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> Of resumes I see, 50% of them will not show up on time to their interview. Of the 50% that do, 80% cannot pass fizzbuzz.

Wow, sounds like you either need to change your sourcing or improve your early screening. If that many poor candidates are making it to the interview stage something is wrong with the process.
They usually can, but not necessarily under strict time constraints and the pressure associated with a whiteboard coding exercise.
Don't worry, even if all energy humans used was from D+T fusion today it would only create 60% of the helium that we use. Also, helium is so light that it leaves the atmosphere so we really don't have access to much anyway.
> Recently I've been doing a proof of concept in Georgia

Can you disclose where in Georgia? I'm just curious as a resident of the state ;)
Yea, but you gave the bank the money first. Which brings us back to the first question: How is holding cash a liability? Are they worried about deflation?
Also: did adding the stream really decouple the otters, or did it just make the coupling less visible? After all, the consuming otters may still depend a great deal on the precise behaviors of the producing otters. It's just that now the producing otters don't know in what ways other otters depend on them, making it harder for them to make changes without harming their otter-dependents.
I'm assuming a Constitutional Convention would be required to change the way the Senate and EC work, though. That's impossible now and perhaps forever.
I mean Steve Jobs may not be a great software developer. I don't think companies are hiring for a Steve Jobs. You could be really good at other things and not be great at programming
I don't know. Normally, I often get together with friends on a weekend day. We coordinate things beforehand via email but we mostly don't really need Internet otherwise.
From article “each ADC sample contains 13 bit (I) and 13 bit (Q), that are streamed with a maximal sample rate of 4 MSPS from the AT86RF215 IC. This channel requires 4 bytes (samples padded to 32-bit) per sample (and I/Q pair) => 16 MBytes/sec which are 128 MBits/sec. In addition to the 13 bit for each of I/Q, the Tx/Rx streams of data contain flow control and configuration bits.”
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>> but it now never would be implemented because 1 minute was considered good enough.

By definition it's good enough. The only thing being lost is the stroking of some ego. Our whole world seems to be built with "good enough" and I do find that frustrating at times. People are imperfect and have finite time, so I understand. Evolution seems to think we're good enough for now.
Or the little prover. Ugh.
All drug use has health costs. If healthcare is public or heavily subsidized then the taxpayer has to foot the bill for every unhealthy decision that others make.

We can have a free society where people are free to put whatever they want in their bodies, and to suffer the health outcomes and poverty and combination of those things freely as well, if they make bad decisions.

What we can't afford as a society is to give free health care and UBI to people who choose to destroy their bodies, at the expense of everyone who chooses against their own interests to be productive members of society, assuming there are enough people who wouldn't choose to live on the dole and do drugs if they were legal.
I'm quite skeptical of Bitcoin in general but I can't deny that Lightning Network has really started to take off as a means of payment, it's even a common sight in El Salvador to see Bitcoin accepted through LN, where transaction costs are in the fraction of a cent.
These are not Ponzi schemes. In a ponzi you have a mechanism to distribute money to early adopters in the tree. These are just pump and dumps but you create and pre-mine the asset before pumping it.

There were ponzis some years back like OneCoin and BitConnect.
The original TripleByte worked well for me. Even though I didn't have a stellar resume, I got the chance to talk to some really interesting companies. My TripleByte recruiter was helpful in deciding which interviews to take, and there was mutual fit at all the companies I went on-site with.

I recommended TripleByte to several friends whom I considered reasonably skilled and currently undervalued. None of them passed the test, however, so they got little value out of service (except for the interview feedback, which at the time was unusually excellent). And I ultimately needed TripleByte less than they did, since someone who could pass the old TripleByte test also has a high chance of eventually passing on-sites at Google, Facebook, etc.

So I understand the pivot, although it will certainly be harder to differentiate yourselves in this new space. Good luck.
We basically have low inflation and a savings craze as a driver of a housing bubble in 2008 as people were looking for perfect, risk free bonds (no such thing can exist outside government bonds and even those are just best effort).

The people behind Bitcoin were basically thinking: Ok, our banking system failed because of low inflation and a savings craze. Let's make both of those worse so that it will never become possible to run an economy on top of Bitcoin.

Fiat banking failed because an aging population has a strong saving preference to the point that it chokes out businesses. The idea behind saving is that you release production capacity in the economy so it can be used on something else. The population isn't going to stop aging. The problem is going to get worse over time. There won't be a something else unless the government artificially uses the savings on that something else.
I'd believe it.

I got shitlisted at one place for being the only dev with the mathematical insight to know that multiplying pesos by a dollars:yen ratio doesn't yield a correct conversion of pesos to yen. They let that one slide without fixing it, but the final straw that got me frogmarched was refactoring an if-else to a switch.
Yes, but first wall materials are chosen to have a high melting point and short half life when activated. Close the building off for 100 years then scrap it. It's a far cry from the myriad of nightmare scenarios fission plants need active control against.
> Note that the Python version of pi requires an unbounded amount of memory

Really? I measure it as exactly 200 bytes (not counting the 4-space indentation that HackerNews requires, and not including a trailing newline)

> and, more importantly, an infinite amount of time to produce pi to infinite precision

I can see it right now, with infinite precision. If it's taking an infinite amount of time to show up I'd contact your ISP ;)
> Of the 50% that do, 80% cannot pass fizzbuzz.

If this is actually true, which I highly doubt (I've interviewed people, too), your process is terrible at preselection. I've heard so much about this "programmer charlatan" that lies on his resume and ends up blowing up million dollar systems, but have yet to see any tangible proof.

> Past companies and open source contributions are not perfect indicators.

This is self-contradictory: how/why would any open source project let someone that doesn't know fizzbuzz contribute to their codebase? I run a tiny throwaway open source project (~600 GH stars) and even my reviews are pretty stringent. This point of view is not consistent. It's like saying "I know people that ran in marathons, but couldn't even run for half a mile in my interview."
Or they bus people from even poorer regions there. That's what they do /did? In Poland or so, can't remember anymore.
Something weirdly similar happened to a family member of mine.

The police came to the door and arrested him on a hit and run charge, but he hadn't been in an accident. They browbeat him into confessing over the course of an hour but they didn't believe he'd actually been in an accident in the end because he couldn't even confess correctly, he didn't know where the accident had happened, the color or make of the car he supposedly hit, what time it happened etc.

We later found out that someone had hit and run this woman and she, and I quote "drove around until she found the person who did it." We found this out because she filed an insurance claim even after all of this-- AAA told her to go pound sand.

--

Also, police are just weird. Another family member wanted to be a police officer, and he did the physical and made it through the interview process-- part of which was explaining any tickets you had gotten. He had 3 tickets-- the interviewer agreed he had 3 tickets, he explains them all, then the interviewer asks, "What about the one after that?" He calmly explains that there were just the three. The interviewer persists, "But what about the one after that?" He calmly explains what "last" means and how it conflicts with the "one after that." This went on for a few minutes with the police offer pretending not to understand what was going on and being belligerent.

I suppose the point was to see if they could get him riled up? But it spooked him so much he declined the academy. They even called back every 3 months or so for years with better offers.
"To hate me is to give me breath, to fight me is to give me strength"

I've been listening to the self-esteem meditations on headspace and this is the same thing that they are recommending. I am amazed at how effective it has been.
You're totally right. If we'd been thinking in this mode when that particular requirement was built, it wouldn't have been. It isn't required today (and IIRC hasn't been for a while now).
I don't know if that's supposed to be sympathetic or dismissive or what, but especially in combo with the downvotes, it's hard to not see it as dismissive.

A woman says "It's not socially acceptable to talk about your gender being a factor in having trouble making your career work", gets downvoted to hell. People fail to see the irony.

I've been on HN nearly twelve years as part of an overall good faith effort to sort my problems and make my life work and I am quite open about being dirt poor to the point of going hungry and being willing to work and wanting to improve my income and it failing to open doors for me. When I talk about "Most men don't really want to talk to me privately unless they are hitting on me" I get snide comments about how HN has no messaging system, as if people haven't heard of email.

I'm telling you from firsthand experience this is amazingly demoralizing and crazy making and it isn't socially acceptable to talk about it no matter how much you can point to evidence that "My gender seems to be a factor in my intractable poverty" and no matter how carefully you word it to not be blamey or suggest people are doing you dirty with malice aforethought.
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Thanks for posting. Yes, +100 to this.
I agree they will do that when it's cheaper than people. It's unclear to me when that might be.
Oh that's pretty cool!
Question from a total ignoramus here.

TLDR: Despite recent progress, is it possible that fusion will reach efficiency where it is net positive in energy output but still too expensive to be useful?

Long Version: When I first heard about fusion, the idea was that this immense energy could be harvested taking advantage the the conversion of matter into energy. Everything I heard was that the quantities are so great that if we could just nail the sustained fusion reaction we could harvest potentially limitless energy.

As I've come to understand it however, it is not so simple. The big question is in how long you can sustain the reaction and how much energy it costs to start it in the first place. It seems to me the strides that have been made over the last few decades are to bring the cost down enough and extend the reaction long enough that the net energy loss is lower, then break even and now possibly a net gain. I've seen some articles imply that this turn of events means fusion is definitely on the table as a near future abundant energy source.

My question is this. Is it a forgone conclusion that the current trends will continue? Because if not, doesn't that mean fusion could still get stuck somewhere where there is a net energy gain but it's still too expensive to be useful?
FRAX has so far pretty successfully pulled off a partially collateralized stablecoin
I had to upgrade to a bigger cloud tier. lol. So insane!
> I believe that the better reason for asynchronous is it enables modeling complex flow control efficiently. For example, patterns like pausing or canceling an in-flight operation are challenging without asynchronous programming.

This is exactly why I think async/await is a must have for any language aimed at back-end. Nodejs has a lot of pitfalls (promise cancellation being a major one), but moving from it to Go felt like huge step back to me: having to use channels to synchronize your tasks feels really cumbersome when you're used to promises/Future with combinators and async/await.
Show HN: Glass Editor – Java IDE, video conferencing, HTML editing
How is that a problem with what I said?

You are saying that the decision problem of "Is this algorithm A in P?" is undecidable for arbitrary algorithms A. We don't need a general solution to that decision problem to be able to prove that some particular algorithm is or isn't in P; just like how, we don't need a general solution to the halting problem to prove some particular program does or doesn't halt. The halting problem only means we can't have a computable procedure which will generate such a proof in every case.

The fact that we've actually proven the bounded halting problem is not in P doesn't contradict this. The undecidability of determining whether any arbitrary problem is or isn't in P doesn't prevent us from having a proof that some particular problem is or isn't.

And I said counterpossibly that if the bounded halting problem were in P not EXPTIME-complete, then the halting problem might be practically solvable even if Turing's proof of the undecidability of the unbounded halting problem still held. In this counterpossible, we don't need to be able to solve the decision problem of determining whether an algorithm is in P, all we need is a proof that this one particular algorithm is in P. The undecidability of the decision problem in general tells us nothing about whether we could know its answer for individual cases.
I'd pick Flutter. It is the one I've been most impressed with and seems to have the best balance of capabilities and trade-offs right now IMO.
The current approach seems to be negative rates on deposits over a certain amount. E.g. ING Belgium will have a -0.5% interest on deposits over 250K EUR starting next month[1].

Rabobank.be simply decided to close all accounts[2], which is another way to get rid of customer deposits while avoiding mobs. It will increase the pressure on the other banks who will receive those deposits though.

[1] https://www.ing.be/en/retail/daily-banking/savings-accounts/...

[2] https://www.brusselstimes.com/news/business/174304/200000-be...
Hi HN,

Glass Editor is an IDE that I started building for a game I'm working on but I've added a lot of other features to it over time.

Some of my favorites are the debugging variables available on the right of the text editor that you can hover over to show their fields and
the text editing in the web browser.

I'm happy to answer questions about it if you have any.
It's more than that. It's a moral panic.

Drugs and crime are inexorably wedded in many people's minds, so to them drug users are criminals so moving towards legalizing drugs is being soft on crime, which is a non-starter for a lot of politicians who want to seem tough on crime.

The media also loves to whip up a sensationalistic frenzy when they publish lurid drug stories... and the public, including many politicians, buy this.
Credit to these guys for not giving up. Hiring engineers remains unsolved so if they're still in the game they still have a chance to ultimately solve it and reap the rewards.
I have been misdiagnosed so many times for health issues, I feel like doctors need to specialize within domains and they are only allowed to practice within that domain. So much advice given out by general practitioners is useless and only treats symptoms of health conditions. It literally took me 4 years to figure out a health issue as a bounced from doctor to doctor as they all scratched their head. Some doctors even made incorrect diagnoses which lead to treatment which was actively harmful to my condition, it would have been better to not see those doctors at all since they set back my recovery by months.

We dont let electrical engineers build bridges so why do we give doctors so much freedom in their practice?
No, she wouldn't. If the world has broken her of talking about it, obviously, she wouldn't.

I'm giving you my take as a woman. But go ahead and do the PC dismissal as more concrete evidence that what I'm saying is both true and utterly socially unacceptable.
Based on studies: Under 7% of cocaine abuse is IV. Self reported ratings of high, liking and stimulated are greater after smoking than after IV with similar plasma concentrations.
I can share these news articles!

https://broadbandbreakfast.com/2021/06/start-your-own-isp-lo...

https://www.wfxg.com/story/43745096/georgia-cyber-center-wor...
Ageing process is unstoppable, finds unprecedented study
Enterprise applications are already fast enough, but memory footprint can still be a real pain. Monitoring and deploying the JVM isn't easy, and I think there is absolutely room in the future for lower footprint deployments in the enterprise space. Golang has already seem some limited adoption, but has a limited type system that doesn't easily allow expressing complex business logic. Rust has the possibility to really shine here, even if it doesn't eat the enterprise world.
I would love to learn how the routing algorithm works. This is probably one of a few opensource-but-in-production implementation of such kind of algorithms. here seems no doc in the repo unfortunately.

Still, it's very exciting to see they started from a "Helicoptor Router" [1] five years ago! The author clearly knew what they were doing.

[1] https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/commit/7123f71eec...
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Biden snaps at reporter before apologising for 'being such a wise guy'
Downvotes are because you aren't taking the author at face value because it appears you have an agenda.

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If I was wearing one I could wait until I'm in a flow state and write something witty, instead I just knocked out this worthless quip.
I was one of the people that saw the free 1000 blocks and chose not to signup, because I didn't understand what that gets me.

I am currently happy on the free-tier and would cheer-lead internally at my job if there was interest to migrating to Notion.
Who was the woman that wrote about how every "innovative" engineer recruiting platform eventually devolves into LinkedIn Recruiter?

Because she fucking nailed it with Triplebyte.

I used Triplebyte. I really liked it. The leads were not as great or as numerous as I was hoping, and I felt like I still had to do pseudo-technical interviews anyway. Fucking COVID, man.

I hope this pivot works for them.
The History of the DAO and Lessons Learned
Hey, I'm like 95% sure that I know who your wife is, if she is who I think it is, I would gladly refer her to the company I work for. We're hiring and I know her to be very smart.

If her initials are J.B., let me know and I'll message her on LinkedIn
Thanks for sharing this. Audienceful looks promising, will definitely check it out.

Hubspot CRM is indeed an eyebleed :( wish there were better alternatives.
If their 8.8.8.8 resolver was returning results from customer accounts that weren't verified, like the GP seems to imply, that seems like a huge security problem.
Thoughts on managing engineering teams
Yes! I am using the WaveSurfer [0] library to visualize audio waveforms for a project, which uses this. It works, but Chrome always says 'ScriptProcessorNode is deprecated, use AudioWorkletNode instead'.

[0] https://github.com/katspaugh/wavesurfer.js
I rewrote a product which was not working and was never completed 100%. New version is better but I had to hack things here and there due to constraints of the existing systems. Additionally, the number one problem is lack of documentation, not in the app but in the business sense.

In order to write a good application the process it is going to support needs to be well documented. This wasn't the case and I had to go back in circles a few times but you live and learn.
I know it's a band-aid solution, but for me as someone with ADHD stimulants help a lot - but I don't say this to discount your recommendations which are effective. With stimulants, I'll usually find the right attitude or perspective to accomplish whatever task is at hand. If it's boring, I know I can find a way to automate or delegate its completion. If it's too exciting (too complex to be actionable), I'll redefine it to be actionable. If neither of these apply, I know it's something very novel and creative that stimulants will probably not help with its fruition.
And the physical roku stick I bought shouldn't be changing my entire theme to a disney plus ad.
Correct but it’s still a virtual machine.
Yes. I would like know too. APP store for what?
I'm not sure that they succeeded: 32bit instructions aligned as 16bit makes decoding harder, I wonder if we're ever going to see a 8wide decoder RISC-V..
And I remember seeing here a comparison between ARM's SVE and RISC-V, I wasn't very convinced by the RISC-V vector's extension.
Native graph storage and index-free adjacency. No tables, no JOINs.
So, Dai is a stablecoin that by my understanding is collateralized similarly to this one, except that it requires ether (and I believe USDC is also an option). However, its peg held up very well during the recent precipitous drop in the price of ether. I'm curious if anyone here knows whether that was an algorithmic success in comparison to this, or perhaps just an artifact of people having more confidence in ether.
I don't really get these weird ways of explaining different technologies, just give me a straightforward text description. But straightforward text isn't going anywhere and it doesn't hurt me if people want to read mangas about foxes or whatever.
As an industry insider: everyone knows this. Fusion isn't the technology that saves mankind in this century, but it is the technology that mankind needs to have working by the next century if we want to stay on our current industrial track. The march of progress might halt if we run out of ever-increasing access to free energy.
I've bean a fan of Gleam for a while, so please take this as more of a critique of the writing rather than of the project, but I am missing a strong rationale for why? What does compiling to JavaScript practically bring or enable? Other than having yet another way to write front-end programmes without the benefits of a strong ecosystem?