skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People never talk about the most important metric for interviews: your target rejection rate. Google and Facebook need to do these interviews because of the number of applicants they get. Any process they design must definitionally reject 99% of people who go through it, and they found it is essentially impossible to hit that kind of rejection rate with just 'tell me about your work' questions.

If your startup operates with a 50% or 75% target rejection rate, you absolutely can and should operate differently, and this could be an important competitive advantage for you.
That second cartridge slot was key when one of them was occupied by Basic!
I appreciate your facts. But System 76 should then call it GTK based, I guess.
> Like, if you’re proud of your work and want it to get seen at all, this is what you have to do.

Assuming what you're saying is true, I wonder why channels like Rare Earth, Kraig Adams, Super Eyepatch Wolf, and 3Blue1Brown have their videos seen at all then.
Diagnose and fix things with what? Most people don't own plumbing tools.
This possibility freaked me out a little:

> "molecular mimicry between the spike protein ... and self-antigens"

If a virus were to better mimic a self-antigen, does that imply that vaccines are unlikely to work without introducing some other harm?

Our ability to quickly engineer vaccines may have lulled us into a false sense of security. Imagine a replay of the last two years without an vaccines.
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There's a lot of other stores aside from Amazon, that have much better supply chains. Especially when we're talking about industrial equipment like N95 respirators.

Grainger, Uline, WBMason, Home Depot to name a few.
At that point, you may as well just get a plumber delivered with the tools too.
Shop at better stores than lol Amazon.

Grainger, Uline, WBMason, Home Depot to name a few. If you want to actually trust the product and supply chain, spend a few bucks more.

Its not that much more expensive, and these other stores are much more honest.
Assume all 3M are fake and buy something else.
Doesn't this work like Harvard/Yale/Princeton/etc admissions, where if they selected a completely different set of applicants everyone there would just as likely be qualified and deserving of attending?

I swear sometimes it might just be easier or even fairer to throw all resumes/applications in the air and see which ones land inside of a predetermined circle.
> One of the recurring themes is the "leet code" interviews

What makes these "shitty" interviews? They're very simple and they test for your ability to write code.

They set the bar clearly and you have the ability to study for them with ease. Solve 200 of these problems once in your life and you'll never have an issue again. You'll breeze through all of these interviews.

Compared to the alternative, where people ask insane unrelated questions and that are incredibly subjective, these aren't all that bad.
What open source software did you write out if curiosity?
Set a timer for a tolerable interval, say 10 minutes. Every 10 minutes, let your eyes rest 1 minute. That "sticking" is an issue with muscle elasticity and rest is about the only thing you can do for it (its in the eye, massage and cold compress is hard).
I totally agree that asking people who created/maintain/make significant contributions to open source projects is a waste of time.

However, for hiring people who don't have a public body of work to point to - it remains pretty effective. (I am not affiliated with hackerrank/hackerearth/codility - just been on the hiring side for the last many years)

Also, in my current org - we've been able to trust people lacking the "expected" graduate degrees - solely because they were able to prove their acumen in the interview by solving algo-data-structure problems. (Of course, we have to be creative here - and avoid like the plague the same bunch of questions which are present all over the web)
> This is how you get bad candidates.

As per the known representative systems, there are countless ways to end up with bad candidates. I don't find this simplistic answer compelling. Notably, Plato (ie The Republic) suggested a relatively pious existence, to combat corruption.
What was your query? I search for "pro wrestling videos" and "WWE" and only got wrestling videos.

Anyway can anyone from Google chime in (maybe using a throwaway)? Has there been a increased focus to improve ad metrics? Quality of search products has really gone to the dogs
I did a cool experiment a few years ago called "Song Bits". I used to write a lot of music but can't get anything done-done anymore, so I set this challenge: Write a snippet of music every day for a month.

The parameters were very strict:

* target ~30 seconds in length
* solo piano only
* no post production
* spend ~30 minutes of effort per day

I was really happy with the results, and it was fun!
A subconvex bound is any bound that beats the convexity bound of 25%. If you would define "the subconvexity problem" as beating the 25% bound AT ALL (or in other words providing any subconvex bound), then the statement in the subtitle would be closer to accurate.

But this is not (I think) how most people would speak, and I wouldn't say this. I would say the subconvexity problem is the problem of bridging the gap between 25% (convexity) and 0% (Lindelof). Subconvexity bounds for various L-functions (zeta, Dirichlet L-functions, and higher rank L-functions) are a very active area of research, and so it seems strange to me to say "the subconvexity problem is solved."

"My understanding is that Nelson has indeed done this for every L-function." One minor note. Nelson's work applies if the L-function is automorphic. By the Langlands philosophy, this should be true for any reasonable L-function, but this is far from known, even in, e.g., the simple case of the L-function corresponding to the tensor product of two automorphic L-functions.

Edit: I am wrong about the statement "this is not (I think) how most people would speak." It looks like beating the convexity bound at all is often described as "solving the subconvexity problem," e.g. in the introduction here https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s002220200223. This description is a bit strange to me, but if it is standard then it is unfair for me to call it an "inaccuracy," persay; thanks for pointing this out.
If it's truly the starving artist we're all worried about, then it should be fine to pirate an album and mail the artist a check for $25, right? Everyone here who cares about the starving artist is cool with that?
But the ability to problem solve complicated problems where the obvious solution is probably not the best one.

Problems like designing "the most popular package manager on macOS", for example?

I think what the author finds strange is that not only do many people still believe that LC (or whiteboarding) are effective proxies for general problem solving ability -- they seem to tacitly believe they are better measures than demonstrated, real-world problem solving achievements. Even problems that are significantly more multifaceted and nuanced.

If it is wrong, it's working pretty darn well [for MANGA].

The problem is, these tests (and extensive rounds of them, with onerous time limits) are used by companies that (inasmuch as they would like to believe otherwise) definitely are not MANGA and certainly are not offering MANGA levels of compensation.
> and it doesn’t snap or lose tension from overstretching.

Not quite.

The big-name brands (Moldex, 3M, Kimtech) have good elastic. But I've been shopping at the $1 (and below) price point, and there's some pretty crap N95 masks out there. There's a lot of smaller brands trying to make a name for themselves right now, and are just barely qualifying for N95 ratings.

Still, the crappiest N95 is leagues better than the best KN95 I've ever used.

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I'm mostly willing to give the smaller manufacturers a try. Though with Omicron numbers falling in my area (about damn time), maybe this will all be behind us soon...
> I would really enjoy to something even close to evidence that shows this to be true, because this sounds...far from correct, to put it nicely.

The majority of games by most metrics being crap rings true to me, but I have relatively little evidence.

My gut instinct (yeah, not evidence) is that the games that have the most players, either by total playtime or absolute numbers, are mobile games. Things like Candy Crush, Clash of Clans, Fire Emblem Heroes, and other addictive mobile games that are effectively slot-machines.

I'd argue that these are the most predatory games in existence, and probably have the largest total play time total due to their addictive nature.

I would also guess there are more total mobile games than console or PC games due to the android play store being so easy to build for and publish to, and consoles/PC being relatively hard to build for with a smaller total playerbase.

If you search for numbers, you will find wildly large download numbers for these mobile games (which are probably not valuable, since it's free and many people download & delete I'd hope), but you'll also find very large revenue numbers, and fairly large player bases.

Do you think there's obvious metrics where traditional "buy once, pay again never" games are more prominent than any other type of game?
welp too late now.

Yesterday was the first time I played, after reading about some monetization thing on HN related to wordle. For me, my first guess was ABIDE, and was able to get AB in the correct location, with e in there as well.

Thinking that e was the second last letter, I was convinced it was ABLED, since it was the only word I could think of with an e in that position, but I didn't realize that I already tried D in the first word.

Using guesses 3-4, I wasn't able to narrow it down further than AB_E_. But I was able to eliminate some characters, leaving only ~ Q, X, Z, Y, J, K, F. In my mind, I couldn't figure out what 5 letter word could be made using just these letters, so I systematically tried swapping all combinations (wordle doesn't accept fake words).

It was only after that that I realized I could repeat letters, so I tried until I figured out duplicating B would give abbey, which seemed probably enough to be a real word.
Where EMV uses tags more like classes than types, I’m not really sure it actually counts as “abstract” syntax notation any more?

Because all tags are these custom things, some don’t strictly parse out to unique type codes too. So a non-EMV parser will have a few tags that map to the same integer code and cause some fun bugs.

That project was when I really understood deep-down why JSON won in the end!
Why should I have to make a good resume when that doesn't mimic anything I'll be doing on the job?

I suspect the answer to this question is the same as to why people do the same for interview questions.
If the citizens of a particular country want to force Apple to allow alternative app stores, they can. It's their country. Apple can ignore their market if they don't like the rules.
Too bad you didn't record your interviews. I bet if you bailed on a shitty interview from a high profile company, it'd go viral. Could be much more effective than pleading with people to stop accepting shitty interviews.
"unchecked"

I'm sorry, but you don't have complete "freedom" to achieve your own self interests. I once knew someone who was very interested in a car stereo. Unfortunately for him, but fortunately for others who happened to own car stereos, that car stereo was in a car that belong to the police, and he definitely saw an even larger reduction in "freedom" after that.
While there is a lot of nuance to interviewing people, I can't say that solving leetcode problems in an interview setting is similar to any problem solving I've done on the job.

The closest might be white-boarding potential solutions in meetings, but there, most of the time, I have a lot of context wrt. the company and situation.

In the past I haven't minded presenting solutions to contrived problems in interviews, but these days I wouldn't. I also wouldn't take a job without significant equity attached, but I'm probably not representative of most devs.
I have the same discomfort as you but I would suspect most users would be prepared to make this tradeoff. Most people need to get a job done and dusted using the best tools. The archival concern feels a little too nerdy/fogeyish to me. Not broad enough to be "terrible for users", rather "terrible for nerds who value archival for vague posterity reasons".

Who archives besides a few wonks reading HN? UX is one step above sketching on a napkin, it's not the final project.
I think on Steam games that take clear inspiration from Rogue (so top down, turn based, maybe ASCII based) are tagged Traditional Roguelikes. I personally like the Roguelike/Roguelite split you outlined but I can understand why people get confused by the names. I agree that permadeath + procedural generation is such an amazing mechanic combo that it needs to have its own name to easily be described when you present it into new base mechanics or game form.
Not necessarily purely symbolic. It could have been done as a signal to the court that the mandate would not have had congressional approval.
They're extremely busy, as per the new recommendation.

I buy 100's at a time though, so I always have plenty of overlap between orders.
Exactly on the dot. In the trades you _have_ to move up to management / or above in short order due to the toll it takes on your body.

But not everyone can be a manager, I think we need better protections for the doers (unions, etc.). A lot of naive kids go into trades and trash their body only to end up with nothing or a life addicted to painkillers.
3M has a neat solution to that. On the bottom of each box is a randomly generated code. You can type that code into a 3M web site to see if it's valid. Once. If that number has been queried before, it tells you that. So you initial and date each box after checking.
https://www.healthcare.gov/how-plans-set-your-premiums/
Author of the article here, if anyone has any questions (or just continue roasting away; that’s good too)

I wrote the article because many companies treat SQL like excel files. It gets emailed around, unknowingly forked and modified, saved on desktops or shared file storage, and nobody knows how to fix anything.

For everyone who said “SQL is code is this news” - I agree with you. It is code. And it shouldn’t be news. And I hope all companies implement version control with SQL. I see Java version controlled at a significantly higher rate than SQL. That’s all. Good day.
> I work for a company where I have to get permissions if i am gonna start a open source project, even though it may not be related at all to my current work.

Is this common ? Or legal ?
I'm curious about the legality of such practices. Your employer needs to authorize what you do on your own time and dime? What country/state are you located in?
Does this mean they're getting rid of Borg, et al?
THere was a story on here a couple days ago about someone that tested a lot of masks.

https://www.armbrustusa.com/pages/mask-testing

They also manufacture masks (although those are sold now, I’ve purchase them before). They seem to be reselling American made masks now:

https://www.armbrustusa.com/collections/usa-made-n95-masks-r...
That applies more to life than to wordle
Easy, it's for advertising reasons.

Devs, admins, enthusiasts etc. are the main target for Systems 76. Hackernews audience is very enthusiastic regarding Rust.

I think it's indeed unfair to GTK.
I ask the same thing you do: "Tell me about a project you've worked on." There is tons of ground we can cover with that:

* implementation choices with pros and cons

* details about how the underlying system works

* domain knowledge, where applicable

* sample code where the candidate writes to mimic something from the system

My interview style has always been: "Tell me what you know, and we'll see if that's true or not." Surprisingly, most candidates fail even that since they don't seem to understand their own projects. But I find this approach the fairest of all since it allows the candidate to lead the interview and it doesn't assume anything about the candidate's knowledge or prior experience.
To me the Web3 rabbithole doesn't look so "simple" as Coinbase seems to be pitching here. I think Moxie has the right take:

https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html
I think OP implied a better solution when mentioning interviews that mimic the job: present interviewees with a small take-home case study based on a real on-the-job problem. I have done a few of these and they have been much more enlightening experiences than any paired programming boilerplate live coding exercise. Even in situations in which my proposed solution weren’t up to snuff to land the job, the conversation with the team about my solution felt like an actual representation of what it would be like to be a member of the team.
I would tweak the redirect info to have “xxx &> file” in there since that’s one that is often confusing to people early on that want to output stdout and stderr to a file and are confused about how to do that. But yea the list of stuff here is a nice starter list for sure.
Also "the fastest way to demotivate a good employee is to allow them to watch you reward a bad one"

This happens more frequently and anybody rewarded is automatically assumed to be better regardless of their contributions.
Amazon’s Fees on Small Businesses Have Soared
> Stop accepting shitty interviews

Why should I stop? My personal experience is that many of the best companies to work for have shitty interviews. All I need to do is to study a bit and go through a 5 hour interview and I have a cushy high paying job? Sign me up. Complaining about interviews is missing the forest from the trees, I don't spend the majority of my working life interviewing, I spend it working. So if preparing a lot for interviews and getting my ego bruised a little means I get a good job so be it.
>> The point of a leetcode style question is to test someones' ability to explain and adapt a tricky problem on the fly.

This is just nonsense, since the only reason the developer can answer the question is because they crammed it in preparation for the interview. Leetcode questions are not tricky, they're just tricks.
> They're very simple and they test for your ability to write code

Do they? Or do they test for your ability to memorize a set of common problems?

I don't have another solution, but just because they are the best we have come up with doesn't mean they aren't shitty.
This is great! I was just thinking about an RNG for books a few weeks back.

I also built http://audile.app for music - it’s the same idea, Math.random on top of Deezer’s music collection.
Can the maintainers host it on IPFS?
> You only had to pay for the usage

Worth noting there were free services too. The most notable was the white/yellow pages at number 11 (later 36 11), although it was only free for the first 3 minutes, but it usually didn't take that long to find what you wanted. Or if it did, you could just reset the connection.
Why is myocarditis more prevalent after the second mRNA vaccine dosage?

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/my...

If this was merely application error, ought we expect this reaction to be equally probable after the first and second dosages, this isn't what the data suggests.
Ah, surprised that I didn't think of it that way, considering the way that I learned about this Senate resolution was by reading the majority decision: "In fact, the most noteworthy action concerning the vaccine mandate by either House of Congress has been a majority vote of the Senate disapproving the regulation on December 8, 2021. S. J. Res. 29, 117th Cong., 1st Sess. (2021)." [1]

[1] https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/21a244_hgci.pdf
Here's an interesting mask review site I ran across a couple of days ago, looks legit.

https://www.youtube.com/c/ArmbrustUSA/videos
I have nothing against it being written down, or even written in a structured format. I just think putting this in the source code repository is inadequate.
> what exactly makes you think you'll recognize the opportunity if you haven't seen the algo since school?

Because I've seen the algorithm more recently than "school" but perhaps not "last night while feverishly cramming so I can forget it in a week". Because I've probably solved the problem I'm looking at before, if not a neighbor close enough to get me in the ballpark, and I am never going to be without a search engine for the actual triviality that is the solution once that is identified. Because it is. It is triviality that has been turned into a measuring stick for one's technical coupling equipment by folks who have no better metric by which to evaluate. (And, to be fair, it's not the worst metric. It's also not a great one, though.)

The example that comes to mind first: I've written a topographical sort half a dozen times over the years. I recognize the problem set that it applies to on sight. And I do not have enough time in my ever-shrinking lifespan to bother to memorize how to write the thing optimally, though if I squint a little I'll probably get something that's okay if I sat down and spent half an hour with a REPL. (EDIT: went and looked up the last time I did it, and it's actually pretty good! Though bounded for `n` because I knew `n < 300` so I just used the call stack.)

So I'm not going to shed tears that I look it up when I run across a case where it's appropriate. Does that mean that on the movie set of a never-gonna-happen where I absolutely must create a satisfaction plan for a dependency tree that runs in absolutely minimal time, the bomb's gonna blow up and kill the President? Yeah, sure, but I live in the real world.

It doesn't happen a ton, because if we're being honest most jobs even at highly scaled companies are pretty Lego-y these days--but probably once or twice a year, yeah, I go "oh, that's an XYZ problem" and Google how to implement the optimal solution (or find that there's a package for it already).

Recognizing the shape of a problem is a skill. Calling to mind the exact algorithmic solution to that problem is a different skill. One of those two things is something that Google can do. (We are nearing a world where one of these two things, GPT-3 can do.)
I have 8210 N95s and yes, they’re welded (as confirmed on the 3M website):

https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/p/d/v000585997/
I was looking for a license like this recently. The closet I found was the MPL, but it's a file-based license unfortunately.
Not going to lie, I actually like Leetcode style interviews. What you put in is what you get - you know how to control your own outcomes, and that's by putting in the time and work to study for the questions.
> out of the ordinary housing market in the Bay Area when you compare it to other cities in CA like San Diego and Los Angeles.

Many of the high-paying tech jobs in Los Angeles are consolidated in the Venice Beach area, so-called “Silicon Beach.” If you think you can get an affordable house in the desirable neighborhoods around there (Santa Monica, Manhattan Beach, Venice, Brentwood), you’re in for a shock.

You might try heading inland to Inglewood or Culver City to save money, but you’ll be looking at $1.5M houses with bars on the windows. Prices have just gone insane over the last couple years.

Plus, if you’re hoping to escape the crime and addicts of the Tenderloin and Market Street, Venice won’t offer much relief.
> present interviewees with a small take-home case study based on a real on-the-job problem

In my experience these are terrible. It becomes an arms race, what the company intended to become a 5 hour take home assignment becomes a 20 hour assignment because everyone else that's doing the take home assignment is also spending 20 hours. Take homes are a trap.
No and this was discussed like, years ago and was just as invalid then. What is motivating this junk?
This reminds me of a blog posted a while a go

https://joelgrus.com/2016/05/23/fizz-buzz-in-tensorflow/