skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't have to do a single thing other than open a case, so that you have proof that you are willing to stake legal repercussions (fines, jail, possible even prison) on the validity of your claim.

The sellers don't care whether the police is going to investigate, they only care that you have the legal paperwork that they can give to their insurer so that THEY can get that money back, too. Because you don't get paid "by the seller", you get paid with dollars that the seller gets from their insurer.

Until they have the evidence that the insurer will accept, you're not getting paid.
Exactly, mostly it could be a good thing. The level of competence of government IT competence varies wildly across different countries, offices, etc. In places like Germany which shares nothing between government offices on principle, there is a lot of extra potential for your information to get compromised through security bugs, targeted intelligence activity by foreign nations, etc. just because there is all this extra data entry that happens with just about every interaction with governments. Every time you do that, it potentially ends up in the wrong place. From what I've seen, getting your hands on information is probably not rocket science. Ancient IT systems, underpaid staff doing who knows what, lots of potential for social engineering as well as there are a lot of people with access to information. Auditing is probably lacking as well. People still uses faxes here. Because it is supposedly 'secure' (#facepalm). You can't get them to email you but they'll happily put your data on a telephone wire unencrypted. All that rubber stamp work is easily forge-able as well.

So, given all that, the only thing you can safely assume that most of what EU governments store on you is known by a wide range of foreign intelligence agencies; some of them considerably more hostile than the NSA which we all love to hate. Mostly you're not providing any new information whatsoever when you fill in the forms to enter e.g. the US. It's just security theater.
To give some perspective: mrustc is written mostly by one person, in C++ and it caught up to 1.39.0 recently - meaning it can "compile" rustc itself (without any type safety validation) as opposed to arbitrary Rust code.

Also C++ compilers are hard too. And optimizing C compilers are hard too...
The point of it being pre-1.0 is not that it was a different major version, but that it had not reached the first major version. pre-1.0 versions were explicitly ALPHA software subject to constant change as indicated in release announcements e.g. https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2014-October/011...
That's akin to x-raying a package. If they could instead just sniff the contents, you might, or might not, be onto something.
Ammonia is probably better. Easier to liquify, and much more dense, even if not as much energy per kg. It's admittedly somewhat toxic, but hydrogen is also somewhat explosive when mixed with air.
Are you allowed to Google things in a Google interview? I don’t think I was allowed to!

How would that even work? You’d just Google for the answer to the brain teaser and find it because there’s only so many brain teasers out there.
No, but all your programs can/could share the same database, and you could cross-reference anything whenever needed. At least that's how I manage it. I have a single postgresql database with per-program/per-instance schemas.

I just did my taxes and figuring out what to pay was just a single select over some tables in the paypal and various per-bank schemas + a schema that had a table of currency conversion rates from our central bank applicable for each month of the year for tax purposes, expected by the tax man (or woman). Quick and easy. I don't even bother with UI, for these once or twice a year needs, just like I wouldn't bother with writing UI for some mp3 conversion task. Just a simple script will do.

Filesystem is great for arbitrary data/files with no schema. Random pdf files, code, programs, etc. But anything that has some obvious schema and comes in large quantities and perhaps needs to be modified/synced with third party data source, I like having such things in the database. It's so much more useful that way, because it's much easier to do something with the data.
In the macro, there is a ton of demand for engineers yet short supply (particularly for universities). Thus the very high false negative rate observed at nearly every company indicates the interview system is broken.

What would help is more disclosure from hiring managers and interviewers about what they want and the success rates of candidates. That information is still largely today only available to hiring managers and executives. We need less information arbitrage for a more efficient hiring system.
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Whether it was a right decision or not, NATO only invaded Afghanistan after 9/11 which was considered an attack onto a member state. This was done purely to fight the terrorist regime and never as a permanent occupation. And NATO is currently leaving Afghanistan completely - after which of course the Taliban are going back to their old ways, which of course are also bad for the population.
The company didn't use the three or six month probation period?
You can drop “seemingly”: SO(3) is indeed tree-dimensional. And SO(3) a.k.a. P^3 has fundamental group Z_2 a.k.a. GF(2), whereas T^3 has fundamental group Z^3, so they are quite different beasts indeed.
My first computer was a Timex 2068, and I learned C long time ago, enough to be dangerous and knowing only to touch it when there is no other modern option available.

Most of the stuff people do in the Makers community is more than doable with Micro/CircuitPython + a bit of Assembly.
It's absolutely insane that it's the 21st century and we're still having heated debates on whether or not people deserve the most basic level of privacy and autonomy.
TBH I don't care that much about size bloat. Yes, some networks are faster/slower. Images can be rendered later, for most articles I don't even care about them. What really annoys me is the useless, endless amounts of javascript crap that are required to render the essential parts, often even the body copy, of websites on the client. I regularly just close many articles now because they keep jumping around in the browser for minutes while some scripts are loading and transforming the website, some idiotic mailing list overlays appear etc etc. This is not bloat, it's cancer.
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Swift Concurrency
Has Twitter deleted DMs for anyone else?
WhatsApp wouldn't exist today (at least not at the current scale) had Facebook not bought it. They have operated for over a decade now, serve 2 billion users, and have made close to zero revenue the entire time.
Still seeing more issues with the indexer on than when it's off. With the indexer on, searching for a file in a directory structure with only a couple hundred files easily takes minutes for some reason. No idea how that thing is supposed to be helping, really. My custom search tool that just iteratively scans folders is practically instant.
Has something which made it into Beta ever been reverted prior to release due to negative feedback from users testing it? From the outside that just doesn't appear to be a thing they use the beta channel for.
In a nutshell, some people want to be seen, and some people want to be right.

All too often do we conflate validation with the latter.
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By that logic, no societal system can ever be broken.
Then it's their responsibility to build a support group. Any therapist will tell you that voicing your gripes to the internet will only hurt your more, which is why you need people around you who you trust to process your emotions with. As a citizen of the internet, I have zero patience for people who make their issues part of my life. It may sounds cruel, but I just don't have the time or emotional liquidity to deal with it. From what I've seen, a lot of other people also share that sentiment.

Mental health is something that should be taken seriously, not spammed on the internet or commoditized.
Not controversial so long as they pay you for your time. This should be standard practice IMO
> Office space is costly to use only 2 days a week.

So downsize. We were doing partial WFH before the pandemic because our office had more people than seats (open office seating); everyone picked different days they preferred for home and office, and the office ended up mostly full most days.
You can get a very good intuition with 3B1B's video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjMuIxRvygQ )
Yeah, or when they assume you have an English keyboard...
> Some of us have been arguing since the beginning of all this that the old and infirm should have been the ones to isolate themselves — with accommodations and support from the rest of society — while the rest of us took sensible precautions and continued on with the business of life.

That is what happened.

> Some of us trusted that "two weeks to slow the spread" was the sensible policy and what our governments would follow.

Western governments largely did follow that policy, but the US was never able to get out of free-fall. So COVID policy became a bang-bang controller of lockdowns, then slight reopenings, then more lockdowns, because there was never a two week period where spread slowed enough to materially change the risk landscape.

Even when there were lulls in the second derivative, limited re-openings resulted in enormous case spikes. If our numbers ever reached DE or NZ levels, we would've been back in offices and schools. And, in fact, I had plenty of conference calls with Germans who were sitting in their offices last summer.

The re-opening criterion didn't change (except to become more liberal over time, the exact opposite of your characterization). What happened is that the lockdowns -- for whatever reason -- never got spread under control in the USA. That wasn't true everywhere.

> irrational panic

On April 1, 2020 there 26K new cases in the USA. One year later, on April 1, 2021, there were 77K new cases. Vaccination rates among at-risk populations were starting to pick up, but nowhere near where thy are today.

What is the rational policy that would call for lock downs in March 2020 but not in March 2021?

> some would argue...

And others would argue that the expectation that a pandemic should last exactly and only two weeks is its own rather extraordinary neurosis.
Many workplaces are giving out home office stipends.
This looks extremely cool.
There is a notification system in place to pre-schedule both civilian launches and military test launches amongst the nuclear powers. It's a common enough occurrence that no one wants to leave interpretation to chance.
I failed an interview once because I knew pacman but they were looking for apt. Big green GPU company.
The Devil Wears Proton
At 192MB, just give me explicit access to this cache as memory and I’ll decide what goes into it. No need to try to predict what my code will want, I can just tell you.
To be honest, I'm stealing from here:
https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/11868 (The cost of making excuses)

Which if I understand; would go like this on explaining UFOs:

Naive Approach:

P(ALIENS) = 50%
p(~ALIENS) = 50%

Time elapses and I find some new evidence that looks like this:

P(Evidence | ALIENS) = 30%
P(Evidence | ~ALIENS) = 90%

Which gives my hypothesis (Its Aliens) a posterior probability of 25% => (50% X 30%)/(50% X 30% + 50% X 90%).

I want it to be aliens so I say that they're conducting studies on us which juices P(Evidence | ALIENS && Studying Us) = 100%. But because I have no evidence to back that up, the odds are no better than 50/50; and I have to drop the prior of my new hypothesis (UFOs are Aliens who Study us) to 25% (50% X 50%). This nets out a new posterior probability of around 27%.

P(ALIENS AND They Study Us) = 25%
p(~ALIENS) = 75%

P(Evidence | ALIENS & They Study Us) = 100%
P(Evidence | ~ALIENS) = 90%

I'm new to Bayesian logic and am still shaky with it, so there could totally be glaring errors I'm overlooking, but as I understand it that's what I was trying to get across - Every new caveat you add to explain away a poor data fit shouldn't juice your odds.
Why would we europeans want to work with the US? It would actually be great if americans kept american interests in America, for once.
It is definitely UB in C++ and probably implementation defined in C (and this use is fine all implementations, AFAIK). Some C++ implementations allow this as a conforming language extension.
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I think you put it really well. I’ve gotten to a place of financial stability and shave realized how precarious it still is. I can weather small car emergencies but when it comes to medical bills, that’s a different story.

I’m just working on emigrating to a country with a better social safety net. I’d rather pay more in taxes (though tbh it’s about the same) and not have to worry anymore.
Not quite for a lot of it - e.g. it asks if you want to use Cortana as your personal assistant but selecting no isn't the same as disabling it (integrated into start menu functionality) or when it asks if you want to opt into telemetry and you uncheck it you're not saying "no telemetry" by unchecking it you're saying "basic telemetry only".
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I was also a fan of this tweet until I found out what inverting a binary tree actually is. Being asked to code relatively complicated algorithms like balancing a binary tree is one thing, but this guy essentially failed FizzBuzz. At that point it’s not about testing the limits of your candidate but filtering out the low hanging fruit.

Obviously I don’t have the whole story of the interview, but it makes me a little worried for homebrew.
At 540 calories per 100g that is 118,000 calories (kilo calories).
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Yes, you are absolutely right and I seem to be losing the ability to absorb information from perfectly clear Ars reporting:

Accordingly, the Air Force science and technology investments will include "novel loadmaster designs to quickly load/unload a rocket, rapid launch capabilities from unusual sites, characterization of potential landing surfaces and approaches to rapidly improve those surfaces, adversary detectability, new novel trajectories, and an S&T investigation of the potential ability to air drop a payload after reentry," the document states.

Thanks for that.
> Experience also shows me that it wouldn't take you a long time to solve the problem, and in our industry, at least my experience in startups, speed is key.

If you feel that way, here's a viewpoint from Derek Sivers which talks about "Idea being a multiple of execution" [0]. If you genuinely believe that "solving a problem within a few minutes" can be reached, I'm going to ask you - What problems are you asking people to solve in a limited time frame?

[0] https://sive.rs/multiply
It's a problem regardless of dependency handling though.

At some point, something in the S3 API is going to change. Crypto modules are going to add some algorithms and deprecate others. Some big system library is going to release version 2.0. Ubuntu is going to stop the last LTS release where everything worked.

At my workplace we used to make very heavy use of Perl, and now that's gradually going away, because there's a fair amount of pretty big stuff that's either unmaintained, or at the very least concerning. The Wx module for instance has always been a bit of a pain in my experience and I don't know how much life it's got left. But I'm certainly not going to volunteer to maintain it if it ever breaks.
That the NATO would invade Russia is a bizarre idea. They simply have no incentive, and even if they had any interest, they are lacking the troops and Russia is a nuclear power. If it were not, the west would probably have engaged more forcefully in Ukraine, especially as they had signed contracts to do so when Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons.
Yes, Skyscanner is a horrible at hiring. Can't even bother to reject you or give feedback in the last round
What a way to add nothing to a conversation horse that's been beaten to death as is.
I think that they want to hear is thinking. So every time I am during technical interview, I just talk out loud what I see in front of my eyes. That is great because they get to know my thinking process and it works as a rubber ducky for myself.
I think a number of Canadian IT services are actually quite good. Stats Canada, for instance, is a national treasure.

I've found the CBSA to also be fairly reasonable, but I only needed one thing from it (and a FOIA request).
In the first paragraph:

> Collisions have dropped by roughly 90 percent.

No link to the source of this number though.
People cheat their way through credentials all the time, having a masters degree doesn't tell you anything about a person except they maybe sat in a room on their phone while someone discussed the nuances of Church's Thesis. And most interviewers aren't valued enough by a company to really give a shit who you are, there is just too much happening and too many interviews, so they just can't be asked to look at your Github.

The game and well are poisoned at many levels. There's just too much money on the table at most modern tech companies to trust anything.
> And for what? Is there an epidemic of video clips wrecking children's minds I'm not aware of?

I mean... maybe. I have young children and have no desire to have them anywhere near YouTube for essentially as long as possible _because_ of that very concern.
Notably, he was never asked to invert a binary tree and I don't believe he ever got confirmation about why he was rejected. Given how he responded, I wouldn't be stunned if the answer was not his technical performance.
Pardon if I have been overzealous in sharing. It is worth noting that there is no obligation to upvote anything on HN.

I personally find the SVO and SOV distinction very valuable in assessing which languages are perceived to be easy and difficult to learn.

It's okay to repost interesting things if they don't get a lot of traction. This submission is a unique submission.
Are you middle aged? I certainly noticed a distinct decrease in neuroplasticity around 24.

There are things that are absolutely not possible to learn as an adult (such as perfect pitch.) I'm not saying Japanese is one of them though. (I doubt it is actually, as someone that learned a decent amount in their teens.)
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