skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our interviews for tech hires have gradually evolved into an interrogation regarding a person's attitude towards work/peers more so than their knowledge about how to do specific tech things. Teaching a willing participant how to do virtually anything with a computer is feasible in 2021. We need people who are willing to engage difficult, fast-changing things substantially more than smart-asses who think they know everything coming in the door.

There was an interview I was on last week where the candidate gave a ~3/10 response to an important technical question, but because their attitude and other soft skills were obviously excellent, we made a unanimous hire decision. It was clear to us that we could coach this individual to get them to 10/10 on the areas they need to be.

At this point, we are no longer requiring any certificates or college education. If someone happens to have a degree in a hard engineering field we are happy to have that, but it's no longer something we gate-keep on.
Oops, I deleted that part before you posted the comment; didn't think it was worded well. I guess my point was that the specific value of 2.718... isn't as important as a lot of pop-math sources make it out to be.
I remember when Debian + Wine used to run Warcraft 3 faster and smoother than Windows. Might still be the case.

Once at a LAN party, every Windows machine had their Warcraft 3 playing on the same match crash simultaneously, but mine under Wine didn't. I had a good laugh.
Wine is probably more conformant to Win32 than Windows 11. But the good news is that you can get it through WSL.
This is still being run by the non-profit, so I suspect that these can go into ongoing Wikimedia operating costs. They're incredibly efficient for the scale they operate at and I'd say this might improve things even further. The less reliance on giant donation banners, the better.
> That's incredible!

That is not incredible. I've seen windows machines take minutes to compile project from arduino-ide that compiled in a few seconds on same class machines on linux with a few students.

I think it has to do with windows defender. It probably has to check binaries which are created or executed. I saw a student got a good improvement in compile times after disabling it. I didn't measure it, but I can say it was significant.
> The US Vaccines[1], and the related vaccines, are highly limited resistance specific to a spike protein only, perhaps with boosters, to a number of spikes seen. Total = 1, perhaps 2 if it includes a delta variant spike booster also.

This is bogus. A broad spectrum of immune response develops through mutation and maturation of B cells. This is why we see broad neutralizing activity-- even against Delta without a Delta-specific booster-- against all variants from vaccination.
This is also how I got two new batteries replacements when I had to send my MBP in for keyboard replacement due to the stupid thing breaking (repeatedly).

Each time the system showed 0 cycles on the battery and I basically got a nice reset. Loved that part of it at least.
> you need a guiding hand to keep that top spinning and not tumbling over, so you need the Second Foundation to be The Management

That's where your anthropic principle ends, though, halfway through the trilogy. From there on out the original protagonists can't win without a new "special" set of characters blessed with superhuman abilities.
People cheat in chess all the time, using an engine to help them out, or before that getting outside assistance. Take a look into the Korchnoi v Karpov match for world champion which had accusations of cheating involving secret messages in yogur and one player hiring a hypnotist to be in the audience and the other responding by befriending two local murderers and bringing them to the match.

More recently Anna Rudolph was accused of hiding a computer in her lip balm.
Hi, Linus! :P
And we shouldn't have prid pro quo on such matters with an ally. Our legal and diplomatic systems should be able to asses each question on its merits.

I feel conflicted on the Sacoolas question. Obviously she should face justice. However, I don't think someone should be prosecuted if no crime has been committed. And with diplomatic immunity that is the case. If we have a problem with that we should change the law. Of course the real issue is allowing so many spooks to operate in a legal in between place.
It is analogous to a lens, in that the lens has a large aperture that allows a narrow, columnated beam.

This has smaller elements arrayed over a large aperture, and controlling the magnitude and phase of individual elements allows you to steer that columnated beam.

A bigger aperture gets you a narrower beam; lens, reflector, or array, it's all the same.
Cheating in online chess is easy. You just throw the current position into stockfish (or some other software) and see what it would do. I don't know if it's common, but it certainly happens.

But you're right about bridge. The game design is utterly broken when you have people playing who care about winning more than they do the spirit of the game. There's no way to prevent cheating at all. Teams can always develop additional channels of information, even on top of the official public one, to exchange information covertly. There's just no way to prevent it.
Main feature here seems to be colors, but GNU `ls` can also color files based on their file extension and also differentiate between pipes, executables, and working and broken links [1].

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/dirc...
ETLs, ELTs, and Reverse ETLs
Care about design patterns, yes. You have two kinda of tech interviews. You have the algorithms ones and according to nearly every review I've heard of people accepting those jobs they don't do algorithms. These are normally FAANG, etc based. For those read cracking the interview or just do what you're doing at your engineering course. Because again as everyone says it's basically that level of knowledge that is required to pass them. The reason people need to study for these are they're basically exams for knowledge you don't use day-to-day but learn at uni.

Then you have ones where they care about SOLID, DDD, etc these are normally Java/PHP/Kotlin jobs and more mid-level and enterprsied based. Also project recovery agencies also use these. These care about production knowledge and what you can actually do. These require experience to pass.

In my experience the main difference between the two styles is companies that have a massive reputation and can afford to reject lots of compentent people do algorithm tests. Startups who think they're cool also do them at the start. These companies can also afford to have lots of developers who can't actually do high level work because most of their work is very basic and the hard stuff is dealt with by others.

Companies who need a large percentage engineers to come in and do hard things and deliver real value will care about your ability and knowledge to write clean code over your ability to do university level quizzes.
I don't know about Jeff, but I know Sahar quit working at Facebook over a year ago to work on this instead.
> The parent comment was correct. The app, in and of itself, is just a tool. Your comment gives this away by including the clause "and the associated regulation"

You misunderstand both my comment and the regulation then.

That regulation increases the protection of freedom of movement and restricts the degree to which member states can limit that freedom. For example, member states can't choose to give more freedoms to people vaccinated with Pfizer than AstraZeneca, or privilege people with their own national certificate over those issued by other EU member states, or apply tighter COVID movement restrictions third-country nationals like me who have an EU DCC (France issued mine based on a US vaccination series) as compared to EU citizens who hold one. It purely helps movement rights.

The number of COVID entry restrictions which are made harder to enforce by the EU DCC or its associated regulation is zero.

> That being said, it is a tool built for a single purpose. "Papers, please".

> If we're lucky, the scope of use for this tool will not expand. I don't like having to get lucky.

It's basically the same as the yellow fever vaccine requirements to visit several African countries, just logistically easier, more temporary, and with an explicit ban on countries specifically requiring the EU DCC as mandatory entry paperwork instead of also accepting alternatives.
So as a script kiddie / tween I used keyword-related wikipedia content to get my domain parking network to pass Google's "must have content" requirement (that is until Google changed their TOS at midnight one day specifically to ban users like myself). What is an example of an actually legitimate use of something like this, and in particular, a use-case that wouldn't be properly served by simply downloading the current data archive on a ~daily or ~hourly basis as people tend to, or just by straight-up crawling as I did back in the day?
Worth emphasizing that this is described as basically just adding new ways to consume Wikipedia at scale, not taking anything away (not that that's impossible in the future, but unlikely IMO). In theory, systems that use a lot of Wikipedia data (search engines, "AI" assistant/question answering systems, language models) can keep doing what they're doing with Wikipedia dumps, but new APIs could make these services better (e.g., faster reaction time to current events).

A big upside of testing this out is the opportunity to keep better track of what services are Wikipedia-dependent. While search results often send people to Wikipedia (see e.g. https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/09/23/searching-for-wikipedi...), voice assistants or Q&A systems might be (i.e. likely are) surfacing Wikipedia content in more subtle fashion. Same with large language models. Under status quo, it will be increasingly hard to track these relationships, so exploring alternatives is well worth it.
Interesting, I ended up with Fira Mono and my current font is also DejaVu Sans Mono which I also like better. The @ sign does it for me.
Out of curiosity, am I right in thinking that Instagram is built atop Django?
It's like saying ripgrep won't ever replace grep... It's true but for many use cases (for example in many shell scripts) but there are much more people using ripgrep than just its creator.

exa is already several years old and has 15 K thousands stars on Github. Not to mention all the people using it that never bothered to give it a star.
> Casino found out about the flaw after they won big and refused to pay.

Did the casino also refund 100% of everyone's losses who ever played with the flawed brand of cards? If not, that seems like a horrific double standard.
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Javascript.

In fact, you're soaking in it.

Good luck.
It's like people forgot the war that old media waged on blogs in the early 2000's. It's never been a secret that old media hasn't been able to deal with the implications of a internet connected world would bring.
True - but the grain of truth may turn out to be more poetic than literal. And human nature tends to heap so much fantasy on top of any such grains that the average person is far better off using a blanket "disbelieve all conspiracy theories" heuristic.
Would you say your discussion style in this thread is "meeting halfway", and typical of your discussion style at work?

What would you say characterizes a "toxic" discussion style, or "being so bad at talking to people"?
Really nice work! My girlfriend said she would like to change colors as well, so adding a few themes could be a feature request.

But really cool idea :)
Windows11 doesn't have candy crush launchers/installers preinstalled in the start menu, I do have some links to Office programs I haven't installed but I don't find them bad
Great idea! But some of the fonts presented looked absolutely identical to me and I picked a winner at random :/
never seen this before, thanks for linking. i will try it out
These elements are critical but tiny parts of a number of products. Downstream users and even governments make a lot of noise about ensuring affordable supplies, but major multinational miners are slow and cautious about developing new projects. The total addressable market isn't that large. Miners aren't interested in over-supplying these commodities as a favor to manufacturers of batteries, magnets, or light bulbs. Especially for rare earth elements, market demand is so limited that one new major producer could significantly reduce market prices.
When websites stop trying to gather data at every opportunity.
You're talking about Georgism and taxing unutilized assets. If you have trees on your land, those could be utilized for lumber and you would be taxed on them if if they were unutilized. The same for oil, minerals, even raw land with agricultural potential. The main premise of Georgism is tha the resources belong to everyone and that people should be charged rent for access/ownership of them, whether used or not. This provides incentive for the owner to consume the resource to pay the tax.
thanks that makes sense :) so while you are here, two more questions:

1- What is your route to market when you sell to a new university, do you sell directly to the instructors, or sell to some kind of central function with the university ("learning technology department")? The issue here is that the centralised functions are much more risk averse to paying for new LMS once they invest in supporting one.

2- Also, do you notice a difference between geography/type of universities and how much they are willing to pay? For example from our previous investments, usually it is easier to monotise European business schools (where departments have more autonomy over budget), but selling to large top-tier public universities is much more difficult.
I’m sure this is more to save $$ for Apple, but either way it’s a win. It’s nice to feel like someone is actually listening with this new redesign.
> You can't really cheat in Chess.

At the top level, receiving a single bit of information from an observer is enough to turn the game.

That bit of information is "Your opponent blundered."

Modern chess engines can answer this question far faster than humans.
> SOAP services, even though they went over http, had to go through special inspection devices because XML parsing libraries were so complex and prone to parsing issues and security vulns.

So did the person who ordered that inspection device realize that the SOAP streams under inspection would be examined using a set of XML parsing libraries that are complex and prone to vulnerabilities? Seems like this setup just creates another device that must be maintained. Perhaps the solution would be to use another machine to inspect the inspection devices. Turtles all the way down.
There is 0 evidence his death was anything but a suicide, and was ruled so by police.

You believe things to be obvious, or as proof of some conspiracy, without evidence. That's a more interesting thing to explore than a single conspiracy.
> People are people and many don't understand or are actively afraid of technology.

One possible alternative is that people are suspicious/defensive (sometimes justifiably) when techies ask questions about "what problems are you having?" and "what do you typically do when ___?" To them, it might seem like they are being interrogated by someone ostensibly below their rank.

To be fair, this is sometimes exactly what is happening. A techie is sent in to investigate automating a bullshit job, but neither the techie or the person is told this in clear terms.
Those sound like non-arbitrary restrictions to make everything actually be stable and legit.
Perhaps a dumb question but I Googled and looked in the article. Do people spend 24/7 in iron lungs or simply do "sessions" or sleep in them? It was unclear to me how they actually function.
'I don't sleep well': Writer recounts career covering human rights abuses
The Wicked Bible
Rant: Wikipedia would get my donations easily if they simply included a couple of line items on what they are actually doing to improve Wikipedia! How is Wikipedia’s focus not on building semantic context into their pages? Or adding topical prerequisites? Or any number of meaningful features? Or is their goal to just exist in the present form?
I don't get what is the news here and why this is in top. You could always replace the battery. It's just that it is not easy. Now to replace it, you need to remove a trackpad. Ridiculous. You still can't purchase a replacement battery from Apple to replace it yourself. The only option is to purchase it from a place like iFixit once your warranty is out, or pay ridiculous price at Apple.
Did the link get edited or something? OP takes me to https://the.exa.website/introduction, which has a nice tutorial with all of the features and how to install.
Thanks for posting this, I just subscribed. They should include a way to invite others to check it out, send personalized invites to the emails I enter.
In a world where Apple is pushing on-device CSAM scanning and serial number locking cameras to motherboards, it's nice to see that some of their products still respect users' rights.

Now if only we could get an iPhone Pro with this kind of respect for right to repair.
A couple more suggestions:

- Option to lock scrolling so they both scroll at the same time.

- Button to flip them in place to help see the differences.
Anything over 40 GB is impractical for wide-scale distribution that would create a healthy network, and really anything over 2 GB is problematic and will have a much narrower reach.

This is evidenced by the fact that almost no one these days actually runs a local wallet. The number of logical nodes has decreased while the number of wallets has dramatically increased.
Absolutely. Every detail is thought out on these networks. They only get in hot water when someone goes off-script and even for that stuff there's typically some kind of correction issued later. It's all about covering their butts.
I'm genuinely interested in the reasoning behind this:

> The honor system is fine for a fun game with friends, but not fine in anything "competitive".

Is the honor system "not fine" in competitive situations because you have a deontological view that the only rules that matter are rules that are mechanistically enforceable, or is it not fine because you have a consequentialist view that competitive situations will usually devolve into something messy and unfair if all rules are not mechanistically enforceable?

I see the logic and appeal of both lines of reasoning, but they're quite different and people might easily disagree (for different reasons) with each.

See also my comment about ultimate frisbee, elsewhere in this discussion.
Not surprising. I haven't used Windows 11 but both MacOS and Windows 10 feel more sluggish to me than Ubuntu.
This is a great example of the kind of stuff we want to be talking about and looking at. Design changes that apply across the board.

You could imagine us swapping notes, and doing some research as a group, to see if this is indeed an idea that would work. And then spreading that information to everyone, including the platforms themselves.
Really depends on your use case. If that's the user's data anyway, no need to put it in an inner database.
> given how high up his influence reached

This thread is filled with people stating conspiracies as fact (without a hint of irony). We have no idea what his "influence" was, it's all speculation and conjecture. Yet that unknown is somehow proof it's all real ?
Yes. Instagram doesn't use the Django ORM though, and I believe they built their own async view implementation since it existed before Django went async.
And even if they did market it like that, why would anyone believe that at face value? When has that ever happened in software?

Like anything, you gotta dig a little deeper if you want know what something actually is.
Unfortunately the project at work depends on a minor posix shell script (for whatever reason), that has to run inside git bash..
Ultimately it appears the problem you and the parent post shared on both side of the system is bloat.

Too many bytes to transfer for every update.
For anyone interested, it looks like there's an open-source version (close, at least) to Ent at https://github.com/ent/ent.
Probably >90% of people with the Parler app are conservatives and a similar percentage of married people with the Grindr or Tinder app are cheating, which is where those assumptions come from.

Even if Apple wasn't scanning anyone's files, >99% of their users would not be pedophiles and no one would have any reason to assume that they were.

> If they went full end to end super privacy, then got named by the feds repeatedly in whatever the next big csam/terrorist/whatever scandal

The main effect from getting put on a list like that is to gain credit with privacy-conscious people for standing up for their users. Nobody says "oh no, I better stop using my favorite full disk encryption because it hasn't got any known backdoors in it."

> that is even assuming Congress people don’t join in the action, which they’ve already shown an interest in doing.

At which point you have government action and can bring out the constitutional arguments etc.
I should have worded that differently. I have no idea if Facebook actually lied. The point is that's what the whistleblower is alleging. That's the only thing being alleged that is actually illegal. so a whistleblower against a cable news station would need to also be alleging that to have anything to whistleblow about. Just claiming that they spread misinformation and sow internal national discord may be bad, but it's not illegal.

Note a separate possible key difference, though. It's not illegal for US citizens to sow internal discord, and it's technically not "illegal" for foreign intelligence services and troll farms to do it, either, since they aren't subject to US law, but when foreign actors try to sow internal discord in the US, the US government has the legal right to step in and attempt to stop them. They don't have that right when US citizens or US press operations are doing it.
I can recommend "e: The Story of a Number". It has a good explanation of transcendentals along with an informative dive into the history and significance of e.
We have lithium and Jadarite[0] reserves in Serbia. Is potentially just trading the ore and/or moving the processing out of Serbia viable? However, with Rio Tinto investing, we're not looking solid environmentally.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jadarite
Nowhere does it say all the responsibility is on the developer. But being able to ask questions without putting people on the defensive is hugely important.

Many software projects directly involve fundamentally changing someone else's work (hopefully for the better). You might not think that's a big deal but I can assure you it's a big deal for them. And for your project to succeed, you're going to need to recognize these factors and deal it.

I consider it like training -- anyone who've I already successfully completed a project with me knows how these things go and is perfectly comfortable. People I've not worked with before often need a softer approach until they've gone through a full successful project.
> Is it possible that some company with deep pockets forks Firefox and hires what it's left from its development team to further develop Firefox and improve its market share? Can it be in some big company's interest to push for web competition?

It seems like Firefox is getting more and more into bed with Cloudflare. They of course have their own interests like everyone else, but their interests are not the same as Google's interests. It seems like a development that is better than the current state of things where FF relies on Google for almost all of its revenue.