skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a lot of cynicism in this thread, including this from the OP:

> This is also what Software Engineering has become: you memorize, regurgitate and participate in agile the masquerade. Creativity is shunned. Tried architectures/patterns are what is expected.

No, not really. Maybe some jobs are like that. Many are not. But even the jobs that are not like that will generally be gated by interviews that include Leetcode-style questions.

This happened in the software industry because credentials and experience often mean nothing, resume fraud is rampant, and the cost of hiring a bad engineer is very high.

How about a take-home assignment? Suggest that and many will respond, "I don't work for free" or "I don't have time to work after work, I have a family to take care of." How about just looking at prior experience, or credentials? Resume fraud prevents that, and a lot of companies prefer to hire generalists and find a team for them to work in, rather than hire specialists for a particular team. Outside of research-heavy fields like AI/ML, a university degree is no predictor of success.

So, we need to find a way to evaluate a candidate, in a short period of time, that gives a reasonable estimation of how they will do in the job. If there was a better way, and it was proved to be better, the industry would adopt it very quickly, and it would be a competitive advantage for the companies that realized it first. But that has not happened.

If you put aside the cheap cynicism that permeates threads about programming interviews, you'll realize it hasn't happened because none of the people who are hiring have figured out a more reliable way to hire, even though there are very smart people doing it and they have an enormous financial incentive to figure out how to do it better. A company that could find all the good programmers who can't Leetcode, and weed out the bad programmers who can't Leetcode, would get an enormous amount of talent that others overlooked.

This is just a hoop to jump through, and it's not nearly as difficult as getting a college degree or learning how to code in the first place. I'm not saying it's easy, I'm saying it's doable with time and practice. Most of your colleagues have done it at your current job and also at your future job. I can't do it at the drop of a hat either; I would need to practice like almost everyone else. You can do it too, if you approach it with the right mindset: you aren't supposed to enjoy it or find it intellectually interesting; it's just an obstacle to overcome and it's smaller than many other obstacles you've dealt with before.
Eh, disabling the wifi after midnight seems perfectly reasonable; even if everything else you are suggesting is true.

Now, disabling the wifi after 4pm or completely, that would be a different question.
Some things shouldn't be disrupted. Housing and rentals is one of them. We don't need another "we can do better" shill that ends up baiting and switching people into more expensive renting. AirBnB is now more expensive than a hotel. Ubers are more expensive than taxis. All this disruption is just "how can I carve out more for myself".

Given this guy's track record, the last thing I want him involved in is renting to anyone.
Having to compete for labor, against an entity that can literally print money counts as "capitalism"?
> But if there wasn't any art to these problems, then after 400+ problems wouldn't you have figured out the robotic algorithm to solve them?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHwnrYm0mNc
I'm not sure what country you are from, but my taxes to the government certainly don't pay my internet provider or water supply company...
> How does the work get split when the work elements are non-uniformly difficult?

This is handled automatically by rayon using work-stealing. Unbelievable, I know. Intel TBB does the same for C ecosystem by the way.
Run down your model's battery during the day? Tire them out enough to make them want to sleep?
A link to that data would be nice thanks
You’re right, because hair has a terminal length! Your hair falls out naturally and over time the chances are the hairs that fall out will be the long ones, you end up with a practically maximum hair length.
Huh, interesting. What model was it? My pint has been rock solid through 2k miles.
One thing we did early is train our first child that she should not expect us to be in the room when she sleeps. It took a few iterations of (put baby to sleep, leave room, give baby a chance to self-soothe, pop back in for a bit to let her know we're still here) until she no longer cried when we left the room.

We didn't set a timer, but we usually gave her 5-10 minutes to calm down before popping back in.

If there's one thing I've learned though is that every baby is actually different (and it's not just a saying). For example, we've been bottle-feeding the baby right before sleep (nap and evening) every day for two years now, which I understand is against the usual advice of not feeding the baby immediately before putting her to sleep, but we found that she sleeps much better throughout the night and it didn't seem to cause any issues as long as we burped her properly before laying her down in the crib. YMMV though.
I'm depressed it's taken so long...
My dad was a DBA and did a lot of C code for his work. He got me a PC clone for my 7th birthday and a copy of Borland Turbo C. I made all sorts of strange code widgets and ascii animations, and also ran a BBS which put me in a lot of nerdy circles. Learning coding by osmosis I suppose.

I did dad's homework up into my mid teens, so it was a good payoff for him! :)

I never asked him if he liked the book Tom Sawyer. I bet he did.
Moving Mount Fuji

I see someone at microsoft was a fan of The Shamen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpjnzxtZ6Qg
Don’t assume it’s just rich kids buying into NFTs. Some normal people get caught up in the hype and legit believe it’s an investment vehicle.
Wow, what a shame. Even to this day, nothing stands up to my old Blackberry Bold and texting my friends on Blackberry Messenger, and sucking at Brick-Breaker. Texting on a screen has nothing on a physical keyboard, especially the ones Blackberry/RIM produced.
I'm not finding I agree with this review, but because the author has chosen their quotes selectively, I want to point out:

"broken windows". The book uses the turn of phrase, but does not (unless maybe in the original edition? I have the 20th anniversary one) actually quote the debunked theory beyond this phrase. Take it as the turn of phrase that it is, no need to read more into it than is present. If you don't like it, consider something more like "if you see trash on the ground, pick it up, don't step over it." Though that's a heck of a lot wordier. But about the selective quotes, let's take the whole phrase from the book:

> Don't leave "broken windows" (bad designs, wrong decisions, or poor code) unrepaired. Fix each one as soon as it is discovered. If there is insufficient time to fix it properly, then board it up. [emphasis mine] -- page 7

The emphasized part is what the reviewer didn't include. By only reading the first two sentences, sure it reads as a bit dogmatic. But reading the whole thing, it's clear that there is more to it. What does "board it up" mean? Well, they expand on it in the following sentences:

> Perhaps you can comment out the offending code, or display a "Not Implemented" message, or substitute dummy data instead. Take some action to prevent further damage and to show that you're on top of the situation. [emphasis in original]

That seems pragmatic to me, "I can't handle it properly now, but I'll do something that reduces the problem or draws attention so it can be properly handled later." In the JIRA-driven world, put in a new ticket.

They don't prescribe one answer or one set of answers to the problem, except to address it. Which is pragmatic because leaving garbage in a system is a really good way (over a few years, anyone who has worked on long-running systems will have experienced this) to end up with a load of garbage.
It isn't odd at all. Many patients continue to have positive PCR tests for a long time even after the infection is cleared. PCR tests merely indicate the presence of viral genetic material, not necessarily infectious virions.
Go work on something you enjoy, these tests are meaningless.
Obligatory reference to Breaking Bad[0].

[0]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IImhYDUYmzM
Sounds like work from home isn't working great for you, you should probably go into the office to work. Oh wait, but there are probably safety concerns preventing that.

You could also get professional childcare for your children to cover the day, but you probably don't want to pay the amount it costs. I am not sure why you don't have a friend or family member watch the kids for a day; few seem to be able to depend on close friends or family members in the US to do things like this that are considered simple favors in some other countries.

What I don't understand is why you think things are any different for teachers. People act as if teachers have the same training, PPE, and pay as medical professionals. They don't.

(I realize that I'm straying a bit from the point, but so is everyone else. There are far too many anecdotes in this thread that boil down to "I had a bad day with my child's education".)
So you're trying to imply:

> Typically these buyers will value an NFT due to the rarity of the NFT

This is burying the lede, rarity of the NFT matters once the 3rd party is tying something to it.

Think about this for a second, what is an NFT allowing? Allowing you to prove you own the NFT. When do you prove you own the NFT? ... when someone 3rd party that asks to check it. And why do they ask to check it? Because they've added some sort of meaning to it by tying it to a non-NFT asset.

If a 3rd party does not assign some value to it... who's going to check you own the NFT? To what end will they check you own the NFT? An NFT with no 3rd party value is essentially a non-fungible cryptocurrency, and what good is a non-fungible currency?

> this is the authority that you are referencing

You know it's not. You're replying to an article about how the centralized agency that maps NFTs to non-NFT assets held by 3rd parties is now valued at 13 billion dollars.
About the author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kalanithi

(And yes, it answers the question.)
I honestly, really do despair at reading this sort of stuff.

We knew. We knew in March. We knew _straight away_, we knew that supply chains would fail, all sorts of cascading failures would happen, prices would rise, there would be all manner of mental health effects, people quitting their jobs, etc

We bloody knew. And we still know. And we've been screaming it.

But the opinion in "educated" circles is that lockdowns and restrictions are worth it no matter the cost because life has infinite value.

Even here, on Hacker News, people used to dealing in the trillions will look at e.g. coronavirus deaths in the UK and act as if they're enormous when they're just not. In 2 years (150k) coronavirus has claimed about as much as pneumonia/flu would in 5 (30k a year).

But well, yeah. My career has still disappeared, we're still intentionally depriving children of their development, we're still intentionally causing labour shortages.

And people wonder why no-one gives a toss about society any more. Because at scale you're bloody lunatics, that's why.
Going to Tokyo once was enough to make me hate American cities. We got things so wrong, and we invested so heavily into the wrong infrastructure that we'll never change.
I spent a year on LC to get a fang job, I actually felt it helped me improve my short-game programming skills. The problem was I then started applying for regular jobs who didn't care about LC so much and I was failing on system design, experience with frameworks etc. I spent so much time on LC I was neglecting to keep up on cool tech. So now I'm doing that. Its kinda weird being programmer for 20 years in a market where everyone is "desperate" to find programmers yet I'm struggling to get a 200k+ job. Yeah I haven't gone for regular corporate jobs yet but looks like I'll end up in that end of the pool.
> Being poor

> haven't been promoted at FAANG yet

Is anyone at FAANG really poor, even if they haven't been promoted yet?
I think that most anarcho-capitalists don't believe in a government or nation.
In the context of 1930, you would expect that any such name for the Germans would tick most of those boxes. However, "Jerry" still doesn't feel like a slur.
Comcast Launches New WiFi 6E Gateway – Its Most Powerful WiFi Device to Date
Merely defeating someone's "revenue goal" is not theft. Your definition is so overbroad as to include competition. Or simply not buying every good on offer at whatever price is asked even if you have no interest in it whatsoever. To qualify as theft the supposed victim must be deprived of something they already owned, and that is not happening here.
Anyone has production war stories between minio and ceph?
Shutting down can prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed so they can also take care of other emergencies besides Covid.

Let's say you get to a serious car accident. But the hospital can not take you because it is full of Covid patients.
COVID has averaged a “9/11” amount of deaths every 2-3 days for what, 21 months? The actual single 9/11 event caused us to panic, pass the Patriot Act, and invade two random middle eastern countries. But somehow Americans are fine with a 9/11 sized catastrophe over and over.
Man, if it wasn't obvious before that the Chinese society is ascendant, stories like this one and the breakthrough in fusion (discussed today on the front page) really show it. It's a shame that we don't push the edge like we used to in North America, for whatever numerous reasons there are.
I am only at 4ish yoe (keep in mind I work casual since I am still studying full time so this isn't the same as full time experience) but I refuse to do leetcode style questions. If companies pass me up because of that, I am okay with that at this stage.
I'm an hour-ish from Madison. My guess would be that it has got a good nightlife scene for its size, a public research university, lots of healthcare jobs, relatively low crime, Midwest-nice neighbors, not far from Chicago/Minneapolis if you're wanting to visit a bigger city, access to Amtrak in addition to air travel.

Edit: and it's got a low cost of living...
I'm not wealthy. I grew up at the high end of poor.

I earn less than most US developers, despite almost a decade of experience.

Recently half my work place one the lottery in a pool. Most getting 200k each. I didn't go in the pool.

I drive a car worth less than 5k. My house is not in the best area and it needs work.

What you're experiencing used to be called envy. When you experience discomfort when someone else does well. Envy hurts you the most, you can experience joy when your friends do well. Their success can encourage and inspire you.

They key, I think, is knowing that you're a success. Well done you for what you have achieved. Another thing is to look at where you fit in the bigger picture. You're easily in the top 1% of global wealth.

There is something built in to us to climb hierarchies. You can climb without getting down that you're not on top. There is always a bigger fish, but you're a pretty big fish yourself.
They do but it's harder to do so. Two businesses that trade are usually not in such an extreme dichotomy of power differential as an employer and employee; a business is usually at the same level of power as its trade partner, so were it to demand too low of a price of materials, the trade partner would take their business elsewhere.

Contrast this to a labor market, where a laborer needs work to survive and thus it already has a lower level of power than its employer, even before any negotiation takes place.
Ours also doesn’t like shrimp. We always put one on the plate for him to look at, inspect, discard. As a shrimp loving dad all I can think of is: more for me!
Weight loss is about doing the right thing for long stretches of time. It is a war where time in some sense is the turf being fought over. Time spent being unhealthy vs time spent being healthy.

Not really the max power expenditure you can output 30 minutes (and to be charitable, let’s also add the elevated metabolism for an extra 4 hours after) each day.

Does it help? Yes it’s definitely a ~linear multiplier (for “reasonable” amounts of exercise).

As is the time spent doing the right things for weight loss (up to a point: k*e^-t probably models the benefits well up to some approximation bound)

How do you win a fight involving time? Make time the key performance indicator, eg fasting, I am starting to think.

Fasting as opposed to calorie restriction with many meals, bc while they probably reach similar outcomes w similar discipline, there are just a lot more opportunities to screw yourself up w/ calorie restriction than just say “not my eating time” once you get used to it imo
Care to share your model training code?

With confidence that high, it might be a runner up for kludge of the year.
You're imagining it's as simple as doing the thing and walking out with bags. But it's actually just a market. Most participants in most markets struggle, regardless of their morals. It doesn't matter what news stories you read about stupid actors in a market: most are actively trying to make smart moves, and as in any chess match, it takes some special insight to get ahead. If you get chewed up and spit out, that would be the default result.

So yeah, go try it. "Don't spend more than you are willing to lose".
I send my kid to private school to get an average class size of about 8 kids. If instead I sent him to public school and donated my tuition checks to the school, my son would have a class size of >20, and I have no idea where my money would be spent.

On some level, I’m a little ashamed of sending my kid to a better school than most kids get, but I’m giving you an honest answer.
Wobbly windows are still available in KDE Plasma Desktop Environments (I use Kubuntu, but there are many others).

Settings > Workspace Behavior > Desktop Effects > Enable Wobbly Windows

Enjoy :)
> think if the contract was for movies from hbo, and by logging in you can view and download movies you own nfts of.. this is obviously not the case today

No, it is the case today, at least for services that sell videos. Let's say today proof of ownership is your bank statement and an email from Amazon saying you bought a movie:

You can buy a movie from Amazon Video. You can have proof of ownership. Amazon is not contending your proof of ownership. Amazon agrees you clicked "Buy" and paid money. Amazon reserves the right to pull the movie from their site.

You still have your proof of ownership, Amazon just... doesn't care. Their servers will not serve you bits of data anymore.

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Now let's replace your bank statement with an NFT:

You can buy a movie from Amazon Video. You can have proof of ownership. Amazon is not contending your proof of ownership. Amazon agrees you clicked "Buy" and paid money. Amazon reserves the right to pull the movie from their site.

You still have your proof of ownership, Amazon just... doesn't care. Their servers will not serve you bits of data anymore.

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See the difference?
A spreadsheet of companies that eschew algorithm/leetcode style questions, and information on what they do use instead:

https://airtable.com/shr5TdnpVYVTpeRrN/tbluCbToxQ2knSLhh

Similar to the first link, as a github repo:
https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards

Information related to companies, their culture/values, and hiring process:
https://www.keyvalues.com/
In the late 80s, I delivered the Washington Post as a 9 year old — I skimmed the articles daily and one about local BBS sites with phone numbers fascinated me.

I called the numbers and heard weird noises. I was beyond intrigued and had to understand this new world.

8 months saving for a Commodore 64, 6 months saving for a 300 baud modem and I was hooked!
I've had a lot of trouble getting people to do proper reviews. A minimum to me is that you actually compile and execute the code in some way to check its sane. Better would be the reviewer actually adds to the test suite for the code to prove their expectations of how it works.

In almost all cases it's very hard to get people to look outside the web browser for the diffs. Diffs show you something, but never the whole context.

The other problem I've found is stamping down on style arguments: they have no place in code reviews, and a lot of the time you get a round of "please change this variable to be named something else" - which might be valid, but raises the question of why the reviewer didn't do it, and more often leaves a weird authority gap - I have no power to just reject such a request because I think it's invalid, nor does the business have anyway to resolve the issue. In fact if there's a dispute at all, very rarely is there any process for bringing in a third party to mediate or break the stalemate (which is hilarious in some ways since everyone by now should realize 2-party systems can't achieve consensus).

Code reviews are very, very cargo-culty and I've not seen them ever include a thorough design: people give up on the very near edge cases, and so the whole system falls apart because it's just a hurdle to get through and not a collaborative or constructive process.
> Once the code base has become a ball of mud, no one really bothers to review anything properly

This is the standard code review experience I've had across companies I've worked at. It's just theatre, bad and irritating theatre.
To be clear, I’m not absolving myself on this. The bug was still my fault at the end of the day, I just feel like my managers handled it poorly.
>Ron DeSantis spokeswoman

There is no direct antisemitism, only some sort of wink-wink dog whistle accusations.

>Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers

Demographic concerns are common across the world (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_threat). There is really nothing special about it. And there are always fears of "voter importation". It is not comparable to "Jews want to exterminate others with vaccines".

>Ohio US Senate candidate Josh Mandel

I guess if he weren't Jewish, he would also be accused of antisemitism because he mentioned Soros? Thankfully for him he ticked the right box when he was born. And yeah, this seems to be the only person who openly articulated conspiracy theories. But again, that's your run-of-the-mill "deep state is puppeteering social movements to keep power", it doesn't look like "similar claims about the Jews".
Design Patterns - I think there are a few obvious ones like Singleton and Bridge, a few non-trivial like Strategy and the rest are just historic artifacts for interviews
I got one on eBay. It says for military use only. So far I haven't been pulled over with it in my trunk.
From a practical perspective: outfitting every student with a VR setup sounds very expensive.
Presumably it would have happened more slowly, as the world population was less then. Though, maybe that wouldn't have actually made that much difference, as the rapid population growth of the last few hundred years is probably largely the result of technological progress (specifically, increases in farm output and modern medical technology). If there had been a population boom during the Roman empire, they might have been able to consume the world's fossil fuel resources pretty quickly, and with predictable results.
[1] "Preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction is traditionally a top priority of U.S. foreign policy."

I didn't say anything about Russia.

[1] https://www.nti.org/countries/united-states/
lol, result of typing fast i guess
I am not a naturally picky eater. It has really helped in my world travels.

The one thing I cannot deal with is Beets. Which is the only food my father hated.
The danger with this pattern is that it encourages overeating - stuff in the vegies so you get dessert as well, and wind up eating way more food than you need.