skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It tends to depend on how large and/or elitist the company is and how formalized the interview process as a result. In very rigorous interviews people are, ironically, less likely to dock you for style points unless they significantly slow you down or reflect a generally poor mental model; it will be assumed that you’re using a language that you’re less familiar with. Probably many people have taken the interview so you’ll be calibrated mostly on how far you got and how much help you needed to get there.

In smaller shops it’s going to be more hit and miss because you don’t know the level of the candidates you’re up against, but probably style points, comments, and good structure will be weighed more highly.
it’s the best advertisement ive ever seen in my life. google can fuck off this is great. I only wish it didn’t make the little puzzle piece appear on the URL bar but it’s a small price to pay.
Do you have a list of those interesting users?
It does appear to[1], and it does help because you can set XDG_CACHE_HOME in your dockerfile so it'll be the same across all runs. I think that's what the GP was getting at.

[1] https://huggingface.co/transformers/v4.3.3/installation.html...
The software wasn't quite up to scratch.

It was OK if you only had one computer, and so DropBox was a pure backup system.

It wasn't always good if you had two computers and used DropBox as a syncronisation system. (I had cases where instead of adding new files to the second computer, it took those new files away from the first computer.)

I ended up making my own internet-facing file server.
I just send this kind of stuff to spam because I never subscribe to any mail newsletter.
Agreed - if you can test it then test it.
100% coverage may not be easily achievable with some languages/frameworks, but as other have pointed out, it's a good idea to work towards it for dynamic languages so you can reduce the possibility of runtime errors.
Check out bangs: https://duckduckgo.com/bang

You usually don’t even need to remember them, for most somewhat popular sites you can just guess the bang, and it searches there.
I can tell you what, that much screen time right on your face is going to fucking ruin millions of eyes.
99% of the problem would simply disappear if we simply held news aggregators responsible for the information they distribute.

If somebody is harmed by something they read on Facebook, they can sue Facebook for damages. Facebook would need to have identity verification in place so it can counter sue the person who originally posted the information.

The age of anonymously posting "news" is over. Words and actions have consequences, and people need to held accountable.
The name of the developer sounded familiar, so I looked him up — turns out he’s the developer of Apollo, likely the best reddit iOS client.
Exposure to UV light (not blue light) is also really important for eyes. Get good eye exercise outside...literally. Outdoors.
Testing is an art that takes quite a while to master. People are able to write tests but many don't know "how" to write tests. Testing is extremely valuable but at the same time very easy to get burned. When testing done wrong (like abusing tests for coverage):

1. It makes the code too inflexible to refactor, leaving the system too rigid to grow.

2. It makes people frustrated on how to write tests in this project.

3. It makes people spend more time on writing tests than implementation.

So some quick tips:

1. Only test the behavior from the user/consumer's perspective, do not test implementations. (Therefore the internal can be refactored without deleting tests.)

2. Be simple, clear, and consistent about how to write test on the project. If it's layered architecture, be clear about which layers need to be tested. And be minimal, two layers of testing is usually more than enough. Make sure the testing rules is enforced in the code base in the beginning, and then it will be downhills since people are mostly copying.

3. People always talk about the Testing Pyramid: the idea is coarse-grained tests are valuable but too costly while the fine-grained tests are cheap, so it's all trade-off and the optimal is to make them like a pyramid. But in reality, certain layers of tests could be drastically optimized. The idea is maximize the granularity on behaviors covered, while minimize the infrastructure involved (e.g. carefully designed monolith + hexagonal architecture), or make the infrastructure fast and parallelizable (e.g. SQL sandboxing). The end result is a certain layer could be a better trade-off than others, so concentrate tests there instead of writing tests repeatedly.
My direct report is awesome. The guy I do 1:1s with is decent. Department head should not have any direct reports. Too abrasive.
Nobody is forcing you to install Firefox/Chrome - you are completely free to follow your choice. We merely don't want your opinion enforced on us and desire the freedom to install a browser of our choice.
Rules are being implemented from 1st October and not just for credit cards, for ALL transactions that are autonomous.

Source: I live in India and got an sms from my bank stating the same.

This makes my netflix subscription easy to cancel.. usually I used to be lazy to go and cancel but every month my account goes on hold! That's a life saver as I'm saturated with netflix now and it's wrong to make everything bloody subscription.
What OS and browser you're on? Seems to be quite nice on Mac OS/Chrome.
It goes a little farther than just mimicking paper. Being able to rearranged my notes notes just by dragging and dropping was the killer feature for me.
The country with more von Neumann clones wins.
Yes, that's typical of the West to call any contradicting information as "paid by Russian government".

It never cease to amaze me how hard US population believes that it has some kind of monopoly on truth. That no other nation or person can know the truth, but US is always right.
I got an sms from my bank today that scheduled transactions will not be honoured by the bank.. with effect 1st oct

So yes circular is old but it's being implemented on 1st oct..
TikTok has been banned in India for a while now. Imagine where it'd be if it wasn't.
Check out https://neeva.com/

Paid search engine that I switched to last month. Best feature is no ads. You can hook up your private data silos (Notion, Slack, Google, Dropbox etc) and all results appear directly in regular search.

I don’t ever see myself going back to whatever the fuck Google has morphed into over the years.
I don’t think this limited to careers in academia. I see similar kinds of survivorship bias in leadership seminars and talks in industry where they trot out the folks at the top of the pyramid to discuss their career trajectory and dispense wisdom to the rank and file.

Of course, you can still get paid well as a rank and file employee in industry, so the harm is not the same.
How much of that is actually useful?

First, to even apply to medical school, you need a completely unrelated 4 year undergrads. Then there's residency where, let's face it, it's more of a contest of who can sleep the least and impress whoever's in charge and not at all about learning.
... and in typical Apple fashion, it costs money to get it.
> my small plastic table, looking out on the blank concrete wall of the building next door, some fading indirect light filtering in, the ability to turn around and take a whole step back before bumping into my cabinet to take a break

Sounds more reasonable for Tokyo and I imagine, HK or Singapore.
It's funny. The older I've gotten, the more code I've written, and the slower I am to write code.

When I was fresh out of college the 'obvious' approach just appeared, and I was off to write it.

Now, any problem I am slow to peel apart in my mind, decide what the best way to approach it is, based on the language I'm using, what I'm feeling right now, readability, maintainability, etc.

Tic Tac Toe? Interesting; should I store board state as a 2d array, or a single array? The obvious approach would be to try and play every possible game with backtracking, but perhaps instead it would be simpler to just generate every possible permutation of 5 Xs and 4 Os? Would that work; on the one hand a badly playing O might lose after just 3 Xs, but we could still fill out the board if we 'kept playing', so it maps one to one, so maybe! Of course, then you risk situations where both X and O wins, so maybe not? Also, what about rotations; we could reduce our work by ensuring we didn't try to solve for cases that are just rotations of one another, but is the book keeping of that more work than just brute forcing it, given the constrained nature of the problem? Etc etc.

Writing working code matters, yes. But if you're looking for people who think just a few seconds before typing anything, and then seem frustrated they can't type fast enough, you're optimizing for juniors.

I hope it's all satire.
What a nasty thing to say a random/typical engineer is too stupid to assess talent and is basically racist…

Who are you to say such a thing? Is there even a shred of evidence?
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The actual focal distance on a Quest 2 is about six feet, that's further away than I keep my desk monitors.
So there are four major draws to China for Western companies:

1. It's a market of >1B people, hundreds of millions of whom are rapidly developing disposable income. That in itself is probably enough;

2. Cheap labour;

3. Supplier proximity; and

4. Political stability

I can't stress how important (3) is.

The net effect of all this is there's a network effect of suppliers in China. Those phones that are made in, say, Shenzhen require parts that are made by a factory down the road. This could be everything from chips to tiny screws.

Anywhere else and you'd need to ship various parts from China and have the supply chains and inventory management that that entails.

If you look past the fact that worker conditions are Dystopian, it's quite a wonder of the modern world, really.

But when I (and I'm sure others) talk about the perils of kowtowing to China, it's because they want the market not the manufacturing capacity.

Think of a movie studio that wants to distribute content in China. To get permission to do so that content has to be acceptable to the CCP.

Many suspect this is why the movie "First Man" had no scene of planting the American flag in lunar soil (an iconic historical moment). Some pseudo-artistic defenses have been unenthusiastically lobbed on this issue. Personally I find these unconvincing at best.

Western companies willingly engaging in self-censorship (or even the credible allegation of such) to pander to a foreign totalitarian government is not something I, personally, approve of.
Not wrong!! These scheduled transaction use our laziness/ inattentiveness to mint money from us.
Lol. 30 minute standups.

Outside of a very time critical release, standups are absolutely worthless. There is no need to coordinate when multiple people are independently working on separate projects.

All too often standups degenerate to sequential 1:1 micro status reports. Even if that micro coordination is beneficial, there’s no point for the manager to even be there since they’re not actually doing any of the work. All they need need to know is if the project is hitting its milestones, and daily updates are simply too noisy for that.

Even if you disagree my opinion of the efficacy of standups, 30 minutes is 2-3x too long, as every description of a healthy standup I’ve ever read says they should be quick. 10 to 15 minutes at most. Subdivide the teams, or take the discussions offline. This isn’t the way they should be run.
I thought DDG was bing, just with some privacy
The post you replied to said Mach-E, not F-150.

And assembly is not manufacturing. The sentence you quoted is making careful use of weasel words by zeroing in on assembly.

Tesla brings in rolls of aluminum and steel (and other things) and puts out cars. Even the seats are manufactured in the same town. The motors are wound from scratch on site. Casting and stamping happens on site as well. Like you, I don’t know the full picture on externally sourced parts, but there are a lot fewer parts, and I do know weasel words when I see them.
As long as we keep computing more and more SHA-256 and Keccak-256 hashes ad infinitum, it will all be okay.
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Use whoogle then

https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search
> every possible permutation of 5 Xs and 4 Os? Would that work

xox
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corresponds to two different games depending on where you placed the first x, so no
Having to click around to get a normal search is clearly an anti pattern. Forcing someone to reach for thé mouse rather than simply typing is an insult.
It depends. I think your code should be readable - try to make good variable names if it doesn't slow you down, but as long as they're not actively misleading even code with short names like "x" will be comprehensible at the program sizes written during interviews - because the interviewer will need to review your code after the interview and making it comprehensible can only benefit you. Especially if you don't get it quite right, it's much better for you if your interviewer can look at your code and see the minor bug fix needed, versus having to take your nonfunctional code as given. On the other hand, don't waste much time on "future needs", at least for hour-long interviews - YAGNI definitely applies here.
Is there some basis for thinking that? AFAICT your eyes/brain seem to overlook the physical location of the screen and are tricked into variably focusing based on simulated depth.
Have any references for that?
Well I'm a bit skeptical whether they would or whether it would be better to suggest actual structured courses for me. But either way I don't see how that justifies regular 1:1 when I don't get said coaching. Send a message mentioning their thoughts and ask if I'd like some help with it, and if they think they are the one to give it and other team members would not benefit, great organize a regular call for a few months or do it over slack or whatever.

As I said, I have no problem with a call for a said purpose with an achievable goal. "1:1" is not a goal though, nor is "talk about <x>".
Qualifications != intelligence. Everyone has pre-existing biases.
Some people fall into the trap of becoming the 'angry guy behind the keyboard'. I think it's best to just move on when you encounter them. Continuing the debate isn't going to teach anyone anything, and it just gives them a place to exercise their anger-driven attacks. I understand the urge to try, but when I see that sort of tone online I now just move on. They can have the last word if they like.
I think this is mostly a sign that he’s out of practice - he’s a former PhD student working on database tech, the man has spent plenty of time writing algorithms. I’m claiming that he’s under weighting the effects of practice on how well (specifically, how fast) candidates perform here. When people are coding at typing speed, it usually means they’re not really thinking at all - rather recalling a similar template from memory.
> Turning gas off is a nuclear option for Kremlin

The Kremlin is as dependent on that $$$ as Germany is on gas, perhaps even more so. They won't dream of screwing their largest client, and one of the most important trading partners. If Germany was desperate for energy it wouldn't be engaging in super expensive "green" energy boondoggles and it'd be building up baseline nuclear capacity. They _easily_ have the engineering to do it, and the operational capability to run it safely. The fact that they are not doing this is quite telling - they too do not believe the Kremlin would be prepared to blow off its feet with a Gatling gun like that. If anything a trade partnership like that only makes Europe more stable, and any political or military shenanigans would be less likely to occur. Crucially it'd also strengthen the ties between the two countries, which is something the US does not want to see, because then the US sanctions would be only good for wiping one's ass with. Can't have that.

Full disclosure: Russian-American, but not a fan of Putin.
In the case of safari you could use the built-in reader mode. I have it enabled by default.

Google of course will never include such a thing
I just paid for one year of Historious. I did like the service - that's why I was using it back in July 2010! I hope you have time to keep it up.
Wow, what a huge violation of public trust and privacy.
Amusingly every other page on that site is giving me a Cloudflare access denied error, saying "This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks."
I prefer "ND" (No Data), personally.
Yeah but everyone already knows the rest of the job market is fucked beyond belief. There is an active false narrative that becoming an academic researcher is about doing good science. At best the cynicism goes "get published in a good journal"/grantsmanship deep. Nobody talks about the "don't be ugly", "Theranos-level oversell your research", "over interpret your data" strategies as positive factors in academic advancement.
IANAL but I’ve heard that under the terms of our cross border agreements with Mexico, “Produced in the US” is a legal term that can also be applied to items manufactured by Mexican workers in special economic zones in Mexico on (the Mexico side of the) US border. In other words, take it with a grain of salt.
IME, it's mostly a step up from a monitor, because I can position the displays wherever I want. In addition to OP's sitting and standing setups, I spend a lot of time working lying down, or sitting extremely back, with my head fully supported.
> But if an HIV vaccine were invented in China today, the USA would do everything they could to steal it or invalidate any patents on it.

This seems to not match the behavior that we actually see in other fields. In the situation of folding smartphones, for example, the first manufacturer was Korean. The Chinese solution was to poach staff and steal trade secrets from a contract manufacturer, while the US solution has been to just buy the resulting devices as consumer products.
You could just use https://www.amputatorbot.com in this case. The extension's selling point is convenience
Sorry, I use to work for GM under a union. When I left and started working in non-union businesses I never once said "I wish we had a union here.".

Unions have done a lot of good in the past, but for the last couple of decades they seem to be more organizations more interested in paying big paychecks to their own representatives.
I wasn't actually asking or pondering over it (the answer would in part be determined by what is meant by a "valid game"); I was just presenting a train of thought akin to what I would have in such a situation, examining the question in various lights as to ways to solve it, and generating clarifying questions to ask or ideas to explore.
If your goal is to make it to the top, then it is wise to hear from the people at the top how they got there. Inevitably it comes down to innate talent, passion, hard work, and luck. Luck is the element you can't control, but without hard work any luck presented would be useless.

Even if you never get lucky, the character traits of high-ranking people in your field can still be useful to you. Unfortunately there is no guaranteed path to success, and you just need to keep trying and hanging around if you want to become top-tier in whatever career you choose.
It does add separation from work and not-work. Take the headset off and you go from work to home without any commute.
> Yeah but everyone already knows the rest of the job market is fucked beyond belief.

I’m not sure what you mean.
They come with a J1772, not CCS Combo 1. Combo 1 is J1772 + some DC pins.

The DC pins are the desirable part. J1772 is limited to I think 19kWh and is considered L2.

CCS Combo 1 is very rare in North America.
How does the 'else' confuse what is happening?
Yeah well I find the idea of being fired over speech outside the workplace corrosive to democratic society.
So according to that article, Covid so far has been 1/3rd as deadly as the Spanish Flu, yet any comparison drawn to the flu would elicit the response of "ITS NOTHING LIKE THE FLU, IDIOT!" ??

Interesting. I'm not downplaying the deadliness of Covid. The numbers speak for themselves.

Spanish Flu had a mortality rate of between 2% and 10%, and mostly killed healthy young adults. Estimates for Covid put its IFR somewhere aruond 0.4%, and it killed almost entirely elderly people.
> without hard work any luck presented would be useless

Can you say more about why you’re convinced this is true?
That’s just one definition. According to Google and the Oxford dictionary, the first definition of a service is “the action of helping or doing work for someone”.

It does not need to involve customers or even be a business transaction.
I use http://wheregoes.com to manually follow any unsubscribe links that my hostfile blocks.
The issue isn't (only) the focal distance. The difference is that your desk monitors don't encapsulate your entire eye cavities and cause pupil dilation, pumping blue light directly onto your retinas, which has been suspected to accelerate macular degeneration, night-blindness, and dry eye, as well as cause poor sleep.

https://www.webmd.com/eye-health/blue-light-health
In a Tesla, you need to interact with the screen (or the voice control) to:

* Control the wipers

* Adjust air con

* Adjust the stereo

In the newer model, the blinkers are controlled by some horrible touch sensitive buttons on the front to the steering wheel.

There’s no misconceptions here at all. I went and test drove one and that’s how it works. You can go watch some users guides on YouTube of people explaining all of this.
I have met few PhD students who made the choice to get a PhD based on money or a higher earning potential. It's seems odd to criticize the choice solely on that criterion.
"improve the clarity of a test by displaying “pregnant” or “not pregnant” on the display instead of the usual lines that can be difficult to read."

I generally agree with your point, but there is an accessibility use case for this test. If you are able to, you should choose the less wasteful option.
I remember many years ago spending a good amount of time making playlists and starring my favourite songs on the KDE media player. Then KDE4 happened and everything was lost. Same thing happened at least a couple of times, and it's a real pity. I used to make nice playlists (tapes...) and share them around, and get some cool ones from friends with better taste than me, not so much anymore...
And went into massive debt to fund his sabbatical.
> put your media on a uPnP server, access it using vlc on a smartphone and then from there send it via bluetooth to the radio using it as a bluetooth speaker.

Hertzshaffnocheinmal! What a contraption. Here's what I want:

1. plug a USB device in that has all my media files on it

2. push "shuffle"

3. push "play"

Like how CD players work. In fact, even steps 2 and 3 should be optional. It should just work when the USB device is plugged in.
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Are we looking at the same Carlos Watson show? Looking at their most recent upload, it has 363 views in 3 days, and that's actually above average.