skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that style of interview provides as much signal as you think it does. I would probably say that watching someone work through a problem provides more signal than having someone explain a problem they have already solved. That's why I feel that all of the companies I've been at, eventually ended up shifting the interview process to do less "explain a project" and converging more on "talk us though these different types of problems". And then the past experience is what is being demonstrated when they show off how deeply and quickly they can think through the different types and bring their experience to bear.

I also just generally do not think that most people can even put together a 2-3 hour presentation of their past work that goes over well. Most of the time people can't really talk more than 30 minutes about past projects. That requires a whole different set of skills, which there are certain contexts where I'd value that more highly. But my initial impression is that if we set up our interviews this way, we'd also end up filtering out a lot of people who'd be great, since not picking the perfect project to demo basically dooms the entire interview to be a flop. With multiple interview types, you increase the chance that there's an interview they really shine in.
It's all relative. If home prices drop while you're renting that's a huge gain relative to owning property.
I've never encountered a libertarian who thought otherwise, although I guess you can have 'sub-contracted violence' via things like private police forces licensed by the government. What exactly are you thinking of here?
It’s a hustle.
Just fyi, doing so is actually tax fraud and very much illegal. Yes the chances of getting caught are incredibly small, but if you're doing this commercially then if caught not only you will have to pay ALL of the fees back + penalty, do it for long enough and there will be criminal charges involved.

So yes , "nobody cares" as long as you don't get caught.
I've worked in a Ruby/Rails team within a mostly Django company.

Sure it's not fair to compare mostly Django to mostly Rails.

However our team was tasked most things that had a higher complexity but should be done rather fast. I think Django slightly limited their flexibility for business logik that doesn't follow their standard pattern. This is all anectotal however. The reason I prefer ruby is simply because I like it more.
> Pavel Durov is not strapped for cash. That’s just a fact.

I love Telegram over anything else like others, but I don't think you can say "that's just a fact" unless Durov's finances are public, which as far as I know, they aren't. So yeah, probably he isn't strapped for cash, but that's not a fact, it's a guess.
I'd like to build on this: A good start is of much less importance for success than people think.

Most of success comes from hard work, persistence, the ability to readjust often, and a lot (like really a lot) of good luck.
"What important truth do few people agree with you on, but is also innocuous enough that you can admit to on a public forum where your true identity might be known or revealed?"
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> In 2021 I’d recommend just turning off the IPv6 allocation or deleting it from DNS like this site does.

This is the funniest IPv6 excuse I've heard on HN.

https://ipv6excuses.com/
Yes, but that is how the game is designed to be played. The point is if there is a most effective path that is different from the most fun path then the game designer has got room to improve.
> I wish all my friends were on tg

Just send them all a message that you prefer to be contacted on Telegram now. That works surprisingly well, so many people are on the fence waiting for somebody else to make the first move.
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> The US was well aware of threat to them. Had Germany won and really acquired whole Europe, it would be virtually impossible for US to defend themselves after.

> It was not about abstract freedom or distaste toward racism. The danger was very real.

There were geopolitical threats to the US. The US could have defended itself physically - protected by an ocean and an enormous economy - but the belief then was that it would have been impossible to maintain democracy and freedom in a world controlled by the Nazis.

Freedom isn't abstract, it is a very real thing that people have taken great risks, suffered, and died for over centuries, all over the world (and to great success - look at how many people are free today compared with just 50 years ago). And Nazi horrors certainly motivated Americans, far beyond 'distaste'. I'm not sure how you can say otherwise.
Arguably this is too 1-dimensional a description to be able to say. Having learned Python before Java, spending time with the latter has only helped me understand Python's simplicity. That said, if it was the other way around this same might not apply, since Java will force a certain level of boilerplate, but Python can't force you to not over-complicate things.

Learning the fundamentals of interpreters, compilers, etc. can also give understanding transferable between almost all languages.
Aside from the header, I don't see anything to do with Luxembourg. Does anyone know?
I agree. Telegram's UX is unparalleled.

Coming to Matrix, the Element Web/Desktop app is ugly and has bad UI/UX. Its unintuitive to use. Fortunately, you have tons of choices with Matrix.
Cinny on desktop has a very neat and clean UX.

On Android, the Element app is good enough, but if not Fluffychat feels just like WhatsApp.
I think the idea is that first you create a Telegram channel for your product/store, then make a public message in that channel (which can contain whatever you want), then the ad links to that message. So the funnel is slightly longer, but goes through their platform.
Would it be illegal/creepy to ask then to sort a list of propositions or something like that?
If it was cracked after Linux was removed, then what was the reason for removing Linux? My recollection was that it was a security vulnerability.
Hugo theme from scratch: the absolute minimum
So would be able to buy karma? How is that supposed to be a good idea?
Considering the fact that what we don't know is potentially infinite, and what we don't know we don't know is a potentially infinite chunk of that, how could that ever be true? :-)

Well, I guess we could hit a local minima where we need some out-of-this-world resources or research to level up, but let's not be so pessimistic so soon. We've only been doing this modern research thing for a few centuries. You could go back 4-5 generations in an especially long lived family and you'd find someone in the family tree that was still alive before the modern scientific method was created.
> Users will be able to disable official advertisements.
> in the form of an inexpensive subscription,

If it really is inexpensive, that means in the realm of a dollar a month, I'll gladly pay.
These DEI councils remind me prof. Umbridge from Harry Potter.
There are PDF downloads on each incident's page.
Tell that to my tech lead who spent more than 8k buying and repairing his macbook due to constant motherboard issues.
I love macs but don't dare to try them due to soooo many people in my circles seem to have very frequent HW issues with them. It seems to be either in the shop being repaired or having issues with connecting bluetooth stuff.
I'm used to Thinkpad reliability so not looking forward to trade that up for some pretty pixels.
My lenovo laptops had 0 issues in the past ten years. Zero.
But now I'm web development and I need a mac for Safari to test locally.
Heres a bunch of PDF's and presentations from Sony first party studios.

Naughty Dog - Uncharted - Pages 33 - 39, 49, 54 - https://github.com/hww/game_programmer_reading/raw/master/nd...

Gorilla Games - KillZone 2 SPU Case Study - All of it - https://ubm-twvideo01.s3.amazonaws.com/o1/vault/gdc09/slides...

Insomniac Games - Insomniac’s SPU Best Practices Hard-won lessons we’re applying to a 3rd generation PS3 title Slides 46 - 48 https://www.slideserve.com/aldona/insomniac-s-spu-best-pract...
Well... in my case low value on my package added a week to my delivery precisely because after seeing this trick once too many the customs are now checking everything.
I had to mail the sender (big US based company) to send me the correct invoice after the customs sent me the one they received.
Your average software developer isn't going to be solving the most difficult problems.

My view isn't that good programmers spend the majority of their time writing boilerplate code. But my view also isn't that the average programmer _isn't_ doing that.

I'd expect way more demonstrated knowledge for an interview in a higher level role than an mid level developer role. But the higher you go the less you actually need to demonstrate that. Why?
By asking questions and comparing the answers.
What would help my understanding is knowing what diversity staff do that increases diversity among students.
> and it feels like we have this huge unfair advantage over our competitors.

As one man company I feel you on this. May is subjective, but starting from watching people that spend literally weeks to combine some buggy wordpress plugins to build out a functionality that is essentially just CRUD to folks who build multi server, multi service apps for just a few hundred monthly users. Where we just run a few generators, add a few major gems and can start focus on the fun stuff.
A tip my parents and their parent(s) have done is to pick historical figures or characters from books.
The poster above is saying that the hardware in a PS5 is very cheap compared to building a PC with those specs. just getting a graphics card with the same sort of power as a PS5 is likely to cost more than a PS5 right now.
I suspected I'd get an answer like this. Please read again: maybe there's not much low hanging fruit at the moment. Invictus0 has it right: this isn't the same thing as "no new discoveries ever".

Fields do have dry periods where for whatever reason, making progress is hard. Most famously AI had its "AI winter" for decades. We know now that there were new discoveries waiting to be made there but they required technology and datasets that simply didn't exist at the time. The last decade of AI progress has depended utterly on the growth of the public internet and then fast GPUs for processing that data. No matter how much funding the government had given symbolic AI in the 80s and 90s it'd have got nowhere. At least not on the use cases people seem to care about.

I find canned answers to this question increasingly tiresome. Academia and government funded research operates on a massive scale. It's unacceptable to me, as one of the people who actually pays for all this, that researchers entirely opt themselves out of any questions of utility or accountability. Fundamental physics in particular should take a good hard look at itself as it's both very expensive and in recent years, delivered very little. Consider string theory. It's been developed since the 1970s. 50 years now and for what? As far as I know this has delivered nothing concrete.

This isn't unique to physics, that's just an example. Epidemiology went down the statistical modelling rabbit hole 20 years ago and never emerged: I've yet to encounter a non-misleading claim coming from this field. If the entire field had been defunded 20 years ago we'd have a much healthier and saner world.

It's also not true that simply labelling something research means it'll one day be useful. Phrenology was once considered to be research. Critical race theory is labelled research. I think we can safely say these fields will never be useful and in fact have had sharply negative utility.
If you repeated use concat to build up a string, the amount of time grows exponentially. This is because the string I copied each time you concat. Note that the + operator on strings gets turned into a call to concat.

https://docs.microsoft.com/troubleshoot/dotnet/csharp/string...
I read hacker news exclusively through Telegram channels. Yes we are here and there are many of us.
That's extremely unlikely, but let's hypothesize a situation in which 70% of the states are rural Republican and 30% are urban Democrat. So the GOP always controls the senate and Dems always control the House. Then you either form something like a coalitional government where both sides have a veto, which in your scenario would be just the status quo, or you negotiate some kind of split.

This would be like the scenario where Lebanon assigns fixed seats for christian/muslim votes.

The issue with geographic states as minorities - as opposed to other minority categories -- say bald men -- is the geographic group is a functioning community and it can secede, so you have to decide whether you want to keep them in the country or not.

This goes back to the original debates in the constitution, where the smaller population states weren't willing to be a part of the country unless they were given a veto.

Nothing about that has changed.

It's just like when you have a team -- 10 developers with 6 feeling strongly to do A and 4 feeling strongly to do not A. Well, you find some compromise where both sides agree, because you if force A, and you do that over and over where the same group of 4 keep having their ideas overriden, then you lose 4 developers from your team. They secede as there is no reason for them to be a part of a team that keeps overriding them, and they can walk.

So if the 70% of your states are constantly having policies shoved down their throats that are extremely hated, then you are going to lose those states.

Now you can say, "no if they try to secede we will crush them militarily" and now the mask comes off that this is about domination and the imposition of the will, which suddenly undermines the whole concern for fairness and democracy.

So you are back to requiring a compromise. If you have 51% of the population, you should get 51% of what you want. Not 100%. And this power discontinuity is a well understood defect of the democratic decison making process -- e.g. it's not representative, whereas a consensus decision making process is more representative. In the consensus process, you give a veto to the minority. Now which minority gets the veto? Well, the founders selected the small state to be the minority because they can actually walk. Not bald men. So due to the underlying dynamics to keep the nation together, we give the rural states disproportinately a bit more power.
Popularity of a messenger hinges on it being free, and viability of ad-driven business model hinges on popularity.

Meanwhile, ad-driven model is a much more comfortable and reliable source of profit (since you are popular and free, users won’t leave, so no need to work hard fighting for customers).

Imagine if instead of three whales we had a variety of paid messengers, all forced to interoperate with each other and offer APIs for third-party client software because that’s what paying users requested.
Kyle Hill on youtube has made a great (and heart-breaking) video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3NJXGSIIA
> These are all unforced errors on Xi’s part. Why alienate India? Why push against Southeast Asian countries?

No clear these were 'unforced errors' or active actions by China.

My understanding of what happened at the Indian border is that India effectively broke the status quo by building new roads and moving troops, which was reported by many media (not only "pro-China shills" as some would say), and of course the current Indian government is extremely nationalistic and rather aggressive, so it's much less black and white that some would like us to believe. Neither side want this to escalate and they both defused the situation since. The situation has been that way for decades.

The South China Sea is a long standing claim by China that even predates the PRC (hence why Taiwan essentially has the same claims over the area). Nothing really new here (and certainly the relations with Vietnam have not been good for decades).

Belt and Road and "Made in China 2025" may have been mistakes in that they were too noisy and, for the latter, perhaps too early so as to create alarm and reactions in the West. Not clear how it is a debacle at this point, though.

All in all, China's economy and capability are increasing and as a consequence it is more and more assertive in pushing its interests. It does not mean the West should be a pushover or that China is 'alienating' everyone, it means that China is no longer a pushover. We need to realise that this is inevitable and China is still much less powerful and active than the US and Europe are or have been. There's a significant amount of FUB in reports on China.
I use it ~6 times a year.

My luck is mixed:

* ~33% - It works

* ~33% occasions - I mess up syntax and give up

* ~33% - I mess up syntax, but believe it SHOULD be possible, and push much longer than I untended. Until finally settling on a partial solution, and wishing I knew more - but also recognising I should used a different tool e.g. excel
Even with this specific railcar, even if we assume 3 cars, that's 216 places.

An A321, the biggest single-aisle airliner, can have up to 220 passengers in a high density configuration.

So, a train can both have more passengers and transport them more comfortably with more luggage.
This shows up on a Google search:

https://xiaomi.eu/community/threads/suggestion-disable-wifi-...
When the public interest is no defence
> MBA types are trained in planning and management, which, I dunno, have their uses

I'm assuming you didn't mean it this way (I guess it was an ironic comment), but planning and management are incredibly important.

The most important part to our scaling is how we organize ourselves. A top notch organizer allows a group of people to scale seamlessly. That's worth everything in the modern world.

Imagine thousands of brilliant minds, organized elegantly and efficiently to work together at maximum efficiency. It's rare because it's incredibly hard to achieve. But when it does happen, we get so much output, both creative and physical, that it's almost unbelievable. Think Bell Labs & co.
This argument only put some restriction on the kind of time machine you can have : If your time-machine can follow a continuous path through spacetime between A and B, there is no more problem. The time-machine applies position correction at every instant while moving backward in time.

This allows you to work in a relative time-position instead of absolute time-position.

That is why you can't go in-out of fort Knox Vault stealthily with a time-machine without at some point in time having to go through the door.
Gardening Leave.
Hacking them was easy if you wanted to pirate, but during that time I don't think its the only reason. The games were huge DSL wasn't around in the PS1 days, PS2 yeah it was, and so was DC, but PS1 was more for region locked games like imported Japanese games. Running PS2 games off the HDD if you bought that was way faster, it was a legitimate reason to want to hack it even if you bought games. The size doesn't matter if you just used a reader and copied the discs, the PS3 was easier to use the onboard bluray to copy so you could it off the HDD, but I used hacks to use other branded controllers on the PS3 like on the USB ports. PS3 was somewhat piracy related but otherOS and homebrew matters more than you think, being able to run emulators on xbone in developer mode was enough to keep it from being hacked since you can run emulators on it, while the PS4 was hacked. The PS5 hardware is very attractive in the GPU shortage, and has very decent hardware for the price too.
The parent poster said exactly how it was different: "an average library has similar book-width for both topics."

Although of course what was really meant was that American libraries at the time of Thomas Dewey had similar book-width for both topics.
Not so ambiguous. Born on a US military base counts as US soil.
Right, but "IT department" falls under business use. I was talking about people who aren't technically inclined.
Four secrets to managing reduced workload, as discovered by a Mom.
I guess it depends on the definition of "boring". The games you mention cater to different audiences than strategy games, and they make the repetitition a core part of their experience. Special thought went into making their loops feel engaging and rewarding.

So I guess the lesson is more like: Game designers need to remove all effective strategies which short-circuit the core gameplay that your audience expects.
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> but I feel this is a hyperbolized fear based off a laypersons interpretation of US hiring law

Making definitive statements about liability is not trivial. I can confirm that at some very large companies legal has banned this style of interview citing discrimination concerns. I'm not a lawyer, so I can't comment on whether they're call is more or less correct but it certainly doesn't seem settled.
Why don't they use asymmetric keys for everything?
I rented a car and drove to the lakes around Mt Fuji. Confirmed that outside the urban areas, you really do need a car to get around.
This was actually a genius decision. It also represents a real sacrifice on Telegram's part (sacrificing dollars) to protect user privacy, because advertisers are not going to pay as much for this as they will for other (more invasive) platforms.

Be sure to leave feedback with companies to let them know that you found them through Telegram.
There's no Einstein without the Ultraviolet Catastrophe.
Telegram clients are open source. Whats preventing people from patching out ads out of their clients ?
All fiat money eventually succumbs to hyperinflation
IGR shouldn't have left the source behind in the first place, but yes beyond that mistake they seem to have done everything they could to get the source secured. They were only penalised for a peripheral issue, the dilapidated state of the building. Presumably the theory is they should not have left the source in a building in that condition, which contributed to the thieves being able to take it.
Sadly this isn't some sort of mass hysteria but based on practical experience. Yes, it's hard to believe. New interviewers are routinely shocked the first few times they are asked to take a candidate through a coding test. That's why everyone should just ignore the advice in the article - it's wrong. If you want to hire competent programmers, you need to test them rigorously by watching them code, in front of you. Every time I have been tempted to stray from this path the results have been bad. The world is full of people who are very good at seeming affable, friendly and competent but who then fall to pieces the moment you ask them to write a program. Any program. That does anything at all.
Interviews have the benefit of appearing equal at least - everyone is asked exactly the same questions.
Discussions might run the risk of appearing to give some people an easier ride than others.
Okay. I already did that in recent memory, which is why I felt confident stating what I did.

Since you gave a statistic for car accidents, I'll do the same for the covid side: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm

Since the start of 2020, there have been 576 "All Deaths involving COVID-19" among people under 18 in the US. Compared to 60,811 deaths from all causes, that's slightly less than 1% of all child deaths.

The 576 covers almost two years, so let's call it 300 deaths/year. Not accounting for the slight difference in age ranges, that's 1/8 your number of 2400 deaths/year from car accidents. I'd call that roughly one order of magnitude lower. If you clump in children under 13 in your car accident statistic, I suspect it would fall below 1/10.

Is my math wrong or is your math wrong? If my math is wrong I would love to understand why.