skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience, being "right" is no bar to getting the job.

In one case where I was going for a C++ expert job, I got asked a question (that I can't remember now), gave the correct answer, which the interviewer disputed. I asked if they had a copy of TC++PL on hand, which they did, and I pointed out the relevant section. I got the job.

In another case, I was asked something complicated about "const" in C++ (which has a few gotchas), gave the right answer, but was still disputed. I got the job, and on my first day the guy that asked the question came up and apologised to me - he'd read up on it after.

IMHO, telling the truth about technical matters is always best; I might fib a bit about other things.
Gemini sites are not terminal-only and the renderer can make it look beautiful (depending upon one's definition of beautiful). One example is Lagrange:

https://github.com/skyjake/lagrange
Go to hell with the US, this statement is just way to hypocritical.
Ironic, as I almost always interview for the opposite.

I don't really care what you currently know because software development paradigms can be learned with relative ease for a motivated and intelligent individual who already knows something.

So instead I:

1) Poke around their CV/Resume. Just ensuring that they have the stuff they say to a basic level (some people just spam keywords)

2) Get them to a point where they admit they don't know something. Usually this means a deep dive on something common to the role I'm hiring for and that they have experience in.

If you're unwilling to say you don't know something I usually reject the candidate. I know interviews are stressful and you want to impress your interviewer, but if you're willing to try to bullshit me at an interview then you're willing to bullshit me in a post-mortem, and I can't have that.

Honesty - Intelligence - Experience

in that order, always.
Researchers Find Common Denominator Linking All Cancers
That seems like a good way to miss infections (and get people back to work, which is probably the point).

The tests seem to have a high false-negative rate. Assuming independence and 25% FN rate, a second test will miss an additional 20% of infections of all people tested.
The main reason that asymmetric (RSA, eliptic curves) encryption are broken (on quantum computers) is simply due to relying on certain assumptions that haven't been fully proven (and instead has been disproven over time).

Symmetric and one-way functions are provably secure, within those characteristics that they define. Notably, they are not designed with "until the end of the universe" promise (and the only proven "until the end of the universe" encryption anyway is a proper one-time pad (or disk) encryption). The reason that certain hashing and encryption algorithms have been broken are due to both compromises inherent in design goals (notably, AES have been simplified from the reference encryption Rjindael to ease up hardware acceleration) and the march of technology simply rolling with faster chips. Quantum computing can speedup this process a bit (a quadratic speedup in most cases), but not enough to outbeat these types of encryption.
Is it possible there's an auto-generated financial goal set to a high priority in your list which is trying to pay it off ASAP?
> These all seem like technical quibbles that miss the point.

If these all "miss the point", what is the point?

It seems to me that the article's point is that PDF as a format has attributes that satisfy the author's goal, whereas HTML does not. The parent comment says that HTML does have those attributes after all (if you choose to use HTML that way). That is very directly addressing the article's point, as I understand it.
House prices are not included in inflation estimates, rental prices are. That's another thing that should be considered.
Lol, that has the public square embodied in a few big systems.

If it were me, I would have those regulated to be like utilities. Pre internet, business was done via phone. Deplatforming = not allowed to have a phone, and that basically did not happen.
Of course they know. There are no innocents, no civilians. We all live on the battlefield now.
In the Benelux, try to get a job after answering what you really think about Scrum. If the local Scrum Master is present in the interview team you will be
"persona non grata" for the rest of your career...

"One Hacker Way Rational alternative of Agile - Erik Meijer"

https://youtu.be/2u0sNRO-QKQ

Nowadays a Developer has to act a little bit
like in this scene from Good Will Hunting.

Make yourself stupid...you will be hired.

https://youtu.be/UpL3ncoK99U
Why It’s Hard for Engineering to Support Marketing
From IEEE 754-2019:

> The operation fusedMultiplyAdd(x, y, z) computes (x × y) + z as if with unbounded range and precision, rounding only once to the destination format. [...] fusedMultiplyAdd differs from a multiplication operation followed by an addition operation.

[elided exception discussion]

I expect that the ARM processor precisely implements this standard, as does x86-64. Any "bugs" here are the user misunderstanding how the precision is supposed to work.
When I was in high school, we had one BC Calculus teacher for the entire school district. He'd visit each school round-robin and would teach the other schools via video conference. Given that this was 20 years ago, we'd have streaming issues with some frequency. The solution was usually to reboot the streaming machine at the teacher's location.

One day before class when the teacher wasn't at our school, one kid said, "when I cough three times, everyone freeze." About 20 mins into the lecture, he did just that and we all held our positions. The teacher noticed about ten second later, asked us a bunch of times if we could hear him, and then, with exasperation, said, "well looks like they froze up again..."

We had a good laugh for the two mins or so we were down and then continued on. I don't think anyone ever blabbed that we had faked it just for kicks.
In fact, I have been pondering over the same controversies over technical interview for quite sometime, and I think the sheer intention of a company on recruitment is to recruit the candidates that fit their requirement/expectation as much as possible.

I have been thinking: are the following approach works better in terms of technical recruitment and interview?

- Say a company wants to recruit .NET Core developer with experience/knowledge in Sql Server.

- In the job scope, as usual, they would put in their expectation / requirements. At the same time, they should put few (but reasonable enough) specially curated training videos (either from YouTube channel, pluralsight, lynda, oreilly, udemy and you name it) by the company on .NET Core and Sql Server that they expect the potential candidates to go through.

- Most of the interview questions should come from those videos. During interview, the interviewer can ask additional questions with its answers won't be directly from the training videos but more to the experience that candidates put in their CV/resume.

With this, those candidates who are really interested in the openings will take the initiative to go through the training videos and equip themselves better for the interview. Those are not prepared, they, themselves are well aware that they most probably won't pass the interview questions which its answers can be obtained from the training videos and most probably they won't even go for the interview too.

This, i guess is the most effective way for both the recruiters as well as the candidates to find their perfect match.
Key Modi rival Rahul Gandhi among potential Indian targets of NSO client
How to Prevent or Recover from Developer Burnout
China is just the bogeyman of the hour. If it were more politically convenient to blame Russia or Iran you'd suddenly find the same evidence pointing a different way.
IMO the better way to do this is:

"That term/phrase is actually used in a couple of different ways. Originally it referred to X But it's sometimes also used to mean Y"
How do you know it really does not exist? There is this effect called 'over-fitting', where you might expect an exact sample from the training set to show up in the video
There's virtually no comparison available regarding frequency of "keystone witness" compared to "key witness," as a phrase on the internet [1^].

[1]: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...
I'm really glad I saw this. I have a ~2015 Blackberry Classic that I love, and when I got the texts, went to the store. I asked them that, since my phone supports 4GLTE (from the icon on the screen) would I be alright. The salesperson said it would work, so I forgot about it. But I didn't realize there was a different network for calls/data. And from how they are apparently forcing phones upon people, sounds like I need to be proactive in getting a phone I will like.

So yeah, thanks OP.
Locks get picked literally all the time, and nobody sues lock makers. Perfect security does not exist.
Yes. I use Safari on iOS.
Yes, no issue whatsoever with the Teams webapp using Chrome.
My kids school used to send links to google docs for their announcements, I hated it. I pretty much hate any system like that, it's purely extra steps on the web.

In both email, and the browser I'm already in a program that displays text and images and cool stuff. So then I'm just sent a link to someplace else that does the same thing?

So then what? Is it all just "pdf can do that too", but with extra steps...? I can print to PDF in most browsers if I want, but in this case it isn't a choice.

The idea that I might save and store the school emails or that website and somehow manage those files seems kinda self important in a way ... I don't mean that as a personal attack, just that this idea that they imagine me taking the time to do that with their content? When otherwise it could have just been an accessible web page? How many people care to do that?

If I'm visiting a website I'm almost certainly not interested in saving your content / managing it... almost never.

I'm a little lost on the whole 'page-oriented' idea too. That's just a limitation of paper, and it's a pain / disruptive more often than not. Even the 'page oriented' section is broken up by the page and some extra text at the bottom of the page that is irrelevant to the paragraph...

If folks want a 'save to pdf' option might be nice to add, or the user can just print to pdf...
Yup. Home Depot pulled this here and put most of the local hardware stores out of business. In addition to their prices being much higher now, they have substituted products of vastly inferior quality, to the extent that I actively avoid entire product groups there. But now I do not have another practical choice. I loved them; now, I hate them.
monkeynotes seems to take the line that technical defects in claims others make fatally undermines their case, but technical defects in his/her arguments are irrelevancies.

For what it's worth, the same objection occured to me. The use of scripting I've seen in PDFs has been use-supporting and consistent with their book-like feel.
How many kids have died from the Wuhan Coronavirus?
Wow those sound like such badly designed questions. What country is this?
> The idea that [I] can't cook Chinese food on an electric stove is nonsense.

Good for you? The most Chinese thing I make on a regular basis is frozen orange chicken (from <checks freezer> Foster Farms, apparently), so I don't really care.

In any case, I've yet to encounter a electric stove that's fit-for-purpose for anything more sophisticated than boiling water. That's not to say they don't exist, but someone else, somewhere else having one is rather irrelevant to me.

> induction stoves are far more common in China than the US, which one would expect not to be the case if they couldn't be used to make Chinese food.

FWIW, I'm pretty sure most uses of "Chinese food" on eg HN refer to American-adaptations-of-Chinese-food, similar to how "pizza" generally bears little resemblance to the traditional Italian dish, so this doesn't mean much either way.

> Of course most people trot this argument out as a talking point

I appreciate the implication that I'm not most people, I guess?
Company's S-1 documents are shared on Hacker News. SEC publishes them in both PDF and HTML. Guess which one works better?

It's not the fault of HTML standard if people are using React plus 20 different libraries for a simple static content
How to Learn Stuff Quickly
I wonder if we'd need to tax the vegetarians for living too long and spending a lot of taxpayer dollars in their extended elderly years. Maybe we should actually subsidize the folks cheeseburgering their way to sudden cardiac death.
The tech lead is not the one being interviewed here. Presumably, they are already respected in their workplace, and admitting that they learned something from the candidate's full answer should be seen as a positive by their manager. The way the candidate frames the answer is important here, so no-one seems stupid for holding a common misconception.

And if the tech lead can't admit in front of their manager to not knowing everything? That's a sign of a toxic workplace.

I'm not ashamed to admit that I have previously found myself in a situation similar to the tech lead: the interviewee gave a solution that I didn't know about - one that could be considered better - and my manager was in the room interviewing with me. I told the interviewee that this is a new direction I haven't thought about until now. It's important, otherwise we can't continue an honest discussion about the solution.
Ouch.

> The Amnesty report said NSO is also using services from other companies such as Digital Ocean, OVH, and Linode ...

We've been using Digital Ocean for a few years now (sqlitebrowser.org), and they've been really good. Hopefully they look into this and take some useful action. :)
No, it still supports plenty of trackers/spyware and so on.
3Blue1Brown Summer of Math Exposition
'We need to designate Mexican cartels as foreign terrorists like Al Qaeda'
Yeah. At this point, social engineering is a hallmark of the Covid generation. In retrospect, Zoom hackery almost seemed like the inevitable outcome. We’ve shared good laughs with our kids over the antics “classmates” pulled because of zoom
There was a recent change in management of Freenode, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenode#Ownership_change_and_...

What many might consider offensive behavior is expected from the new management.
It's what you walk out with from motor vehicles while they produce your actual learner's permit with photo on it. The learner's permit will look just like a driver's license, with some restriction codes on it most likely. It may possible have some glaring mark, but otherwise look and feel like a driver's license.

Most places you won't see a temporary permit like this as they'll have a machine on hand to make the license, but I suppose not every location has that available. It is only meant to last until your photo and information gets to wherever they print the cards and your card gets mailed to you (less than 2 weeks).
We have built one here at https://www.ScrollStack.com.

Your own space to sell any kind of digital good anywhere in the world. Distribution is built-in (email + messaging/WhatsApp. Plus you can choose to create native content with our tools or upload. No app downloads. All on the open web. No integrations required you can start right away.

FYI. We have integrated with multiple payment gateways including stripe so it works smoothly in US/Europe/India.
I see your point. Reasonably, people will have opinions about individual matters, and these add up to having "politics". But these are not politics as an identity, or politics you push on others through persuasion, or a set of pet causes, or whatever passes for debate on Twitter or news outlets.

You may be right that the group I'm describing skews south-east into center-right libertarianism (although I'm pretty far southwest myself). The point I was trying to make was that it's not possible to be an ideologue when your head is in a cloud of math and code; and when you look up, you're the one with your fingers in running the system that runs the platforms that all these know-nothing people use to amplify their pet politics and shout at each other all day. What I'm saying is that to run the machine you actually have to be post-political, and the third group in modern culture are the people who can switch tabs as necessary, or just don't care because they're more concerned with making things function.

I'd be excoriated as being "privileged" by most progressive ideological friends for even suggesting that there exists a neutral position free from racial or historical advantage; and maybe it's not free of those things. But it exists and it attempts to be neutral to the extent that the biggest debate in the country right now is about what some website should or shouldn't censor, while the government itself can barely function, and the people who work for that website only care about making it more responsive and profitable. There is clearly a third group of people to whom most of the left/right debate is just unserious noise. As far as their day-to-day reality, we probably don't disagree that much on what that consists of.
... Thats disingenuous, its not I don't know how to use an electric stove its that its simply better, they don't even compare. The response time on a gas stove is unbeatable and makes a big difference in how you cook. Also try using a wok on an electric stove.

My point was why don't we fix the very obvious and low hanging fruit like cargo ships that run on sludge, fix that first before you tell me and millions of others that "we don't know how to use electric stoves"
I think what you're doing is cool but maybe it would be a pretty essential feature to add an overlay map of distribution of lookalike species to preserve the health, safety and wellness of the users of your website.

Pholiotina rugosa has been spotted growing amoungst liberty caps, which contains some of the same deadly toxins in amanita species, as well as maybe others out there I'm not remembering offhand which could be mistaken (It's quite cosmopolitan in distribution in the northern hemisphere).
And in 2001, The 51st State was released...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_51st_State
My Tools and Practices for a Healthier and More Productive Life
This problem was recently addressed in detail here[1] which serves as a good overview.

1. https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.12423 (project page: https://nvlabs.github.io/alias-free-gan/)
This is maybe the fifth time this year I've seen Israel used as an immediate deflection subject in China-related cybersecurity news posts; is that a trend anyone else has picked up on? just me?
I think this is definitely part of it - it's an instinct I fight myself to just accept a headline that says "X will be Bad!" or "Y is Better Than Z!". Human nature is a tricky beast :)
Probably want to allow for the possibility of rent rises over time.

One thing that I think this actually shows pretty well is the notion that part of the answer depends on how long you intend to stay in a place. If you expect to move in two or three years, it's probably not worth the hassle/expense of buying. If you intend to stay 5+ years in one place, it makes more sense to buy.
What it has done is surprise the hell out of me that it's worth looking for mushrooms at all in the park near me, and probably tipped me over the lip between "that's something Other People do" to "hmm, maybe I'll have a poke about next time I'm down there and see what I can see."
Any time someone says "this is xyz 101, how could anyone be so confused", I hear instead "the human capacity for doing something without what others view as 'minimum sufficient education to survive it' remains unchanged throughout human history", which is precisely why the warnings are so dire. It's not to scare people away, it's just to offer them a defense versus their own curiosity and impulsiveness until they choose to make time to learn xyz 101.
The bogeyman of the hour which is putting people into concentration camps. Would you say Nazi Germany was the bogeyman of the (then) hour aswell?

IMO these are some very valid concerns...
Ashamed by the vast sums of money they are making?
That assumes that demand is constant. Their hope is that frequent images of mining ASICs being steamrolled will reduce demand.
>Why are the poor in the America described in terms of "meth heads"? Being poor is not a moral failure.

They're generally not referred to that way outside discussion of behaviors addicts engage in to get their fix and the discussion is limited in scope to addicts.

Making the generalization that everyone refers to the poors as meth heads serves the same ideological needs as generalizing the poors as addicts albeit to a different end.
There was no fiasco. A machine in space had a routine failure and was repaired remotely. This doesn't open up any special opportunties for China. Also, the hubble is fully paid off- any further work it does is pure profit.
Public CDNs Are Useless and Dangerous
I was taking a firearms safety course and there was a true/false section on a test. I can’t recall what the question was specifically but it was about which laws something fell under and the main issue was the word ‘or’ - when used as a logical OR the answer was True. When used as a sort of common day ‘or’ the answer was probably false.

I put false without thinking. I had everything else on the test right and part of the course was the instructor reviewing your test and going over your incorrect answers. He wasn’t a programmer (I think former military tbh) and didn’t really understand why I got it wrong even after I explained it…
APT 40 and 31 are well documented [1] [2].

[1] https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2019/03/apt40-e...

[2] https://research.checkpoint.com/2021/the-story-of-jian/
Of course they can. They are categorical statements. The reality is not absolute.
Classic whataboutism, happens when news articles criticise Russia, China or the US very frequently.
Half of the kids who contract Covid19 suffer from "long covid" (per https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7927578/). This is really, really bad.

The worse thing is: every person contracting the virus can develop a mutation that escapes vaccines - and children can spread it to their parents and grandparents.

You never had children I assume? Just look at your coworkers how often they fall sick because of some nasty flu or other bug their children caught in kindergarten or school.

And your "Wuhan coronavirus" naming ... the only people I've heard who call the virus by that name or its similar "China virus" are right-wingers and corona / vaccine deniers.
Damn, why can't I just have my Washington N-words, political correctness has gone too far
If the system would collapse like in the great depression, gold still works.
Tell me again how this applies to user privacy concerns?
It depends on the Content-Disposition header: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Co....

There are extensions that let you intercept this header, e.g. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/no-pdf-downlo... which per https://github.com/MorbZ/no-pdf-download/blob/c924d657f33398... detects the content-type and if it’s PDFy replaces the content-disposition header with “inline”.

(Clicking on a link that has the download attribute set also affects things: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLAnchorE....)
Banning is different from criminalization. So to make both legal but not easily obtainable seems consistent. Throwing someone in jail for life for possessing a 2-liter of coke seems wrong.
Good to know that this is an option but from MacOS I don't have NTFS write capabilities. I think ExFat is available so I might try two partitions one being the EFI ESP and the second containing the rest of the install files.