skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As the interviewer, I approach candidates with an open-ended friendly gesture. I tell them flat out I want to assess their coding ability, but on grounds they are comfortable and familiar with.

Before the interview, I tell them to bring whatever materials they want to the interview, whether it is virtual or not. Books, notes, videos, whatever, I don’t care. The materials are to support them showing off to me, in their favorite language, with their favorite ecosystem (editor, IDE, compiler, version control, etc.), solving a typical task they address that takes up about half a page (or more) of code on a standard US letter or international A4 sheet in 12-point Courier New, 1.5 inch or 3.8 cm borders, no lines that are entirely a comment (when counting just code).

The hyper-specific layout specifications were emerged by all sorts of crazy responses I got in the early years when I started this approach.

Could be a standalone program, a function, a code fragment, a library, really anything. I’m pretty comfortable in a very wide range of coding environments, and always happy to learn new ones, so I’ve been comfortable navigating the responses I get.

I even tell people I don’t care whether it is their own code or something they literally copy and paste off the Internet. But they need to be ready to talk about it, and take it in different directions. Just tell me ahead of time the toolchain, materials and code they chose.

I tell them I’m going to ask them to teach me about the code, and ask questions to clarify for myself along the way as if I’m going to take it over and maintain it myself, and customize the code and they will help me troubleshoot the customizations.

Through this approach I’m looking for the ability to communicate about code. Without springing surprises upon them. Being able to code is table stakes and this approach quickly flushes out who cannot code at a specific level required for the position. But I work exclusively in settings where there are teams of coders, and even “lone wolf” coders must be effective at conveying what they’ve built to others in case they win the Powerball/Lotto.

I can work with a variety of levels within a certain band of coding ability. I can work with someone who isn’t familiar with my clients’ specific toolchains. I can work with poor documentation, commenting, and writing skills. What I’ve been unable to solve for so far though, is someone not only utterly incapable of communicating what they’ve coded, but completely indifferent to improving.
Previous coverage on age dependency, https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2477

> Sweden, Norway, and Finland suspended the use of Moderna’s covid-19 vaccine on 7 October after reports of possible rare side effects. The pause “for precautionary reasons” in Sweden and Finland concerns anyone born 1991 or later ... In Norway officials have suspended the use of Moderna’s vaccine in those under 18, advising that they are offered the Pfizer vaccine instead ... Anders Tegnell, epidemiologist at the Swedish Public Health Agency, explained that the suspension of the Moderna vaccine followed the detection of signals of an increased risk of side effects such as myocarditis and pericarditis.
Overview of Singapore's residential property market
Yes, yes, trademarks are properly adjectives, so you also don't "google" or "use Google", you "search with the Google(tm) search engine".

And you've never used a Kleenex - you've used a Kleenex(tm) tissue.

Used to be the same for aspirin, trampoline, escalator, dumpster, etc., but those darn people kept using the names wrong, and now everyone agrees they are generic (except Dumpster).

Or you can accept that human languages evolve and adopt new words that may be used in ways not approved of by corporate lawyers.
I’m convinced the American dream of the last nearly 100 years has been an aberration. Americans found themselves making up half the global economy post-WW2, the world was decimated but the population grew rapidly, demand surged for American goods, energy was cheap and freely burned. Essentially, America has been able to extract monopoly rent for at decades, and this created a massive surplus for its citizens. Going from poor to rich in a lifetime just can’t be that common. Living standards doubling every 10 years on average simply can’t be maintained.

And the rest of the world has been catching up. Now America is a quarter of the global GDP, total market indices are expected to grow at 3% annualized over the next 100 years in the bullish projections, climate change requires reducing energy demands, billions of humans require reducing living standards. Don’t be alarmed: this is the normal state of humanity. The improvements we’ve seen in our lifetime have come far too fast compared to all our history. It won’t last forever.

Americans still enjoy a monopoly position in many ways. Getting “really rich” is easier in America than anywhere else in the world and it’s really not close, but that won’t last forever and it’s rapidly closing.
Go Day 2021: Using Generics in Go [video]
I love my 2017 mbp and I so want to tell every person posting workarounds for their $2000 brick please return it! Tim Apple won’t fix anything with all the $$$ in his eyes flowing in.

A finance professor once told me “if you don’t vote with your wallet you don’t get to complain”
The functional Spring APIs in Kotlin allow you to write Spring apps with minimal reflection, and are honestly great, although a bit immature.
Thinking heads are not in the clouds
The "More" page leads to a github 404: https://mosermichael.github.io/flagged-hn/page_2.html
There's a lot of words here. I won't deny there's a ton of shenanigans in the current space, but the ultimate test is this:

The "task" of crypto, arguably is -- moving money through the 'net without a centralized authority.

Is it reasonable to believe that "the task" has been proven technically possible, and attractive enough such that a decent number of people will use it?

At the end of it all, I'm thinking the answer will be yes.
that's a shame, I hoped there was going to be a way to do that and it was simply not implemented in node at the time I was looking into it
Oh thank goodness, I thought it was just me. Dragging the scrollbar worked, but the scroll wheel didn't. Strangest thing I've ever experienced.
To me he's not saying banks are morally better, but rather that banks solve problems better than cryptocurrencies. He's specifically talking about what happens if the bank misplaces $70M. In most cases the other bank gives it bank, if not then they say "who cares" and declare it "ops loss".
Deno is a carbon copy of Golang, a decade too late
> If I simply don't let you in at all, you'll go right to steam and ask for a refund, get it, and not be mad at me

I think you underestimate the ingenuity and amount of free time available to PC gamers...
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Absolutely!

When UK Parliament wanted Zuk to answer some tough question about his company facilitating electoral fraud, he simply refused to show up. Even first world nations struggle in dealing with American corporation, which often act as if they are above the law.

God forbid you are a developing nation. British American Tabacco has taken poor developing nations to court for trying to ban children from smoking (!!) and got compenation and the law repealed

https://youtu.be/6UsHHOCH4q8

I am not even mentioning illegal stuff: bribes, threats, drone strikes, strong-arming, etc.

Even the EU was strong armed when it comes to GPS:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/dec/08/world.internation...

Those that think that American economic advantage was won in a 'fair game' are super naive
It's worth noting that there's no international mechanism where countries can be "given a quota" unless they voluntarily agree to the quota, and there is no mechanism for enforcing compliance to that quota unless countries voluntarily choose to accept some consequences. It's not realistic to expect that such a tax would be paid across borders - by default, every country would pay net zero tax even if they are not net zero on carbon emissions; IIRC all the major emitters have explicitly refused to have climate solutions that involve significant wealth transfers from them to other countries, and there's nothing (IMHO even including extreme violence like WW3) that is likely to force them to do so.

It is somewhat realistic (though difficult) to have most countries agree that they will tax polluters under a comparable rules & rates. It's not realistic to expect that they will use that tax revenue on someone else's citizens instead of their own.

Also, 5% of gross product is a LOT. For a comparison, that is more than the global spending on education. I have a hard time believing that countries will choose to spend on carbon capture more than what they currently (or ever) invested in developing their citizens' skills.
Agree! I loved the lore and universe built up in the codex
I'd like three water bottles.
I'd like three waters.

I'd like three Lego bricks.
I'd like three Legos.
I tried all sort of ways of taking notes in math class using LaTeX, an iPad, etc. I had the most success using pencil and paper. You want as little friction as possible, especially trying to remember latex syntax. Remember, math been done handwritten for centuries. Unless you're getting syntax help like with programming, pencil and paper is a safe bet.
Companies in food waste/insecurity space offering internships?
Hello!

I'm a senior student in uni looking for internships in the food waste/insecurity space. Organizations that I think are cool are:
Shelf Engine [1]: offers a software to grocery retailers that helps them plan orders. What I like about them is that Shelf Engine buys back whatever perishables don't sell. Their business incentives line with environmental ones.
mRelief [2]: an NPO that makes it easier for people to access food stamps. Their product is focused and works on existing support structures rather than reinventing the wheel.

In general, an org (company or NPO) that offers some product/service which helps to reduce food waste or insecurity.

A company that fits this bill doesn't have to explicitly offer internships, I'm comfortable asking them. I'm asking this on HN because I'm curious about finding orgs that are fairly new and attacking these problems in a smart way.

My experience: my previous internships have been as a business analyst, a sales analyst, and a management consultant. I'm currently a product marketing intern until the end of the year.

1: https://www.shelfengine.com/solutions/
2: https://www.mrelief.com/about_us
It's easy to view a lot of things in facile, inaccurate ways.

Not very informative, but, certainly easy!
My first post was poorly written. I didn't mean to imply that taking pride in a job well done was bad. I don't think it is. I think programmers have plenty of reason to be happy when they do good work[1]--what I think is foolish is having visions of grandeur when it comes to programming, which in my opinion is what _why seemed to have based on his reasoning for quitting. I could be way off mark, but that's my take.

I mentioned this in another comment, but I think it also has to do with a confusion of categories. _why seemed to want recognition akin to that received by, e.g. Thomas Bernhard, Kafka, for something like shoes or his other software/libraries or general contributions to computing. But the issue is these things will always be utilities for specialists, and any aesthetic properties they have (elegant design, expression, etc.) are secondary to their functioning and they'll always be relegated to the dusty realm of specialists since the code is not the product--the software is. One can write code to create an aesthetic object that is enjoyed and revered by the masses, but I have a hard time envisioning a future in which the masses will ever enjoy and revere code or engineering for its own sake.

Pride was the wrong word to use and one I lazily reached for. After reading your comment, you've helped me realize that what I advise against is misapplication of expectations to different categories of things. _why seemed to want an aesthetic reception and legacy on a general, popular scale for work that is ultimately only a utility to the vast majority of the population and indeed, not even accessible to the population, and even if it were, I don't think many people would admire programming libs for fun--such a hobby will remain the lot of only enthusiasts. There is no pop coding like there is pop music.

[1]: Though I'd also argue that much of what you state taking pride in is not programming--which is just expressing ideas in programming languages--what you are talking about is engineering/design, which can be done perfectly well and separately from the programming part. we just happen to solve a lot of problems with computers these days so we need to express solutions for computers to consume and we tend to blend those responsibilities (we'll one day get to a point where the computers do most of the programming and we just design https://github.com/nadia-polikarpova/synquid)
IP should NOT be an integer. IPv6 does not fit in a database integer. MySQL has functions to convert to bytes.

Even better, use a database with a proper inet datatype. That way you get correctness, space efficiency, and ability to intelligently index.
It's because they do so many anti-consumer things to lock their victims in.

Changing brands becomes more of an ordeal than staying.
Take this behavior too far and you might just sign up for more monitoring.

"Why does citizen #2743652 have internet/electricity service with no registered devices or online profiles?" *Does deep background check*
Statements made by the utterly deranged
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This would be more convincing if you were not, you know, just making it up out of whole cloth in a completely lazy and unsupported way.

"Negligible security difference"? "Excuse"? Come back when you have a real argument that isn't just obvious spewing of biases.
> almost certain those who write these either are virgins, or write them for virgins.

Come on. People like being liked. Even if it's superficially, in a way that wouldn't work if they get to know the "true you", it's fun to be respected. There are some caveats (most people don't want paparazzi-level fame, imposter syndrome sucks, etc.).

I like being the local bash expert in my peer group, even though realistically it just means more work for me because I have to help other people with weird shell problems. Competency is respected, and people like being respected.

Maybe you don't agree, but I don't think your opinions generalize.
Key exchange would be great though as the ability to securely share secret keys could then allow switching to a symmetric key encryption algorithm (these are usually simpler and more efficient). I believe RSA is mostly only used for key exchange anyway (due to bad performance) in popular protocols such as TLS.

I'm not sure about the second part regarding the MitM attack; doesn't BB84's requirement of "the existence of an authenticated public classical channel." mitigate this? What kind of authentication is required there? Would signing a message using a secret key (e.g. Lamport OTS or some other quantum-resistant/hash-based signature algorithm) suffice to establish an 'authenticated channel'?

The main problem I can see based on my limited understanding is that if an MitM attacker managed to intercept every key exchange attempt over a channel, they might not be able to intercept private messages, but they could prevent the encrypted channel from being formed.
Well, the last normal move was the actual double-bongcloud, after that it was just the draw process.

> Why would anyone play 2. Ke2 if they wanted to win?

In order to have a fair (though whimsical) game from an unusual starting point; it would be interesting to see the game that develops from that position.
That worked for me in courses which provided context, or where proof were short and simple. Then I took a real analysis seminar where very little motivation was provided, and couldn't grok the proof in the time provided. If I had better memory or faster understanding or read ahead I would have been fine... ended up taking detailed notes and trying to fit it all back together after the course, which was not very efficient.
> Before KDE there wasn't any consistent toolkit to make consistent apps on.

That's just not true. CDE was released before KDE, and the Motif widget set CDE uses is older still.
You could literally just use F# for scripting.
You forgot step 6. Convince everyone (and everything) else who has write access to the file system to follow suit.
Anyone else think _why got rich off from crypto and decided to retire to an island somewhere?
> Unfortunately, most of us do not have access to the services of a librarian to develop a taxonomy that corresponds to our own point of view then classify our files accordingly

Zettelkasten?
Physics probably has no frontier left with the sort of economic value this author is hoping for. I'd go into biology and *omics if I wanted to have that kind of impact.
If you have file history enabled, you might be able to get back one of the intermediate versions?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/file-history-in-...
I think the main reason why these stories are brought up for Apple so much is because it has this persistent "things just work" narrative that a lot of people buy into when they decide to pay the Apple premium. When it turns out to not be true, it stings more than similar issues on e.g. Windows or Android, simply because the expectations there aren't that rosy to begin with.
I always hated trying to take notes and pay attention at the same time. Can someone explain why teachers just make the lecture notes available so students can just listen to the lecture and review the notes later?
I regret moving from macOS to Linux.

While the tooling and system stability are better, the desktop and app experiences are far worse. It’s buggy, half-baked, and crash.

I regularly hop distributions and do clean installs to see if that will fix it but they’re all the same — pop!_os might be slightly more stable in that regard.

I’ve been using Linux since 1992. I’ve had several year periods in the 90s and early 2000s where Linux was all I used.

I can ditch GNOME, KDE, and XFCE and go back to twm or i3 or fvwm or Window Maker, but I’ve moved beyond thoses experiences. I want a more functional desktop.

But, I see now why I paid more to put up with Apple.
Pyschopathic commie motherfuckers like OP are responsible. If you call yourself a 'liberal' you are the fucking reason asshole.

GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY COUNTRY ASSHOLE!

Both Gavin Newsom and London Breed need to be shot in the head.
macOS had this since Leopard days. First it was implemented via the OpenMeta([1],[2]) and later, by Apple, via Maverick meta tags. They both use the XATTRS of the filesystem to store the meta-data.

I didn't use macOS for a long time now, but when OpenMeta was still active, there were tons of applications, that supported it. I loved it and miss it badly. The only issue I had with it, was adding all those many tags to your files. Something, I'd like to solve with AI, these days.

For me, the best system is a hierarchical file system with meta tags in XATTRS, that also can be used to build hierarchies, if needed.

[1]: https://code.google.com/archive/p/openmeta/
[2]: https://www.google.com/search?q=openmeta+macos
Targetting the spike protein means your immune system creates antibodies which attack the spike protein - it literally does not mean the antibodies produced attack the virus itself - only the spike protein.

The spike protein is what produces a lot of the adverse reactions when people contract the disease - or when people consent to the medical treatments designed only to reduce symptoms.

Seriously, this information is out there, and your understanding of this subject seems rather different from mine.
> Republished from the author’s blog.

Sums up the quality of the "article" pretty well
I don't think the iPhone used in that case had a secure enclave. I think that iPhone was the iPhone 5C[1], which had an A6[2], while the secure enclave wasn't released until A7[3].

Wikipedia has the terms the FBI demanded, and to me they look like demands relating to software directly in iOS, not some other security chip[4].

>Apple is also under the eight ball with the threat of anti-trust regulation and are more incentivised than ever to make deals that turn down the heat on questionable business practices.

Questionable business practices impacting competition/monopoly, sure. But I don't see how a backdoor would make anyone think Apple has less of a monopoly.

>They lost all credibility as a "security focused" company with their crazy on-device image scanning scheme.

Apple publicly announced that in advance. That's different from a secret backdoor.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93Apple_encryption_d...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_5C

[3] https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/Secure_Enclave

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93Apple_encryption_d...
I think of peer pressure as doing something to conform or as something explicit your peer group wants you to do. If one of your friends gets a Tesla, they probably don't want you to get a Tesla. If everyone gets one, it doesn't make them stand out anymore, it's the new baseline.

Peer pressure is overweight friends subtly trying to prevent you from losing weight because it makes them feel more bad about their weight. Peer pressure is friends convincing you some trip or experience will be worth it and you should come with them. I don't think of peer pressure as keeping up with the Joneses (but you are right that we already have a phrase for this phenomenon).
The source:

https://git.alexwennerberg.com/flounder/
Conversely, I have a couple of Bose QC35, and either one of them works with pretty much any device I tried to pair them with - Windows laptops, Android phones and tablets, and a Chromebook. So perhaps it's a QoI issue?
Scroll lock mode (arrow keys scrolling the window rather than moving the cursor) is almost identical to the way the arrow keys work to scroll a web page – a sort of keyboard equivalent to using a mouse scroll wheel or 2-finger scrolling on a trackpad. It's particularly nice in that it scrolls a single row or column at a time, and particularly useful for spreadsheets (Excel) and text editors.

I currently have a compact ("tenkeyless") keyboard which lacks the key, so I tend to use a spring-loaded setup where holding down alt/option/etc. and an arrow key scrolls the window.
When you eat, others have likely decided what's good for you - the meat is probably USDA inspected, the grain subject to requirements on maximum levels of rodent and insect bits, etc. When you drive, others have decided crumple zones, air bags, brake lights, and other such things are good for you.
not commenting on the content, this is some excellent writing.
"You just skipped over all the solutions to the digital problems"

I am all ears, please tell me which solution I could recommend to my aging parents except "pay dropbox"?
Oracle doesn't appear to maintain the DBD::Oracle Perl client module.
Doesn't work that way.

Antibodies fade away. The immune system doesn't keep antibodies hanging around after it has defeated a virus. What it does do is remember the virus which caused it to produce the antibodies, and will begin producing those antibodies again if the same or similar virus is encountered.
This seems like a fake post. You are using 'Paython' and PHP after getting an undergrad? That cost $45k?

Go back to /r/posers loser.
> After many years of systemd, I truly believe it has made Linux significantly better.

After many years of systemd, I truly believe it has made Linux significantly worse.

Thought it managed to standardise the linux ecosystem on one behaviour: nothing works by default

1.5k bugs, with a dozen showstopper blockers at any time
1. Make a GitHub repository where everyone can send their most important photos, encrypted with their own keys.

2. Get enough stars

3. Be archived by Microsoft/GitHub in Svalbard