skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if my current company does, but when I first implemented them for a company I worked for ~15 years ago we definitely did.

At that company (which was a ~200 engineer, privately held, software company) we found a few things:
- in person tests were less predictive than take home tests.
- tests that did not provide automated test cases as examples were less predictive than those that did.
- there was virtually no predictive power to 'secret test cases' that we ran without providing to the candidate.
- no other part of the interview pipeline was predictive at all. Not whiteboarding, not presenting, not personality interviews, not culture fit testing, not credentials, or where experience came from, nothing. That was across all interviewers and candidates.

A few caveats about this:
- this was before take home testing had become widespread and many companies screwed it up. At the time we were doing this it was seen as novel and interesting by candidates, not as just one more painful hoop they had to jump through.
- we never interviewed enough candidates to get true statistical relevance.
- false negatives were our biggest concern, they are extremely hard to measure (and potentially open yourself up to lawsuit). The best we ended up doing was opening up our pipeline to become less selective to account for it. This did not seem to reduce employee quality.

In a more meta-sense, that experience led me to believe that strict hiring pipelines are largely not useful. Bad candidates still get through and good candidates don't. Also, many other things have a much bigger outsized impact on productivity than if a candidate was 'good'. It turns out, humans do not produce at consistent levels all the time and things outside of what you can interview for make more impact (company process, employee health, life events, etc. all have way more impact on employee productivity than their 'score' at interview time).
Yes. Anything that does a lot of I/O to slow stuff like disk, network is going to benefit. So in practice, lots of things.
It's obvious that they don't want to be part of the PRC, especially under the current regime, but that is not equivalent to being against eventual reunification. It is still the Republic of China, that still has its National Day on 10th October to celebrate the fall of the Qing, and Sun Yat Sen's portrait is still in the Legislative Yuan. As such, formally Taiwan is the only province still controlled by the Republic of China.

A number of Taiwanese people are opposed to any reunification and want Taiwan to be "Taiwan", but it's very biased to claim that this is what 'the people of Taiwan want' as if China was a foreign country, and is frankly a narrative pushed to weaken China, the PRC mainly but really China no matter the government (divide and conquer strategy).
Teutonic culture didn't spawn the militarism. That's just the angle that was exploited by the propaganda campaign.

It's how you turn an innocent population into a unified fighting force (or whatever). You exacerbate and channel existing tensions and/or exploit a crisis. You frame your story in terms of popular narratives.

They teach this stuff in Dictatorship 101
As someone who worked in toxicology, this is absolutely a false statement. This molecule is a covalent binder - it basically attaches itself permanently to proteins. It absolutely could have effects long after the free molecule is metabolized and excreted. The molecule is designed to be selective for the Covid protease but off-target effects are inevitable.

Do I think that is likely? No, because the FDA isn’t stupid and screens for obvious toxicity in cell cultures and lab animals and only then is testing humans allowed. Then those are screened before approval.

Of course the risk isn’t 0%, but it’s pretty low and if you’re at chance of dying or Covid it’s a pretty small risk relatively speaking.
Ask HN: Why do US based developers getting patents?
Isn't the first word of the article a link to the tool? Maybe it was added after your comment.
See also: "you don't have enough experience," one which I most recently heard myself after four interviews and a technical assessment, in which my (passing) solution included a bugfix to the test itself.
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> So can I live my life and worry about own family and not someone’s I don’t know?

Unfortunately, no. We live in a society where sometimes we have to take collective action to prevent collective harm. Taking personally inconvenient measures to help fight an epidemic is a prime example.
When does a developer stop being a user? If I want to use an open source IDE to write some commercial software, is that user freedom or developer freedom? Is it within a user's freedoms to use a software for any kind of monetary benefit at all even if it has nothing to do with software development, like for example using an open source text editor to write documents for work? If so then what's the difference?
It's strongyloides/threadworms.

https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/strongyloides/gen_info/faqs.ht...
We don't use coding tests in this way. We use coding tests as a screening process to ensure the candidate is in the correct ballpark.

If we are recruiting a senior, we would expect them to easily complete basic technical tests. If they are more junior we might use them only as an indicator of their ability.

I don't particularly expect a strong correlation between how well they did in the tests and their long-term ability since their value is made up of many things, only one of which is their ability in the tests.
The previous generation could use 250W at certain all core workloads, Intel just never marketed the difference between PL1 and PL2 for TDP. Most chips can only use that much power for a short time due to thermal limitation, so you need both adequate cooling and a suitable workload to use 250W, this haven't changed, the typical power consumption is however lower.
The death rate difference could be due to something as simple as a higher percentage of seniors in the state, for instance, or differing population densities. Hacker News is full of sophists.
yeah, because plugging more silicon into ready-to-ship cpu modules is so easy.
My assumption was they were displaying ads and falsifying the clicks to the ads and getting money (fraud?)
Without the STL Pipeline – Understanding the Impact
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"I don’t think we have perfected gravity sensors for use on submarines yet, so they would not have helped either."

See my list of links above, specifically item #4 Military Specific and 'Edit". It's ≈50 year old tech that's now very mature.
As a user, I don't like receiving emails like these because they presume some intent that often isn't what I had in mind at the time.

I've gotten mails like this a few times, but in every instance, I didn't forget to complete checkout, I intentionally bailed out for some specific reason (e.g. the shipping charge was way too high).

I suspect some users will report the mails as spam and, if I understand correctly, that could cause issues with delivering future legitimate mail.

Note: I'm not saying that these mails won't work :)
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Been through this exact thing with my mom, its tough. Take it from me (who didn't), get some counseling. See a therapist. You need it.

In terms of work, etc., that all comes second. Quit if you need to. Be there for her and the rest of your family and you will never regret it - full stop.
Do you do it for the interview process as a whole?
I wish I had some good answers for you. I have been through this with my wife when my children were young.

One thing I would do better if / when I go through it again: When people say: "If there is anything you need, just ask", accept immediately and specifically.

- please mow my lawn every week, or organize someone else

- please do this shopping trip for me

- please cook Friday evening meals and bring them around

- please wash my car

I'm really busy, please make this problem go away for me.

People are often keen to help, they just don't know how. Tell them.
> And besides, don't you have your own independence to worry about at home? ;)

What do you know about me? my profile here is anonymous.

But to answer your question: yes, being catalan I support Taiwan as a sincere act of international solidarity, just like so many Taiwanese support my country against the unwanted spanish occupation.
> If you were using srcreigh's hosted DB service and queries took 1s to run, your sync server latency would be ~1s :) Or longer if they get queued up.

Yep, and your 16-worker gunicorn is going to serve 16 rps. What's shown here (nginx, pg, Python application running on the same low CPU VPS, one extremely fast db query per request) is not a "realistic benchmark".
Anyone taking this should still develop an immune memory to covid. As I recall, even people who took monoclonal antibodies (that is to say, an antiviral where they literally inject functional anti-covid antibodies into your veins) developed some degree of natural immunity.
Your source references https://dqydj.com/top-one-percent-united-states/ https://www.epi.org/data/#?subject=wagegroup etc.

Those values are for the top 1% in the US - The "richest" nation on the planet. I have no idea why the author is presenting these as global numbers, but they quite clearly are.

0.23% of the worlds population have over $1mil in net worth. https://inequality.org/facts/global-inequality/
100% agree with you.
Gifted student should not be ignored!
Gifted student when put in normal class will be so bored they will start getting awful grade.
No it's about one third of drugs according to a Yale study and it took a median of 4.2 years after the drugs were approved for safety concerns to be apparent.
Here's "hospital stress" data for the US, showing where COVID patients are overwhelming the healthcare systems:

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/12/09/9443799...
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Compilers / runtimes for most OOP languages don't really put the same level of optimization into operations with immutable structures as they do with mutable ones, because the mutable paradigm is largely how the languages are (intended to be) used.

There are exceptions, of course, but you are leaving a lot on the table when you try to shoehorn one into the other.
react-aria is about more than just putting the aria-attributes in the right place. It also takes care of interactivity, keyboard accessibility, focus management, and smoothing over some crazy differences between browsers. Sure, it's all code that you can write yourself, but it's complicated and subtle to get right, and it's how we end up with all these half broken components on the web.

Here's a good example of deep thinking and investigative work that goes into react-aria: https://react-spectrum.adobe.com/blog/building-a-combobox.ht...
I drank a lot (really, a lot. Like so much you can have a seizure when you try to stop.) when my dad was dying. And didn't visit for a few months because I had the excuse of my toddler I'm raising. I regret not spending more time back up there with him and my mother until the very end. I know he was scared and I wish I was there for more of it.
Really wish programming on phones becomes a thing. Not directly running on the phone, but maybe have a vscode/remote server that you can connect to and use a monitor + peripherals.
Listen I'm all for these kinds of investments. Its very high risk and potentially a high reward. I think likely the reward will be some technology development in the process that helps something else but not in the direction they currently are going. Thats just the way things typically shake out. Especially grandiose plans like this.

They need to prove that the research works to actually produce net electricity - which requires a scientific breakthrough. Next after a research breakthrough - they need to make this a product -- then a commercial product. During that process they need to make this a commercially viable economically viable product that can compete against other forms of energy in the marketplace. They will need to get through serious regulatory requirements. And remember that they need to make this commercially viable to produce electricity at a very low cost - its super competitive at baseload power cost range.

By the time this comes to market the energy landscape will be completely different. It is already moving incredibly quickly.

Like I've said on other post - we need these kinds of moonshots but let's not have them distract against the other important work of deploying already commercially ready technology into the market.
If you really want it, you could create a github repo with an alphabetically-sorted CSV list of baby names (one file per first letter). Describe the expected format, add a CI for validation and we (the people from the internet) will fill it out for you, according to the old open-source style :)

EDIT: Btw, here is the same file for France, with a different format, of course : https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/2540004?sommaire=476726...
“Losses caused by or resulting from a Cyber Incident are not covered”
Nice. Very relatable, though my equivalent summary was slightly different: "My wife is pregnant; naturally I wrote a name database analysis tool to generate a name shortlist". Congratulations!
Trial vendor.. LOL. Reminds me of a politician getting caught doing something. It wasn't my fault, it was the fault of the person I paid to do it.
I disagree. It's unreadable on mobile. I also prefer new Reddit on desktop.
I encourage everyone eligible to get vaccinated, but at this point there is zero possibility to stop the spread. Your "team" never had a chance. We can all expect to get infected eventually.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02689-y

https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immu...
Ask HN: R3 and Corda – What Does Everyone Think of It?
Curious if there are any blockchain experts here. If so, I'd love to hear your opinion of R3 & Corda.

R3 made me a compelling offer. Now I just want to get a sense of the company's viability and potential.
Helion's scheme would require a specific isotope of helium, of which there's not much of in current stockpiles. Assuming that you had some He-3, remember that since this is a reaction between nucleons, the typical energy scales are a million times higher than typical chemical energy scales. Therefore the amount of fuel (in kg) is a million times smaller. And so, there's a significantly larger margin for extracting and purifying the helium fuel from whatever source.

> Will the total output in electricity be greater than the inputs for this?

Yup, that's the goal!

> Extra: what happens if there’s too much expansion or things are too hot?

Fusion reactions are difficult enough that if it were physically possible to make them run 'hotter' or release energy faster, frankly we would already be doing so.

> Could this explode or implode? If so would it be a huge deal?

The radiation risks from fusion are orders of magnitude smaller than from nuclear fission power. We still need to think about them and make sure that plants are safe, but it should be significantly easier to manage.
I believe we are most likely going to see a Mac Mini Pro or the return of the Trashcan Mac Pro instead of a tower Mac Pro.

Replicating the capabilities of the Mac Pro with would require another model of M1 and for the volumes the Mac Pro sells I do not believe developing a dedicated lithography mask makes sense. Besides, most of the unique capabilities of the Mac Pro are divergent with vision of the M1:

- PCIe slots, there are no GPUs compatible with Arm Mac and some of the functionality of the Afterburner card has been integrated into the M1 Max

- Lots of RAM, as seen with the lower RAM models of Mac Book (Air) Apple is increasingly relying on swapping to the fast SSD.
A phone screen, a tech screen, and a brief
in-person interview is enough to hire someone.

I'm torn on this. I just went through a long job search process. Multistep interview processes are grueling and they impose a particular burden on folks who already have jobs, folks with anxiety disorders or other factors that make interviews even more grueling, etc.

HOWEVER.

The most valuable interviews of my career were those "extra" ones where I chatted with actual team members I'd be working alongside.

I asked them about strengths and pain points of working at Company XYZ on a daily basis and got some great insights. Those kinds of interviews are the ones where you can find out if their build pipeline sucks, get a sense of the level of technical debt they're carrying, etc.

Absolutely priceless in my decision process. I feel confident about the company I selected vs. feeling like I'm just rolling the dice.
For those who haven't seen it, Marc Weiser's seminal work on Calm Tech is still very much relevant today:
https://www.karlstechnology.com/blog/designing-calm-technolo...
For your use-case, one could offer a one time free shiping coupon or whatever indeed to those bailing, if that's better than losing a sale? For example
rolling updates isn't actually a problem in practice. the maintainers do test the applications before releasing the updates.

i encounter usually 2-3 bugs (and almost always they are minor) per year due to rolling updates and usually its in the software I'm developing relying on old behaviors. and a simple package downgrade fixes it almost every time.
What would I use a headless UI on top of my css styling when Chakra UI already follows WAI-ARIA standards for every component and it gives me all the freedom of customizing my css inline?
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Very little worth doing is ever easy.
> pushing chip makers to consider silicon designed to workload spec

Well .. the big one of these is GPUs, which started as fixed-function pipelines and turned into massively parallel execution systems repurposed to cyrptocurrency.

Various people have tried to do niche things such as neural net coprocessors. General-purpose or GPU-like or DSP-like systems tend to win in the market ... because they're run on software, which is more flexible.

There's a reason ARM are now up to 180 billion cores shipped; the easiest way of making a custom IC is to wrap it around an ARM core with some firmware. The code is burned into ROM (which has security advantages and disadvantages!), but to me it still counts as "software".

At some point the iPhone will cross the triple digit of number of CPU cores onboard (counting across the whole board, not just the SOC and radio). It will be rather difficult for anyone other than apple to count when that is.
It wasn't as onerous as you make it seem. Certainly that last bit - entering the product key - is way better than what we have today. I can save the key in a text file alongside the installer and the software can be reinstalled completely offline whenever I want.

I still have my Windows 98 product key and installer stashed away, purchased decades ago. And I actually used them a few months ago to stand up a VM to utilize an ancient printer.

Way better for me-the-consumer than the subscription-everything model. When software decides to go that way, I usually find a FOSS alternative or cling to the last standalone version.
> The real conclusion from your logic would be: why would you go to Docker rather than just using Vagrant?

I use Docker as a nigh-universal package repository and package manager, with a huge and up-to-date selection of packages. It gives me a consistent way to run daemons my software depends on, nearly everywhere, including pinning the version and ensuring they all use the same config. It's docker-hub, really, that provides most of the value I get from Docker on a day-to-day basis, and that's the part I'd miss. I know there are other ways to create images and run containers, but I almost never create—or even modify—them myself.
If you're at the point where you've got a single application server with 100 waiting connections on a database, you've already blundered. Firstly, you're either overpaying for your database (connections aren't free) or you're underpaying for application servers. Fixing the problem in either dimension reduces the utility of your async server.

There's also this myth that Python code is free if the i/o wait is long enough. That's not true. 1). 100 queued connections on an async python server sucks so much momentum out your application. Especially in a resource constrained cloud environment. 2). Any server awaiting a database is going to transform the data to some response object which is going to wreck your overloaded async server. 3). As far as I know, all the async WSGIs are written in Python and will use WAY more CPU than the C-based sync WSGIs.
These guys are delivering ads for Lexus to moviepiracy.com by using an intermediate server that obscures the actual target site. Lexus doesn't want its brand associated with these types of sites and would normally prevent this from happening. Intermediary collects the money.