skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ideal purpose of a technical interview is not just to gauge whether the candidate has all the skills required for the job (this is a best case scenario that rarely happens), but also whether the candidate has the ability to learn the requisite skills that s/he currently lacks.

If the technical questions asked during the interview are relevant to actual problems encountered on the job (unfortunately, they often aren’t), having to brush up beforehand is a good test of the candidate’s ability to apply their existing skillset to novel problems. However, many technical interviews ask algorithmic puzzle questions that are totally irrelevant to the job; having to study those (and administer those interviews) is a waste of everyone’s time.

In lieu of a formal coding interview, I sometimes like to give a short 1-2 hour takehome assignment that asks the candidate to solve a simple but real problem I’ve faced on the job. The candidate’s response to this is infinitely more informative than any coding interview could be.
I have repeatedly tried to stop eating pastries and candy but can’t do it. I can’t imagine how much willpower it takes to get off truly addictive drugs.
I didn't say that it was alight...
pretty sure that in five years you'll be heading into WW3 only to find out that somebody is already using your firearm as a Bitcoin mining rig
This study suggests that consuming anxiolytic drugs before interviews may be a viable strategy to pass them and receive more compensation. I recommend Kava because it is safe and legal in most countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kava
A decent enough sentiment in this industry refuses to acknowledge that people disavow their biases via publicly acceptable encoding, see all threads concerning diviersity, and Black inclusiveness in particular[0][1]. The flipside to the reverse racism claim is that for a Black person getting into tech, you basically have to hope and pray the interviewer has forthright character, which, IME, is not a common characteristic of most engineers I've met.

Rationality discussion is not a property or trait, its a mutual engagement between participants. That mutuality is a purely ethical artifact, but this industry likes to duck the question when its put to them like this in preference of the ethical legalism that's already running rampant through American culture

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24714502
[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouKgUdqZMds
Yeah. Our generator has a choke. However, everything smaller than that is electric or an anachronism.

Arguably, the generator is an anachronism, but a comparably powered battery + solar cell would be $10,000’s, and the generator was << $1000.
> You might hate my design. That's OK, really! See if you can make one you like more.

Oh wow, I do hate it. Thank you for sharing.
> The vast majority of developers are building/maintaining boring stuff

They are still coding, so the test is supposed to asses their ability to do that.

> Law practice can be intellectually rigorous, but much of a lawyer's work is actually mundane and repetitive. - https://www.thebalancecareers.com/myths-regarding-the-practi...

Seems related? From the Lawyers I know and developers I know, I'd say both are skillful technical jobs that need to be assessed. Totally different skillsets, but both go quite in-depth that you cannot just get a random person and get them doing that.

Doctor jobs just seem way too hard.
I haven't had a legitimate technical interview in over ten years, because I haven't cold applied anywhere in that time, either. The jobs I've gotten in this time have always been through a personal recommendation from a current employee or friend of a current employee.

This is how most jobs are filled. The 3rd party recruiters, the online job boards, the e-applications on the company's website, they're a smoke screen. They are how they get to say they are an "equal opportunity employer".

Most places won't give interviews to 99% of the people coming in cold. They are mostly used as a pool of beards to make the hiring process look open when they have someone on recommendation for a job. They'll pick the 3 best resumes out of the pool and then put them through the impossible technical interview. They will fail and all that is left is the person with the recommendation.
And yet other big companies like apple seem to launch products just fine. Google could do with a little more research and planning instead of throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks.
Elsevier's ScienceDirect platform publishes over 500,000 articles a year, across 4,300 journals, providing over 18 million documents and 42,000 e-books, and serving over 18 million unique monthly page views (https://www.relx.com/~/media/Files/R/RELX-Group/documents/re...). Everything published goes through a process of peer review, editing, layout, final review, etc, and then access to the publication is maintained in perpetuity for thousands of institutions around in about a hundred countries.

Here are their pricing policies: https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/pricing and their other policies, which gives you an idea what else is involved with managing journals: https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies

So, yeah, journals do have costs. I am not defending those costs. But it is worth pointing out that there's more to publishing than a free peer review and uploading it to GitHub.
This UI resembles a register transfer language; it's what programming in microcode looks like. It doesn't even rise to the abstraction level of assembly language. Expecting humans not to make errors at this level of abstraction with high consequences for failure is moronic. It's sad that the only motivation for improving outsourced lowest-bidder enterprise crapware like this is when it costs the company $$$.
It matters for smartphones too (think video calls, IoT applications, and home/office networks that have mobile network as uplink) but fortunately IPv6 is common there.
Does Google really pay more money?

I recently saw a posting for them at the Pittsburgh office. The pay seemed comparable with similar positions in that area. Maybe they just have most of the high paying jobs in CA or don't advertise them.
I am one. I have used a lot of stuff, anything I could get my hands on (not "just 'cause", I'm trying to find something to fix specific problems).

And in the end, it's only alcohol and nicotine that have me firmly in their grasp. Perhaps it's just the ease of access.

I believe I could quit nicotine, but not alcohol. I don't even drink a lot. But I do, regularly. I've used way more addictive stuff, and I could go out and buy it tomorrow, but I don't. Kind of funny how it works.
The main computer of Perseverance (and Curiosity) has 256 megabytes of RAM. Which is only twice of what Spirit and Opportunity had so I wouldn't call this a significant increase. (Even Pathfinder had 128 in 1997 but wasn't a rover.)
I find it quite easy to understand: C is not great at all.

Rarely is something so dated, that was not created with the benefit of more modern insights very good.

Writing in C not only introduces the possibility of many bugs, but is also a menial chore of boilerplate.
It's not nearly as bad as people fear it is when they worry about stuff like this. Most of the interviews are pretty reasonable, a few are weird. Tech companies are trying to get rid of these weird interview questions because it makes it hard for them to hit their hiring numbers.

It seems like your actual problem is you don't like rejection. Just accept that you have a 10-20% shot at any given interview you go on. It's often not you (sometimes it is you) there are many variables outside your control. Blaming the system isn't useful.
Grossly simplified, there are two very broad categories of users. Those who use in an assertive way because they are confident and naturally inclined to try new experiences tend to do quite well. Those who use to escape don't do well.
The Boring Option
I really like using a USB microscope for taking a close look at PCBs. They're pretty cheap, free up a hand, and you can put the picture on a large monitor.
my Russian houseguest took one look at this and said "that makes no sense, kalashnikov designed to be simple gun, built out of pipes"
I’m sure if youtube disappeared one day, the next day most people would be aware of a few alternatives. This is a much harder question for a content producer than a consumer.

How much effort would it really be for one of the large pornography companies to make a general purpose youtube clone? I bet a viable MVP would only take a few days if they were properly motivated.
> my close circle of friends

That's extreme selection bias. One of the major ways startups recruit is via friends.
Oh baby https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Ma...
No, I'm not arguing that proof is necessary for certainty. I'm pointing out that the implied reasoning is akin to argument from ignorance. We don't have to take a position on a topic if we are ignorant, but we often do so when doing so can be used to justify existing biases.
I think all that heat was driven by uneducated (market-wise) people furiously commenting to elected officials with a similar lack of market-related education. After some education, the angry masses realized that the CEO had nothing to do with anything that affected them. They just paid some market tuition.
I think it's selection bias.

Lots and lots of living people have smoked at some point. However, many (most?) of those people quit smoking at some point.

So, the remaining people are the people that are most addicted, which gives us the impression that tobacco is highly addictive for everyone.

Edit: the CDC says that 62% of people who have ever smoked have quit.

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/cess...
I think that part of the success of the US is that it’s so hard to change things with all the checks and balances. So the representatives don’t matter much and just a way to occupy the need to appear to have governance.

So Congress is like the Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B [0] and that might be good because if it was full of Ship A people they would just be stomping over each other. and if it was Ship C people we’d be minmaxing and micromanaging.

[0] https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Golgafrinchan_Ark_Fleet_...
Executive Director of ISRG here. To provides some more clarity on how this partnership works...

ISRG plans and coordinates investments in moving open source software to memory safe languages. We have a strong preference for working on these plans with maintainers and developers, and then funding them to execute the plan.

Once we have a plan prepared, and, ideally, maintainers/developers on board, then we pitch it for funding. Once someone (e.g. Google) funds the project, then ISRG handles contracts with the project developers/maintainers to get the work done. In some cases maintainers may be on board but want us to find a contractor to actually do the work.

In both of the first two projects, and in most future cases, the money that Google (or another company) provides will largely go to project maintainers / developers.
The release notes do not spell Xia Li-yao consistently. Which is family name, and which is given?
For example, don't you think Trump acted well regarding getting vaccine quickly ?
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Since properly learning a programming language is such a huge time investment for most people, once they do it the language becomes part of their identity. Many people will, in professional setting, introduce themselves as "Java/GoLang/Python Developer". When such developer hears a critique of their language they hear personal insult.
Huh wow, I would have guessed that it was based on some more complicated heuristics. Well then I guess my previous comment is moot.
The Challenger explosion was human error. It wasn't a design flaw, it was human error. That was my point.
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His opening statement was released online already, I like how he concludes it with "in short, I like the stock."

https://docs.house.gov/meetings/BA/BA00/20210218/111207/HHRG...
Here’s a good place to start: https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards
Cute. I assume that was manually-edited git commit timestamps?
Rvalue seems to be a 40-byte "Ruby Object". (If an object takes up more than 40-bytes, it gets an additional allocation, and the first 40-bytes go into the rvalue "slot").
Is that dialect written in C available online? I'm collecting implementations at the moment. If you know any other C implementations besides the popular ones I'd be grateful for pointers to those too.
I’ve seen quite a few shops which effectively hit every python db/networking/pooling foot gun you could possibly encounter while using SQLAlchemy.

People cargo cult the flask intro tutorial and have no clue how session binding works, where the transactions are, how committing works, etc because it’s all tucked away in magical middleware and singletons. As the code base grows so does the mess of blocking txns, accidental cross joins, pool exhaustion, and so on.

It’s a great tool from a technical expressiveness perspective but terribly full of operational foot guns. Beware and use Django until you’re sure you AND your team know what you’re doing.
i remember struggling to start smoking tobacco in 8th grade to impress a girl (heh i saw her get sent home for wearing a Metallica Kill'Em All concert shirt, I was instantly in love).

I just couldn't stand it the feel of tabacco. Same goes for weed, i hung around very heavy smokers all during college but just hated the feeling from THC so i never really got into it.
Why bother? Ever since automatic transmissions got lockup clutches, they've been as effective at power transfer as manuals. It's been 80 years since the GM Hydramatic, after all.
To be sure, this is an ugly UI but this is not necessarily a pure UI issue at root.

Internal applications have to be more complex that external applications - that's why you sometimes have to call a company to do something the consumer frontend doesn't support. The employees are expected to operate a more powerful/flexible system than the customer, and I think there's always a risk inherent there.

In this case, it's likely that it's not just a dumb UI thing that the employee "needed to set the "front" and "fund" fields to the wash account as well as "principal." I suspect thank "front" and "back" are actually real business concepts in how the bank models transfers which the employee/reviewer did not understand well. Instead they expressed a different model of a transfer (an external one) which is a totally legitimate use case, just not the intended one.

That's kinda one level of empathy, I suspect this really happened because these users think about these operations as "I check this box, then I check that box" rather than "I get how transfers work and I am going to express my intention using that understanding." So it's probably much more of a training issue, because to give these people a very narrow and polished consumer-style frontend would take away the flexibility they likely need to actually execute their roles.
I would say caffeine is easy to quit, but I'm an alcoholic so I understand perfectly. It seems like you don't need it, yet you use it regularly.

Try caffeine pills, they have a cleaner effect with no stomach/intestine troubles. Somewhat easier to quit, too.
> besides superficial nonsense like 'it has the best UI'.

The idea that UX/UI on a consumer oriented product like this is "superficial" seems bizarre to me.
Information is valuable.

When you've got everyone's rifle connected to a network you can know who's having a bad day and have help on the way in case they ask.

No current firearms designer is dumb enough to put nonessential electronics in the critical path.

I can see a usefulness for some of the electronics stuff in a training context as well.

Details in the article are sparse but the article states this is a sporting shotgun. Knowing how non-electronics companies ventures into consumer electronics typically go I bet this is just a $100 worth of sensors and a Bluetooth module integrated into a stock and marked up 500% and if it does a good enough job recording that trick shot you made (so you can share with your internet friends for bragging rights) people will pay for it.
It’s amusing but it’s not a game. It will respond with something (often amusing) to any promos you write but there aren’t any rules to what you get back and there are no puzzles to solve.

Zork, on the other hand, is an actual game you can solve, complete with a scoring system.
It’s definitely more like gold now.
> “With Ultima we want to attract new customers who are not typically our target audience,” said Tarasov. “We are targeting customers who want to get some drive or adrenaline. Entering a semi-game niche could be an option.”

That seems like it goes beyond weird/disturbing, and a decent case could be made for actually evil.

I am pro-gun, with the understanding that education is necessary, and this seems like it not only isn't education, but if anything is the opposite -- pushing for people to be even more irresponsible and dangerous.
I fear I may have phrased my question poorly. I can understand why you'd gravitate toward there now, I'm more generally curious about how that specialisation came to be in the first place. Was there a specific catalyst? A person or event perhaps.

For example, from my Wikipedia trail I see Maurice Nivat come up in the adviser camp for a few of the more current names.
Okay makes sense then. I just don't see any of the elder people who I have setup Netflix risk pressing the cancel button because they can't get it set up. However, they do try to remove their credit card number and it doesn't let you. Which is actually another annoyance, why can't I delete my credit card from your site. It's still a dark pattern or just bad data security.
>and within two or three centuries the Gaulish languages and most cultural practices were extinct.

Gaulish was alive and well during the 5th c. Latin really stuck with the Merovingians.
We have special agreements with local governments that are interested in exporting technical talent. Even though we are not head hunters we can help in that regard. You are right, there are a lot of people that just avoid taxes, however this is a huge liability for companies and some have already realized this. We want to help out both parties to achieve high levels of compliance and still have the economic benefit.
These guys popped up on HN a little while back: https://www.jiga3d.com/
His day job is (was? I don't think he did anything illegal, but he may have violated employee codes, and well, he's a multimillionaire now) Financial Wellness educator for Mass Mutual, and in the pandemic Educator also requires good audio.
Too much lag for Quake sucked... That's too much lag for chess
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A few things.

First, I'm attempting to describe how the system works rather than give my opinion on how it should be.

Second, the headphones situation is meant to illustrate how safety plays in. This isn't a "what if" example. People on job sites wearing headphones have died because they missed the warning tones. I am aware of one case, personally.

Safety is a big deal. It plays into the insurance companies who drive much of the policies and practices. They are driving the things they do to keep their costs down. Insurance companies often try to be pretty methodical in what they do to keep costs down. It's not just random ideas but looking at cause/effect relationships.

Third, many drugs have effects outside of the time they are used. It's not just the impact of the drug while one is on it but how it affects them in the time they are not on it, as well. From a safety perspective that cannot be discounted.

From the standpoint of the companies and the people involved, if you want to do drugs than work elsewhere. Safety is a higher priority.
Right, in a way that's what I'm talking about. I still wanted to come up with a separate term for the "feelings", vs. the concept of consent which is designed to prevent people inflicting these feelings on parties against their will. I still don't like my own choice of wording... feels kinda weak, or an understatement
So does your health insurer know, and how much are your premiums?
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RVALUE is the base type in Ruby's heap. It refers specifically to [this struct](https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/7bd93293621b85a87e7e117317...). All Ruby objects are instances of an RVALUE struct.

Hope that helps!
This is false. Between the states and US Supreme Courts, the rulings regarding traffic cameras go either way. Last year the US Supreme Court found a violation of the Fourth Amendment in favor of the suspect to suppress [1]

[1] https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/18-556_e1pf.pdf
Nice! Good job people working on V8!
hey thanks I'll check it out
As someone that first played Adventure on a teletype in 1976, I always seem to take affront to article titles implying Zork was there first.

In this case "50 years of text games" is the substack name, and this is just the entry for Zork in 1977.

See https://if50.substack.com/p/1976-adventure for the real deal.
Someone hooks your wife, or kid, or parents to junk and ruins their life. They're a protected class. All those police and soldiers protect them.

If addicts get to do that, why can't I do the same to them? Instead of heroin, I'm going to go after a genetic cancer cure, or see what applications of Bell's Theorem I can create on human cellular mitosis and quantum biology.
Yes. In the Ruby VM, an RVALUE [0] is a union (a "generic type") of structs that represent all the different kinds of Ruby object types and a couple of runtime types.

[0] https://sonots.github.io/ruby-capi/db/d8e/struct_r_v_a_l_u_e...
How is it a filter for intelligence? For discipline, maybe. Maybe for willingness to be abused by your employer. But how is it for intelligence?
I would say the main danger is the crippling physical addiction (as well as psychological, but that is harder to quantify) it causes in a substantial amount of users.
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If you like questionable nucleair power plant placement, look up Chooz.
I'm not the best reader in the world, but I interpretated "semi-game" as in they're attempting to break into the game hunting market. Within the context of the article though, that seems to be too charitable of an interpretation, lol.
The creation of EC2 originally (which at the time was not AWS -- AWS was originally the XML-RPC and SOAP APIs that allowed people to interact with the www.amazon.com website) was done by a skunkworks project in South Africa. That team was very, very far removed from Amazon proper and actually delivered.

That's probably the only time I've seen that kind of startup-with-a-large-corporation work. I can think of other examples (like Amazon's google-competing search engine) which tried to copy that and failed pretty completely.

I suspect other successful things that happened after I was there were run as "startups" though (I'd guess Alexa?).

But in general every other time I've seen those happen at other companies they've been completely miserable failures.

Working in IT, usually those "startups" are full of Dunning Krugers who mostly go to war against the corporate IT and don't actually have very good business ideas (and honestly the corporate IT has been run like crap and deserved it, but that doesn't actually help launch your product). They're usually fed a bunch of ego-food about how they're the special children which will entirely transform the next generation of the company, and then they wind up fighting with everyone else.
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