skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do experience-based interviewing, and i have never encountered this problem. The great majority of the time, people are able to talk about anything. Sometimes, there are sensitive parts of prior work, but a candidate can just talk around those bits and focus on the rest. Even if someone had been working somewhere super-secret, if they aren't a junior, they have other experience to talk about.

If all your career experience so far has been at the NSA, yeah, you might want to do a side project before looking for work.
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The target group for consoles is people who for one thing want the thing to just work, and not have to fiddle with Windows update, drivers for their hardware, maintain Steam/EGS/UPlay/Origin/Gog/itch.io/Humble, and also not pay ridonculous prices for the latest RTX3080 or whatever is the graphics card these days. And this piece of hardware IS also cheaper than the equivalent PC (except right now with the chip shortage where the PS5 is pretty overpriced)... add some exclusives to the mix, and customers buy this.

The fact that a game might be 69.- instead of 59.- on release and for a much longer time without sales on this platform is then suddenly not so important anymore.
Are there new cars being sold in Ukraine without catalytic converters/FI? Or just some old cars that lack those? We have pre-1975 cars in the US without converters (and somewhat newer carbureted cars), but by normal turnover and retirement of cars, they’re pretty uncommon and extremely rare as daily drivers.
Depends what matters to you. Do you care a lot for graphics? I can run nearly every game I care about on a laptop, since I care about gameplay like older emulator, indie games such as into the breach don't need good graphics, AoE II and SC are way more fun than ray traced shooters to me. For a cheap PC a 3400G APU can play GTA5 pretty well, and emulate PS3 games, nothing high spec just a CPU+GPU combo chip for $150 that will play older games, not lock games by console, and run PC software. Lots of great free games on PC like cave story exist too, not to mention the granular settings to games that don't exist on console, free mods to make games like Skyrim keep it modern, the existance of mods for games like Fallout or GTA5 make console games less full featured and unappealing unless you want to be locked to whatever they think is best for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0p5fbW5odY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yxPtHuyPJo
If you want the latest AAA games, consoles are cheaper unfront costs, more expensive in the long run, and you have less freedom to run cool stuff on the games.
People pay more for products made in USA than products made in China, even if it is the same product, yes.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say I think most candidates don't hate scripter interviews, they hate robotic interviewers that go mindlessly through a checklist.

When I train interviewers my advice is: have a script, but be happy to go off it. If interviewers keep an authentically engaged conversation, the questions will blend into the background.

Scripts helps in several fronts. They help to reduce bias, standardise calibration and practices between teams, and provide a fallback to get the interview on track. However good interviewers should keep a living conversation with candidates, and take interesting cues off script.
For Linux users, see this Unix.SE post for adding new symbols to a keyboard layout:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/674997/new-keyboard...

Note that is my own self-answered question and answer, after having difficulty. For completeness' sake all steps involved in adding new symbols to the keyboard - desktop agnostic - are included in that question.
Thanks for the feedback, will look into it
That electoral fraud is a vanishingly small problem in the USA.
As a defence against "mimetism", probably we should do what Warren Buffett did : He talks about NOT living in NY or near Wall Street probably as a way to defend against this influence of others [0]. While we can't all go away and live someplace else, at least it's worth trying to get away from things to get perspective .

“It’s very easy to think clearly here. You’re undisturbed by irrelevant factors and the noise generally of business investments,” Buffett said. “If you can’t think clearly in Omaha, you’re not going to think clearly anyplace.”

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com.au/warren-buffett-berkshire-...
>will be able to achieve little in his ‘hobby’ due to lack of time and a desire to not go overboard)

Huh, no, you get 80% result for 20% effort. Diminishing returns are actually a big problem. Drawing may be not innate, but artistry is innate: even if I learn how to draw, I won't be able to draw anything, because I have no idea what to draw.
I did not say you can not find a great game for Windows. I said that some great games will never be available for Windows.
Electron desktop client instantly disqualifies it as a Telegram Desktop competitor. Telegram Desktop is probably the best example of how desktop software should be built.
I might be getting whooshed here, but if you're serious, there's a couple colab notebooks floating around, you can look at the code that generates it or run it on your own hardware. Here's one: https://is.gd/artmachine
> but everyone else is better served by handwritten notes.

Completely disagree here. You need to find the setup that works for you, and for a lot of people that setup will be taking notes in a computer.

And I know this because in my class me and a few friends took computer notes, and we did really well. In my personal case, my handwriting is terrible and gets worse by the hour. By the fourth lecture of the day, my paper notes were an incomprehensible mess. Reformatting, organizing and sorting those notes took quite some time and then searching or referencing other pages was impossible.

When taking LaTeX notes, I could write at the same speed as when I was writing by hand, got less tiring, could pay more attention to the lecture (I can just go on and write things on the computer without looking and worry about them later, but I can't handwrite without looking).

Then later I could go back, rewrite the parts that needed rewriting, reference the parts that needed referencing, put graphs, paste links, whatever. And it was really helpful to have a document where I could iterate and improve the notes as my knowledge and understanding of the contents improved. You know how they say that you don't really understand something until you can explain it? Well, rewriting my notes was my process to understand things. And it would be impossible to have done it if I had to take paper notes.

Also, I could do the exercises on the same document (in an appendix) and quickly reference the theorems, and also work with my friends to correct/review the exercises. Again, impossible to do with paper notes.
Yes, restricting access to your territory to actual international people makes you less of an internationalist country, I fail to see the contradiction in that.
You're probably right, I stand corrected.

One extra point is that burn rate was likely a fraction of that figure for most of Telegram's history when it was much smaller. Telegram really only exploded to meteoric heights within the last few years.

50-60% increase in users also isn't necessarily indicative of a similar rise in expenses. The cost to store files and stream them has basically only ever gone down, and you can easily cut service costs by optimizing data storage, archiving content etc.

Loading content from years ago on Telegram is very slow, indicating heavily optimized tiered storage. They're clearly optimizing for burn rate to some extent.
The problem is that you need an increasing amount of capital to trade. It raises the barrier to entry.
I think you generalize too much... do you know how every customs office work?
pdflatex, just like TeX, comes from an 8-bit past, so it will frequently resort to custom encodings to fit all the glyphs in a single 255-character font. That means that any 8-bit "character" (in PDF bytes, what is really copy-pasteable or readable by TTS system) can actually stand for any displayable character.

Perhaps XeTeX is better?

(I am not intimately familiar with what pdf(la)tex does, but this is how TeX works, and I've seen those PDFs, esp with eg. Cyrillic, which on select show up garbled text)
The speed of light isn’t a blocker if we can figure out how to live slower and longer (and maybe going inward is a part of learning to tolerate long stretches of time). If a lifespan was 1,000,000 years, a 40 year journey to alpha centauri at 10% the speed of light wouldn’t seem too long.
There was a thread here a few days ago about the Swedish school app. I said it sounded a bit dystopian and one parent got a little flak (undeserved in my opinion) for using it. This is of course far more invasive.

Kids have to emancipate from their parents at one point and parents have to learn to center themselves again in their lives. This is a normal development. I think apps like this provide false security and make such processes difficult.

Of course moms would always like to know where their children are and if they are safe. Nothing you can seriously get angry about, but this is a learning process for them too.

I hope those children won't look for a surrogate mother that provides complete safety when they grow older.
I would immediately end my interest in a company if I was asked to do this. This is far too general a problem, which will harm the interviewer as much as it will harm the interviewee.

Contrast it to giving a candidate some slightly broken code in a framework related to the role and then asking them to a)fix it and b)implement a new feature of their choosing and document it.

The advantages of the latter approach:

* The interviewer doesn't need to prep beforehand as they already know both the problem and the codebase. This means they can ask much more interesting questions and don't have to invest significant time in reviewing a project that might be in a field in which they have no experience. This in turn leads to better discussions which in turn leads to better interviews.

* The candidate is given a much tighter problem definition and isn't required to come up with something a)novel, b)not covered by their current employer's NDAs.

* The candidate's time is respected because they can be told how long it should take them up front.

* Each candidate gets a standardised problem and so it's easier to compare between them.

When I give take-home assignments, I'm just looking to quickly confirm that someone has a working home dev environment (i.e. they don't just code inside environments that other people give to them) and that they can understand a small codebase and write clean code and document it. Everything beyond that I can find out by talking to them during the interview.

When I actually used this technique in interviews it was interesting to see how many supposed senior engineers would reply with things like "I'm getting a %JAVA_HOME NOT FOUND error, please can you fix the repo and let me know when it's ready for me to work on?".
That's the possibility and the goal, but it seems that actually fulfilling it is not a very high priority these days:

- I have to unplug and replug my headset (an official Xbox-compatible Astro headset) from my xbox about 33% of the time to get it to recognize my microphone, and this is a common complaint among owners.

- When I try to play Minecraft with a friend, about 50-60% of the time we can't connect, and one or both of us needs to completely restart our console.

- A recent heavily-promoted game, "The Ascent", was actually throwing video memory errors on Xbox consoles for a lot of people:

https://old.reddit.com/r/XboxSeriesXlS/comments/p4losy/the_a...

https://external-preview.redd.it/8wPHr4M1TrBuG8qon6YO2WkrM_V...

- One of Xbox's flagship games, Sea of Thieves, due to creative choices in the world lore, has tied respawn time to your console horsepower. So if you have an Xbox One, you now have to compete against Xbox Series S/X players, or people who have bought an external drive, who respawn much, much faster than you. And the game pushes you strongly towards PVP most of the time. And even if you avoid that, it's still not uncommon to die due to PVE circumstances and "lose" because of the unacceptably long respawn times. So rather than just enjoying the game, you're often cursing your inferior console, or spending time thinking about upgrading its storage just to be competitive.

Newer console games often make you feel pressure to buy the newest console iteration when the older iteration is nearing its end, but Sea of Thieves was released years ago on the Xbox One. Now it's a litany of performance complaints whose answers are just "get a Series X." These days consoles are earlier and earlier becoming advertisements for their newer generations.
When reading the article I was thinking "shit, maybe I have to learn drop emacs and finally learn vim". But then u post your emacs latex plugin and I can perish that thought.

(Do any of the features work in the terminal?)
>You still pay for it in the end.

Only if you buy new games at launch.

Consoles still have physical media, so from few days to few weeks you can grab games at a large discount.
Can we stop comparing the lack of default-on e2ee in Telegram to "no encryption"? There is transport encryption in MTProto since the beginning. There are e2ee chats for those who want them.
I think your definitely idolizing them a bit too much. Maybe a bit ahead of the curve but not doing anything super fancy (although I guess those two statements are somewhat contradictory).

Just from snippets I've sort of heard/read about, I think they were one of the earlier ones to move into HFT (although maybe not the super fast infrastructure heavy type these days). In some interview Simmons said they realized returns became more predictable they shorter the time frame they looked at and they pushed it to the extreme. I think there is also reason to suspect that they may have adopted some NLP strategies early on as well since Mercer was involved in that or something, and they initially hired a bulk of their team from IBMs NLP research team. Also they did not dodge 2008 completely, in some interview they said they lost close to / more than half their portfolio value in the market crash, but because they didn't have stupid leverage or outside investors or something like that, and also because they trusted their models, they didn't sell and held on. So maybe just slightly better execution but mostly the same.

Anyways, I was reading about these guys back in 09 when quant trading wasn't so blown up. Now every kid whose decent at math seems to want to be the next renaissance, which just makes me feel like the best years for that are over.
And it really misses the target. In practice, the main users of that "right" are seriously-bad guys - from pedophiles to serial fraudsters.

It really should become a "right to be forgiven", with penalties for discrimination like we have for race and religion. This would also help with things like registers of convicted felons, which in practice are more disproportionately harmful than a few items in google cache.
That's awesome! Thank you.
Merchants will prefer to accept the good money as payment (Thiers' Law) because it can retain value for longer.

They will offer discounts for customers paying with the good money.

Thus, customers might prefer to pay with the good money (assuming they have a low-friction means to convert their bad money to good money).
Welcome to HN! Where the guy that I'm giving hobby car advice to is something of an idol in my professional field.

Newton may have stood on the shoulders of giants, but HN enables us to casually rub elbows with them.
Yes that is the written question for more details. They have 1 month to reply and the answer will be public as well.

The initial confirmation was an oral one during a committee meeting. They also confirmed it to the press. (Cf luxtimes.lu behind a paywall)
Comments under the article are pretty insightful. It seems prudent to tell divers not to loiter around the door too long...

> skydivers often aren’t well versed in aircraft operations (after all, they have a lot more takeoffs than landings!)

Made me giggle
In absolute numbers there are more free games on PC (see itch.io) yes but that kind of doesn't matter. If your game choices are purely driven by cost then a second hand laptop with f2p games is going to be the cheapest approach. If you exclusively want to play f2p games, then a cheap PC or a cheap console doesn't really matter. Buy if you're going to be buying a handful of new releases a year, the difference is more like €10 per game rather than €50

> since you pay lower platform fees

The platform fees (not required by the way) are roughly the cost of one game per year, if not cheaper. Gamepass being a very different discussion (and is available on PC too)

> This is in addition to the opportunity costs you incur of not buying a PC or having a lower powered PC as a PC can be used for other things (ie, office work, taxes, other productivity tasks).

I don't know about you but I don't want my work PC to be where I relax in the evenings, and many people don't want their employers software or information on their personal devices. I also live in a country where I don't have to fill in my own taxes, and almost all of my personal computing needs are met by my phone.
> Given all the issues described in this thread, what is the upside of a game console (non-gamer)? Why not get a PC that you can automatically use for other things, can play games from any vendor etc (some of the issues mentioned in the thread).

A console is cheaper, and can be left permanently attached to your TV; and the UX is more focussed than a general purpose PC, and optimized for controller as single input; you probably want a PC—probably a laptop—for other things, but unless you are going to buy a second PC for living room gaming, it isn't really a console substitute.

> Are consoles cheaper “per transistor” or sth?

Yes.

> If so, why? Is it about the vendor locking you in and charging more per game?

Actually, its about the vendor charging developers for access to you; at release AAA game prices are pretty similar console vs. PC (over time, I think PC game prices fall further and faster, but like films games live or die by earlier sales. If you are a buyer that tends to buy games long after release, then PC is much more attractive.)
>and they just don't have nontrivial answers.

Yeah, because you can have a career where you're just gluing stuff together to make business apps for, usually, simple business problems. You're looking for craftsmen but you're interviewing plumbers.
They are ineffective.

>Of the 63 participants whose responses to prior tasks had been verified, we were able to corroborate 60 participants’ responses to the removal of their site-authentication images.
58 of the 60 participants (97%) entered their passwords, de-spite the removal of the site-authentication image

See https://security.stackexchange.com/a/19801 which summarises https://sites.google.com/site/ianfischercv/emperor.pdf
I would tip on "yes". It's a "no or low stimulus" time for your brain.

Personally I had a hard time "doing nothing," and found repeating and focusing on a word or sound in my head helpful - which technically transforms the nap into a lite meditation.
You are conveniently ignoring the biggest natural disasters created by the State: famines, wars, weapons testing, unspeakable pollution and so forth...

Individual greed is often limited by the fact that we are all humans in the end. Business greed is limited by competition and the fact that they have to still participate in the society. But politician's reckless behavior is often unhinged and unchecked.
Got to say the parent should get a prize for finding anyone that thought the wall was to keep people out East Berlin. In the 50's East Germany lost a couple of million people who were done with the East Germans Police State.

What's to like, the thing was basically run by ex-Prussian, ex-Nazi, now Communist dickheads. I think was it Willy Brandt who said something along the lines of not being unhappy with Prussia being on the other side of the line.
To me the big plus is compartmentalizing, having my games in an isolated environment designed /optimized for that makes it easier to keep my computer safe because I no longer have to consider GPU driver availability / stability in Linux or even running Windows in my computer and that's a big plus.
No kidding such a bad look
Steam with a controller on your TV just isn't nearly as nice. I set it all up once (PITA on its own there) a few months ago after the steamdeck hype to show my wife some of the other games available in the world. It was kludgy at best and buggy at worst with some games.

I say this as a primarily 95% 3+ decade PC gamer. The other 5% goes to Nintendo exclusives such as Zelda or Mario.
Oh, I have the right (and linguistic skill) to be dick majuere. But, like so many of these “rights,” I should also expect to be held to account, and suffer consequences, for exercising said “right.”

If people see me being cooperative, helpful, and a source of good information, they will develop one type of opinion of me.

If they see me as prickly, judgmental, arrogant, and pugilistic, then they will develop another type of opinion of me.

Depending on who is developing that opinion, the consequences (and rewards) to me can be quite significant.
Hey! Abandoned checkout/cart emails fall under the "legitimate interest" section of GDPR. Since the customer is near the end of the sales funnel and has shown enough interest, it is justifiable to send them a link back to complete their purchase. A clear unsubscribe link is included in every email.
I mean what the C standard says about it.
It was the GPUs that evolved, not the CPUs. The original PS3 design didn't have a dedicated GPU (but, I believe, two Cells instead, one being dedicated to graphics rendering). A GPU was added as it became obvious that this design had a massive advantage over the Cell design.
It's true over the whole population - it's known that the hardware is discounted. You can play the price game of course, just like you can buy discounted steam keys or wait for sales, but on average people don't seem to do that.
>A subculture is more similar in scale to human societies during the majority of those 100s of thousands of years of evolution than to the mega/giga scale of modern society.

Yes. But the subculture in TFA is about people staying at home, and only/mostly human connection with the subculture online (and few/nobody else).
Thank you, I really appreciate that! I use Next.js and TailwindCSS.
Your classes sound amazing. In my experience though, seldom a professor or a TA tries that hard to prepare an engaging lesson.

And certainly, it'd be a shame to be busy "live-latexing" notes for your class, but I think in the vast majority of classes, for someone really adept at it, it might work.
I'd wager you cannot build a Telegram-tier frontend using Matrix technology. Element is evidence of that.

Clearly there's an axis with security on one side and convenience on the other. Tilting fully to either side results in a terrible experience. For me, Telegram strikes the perfect balance. Secure chats have fantastic privacy, while the UX isn't totally garbage. The trade-off is that chats are non-E2EE by default.

Signal's has the axis tilted all the way to the "security" end, so that the product is unusable if you aren't a technical expert already.

Could your mother figure out how to encrypt an email message using GnuPG? Absolutely not a chance.

Could she figure out how to send a message on ProtonMail that encrypts it client-side for her? Probably.

Signal is GnuPG. Telegram is ProtonMail.