skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Having mentored a lot of college grads and also interviewed a lot of candidates, it's actually extremely rare for people to line up a huge number of interviews in a single week. It can be done if you really, really treat it as a numbers game, but it's not how most people do it.

What people need to remember is that there's a very real pecking order. Everyone will do Google's take-home but the local business paying local CoL/Prevailing wages? By the time some get to their take home, the A players are already landing in SFO for their final rounds.

The people that are the most hirable won't have time to do 20 interviews, they'll get offers almost right away.

> I think this is the disconnect: You're taking time off of work for live interviews, but take-homes come out of "extra" time. If you're interviewing full time, a take-home is still more flexible than a live interview.

The thing is, with a live interview it's one hour of their time for one hour of mine. With a take-home, it could be 4 hours of mine and... ten minute for them to look at the code and run a test suite on it. So as a rule of thumb, I always suggest favoring live interviews (they are investing more time therefore they place a higher value on the potential hire).
Yeah and nobody mentions that our hospitals were already stretched to their limit before Covid because they are for-profit corporations. They should have had capacity for a pandemic because everyone knew there would be one. It’s poor planning, not Covid. They will add capacity and then what will your argument be?
I guessed as much, but I don't think they're anything but niche in 2022.

They're not in regular (e.g. VISA, Mastercard) chip-and-pin credit cards for example, are they?
Yes but the accuracy percentage is low because the software’s essentially guessing what he’s typing (not unlike swype keyboards + autocorrect on a phone though implemented differently). It would be way slower to correct errors and type at 100% accuracy because each error has to be corrected based on some cognitive process (like looking at autocorrect suggestions for example) which is far far slower than correcting a typo in a QWERTY keyboard. I can type around 110 WPM with 95% or higher accuracy and I can also feel the majority of typos I make and correct them without active thought.
I notice you are avoiding listing Bitcoin and PoW Eth here.
If https://www.statista.com/statistics/881541/bitcoin-energy-co... is to be believed

1779.11 kWh per single Bitcoin transaction would be

One Bitcoin Edit: Block Mined: 6,404,796,000 J

One Bitcoin Transaction on a Block: 2,287,427 J

One Credit Card Transaction: 5,351 J

Edit: Since the source isn't exactly clear if one transaction is a reference to one block mined or one transaction on that block, I'm going to assume it is for one block mined. I'm going to estimate one block contains 2800 transactions.
> There's a very inflexible housing market here in the UK, so we're all in competition for the best houses, and bid up their value against each other.

Well yes, prices rise to the maximum amount that people can afford because the alternative is not living at all. Quite simply there aren't enough houses in the place where the jobs are. The only way to change that is to build more houses or move jobs.

40 years ago the average 18 year old could look forward to owning a modest 3 bed semi with a nice garden with a couple of kids and an annual holiday, all from a single wage

Today they can look forward to hopefully being able to afford somewhere if they get 2 incomes, both in the top 80%ile range. Kids are unaffordable as both parents have to work to pay the mortgage, and there's no extra for a holiday, let alone childcare costs.

But you can veg out in front of netflix after your 2 hour commute instead of watching Neighbours at half five.
Yes. There is no silver bullet for this problem. However, interview goes both ways. Hiring team to judge a candidate and the candidate judging whether to go through the process and want to work there.

When I went through the job search, I did close out a few applications because I found out I wasn't too interested in their description of the role (after a conversation with more details than that was in the job posting), or simply if their screening process wasn't worth my time. The one I lamented about pass through those interest tests as the job genuinely fascinated me.
I'm not a big fan of this new trend of some random Twitter personality suddenly becoming the go-to source of information on COVID.

Granted, it seems true that she's actually an epidemiologist, though not unusually notable as an assistant professor at a mainstream state school. As far as I know she doesn't have unusual access to information, or a hands on role, she's drawing from public sources and doing analysis.

Which, is fine. But what makes me nervous about this trend is that she's now like almost a household name. She's built a personal brand around this image as being the up to the minute source of information, and the audience she's developed has a certain profile. They're basically looking for someone to tell them how bad everything is and how scary everything looks, backing it up with details so her audience can feel smart when they relay all this info to their friends.

The minute that COVID isn't actually something to worry about her audience is gone and she goes back to being a random obscure civilian.

Which is an incentive structure that makes me pretty sure I know what she'll be posting tomorrow, and a week from now, and so on.

I realize the mainstream news media isn't any better. But still, it's an odd new development that people are mostly seeking out the level of fear/concern they want in their news rather than the other way around.
https://archive.is/k3AZ7
I used to think like that just to realize that the main two variables to guess the language a project got started are the industry and the year the coding began.

For example, projects that got started 10 years ago are very likely to have got in Java started (as it still even was the main programming language teacher at universities.)

New projects are more likely to get started in python, typescript, go or even c++ just depending the industry. It’s been a while since I do not see a new brand project starting in Java.

Someone may dismiss my opinion with a statistic, and it will also be fine. I don’t think Java did endanger Microsoft,
"How comfortable people are and how happy they are are fundamentally unrelated to how free they are."

That would be false.

"The US was clearly a good place to live pre-1936, given that so many people immigrated there."

That would be false, too, unless you were very wealthy. Just because it was better than, say, starving in Ireland does not mean it was "good". Source: My father's father was a sharecropper.
This sounds like a good idea to reduce monopoly. Any downsides? Would love to hear arguments against this.
I use "RENTS" which puts the S at the end as a quick test for plurals.
Communism is the ownership of the means of production by the workers. You're talking about about an out-of-control regulatory state; maybe one with an authoritarian bent?
> Unmesh Joshi

It feels kinda strange to see an author other than Martin Fowler blogging on martinfowler.com....
We have modern Venezuela as a ripe example.
Weirdly enough, I was complaining about this exact issue this week. You can setup COOP/COEP in Github pages but you are still restricted to same domain for all resources. Which may or may not work in your case.

I've been working on a modified Emscripten runtime that treats threads as separate "programs" with their own memory, etc. Not an optimal solution at all but sometimes you need to hack your way around a problem.
> Cuba does not have a major hunger problem at all and has a higher life expectancy than the US.

That is plainly false. There are lots of cheating in how they count that, for example, if a kid is going to have any kind of problem, they suggest and try to abort it and it does not appear in the count, to give you just one single example about how they count life expectation. There is lots more that is only make up, such as the health care myth and others.

They do have lots of doctors they send abroad and the regime gets 70% of their income. When you land abroad, if you work like that, they take away your passport so that you cannot escape. They do campaigns to donate blood and they sell that blood (over 21 million dollars in sales for blood that was supposed to be, most of it, an altruist action by cuban people in one year). They are literally treated as slaves.

Did you see what happened last July? There were riots in the streets. They did not have even medicines or food and they (the regime and its propaganda) started to talk about the embargo (incorrectly called blockage) as the problem, when the problem is that those people in that odious regime do not let even the food or medicines go through without taking a part.

I mean, they take advantage of the anguish of relatives that are outside and they smash them. After that I saw president Diaz Canel promoting violence against people for the protests from his very own words, not a translation or similar (I can speak spanish).
I used to have a pretty high WPM, above 120 if my memory serves. You can only sustain that speed if you’re working from memory or directly copying text (as is the norm for typing speed tests). In real life I can’t formulate words anywhere close to that fast, so my WPM ends up probably being less 40 if I had to guess.
Also citing Eth2, which is vaporware.
China already suspended Phosphate exports in July 2021:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-exports-fertilisers...
Playground Global was looking at fertilizer making by skipping Haber Bosch process entirely…I don’t know how far along they are but there are a few companies/startups that are looking at this space.

Perhaps quantum computing might catch on sooner than we hope and new breakthroughs in material science?
>San Francisco spends over $100,000 per homeless individual, per year

AFAIK this statistic is misleading because it takes all the dollars spent fighting homelessness, and divides it by the amount of homeless on the streets. That's fine if you're talking about outreach programs or whatever, but if you also include programs that are actively keeping people off the streets (eg. housing vouchers), then you're undercounting the denominator.
I want to point out that you at no point address the question. It is a simple question, and it is not a trick. Your tangent feels like an attempt at what-aboutism.
Does anyone local actually accept BTC? That is, do you need to sell your BTC for either USD or pesos before using your money for rent / groceries / phone bill / etc?

Incidentally, your defense of BTC is pretty much "it makes it possible to skirt laws and taxes" which seems to be the elephant in the crypto living room.
RSU are non-covered shares, so you can't just fill out the total on schedule D (box a or d won't be checked)

You can do the above and also send the IRS a copy of your 1099-B too, along with your 1040. I don't know if you can do that and e-file.
I've only heard about him as a patent troll before, but apparently he wears many hats. A mathematician, a photographer, a cook, at least dabbler in biology, astronomy, and other scientific fields. An interesting character for sure.
that's DEI :)
I think the best argument for things other than QWERTY nowadays is ergonomics, not speed. RSI is no joke.
SMPP is a standard for sending and receiving text messages. The standard body is dissolved and you have to grab the documents from random places, but that doesn't make it less of a standard. There's also a SOAP standard for SMS that GSMA put out, but it's SOAP bleh. I think there's supposed to be a newer GSMA standard that's not SOAP garbage, but I retired.

There isn't really a standard for the interactive voice processing, SIP is a standard, but it's not quite simple to use it compared to Twilio or similar APIs.

However, most of the providers in this space have fairly simple APIs, so it's like 30 minutes of work to do the integration, maybe a little more if you're also receiving SMS or if URLs are particularly hard to use in your language of choice; if you're adding yet another SMPP vendor, that's faster, if you're adding yet another GSMA SOAP vendor, it's probably longer because you'll have to figure out why your XML doesn't work even though it should. Plus whatever it takes to get the account setup. Plus however long to build a way to choose from multiple providers (this part may be a lot of work!), and however long you want to run with limited traffic to see if the new provider does better/worse/same as the old provider.
Saying "jwz worked at Mozilla" totally understates his role in writing one of the original web browsers, Netscape Navigator, and his part in the creation of Mozilla.org, among other things. It's like saying Bill Gates worked at Microsoft, or that Larry Page and Sergey Brin worked at Google. Thus Brave supplanting Firefox could metaphorically be seen as Mr Eich supplanting jwz. (That's a huge "if", mind you)
I've had several different cars flash the "Do you need a break?" (with coffee cup logo) on the dash when driving through work zones where you are redirected and over various lane lines at odd angles. It would be really bad if the car automatically shut off in those situations.
Whilst I agree with you on principle the thought of an adversary combing data in order to bribe Private Bloggs of the Loamshire Rifles is comical
>Unsubscribing, replacements, returns, special requests are all costs, and that's a fixable problem in the current business doctrine, especially in the faceless megacorp flavor of business.

I'd believe that. Especially as processes mature and you really get your QA down pat, a good chunk of support requests tend to come from high-maintenance "black hole" customers who will only consume more of your resources when you help them.
And even so cost effectiveness isn't obvious. The hardware results in quite expensive vehicles that additionally won't be owned and maintained by gig workers for free.
c.f. "Little House on the Prairie". Chimney fire is for real.
You didn't have to go for the jugular and do the brutal kill on the first hit, dude!

> We want it to be true, so we squint and connect dots and it's true.

That's exactly the issue. You summarized it once and for all and we can all go home and stop discussing it now and forever (until we get a general AI that is).

1. Normal people want to have intelligent machines. They watch movies and series and imagine one day a robot will cook for them so they actively look for intelligence, as you said. They buy Roombas and imagine they are going to clean 100% of their rooms (seen it, heard it, watched them rage when it didn't happen). They buy Alexa-enabled devices and imagine themselves like some aristocrats barking orders at an intelligent home (lol). But yeah, that's what the normal people do. It's quite puzzling to me.

2. People who work in the area are obviously biased and I have argued with some of them here on HN but I view it as a doomed affair. They insist there's a lot of innovation going on and that improvements are being done all the time yet we still have embarrassing failures as Michele Obama classified as a male and various politicians classified as known criminals or black people in general classified as gorillas. Like OK, where are your precious improvements and why are they NEVER finding their way into the news?

"It's hard to make someone understand something if their salary depends on them not understanding it", that's how I view the folks working in the DL / ML area. Sorry if that's offensive but just looking from the sidelines, it seems that what I say is true.
> An activity that it is easy to learn the basics of, but difficulty to gain proficiency in, may be described as having "a steep learning curve".

It's the same for me. I doubt I can hit 200 WPM, but when I'm typing what I'm thinking (like right now) I'm significantly faster than when I type something I've never read, especially if it's just random words. On the other hand, I've never been much into measuring my WPM (I can type sufficiently fast for everything I need), so I just assumed this was a skill one can train to actually get those insane scores.
It’s not a good idea to lie in the interview process. If you get caught, you jeopardize your chance of landing the job.

But you do have ways of presenting a good number for negotiations. For example, you can respond with your total compensation (health insurance subsidies, retirement plan matches, stock-based compensation, transit/parking subsidies, educational stipends, etc).

If you’re changing jobs, and the new employer lacks stock or other forms of compensation, it’s totally reasonable to negotiate from a point of what you’d be loosing by switching jobs.
I think yes. These people really seem to believe that they are right. What other methods do we still have of convincing them?

Some of them undoubtedly will double down, but those people are probably unreachable by sanity anyway.
You mean that definition that prescribes hoi polloi to be subservient and sing/dance the way Belorussians did while being literally raped/murdered by the monarch's squad? There are no peaceful ways to stop totalitarianism. And there is nothing sacral about public buildings.

The real terrorists are those who are using army against their own population. Neighboring Kyrgyzstan had multiple revolutions, too. And their army did the right thing every time by not getting involved (except the last one when Kremlin played its part).
The article, and the problems it references, aren't really expected to be a US thing - it's developing nations, and places where food is already harder to come by...
I did mitigate the problem last time. I communicated with them and they told me it was fine.

I'm very curious. Is this a communication mistake? Like do you think I'm some big company that forwards text messages to random people?

Do you understand these are text messages being sent to one of like 3 employees at my small company? We are not generating outbound content or allowing anyone else to do so. Your question about GDPR requests makes me think maybe you have misunderstood the context.

If you have correctly understood the context, do you actually think I should have some kind of AI algorithm scanning these messages for Phishing?

I'm not sure I understand what your are suggesting or how you would have solved this problem? You would have just turned off the text message forwarding I guess?

Is that how you solve problems? You see a problem, then you destroy the thing that caused the problem, so problem solved? What do you do for a living with that type of cognitive approach? Are you an entrepreneur? Do you really run a business with that attitude? Are you en engineer? If so, when you are asked to make something work, do you just tell your boss "no" if you run into a problem that requires a creative solution? Are you a lawyer? Is your job to tell people what thing they cannot do, but not to help people do new things? That would kind of make sense...
Not sure how to put this in a non-blunt way, but the hardcore crypto bros are not from your country either.
Thanks for the reply & the wider context!
Note that the selection bias has existed throughout history. Every kid assumes that having children is the natural order of things, because their sample usually consists of their friends and all their friends' parents (by definition) had kids. However, when I look at my parents' friends (or even siblings), a lot of them were childless or died young. U.S. fertility rates today [1] aren't appreciably different from what they were in the late 70s and early 80s.

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/fert...
https://twitter.com/jgrahamc/status/1479189616846639110
I think the poster isn't actually living under a corrupt regime because (and I always come back to this), you can't really buy crypto with currencies outside of USD/EUR/JPY/KRW/sometimes RMB and if you have access to those, then you already have hyper-inflation protection taht has historically preformed much better than any crypto has.
> So the Saturn emulated 3D by transforming squares into triangles. Imagine trying to do that in assembly. It’s definitely beyond my capabilities that’s for sure.

All my early 3D engines were in software (x86 assembler), this was in about 1990, before any 3D hardware came along. Doing the 3D texture-mapping is actually really simple, even in assembler, once you know how. Figuring out the algorithm was really hard because it was so hard in those days to find out any information about this stuff.

What I couldn't figure out until several years later was how to fix the issue of perspective warping on the textures. Again, the solution is so simple once you know it, but as a kid it was beyond me, until the Internet came along and opened up a world of coding I'd never seen before.
You should you know that the other side has no problem lying to you just to get what they want from you:

1. We value work life balance

2. We value diversity

3. We care about our people

4. We pay fairly and reward efforts

Are one of the biggest lies I have heard from corporate HRs and recruiters
Needs to be decentralized and open source from the start to have any chance of working long-term. And no, zero crypto as a "solution".

Thing is, if people wanted you to leave comments, they would add comments. Every CMS worth its salt has this feature out of the box, and even static websites can add the likes of Disqus in seconds.

This "solution" is already here in the form of traditional social media like Twitter, Facebook and Reddit if people want to provide any additional context or commentary.

The problem with solutions like these is the potential for abuse, and somebody needing to moderate it ultimately if it ever does catch on in any meaningful way. At that point, you may as well just use an on-site comment section and let people deal with their own problems, and it's already decentralized, and a choice that people can make for themselves rather than having what's effectively graffiti showing up via a browser extension when people land on their site.
Do you know what was the test that distinguished omicron from delta? Asking because my local county health department seems lacking in that technology.
Selling tokens from employment is much more like selling a bunch of SUPREME merchandise you were granted at one price which retail will pay a premium for. Tokens just make that a practical thing to offer to employee given the high market liquidity, compared to consumer products. The technology allows for overlapping feature of equity securities, but they dont have to be implemented.

Sometimes the SEC sees overlapping securities laws involved, and then they do care, but its really just a problem for consumer protection agencies like the FTC, who doesn't care to regulate transactions. So securities purview is not inherent to the format of asset being exchanged, so there are some things to avoid and then you’re good to go.
Even banks use more energy than bitcoin (which I highly doubt and there are comments here suggesting it's nowhere close), you'd still need banks or analogues of even if the whole humanity suddenly moves to crypto.

Crypto energy consumption is just unnecessary waste.
Or worse, phone # for "security".
Can they be used somehow? They perhaps.

Depending where you work you might also need to pass some sort of imaging scan that will look at the versions of everything installed.
I thought doing this on my HP 48G was low-tech, but these really take the cake.
Also, Scala’s optional null checking (where null becomes a type that is not at the bottom of the type hierarchy) is really cool!

All in all, I do find using Scala can absolutely worth it, but I really don’t feel it with Kotlin. It feels like a watered down Scala, and add to that where modern Java currently is, I feel it is not needed.