skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The rationality doesn't reflect the reality of Google being unable to innovate and continually competing with itself. Will another engineer from the same cohort who knows the same trivia and has the same education be able to shake things up?

What happens to the 3 that get rejected, do they try again later and filter through? Or do they tire of the process, give up, and work for competitors?
> Nowadays OS matters pretty little.

> Other than platform specific development work, it doesn't really matter in the big picture.

Yes it does. It just doesn't matter to you.
I don't buy that argument, as a programmer you have to write out code following a precise syntax all the time. Programming would be insanely tedious without knowing correct syntax.

Having said that, if someone came up with an interview test which used especially esoteric parts of the language in unconventional ways and then asked to spot the errors, the could be a dubious question.
The changing art of the subeditor: ‘You had to read the type upside down’
They are memorization tests at best. At worst they test which candidates have been unemployed most recently so they can cram leetcode study.
I hope so, I haven't used it much recently, maybe it did improve. Do you expose your CIDs so we can visit on IPFS?
I wonder if there is a machine that can translate this article from the language of political ideology into the language of rational thought. Unfortunately, as far as I know, machine translation is still subject to the law of garbage in, garbage out, so probably the only way to understand this article is to immerse yourself in the ideology.
Windows has completion ports (IOCP), which are much better.

At least finally Linux is also getting completion based IO with io_uring.
Eh, no. Windows' 10 UI latency it's abhorrent.

If any, current gens with Electron crap are doing it far worse. Far, far worse.
Ask HN: Reverse Kickstarter for Product/Services
Companies or people have problems that they'd pay to solve; Or products/services they'd pay for; If someone were to build them.

Entrepreneurs are looking for problems that are worth solving. They want to build something that people want.

So what do you think of a 'reverse kickstarter' where you can commit money for someone who solves your problem/ or builds something that you want?

Sort of like bounty for innovative startups.
Windows does have I/O completion ports, which is, frankly, superior. Then again, Linux has io_uring.

Again, pointless in the big picture. Most of the time these details are hidden by libraries.
Google’s ‘Time Crystals’
Linux eBPF bug gets root privileges on Ubuntu – Exploit released
That GIF from the /e/ foundation website shows quite well how much more, it is still a lot on an iPhone.

https://e.foundation/about-e/
Tesla big battery fire under control after burning more than three days
> worship "India's language is Hindi",

I think , what he is trying to say is, ascribing a single language to a diversified nation like India is not a good idea.

> Why do you believe that north indian language and religion are nonsense?

Free speech.LoL.I am not saying OP is right or is following HN etiquette, but that it is OP's opinion(not fact, not truth).

> I don't think North Indians are backward relative to South Indians. Although they are relatively poor.

Bihar is the most uneducated state in the country. Kolkata is a terrible to place to conduct business of any kind. Although , this is not representative of the North.

But what is North anyway ?
Should we consider anything above Madhya Pradesh North ?
Does Gujarat count as North ?
Does Mizoram count as North ?
The only thing worse than the railways in the South West are the railways everywhere other than the South East.
Do you not consider communication skills important for senior positions?

Some of the worst companies I ever worked at didn't value communication skills for senior positions, and I couldn't leave those roles fast enough!
Don't worry, your details already help a lot! I will look into it later this week.

The published version indeed has one bug regarding inserts referencing a deleted element. Maybe that is (part of) what you saw as well. I've fixed that locally already, but unfortunately only after I've made signifant other changes which are still to be refactored & published ;-). Probably time to just backport the fix and release it.
> stateless (classless)

These, as each is usually understood, are not even approximately the same thing, and any theory which posits that they are identical has either adopted nonuseful definitions of at least one of them to make that true, or is simply logically wrong.

> Such a world actually existed for hundreds of thousands of years as technology didn't allow one set of people to produce so much surplus so that another set of people could live without directly producing

Sets of people that don't directly produce have existed throughout all of human existence.

> a requirement for a state.

It's a requirement for the continuation of the species; infants aren't direct producers. How many total (and total-equivalent composed of part-time slices of sometime-direct-producers) non-direct-producers a society supports is a product of productivity, sure.

But at almost any level of that where one can have continuity of the species one could also have (and, indeed, human societies have had) a state; agents and decisionmakers of the state can, after all, be direct producers as well, and historically largely have been.
> correct base solution in the first 2-3 minutes

Not only correct solution but also generate alternatives to showcase what other things you know to get strong-hire.

Example:

This problem was asked in Google: https://leetcode.com/problems/cat-and-mouse/

It is actually based on a paper [1]. Plus it seems it is expected that one needs to know about 'alpha-beta' pruning algos for such problems.

If you solve this using dfs ... its basically gtfo

[1] https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Undirected-Cat-and-Mou...
Hopefully he wouldn't be hooked on social media and would neglect relativity.

Had a discussion with a colleague about Hamilton numbers and how he spend a lot of his life time on finding a general solution for ordered complex numbers.

We asked ourselves if in times of Netflix and Disney whether there will ever be anybody bored enough to come up with similar breakthroughs.
National Trust....They are notorious for exploiting their managed cultural heritage.
The biggest scam of all is the Northern Ireland Giant causeway where they trick you into paid parking and museum entrance whereas the site itself is free. All tourists are falling into this trap. Stonehenge is the ultimate example of an overpriced ugly tourist spoiled site. Nothing of its authentic history can be experienced there.
Much better to visit the smaller sites which are not managed by The National Trust.
I think much of the software might be the same as at any another company. These companies are so profitable that they're willing to offer more $$$ to get slightly better people to do regular work slightly better than it's done on average.
I followed a similar path.

Nowadays I just use the Notes app from my mac. I keep a primary note named "daily" where I write at the top the date and everything interesting for the day. If there is anything important enough I want to keep it for more days I move it to a separate note. If I realize I need something I did 3 weeks ago it is easy to find too. It syncs with my phone, works offline, and imposes as little structure as possible which is something I like for the reasons you explained.
the same way they hunt Russian hackers

on vacations in cool places :)

src:

https://www.google.com/search?q=russian+hacker+caught+on+vac...

1

>At noon on June 28, 2012, Vladimir Drinkman, targeted as one of America’s most wanted cybercriminals, and his wife hustled into a cab pulling away from their Amsterdam hotel. They had just been tipped off that the police were on to them, but an unmarked police car blocked their getaway. The Russian was handcuffed and arrested on charges of helping to mastermind what has been called the largest criminal hacking scheme ever prosecuted in the United States.

_____________

2

>The United States has carried out a largely unheralded roundup of big Russian hackers over the last year, grabbing them on vacation in Barcelona, Prague and Greece,

______________

or great talk by Adam Haertle, but unfortunely in Polish with English subtitles avaliable

The day of cybercriminal, or how hard it is to remain an uncaught

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPIIILlIYXE
This is actual manifestation of what you say online coming back to haunt you when you travel to the USA or countries using the same tech as the USA. You better pray that the topic modelling doesn't put words out of context & flag you. Wondering how would they even tie things back to a user, you'd need either access to the phone or their ISP to verify anything.
There’s a fascinating idea in here about how software spellchecks will alter our language over time. A few software companies / spellcheck AI’s dictating what is right and what isn’t.
I believe Microsoft were the first to do it.
Hmmm. Apple may have benefited from lockdown - people working from home and so using and consuming more on their devices but I think that's a fairly weak case for being Antifragile.

By that measure Google, MS, FB, Zoom etc are all Antifragile.

To be truly Antifragile a firm has to be able to benefit from a whole range of stressors.

I actually think FB may be the most Antifragile of the big tech firms. They have been stressed in a number of key ways already (eg shift to mobile, Google+) and seem to come out stronger.
mote not a good example as oil which is also hydrocarbon based does in fact float for awhile but not due to density
A cover letter is an introduction. It's easy, and polite. Skipping it communicates low effort and poor communication skills. I don't want to work with low effort, poor communicators, even if they're genius programmers.
My take on the book was it could’ve been ~20 pages, but had to be padded out to full book length. A lot of that in the self help category.
Or especially in machines that are new, my new aero 4k laptop is awfully supported, even on arch linux/manjaro
The title of this totally made me think of this classic story:

Manna – Two Views of Humanity’s Future: https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

In this story, the human essentially becomes a robot, with just headphones and a "todo app" telling the human what to do every step of the way
I moved module.py into a modules folder to clean things up and now I get:

"ImportError: attempted relative import with no known parent package"

Looks like I'm back to having to learn a bunch of stuff about scripts and modules again?
Why don’t React state updates reflect immediately?
Hey! Did I just get some downvotes from Goldman junkies? Ahahahaha That's adorable.
The Windows 96 Story
> Status bar nowadays usually refers to the information usually showing the URL you are hovering.

Oh yeah? Which particular Gods Of Modern Language decreed this, and who elected them to that position?
And that's why I had to go. What started out as the latter was drifting towards the former. In part due to the onwards march of IT services to cloud providers, but also attempts by the organisation to 'mature' their IT landscape, with the view that architects should certainly not be doing any actual engineering.
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Mmm, I think at the end of the day, Israel is probably the only reliable strategic partner in a resource-rich region full of basketcases. At worst, they'll have to tone it down a bit. If the US ceases to back them, they can always find a new backer.
> If this is the only "advantage" of Markdown with respect to LaTeX it seems quite feeble... Is there anything else of substance that the Markdown+LaTeX mix allows?

Never underestimate the importance of a thin layer of familiar syntax for easing adoption!
Bgg
How about an absolutely massive hedge in the shape of Stonehenge, called Stonehedge, right next to the road, so everyone can see it easily?
I want to share my recent fractal renderings, that I think are valuable, here's a fun example:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AT9bcRZygdcCiMs5TvRXK50iik5...

Despite it being where-everyone presumably-is I do not want to use Instagram, so I am not sure what's best to do.. is there a good-enough 'open'/decentralised alternative now?

Maybe a simple rss feed would do it?
Definitely the number is gonna increase dramatically next year with the Steam deck. Unless it's going to fail in some major way.
i’ve been using linux as my daily driver for just over a year. steam on linux has been great, and proton (wine) has been indispensable. big title games i’ve played with _no_ issues at all:

* Cyberpunk 2077 (ok that has issues, but it has the same issues for windows users..)

* Dying Light

* Titanfall

* The Division

along with _many_ other indie/small games.

honestly the only thing left is titles that include invasive anti-cheat. when that day comes, i don’t know if most of my friends will have any reason to remain on windows.

and who could blame them? finally, they won’t need to deal with a company that collects data from them without their knowledge, runs ads in their taskbar, demands they have a useless microsoft account, restarts their machine on a whim for updates, etc.

i hate that i’m going to say this out loud, but could 2022 really be the year of linux on the des- why does it feel so wrong to say that? :)
To be fair, precisely because of the Turing completeness, it's not in a journal's interest to run whatever totally bizarre code you throw at them—and they do have to run it if they're going to compile your code, which they have to do in order to screw it up to the house style.
Amazing product, keep it up
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> But there must be global investors who shorted these stocks

Why would you short a tutoring stock, especially if whats publicly traded is an investment fund that only does it as a small part of their business?
"It really vindicates everything Snowden has said on the topic."

Did any of his statements really need vindication though? Have we not known about this forever? (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON)
I suspect the real problem is, and always has been, our perceived inability to change any of it.
Well, in real life this varies. I've seen interviewers from among the first 200 Google employees, nitpick their way through someone's whiteboard code, obsessing over every comma and semicolon. It was embarrassing. And I have to say that while shadowing these interviews I couldn't help but think "I've seen your code - you have bigger problems than getting the syntax perfect, mate" (about the interviewer).

It depends on who you get as your interviewers, so generalizing isn't really useful. Some interviewers can't relate the interview to what it is supposed to tell you. I've seen that in inexperienced interviewers and I've seen that in very experienced interviewers who had enough GOOG stock to buy a small country.

If the interviewer can't think of a better way to test candidates, that's on the interviewer. Not the candidate.
> TeX is a a turing-complete language, picking some random subset of LaTeX commands would feel pretty arbitrary to me.

I'm not sure why Turing completeness makes it easier or harder to choose a subset—perhaps easier, since "make it not Turing complete" should be a guiding principle for anything you compile on behalf of someone else—but MathJax and KaTeX are both pretty good guides for an "acceptable" subset.
> firefox sync, [...] the reappearing ebay bookmark i deleted like 12 times by now

Maybe you need to delete it, just the once, from whatever device it keeps getting synced from?
If someone were to take trips with leaky rucksacks in that area, I would recommend loading up a variety of native tree species such as those species listed by the woodland trust.
It's both.

Let's not lie to ourselves: kids are demanding. There are moments when I hate my life (usually when I'm falling behind on work, errands and sleep, simultaneously). But then, one minute I'm feeling sorry for myself, and the next minute my daughter does something silly or touching, and I suddenly feel like the happiest, luckiest man on the planet.

Looking back, I'd say the perfect time for a kid is the earliest moment when you feel you have control over your life and yourself. I.e. if you know you're struggling with personality/emotional/mental problems, try to sort this out first. Other than that, it's better to have them early, when you're still full of energy: it'll make confronting the challenges easier, and leave you more energy to enjoy the rewards :).

But it's still true: all time management problems look serious until you have your first kid. This will teach you about prioritizing real quick - but also will shift your priorities, so it doesn't hurt as much as it sounds. For example, before becoming a parent, I was worrying I'd be depressed over not having time for my side projects. And indeed, I have almost no time for them[0]. But I also feel much less need for them. The desire for independent creative expression is still there, but the daily challenges of parenthood often tickle similar areas of the brain - the kind of how artificial sweetener can substitute for sugar without being the real thing (and also makes you feel better).

--

[0] - I'm hoping that when my daughter is old enough to communicate verbally and reliably keep attention on a single thing for more than 30 seconds, I can get her involved in helping me with tinkering in stuff. But that's still years away.
I'll concede the point that SteamVR on Linux is possible because of Valve after some research, but I still think it's an example of were Mac can't rely on outside industry because they will only support the dominant platforms or their own platforms (for instance, Valve supports linux primarily because of steamboxes).

And Valve not supporting Mac again shows that relying on outside industry is not a viable strategy if you are not the dominant platform. Mac wasn't a big platform for them to sell VR titles as it's not used by many consumers to play VR titles, so they drop support.

As another example, the Oculus client only supports Windows (outside of the Quest etc). There are mac's out there with powerful graphics cards and lots of RAM, however they are few and far between compared to Windows boxes, so Oculus chooses Windows as the dominant platform - If you are going to support one, it will be Windows, and if you are going to support Mac, well it's not going to be the first-class citizen. If Apple wants VR support they are going to have to go out there and graft for it.

The overall point is just - Apple is successful because they decided they wouldn't wait for industry to support their platforms, and that they would just build it themselves if the industry didn't come. For instance, iWork is a direct result of Microsoft not bringing Office to Mac originally - The lack of good presentation software was going to be something that prevented professionals using Mac, so they went out and built Keynote themselves. On the flip side, Photoshop was a great app with best support on the Mac, so they never needed to build a good photo editor. The investments are all to fill in gaps where other people in the industry weren't bringing stuff to the party.
Well apparently reading isn't so easy either since so many missed what the points being defended were.
There are at least two different commercial hosting sites that implement a pull request model. If you want ephemeral branches like in git, hg branches are indeed not the right choice. But that doesn't mean that they don't have their place. Try topic or bookmarks if you want gitish behavior.I have absolutely no clue what you mean with trunk-based development...
I find there is a lot of OS-specific knowledge for deep-diving.

Want to get symbols to debug the kernel? That'll be the microsoft symbol server on windows, or a System.map file in Linux...

Want to make something happen with every boot of the system? That'll be a system service on windows (and by the way they have all kinds of gotchas about what kinds of stuff they can access) or a systemd service on linux.

Want to make a file creatable, writable and deletable by a specific user, but disallow reading back the file contents? Thats easy with windows ACL's, but on linux you're going to have to mess with seccomp.

Need to script something quickly? Well thats either bash on linux or powershell/batch files on windows.

It turns out regularly using two OS's requires almost double the learning time to be as effective on both - there is overlap with concepts, but little overlap with implementations.
Regretfully most racing sims (and any other sims that use peripherals) are still a huge pain to get going, even with Proton. At most you can get the actual game "running" (with performance sacrifices over Windows), but you still won't get things like Force Feedback, and half your peripherals features probably won't work (or will work intermittently for no reason).

I'd love nothing more than to never use Windows again, and I use Linux for 90% of my daily use, but if I have to have Windows still installed for any major games at all then it's just easier to keep using Windows for all gaming, where gaming really does "just work", every time.
I saw about this on a TV show - long ago. I have no idea what the show was but I remember the bike and the idea very clearly.
Why You Always Board Planes on the Left
It is generally the case that things don't exist without funding, correct. Different countries have different political consensus on how much tax money to pour into funding PhDs for basic research, but /all/ do to some extent as far as I know.

I think you should read Sapiens by Harrari, he writes about the interaction between universities, capitalism and democracy. Very illuminating to me.
Re-read the thread.

Test results and fet experience are not connected.
Yup. If nobody's following your rules its because your rules suck bad enough that the risk of not following is lesser than the problems caused by following them. People are not idiots. They'll jump through process hoops in order to satisfy management's requirements so long as there's some shred of reasonableness to it. If the hoops are easy they'll jump through them just to say they did. If he hoops are obviously beneficial they'll jump through them even if they're hard.
Partially, for sure. However, even with hardware support you need some kind of licensed (signed?) binary interface with the DRM hardware to ensure that nobody is decoding a hundred Netflix streams at a time.

I don't know a lot about how everything works below the hood, but you can probably find some of the details on the Microsoft website [0] if you want.

[0]: https://www.microsoft.com/playready/
> Geohotz had a good rant about this once - the kind of people who need to cram leetcodes and memorize algorithms are not the kinds of people who Google wants to pass these interviews.

And yet, they routinely do pass these interviews.
Same here. Switched 2 months ago after using WSL all the time & being annoyed over many things, including "failing updates" on windows. Did a dualboot but haven't used windows since. Game to add to your list:
- CS:GO
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nitpick: today's Gandhi dynasty (Sonia, Rahul, Priyanka, Robert) is actually Nehru progeny. Nehru's daughter Indira married one Feroze Gandy and got their surnames "updated" to Gandhi spelling. the Gandy and Gandhi have absolutely no connection .