skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't say it's an either/or situation. There have been fines recently added for littering (including throwing cigarette butts). Tobacco tax increases is the Swedish national sport. I don't have a breakdown of what a pack costs today but a rough guess is that the price would be first 50% tobacco tax and then 25% VAT on top of that. Don't quote me on those figures though. It gives you a rough estimate.
> What made King popular was dying.

That's a rather cynical view on a man whose influence during his life was incalculable.

Do you have any sources for that statement?
This is basically a less-polished exposition of GGP Grey's excellent video [1], which he also mentions in the talk

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc
The common Swede doesn't smoke in their car, they don't even have ashtrays anymore. We stop at a car-stop and smoke, then continue driving.

I was suprised when backpacking Australia how "everyone" smoked in their car.
I'm interested specifically for long term archiving. So these tapes claim 30 years. I have read that some types of CD, DVD or Blue-rays can last much longer.

https://superuser.com/a/71239/37009

For example the M-DISC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC).

> Millenniata claims that properly stored M-DISC DVD recordings will last 1000 years.
I don't know if this has merits or not, but I'm genuinely confused by that last sentence:

>A reasonable fact-finder could find that a reasonable, or even an unsophisticated, consumer, would understand that at least some location information is collected through means other than [‘location history’],” the judge wrote in the recent filing

How is that valid? When I picture a standard consumer, I think of my grandpa, who knows technology is a thing, but doesn't understand its inner workings. There is no way he would know that if he turns off location history tracking, that his location history would still be tracked. What's the logic there?
Definitely. Every option requires $$$/time/effort or combination of them. There are very few good & experienced & cheap & available devs just waiting for job offers.
What does the interop with go look like? Is there a story for writing prolog queries over go data structures and iterating the results. If this could be made ergonomic, it’d be very cool.
>what can you do?

We need a credential that counts as passing a technical interview, so we don't have to take these tests for every single job that we apply to.

If I pass a coding test, stay at a company for a year, then apply to other companies, I'm going to subjected to coding tests even though I just passed one only a year ago. It's like companies are afraid that programmers will spontaneously forget how to program.

A credential's test is not limited by the very time constrained format of interviews. This means it could ask more questions to reduce false positives. People would be willing to invest time because it saves them the hassle of interviews in the future. A centralized testing entity could work to reduce cheating instead of every company having to do that themselves. Plus, administering this test would be full time jobs for folks, so it would likely be a higher quality test than what most companies give.
I've had similar experiences to yours, but maybe this doesn't fit the leetcode people are complaining about.

We hire with a similar setup, but we try to keep the test extremely simple and close to reality. Something they would likely encounter on their day-to-day.

The majority of the developers fail at it. Senior, mid-level, juniors, etc. It doesn't matter. Which always surprises me. People who claim to have 5-6 years of experience can't even refactor some code. Or they can refactor and can't explain why they'd do it. It's bizarre.

But I would never classify this as leetcode because these are common tasks that any developer should be able to solve and not purely algorithmic questions that will rarely (if ever) be used in real life.
I am honestly confused by this comment. I am struggling to understand how anyone could miss the point of sailing around the world for no other reason than the experience. The journey is the destination is an idiom for a reason.
I think what you're missing is that social media companies are now essentially acting as government propaganda outlets and actively suppressing dissent. Some people believe that the current pandemic justifies suppressing "misinformation", but obviously once the government has that power they're going to use it for other purposes as well.

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/563547-hypocritical-...
Anti-Bat-Signal Moths with Radar Deflection
I suspect you're being downvoted because you call it the yellow pages but the yellow pages were where businesses were listed by category (eg Dry Cleaners or Orthodontists). Individuals and businesses were listed alphabetically by name in the white pages, so the terminator looked Sarah Connors up in the white pages not the yellow pages.
Agreed you need some tests but what you're asking is a different order of magnitude than leetcode problems.
Silicon Valley really is built on the cursed grave of Sun Microsystems. The JVM future is here...
Speak to feminist scholars. It's far more entrenched than that. We have numerous systems deeply entrenched in our model for society that encourage this, specifically against women. We create incentives for insecurity and then prey on it. Keeping women under a microscope, consciously or not, maintains the status quo in business, government, public spaces, etc and as you follow the path back, it almost always has roots I'm religious fundamentalism.

So, yes, insecurity but primarily insecurity about losing power and control, by men. That's why we focus so much on what "she" wears but nobody gives two shits if I show up to work in flipflops, board shorts and a tank top. Why would they? I'm a dude.
This is more likely than one may think. Just look at the case of Rober vs. Gus.
I think it's certainly a matter of leverage, and could also be why smaller retailers struggle to survive. For suppliers, getting involved with one of the big retailers is a calculated risk. The retailers work their suppliers against one another, and if you don't play along, you vanish from the shelves. I worked with one of those suppliers long ago.

It's interesting that food is an exception, perhaps because it's perishable, and if you don't pay for a delivery of ingredients... no soup for you. And restaurants may actually be competing for access to high quality materials. Of course the larger chains can manage their supply chains differently, partly by using less perishable ingredients in the first place.
Can you really not think up any reason people might want to do this?
Just another sophisticated form of procrastination.

Like search for perfect todo app etc.
But how odd when after a night of heavily drinking it turns out to be a cold?
At least for Sweden the process is pretty straightforward (at least at the moment). Once you have a job offer, the offering company usually hires some lawyer or company licensed (to fast track the visa within a week, a month at max).

Drop me some contact info, I can refer you. At least you can go through the process and check it out.
If you're a software engineer and you don't know what topological sort is then you don't know how any sort of dependency structure works and that's a big part of your day to day. Implementing topological sort is a few lines of code and anyone should be able to do it
> Although we advertise on our web site, unless people are looking quite specifically, they are unlikely to find the adverts

Does your company post these adverts on twitter/hn/reddit? Even if they _do_ see your posting, why would they work for you over any other dev job?

> Also, Recruiters tend to be a poor and expensive solution. It is hard to tell the good from those who just claim to be good and we get a lot of noise from them.

Recuiters are not a silver bullet, you still need to filter what they source. A good recruiter will want to know why you're rejecting the candidates you're sending. They are expensive, however if they're not getting you candidates then find another recruiter.

> Also, I'm not sure that the best candidates just call a random recruiter to find them a job.

No, of course they don't, but they might call _a_ recruiter they have a relationship with. Recruiters also reach out to candidates too. A candidate who has 10 years experience writing django apps might be miffed at a recruiter offering "an exciting frontend opportunity", but a goood recruiter will either have people they've been speaking to, or will know the signs on linkedin/etc of people who may want to leave their current jobs and might be a good fit.
It has helped me to realize that most of politics is preference, and preference rarely need be informed by the scientific method, especially when most of our daily choices are preference based.

E.g. who do I love, what should I wear/watch/eat, where should I spend my money, etc.

Our culture has now taught a few generations that people get to decide their own truth, and they conflate preference for truth, and now we are witnessing what this means…
Then the crows will learn to distribute free cigarettes hoping people will pick up smoking and throw empty butts on the street.

See the Cobra effect: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
That doesn't sound unlikely. I'd guess that most smoking occurs outdoors. Smoking is pretty much banned indoors except for in people's residences. Many smokers avoid smoking in their own homes due to the damage it does to walls and furniture. Ashtrays are uncommon outside.
> Why should one have empathy with people who deny other peoples' basic human rights simply because of their gender, sexual orientation or religion?

Because people disagree about factual matters all the time, and if you're just going to fight people who disagree with you, you'll be fighting literally everyone for the rest of your life, and a stable society might well become untenable.

> Back in 1939 the world decided they had enough of my ancestors (I'm German) and put a stop to bigotry by using force.

That's a pretty weird take. You think countries fought Germany because of its bigotry, and not because it was an aggressive expansionist regime that invaded them?
So if that host goes down you are screwed? Would not be a wise decision from your cloud provider. Although thinking about it twice, usually cloud providers response in such a case would be a shrug and that's all...
No need to throw insults from behind a throwaway. Comparing Joe to a 24H news channel is apples and oranges.

People don't listen to Joe to know what happened yesterday. They tune in to hear about MMA, Comedians shooting shit, or for the guest's opinions.

Getting opinions straight from the source, be it an Elon Musk, Bernie Sanders, or even a Vaccine Skeptical doctor can be refreshing.

And Joe with all his flaws allows these people more time to express themselves than your regular gotcha interviews.
Thank you very much for sharing your experience!

I definitely know a lot of Googlers and Xooglers who didn't graduate from top schools. Or at all.

Leetcode is the kind of thing I enjoy.
I disagree with blanket opposition to GMOs — there is legitimate concern about adequate regulation — but the stakes are far lower: thousands of people are dying every day from COVID-19 and vaccination lowers that rate by at least an order of magnitude, while nobody will die because they choose not to eat GMO[1]. I think there’s a really big distinction between having an opinion on a topic which does not have a simple consensus and offering comprehensively-disproven medical advice at a time when the daily death toll is measured in thousands and illness is causing widespread economic disruption.

1. Yes, I’m aware of the value of GMOs for improving crop yield. That’s important, likely necessary to mitigate the impact of climate change, but it’s not a direct cause of death like a virus and most of the food insecurity in the world traces back to politics rather than an absolute shortage.
That's not the problem
it will be interesting to see if they make any good inroads in the fintech space this time around
There are cultural differences, I put my smokes out and bin them, most people I know do too. Bin density is great in Sweden too, which definitely has an effect on how many butts are put into the environment.
"Everyone knows google are liars"
Weren't the IBM Ambra, Aptiva, and Vista brands efforts by IBM to out clone the clones? As I remember, these IBM brands from the 1990s gave the impression of an IBM computer, but they were all made by third-party companies.
I don't mean this to be incendiary, but, do you think perhaps this reflects on your recruitment pipeline, the standards you hold interviewees during the discussions about their experience, and the way you review resumes?

There is of course a possibility that someone has rehearsed their interview happy path down to the word and they can easily describe complex technical concepts without understanding them because they're quoting a script, but an interview that can be gamed in such a way may highlight a problem with the interview.

If most of your interviewees are failing to write basic code, the issue probably isn't the applicants.
Have you run into any breaking issues with k9s, or is it stable for production use?
They are not selling it to you, but "public sector services". It's effectively the national government telling the various bureaucracies "hey, we got this cool service over here, easy to use and probably cheaper than what you are doing - give it a spin maybe?"

In more "Napoleonic" countries the State would just mandate adoption and you'd never know it, but in the UK the public sector is awfully balkanized, so there is a need for public marketing.
True. Good point. They are all opinions unless you're specifically trained and are an expert in the subject.

Yet people give outsize weight to a pothead college dropout artist for some reason.
Those who don't use emojis on GitHub are 3x more likely to drop out remote work
Malone did valuable and important research decades ago. But today he is far far far far more famous for being vocally critical of mRNA vaccines, in opposition to the bulk of researchers working today. He has done this without engaging with the scientific community in the ordinary fashion and made a name for himself for being "silenced." That's a hack.

Plenty of scientists do great work in one topic and then also act like hacks at other times.
Can you actually name a specific town/county that has this problem or is this imaginary?
I think it's more common that people just have the unexamined assumption that programming skill is more of a natural talent than it is, and also that these tools are an effective way to test for that talent.

I'm sure what you're talking about happens too, but I've seen the other thing first hand a couple times so I know it can be less malicious than that.
Important detail to note is that the IMF does not profit from dictators running away with their money.
They're talking about changing it, but AFAIK, you can still get a pretty automatic visa for Sweden if an employer wants to hire you.
> They found that workers who regularly use emoji to express emotion — positive or negative — in their work may be with better emotional health and are naturally less likely to drop off the platform one year later. The researchers also found another interesting correlation between emoji and work. “Those who don't use emojis are three times more likely to drop out of remote work,” Mei says.
The team found that using their machine learning model, they could predict dropouts with 75% accuracy
Yeah, Heroku free tier would be enough to deploy and run the app.
DeepDotWeb administrator gets eight-year stretch in US prison for money
I'm semi-technical & worked mostly in non dev roles. I've been coding apps all the time in my previous jobs. Mostly this was done in JIRA or Excel - creating a workflow, validating new data that comes in. Easy repetitive things that frustrated everyone on the team & myself the most. Now I am helping other to do this as the co-founder of a no-code SaaS (Chartmat). the amount of people who love to build without depending on devs is mind-blowing. I'm looking forward to this next decade in which building websites, dashboards and apps becomes more of a commodity that everyone can do and devs move on to more complex and critical functions such as writing smart contract & scaling apps.
Leetcode isn't used for html/CSS roles / basic web design roles. It's generally used at large SV companies which use software at a very large scale. Most people who apply aren't poor and have undergraduate degrees or higher. When you are using software at that scale algorithms are pretty important to get right. Not all software jobs require a computer science background, but a lot actually Do. Look at the open source work that FB or Google do, most of it is very computer science heavy. They aren't just hacking together for loops
Fuck. Some days you just lose faith in humanity.
Yes, but that doesn't work if what you're voting on is consensus-critical (e.g. the ordering of blocks). If you're talking about other rule changes, sure. In practice, I think most would consider Bitcoin's sluggishness of rule changes to be a feature, not a bug. Because the process is not entirely deterministic, it is much harder for a bad actor to corrupt.
Broadly agree. Freedom of speech definitely means that people may not want to associate with you any longer.

But 'cancel culture' wouldn't be an issue if that was all - if individual people simply chose to stop associating with the wrong-thinker. Not even if a lot of people did at once.

The problem is that when those people are not individual fellow citizens, but the "Trust & Safety Team" or the "Anti-Evil Team" at $Megacorporation, they don't just stop doing business with you - they can effectively cut you off from most of the rest of the world, whether or not the rest of the world wants it.

Simply put, the problem is that they have too much power. They have the same freedom of association as private citizens, but their ability to punish people is incomparably greater and isn't subject to the same restraint as the government's.
Programming, like writing, is deliberating over several rabbit holes.
If you don't write down why you did or didn't do something, you're
doomed to repeat the deliberation a week from now. Also worth recording
are throwaway code snippets and gnarly awk-sed invocations.

A plaintext file is sufficient. I noticed every programmer who even
mentions zettlekasten produces bad, verbose code. Fortunately,
obsessing over note taking naturally limits how much bad code he
produces.
No one pretends her channel is demonetized.

Her videos are, routinely, though, hence the generalized title which is appropriate.
> Shortly after the publication of this story on 26 Jan 2022, the r/antiwork subbredit went private

This is the weird part. A mod went on fox news, the interview went sideways, and now the sub is locked.

Isn’t the point of going on the air to promote the sub? Why lock it down right when it has so much new attention?
AI is accelerating disinformation creation way beyond deepfakes
Hash Code 2022 returns with a new look
While I agree on substance with your comment you seem to have a strange interpretation of communism. I very much recommend to read e.g. the brief, very readable and very illuminating Communist Manifesto if you would really like to understand where it came from and what its ideas were before Stalin and Mao made it just a veneer on top of a dictatorship. I'm in no way a communist but I can fully appreciate its ideals and aims (e.g. the idea that everyone should receive resources according to their needs).

Sidenote: it is also worth to actually read Smith (especially books 2+3 of the wealth of nations) to understand that rather than a believer in an invisible hand he was deeply critical of laissez-faire capitalism and saw a need for the state to intervene and manage its excesses and abuses.
We do seem to have a hard cap of around 120 which
basically hasn't moved - we are just bringing the averages closer to it. I'm optimistic we'll go past it but not without some advances on a different level of everything so far.
I love algorithmic challenges and would even compete while in uni and coincidentally last year I even had to do several topological sorts at my company. But I actively hate and avoid leetcode type interviews.

For me it's the time pressure while someone is looking over your shoulder and them asking you to talk and explain your thinking.

I just panic and close up, I need mental space to come up with an algorithmic solution and can't do that if you want me to "talk through my process". Leave me some time to solve the issue and I'll come back to you with a solution, just like it is in a real job.
I wonder where that number comes from, we clean our streets with vehicles these days whether there are cigarette butts there or not.
That's why you support removing of all laws around false advertisement and impersonation, right?
I’m not saying that Young has all of the answers, only that in this case it’s good advice to go with the medical consensus when there’s an easy way to prevent thousands of deaths daily.
Help me out. Watch Schindler's List (famous movie) and after, let us know if you still feel that, and in what ways how, the US is welcoming the successor of Nazi ideology. I'm not seeing it. Not even at a glance.
That honestly sounds fantastic. I just accepted another job so I’m not looking now but I could easily imagine that this would be exactly the kind of thing (and place!) where I’d want to head a few years from now, and I think I would have a relevant profile (as an aerospace engineer with software skills and some exposure to embedded work and robotics). Would you mind dropping me an email (address in profile) with some more detail about the company?
His accomplishments and influence are dwarfed by Taylor Swift.

Yet he's trying to bully Spotify and Joe Rogan?
These conversations always seem to conflate different types of jobs into one. Are algorithms and data structures important if you’re creating backend services at Facebook? Probably. Are they important if you’re creating backend services for an internal app at your regional bank? Probably not. Most software jobs are more like the latter than the former.
There are other studies.

The first reference on your link is the exact link to the exact study the other commenter provided.

The second reference on your link itself uses as a reference the exact link to the exact study the other commenter provided.
Goby, a Ruby like language built on Go
Not sure why this is here (it's been in use for a while), but for the uninitiated, the GOV.UK PaaS is an abstraction over AWS that helps to standardise what has historically been a fragmented approach to hosting applications.
1, Sure it does stress the hospital system in a different way.

2, Whole heartedly disagree with. Covid has specific health risk factors (Obesity, Diabetes etc) that long term people have a similar level of control over as smoking. People also have direct control over how much risk they want to take; there are vaccines, there are therapies, there are N95 Masks & no one is forcing you to go to a bar/club/sporting-event.

3. I'm not going to attribute to Covid the panic and over-reaction because of its novelty. Just like we don't attribute to the 9/11 terrorists the destabilization of the middle east and hundreds of thousands of deaths.
You're objectively correct. I used 'wrong' because that's what the people attacking unpopular speech virtually always claim it is.
Define "small".

I sort of co-run a tiny company (less than 10 people) and the only thing that works is networking. We're so few that one bad hire would hurt a lot so we'd rather ask around.

If you mean 50+, things change.
And, on top of that, how much confidence do you have that your brand new code doesn’t introduce more security issues than the ancient “battle-tested” code?