skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've read about this before (some fancy orchestra, not sure if it's the same one as you've mentioned) and I went to one of those "Let's get more X in technology" speeches. They had some crazy complicated ways to solve this (not Occam's Razor thinking).

I asked a question, mentioned the orchestra approach and suggested blind tests for tech recruiting.

i.e. HR scrubs the name, pronouns and anything likely to subconsciously discriminate and pass their resume to the hiring team. Not perfect, but it gives X at least a better shot.

I was pretty much told it would never work and there were better ways and dismissed with a wave of a hand.

So why don't we do these somewhat blind tests?
You do realize that the correct answer to any headline that ends with a question mark, is "No."

So I guess water is not wet.

I will say that I am comfortable with people not wanting to work with me, because I don't fit their "cultural criteria."

Take-home tests are a good idea, but you still have the issue that so many folks here have mentioned:

They don't just want you to solve the problem. They want you to solve it the way they want. Orthogonal approaches are generally not met with support.

I once had a take-home, where I was asked to produce an iOS app that used a certain dependency (that I had never used), and was asked to do so, using MVVM.

In four hours, I had it done. It was a localized, ship-ready app. I didn't use MVVM, because UIKit is designed specifically for MVC, and using other models actually makes the app larger and more prone to problems. It was a tiny app, and I didn't want to add any code that wasn't 100% necessary (basic Quality 101). I also encapsulated the dependency (Quality 101, again).

Did I mention that I had never even looked at the dependency API, before starting that project?

During the process, my home had an electrical emergency, and almost burned down, so I guess there was a bit of stress.

I could smell the burning rubber, as they peeled out (although it could have been the electrical fire). They never asked me why I made the choices I did. I strongly suspect that I was never in consideration anyway. I think they were checking off a "interviewed old guy, and he sucked" checkbox on an EEOC form.

I handle stress quite well, indeed. A quick glance at my CV tells you that I worked for one of the top Japanese firms in the world, for 27 years.

They refine and mass-produce stress in Tokyo. If you last 27 years at a joint like that, you can handle stress.

The folks that actually get around to working with me, seem to enjoy the experience. Funny how that happens.
I thought I'd read this before. Still, there's this little tidbit that bears repeating:

Secondly, I would regularly give a speech to the finance employees that went like this:
“In this business, we may run into trouble. We may miss a quarter. We may even go bankrupt, but we will not go to jail. So if somebody asks you to do something that you think might put you in jail, call me.”
Epistemic Humility
Looks interesting, but is there anyway to import books? I have everything on goodreads (which offers a csv export). No way I'm re-adding hundreds of books by hand.
Oh, I think initial guidelines had that.

And then it was all tramped on by some insane incentive like a bonus being dependent on how many "diverse" people a particular person actually gets to hire. Or a stack ranking based on the same.

All it takes is just one perverse component in the mix.
I've grown to the idea that statistics is a form of data compression. It isn't so much, "infer future data" as it is "if the data we have is representative of all data, what is a number/equation that represents this data?". Usually with a certain framing.
One thing I've seen in open-ended games like this (Rimworld, Crusade Kings) is to just jump into a "tutorial" at first and direct the player into the basic game loop. It feels like you're actually accomplishing something (because you're actually building your first farm), and you also don't feel lost because the game is pointing you to the buttons you need to press in order to achieve your first goal.

So instead of a long-winded introduction about what the objective of the game is, just jump straight in and tell the user "A farm is nothing without crops, purchase some carrot seeds from the store to get started!" or something to that effect.

Anyway, just my 2 cents. You've actually put in the effort to make the thing and delivered something that is playable, and for that I commend you. Don't mind me, I'll just sit here daydreaming about all the abandoned game projects I've started while criticizing what you made to make myself feel better about it!
So many European countries are hell-bent on paying with cash, even for transactions like supermarkets. I wonder if the idea will translate to somewhere like Germany, since the whole point is not having to stop and interact with a checkout point, but Germans want to pay with cash (for some reason).
The stock compensation is a huge factor. $200k base salary but expect at least $100k/year from stock grants and with the crazy high increasing valuation of tech company stocks that can easily double.
Excel Tables combined with Excel Power Query will turn "hey boss, I figured out a way to save a few hours a week" into "hey boss, I just eliminated several people's jobs".
> Michelle (note: her name has been changed)

I do wonder what is the point of that. It takes 2 minutes of searching to find it out.
The USA would be a different country if it finally got around to banning bribery
A kooky theory I harbor is that corporate tech continues to employ algo whiteboard hazing ritual interviews because if they were to evaluate SWEs with tasks more closely resembling the expected day-to-day they would have to pay them an hourly rate under CA labor law or face liability exposure.
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A great movie with a great soundtrack.
This sounds like you are having an issue with the notifications. Does your server support IMAP IDLE? I'm wondering whether K9 is polling for email, and the server isn't supporting push messages via IDLE.
Up until this point, we have mostly just had broad-spectrum antibiotics, not antivirals. But, partly because of You Know What, they are getting a lot more attention lately: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/03/04/mo...
Forgoing the details, from the user perspective, the product is almost entirely direct to consumer, and the Bristle platform provides users the opportunity to both request a test and further consult with a dentist. Prescriptions and interventions will be physician-mediated upon interpretation of test results.
This joke is only funny if one is misinformed. Dr. Seuss's foundation voluntarily decided to stop publishing a portion of his works to preserve his legacy. That's it. There's no culture war to be found here.
Membrane around tumors may be key to preventing metastasis
Ouch, sorry for the typo. But I'll double down on this: The fact that the typo is so obvious underlines that the structure is easy to review :)
I’m over 50 and feel discriminated as a developer every day.
> didn't tell her she was a diversity hire

It's illegal to do and definitely illegal to put on paper (in the US) - it's discrimination. That said, depends on what "HR had intentions to prioritize candidates" means in context.
Not all batteries need cobalt. These are LiFePO4 batteries.
Oral diseases like cavities and gum disease are some of the most prevalent in the world and are largely preventable if detected early enough. Current tools like x-rays and observational screenings only detect symptoms once they have manifested. We can use genomics and the oral microbiome to realize earlier detection and ultimately, reduce disease progression.

There is a large portion of the population that actively avoids dental visits out of inconvenience or fear/anxiety (60-80MM). We provide a non-invasive, low-cost way for these individuals to understand the status of their oral health from the convenience of their home.
You should get a family member from what research I did into IBS and fecal transplants as a possible cure.
Noooo... not more USB connectors, pleeease. We are still using the same AA batteries and (in the US) 120VAC plugs as in my grandma's time. Why can't a "universal" serial interconnect hold still for even a single hardware generation? Whose idea was it to put ultra high bandwidth video ports and slow devices like keyboards and mice on the same connector anyway? The slow stuff should not need chips in the cables.
They don’t function as physical objects though, people just pretend they do - that’s the scam part.
I think you just misread what her objection was to the first point. Quoting from 1.,

> I didn’t know what to think. I have a strong opinion about diversity hires: Although I don’t think they are a perfect solution, I consider them an effective measure to break the ceiling glass that excludes minorities from certain roles. But I always thought that if it ever happened to me, it would be a transparent process and I would have the opportunity to accept the conditions deliberately.

It was at least implied upfront that she was a diversity hire for 2.

And maybe I just don't have as strong a moral compass as you, but I have found it difficult to always uphold the ideas I stand for. E.g. I like the idea of solely merit-based hiring. But if I got a dream job because I knew the CEO's friend and they put in a good word for me, I would have a hard time rejecting that offer.
PwC are a big company and probably are pretty good at avoiding liability for themselves. Once upon a time companies with a partnership structure (eg law firms, accounting firms, private investment banks) were legally partnerships. In a partnership, partners have unlimited joint and several liability, which means that every partner could be held liable to an unlimited amount for anything any partner (or the partnership) did. I think this encouraged partnerships to avoid being liable or doing illegal things. These days there is a legal structure called a limited liability partnership (in the U.K. this was designed specifically for the big accounting companies like PwC) and true partnerships are less common.

It’s not obviously a bad thing, unlimited liability is pretty rare these days (people have unlimited liability but usually act through limited liability companies. Lloyd’s underwriters (used to?) have unlimited liability. I can’t think of other examples. Maybe partnership structures were good for keeping people honest but I don’t really understand why a partnership is different from an LLC, and I feel like they don’t scale well to large organisations.
Is your observation based on multiple samples? Or just a couple of casual visits? Would be interesting to know their real median receipt generation time.
I have multiple San Francisco and Bay Area friends that told me similar stories during a time period that coincides with AfroTech in recent years.

Completely contrived, but personalized, introductory events.

The difference is that they eventually took the job and have no issue performing on the job or have any stranger than usual corporate experiences.

(They experienced the same super long interviewing and matchmaking process plaguing the rest of the industry, and the contrived intros were just the silly responses to how to deal with the recruiting pipeline).

These were not right out of college though, and they would have likely gotten responses within 24 hours from the same companies anyway.
You make it sound as if your healthcare cost is limited to 2% of your total comp. My credit cards/atm records show that I spent nothing on healthcare in 2020, as I am "young and healthy" and skipped my annual checkup because Covid. But my W2 box 12 dd entry says that $19246 was paid on my behalf.

Also when I go to coveredca.org I find that the maximum cost for healthcare this year if I were unemployed and 64 years old would be 76k.

Sadly, each of these figures is substantially more than 2% of my total comp. Sure, my wages as a Bay Area FANG engineer are high compared to European counterparts at less prestigious employers, but the elevated costs of healthcare are still material to me and in fact it is by far the largest expense in my retirement budget (savings for retirement being by far the largest sink for my present income).
The Knapsack problem is arguably a counter argument to measuring storage space by volume.

However, air freight is a much more direct one. You have 2 largely independent measurements for weight and volume with either being the limiting metric for each load.
Google is a large well known and well paying company that can get candidates to make that sort of time investment, smaller companies can't because they're just generic companies that no one particular wants to work for, I'll skip the elaborate test and apply for the next generic company in the list.

Aside from that, I really don't have time for these elaborate interviews if I'm already in a job, companies that do this are limiting their potential candidates to the unemployed.
While this is correct, in American vernacular 'pickle' without qualifications is precisely a gherkin.
It's sickening that a white man doesn't have a chance at any of the big companies, unless he's a programming god. This makes white supremacy even more of a problem because the white people that are there, are some of the best ever.
That sounds great, but how do you achieve that?
Land provided with conditional use is not sovereign land. If the palestinians must continue to defer to israeli conditions on use then the land hasn't truly been returned.

The Olmert offering required the large settlements remain, which is an obvious non-starter.
I'm also one of the people trying to build a more convenient way to do these kind of things: https://hupreter.com
To be fair, if you exclude GPGPU workflow, the peak performance of CPU has changed all that much from 2014 - 2019 and arguably even earlier. You want an upgrade that give you at least double the performance. AMD only becomes competitive in ~2019.
In my experience the sort of people who would play the racism/sexism card if it wasn't the case also tend to be the people who loudly virtue signal and shame others on social media about those topics all the time, and even announce it in their profile/blurb next to their avatars. I think as long as you do a quick google search on someone and test their character in the interview, it shouldn't be as risky as you're worried about.

I don't think the hiring all white guys scenario as a workaround as you described is very realistic. If people are actually doing that, they're missing out on the full talent pool certainly.
Netto in Denmark recently introduced something called Scan-N-Go, which is a "low-tech" alternative to the walk-out shopping from Amazon.
> But really, it's a question one might legitimately ask another they met at a bar or an airplane, or some such...

Really? Consider it this way, by substituting x for something that fits for you personally:

What was it like growing up x? Was it hard? Tell me about how hard it was for you."

How might you feel by the end of the flight?
>Most of what I state does mean a lot. You can't project power without a world-class navy.

I agree. And China has never fought a major naval war or even a major naval battle.

>The two parts to a world-class navy are the ships and the men.

Part 3 is competent leaders. The US has admirals that have been taught by admirals that have been taught by admirals that have fought a major war in the Pacific. (Japan has them, too.) And China does not. George Friedman says that that is an important factor.
Wow, it's going to take some work to get your name out from under the SEO shadow of AstraZeneca, and considering their COVID-19 vaccine, uh, I'd change my name.
Agreed! There is nothing can be done anyway. My wife is taking the major burden so I might actually spend more time awaken during the night to replace her as the night guardian.

I also heard that boys need more time with father so I'm expecting more time spent outside of programming (programming is one of my hobbies, not a job requirement) when he grows up.

The good part about parenting is that I'm forced to be more productive at anything. Making calls to hostipal/government? Sure I'm going to do that NOW, not tomorrow, not 5 minutes later. Need to look at Kafka tool and do some development about the logs? Sure I'm going to do that NOW, not going to leave until the deadline hits. Because if I don't wrap up things NOW, I might end up forgetting to do them now that my boy has taken up a large part of my attention.
Typically. But if somebody manages to make statistically sound evidence-based decisions they will steamroller people who are making decisions using other factors.
A Year After Being Laid Off, Millions Are Still Unemployed
Bitcoin’s excessive energy consumption is a feature, not a bug, designed to deter a 51% attack. It will only get worse as the price of BTC increases. If we reach an era of nearly free energy, the price of BTC will fall.
The V in SVE is for vector, the S isn't for SIMD, and it's length-agnostic; I don't know how similar it is to the RISC-V vector extension. Think CDC, Cray, NEC, not AMD/Intel. I guess the recent innovation in that space is actual matrix multiplication instructions in CPUs.
Covid-19 Vaccine Appointment Tracker
A tool to help you track down COVID-19 vaccine appointment openings at your state's pharmacies. Updated every minute.

Rather than searching around on each pharmacy's website, we'll automatically scan the pharmacy websites and show you any available appointments we can find on one page.
I assure you not paying enough is the problem.
Same problem in Australia with the AS/NZS standards. I've been having problems with my whiteset plaster, which is like a liquid applied white plaster surface used on almost every home here in Western Australia.

Mine was done incorrectly, I had to purchase two different $250 standards to understand how it was done wrong, how it should behave, how it was tested, in order to file a complaint. It may not surprise you part of the reason it was applied incorrectly is because not every trade has a copy of said standard.

And then even once you purchase it, it's a "one user" watermarked PDF you're supposed to only have 1 copy of and there's lots of harsh warnings about that, so even those that have it and scared to run around with it.

It's a crazy situation. Because this is legislated stuff for building. As a consumer it's very expensive to inform yourself on these things. If you wanted to inform yourself on all aspects of a build it would get expensive fast.

It's also difficult for me to publish and discuss this information in the public domain to help other consumers having the same problem, as the limits of how much text I can "copy" appears technically set at 0 even though it's standard to "reference" it. But it's very easy to mis-interpret the standard if you don't read things in context.

If the standards are effectively government legislated they either need to be government funded (this makes total sense to me) or the price needs to be much more token, 10 dollars, with much less draconian access. But at that price the government may as well fund it anyway.
Hackernews user slams journalists using cliche headline vocabulary. The full-throated criticism was not met with a response, the silence is deafening.
I call it "The founder effect" of bad studies. Essentially the first few studies set the tone for the rest of the field, and it's very hard to correct the course due to the momentum. I'm glad people are starting to notice.
Last year I finished the school year early because of the coronavirus lockdown and had too much free time - so I wrote an interpreter for CLR bytecode (https://github.com/Leowbattle/clr_lite). The ECMA-335 standard contained everything I needed to know for that project: documentation of the EXE format, VM instructions, etc.

I learned a lot doing this project, and I would never have been able to do it without free access to the standard. So I think Tim is right to recognise the value open standards provide to hobbyist programmers.
I think they meant to say ShareGrid.

https://www.sharegrid.com/
Let the inmates decide for themselves. I’m sure they’ve had enough “we’re doing this for your own good” for a lifetime
The common minority person hates it usually. The more vocal ones are the people who directly benefit from this system, they effectively have a rent-seeking behavior hidden behind the "diversity" umbrella.
They were already approved for Level 2 driving, the DMV is asking if City Streets is level 2 or per Tesla's own statements FSD which they were not permitted for testing.

If "Tesla sent a letter to the CA DMV requesting approval" per the above comment, that would have meant Tesla were trying to get an FSD permit in CA (the opposite of what happened).
A tomb with a view. Berkeley Egyptologist recreates VR after-death experience
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Authors retract Nature Majorana paper, apologize for insufficient rigour
Using a map also completely sidesteps the point of cyclomatic complexity because there are no code paths to count anymore; now they're data. And even though the function does the same as before, the linter will congratulate you on the reduced complexity.
I have to agree. Some of it is sexist (her feminist coworker) but the others not so much. I could accuse them of lacking tact, perhaps.

One has to keep in mind that not only do Other people offend us inadvertently but also WE inadvertently offend others too.

We can’t be so sensitive that we become prickly and then have people avoid you because you’re so prickly.

We have to be okay with not everything coming from your point of view. You won’t be able to have the Other persons PoV either even if you’re conscious of it. You have no idea what I’m thinking in a moment. It’s a fool’s errand.

Be genuine, be respectful, but don’t fault people for coming short when trying.

When talking to an audience you cannot simultaneously please everyone. It’s just not possible. At best you can be compliant with whatever the accepted practice is.
I currently decided to give this startup https://www.thryveinside.com/ a try since they claim to help improve your gut microbiome. Anyone tried them before? Hard to asses how scientifically sound their offering is.
I appreciate the honesty here. I just have one question:

Given a Git-push-and-you're-done PaaS-style hosting provider (Render is my fav at the moment) that can easily scale from one tiny VM to…well, whatever you're willing to pay for…tell me again why I need to throw away decades of acquired monolith knowledge to architect my application as serverless?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t that a problem shared with PoW?
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"AI" is ambiguous but "Full Self Driving" has a pretty clear plain meaning. It means that the car is self-driving. Not partially self-driving, not mostly self-driving, fully self-driving.
> The time I was told at a feminist event that men are more naturally predisposed to do my job

They are. This is well studied in several countries now.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more...

Edit for the downvoting morons:

'Predisposed to do job' doesn't mean 'better at doing job'. It means 'more likely to do job'. Read the fucking article.
This is the very recent trend. I think it's a global wave, most languages accelerated pace in the last decade. es6, php, heck.. even java went chrome-speed now. Can be a bit messy yeah.
I had this for my current job. I was asked to design Facebook and it just ended up being nearly entirely about how to design a notification microservice. Got the job so it evidently worked, but I was just going on in a direction until told to stop.
I won't pretend to know the answer to that, I've been out of the game for a long time.. ;-)

Although like anything else in life, "be nice, be respectful" are some pretty good rules to overlay on whatever approach you take.