skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’d turn that question back around at the candidate, unless it were for a junior candidate.

I’ll give hints if the candidate is struggling, but I won’t just come out and tell them something like this. If they pushed me hard enough at the start, I would tell them and then fail them on the algorithms/reasoning component of the interview.
Could this be a side effect of web developers moving away from traditional websites to single page web apps? Single page apps are notoriously difficult to make SEO friendly but right now they are the hotness. A 'crappy' WordPress site will be much easier to get ranked on Google than a multi million dollar angular site.
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Yup, and that cultural rot is also a key failure to manage risk.

Just because you are [using knowledge, technology, skill, & planning] to manage risk once does NOT mean that the job is done. It needs to be constantly maintained.

If it is not constantly maintained, you are slipping back into the zone of [rolling the dice and getting away with it]. It will bite you.

What comes to mind is the last video from the very experienced skydiver which was normal until chute-opening-time, then got very chaotic and ended - he'd become so comfortable/complacent that he didn't do his checklist, jumped with only a knapsack instead of his chute. I'm sure he started out checking everything well. But getting casual and complacent killed him.
Yes, companies on Reddit have learned to use memes to promote their product organically on that site. And if a meme is particularly good, soon you have unaffiliated users happily parroting it, just like that "Hotel? T***" which I've seen mentioned so many times on that site from random users.

Or just have a memelord managing your Twitter, and soon your latest funny post will find its place all over the internet. I have never eaten at Wendy's in my life nor stepped on US soil once, yet I have seen their "memes" dozens of times.
The state mandated tests in California are far worse. At least with NIPT tests, if you get a negative, it's fairly certainly a negative. The state tests have all kinds of unnecessary false positives, and if you don't have the NIPT to negate them, you are in for a lot of worry.
In a free society the job of the media is to report the facts, not to "keep the raving mad in check".
Your no answer answered the question.

Just because you have not experienced it does not mean those talks dont happen.
The former only in case of the latter.

I.e., if someone isn't willing to grind leetcode, their intelligence is irrelevant.

If someone is willing to grind leetcode, then yes, their intelligence is a secondary variable.

Regardless, such styled interviews are intended to minimize the number of false positives (since the companies have so many applicants it's safer to err on the side of "no"; there are more in the pipeline), which means they will also generate a tremendously high number of false negatives.
Author here... I wrote this after reading Yudkowsky's article (linked in mine) and had the example posted there in mind as I went through the article. This was many years ago and I too wish I had picked something more upbeat. :-(
Its annoying, but I find it worse when the same model of device has different electronics/specifications.

Model numbers seem to mean little these days to a lot of manufacturers.
I hate that they do this. Sometimes I just want neutral results. Nothing scoped to my location, to my search history or preferences I don’t even know of myself.
Especially when researching a controversial topic, and try to get new data.
I didn’t mean to discredit him. The point is he’s not an unbiased observer.
You've to be a genius to solve a "hard" unseen leetcode problem in 15 mins correctly. Facebook is notorious at expecting candidates to regurgitate solutions to problems in 15 mins. Intelligence plays a lesser role than exhaustive and painful practice which involves solving the same problem multiple times. It's a full-fledged examination that expects you to excel while being constantly watched and judged.
Ah, gotcha. Thanks for patiently clarifying :)
As always in our beloved capitalist society where we live according to the laws of the jungle:

The vulnerable and poorest suffer the most.
God forbid we find pastimes we _like_ and stick with 'em, amiright?
If I have a bunch of USD stablecoins, where do I turn them in to get paper USD?

If that’s even possible, is it to a single organization with 1:1 reserves in US treasury paper?

If so, how is that more “self-custody” than a bank?
Many people kept insisting "Not many young people are dying from Covid-19" a statement that over looked the fact that, under normal circumstances, not many young people die at all. But there was an article in the New York Times that offered these facts about people aged 20 to 40.

July, 2019: 11,000 dead

July, 2020: 16,000 dead

Both numbers are small in a country where 3 million people die each year, about 250,000 a month. But it's still a 45% increase, so that age group was the worst affected, in terms of the increase in death. The increase in the death rate of old people was not as dramatic, as older people make up the vast majority of all deaths, every year.
Right? When I’m interviewing I care most about the thought process and the ability to communicate in depth about something technical, the actual solution isn’t really that important at all.
Nice, thanks! Just snagged the 4x8 plans. Almost bought a shed from Home Depot but it's more fun to build. This will be an improvement over parsing endless YouTube videos :-)
Yes, true. That cable has a special marking and there are even kinds that are solid enough to be driven over with tired vehicles. But those are super expensive, far more expensive than the kind that can be buried, and they are serious work to strip and connect. In a lot of cable that I bought there was one chunk of that stuff, about 2" thick for what looked to be tri phase, 40A+ground (so five wires + the steel cover). Bending radius about a mile :)

I'm sure there are thinner more pliable versions of that stuff available as well and I sometimes see the equivalent tie wrapped for temporary industrial applications to cranes and bridges.
Those would be considered kernel bugs though, and should be getting fixed when reported. While a crash in a kernel module is just a bug in the kernel module itself
> As much as I want a general micropayments system, I know that even I will spend more cognitive effort than I should when deciding something like "will this article be worth 10 cents to me?" The difference between $0 and even $0.01 is emotionally very large.

That’s my concern as well: I like the idea in theory but al increasingly thinking the reason past attempts have failed is that it’s more of a mirage than a stable alternative. Advertising has worked better for people with no money, people who disagree about what your content is worth, people who want to see before they pay, people who say they want to see before they pay but will cheat, people who don’t want to be constantly asked to make financial decisions, people who don’t want potential surprises of their kid/roommate/etc. uses their computer, etc. That’s definitely not saying that the status quo is great but it avoids a lot of failure modes which immediately become roadblocks if you’re asking people for money.

This has real societal consequences, too: we’d be much better off if the average person got their news from the NYT, WSJ, Economist, etc. but those sites have paywalls while a lot of less principled journalism to outright propaganda is free. I really wish we had a more convincing story for how to support things like that but it’s still unclear whether we do.
I don't actually know and I am likely suffering from tunnel vision because I have a very serious medical condition with a respiratory component and I have long managed it with diet and lifestyle and was able to transition to that in part via displacing harsh prescription drugs with gentler prescription drugs and eventually OTC drugs and then getting off drugs entirely.

It's routinely ridiculous levels of drama for me to try to talk about medical topics no matter how carefully I word things. It makes sense to me that the government or some official source should use the internet to inform people on what they can do to mitigate things but from where I sit that appears to not be happening.

In the book The Hot Zone, it was local African tribes who stopped the ebola epidemic and one of their practices was to tell people "Do not go to the White man's hospital." because you would go in with something treatable, like a broken leg, and die of ebola. And it had like a 90 percent death rate.

I've tried to judiciously share things I know are helpful. I was attacked and accused of trying to practice medicine without a license. I've tried to blog. Most of my blog posts get around 25 page views if I don't personally post them to HN and I do not post any of my health writing to HN.

I'm me and that's routinely drama for reasons I often find baffling. It seems logical and obvious to me that putting useful information on the internet from official sources to help empower people to engage in self care of some kind and give them a viable alternative to seeing a physician would be an excellent thing to do when trying to mitigate a global pandemic.

The world mostly seems to think I'm a loon and not worth listening to. So you don't really need to hold your breath and worry about my personal opinions.

I'm on HN because I'm medically handicapped, I'm too screwed up to do anything more productive and I'm just trying to distract myself from the misery that is my life and my terror that I will die on the streets in the near future.

No one is required to care one bit about what I think and most people don't.

Have a good day.
It highly depends on the book! A lot of these types of books are simple lessons with a LOT of fillers. IMO they are bad books. Most often, an author has a lot of things to say in their first book, but much fewer things to say in subsequent books, so first books are always a good bet.

For example, “the subtle art of not giving a fuck” is mostly fillers, but books from robert greene or malcolm gladwell are always filled with interesting stories that don’t feel like fillers.
In theory, using Bitcoin as payment infrastructure is perfectly legitimate. However, the store of value myth is what everyone believes in and it is what is driving the popularity of Bitcoin. It's not very logical. No, you haven't invented the financial equivalent of the perpetuum mobile. Someone must work hard for all those gains or they disappear into thin air.
I tried that and liked what I was getting. Do you know how much they’ll be charging?
That has not been my experience as a homeowner in CA for the past 5 years. I think the insurance company sent someone out once when we first bought the house? I vaguely recall they looked at the breaker box to write down the main breaker rating, and that's about it.
You have to have an awfully good reason to add 100k lines of code to a project... And I don't think merely shaving 50% off the build time is enough.

Think how many lines are now duplicate (and therefore need to be updated in twice as many places, and bugs introduced when a copy is missed).

Think how much extra stuff someone needs to skim through looking for the relevant file or part of the file.

If the 100k lines were in their own subdirectory and added a major new feature, it would be worth it. But spread across the whole codebase, and introducing more duplication and chances for bugs I think outweighs a 'neater' header file system.

The 'dependency hell' is only an issue for people who only want to build part of the kernel anyway. If you're building the whole lot, you might as well just include everything and it'll work great.
Where did the additional 100kLOC come from?
Though not a write up per se, Engineering Explained has made several videos with reasonable estimates:

https://youtu.be/L2IKCdnzl5k

https://youtu.be/MEqxaH47DTs

https://youtu.be/Hatav_Rdnno
Pushshift has a monthly comment[1] and submission data dump that you can download. Last June 2021's (comment) size was 20+ GB compressed in ZS.

[1]- https://files.pushshift.io/reddit/comments/
+1 for Jabref and a bibtex database.
Environmental impacts of shared and personal e-scooters and e-bikes
That website's choice of font colour makes for frustratingly low contrast and therefore is a recipe for eye strain.

I didn't waste time reading it.
Thanks, and I hope you find something fitting!

What do you consider improvement?

In my case I put extra time into helping the land I live on become more biodiverse, towards resilience as climate changes. I don’t have much spare money, so in my main work (parent/homemaker) I focus on helping my child grow up emotionally stable, physically active, intellectually engaged, and respectful of other life. Destruction is easier than synthesis.
There’s no magic button to fix our challenges.
Lobbying for fair regulation of energy, transport, and agriculture might be a good use of your resources. We seem to be consuming too much when there are ways to live healthy, engaged lives using far less energy.
I was betting on climate change®, bummer.
I've probably given Square Enix multiple hundreds of dollars at this point paying for a FF14 subscription during months I would have otherwise canceled it for the sole purpose of keeping the house I own.
And how do those numbers compare?
Interesting question, but I think you'll be hard pressed to find many large, popular projects still using large amounts of load-bearing assembly in the-year-of-our-lord-2022 since compilers have gotten very good and we still really care about portability since aarch32, aarch64, x86-64, and (less to) x86 are all reasonable targets that tons of people use.

I'm not sure how into systems programming you are, but there is globs of interesting assembly worth optimizing in various kernels. Interrupt routines, optimized memcpy, filesystem encryption, etc. are all great places where a small speed boost will have very large impacts on the overall platform performance.
The manufacturer/seller commonly games the reviews so even new products tend to have a few glowing reviews right off the bat.

And if you use the scale that if a manufacturer produces one bad microwave that all their microwaves are bad, I suggest cooking over a fire as no manufacturer is going to meet your judgement scale.
It doesn’t get super hot in here but I have one of those portable fans that you put water or ice in and it cools down real nice.
In practice they aren't, I should know. If your comments end up frequently flagged then you probably should read the guidelines a bit more closely.
I am using Google to look for programming documentation or solutions to particular problems. Top results are very often unrelated spam from Medium, clones of SO, SEO website against npm, etc

It’s quite hard to make specific searches - it insists to show me generic results, either by “did you mean?”, or excluding the keyword I explicitly added, or because it thinks I am looking for something more common.

If there are no results they should just tell me - instead of trying to keep me “engaged” with their spam.
Do you know offhand if the guarantees made by the Linux ELF loader is documented anywhere? I did search for it myself but didn't find anything authoritative.
I speculate (and hope) that ML diagnostics will help give medical care access to really poor people in really poor countries. There's not enough cheap doctors to help all of them, and if ML can speed things up and reduce marginal costs to zero, even if it degrades quality of care, a lot of lives could be saved. 80% ML + 20% human is better than no medical care at all.
So obnoxious. "Hey, I really like this entry level bike!". Typical HN response: "no you don't, it's trash. And if you do it's because you're trash."
I agree that there are definitely better alternatives to Zotero.
This is actually pretty common. Two links offhand that have popped up on here recently:

Santa Clara County, CA: https://covid19.sccgov.org/dashboard-wastewater

Boston, MA: https://www.mwra.com/biobot/biobotdata.htm

HN thread for the Boston link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29466172
Thread has links to other areas as well, and some helpful discussion of how this data can be interpreted, as well as some potential problems with it.

It's my impression that most major metropolitan areas (and many smaller water systems) do this on a regular basis for multiple diseases; I guess it was never really common knowledge before it started popping up on web dashboards with this pandemic. Maybe they just weren't too keen on publishing it before now or something?
This is a new mystery disease, there is little known about it. I'd say they need to positively identify a case as something else to say it's not the new thing.
I just learned that you can get the yearbook including all tests from the previous year for like 10€, the other big testing magazine Ökotest (focused on environmental impact) offers this too.
I am intimately familiar with Bellingcat's history of being funded by Western governments, laundering Western intelligence and outright fabricating "evidence" like the OPCW draft letter or the Navalny phone call. They are the furthest thing from a reliable, trustworthy source on geopolitical matters concerning Washington's opponents.

For the last time, if a literal genocide of millions of people is happening in 2022, and perpetrated by the public enemy #1 of the only media superpower on the planet, there would be primary evidence everywhere. Yet all you guys can do is point to a mountain of bullshit and say "go find the needle".

Cowardly and disrespectful.
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I wonder if you're conflating arguments, though.

I've never heard the "no big deal" one. I've heard another: If responses to COVID have worsened the opioid crisis, that's a cost that should be counted against COVID mitigation measures.

(I still think this is faulty: I don't think responses to COVID have done much to change the opioid crisis. But at least this is a rational argument and open to debate).
About 60% of all diseases is the result of spillover, and that's only the part that we can trace. The null hypothesis is that this was a spillover, anything else requires hard evidence, not the other way around. There are numerous recent cases of documented spillover, but there isn't a single documented case of a lab leak leading to a major outbreak.

The people that keep pushing that angle are usually not in this for the science but to stoke the fire.
Yep. She was great help!
I'm going by headcount numbers found online. 4% of 27000 is >1000. And HR is probably dealing with hiring for director roles among the other 100k non-engineering employees as well.
I'm a member at one of the community sailing docs on the west-side highway. I work in tech not finance, so unfortunately I still can't afford a boat of my own :(
>> The site says it’s CC0.

> Not sure that works everywhere.

IANAL, so I can't say it works "everywhere", but CC0 was created to give up as many restrictions in as many jurisdictions as possible:

> CC0 helps solve this problem by giving creators a way to waive all their copyright and related rights in their works to the fullest extent allowed by law. CC0 is a universal instrument that is not adapted to the laws of any particular legal jurisdiction, similar to many open source software licenses. And while no tool, not even CC0, can guarantee a complete relinquishment of all copyright and database rights in every jurisdiction, we believe it provides the best and most complete alternative for contributing a work to the public domain given the many complex and diverse copyright and database systems around the world.

* https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc...

If you are concerned about a particular jurisdiction, CC has national chapters that perhaps have more localized information:

* https://network.creativecommons.org/chapter/
I honestly even buy the "convention" argument. Damn near every other assembly language uses <op> <dst> <src> pattern and so trying to read at&t always feels like pig latin
What makes Bing different than Apple?
> Basically make it easier and less of a problem for people to get inspected

Totally agreed, and this post is the perfect example of why: people should want to be inspected! The whole point of a city building code is to have rules to keep people safe in situations that aren't obvious to, e.g., the DIY shed-builder.

If I'm building a shed in the backyard, and I have the opportunity to call an employed expert to make sure I'm not gonna fuckin' kill somebody? Yes! Give me that!
How about using the Bing API? Isn't that more open?

With caching, I think you might be able to reduce the load.

Also, why is w3fools in the list? It's an awful site.
I started losing battery life and motor torque (though maybe this is related to the battery -- this is not my area of expertise). Hills that I used to be able to cruise up without much effort started to require real work to assist the motor. Battery life degraded to around 50% of the initial capacity.

I think your strategy is totally valid, and I do that with most power tools in my shop. Buy the cheap one, and when it breaks, make a call on how to upgrade.

For me, I actually side-graded to a Onewheel electric skateboard (https://onewheel.com/) at the very beginning of the pandemic.

As a commuter vehicle, it's less practical than an e-bike. You can't carry as much (limited to a backpack), and it's almost certainly an order of magnitude more dangerous (but more fun!). The biggest downside for me us the inability to take my dog with me (I used to tow him in one of those bike trailers for kids). But all of these don't really apply in WFH pandemic times.

On the other hand, being able to pick up and carry the Onewheel opens up a lot more commute options that aren't as easy on an e-bike. In particular, pairing it with public transit is powerful. It's difficult or impossible to load a bike into crowded light rail car, but trivial to fit in with a Onewheel.

Where I live in Seattle, I can Onewheel 1.5 miles to the nearest light rail station in SoDo, take the train 7 miles north to Greenlake, and then Onewheel another 1 mile to my friend's house. The whole trip takes 40 minutes. It's 30 minutes by car.

I also go grocery shopping with it. In the store, I just stow it in the bottom shelf of the cart. This makes grocery shopping super frictionless, because I don't have to lock up a bike or anything. I just don't get more than 2 bags of groceries at a time. Grocery shopping is so frictionless for me now, that is not a big deal. It's a 5 minute ride (1 mile) to the store, I'm in and out in 10 minutes, and then back home in 5 more.

The only times I drive anymore are when I'm not traveling alone or when it's raining heavily (I am fine to Onewheel in the typical light Seattle rail).

It's really revolutionized mobility for me, much more than the e-bike ever did.
I am not gonna die on a hill defending these types of interviews but they are infinitely better than the alternatives. Alternatives are often subjective criteria like "culture fit" which can lead to nepotism/other types of biases or hiring being done by sorting resumes based on the prestige level of the college of the applicant and just running down the list from the top (which happens in other professions like law).

Ofcourse the interview process is (or atleast is supposed to be multifaced) and passing these problems is just one of the facets of the process. A great candidate can bomb one of these questions but I wouldn't necessarily reject them just because of that (although that happens in practice in the industry) and wouldn't necessarily okay someone just because they aced one of these questions.

I'd take complaining about these type of problems any day over complaining about only being able to get a job in certain companies by having connections or having gone to an Ivy League school.
It’s something I will look into. It took a little over 3 months to finish it.