end up whiteboarding in a room, but you should train your team to be good at this, shadow them and help them get better at it. Nothing is wrong with these techniques, per se, but often they end up as a terrible candidate or hiring experience.
It could get costly because their transcription pricing is geared towards video editing, but you can scrape the video and load it into Descript and have this power.

https://www.descript.com/
1. The author refers to 50+, which is only the latter half of middle age.

2. His clientele, from what I could glean from the Internet, would be men in senior career positions who are either on the way out, or already out. And since he is BayArea-centric, these are probably tech industry types who are forced out pretty early.

So what he is describing is the natural detumescence that happens when senior guys are slowed or stopped, take a look around and wonder what the heck happened. Don’t need another pop psych buzzword for it. They were part of the Borg mind of a corporation, they leave or prepare to leave, start to get their mind and life back and realize they forgot what they were trying to do in the first place.

In trying to follow the thread back to their authentic self, they revisit sexuality and, not surprisingly, find it wanting. They find they are not the target demographic for the mass media that helped defined what they were. Death isn’t knocking at the door, but they see it driving around the neighborhood and feel it in aches and pains.

It’s a time for mature reflection, wisdom and spiritual development. Normally a solitary path at this point, if they haven’t found a faith or wisdom community by this time. Never is the history of the world has wisdom literature been more widely accessible. And by 50+, the dangers of the guru route are either instinctively known, or more easily managed.

The wisdom that is sought is probably not to be found in the advice of the author, who must be 50+ at this point himself, and whose first line of his bio reads “Marty's mother claims that he could read the New York Times at age 3 and that his reading comprehension in the 1st grade was at the 12th grade level.”

https://martynemko.com/about-marty
I think (hope?) you're getting downvoted because most folks aren't arguing against giving someone fizzbuzz or seeing if they can loop through a tree, it's the fact that some of these tests gives you what is an obviously O^3 algorithm and you have to use some non trivial trick to get it to O^2 or something.
I switched to this setup years ago and I regret all the decades before I've spent with GUIs.

One question though, how do I get the floating terminals?
How was the test set up? Big difference between slamming localhost and ingesting edge inserts from IoT devices all over.
Anaconda! (sarcasm)
I appreciate the correction.

> In your quest to avoid almost-religious overhyping of everything Apple, I'd contend that you're presenting the inverse

I must point out that I believe you misinterpreted my intent. I'm largely indifferent to Apple. I'm not entirely sure if you'd find that more offensive or less since I'm interpreting this response as one of annoyance (I'd appreciate a clarification to this end).

I don't use Apple products. And you're absolutely right, the M1 is an impressive feat.
Oh totally. The problem is that folks like that often get bored by the job.

The number of stories I’ve heard of engineers having to microdose just to get through the day because working on 1 button for 6 months kills their spirit ...
> But their combination of refresh rate (without blur), image quality, and color reproduction are still second to none.

Not true. A current generation OLED (which will do 120hz) is superior to a CRT.

Even still, on many of those a good LCD has long been better than a good CRT. Color accuracy, for example. CRTs required constant fiddling & calibration to stay good at that, whereas a quality factory calibrated LCD will be much better in an "out of the box" or typical usage. Not really sure what you're calling "image quality" but it's hard to imagine that going any way but solidly in a modern high-end LCDs camp, which are brighter, wider color gamuts, higher resolution, and higher pixel densities than CRTs ever had.

> there must be a market for high end screens for gamers.

There is, which is why we have high resolution, high refresh rate, and adaptive vsync IPS monitors a plenty now. They come in all sorts of shapes & sizes, in resolutions & dimensions CRTs could only dream about.
But those most at risk are not "the bulk of the population," and the rest are very unlikely to need hospitalization. Again, why would lockdowns need to be maintained past the time necessary to vaccinate the high risk groups?
What if there were a certification authority that could claim that professionals are, indeed, competent in X, Y, Z within software? And, of course, that authority would need to be recognized by A, B, C companies. That'd certainly skip the endless, often mind-numbing, repetitiveness of technical interviews (especially for those with many years of experience) and can jump straight to culture/team/behavior fit.

This is basically what all engineering disciplines do and it's why I take "software engineer" with a massive grain of salt.
If it was deprioritized, which it seems it was, it was still done in a disappointing and rather eye-opening manner. Just letting an expensive and important scientific instrument deteriorate and just collapse is not the same as properly deprioritizing and decommissioning it.
Translating the source? I figured they just gave everyone their costumes, turned on the camera, and filmed whatever happened randomly.
I can leetcode hours for free or I can do small projects for free and usually learn a new thing while doing it instead of trying to memorize something about a binary tree.

Take home projects just make the hours overt.
I can understand if you need the pixels and bit depth for color work. I just work with sRGB, and the panel I have is fine for that. I really do like the speed, though.
Intel has patents in things like some of the newer vector instructions still - Apple AFAIK will not translate those, and will not report them as available.

Microsoft has a performance disadvantage in that the memory consistency model of ARM is much weaker than x86 sequential ordering or x86_64s total store ordering. Apple’s chips (at least back to the A12Z) support enabling TSO per thread on the performance cores, so the translated code does not need as much fencing.
Did you know that at the bottom of original Social Security cards in the USA it said:

For Social Security purposes. Not for identification.

WHO will make the check portion available as an API, then non-WHO entities will start to use it too.

Why would a bar, gym, or concert do their own thing when they can hook into the world-wide WHO system?

It will track your check-ins. And it will be hacked and abused.
Title, especially with the inclusion of 'research,' is overly broad, and gimmicky.

A (quantitative) researcher, involved in serious plotting, illustrations, and diagrammatic analysis, wouldn't last half-a-day in this workflow.
Today it has a market cap of $918 million.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GRPN

If google wants, they could buy it for a steep discount today.
There used to be an old saying that Apple used Cray Supercomputers to build Macs, and Cray used Macs to build Crays.

It was probably true. The industrial design and engineering of the hardware could have been done on a Cray, and the communications and email necessary for designing a Cray, could have been done with Macs.

Use the best tool for the job.
A colleague of mine teaches “Digital Archaeology” as a graduate course where students “mine” git repositories.
plan9 awaits you
How many Petabytes of data are you working with?

Maybe your company is too small for data structures and cutting every 0.1ms latency count. As an example at Google I needed director level exception to introduce 0.1ms latency to the ads server (which wasn't needed at the end, but the monetary damage for timeouts is real).

Understanding basic data structures and how the computer works is important in these cases, even if you just need it once in 3 years.
>DPIs don't mean anything unless you factor in viewing distance.

Between phone, table, and laptop, monitor, yes.

But when speaking of monitors alone, it's not that relevant an observation in practice, since most monitors, whether 27", or 32", or 24" are seen from more or less the same distance.
People care, but it’s not necessarily the fault of the Linux foundation that good design software is lacking on the platform, either FOSS or proprietary.
Her twitter account is full of her retweeting people supporting her and lambasting Google. I wouldn't be surprised if she gets money out of Google. Worst case the person responsible for firing her is let go.

This is the world we live in. Twitter is a god awful pitchfork paradise. I cannot stand it.