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I last interviewed in 2019 where I was passed on by several companies before my current job. In my spare time I study for interviews, even though I do not plan to interview again for another year at least.

I try to fit in my interview study with general study of trying to have a deeper understanding of the framework, language and programming concepts in general. When I am trying to get something done I just skip over things, but if I am studying something and it makes a reference to, say, anonymous functions, and I don't really have a firm grasp on what anonymous functions are, then I go study that. I also take notes and quiz myself on topics, and sometimes I go back and quiz myself again.

I sometimes get asked for a given work sample home, so I study to be able to put together the kind of state-of-the-art 2021 best practices work sample. Sometimes they say I can give my own code sample, not one to their spec, but I have to keep it up to date and similar to the work sample.

The waste of time is things I only memorize for interviews. I rarely use characters don't need to memorize string to character conversion for my normal work, but I do so due to interviews. Or how to create a multiarray and print a specific element from it. Or how to divide a string into an array of words by the space. These are common things you need to do on 30-60 minute coding exercises, so I memorize them pretty much only for interviews.

I also have been asked about IS-A, HAS-A whiteboard class design of the UML kind so I practice that as well.

Then there are the host of programming, language and framework questions you can get. Or ones about git.

I don't mind much as most of this stuff I find useful, other than memorizing how to convert a character into an integer which is something I rarely do for tickets, but have done more than once on coding interviews. And that memorization is not that hard. I try to fit in my study with a broader study, I am not just doing leetcode at night, not really learning anything. I am studying my language right now, in a couple of months I might go on leetcode and see how my skills have progressed. But I have the time now to spend weeks and months taking my time to study abstract things to get a deeper understanding of all of this, it will be a few months before I get back to learning tricks to sling out 30-60 minute code samples faster. But I have a programming day job that pays OK and is OK much of the time so I am in no rush. If I was unemployed or work was bad it would be a different story.
I think an important difference between equities (your company's options, the regular stock market) and the other things (lottery tickets, digital commodities like Bitcoin, and traditional commodities like gold) is that equities are overall positive sum. The point of (most) businesses is to create value greater than their inputs. Speculating on commodities is in theory zero sum, but in practice negative. Actual lotteries are clearly negative sum. (US state lotteries return only about 60% of the input money as prizes.)

So if people aren't sure what to do with surplus time/cash, equity will (on average, over the long haul) produce a better return. Buying an index fund gives you zero control but good odds on a steady return; trading your time for equity (a company you start or one you join) gives you more control and narrow odds on a higher return.

There's no one right answer here, though. I'm happy with the startups I've done, but right now I'm happy to be banking a steady salary. A lot of this depends on one's situation in life and one's personal values, especially risk tolerance.
The flip side is that I valued my equity at $0 when I joined but it’s now worth $2 million.
Randomly getting my TD Ameritrade account shut down without explanation (they specifically state that they wont give you a reason and tell you to not ask), and all my positions closed (for a loss) a week after moving to them was a pretty good reason to move to Robinhood. I hadn't even applied for margin.

Robinhood seems to people, however ignorant the impression may be, that they don't act like the Big Evil Wall Street Corp guys. So it's not unreasonable to use a good platform for analysis and use Robinhood to trade.
Municipal internet seems to be pretty great considering the other options in most places that it exists.

I wish talking to Comcast was as easy as visiting my local government services ...
People are leaving S.F. USPS data shows where they went
Interesting that DFV said he would buy at the current GME price
Well, why just the blame on the UI unless it is a glitch ? In general, It is the blame on the process, trainings and Users not participating in the Development life cycle.

Why would someone not want to refer to some true documented procedures while processing such large transactions ? Firstly, is there such a documentation or a procedure or a checklist in place ? Documentation and process is a key to every unique tool or solution.
It literally doesn't matter what they are. They have engineers and they're building an office geared for them. They could bake bread as their business but if they build an office for the 3 software guys that build their marketing website and integrate a 3rd party inventory system while the 1,000 bakers work elsewhere, it would be their tech hub.

Don't let your hate for Airbnb pick apart every single headline.
No doubt that there is an increased burden on the lower-middle class, but when I phrase it that way, it should make clear why your take refers to an insignificant part of the equation.

Nor am I suggesting that the lower class won't bear the brunt of this problem. They will eventually bear the brunt of the global debt issue in a different way - through prices that outpace pay increases.
I love the Magic Keyboard and the keyboard on the new MacBook Air and I’m Ok with the Butterfly.

Recently I switched to using ergo/ split keyboards though and would have trouble going back.
Everyone I know who has municipally provided internet has significantly faster and less expensive service than I do. I'll take the DMV over local private monopolies any day.
Fake story -- that's way too fast.
Either way, the CEO personally deserves jail and financial ruin. Instead he will get money and power.
Someone linked to more detailed articles elsewhere

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26184009
Type on what feels good to you. My favorite keyboards are mechanical (the Matias Mini Tactile Pro, nearly tied with a Vortex 3 using Cherry MX Clears), but my next favorite is Apple's Magic Keyboard. So much of this is ultimately subjective. The Tactile Pro key switches are absurdly loud, but the MX Clears really aren't, and I've been able to type 100+ words per minute on nearly all good keyboards -- the only ones that really throw me off are Apple's unlamented "butterfly" keyboard design and membrane-switch chiclets.

But, all I can say is "worse typing" is, well, super subjective. I type at least as well on mechanical keyboards, and I find my fingers don't get as tired when I'm using them. For what it's worth, I'm in my 50s, have been using mechanical keyboards for as much of the nearly 40 years I've been dorking with computers, and I've had very few RSI-related problems. I think I've been pretty good about ergonomics across the board, so I'm not going to ascribe that solely to keyswitches -- but I think they've definitely helped.
This is exactly how most ‘old-school’ enterprise storage solutions work.
And don't forget that MUDs led to the wider field of "interactive fiction," which covers MUDs but also a bunch of other really fascinating ways of telling stories with interactive text. There are oodles of them at https://ifcomp.org/ and https://ifdb.tads.org/
Not having touched this stack in a while: what is best current practice for wiring together sqlalchemy and flask (including unit tests)?
Huh I don't know about 'nano lambda', but I could see it being an add-on to S3. Customers already have petabytes upon petabytes there and if you could push down a filter or pre-multiply op and save a million bucks then sure people would do that. If EMR does it automagically then even better.

When could it happen? My guess is S3 favors very old compute hardware but I could be wrong. If it does, though, that could also mean it's just very cheap to replace ;)
Should people who drink get fired because they might drink on a Sunday and come back hungover?
Both situations demonstrate almost the opposite of your point. The Nixon shock was abandoning of gold as a base currency. Your household cannot abandon your base currency.

If Activision-Blizzard borrowed its debt in World of Warcraft gold, they would never be in default. The same applies to countries that print their own currency.
I'm not sure where you live, but where I currently live, scheduling an appointment and visiting the DMV is actually a pretty stress-free and easy task to take care of.

I also happen to live in a city with a municipal ISP that provides 1GB/s fiber service to most of our city. It's the best ISP I've ever had in terms of service and even customer service. Establishing my account was painless, the in-home install was free and scheduled right away. The one time I've had to call their customer service, I got to talk to a live competent person right away too. Never had service like that with Comcast. I imagine I'm not alone with this experience.
A Year of Rails
Azure Data Studio is a very nice hybrid between a lightweight visual and a rich command line tool. It still has some bugs but I like it very much (and it's cross platform).
Also strips the path and you have to know the extension name(s). For my examples, "cut" would be appropriate. But those substitutions tend to work in anything POSIX, not just bash/zsh.
Those comments have become a mechanical reflex, which automatically makes them bad for HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26159467

There's a power-law dropoff in how interesting it is. It's like telling the same joke over and over. Or this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzwoV7solk4
> I just can't understand the hate they get in other fronts.

Other fronts are other fronts than the good works you listed.
Like most things in the world however, most of AK rifles in circulations are Chinese.
One take away I get is that if Robinhood is supposed to fundamentally be about "lowering the barrier to entry and democratizing finance for all", then that kind of corporate speak should be seen almost certainly as complete bs and raise the level of trust/suspicion required by everyone the next time a company wants to peddle the same line. I know it should be obvious, but maybe not, I dunno.
I also wonder what the action of setting an account number in the "PRINCIPAL" field does if the system basically ignores it unless other fields are set. Why is this configuration even possible?
I don’t think we disagree. Maybe being concrete would help.

Joe Biden is not qualified to make medical judgments about COVID-19 or vaccines. But he absolutely should decide eg: is better to be fast and risky or slow and safe with new vaccines? Should we prioritize reopening or lowering COVID mortality (bearing in mind being closed causes other mortality, eg suicide)? Can we trust an education/information strategy for masking or do we need a punitive approach to make people participate?

These trade offs are all among two good choices that are also two bad choices (“tragic”). For things that are unilaterally good (put more vaccines in fancy syringes! Speed vaccines! Make a freaking website for vaccines already!) underlings ought to be able to do it without Joe telling them so (but he can intervene if they fail).
pro-tip: your phone's magnifier app can be used as a perfectly good digital scope, you just need something to hold it up with.

ios: Settings > Control Center > Customize Controls > Magnifier
Then I think you're still missing the point of the comment you replied to. Chalking something up to "human error" is not a particularly useful conclusion to come to; it doesn't really solve or prevent any problems. The takeaway should be that a system did indeed fail from a design flaw. That system was not the space shuttle as a mechanical device. The system that failed and needed to be re-designed was the process of spacecraft engineering: NASA was lacking in structural incentives and protections necessary to ensure that predictable catastrophes would actually be predicted, and that such predictions would be communicated through the organization before anyone got killed.
None of this stuff is expensive or hard to set up.

His “gaming” chair is probably the most expensive, and also worth it. Quotes only because they’re good chairs that should sell even without the gaming branding.
This is very important to remember. A lot of the time, the incremental GC is still single threaded. The difference is that while a two-color "stop the world" algorithm has to collect everything in one long GC pause, the three-color incremental algorithm can spread the work over a series of smaller pauses.
My Decade with Crypto and Blockchain (2011 – 2021)
That is interesting because alcohol was extremely easy for me to quit. I decided at the start of last year to not drink for a year and that was that. Haven't hadn't a drink since last January. But 2 weeks without my morning decaf coffee, oh boy was that hard.
Again, radio and TV are public utilities. The public paid to create that infrastructure and the technology and resources necessary to support it. It should have a law that forbids people from any kind of limitation since citizens paid for all of that.

Apple is a private company whose shareholders decide what's best based on the fact that they created the infrastructure and technology of their platform and they are the ones spending money and resources to ensure its quality and reliability.

If you want to pass laws to solve this problem, create a National App Store platform and then require companies to allow access to it. Forcing Apple to change their own App Store, though, is wrong. How much I love Apple or how much I love people has nothing to do with it.

And not to put to fine a point on it but you can do whatever you want with your iPhone after you've bought it. You can take it apart, swap out components, repair it yourself, jailbreak it, or whatever you want and Apple can't do anything about it (and won't). You're talking about forcing a company to change its own operations for their platform just because you don't like it or agree with the restrictions they've chosen to place on it. I would be really curious to see if you'd be willing to have a private company force you to do something you don't want to do with your own property or self.
In contrast with this example (and the other nested examples), manual transmissions are still broadly available in your new 2021 vehicle straight from the manufacturer.
Loosely related, here's an old project of mine that turns your recent commits into Matrix code rain:

https://apitman.com/apps/redpill/
The power of powerlevel10k is that it can draw the plain prompt immediately, and respond to keyboard immediately, and then backfill any advanced prompt information (and properly shifting the already added text to the right and wrapping it correctly). I know that zsh has support for this, and bash does not (powershell neither); my prime reason why I use zsh. Fish, I don't know how it handles prompts.

This is very powerful in large git repos etc. You're never waiting for the prompt. You just type immediately, w/immediate response. So, you only wait for the status information to show up when you need it. So you also don't pay an excessive penalty if you prefer overly chatty prompts.

AFAICT the lazy-loading and async-support tickets above talk about internal implementation details, timeout support (so cancelling stuff like a too slow status report and showing a simplified prompt). I may misunderstand that, I only gave it a quick glance.

Maybe starship already supports this for zsh, or not, but at least they don't promote it front and center.
I'm not a rationalist. It does sound like you have been burned significantly based on the extensive comment that instead tries to attack this notion you have of them, rather than actually answer the question. The level of your trauma was not so apparent at the beginning, and I hope you work through it someday.
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What's wrong with a compiler error? "You are calling a function (Do) that is only defined by calling a function (NeverCalled) that we can't guarantee you ever call"
It went open source: https://github.com/googlevr/tilt-brush
Ironically, you'll still find a non-insignificant number of new motorcycles with carburetors and chokes.
People aren't traveling that much, especially across nations.

So it's still not that much of a problem.

Meh.
I used to love the idea of autonomous vehicles in cities. Now I dread the effect I think they will have on the freedoms of pedestrians. It's going to be jaywalking 2.0, with tech involved. Awful.
Thank you for your analysis, it's great to have the insights of someone with both legal and ML backgrounds.

I want to point out that a big part of building anything on GPT-3 (or other large LMs for that matter) is "prompt engineering", which means you try out thousands of prompts and sampling parameters until you find something that works reasonably well for your use case.

Taking two default templates and a few different temperatures is like taking some tutorials for a new framework, building a proof of concept from them, then making a judgement from that. Sure, it can provide a good first assessment, but that's it. You would need much deeper experience to come to a meaningful conclusion.
I am using zsh and several of these "tricks" don't work.

1- "take" is not a default built-in

2a- that up-arrow is not default behavior

2b- ok, ctrl-r works as expected (works in bash too)

3- automatic cd is not default behavior

4- ok, zmv is a standard module that is explicitly autoloaded in the article

5- zcalc, like zmv, requires loading a standard module, the article doesn't mention that

6- ok, oh-my-zsh has plugins

7- ok, ctrl-q works as expected

8- ctrl-x-e doesn't work for me (but works in bash)

9- ok, ctrl-l works as expected (works in bash too)

All these are probably specificities of oh-my-zsh, a very popular module that I don't use personally, or require special configuration. Nothing wrong with that, but these should be mentioned.
Utility of a Deep-Learning Algorithm to Guide Novices to Acquire Echocardiograms
The team and manager dictates what your work environment will be like.

All big tech does these interviews and does match making later.

Smaller companies also just have no guidance on a better interview process.

So, no correlation.
I don't think anyone would fault a vendor for charging a startup that built a billion dollar valuation off of their tech stack more money. In fact, I'd question the business acumen of a vendor who didn't do that.

Of course, most people know better than to use someone else's technology to build their business.
Anyone can launch a new phone with its own hardware and OS and a marketplace. It just takes a lot of money that most people don’t have. I think what you are really complaining about is not enough people have the money to launch a new phone
For what exactly? My understanding is that they ran out of money needed as a back-stop for Dodd-Frank requirements.

Specifically high monetary requirements due to unusually high volatility (essentially a protection created against the risk that the broker will go bankrupt before a trade settles).
Avg man run faster then average woman. That is obvious truism. All this transgender females competing with biological women is a farce.

But aren't we talking about intelligence and intellectual capabilities? Because there is no difference there. There was great articleI read few months back from math statistician on chess playerbase. Statistics on such lager dataset don't lie. Woman are as capable in chess even though its 'male' superior sport. Its just there is less of them in the player-base.
I don't agree with what Elsevier and Springer are doing but asking scientists to rectify the problem is the wrong thing. The decision needs to be legislated. No scientist or grad student is going to put their careers or PhD at risk for this. I wouldn't. fwiw - when I was a grad student I had access to these journals through my university library.
A lot of this is driven by insurance agencies and data from investigations of events. I don't have insight into that. Insurance companies, these days, tend to be very data driven.

It would be great if there was a way to test for competence. Some drugs cause long term issues with decision making and being able to see what's likely to happen. This reminds me of a job I had years ago framing houses. I remember some of the work men firing nails from a nail gun into a nearby woods. An area where neighborhood kids happen to play.

That's poor decision making and a liability. How do you test for complex things like that?