skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> After being on the interviewer side myself recently, I think those people just don't realize how hiring actually works.

As an interviewer I've never had to give a coding test and I'm not about to start now. I've had people try and bullshit -- not really on purpose -- but asking specific questions weeds them out easily. Often times they don't even know they're failing the questions.

I have a less-technical manager come in on my meetings and by the end he could spot those people who failed without any knowledge of programming at all.

> Of course there are some edge cases where a great developer would fail a leetcode-style interview, but those exceptions are very rare and only seem to affirm the rule.

I did all this binary tree stuff in University decades ago -- I only have so much brain space and studying all this again is going to push out the interesting stuff I'm working on right now.
To ~howlgarnish’s point, this is how I got my most recent promotion and it was very much a case of myself and my direct manager arguing against an opaque HR/Payroll team who generally didn’t approve promotions. no egos to damage in our immediate area by pushing hard.

The biggest issue we encountered was arbitrary requirements in the paper documentation of the role we were aiming to move me into, including a ‘hard’ requirement for an engineering degree with honours, which suddenly became less of an issue when the argument was ‘im going to accept another role but you can match it with x salary and title’ in a polite discussion with department head.

This will only apply to very large companies though, ymmv.
How do you know what he is in trouble for? All we know is what the CCP-controlled media tells us.
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Sounds like someone who needs to retire.
Being in a more competitive industry generally reduces margins but increases the size of the market. Vertically integrated companies lose to aggressively competitive non-integrated competitors when they exist (and a monopolist is proscribed from buying them all up), because the existence of that competition means they can't be abusive or collect monopoly rents.

Vertically integrated monopolies are sticky because you can't replace any individual part of the stack by itself. You can't compete with iMessage just by creating your own messaging app, because to be on a level playing field you would also have to create your own mobile operating system and design your own phone hardware and microprocessors and convince all the customers to switch despite the existing network effect.

If we made it to a market where anybody could create a new OS and have it run on the existing installed base of hardware, or create a new app in a write once run anywhere language and it could run on every existing device, vertically integrated competitors are at a disadvantage because they have to be best in class in all of their individual markets or else customers find themselves better off to have the ability to mix and match.
That is completely false, and I bet from someone who has never worked professional nor lived in China

Corruption is one of the thing that will end your career, even your life. Things like smuggling drugs, creating fake products that endanger lives, will get you executed.

Jack didn’t even go against the CCP. He criticized the financial regulators for not allowing innovation.

Weird that people desperately want this to be “China Bad Government” vs the Good Billionare Jack. But it’s more akin to an FCC vs Musk battle
No, it was 13% higher overall in England during 2020 compared to the 5-year average.

Your comparison with the '17 flu season is, honestly, stupid, and demonstrates your lack of reasoning on this. C'mon: there _wasn't_ a lockdown, and here despite a tremendous lockdown and a long way to go before herd immunity the situation is dire.
Yes, I understand this -- basic risk mitigation by reducing the size of your vulnerability.

(I'll archaic brag a bit by mentioning I used to be a heavy user of Minix - my floppy images came in over an X25 network - and saw Andy Tanenbaum give his Minix 3 keynote at FOSDEM about a decade ago. I'm a big fan.)

Anyway, while reducing risk this way is laudable, and will improve your fleet's health, as per TFA it's a poor substitute, with bad economics and worse politics behind it, than simply stumping up for ECC.

I'll also note that, for example, Google's sitting on ~3 million servers so that ~4k LoC just blew out to 12,000,000,000 LoC -- and that's for the hypervisors only.

Multiply that out by ~50 to include VM's microkernels, and the amount of memory you've now got that is highly susceptible to undetected bit-flips is well into the mind-blowing range.
This comment is a fantastic window into just how distorted the world has become.

(No shade being thrown; good on you for recognizing the opportunity and acting on it)
It is if it's a matter of universal human rights transgressions.
Something like that would only be fair if first, wealth was fairly (re)distributed.

As of now there are enough people, corporations, and governments with enough money to buy property for other than its value or use. Petty revenge, fucking with critics, buying the blacks, Jews, hippies, cripples, etc out of your neighborhood. You have COVID, find a new place to live mother fucker.
There’s a part-time PhD program I am looking at which would take a little longer but not compromise work/life balance. Lucky that it just happens to be the program I’m interested in anyway.

My kids are in school from 9am-3pm every day anyway (or at least will be again when the pandemic is over), so I look at that as my work time anyway. Time outside of those bounds is sacred though.
Cross market subsidies make this possible once you've killed off all the competition. Therein lies the danger of monopolies.

To be honest, I'm disappointed that no micropayment schemes have taken off yet. I'm perfectly willing to contribute a few pennies to every site that I visit, but there's no good way to do that today. Instead, every time I read an interesting news article that gets forwarded to me by any of a couple of dozen separate paths, I end up at a different news site that I don't have a subscription to. Should I really have to have 100 subscriptions to news sites that I only read 1 or 2 articles from each month? Some entity needs to aggregate this into a single convenient $30/month subscription. Ideally it would be standardised and be added on to my monthly internet bill (IETF standards ftw).
Is it just my eyes or does the gradient dithered in sRGB look more accurate that the one dithered in linear space?
This was my proof of concept for non-negative integers. You can clearly use the "template literal type" functionality to do arbitrary type processing. People have used it for JSON, SQL and GraphQL type validation. Validating a numerical range is trivial compared to those.

type IntegerChar =
| '0'
| '1'
| '2'
| '3'
| '4'
| '5'
| '6'
| '7'
| '8'
| '9';

type IntegerString<T extends string> =
T extends IntegerChar ?
T :
T extends `${infer Char}${infer Rest}` ?
Char extends IntegerChar ?
Rest extends IntegerString<Rest> ?
`${Char}${Rest}` :
never :
never :
never;

type NonNegativeInteger<T extends number> =
T extends infer U ?
number extends U ?
never :
`${U}` extends IntegerChar ?
U :
`${U}` extends IntegerString<`${U}`> ?
U :
never :
never;

type NonNegativeInteger<T extends number> =
T extends infer U ?
number extends U ?
never :
`${U}` extends IntegerChar ?
U :
`${U}` extends IntegerString<`${U}`> ?
U :
never :
never;
but what if my face is quite pretty and I want to share its outlook in some circle?
Did any of those countries have a nuclear arsenal?
Thanks, and I agree this perfectly sums things up.
suppose google was reducing traffic to websites that are not using their analytics and add network. How would we know, and how could we get recourse? The algorithm is secret and does what it wants.
By checking a signature from a trusted key. MitM is handled.
> manned starship is many landings after the first unmanned landing

What number makes you comfortable? 100 flawless landings, 1000?
Not until the USD loses reserve status. Until then,
it’s cheaper to print and export these USD tokens for imports rather than to exert labor to make stuff to trade for imports.
> they still won't tell him the password

The Google support people should have mentioned it, but hopefully, they wouldn't be able to tell him the password without investing tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars in cracking the hash.

https://plaintextoffenders.com/
Which problem do you see? It's just a signature, they cannot be forged without a corresponding private key.
Bias Lighting is the term for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias_lighting
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Everything except the personality index step seems like obvious boilerplate for how one would accomplish implementing a chatbot that tries to replicate a particular training corpus.

And not very clear what personality index means in this context.
January 1st, 2020 I made a vow to ditch google entirely. I would guess 99% of my searches are now done in DuckDuckGo and Yandex and have been so for the last year. I only turn to google if I have a technical search I'm not getting any luck with otherwise.
No, the game I was talking about is IF, as in Interactive Fiction, what text adventures are called now.

Without giving away the major plot twist of the game I'm thinking of, I can assure it has nothing to do with Lifeline.

Edit: found it! It's called Fail-Safe, and if you ever intend to play it, please don't read spoilers. The game is so short, almost a single "scene", that spoilers will really ruin it: https://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=c6x835i6o9zqfc59
> Switching costs for a search engine are pretty damn low.

Are they, though? I seem to recall conversations here where some larger sites were only allowing googlebot to crawl their site in robots.txt rules. Their thinking was that the vast majority of traffic is coming from google, and it wasn't worth it to have multiple also-ran search engines crawling their site frequently. There's a case to be made that search engines are actually a natural monopoly.
This is a good, balanced article. I've been of a similar mind for over a year now.

The chances of the CCP releasing a self-harming bioweapon in order to harm the US seems silly. But an accident involving a well-intentioned gain-of-function experiment seems quite possible and was something that the US was concerned about with its own gain-of-function research.

In any case, this, like so much of this other nonsense around Covid [lockdowns in Contra Costa County when the major hospitals were empty-ish; no gradual escalation of lockdown given mid-January knowledge of Covid], seems pretty amenable to a calm, clear analysis...

Hypothesis | Evidence | Likelihood
------------------------------+----------------------------------------+-----------------
CCP Virus | [That'd be 360 degree dumb of the CCP] | *low*
Gain of function lab accident | [Existing concerns and experience] | *moderate*
Zoonotic transfer | [No likely vector for extant virus] | *moderate-low*

Doesn't seem too difficult...
> warlord uses force and often violence to gain power.

not necessary if they gain it after the power vacuum

The behaviors these companies engage in are anti competitive.
MS even saved Apple at one point so that in antitrust suit they could point out that other operating systems existed. GAFAM are not on the side of the people. For decades I never asked for a Windows license when buying PC, and yet I had no choice, most of the computers weren't available without giving MS a cut, that's a mob methods, take it leave it.
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> The only difference is that nobody in China can criticize the government.

In contrast to here in America where only some of us can criticize the government. How is that supposed to help me ?
> If there are rival teams, then doesn't that mean that by definition resources are allocated less efficiently? (and by extension that competitors will be able to outbid for talent)

If they have enough resources, it doesn't matter. Google and Apple don't seem to have any trouble paying talent.
This is the stupidest comment I have read in this thread.
That money is exfiltrated by millionaires breaking Chinese law.
Investing in crypto on a short term basis is certainly roulette but over the long term it is not. Not more so than a stock at least.
The largest leap is claiming Russia in particular.
Yes because it allows caching and encrypting the traffic would provide no benefit.

APT supports downloading over Tor if you want to hide which distribution you are using.
For me, Google only sends organic traffic to my posts that are 10-20 years old (no joke). My newer content, while verified by me as indexed by Google, receives zero traffic.

For my old content, I have started to place warning banners for my users that they are reading old, and sometimes outdated content, that I only leave online for archival reasons.

It makes me wonder if Google is doing this with my little blog, is it doing the same more broadly? I don't believe it is providing a good search experience to its users anymore.
I think he's smarter than that. Public ledger and CCP could aim to control > 50% of nodes...
Because you’ve been looking at China your entire life reading western media and unable to comprehend there may be a different and better ideology

Therefore you reduce this situation to “he said bad thing, therefore he got jailed, therefore whoever jailed him is a bad thing”

Repeat, amplify, and you got yourself a brainwash
I can't send mail via smtp.gmail.com over my AT&T connection on my phone. Wifi works fine. I am at a loss.

Just wanted to also complain about Google.
And yet it's the USA that has more prisoners.
https://archive.is/j4l6T
this seems to be what could make this a possibility.

it'll take some work but the video highlights this strongly: falcon is light-weight & with modest throttling. it's gonna land, and just barely drop velocity, wherever it was pointed. there's so much thrust to weight & not enough fine throttling that running the engines for a bit isn't gonna help let it position itself.

ss & sh are heavy as heck. as much as throttle-ability my gut feel is that it's really the mass that helps make hoveribility-positioning sensible. some ability to get to the area & correct, & then land. there's enough mass that a bunch of burning isn't going to immediately blast the craft away again.

that's what I got from the video, at least.
I've had that problem too, multiple times, where I knew the password but Google wouldn't let me use it (I almost lost my account). Google doesn't like users that clear cookies, block trackers, etc...

I wish that there was a way to disable those "protections".
Original article on medium got deleted. Here's artchived version:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210101181528/https://ex-apple-...
As someone who occasionally moves countries, this is horrifying. Did you enable 2FA and still need to authenticate via text? I used to enable 2FA, but got worried about phone loss/damage.
Would it be possible to create a union that opposes this union? If this union lobbies against contracts with the US military and US law enforcement, my union to let the management know that we are actually ok with these contracts? Something like a union to speak for the "silent majority"?
So he's comparing the AVL tree he wrote himself to a B-tree optimized to death by someone else?

Out of interest though, does he mention somewhere which actual implementation he used?
It's worth noting that the Bill of Rights was agreed to in principle before the U.S. Constitution was modified. The amendment process also can bypass the national office holders if need be, which is a kind of democratic check on centralized power, albeit an basically unused one so far.
People really over estimate the difficulty of running self-hosted systems with great uptime.

When self hosting you can get away with simpler systems that ends up being more stable and have higher up times for lower effort.

The reason you see cloud providers having issues is not because the thing is difficult, but because doing anything at huge scale ends up being difficult.
maybe we could have a system where if the company is open source/transparent with their recommendation engine and data they are free from liability, but if they profit off the recommendation/notification content they are liable.

profit motive for recommendation/amplification is probably what damages humans at scale
Hiring, by definition, is mostly discrimination.

Otherwise, people would just hire the first person you received a resume from who had the solid qualifications and experience you needed.

But no...of course that's not what happens. Managers go through the Kabuki dance with the potential employee just trying to find a small "chink in the armor" to quickly disqualify them.

It's called the "initial screen" of course, and the whole point is to find something to "discriminate" against and eliminate the candidate. Please PLEASE do NOT reply to this message saying "oh discriminating is the wrong term I'm simply EVALUATING blah blah blah" Yes whatever you like to call it the end result is exactly the same.

Then, of course, the whole team does the same sort of "don't call it discrimination but if we notice some trait we don't like, we don't hire them" thing again.

Maybe it's their age, or hair, or the clothes they wear, or the way they talked, or didn't talk. Maybe even sometimes, because the person is broke and hungry and they came off wrong, because of course, they don't have any income, or took a risk in their lives that didn't pan out, or perhaps even had to take care of a dying parent for a while, and now have to struggle to come up with an explanation on why they weren't working for that time.

Maybe they even had a felony 20 years ago when they were totally different people...heaven forbid they did THAT because, of course, NO ONE in our amazing Foobar company EVER did anything illegal and didn't get caught!

So that's really just only a matter of bad luck, but yet it's an absolute KoD with getting hired these days.

What rarely ever happens, oddly enough, is to ask candidates to prove their programming skills with either a sample project or a trial period. This would seem like a very logical thing to do and it confounds me why it's not used more...and even if it is and the person aces the tests, if anything is found, well, discriminating about the candidate, well, we just cannot even take a chance on hiring them.

And even though almost 25% of all "sure-fire" hires won't work out and will be gone in a year[0], and there are literally a million tech jobs[1] that need to be filled this year, we just cannot even take a chance on hiring them rings over and over in the offices of the hiring managers. THAT...of all things to rant about, is the thing that baffles and frustrates me more than anything...

How can anyone ever prove they they can become a valuable part of the team if no one will ever give them a chance?

[0] https://www.techrepublic.com/article/software-had-the-highes...

[1] https://blog.hackerrank.com/unlocking-trapped-engineers/
Spoken like someone who’s never traveled the world or seriously thought about philosophy and only knows the world via CNN or NYtimes
China most likely own them too.
Having teachers drive to work to talk in front of a webcam is an obviously unnecessary move and a waste of time. They don't need a vague justification, it's pretty evident why this is a non-starter.
I don't think it is fair to say that they are now at an extreme risk of destruction.

Risks always exist. The risk of flooding is probably some small percent higher than it was 10 years ago, and 10 years before that. The risk will increase over the next 100+ years until the homes are destroyed.

It seems like a problem that will work itself out. Either insurance will go up, the house value will go down, or both.
Immediately after a clean boot, apply security update, reboot to test, then immediately shutdown and allow that snapshot to persist.
I honestly don’t believe you for a second and not to be brash but I suspect you may have ulterior motivations spreading this.

I have several direct relatives who have spent a collective 50+ years in China that disagree with what you’re saying.

Elon never disappeared either. I’m not sure how this is even remotely similar.
except it works perfectly fine for practical engineering solutions soooo ??
I don't quite follow. The link to the blog post was just for background information. Let's agree to disagree and leave it at that.
Nonsense. There are plenty of white-collar and even some blue-color jobs where it’s the same or even more extreme. Personal anecdote - when i was working low level construction jobs during pre-2008 boom two of my foremen quit without notice to grab a job somewhere else. A lot of companies don’t really optimize for tenured employees anyway so you get what you pay for in a sellers market
'they pay a lot of taxes'

Firstly, they are 'minimising' their tax base[0], and second, is not committing crimes an achievement these days?

[0] - https://developer-tech.com/news/2019/apr/08/tax-google-dodge....
* Google Search >> SearX / SwissCow / mojeek

* Google Email >> Protonmail

* Google Maps >> OpenStreetmap

Also check out DNS watch (uncensored DNS) - https://dns.watch/

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Self Hosting and Community hosted servers is the future
not Multi Million dollar corporations + Centralisation + Big Tech
I mean does the content of the website is of good quality?
Same, I would rather release on a Monday than a Friday.
So did Martin Skrehli. Your point? Publicly fighting with regulators is a bad idea, I’m anywhere in the world, o matter how rich you are
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Yep, corrected, thanks.
Australian governments would easily send their own citizens to foreign countries they never been to, for non violence offences like copyright infringement.

UK is way better than Australia in terms of bill of rights, etc.
How much time do you expect to spend dancing in your future marriage? Less than 1%?

Now imagine your dance skills accounted for 99% of your score during the courtship (hazing) ritual.

Leetcode is even less relevant. I can google algorithms. Dancing's an actual skill.
You’re still missing what I’m saying. Anyone in the US can legally and publicly criticize any level of our government without fear of reprisal. In almost all cases.
You might be quite wrong on that series of assumptions.
And if they had only killed minorities within their borders...?
profit motive for recommendation/amplification is probably what damages humans at scale
Related, recent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25622322
Ah I see that happened in late October, I must have missed it.
What if the photo is optional and displayed at the bottom? Showing a practically mandated photo first puts a lot of unconscious biases in your head.

This is a relatively new trend, and probably has something with social media to do.
If it was important

People would WRITE IT DOWN

People would RECORD IT

People would BACK IT UP

Its not the job of companies, corporations or tech repair stuff to remember stuff for you