skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's really hard to tell if the company was "wrong" here based on the available information. I'm tempted to say the company is, because I certainly have personal experience with companies that do shitty things during interviews, but I'm not so sure the presentation is an automatic indicator of that.

It's possible that the presentation was not meant to be a burden at all. I've done similar interview presentations in the past, and it only took me 2-3 hours to prepare for it because my job experience is in a field where giving hour-long presentations with only a day's notice is commonplace. 2-3 hours preparation is annoying, but it's about what I expect to spend preparing for any interview. If OP was interviewing for a Solutions Engineer or Consultant role, for example, then asking for a 1 hour presentation isn't that unreasonable and it's likely that the company would expect OP to be able to prepare for that without it being a burden.

OTOH, if it was for a software engineer role and they were requiring a presentation even though it has nothing to do with the job function, then yea that's absurd. But which is it? I can't tell from the OP.
I kickstarted my career 8 years ago by going through an old version of this course online. Huge props to Stanford for making it more easily consumable by others.
If I had to guess (without reading the case specifically), it's probably because Microsoft screwed up by forcing OEMs to not install netscape in order to crush them.

It's hard to differentiate 'crapware' from competition, particularly given the context where Microsoft had just leveraged their power over OEMs to crush a competitor.

This still sucks though, a better outcome for users would have been Microsoft being able to require the machines to sell with a clean OS and then allowing OEMs to install software for the user at their request (rather than the OEMs being able to bundle crap for kickbacks).

Somewhat related, apparently the netscape guys went to Redmond and hung up signs around Microsoft's campus mocking them for ignoring the internet. Legend has it Gates saw these and pivoted teams to IE with a focus on crushing Netscape.

Startup talk often discusses how most startups fail not due to competition, but because of internal collapse. Big companies can't compete, innovator's dilemma, etc. There's a lot of truth to that but this is a counter example (and others exist too).

Wildly stupid to antagonize the elephant that's focused on other things to direct all of their resources to destroying you.
For sure!
I will send the chapters to all early access buyers as soon as they are available.
Please remember that chapters could be updated even after their initial publication according to the feedback I will receive.
Next earnings call: "Alright guys, I know it doesn't look good, what with our process technology still stuck in 2015, but picture this: TSMC's fab gets annihilated by a giant meteor."
So does this essentially mean that all those people who say things like "You don't need/can't distinguish 4K if your nose isn't touching the screen()" are wrong?

I have always thought it was a strange thing to say. I can definitely see the difference between a 4K stream vs a 1080p one, even when the screen is much more far away than the recommended distance...

() An hyperbole, obviously.
When other people stop relying on them for all imports? Have to have a new iphone every year, right?
How is it strictly worse?
I like how strongly people seem to be reacting to having to ask permission to digitally follow someone around, write down everything they do, and then use it to send them ads. Guess that means the new rule isn't toothless after all.
Contractors are not government employees, so why would the government employee pay scale apply to them?
Despite Scanning Millions of Faces, Feds Caught Zero Imposters at Airports
Ha ha!

Actually I was talking about what I have seen in friends and acquaintances, although I have seen exceptions too.

Might depend upon country too...
This reminds me of the first iteration of OS X on my old CRT iMac.
This works until you plug in a Razer mouse. Then Windows will autodownload and run the Synapse installer. You can exit, and the mouse works fine (it's just USB), but the installer will run again after every boot.
If the Saudis started selling oil in bitcoin they'd probably lose their military support and/or be overthrown.

It is difficult to justify why the US is providing militarily support to the Saudis without invoking oil and dollars. They are a pretty shady regime and not the sort of people the US wants to be supporting. And the Saudis don't seem to be trading with America as much as China [0, 1].

[0] https://tradingeconomics.com/saudi-arabia/exports-by-country

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/saudi-arabia/imports-by-country
Telemetry in Windows has been out of the box since Windows XP. Whether you are correct or not to be antagonistic about it, that ship sailed a long time before Windows 10 and current HN hysteria about it is almost funny (especially given how often articles about telemetry driven development and A/B testing get upvoted on HN when a startup is doing it).

You can turn off the advertising ("Suggestions") and as long as the bundled "crapware" remains UWP sandboxed, it is a far cry from most of what the OEMs have been accused of.
It's not that there's nothing interesting to do, it's that there's a lack of interesting things to do that I am capable of doing in that frame of mind.

To use a physical example, there are loads of different strenuous activities to do, but I have a limited amount of physical energy in the day. Rock-climbing, hiking, skiing, and weight-lifting are all fun, but if I tried to do all of them in one day, especially consistently, I would cause myself serious injury.

It's similar with mental energy. I have a limited amount of mental focus in a day. Beyond that, further attempts to read scholarly articles, play around with code, or do whatever other academic hobby don't actually teach me anything, they simply delay my mind's ability to recover so I can be useful at work the next day.

Now, if I didn't have a job, I could work on mental activities until I had used all of my mental energy and then go do something physical. With a job, though, I'm expected to be at a desk and responding to people for ~40 hours a week. If I only have the mental energy for, say, 35 hours, there's a certain amount of time where I have to be sitting still but don't have the mental energy to do anything. Yes, I still have 10 lifetimes worth of things I want to do, but I can't work on them any faster with that extra time, I can literally only do something mindless.
> Nobody can steal your bitcoin if your private keys are well protected. And of course, the best protection is a brain wallet.

The end result of this is that a huge portion of humans cannot safely store their wealth in btc. I sure as hell don't trust myself to keep that much cash in a brain wallet.

"If your private keys are well protected" might as well mean "if you can do four backflips in a row" to most people.
Does anyone know how could I script Save Page WE extension in Firefox? It does a really nice job of saving the page as it looks, including dynamic content.
You replied to a statement that had less than 25 words in it, and not one of them was "greed". The statement I replied to also did not include the word "greed".
If the externalities were properly accounted for, I wouldn’t have a problem with Bitcoin. It wouldn’t be my cup of tea, but neither are lots of things. It’s purely the externalities I care about.

A global carbon tax would be great if it were enforceable but it’s not. Just look at how we treat our oceans. It’s especially a problem with Bitcoin since production will naturally shift to the cheapest location, and since it’s fungible and non-physical this can’t be accounted for with trade law/sanctions the same way it could with manufacturing.
I'm pretty sure we agree - all I was saying is that it's not new.
A few years back I did a phone screen with an org that seemed interested in me; the phone screen went really well so they asked for an onsite. But they warned me that they wanted to take advantage of having me onsite, so the onsite would last all day. Ok, I thought, fair enough. I took a day off of my then-current job and showed up at 9 AM and spent the next 6 or so hours interviewing with various people (nobody ever thought to ask if I'd eaten lunch, which I didn't that day). The recruiter said it went well, but a few weeks later told me that there were some other people who wanted to talk to me in person. So they wanted another all-day on site. At that point, I figured I had already sunk so much time into this interview that I might as well go ahead and do it and - surely! - they wouldn't invite me back for a second all-day onsite interview if they weren't nearly positive they wanted to hire me by that point.

I was wrong. After another all-day onsite (this time I had the foresight to bring some snacks because, again, there was no break for lunch although I spent quite a bit of time sitting by myself waiting for interviewers to show up), I never heard back from them again.
The question really isn't whether other endeavors waste more resources, it's whether the goals of Bitcoin could be achieved with fewer resources.

Also how are you measuring the environmental impact of video gaming & or porn? Are their white papers out there with a comparative analysis?
There are different responsibilities for the "controller" and the "processor" under GDPR.

Facebook and Google are recognized as processors in this situation. The websites that send them the data are the controllers and are subject to the vast majority of the regulation, while the processors can assume that the controller has obtained user consent until informed otherwise.

It's legally important to recognize that Facebook and Google are not blindly sucking up data from around the internet. Websites/apps are actively transmitting this data to them and other adtech platforms for their own benefits.
Battery longevity is getting better; I need to find sources, but last I heard is with new cooling technology, they are starting to put lifetime estimates at 500K miles.

As for the tradeoff of new EV versus used ICE, the numbers in the video seemed to suggest to me that it's still in favor of EVs, just that the break even point is farther out. Other sources have run the numbers to show it's not the construction or EOL that is the largest factor in emissions, it's the actual use: https://youtu.be/K9m9WDxmSN8

It's really clear that EV's are just the better option for the environment. The only thing that beats them is public/mass transit or human powered (walking, cycling) transportation.
> Same as the Euro, USD, etc. then.

LOL. The USD is backed by the IRS. No network effect required.
Bitcoin fans when you complain that transactions are expensive, slow, and always irreversible:

"Bitcoin isn't a replacement for Visa or for your checking account. It's a store of value. It's not for day-to-day purchases."

Bitcoin fans when you complain that Bitcoin is massively wasteful:

"If you compare it to every cost that can be attributed to the existing financial system as a whole, including military spending, it's cheap."
(*principle)
Penrose-style aperiodic tiles?
I believe they were talking in that comment about adding a new font to Debian.
Somebody has been able to sneak Chapter 5 "Data Science" in. Waiting for the Chapter "AI" in a few years.
Its very important for the US strategically to build out its foundry capabilities, so this plus the TSMC plant are big steps forward there.
I wonder if various students did the captioning

It's possible. But there are plenty of companies that do subtitle transcription pretty cheaply.

Local TV newscasts used to pipe the scripts from their TelePrompTers into the closed captioning encoder, but that wasn't good enough when the law changed in the late 90's because then there wasn't any text for interviews or weather segments.

Now you can hire a company like Denver Caption that will have someone dial into a special phone line at the TV station and transcribe the content in real time, sending it directly back to the station's encoder.

This is why when more than one person is talking, you can see in the text how the person captioning gets overloaded. Or they might use the wrong form of a word or phrase that would be easy to pick if someone was watching video, but easy to get wrong if they're only listening to audio over a phone line.
This is why it sucks so much that many important "apps" are electron shells.
> I would suggest that we start banning requests for this image without a UA

Why on Earth would you do anything like that, instead of just renaming the image so the URL stops working (and banning the old URL unconditionally?)
They were likely willing to hire the author anyway, even without the experience. But they ended up finding someone that was better than the author.

>Can you explain why they might have gone with the above excuse rather than "we found someone better" or "we won't be moving forward"?

They did say "we found someone better". From the article: "They said that I interviewed extremely well, but that they decided to go with another candidate."
Twitter’s Trump ban is permanent, even if he runs for office again
Show HN: My recommended resources for learning SwiftUI
This is why I've always hated C++. Taking something like templates, and abusing the turing-completeness of it. If I wanted macros I would use a language that actually supports them so I wouldn't have to resort to byzantine hacks. Stuff like this is why lots of people would rather use C over C++.
Writing Tests in Go
Sketch: What happens when you save a document to your Cloud Workspace
According to this report, Bitcoin mining is fueled by renewables: https://coinshares.com/research/bitcoin-mining-network-decem...
I'm glad tools like Poetry exist, as they're filling pretty horrible gaps in the Python ecosystem.

> The only reason to use pip-tools is because you already know it and you don't want to switch (yet).

Actually, I settled on pip-tools _after_ trying Poetry :-)

> pip-tools is squarely worse than using Poetry.

News to me. Like I said in my original comment: "I personally still find Poetry and Pipenv to be a little heavy-handed for my preferred workflows." A tool that gets out of my way and lets me achieve my goals is a better tool for me. Since Poetry can't meet me where I am, pip-tools is better _for me_.
Your second point is moot. Even in a multi threaded single machine program you can load state and have it changed by another thread. That's bad design and not a distributed system characteristic.
Ok, nevermind then lol.
1. There are companies that sell technology to do this

2. The appeal of effectively being a spook has to attract some people to working for 3-letter agencies.
I live in Poland. Almost all buildings outside cities are bricks with bricks being load-bearing.

In cities, almost all buildings older than 1950 are also made from bricks.
Yeah exactly, we can't read cypher text and so aren't included in the end to end encryption contract of signal. Frankly this is nothing to do with signal and everything to do with phone security.
I guess it depends on the country. In Poland my experience is that every time EU passes some regulation Polish parliament passes the corresponding bill implementing it. So even if we left EU tomorrow those bills will still be in effect.

Also, I'm not sure about this "immediately enforceable" part - I recall some cases where member states delayed implementing EU laws for years, sometimes ending up being sued to European Court of Justice.
Something that held me back is that all of my work has been under NDA, and my side projects aren’t worth presenting. I think discussions about my past work in interviews may borderline violate the NDA if I say the wrong thing, but putting it together into a formal presentation seems to cross some kind of line, and create documentation of a willful violation.

If you’re interviewing academics, people who work in open source, or people who have already gotten a presentation cleared to give a talk somewhere, that wouldn’t be an issue. Those might be people you want to select for, but you should be aware that’s what you’re doing.
>> It's up to each node how many channels they open and how much bitcoin is used for those channels,

If you want to be paid you have to find a route that's willing to lock up enough coin at their end for that.

So they are exactly like banks - if you want good ability to transact you have to pick one that works for you and pay appropriate fees.

It really is a hack.
hCaptcha is very good. It’s trustworthy. For example, Cloudflare uses it.

https://www.hcaptcha.com/
Why doesn't that qualify these Tealiums and Segments as "adtech servers" worthy of blocklisting?

Sounds like they make the blocklist-curators' job easier.
How does it overlap with Rust where it does not with C#?
To me Go is competing with JavaScript, not Rust. If you're considering writing a CRUD app in Node.js, you can do it in Go, and it'll be equally easy, and maybe run faster.

But if you're writing a driver, codec, kernel, firmware, or even a library that's supposed to be usable with more than one language, Go is just not a good fit.
It's never been easier to build and customize admin panel.
The world where people are just dropping huge opaque blobs of code into their own apps that betray your users privacy, probably, we didn't actually check, is awful. How is the person releasing the app not ultimately responsible for every line of code in it?
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Yes, exactly. I don't want to call it the 'new' generation but many have seem to forgotten how efficient systems can be if you build them properly.

I haven't seen any certificates that replace sweat and hard work yet, except in organizations where they cannot keep track of individual developer performance and simply count certificates.
You seem to be under the impression that you can work around the IRS. This may be true to a limited extent if you live outside the U.S.
> It is commonly asserted that the British monarchy brings in far more money than it drains in the form of tourism.

It is however seldomly proven. Should that not be a requirement, like it is for the rest of us?
Sorry, I should have specified: a better python for google. Google doesn't generally need all the things in the python stdlib.

It does need a way for their legion of new hires to not trip over themselves and slot into an enterprise-friendly programming mode
Who cares? You have the option to completely anonymize your transactions with BTC, this option does not exist with credit cards, in fact you have no idea who is doing what with your data. If privacy is your concern, BTC is the superior option.
Your math is backed up by others' math:

https://youtu.be/6RhtiPefVzM

https://youtu.be/K9m9WDxmSN8
An actual textual report? Whiteboards? Overheads? Actual slides? Flip charts? Livecoding?

Powerpoint is optimized for marketing and not much else. It exists because of two reasons:

1) Most people actively suck at presenting something. Forcing them to put their presentation in Powerpoint-standard forces some level of organization on them.

2) A lot of business presentation IS marketing--and Powerpoint is fine for that.

The problem is that a lot of technical communication really doesn't fit into Powerpoint-standard (see: space-shuttle disasters for example). The problem is that now nobody knows how to do anything else and never even thinks about doing anything else.
This is very helpful, thanks. I guess the part I'm still confused on is the link to bitcoin:

>You know that the supply of Bitcoin is fixed. If you settled up your current account deficit in Bitcoin instead of dollars, you know that you'll have an asset that you can trade back at a later date, and that the supply of that asset will not have increased (devaluing your own holdings).

Doesn't the historic price volatility of bitcoin make it a very poor solution for these problems? Despite the supply being semi-fixed (for now), the value in USD or Yuan or whatever is the furthest thing from fixed. It's gained more than 8% in the last five days, and lost ~4% today alone. I guess if these were all very short term conversions USD --> BTC --> Yuan and vice versa, then maybe price volatility would burn users less often, but they'd still get burned eventually. In my mind, Bitcoin has inherent risk (in volatile pricing), and transactional cost (measured in either time or fees, as I understand it). As long as the (risk + fees) of BTC are greater than the fees charged by banks for money conversions, I don't expect widespread adoption.
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btw. scala 3 might change that. there is a language feature which can be turned on to have explicit nulls, which will be in the form of union/sum types: https://dotty.epfl.ch/docs/reference/other-new-features/expl...
Only for EU citizens.
Let's not do this.
In addition to this, I frequently hear people talk about how Signal would prevent monitoring of groups like those that stormed the capital. As if you can create a secret communication channel that members of the public can join but the FBI is unable to infiltrate.

Signal and E2EE stop dragnets, not targeted efforts. Which honestly is exactly what I want and seems like what we want in a free and open society. Monitoring shouldn't be the default but only happen when there is a warranted reason to monitor, preferable with a literal warrant. This embodies the idea of "innocent unless proven guilty" but balances the ability to move from suspicion to evidence gathering and minimizes the collection of data of innocent people. It's not "if you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear" but "if you have nothing to suspect then you have no reason to search." I don't know how a dragnet doesn't violate the 4th amendment.
Companies build in Arizona because nothing happens there from a natural disaster point of view, except that it gets hot.
btw, if any little snitch dev is reading this, please improve on this feature. I'm pretty sure this can be a selling point
Emissions from production are miniscule compared to emissions from use: https://youtu.be/K9m9WDxmSN8