skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well as a senior/lead engineer, the nice thing is that the jobs I get these days, I try to work from the inside to make sure interviews aren't too ridiculous, and not be super-critical of people who don't ace the programming stuff. So that's kind of nice.

That being sad, where I am (Netherlands), interviews haven't gotten noticeably harder. 20 years ago I had an interview where I was asked to implement polymorphism in C on a whiteboard. The other year I had an interview where I had to implement some kind of graph sorting system related to blockchains. I failed them both, and went on to find a load of other companies that were a bit less silly.

My overall impression is that it's big tech companies in the US that have become obsessed with coding tests, hankerrank and leetcode and the like. I don't know why, when half of them are complaining about acute talent shortages... (Facebook?)
This is a hard problem and definitely not unique to Java.
For example networks, or perhaps more appropriately, network protocols, have these kinds of cliffs as the offered load on the network increases.

As I understand a particularly bad traffic jam in the early internet is what motivated congestion control in TCP. As a matter of a fact traffic is also an example of this phenomenon playing out without any (effective) compensating measures.

I find "Metastable failures in distributed systems" [1] to be a really interesting and accessible exploration of the problem.

[1]: https://sigops.org/s/conferences/hotos/2021/papers/hotos21-s...
The CDC publishes a weekly chart showing the proportions of circulating variants for the US as a whole. The Delta variant had previously driven most other variants near extinction, and now Omicron is doing the same to Delta.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#circulatingVariant...
There are so many variables that it's hard to have a precise answer to that question but it might be anywhere from very simple to very complex: if you just drink because your friends drink and they don't want to stop: they are no longer your friends. Stop drinking, get new friends. (while this is the simplest answer, it's not a simple task at all) If you can't stop drinking even without your friends, it might not just be the friends that are preventing you from having fun without alcohol.

Make a few choices or answers available for yourself first;

- Do *I* want to drink
- Am I actually having fun while drinking
- Are there other things I could be doing

If you don't want to drink but do it anyway (for whatever reason i.e. <comfort, group participation, no alternatives around>), then you still don't actually want to drink.

If you are just idling by when drinking doing or joining whatever is happening around you (autopilot essentially) then you might feel uninhibited, comfortable or part of a group, but is that really the same as fun?

If there are other things you could be doing but you're constantly drawn to drinking with your friends, you could still be doing those other things; the attraction to what you already know doesn't have to eliminate everything else.

Even if you can't get any definitive answers for yourself, just thinking about it (like you probably did when asking this question) can be enough to start finding help. And help doesn't have some universal definition or steps to take. It doesn't have to be big or a complete plan either, just a starting point, an ignition to do something about a situation you don't like is all it takes to help yourself.

For a less vague comment, information on your social context would be needed like what governmental or non-profit options are available where you live, or if you have the means, private options as well.

If you live in a country with universal healthcare you're probably going to have a very easy to try starting point: your General Practitioner or Family Doctor. If needed, write down your issue, and desired to do something about it and make an appointment. They won't be able to magically cure you or something like that but they will know who you can go to for help. Sometimes even the nursing or assisting staff and maybe even the reception will have general information available as well if you feel like asking a doctor is too big of a step.
And for a simple bookmarklet like this the source would be so trivial that you can read it and verify that all it does is redirect to the computed url.
Yes, but using the singular signals a non-native speaker, and this is reinforced by using "couldn't" rather than "haven't [been able to]" in the third sentence. I think GP is on to something.
Counter question: would you even apply for a role to your team that your HR wrote and you were not even consulted about it?
Dairy cows are not usually referred to as cattle.
Definitely. I don't find the algorithm-puzzle interviews difficult.
I don't even know if Sten is disabled.

I do know Sten had the unfortunate experience of a toxic manager who, after firing him ,went out of his way to stop him from getting another job.

Considering healthcare is tied to employment in America, I can't express how evil this is. Imagine if after breaking up with someone you ran around trying to ruin their other relationships.

Then imagine writing a blog post bragging about doing that.
Else it's just an F12 -> *BASIC away, right?
IIRC this was litigated by k8s years ago, hence we don’t have pet sets. But the metaphor is still in use because it’s so vivid and memorable. Is there a recommended replacement metaphor?
Not necessarily what you're looking for, but I always found The Shockwave Rider to be impressive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shockwave_Rider

1975 though, so quite recent.
Far less than an order of magnitude — and it shouldn’t be the case that every advanced feature slows down core functionality like how long it takes for a key press to render when you’re not even using that feature. They have lots of functionality but proponents have always noted the … stately … speed and these days the ones I know have moved to VSC because it’s competitive for the features they use and they benefit from better performance all of the time.
I come from the land of Wisconsin where we have more bars than grocery stores in 90%+ of our counties, by far the highest proportion in the country. I can sympathize.

My advice is honestly to just keep drinking with your friends but keep yourself to a couple drinks max. You can still go out with your friends and play darts, but you won’t be useless the next day. Nobody will care. Get a sprite after you’ve hit your limit. Don’t abandon your friends over alcohol unless you really have a problem and are day drinking.

If you try this and can’t do it, then you need to reach for nuclear options like moving away from your friends. But don’t reach for that first.
Hm, that's [that 'bear in mind'] correct:
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/about-data#daily-and...

Just wanted to check that since (at at least one London hospital) they're on different wards (as in, even discounting that obviously you don't want 'broken leg with covid' on a general 'broken bones' ward with neg/query patients) so seems odd to me they'd report data like that vs. those needing treatment for it.
Gnome 42: DMA-BUF Feedback Support for Better Multi-GPU, Proper Direct Scanout
Ah OK. Tree mode navigation only works on whole lines as I think there's benefit to keeping the model simple and text cursors are good enough for horizontal navigation. I do have a couple of ideas for this though - 1) a key to select the condition so that you can edit it in normal mode (standard text editing), e.g. select the if then press c to change the condition; 2) some way of temporarily expanding single-line constructs into multi-line ones so that the vertical navigation commands navigate and edit them - so you would navigate to it then press a key that would temporarily expand the if (condition) to if (\n\tcondition\n). This would also work with things like argument lists - temporarily expand to get the arguments on separate lines for editing.
I don't disagree with you, but ...

There's a premium placed on first-edition hardcover books. The contents are identical to the trade paperback or the EPUB.

There's value attached to the original limited pressing of a vinyl record which has since been repressed, reissued on CD, and is now available for download (legally or otherwise) in digital form.

Consuming the media, in either example, is available to all. Possessing some marker of specialness is coveted. People are complicated.

NFTs are silly, but collectors are inherently silly if you choose to look at it that way.
The sentence sounded weird to me too and I interpreted it as a non-native english speaker simply saying their friends drank alcohol but where not alcoholics. OP should probably clarify.
The company I work for uses a take home project that can be summarized as: Consume some data from a public API, store id somewhere and then build a visual representation for the data you consumed. The goal is to spend less than four hours on this.

I really liked this since it gives plenty of room for discussion, leaves you a lot of freedom to chose your tech stack and make a case for it.
> Otherwise, Russia itself wouldn't have stamped out the Latin script and forced those minority languages, already few in number, to use Cyrillic in the 2000s.

What languages are you talking about?
I read this as infant School meaning I thought you meant like primary school. Was wondering wtf how intense is your junior curriculum?!
For what it's worth, we test our in-house developed interviews on our own employees.

I don't believe they're any harder than the interviews I had to perform 12-13 years ago. If anything I think they're easier, because I remember a lot of weird trick-logic "Google" questions during the late 2000s that didn't even touch programming or software.
Chatbots: Still dumb after all these years
I'm convinced that's because of M.A.D. had nukes bwwn on only one side, they'd have bwwn used more often.
Probably not, because our interviews have absolutely nothing to do with the job. We'll ask an interviewee to code a linked list, and then plop them on Ansible for the rest of their working life.
Yes, I would.

But only because the vast majority of our focus is on the person - their character, attitude, what drives them, what motivates them, how do they treat others, what are their communication skills, etc. Very little is spent on technical capabilities.

This has served us well, but hiring takes longer and is more involved. A lot of people fall out of the process early on, but it is totally worth it.
My very rough interpretation of the last few days is as follows:

Economic events (including increase of gas prices) triggered local social unrest, which the government attempted to suppress and failed as it escalated and resulted in at least some breakdown of government power (some police refusing to suppress protesters and joining them, protesters seizing government buildings and setting them on fire, looting of weapons from police stations, etc). The local military seems largely not involved (but there are some cases) and apparently it's not expected to be fully loyal to the leadership if asked to suppress revolts.

After that ruler offered a back down on the changes and a rotation of the government, but the protesters apparently want a full change of leadership. This was not acceptable to the leadership, who invited neighbouring militaries to support them against the revolt, which can be used more freely/reliably than local army.
If we're talking Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar is even more prescient socially. Not 100 years ago though.
Not the OP, but I have tried Duet Display on Android and it only works via Wifi. Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 (the premium price series) can be used as an external monitor, but only for Windows machines.
> A few months later when Germany attacked USSR and Finland joined it, that extra space saved Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) from total destruction.

Yes and no. Had the Winter war not happened, Finland wouldn't have joined the German attack.
Lobster consumption aside, those graphs show an insane increase compared to previous waves.
Asking "what's funny" is a great response. And you are right - hopefully the interviewer would give an explanation for the laughter.

Re the Russian - it sort of depends if the company is mostly Russian or not. If the culture at a company is such that it's offensive to smile/laugh then it would be better for a laugher to join a different company - ie be gated out, no?
Nothing you've said really counters anything I've said lol.

> “Nobody uses it”. Yeah ok. Those graphs indicate non zero channel balances and nodes.

I didn't see a country come on line in the charts. I see twice as many people using it as 3 years ago and virtually zero increase in usage post-El Salvador.

At the end of the day it's boat anchored to a worthless L1 which would require 75 years and ~1/3 of a trillion dollars to open a channel for everyone on earth.
Aside from the main topic in this article, I'm interested in knowing why the CNIL would have jurisdiction over Google and Facebook. I'm assuming that Google and Facebook have local offices incorporated in France, but is that the reason why?
On pure skill yes. In terms of the demographic preferences for new hires no.
Great tip! Thanks :)
Interviewing is easy today because companies are extremely desperate to hire.
Oh I don't remember seeing this one before, thanks for sharing!

I think there is indeed a controversial aspect to this idea, which we aim to address with better moderation (for civility).
The first world of the comment you replied to is a first person pronoun.
Fun story, my employer once had a contract with a huge pig farm like that and whenever we went on site we had to strip nude and shower off and then dress in clothes they provided, so we didn't contaminate the pigs with anything.
How many people are in your company?
The expectations for the take-home work also need to be crystal clear.

I've gotten data science ones where you could spend anywhere from an hour to an entire career working on that one particular problem. If it's meant to be a simple pass-fail exercise, say so up front and reserve the interview for discussing how the solution could be improved.
There are lots of activities that require you to be sober. Try flying, it super hard and you need to be in top mental condition. Learn acrobatics and you need to be in top physical condition too. Literally choose things where choosing alcohol is also choosing failure at that thing. Soon, you will have new skills and new friends that don't drink. Good luck and keeps asking around, there are lots of people that have learned the knowledge you are seeking.
It depends if we're judging the overall predictions of everyone, or this specific author's predictions. I always tend to look at it at the author-level, because otherwise the infinite monkeys theorem applies anyway.

I think this author should be given credit for the accuracy. He can't control what everyone else is writing and how accurate or inaccurate they were. He can only control his own predictions, and they were very good.
This is kinda what I was hoping there would be - some secret trick haha :)
If you don’t like putting objects and classes on the left you can write

import static example.Library.*;

And proceed to write in your main method

var x = someFunction(6, ‘that’);

in a style like C, LISP, or ML. You can write a whole program (like the answer for a HackerRank problem) in a single file. The developers of Java have always respected the ML family and JDK17 incorporates pattern matching, records, algebraic types and and many other features that make functional programming fun.

The type erasure problem for generic classes goes away when you use generic methods; type inference works without limitation for generic methods and is great for defining APIs for internal domain-specific languages

any(grammar,you.want(ifIt.parses(ON_THE_LEFT)));

the great thing about Java is a quality IDE is certain to support this programming style.

Any complaint that the internal DSL is too verbose can be attacked by the use of code generation which is straightforward to incorporate in a maven build and your IDE. (The LISPer is using code generation and you have to do it if you want to keep up.)
There’s been a lot of posts complaining about coding exercise interviews. I sympathize, they are certainly flawed. But I don’t see any sort of consensus around an alternative. The things that many other professional fields do—-a mixture of credentialist proxies and interviews that amount to little more than personality compatibility tests—-seem far worse.
If we all wrote perfect code we'd be putting our QA departments out of work. Do we want that on our consciences?
I was thinking about this at a previous company, when I took a look at our questions and thought the same thing.

I realized that when given to a candidate, we don't just throw the question out and come back an hour later asking if they've solved it. Part of the job of the interviewer is to keep the candidate on track, and gently guide them in the right direction if necessary.

All of the questions were much more reasonable (and approachable) when there is someone who is motivated to help you reach a solution within the allotted time.
It's so absurd this even needs to be explained!
> 229E, NL63, OC43, HKU1 that have been around for ages

They can only insert themselves into specific cells (acidic ones in lungs, nose, throat, stomach) and thus are respiratory viruses.

SARS-Cov-2 can insert into most cells of your body and loves the organs like the heart, brain, testes, lungs, etc.

It is airborne like a cold but can damage your brain and heart where a cold cannot.
Many non renewable resources are past peak production, and declining fast. Austerity will be next. But it will be disguised as saving the environment. So that not only do you do not blame your politicians for being poorer. You will be blamed for over consuming and destroying the environment.

Energy crisis, like running out of heating gas is already hitting Europe. And shortages of fertilizer will be here this spring. China and Russia are not exporting. US doesn't make enough. Farmers will be planting without it. Expect higher food prices and possibly food shortages.

Things are running short in the supply chain, from chips to little bits and pieces. When things break, they will break fast. Make a plan B people. The wave is coming.
> No, you do not understand. Bitcoin simply is more durable and difficult to produce than gold.

That's got nothing to do with its price. Nothing is more difficult for someone else to produce than the hair on my head, but that's worthless.
That's precisely what Putin is doing now, threatening Ukraine and insisting NATO commit to not admitting Sweden, Finland and Ukraine in.
Good to still it’s still going since launching in 2001.
I wouldn't consider myself a full blown alchoholic, but have my issues with it. I never get really drunk, but enjoy daily drinks.

I honestly don't know what to tell you. Life is quite boring in general (work, home, prepare house work, cook, sleep, and if you are lucky you have a few hours for a hobby), and alcohol made the time go much faster. Meals are also more 'boring' without a nice glass of wine or beer to go with it.

The few times I was ok without drinking at all (as I am now), I basically focus on sports. That is probably the only thing I still find interesting and do fully sober. All my free time as I can, I use it to train, sometimes 3 hours, sometimes 6 hours a day.

TV, reading, woodworking even trying to code for fun always lead me to want to have a beer or wine with it, sports and competition doesn't.

No clue if it will help you, but try it and see.
having cancer is not the opposite of healthy, several aquatic creatures live just fine / "healthy" with cancer
The good practices I was referring to, were things like: his praise of the documentation culture, the obsession with data security (which I read as a good thing, on behalf of customers). Of course you are right that it was definitely a mixed bag.

Your paraphrase isn't wrong either, but I would suggest a modification to it: "it will suck you dry, if either (1) you don't fit in with the company culture, or (2) you are placed in a bad situation on a team with poor leadership and high attrition".

Perhaps shockingly, not every team at Amazon is constantly quitting (e.g. my direct team in the last two years has had 1 person voluntarily leave for a better opportunity - and we wished them well, and 0 attrition otherwise), and also some people actually appreciate and gravitate towards some things like, what the author calls "team are fragile" culture (because it is in fact a kind of durability/resiliency that there is less reliance on special rockstars, irreplaceable dependencies, and that teams can be fluid but the product mostly works/lives-on).
There still are hunter gatherer societies, and they don't spend all their time hunting and gathering.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/10/01/5510187...
Depends on the interview. I don't specifically study for Leetcode style problems so I would fail there. Systems design? Not too bad. Take home, sure within some time constraints. The numbers on a job posting are really just a weeding out system. I've gotten jobs with 0 experience in their particular tech stack.

Interviewing is a numbers game, so play the game and fail/succeed quickly! I usually put out 25-30 applications a week, accept maybe 10-15 initial calls, and get an offer or so every other week.

It's a candidates market and companies know it. If I receive a request in an interview that I don't agree with I just say so. Leetcode for a Senior role? No, get rid of it or I walk and take another offer I can pick up in a few days. Just refuse to do anything you consider below your pay grade.
In the Windows world, "big" screen meant 15.6" 1366x768 panels, which where always accompanied by equally sad processor and RAM specs.
The most striking to me are passages like this:

"It is practically certain that in 2022 nearly all women will have discarded the idea that they are primarily "makers of men". Most fit women will then be following an individual career."

...

"But it is unlikely that that women will have achieved equality with men."
It does, because it can convert a numpy array to a pytorch tensor and back, but I don’t think numpy is used for anything else.
>They can siphon off the wealth of an entire nation by printing money.

There are a countless other ways a country can do this and most of those are more targeted. The tax code is the most obvious example. Inflation is a flat tax of a few percentage points. If the goal is to wield power, it is much more important to control the tax code and move the income tax from 0% (generally true before the 16th Amendment in 1913) to 91% (1954-1963) or from 91% back down to 37% (the current rate). Blaming central banking as the primary cause for these issues just doesn't make sense to me.
I remember going out to Oakland for work and having to step over the bodies of people who were passed out from taking drugs (heroin and/or alcohol, I presume?).

Let me repeat that: I had to navigate the sidewalk by stepping over the bodies of human beings scattered on the ground to get to work.
Then I think we agree with each other, but the One Baggers would not agree with us since they are gear obsessive compulsives and we do not seem to be. At the risk of creating a straw man, I don't think that community would generally say their pack list is trivially replaceable.
How do you recruit a great team if they’re bad at recruiting?
Galvatron!
I’d be surprised if coronavirus can infect non-mammals. I don’t think there’s been any scientific evidence of this. For the reports of contaminated fish and what not, it’s suspected the contamination happened on the supply chain (e.g. someone at a fish packing plant coughed on food.)