skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm glad to see I'm not the first or only one to make this point, but I'll reiterate... it isn't fizz buzz. Trust me, I can write fizzbuzz. I can write loops. I can do basic tree traversal.

If I study (yet again), I can also whip out DFS, BFS, MergeSort, inorder, postorder, find all permutations of a set or string, blah blah blah. Without study, I could code up DFS and BFS with a bit of time to think. But probably not in 45 min at the whiteboard.

If I study a lot (yet again), I might be ready for the kind of questions that have been actually used to screen me out, such was "find all matching subtrees in a binary tree", in 45 minutes, at the whiteboard.

The only way I can reconcile my experience with what you claim to be screening for is that I haven't interviewed with you, and you haven't been at my interviews, and we just disagree about what is typical.

But I've been on a lot of interviews, and I do firmly believe that "fizz buzz" doesn't come within 50 miles of the difficulty level of a typical technical exam style interview. I refuse to put this kind of time into study anymore, since there is no lasting benefit to reloading 2nd year data structures and algorithms into short term "45 minute whiteboard memory", and it so rarely works out anyway. I won't do a 5 hour, room to room series of technical exams. This may cost me opportunities, but eh, my guess is that I wouldn't have gotten these jobs anyway, so I'm really just saving time.

(on a separate note, I recommend you don't start your comment with a pre-emptive dismissal of why people may downvote you. just make your point, reasonable people here will discuss it with you, don't worry about the others).
I agree with the author's point that JavaScript is getting too big too fast. I don't like all the new support for OO stuff. I don't like how TypeScript often looks like C#. I don't like the direction in which JavaScript is heading. I may very biased here, but I think things like the promise proposal not being a monad is an example of those small cuts that kill slowly. Instead of having a well-thought abstraction, we have a "quick fix" around some problems, but then we have a quick fix on the quick fix (async/await). I wonder what the future of JS holds, but I'm not too confident.
Might be paranoia about “ownership of their content” or it might be a misguided attempt to prevent the kinds of spam blogs that duplicate the content of other blogs and spam search engines with the content.

Any spammer worth their salt would not be manually copying text, they would be automatically scraping sites.
> homogeneity of thought, with little options for those who go against the grain, either in general or on one particular issue.

Doesn't this differ drastically from subreddit to subreddit? It's really hard to talk about Reddit as this one place with one line of thought when it is really made up of disparate groups each with their own moderation style.

What are these "against the grain" opinions that you can't find a subreddit for?
Banyas on the other hand... (okay, they can be both)
Absolutely. But you're not getting that payday through a threat (extortion) you're getting it through a mutual agreement.
No. Not all ccTLD's have restrictions. .es is open to anyone.
Email providers absolutely block email, its the edge cases that make your spam folder.
> The only way to successfully switch to renewable energy is by making renewable energy cheaper than coal or nuclear.

The last sentence of the first reply is appropriate, since Germany basically did that. Thanks Germany!
I'd throw in Swift into the mix
You need carriage returns.
Understand that this is something I built for myself, by myself, so it focuses on languages I understand. It hosted on a single consumer grade computer in my living room. I built it out of pocket and anyone is free to use it. Does this make me a villain?

If I can do this, what's preventing some guy in Japan or India or Peru from doing the same, of course focusing on their languages?
NNTP does not equal Usenet.

Some of the most interesting applications of NNTP would never connect to the legacy usenet network, which as you mention is/was a mess.
Building first, marketing later is a gamble. Marketing is an activity that is conducted after product-market fit. Before that, there is customer development or business development.
Occam’s Razor And The Limits Of Simplicity
MassMutual fined $4m over meme-stock trading by ‘Roaring Kitty’
https://archive.is/VZnWw
> Thinking of the body as a well ordered mechanism is a flawed view

That's a bit of a leap.

The order and organisation of the human body is beyond every technology we have ever developed to date.

We discover what appears to be disorder in a healthy, non-aberrant system and make leaps to justify its disorder. Using the same philosophy that brought in the "junk dna" theory, we then settle the on acceptance of it being a mishmash of cobbled together mutations.
But then as the years go on we find another level of order in that "chaos" and we're humbled again.

>but isn't it wondrous that from this emerges a complexity that can say "I" and has consciousness of self?

You're right, it is wonderous, and if we assumed order first, I suspect we'd look harder for it and find it faster than assuming chaos so early every time.
What evidence do you have for suggesting that a citizenry with guns serves to protect other freedoms? The US generally isn't among the top countries on the various international freedom indexes[1] despite our prevalence of guns. We are usually behind Canada, New Zealand, the Scandinavian countries, and a few other European countries depending on the specific criteria being evaluated.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_freedom_indices
I worked at a startup where the CEO reverted the unlimited PTO because one asshole engineer took 2 months off paid leave and then came back and quit immediately. We were angry at the engineer, not the CEO, because it was clear what he was doing was taking advantage of the company's generosity.

When I worked at Uber engineering which had unlimited PTO, I took between 6-8 weeks of PTO every year. Most years was at least 6, but one year I took 8. No one batted an eye. I think it all depends on company culture or maybe team culture.

I would never work for a company that denied me a PTO day, even if it was a single day. I would never irresponsibly take PTO but I would also make sure that I took at least 4 weeks off per year no matter what. The secret is taking 1 week off per quarter, and then another 2 weeks off during Christmas. That automatically brings you up to 6 weeks.

But make no mistake, unlimited vacation is a way to keep PTO off the books as a liability. In California you cannot lose PTO that you have accrued. They can stop accrual however once you reach a certain level. Once you max out on accrual, you are giving the company money, which is stupid so it's important to consistently take PTO.
Is this only unique to Google?

Serious question - I switched from google to iPhone exactly for the tracking reasons, but I would think that apple does have similar data - if you have weather widget it must ping something, same thing with Maps and that’s not even accounting if you allow gps to set your time zone or collect traffic data.

Are the cops not searching apple data? Is it just not public enough? Or is the data pretty poor even if they wanted to search but can’t.
Current Atlassian here:

This article doesn’t represent my experience at the company so far at all. My team has been super chill about taking 3-4+ weeks of PTO, we’ve got people having kids and getting promo, we have people taking parental leave and coming back in good standing on the team, and we’ve had people take carer’s leave without any problem.

Not sure if this person was in bad standing with the team to begin with or just happened to have a tough manager, but this kind of vitriol is not at all justified from what I’ve seen at the company.

I have seen several overly entitled people throw tantrums about inadequate pay/benefits/conditions since I’ve been here, and that’s pretty much how I would categorize this website.
Under a VMT system, drivers report their mileage electronically, using a plug-in device in their cars or a smartphone app.

My personal preference would be to go around these tolls than to install a tracking device.
ProtonVPN has a decent product and management team.
Take the MG-42 but make it in a half-assed kind of way.
Agreed. There will be plenty of time to rant after legal options have been explored and allowed to take their course, assuming you're not forced to sign a non-disparagement agreement in order to get what you want.

It's not right, but that's just how things are.
I agree on the illegality and taboo nature, but I strongly disagree with the breeding out. Stats show that Western societies are getting taller and heavier with time. All these giants walking around us could easily conjure up knockout power if they get enough adrenaline coarsing through their veins.
Ah I'm on FF so I'll have to do the weird bookmark method. A little annoying since it supports other search engines.
User bjt2n3904 has expressed a strong negative reaction to threat profiling. Increase threat profile score by .4
So, keeping parity with the exoteric FBI's response.
>melting into the population.

Or, as in Afghanistan, actively supported by the population who hated both the occupiers and the VICE (Vertically Integrated Criminal Enterprise) known as the government.
and even before:

9x - please no!

2000 - great

ME - oh god, make it stop!
Also posted by Huffington Post (couldn't read FT article due to paywall): https://m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/imperial-measures-uk-re...

I thought the UK volantarily changed its measurement units (and currency counting) to metric back in the 70s to make it easier to trade with other countries. Wouldn't this change be counterproductive?
React is slow for the perf targets of VSCode.
The good old days. Now nobody writes an OS for fun anymore.
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Not OP, but he may be right. And not because it's true, but because people are irrational. The same people buying guns because they are afraid of BLM/Antifa are also avoiding vaccines while hoarding ivermectin. Irrational.
I’m sure the Catholic priest who first postulated the Big Bang theory would be pleased.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lemaître
Like a driving license, then. This means that anybody can get it, if they are moderately inrerested. It could be even a bit harder, and still be alright.
It's funny how we look at opinions as reasonable mostly out of convenience to our own foregone conclusions these days instead of statistics from which we derive evidence that substantiates our conclusions. This guy likes masks, he's one of the good ones. Not one of those baddies who don't. Let's ignore the fact we have almost 2 years of global data pertaining to mandates, transmission, and death rates, and decide who we agree with based on which tribe they hail from. Super reasonable.
>i am a giant pussy
Sir Clive was in a memorable QL ad as well:

https://youtu.be/as6hSAqJ_g4
The legislative branch asked:

> "Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?"

To which, of course, Clapper answered, under oath,

> "No, sir."

And then, later, as the article recounts:

> Upstream's existence was revealed in leaks by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden in 2013 and the lawsuit was filed in the aftermath of those revelations.

Or as Snowden puts it:

> "seeing the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, directly lie under oath to Congress"

The legislative branch cannot check the executive branch if the executive branch simply lies when asked "are you violating the Constitution?". I have no idea why Feinstein herself (as then chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee) doesn't laud Snowden as a hero for revealing the truth: that the committee she chaired got lied to. I have no idea why California continues to re-elect her, beyond they see "Democrat" and vote. Choose a different democrat.
Quite likely only investors in Google / Alphabet stock know that site and have it bookmarked because that's where Alphabet publishes its quarterly earnings. I also guess for the same reason, it only gets significant traffic once a quarter during earnings season.
Of course a country with more firearms is going to have more firearm-related deaths. The same is true for automobiles or bridges or baseball bats. The relevant question is what the overall death rate is.

For instance, Japan, per capita, has fewer firearms-related suicides than the US, but it has more suicides. I’d be willing to bet it has more train-related suicides than the US. Does this mean Japan’s suicide rate would go down if they had fewer trains and more guns? No, it just means that suicidal Japanese use the tools that are available to them, as do suicidal Americans.

Britain has very low rates of gun violence. But it has increasing rates of knife violence. Is this because Brits have too much access to knives? Or is it because violent people use the tools that are available to them? Britain is cracking down on knives, but even if they make it nigh-impossible to peacefully chop vegetables in your own kitchen, British criminals will just switch to screwdrivers or cricket bats or the Millwall Brick. But hey, at least you won’t have any more British toddlers getting hurt by playing with kitchen knives.

> I wish Americans could get a feeling of how different a society without a perpetual feeling of danger and paranoia feels like. Where children just go to school without security checks, amok drills and bulletproof safe rooms.

Americans a century ago were just as well armed as today (perhaps more so) and had none of that nonsense. It used to be that if you were an American teenager in a rural area, you could even drive to school with your hunting rifle still in your pickup and nobody would care.
I also owe a lot to Sir Clive. At 13 years old in 1981, My friends father bought a ZX80 for him. Some days after, I was at his home and he explained, what he had figured out about it. The same evening at home, I wrote my first program on paper (a Russian roulette game, I think). I couldn't wait until the next day, when I came home to him again, to see if my program would work. After some work we got it working :-) and I was hooked. I began buying the magazines "Your Computer" and "Byte", and even though English was a foreign language, I managed to understand some of it. A few months later, on my birthday I got my own ZX81, and after that an Acorn Atom, and then an Acorn Electron, and then a PC clone, and then... Still working with programming, now in data science :-)
Gotta be you, gotta be the personal preferences because I'm not that fond of Discord. I'm within same age and similar interests.

The good side of using Discord - or similar chat platforms is that interaction seems to be faster than on forums but by a cost of being buried under memes or all sorts of unrelated information and messages. Then, there's also the issue of longevity of information on Discord if server beside the generic social operation is being used as a way of support for the community; the ticket systems are in most of the cases temporary - your issue once resolved is being deleted and you cannot access it again.

The advantage of forums - at least for me, is that information on these is within the reach of every person by a standard search engine; you can "comb" through stuff globally or by using local forums search feature. You don't need to be on particular forums to access it, unlike on Discord. But there are of course downsides like limited access to content (register to access links, images) or search engines not being able to index all stuff.

I'd personally prefer if Discord would be used as complementary tool for any community and not as the replacement of forums.

Not sure if reddit with its subs counts as forums or more as an content aggregator with commenting feature. But still, some communities use subs as one of official communication channels or unofficial but with "blessing", or as an unofficial alternative to official forums (the r/guildwars2 vs official strictly moderated forums case).
Never combine, drag files onto taskbar items to open window, clocks on secondary monitors, taskbar in positions other than the bottom, small taskbar, option to always show all tray icons instead of having to set it per app, right click not having most of the options unless you right click the start button. A lot of the functionally focused options are gone.

Not that it's 100% bad. Ability to fully disable the show desktop region at the end of the taskbar, the combined volume/network/quick settings icon region, the general redo of the popout for quick settings, the search not being larger than everything else in the taskbar by default, the notification region merging with the clock region, and the general styling update are good. It's just heavily outweighed by the bad... and the broken.

The still broken even though they rewrote the whole thing including things like the new menus often getting stuck open even when you click away from them, auto-hide taskbar on secondary monitors still having issues popping up, the start menu always opening on the primary monitor when you press the win key even when you're active in another monitor, the new "Chat" Teams client that integrates with the taskbar still not supporting corporate accounts, sudden rapid fire 1 by 1 bursts of notifications about the emails I've gotten and already responded to in the last hour despite focus assist being disabled, and I'm sure more I can't think at the moment.

Also the dislikable additions which are of course preference based but I think most people will find things that received a lot of effort like widgets and chat useless.

.

All that being said it's still livable for me but it is a definite downgrade and a bit disappointing.
I know at least a few that I commonly see in top search results that I have friends that read them like personalized soap operas where most of the drama revolves around food and family and serving food to family.

It's at least half the business models of Food Network shows: aspirational kitchens and the people that live in them and also sometimes here's their recipes. (The other half being competitions, obviously.) I've got friends that could deliver entire doctoral theses on the Bon Appetit Test Kitchen (and its many YouTube shows and blogs) and the huge soap operatic drama of 2020's events where the entire brand milkshake ducked itself; falling into people's hearts as "feel good" entertainment early in 2020/the pandemic and then exploding very dramatically with revelations and betrayals that Fall.

Which isn't to say that there aren't garbage SEO farms out there in the food blogging space as well, but a lot of the big ones people commonly complain about seeing in google's results do have regular fans/audiences. (ETA: And many of the smaller blogs want to have regular fans/audiences. It's an active influencer/"content creator" space with relatively low barrier to entry that people love. Everyone's family loves food, it's a part of the human condition.)
You might have a skewed or incomplete perception I'm thinking... Neither of the holiday amounts you've quoted here are big in any sense, they're actually quite low.
It depends on the content. The flip side is looking up a programming-related question and getting results from 2012.

I think they take different things into account based on the thing being searched.
Funny that you mention Susan Fowler, because she acted the same way for the commons.

I'd be probably not be speaking about toxic behaviour with a hiring manager, during a high-stake hiring process. Maybe you wouldn't have either if it wasn't for her whistleblowing.
Please don't ridicule people that are trying to protect their identity.
So why didn't you quit? It's not like the job market has been massively hot or anything for the past three years. I've seen people run into similar (not to the same extreme) issues at various employers over the years, and the answer is "ok", as you hop back into the interview pool and then shortly give your two weeks.
>A cell has no evolutionary reason to transmit signals.

I don't think that's true. Signalling is important for multicellular coordination which can improve the fitness of the individual cell.
Isn't a strong central government one of the reasons we only have 2 parties? Aiming to control the national government is the only reason to have a party that crosses state lines.
I did well and was promoted and given raises and bonuses - that was kinda the point of working hard, not to get more days off. I just didn't like people making PTO a thing, it struck me as juvenile. I used plenty of PTO days, one summer I took every Friday off, but I didn't like the idea of being tracked like I was a child. My simple thought was if people do a good job, who cares about PTO tracking.
searching for covid gives a bunch of bogus crap of fake news
I'm not trying to encourage anybody to quit their jobs for a different local job that I suppose will have better benefits - I'm commenting under the assumption that the discussion's a bit more abstract than that.
And yet, the 48K is in history books, and is fondly remembered by many of us tech geeks who cut their teeth on that machine.

It doesn't matter everything else didn't work out, I'd be pretty damn happy with that legacy.
Those key persons are exactly the ones that decided Go should not have generics.

Heck, they're pretty much just succumbing to peer pressure.
Civil disobedience means accepting the consequences of your actions to affect public perception and motivate change. Using a VPN is the opposite of that.
I don't even care about the tyranny aspect- I own guns because I like owning guns and it's my right. I don't need to justify it to anybody.
In case you're not aware: Windows Key + E for a file management window.
The article missed the "Big Ball of Mud" software architecture pattern:

http://laputan.org/mud/
The problem likely isn't the company -- is the reporting line and the inexperienced middle manager he was reporting to.

Dont suffer these people. Esclate to N+1. Eventually you reach someone sensible.
That seems like just shushing them away by saying they aren’t the same, when in fact those factors don’t make a difference.
I worked at Acorn in the early 80's. I once arm wrestled Chris Curry in a bar. Neither one of them was really a Steve Jobs figure. I doubt many BBC Micro owners at the time would even have heard of them, unlike Sinclair who was in the press all the time. Curry was more of a drunken playboy, and Hermann more business man than marketeer or face of the company. It was a dream job for a geek!
I see we've come full circle and are bringing back the good old fashioned company town complete with a company store. It's only a matter of time before they start paying in company dollars. As a matter of fact I once did business with a company acquired by Amazon several years after that acquisition. They offered my struggling bootstraped company AWS credits in lieu of payment after payment in dollars had already been agreed to... and work had been performed.

Maybe we're close to peak late-stage capitalism or maybe it can go further, only time will tell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town
This or Mozilla which backs onto Mullvad.
I've used KOReader in the past, and it's awesome! Keeping the jailbreak when my kindle randomly decides to updates itself, not so much. (yes I followed instructions to disable updates, but it still somehow managed to update) At some point it becomes too much of a hassle.

Though OP has his kindle offline all the time, so not a issue for them.
You and me both. Prime example of astroturfing.
Keep quiet on your real identity and use the anonymity of the Internet to share everything.

Just be careful so it can't be traced back to you. That can be pretty limiting, but it's better than nothing.