skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have to lie about take-home assignments. That is the accepted way.

I had a take home test that was to last 2 hours, and so I promised myself I would spend no longer on it. I provided a complete log of what I did minute by minute for a take home test for the last test I did as a defensive measure...

There was no break, no pondering, this was flat out knowing exactly what needed to be done and just typing constantly....

0:00 - started cloning

2:37 - finished cloning

3:11 - npm install

3:53 - localhost working

7:24 - removed timeout (intentional bug left in)

10:41 - Got images returned from the server (npm run serve)

13:27 - CSS started - thinking about design

22:26 - Grid for desktop

36:16 - Included user info

49:56 - responsive

56:37 - Added performance section

1:07 - Name form

1:21 - Email validation

1:35 - Most fields done. Need DOB

1:42 - DOB done

1:53 - form styling

1:57 - tidying up

2:01 - Saved this file

I didn't end up getting the job including feedback such as...

- Did not upload job search indicating repo to GitHub

- Didn't use `specific css attribute`

- Grid is rudimentary (the 11 minute one I made)

- HTML could be more semantic

- Form validation for name allows numbers (actually a programming falacy that names can technically be anything)

- Complaints about having multiple classes in one file.

I'm wondering exactly where I could have fit these in?

The week before I spent 4 hours on a task and delivered it within 12 hours of the assignment. I got an email with a single paragraph. `Unfortunately, after reviewing, the team has decided that they won't be moving forward to the next stage of the process with you`

These tests all have unrealistic expectations. I used to enjoy doing them for the learning experience, but now, it's just a solid graft with zero downtime coding the same app time after time.

So whenever I chat to a recruiter about the recruitment process I always drill down into the take home test, and the process of doing that let's them know that I won't be doing any take home tests. You have to simply question it sometimes and you can get it upgraded to a pair programming assignment which if you are honest, and have experience works in your favour.
The Magic of Reading [Typesetting / Readability] (1999)
Aha, that explains a lot!
No. Stop trying to always change everything.

Stick to the basics. English, math, science, US history, world geography, PE, and the arts. Sex ed, maybe.

Critical race theory, crypto, or whatever is the latest hip trend, has no place in the classroom.
You'll need to make a couple YouTube videos hyping the value of the Lisa first since most people know what an Apple computer is but have never heard of a Lisa.
They also seem to tilt much heavier towards the > senior level roles, with many I’ve seen demanding a decade of domain experience.

I imagine that most lower leveled positions are sources from university pipelines.
> This is the underpinning of modern capitalism.

How so?
I doubt there's any Windows version developed at Apple even in secrecy; they definitely abandon that operating system and decided focusing on their own macOS and features it comes with and their cloud services is the only way. While they do support iCloud on Windows to some extent, there's no support on Linux nor under Android. At least no official one that's done in super-easy way.
That is an interesting justification for leaving crypto alone.

“Well if those poor people weren’t gambling on that ponzi scheme for a new dog coin they would actually be materially improving their living conditions and prices for everyone else would go up”

It’s interesting to see the wealth transfer of all these people that usually buy weekly lotto tickets get crypto instead and send their 10s of millions to programmers making an ICO and a fancy website.
If we have to keep these completely pointless relics, how about at least forcing them to be reasonably priced and have free wifi
Sleep onset timing and possible risk of developing Cardiovascular diseases
Interesting that the imagined letters are single-stroke, with no pen lifting, somewhat like most of the PalmOS graffiti letter forms.
No for murder they don’t need to be there. Neither armed robbery, rape, shootings, etc. There are a whole class of crimes we have reasonably good statistics on. Not perfect but good enough to know the trend and magnitude.
This could be a powershell script that should only take 10 minutes.
> P.S.: I only have 1 spot left in 2021 for personalized evidence-based recommendations.

Yeah right :)
Time Machine Control Flow with call/cc
I have a git repository configured on my local NAS with documents sorted in folders based on information category. Electronic documents are copied, physical documents are scanned. The repository has an active-active backup that's updated daily through an rsync script. This repo is also cloned on multiples of my day-to-day devices. Such a workflow ensures the following:

1) Any machine I use is only a pull away from the latest

2) Having a repo lets me track history and use search functionality based on repo tags. It also provides versioning for documents.

3) Each clone on each machine acts as its own backup.

4) The NAS is mirrored, the active backup is also mirrored.
It's spread over multiple platforms.
It wouldn't be any different from trying to force a confession through torture. You need to control your thoughts during the interrogation.
If I'm recalling correctly we changed our maths program to include lots of manual (calculus?) maths when the US gov wanted to churn out engineers to compete with Russia in space.

The need to manually solve the formulas has since been superceded by basic calculators. But it's still all (personal opinion) unnecessary rote equation solving these days. I certainly could've used more emphasis on structure and less on longhand math.

Good to know it's the same over there!
GN-z11 Oldest and most distant known galaxy (32B light years)
I applaud projects like this, but it really needs hardware specialized for eye tracking. Unfortunately, every hard word project I've encountered is focused on research and its price reflects that when it's in a thousands of dollars. Way out of reach for those that are disabled. https://www.tobii.com/. tobii is by far the most price accessible around $250. Unfortunately, their licensing is hostile against those who need an accessible product. They won't even allow you to create a Python wrapper to make it easy to integrate with accessibility projects. (Even if you're not storing gaze data). So there needs to be accessible hard worth accessible licensing for those with disabilities.
A similar way we can with solar or wind?

With per megawatt waste for nuclear per 20 years being exponentially smaller in volume.

And where the alternative is coal /natural gas (rather than wind or solar) where these produce more volume of waste in a month/year than nuclear does in a decade. (And in the case of coal, we store worse waste in ways it often enters our fresh water supplies.
> In tests, the man was able to achieve writing speeds of 90 characters per minute (about 18 words per minute), with approximately 94 percent accuracy (and up to 99 percent accuracy with autocorrect enabled).

Don't get me wrong I'm sure there will be advances. But this current tech is based off reading nerve data meant to be movement data - the user needs to mentally trace each letter.

So I don't see this form of the tech at least being able to compete with qwerty let alone stenography.

Actually to that point, stenography would allow people to input data (it must be language specific and error tolerant but most BCI is as well) at ~5x the average typing speed on qwerty but that hasn't proliferated.

EDIT: On second thought I could see it matching physical movement, maybe _slightly_ outperforming it by a few % by skipping a few physical limitations. I think this should be essentially identical to any other physical motion based communication.
Personally, I don't care too much, I've never had anything important enough to say. However, it could be made so that the state of the checkbox is saved
This reminds me of the thing where most television ads used to say "Please call now! Our operators are waiting" and then someone changed that to say "Please call again if all operators are busy" or whatever. Only a few words changed, but it got a lot more conversions!
Whenever I see these campaigns and emails I always think, "this could be solved by 1 ad"
You can do feature creep for a long time. If you just want a basic working version (that will probably drain your battery), that can be done really quickly.

This took me ~10 minutes:

#!/bin/sh
set -e
while true; do
URLS="$(xsel | grep -Eo "(http|https)://[a-zA-Z0-9./?=_%:-]*")" &&
if [[ ! "${URLS}" = "${OLD_URLS}" ]]; then
echo "${URLS}" >> urls.txt
OLD_URLS="${URLS}"
fi
sleep 1
done;
Thanks! Looking forward to get your feedback :)
Above the level to get your basic message out, campaign spending doesn't have much effect.

So I'm not surprised that learning about the candidates character had bigger impact.
Do you honestly think that large proportions of people pushing back against the covid vaccine mandates believe the 5g shit?
Hidden upside for Google - this will enrage and motivate departures for an undesirable class of employee (entitled, vocal, low-ranking IC)
Same here, I'm 46 and now also working full time on my first real game. Going a bit slow so far, but I'm keeping at it!
The author should put his money where his mouth is, and imply there were two spots in 2021 but one was already sold out.
Boiler rooms that sell bogus investment opportunities have been around for decades and extract more money from the gullible than crypto scams ever have.
I just scan everything and put it on Google Drive. For a long time I used the all-in-one printer's built-in scanner (with ADF), but over the last years started I scanning with my mobile phone. On Android I used Google Drive's built-in scanning, but I just switched to an iPhone, so I am now using Genius Scan.

Regarding organization, I use a simple folder structure, e.g. /paper/insurances/car, /paper/taxes/2020, /paper/<kid-name>/school/ ...
I try to use meaningful names for all documents, e.g. car-insurance-invoice-2020.pdf, so I can identify the right document as first glance.
The depth of the folder structure for a file is depends on the number of documents in that category. Unless I misfiled a document, I have no issue finding documents.
Have they said anything about new Threadrippers?
Product Roadmaps – your action items for success
Why did they give that drone a name that sounds identical to "Kremlin"? Seems almost like a provocation.
No, there are new ICOs with trillions of coins minted every month. It’s the FED injecting cash into newly minted monthly ‘stable coin’ wallets. Can’t wait to see the documentaries on the overnight millionaires who set up fancy ICO websites during the pandemic :D
Like Apple is not the only mean for computing, aeroplanes do face competition: you can walk, drive, cycle, etc. You can also own your aeroplane if other people scare you.

But the way I see it, Apple is more like one particular air company which operates aircraft without seats or windows, where customers are blindfolded, then strapped very tight on top of one another. That can be very safe travelling, and quite unpleasant at the same time.
Blacks are also about 4 times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession. If that's your only source of information, you would believe it was because blacks buy more marijuana, but that's not true. White and black use of marijuana is basically the same. This is why we shouldn't take felony statistics at face value for a demographic being "uniquely violent."
Oh that's interesting, make them think the thoughts at least for extraction. This first version of the tech requires the user to mentally imagine moving muscles to trace letters so yeah it's not likely to be an option... yet.

I wonder what happens to these BCI results when the user is on psychedelics a la MK Ultra

EDIT: Wait your point was slightly different then I first read but that makes perfect sense!
Countries and automakers agree to go all-electric by 2040
> Because all transmissions are secured by checksums and automatic query, no transmission errors are possible.

Just a reminder to people implementing systems with error detection: undetected errors are always possible. Checksums may be just fine for this application but if you need to achieve some target error rate you may have to consider error detecting or correcting codes that fit with the interference you find in your transmission channel.

[edit] Error detecting checks work not by making errors impossible but by making them unlikely. It is part of the work to quantify your design to show that probability is low enough for your goal.
> In the short term, very.

Based on my own experience, not so much. I managed to sign up for & use facebook on a dumb phone against my parents wishes, and I wasn't particularly technically proficient at the time. I only got caught when I logged into the account on the family computer, and angling the screen away from my parents made them suspicious.

They also implemented various blocks, both on the router and with software on the PC. This taught me about DNS, proxies, VPNs and Tor, and led to me seeing a lot of messed up things, since I was so curious to see what they didn't want me to see.

Simply preventing your kid from doing something leads to them learning how to sneak past you. As you said,

> If the kids are educated as to why a certain action is being taken, as opposed to just No then kids can accept the policy and be fine with it
You wrote

> Kites like Makani's are autonomous

They wrote

> Makani's kite is steered. This one just needs to stay aloft

The implication is that you are suggesting that autonomous steering is neat and the other person is suggesting that not needing steering is neater.

Also, Makani was steered into the ground literally and figuratively. It's been cancelled. It will never do what it said it could do because its creators won't keep doing it. It's over.
I think the wage theft point is relevant (I was going to bring it up too) for two reasons:

1. Directly, wage theft affects people's ability to get out of poverty and build wealth. Wage theft is a problem that disproportionately affects lower-income people (because they're more likely to rely on wages, instead of salaries or investments) and is disproportionately worse for lower-wealth people (because they can't as easily absorb a loss of $1,000 by covering it out of savings). We know, from those very same victim surveys, that poverty correlates with crime. In fact https://bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/household-poverty-a... points out that poverty correlates with being a victim of crime.

2. Less directly, but more interestingly from a philosophical standpoint, wage theft is a great example of a crime where how you classify it impacts statistics. Victim surveys tend to look at robberies. Wage theft isn't a "robbery," but if you lose $1,000 from your employer, that's much worse for you than being mugged at knife-point and losing $100 from your wallet. And if you look at homicides: Los Angeles has 200-something homicides per year. It also has 40-something police-caused deaths per year, which are generally not called "homicides." It also has 200-something deaths from car accidents a year, which are also generally not called "homicides." You're equally dead through any of these means, but crime surveys create a specific definition of "violent crime" that only looks at certain forms of violence.
This may not be lying but it is definitely icky. I would not feel good about being manipulated this way. Proponents of tactics like this are not good people.
Is the candidate allowed to use google?

Just asking since it's a very easy task but I'd wanna doublecheck how to reverse a string in that language.
I hand them to my wife.

This is partly a joke, but part sincere advice. I think one of the reasons our marriage has been such a joy is that we've been highly complimentary in areas like this where the little stresses of life can easily become big stresses for couples. When it comes to bookkeeping, keeping track of things, etc., she excels tremendously. But driving anywhere causes her a small stroke, and it happens to be something I thoroughly enjoy, and don't even mind in heavy traffic.
WGSL Is Terrible (2020)
Sorry for veering off topic, but the 5100 has been the most elusive item I’ve wanted in my collection (probably not true, but the rarer items I want will I likely never obtain. They come up for sale occasionally, and tend to be even more expensive than rarer computers and almost never the APL version.
Mostly stock buy-backs to reward the capital holders (the top 0.1%) at inflated stock prices before they crash 20%.
I have a physical folder of important vital documents (passports, birth certificates, Social Security cards, etc.). Other stuff I usually just take a picture of on my phone and email to myself with a heading of some words that I know I'll think of in the future (e.g. for a car repair "Sienna lock stuck repair car Pepboys" or something like that). Works pretty well for me!
In my region last mile access for ADSL operators is enshrined in law, as well as how much the network owner can charge them for that last mile access, and in practice what they charge them is around 30%.

I am pessimistic of a legal path to reducing the 30% take. You would have to get a court or lawmaker agree it is onerous, and I think reasonable people can disagree on whether that cut is indeed onerous.
The unfortunate thing is while it may be a small number on average, it’s likely that a small percentage of users see a large percentage of the abuse.
> Well, no. They didn't 'fight' for that, they complained about it. For a while they decided that LVFS wasn't a right fit and went with their own tool and infrastructure[0].

So why is this a problem ?

If LVFS isn't a right fit, cause its missing a feature, and they prefer to roll their own system instead of submitting a 100 LOC patch, that's kind of up to them ?
Why does Genius Scan work better for you than something like Office Lens?
> Thanks for all the knowledge. What is your interest in these protocols, out of curiosity?

Curiosity, yeah, pretty much. One day I decided to read the TELNET and FTP RFCs and became fascinated with all the historical cruft in them. I've also long been enjoyed studying IBM mainframe and midrange systems, they are their own somewhat alien world – most of that study has been limited to reading manuals, although I have mucked around with MVS 3.8J under Hercules (which unfortunately doesn't really have TCP/IP networking, or when it does it is some hacked-on thing with little in common with how TCP/IP actually works on MVS whether today or historically).

> Deprecated doesn't mean 'wiped off all computers everywhere'. By that definition, name something that is truly 'deprecated'? An interesting trivia question. I think we have to exclude rare tech like prototypes.

There are many systems which we know nobody still uses for production use, only for hobbyist / retrocomputing uses. A famous example would be Multics, at its peak it had over 50 production sites, the last production site was shut down in 2000, it took over 10 years between the last production site being shut down and an emulator becoming available so anyone could run it.

By contrast, people still use FTP and TELNET every day in production. Neither is inherently insecure, because both can be used over TLS. The majority of open source FTP/TELNET clients/servers never added TLS support, but commercial/proprietary implementations targeted at IBM mainframe sites do.
Amazing plateform and team. I think it will be my favorite no code builder.
AAPL has also split several times since then, making the difference even more dramatic
Most Safari comment threads have people looking for an excuse to use the phrase "The new IE" as if it's a zinger they came up with.
These kind of manipulations are as old school as one can get.

Here is a classic reference from 35 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influence:_Science_and_Practic...

Note that it covers tactics from door to door salesmen.
By Chrome and Firefox yes, but curl says they aren't dropping it: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2020/04/15/curl-is-not-removing-...

If curl decided to remove it, I would be more worried.
The problem is that the effect only works if my preferred option is still available.

Example 1: Only my size is in stock. I will try to order quickly. I'm fortunate that noone with my size shopped before.

Example 2: I click on an item, and see that one color is out of stock. I get the impression that these colors must be most popular and only "bad" colors are left. I am disappointed and might end up not buying at all. If I hadn't seen the out of stock colors I would have felt better about the available colors.
> In tests, the man was able to achieve writing speeds of 90 characters per minute (about 18 words per minute), with approximately 94 percent accuracy (and up to 99 percent accuracy with autocorrect enabled).

I'd be interested in knowing how this metric changes over time as the user gains more experience with the BCI device. The article mentions that researchers recorded his neural activity while he was thinking about writing letters. Would the man eventually find that the system is more accurate or faster when he instead learns how to think "the thought that generates the letter A in my BCI device"? Fascinating stuff all around.
There's a huge antenna in Colorado, I think managed by the Denver Air Route Traffic Control Center which is located in Longmont, that's used as a backup for transatlantic flights communications.
I think threads/posts like this often miss an obvious issue, perhaps because it is so hard to answer: why do certain countries need such policing in the first place?

There are many places (nations) where there are few shooting without police enforcement. Some of those places even have pretty liberal gun-ownership laws.

I think the answer is that those same places have a better feel to them: the people interact as if society is co-operative, united; rather than competitive and lead by virtuous independents.

Too much of the American philosophy is a harsh, cut-throat idea of competition at a individual level (I think at a group level it's not so bad, if individuals are still supported). Lack of basic, affordable healthcare options and an insurance mechanism/collusion that unnecessarily penalises anyone without (but few/no low-level plans available); "at-will" employment (with little oversight) as a norm that benefits employers way more than employees, legal norms highly biased towards the wealthy/connected.

Add in a history of slavery that created a large, black underclass; a "melting-pot" immigration philosophy that favours cultural/racial diversity over social cohesion, not to mention the historical in-fighting over resources, and you have little/none of that social comrade-ship at a national level.

Incidentally, I think something that could sooth the social problems a little is a common standard of "politeness" - which has little to do with respect, or approval. It's about your own behaviour, and a social contract that has to be followed, without regard to whether others do also. It's entirely possible to be polite and aggressive (passive-aggressive?) or show clear disapproval/distain without being impolite. It's rather a guideline for what is permitted (maybe wrt third-parties) in showing distain. I think this maintains the social-regulation impact of behaviour without the aspect of humiliation that becomes resentment and/or violence.
I'm pretty sure torture would be seen as barbaric and inhumane while reading thoughts would not have the same associations
That's actually what this announcement says.

If the box is still in use (50+ calls made in the last year) then it's kept. If it's in an area with low mobile coverage it'll be converted to a free wi-fi hotspot. Otherwise it's free to be torn down or used by the community (they show a box being used as a tiny library).