skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As it turns out, trying to code something with an interviewer breathing down your neck wasn't a good experience and made them very nervous.

That is the fundamental issue with technical interviews, because there is very little about that manufactured situation which is applicable to the candidate's ability to do the work. There are extremely few real-world coding situations that come anywhere close to the pressures felt while having someone hyper-analyze everything you do in real-time, particularly when that someone is responsible for deciding whether you're able to pay bills next month or feed your family next week. It's a needless, pointless and ultimately self-harming methodology that filters out exceptional candidates in favor of the most extroverted or arrogantly confident, which is a bizarre twist considering the most influential and game-changing coders are also famously some of the most introverted and "unusual" people.

On top of that, because we're all in dependency hell at this point, far more time is spent googling for framework errors that don't make any sense until you find that one undocumented command line argument that a single person posted deep inside a GitHub issue thread. If you want to test someone's ability to do the real work, then give them an obscure error code from a little-used utility and see how long it takes to find the fix.
Interesting history here: https://driving.ca/auto-news/news/rearview-mirror-the-evolut...
Test drives?

I don’t get how people buy a car without trying it
1. The Cold War wasn't won by the military.
2. You can definitely run a military on green energy
3. The world is moving towards more cooperation, not less.
4. Yes the west should re-industrialize by electrifying everything and replacing all the dirty energy production with green energy production
The current Iraq government is a puppet. The US kills people on Iraqi soil without asking for their permission, and when they asked the US to leave, they strongarmed the government.

The Iranian affinity comes in no small part organically or from pro-Iranian militias.
Russia reportedly seeks tighter control over the internet
Yeah, I honestly think this is an overly complex analysis that’s genuinely simple in reality:

You get out what you put in.

We spend attention bandwidth to those we relate to. Those that don’t, we naturally let those text messages go unattended. We don’t think about it, we just naturally decline to foster any meaningful connection or development of one to those we don’t relate with.

It’s not all that smart sounding list of reasons, it’s simply subconscious behaviors that have created this reality.
Agree - I recently bought a vehicle (jeep) out of state. Did everything from pricing, sale, logistics, and delivery over email. It was fantastic!
To extract as much money from the buyer as possible.
>>> We will accept no reduction in the standard of living.

>>Largely this is correct, nor should we.

If we don't deal with climate change, we will definitely have those reductions both through direct environmental impact and the much greater cost of dealing with the problems created by climate change as they happen randomly all over the world. For example, think about the cost impact we've already seen from flood damage and ask what that'll look like in 30 years — housing becoming unsafe, mosquito-borne disease, impact on agriculture, etc.

> That is because there is not realistic replacement at this stage. They are being developed and will get there but we are not there yet, not with out causing not just a "reduction in living standard" but more like famine, disease and death

We have solutions which are being deployed now for a significant fraction of human emissions. Even if that's inadequate to hit carbon zero on its own, every reduction we make now buys us time to find alternatives for the remaining sources.
I guess the best way is to do both, or be able to select either.
Various companies offer very easy returns or various other forms of testing directly.
Slack didn’t take over its market with advertisement & marketing (although that’s certainly helpful). It was just better than IRC, which is the open protocol people often compare it to.

And if you feel the impulse to list the ways that IRC is superior to slack, you are likely to just illustrate the mismatch between features people love to talk about or implement and features that drive adoption and retention. The OSS community is somewhere between incompetence and active hostility when it comes to good UIs, for example.

(edit: as an example, see the sister comment and its complaint about „more gloss-coated shit-consumerism“)

Chat happens to be the worst possible example for this idea that bad technology is winning against OSS or open protocols by throwing money into advertisement and fooling users that are just too stupid to understand. Besides slack, Signal and Telegram, two entities completely unknown by consumers and with budgets that round to zero took over that highly competitive market.
The article is in Cyrillic. Is there an English source?
This is the way things are moving anyway with used car sites like Carvana, Shift, etc. offering non-negotiable pricing.

A welcome change as there’s no reason to charge different prices for the same product in the same state, same county and sometimes even the same town.
The franchise dealer model in the USA maybe coming to an end. “Existing franchise dealers have a fundamental conflict of interest between selling gasoline cars, which constitute the vast majority of their business, and selling the new technology of electric cars,” CEO Elon Musk writes on Tesla’s site. “It is impossible for them to explain the advantages of going electric without simultaneously undermining their traditional business.” Tesla also points out that its prices are fixed, and its salespeople are paid primarily on salary, not commission. “Customers will never be rushed into a purchase, haggle over the price of the car, wonder if they could get a better deal across town, or puzzle over confusing add-on products, like GAP insurance or rust-proofing.”We think that it’s absolutely critical that we have a direct relationship with our customers,” Todd Maron, Tesla general counsel, said “We look at our stores as educational centers. There are all these questions people have; we view our salespeople as teachers who can patiently answer them.”
Not true. These are not greater in Ukraine.
If a system can reliably spoof the entire sensor arsenal of a carrier fleet remotely and without being detected then the U.S. has bigger problems than aliens.
> Sure, but that's semantics.

Of course it's semantics - we're discussing the meaning of the word "theft", and deciding whether it applies to this situation! By denying the relevance of semantics you beg the question, assuming that the words must mean to everyone precisely what they mean to you.

"Owner", for example: your statement presumes the idea of software copyright, that someone who is neither party to the copying scenario can "own" the pattern of bits being copied, and have a right to demand payment for it. Well, that is the question, and the Russians clearly have a different point of view than yours.

Of course I share their skepticism: the idea of intellectual property seems to have brought about rather more harm than benefit, and I generally follow Proudhon's view on the subject of property.
This is the only way they can compete with Tesla and other direct-to-consumer EV manufacturers. Glad to see Ford doing this. As a Tesla owner, I’d be open to buying a Ford EV but have no interest in dealer markup or the dealer buying scenario.
Using spotlight search to do calculations meets all 3 requirements, no?
If someone was trying to enter text into a running application on that machine, wouldn't an on-screen keyboard pop up? (Unless that's been disabled, of course.)
This. So much functionality I used to expect in desktop apps is now done in the browser. Any sort of 'office' software for example... Any communication software. Email. And so on. Dev tools and games are literally the only 'native' apps I ever use on the desktop.
I think it’s interesting that they said it can’t be beat, yet they’re starting a startup. This feels like corruption itself.
Well the robo callers have the extended warranty market covered.
> Why is Russia so into hacking? Would it help if there was a startup community there to absorb the talent? Or is this the inevitable byproduct of bright people living under a brutally corrupt and dishonest dictator and his cronies for most of their lives?

It may be worth taking a look at the conditions that first gave rise to the eastern European malware scene in the late 80's, particularly in the Soviet Union and Bulgaria:

https://bontchev.nlcv.bas.bg/papers/factory.html

In particular, the presence of the necessary information and lack of economic opportunity gave rise to the original scene, and today that has transformed into an environment where the economic opportunity is directly tied to various for-profit black-hat activities (ransomware, identity theft and credit card fraud, etc.).

It is possible to link the relative lack of other economic opportunities to corruption, and that is a valid observation, but if black hat activities weren't profitable and relatively safe from retaliation (as long as you avoid Russian targets), the scene would still be typified by disaffected individuals rather than organized professional groups.

I'm not sure if creating a bunch of startups to soak up the extra talent would work, as the incentives to get a leg up on the competition via the Dark Arts (DDOS your competitor, spear-phishing their sales people, etc.) would still be pretty strong.
NSQOs are simpler, there's no AMT, but there's also no chance to get the discount as a capital gain instead of ordinary income.

It's worth checking with your employer if early exercise is possible, but it's not the default and it should be mentioned in the options documentation.

With NSQOs, in a way, there's less pressure to exercise earlier, because there's no holding period for preferential treatment (isos get better tax treatment if held for at least 2 years after the grant and at least 1 year after exercise); so with ISOs, you might exercise and then want to hold and have risk there... With NQSO, if the stock is liquid, there's no reason to not sell when you exercise. If the stock isn't liquid, maybe you want to exercise and limit your ordinary income gains and hope for long term capital gains. Maybe you don't... it's always a bit tricky.
>Ketamine, an N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist and putative antidepressant, may increase synaptic plasticity in prefrontal cortex through higher expression of BDNF. Furthermore, ketamine was shown to change resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC) of dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC).

That is really fascinating! I wonder whether the lesions observed in chronic, heavy ketamine abuse are related to trophic effects.

A glance at search results sugget BNDF seems tighlty regulated, and linked to lesions in other rare conditions

(This makes me want to buy neuroscience books! Such an interesting field)
Quake 3 Arena (from 1999) has a Dust Puppy easter egg: https://eeggs.com/items/4693.html
I haven’t used Mimestream, but I think the idea is that it’s built to use Gmail’s native API, which is more functional and well-behaved than Gmail’s IMAP implementation.

This allows it to function similarly to the Gmail web app while also being a good citizen of the Mac desktop and being much more lightweight.
That, and a lot of the pools will absolutely burn you with impermanent loss — plus more of a depreciating vanity token that the site included in the yield percentage. It’s a good racket — while some new shittoken is popular, get people to add your exit liquidity by pledging stablecoins and gas tokens to liquidity pools, borrow those pool claim tokens from the suckers (pay them “yield”), raid their liquidity, dump your shittokens, print more shittokens, “pay” the suckers with second set of shittokens, give them back their claim tokens (which are now mostly a claim on the first lot of shittokens), sucker goes to claim their winnings (their original capital) and is left with a big bag of worthless shittokens. And you have their ether, bnb, matic, stablecoins. 100% APY tho
What's the next big burst in tech?
In the 80's & 90's we saw the rise of PCs, servers, and LANs. In the 90's and 00's we welcomed the Internet and specifically the web. In the 00's and beyond it's been mobile and AI. We seem to be in a plateau of sorts. Evolution vs revolution. Where will we see the next burst in tech?
Crusty developers gonna crust?

Off the top of my head, these apps are fairly recent and pretty great.

- OBS (obsproject.com)
- Visual Studio Code
- Tower (git-tower.com)
- Timing (timingapp.com)
Another +1 for TablePlus.

OmniFocus is great (if you're into that kind of task-tracking/GSD tool)
Tesla doesn't have dealerships in the traditional sense (aka third party places where you can buy the cars), and you can totally test drive their cars. You just show up to their storefront or gallery, express interest, and they let you test drive them.
Also, independent (and interconnected) blogs simply have no place in their future where valuable/insightful content would be on Google+. Thus, to choke off the audience for blogs, Google Reader had to die.
Whiteboard coding interviews should not be requiring l33tcode (you spelled it wrong :D :D :D), and if they are it reflects poorly on the interviewer/company.

I’ve only had one interview where I would consider the goal to be in the realms of leetcode and that was imo a terrible google interview question[1]. But even then the code I wrote on the board was not a thing that would compile, it was pseudo code that described the implementation.

The point of those interview questions is such that the language should not matter (Junior/uni-hire devs should probably have a couple of real code interviews), but to see how you think, your approach to solving a problem, and your ability to find logic bugs in your solution.

Starting from a point of assuming you generally know the language you’re working in (depending on experience), in interviews where I’m the interviewer I try to make it very clear that I don’t care about perfect C/Python/whatever as long as you’re reasonably consistent and I can understand what you’re doing. I also ask about test cases (I want the general behavior and edge cases), and then we work through testcases and see if we find any issues (which you likely will because I’m not going to ask something trivial), and then go through fixing it.

I do not consider having a bug in your code in a whiteboard interview to be a problem, and generally expect it. I just want to see you find, diagnose, and fix them if you do have any (see above re testcases)

[1] I disagree with google on many of their decisions about whether certain problems are/aren’t “leetcode” problems
Inflation is not a natural disaster, and pandemics do not imply inflation either. You can debate various ways to account for the inflation, but you do have to actually account for the inflation.
Quickwit CEO here. For people interested, we are focusing on immutable data (logs of all kinds typically).
https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit

We make it much 10x cheaper and easier to scale and operate.
We store the index on Amazon S3.
> It's sad af it takes a massive name to drive big change, to get people hyped.

It's not just that they aren't promoting open protocols—they're competing against them at a cost to the user of $0.00, which completely sucks all the air out of the room, even for open source contributors.
> let's just say that campaign promises are not credible, regardless of the politician

That assertion is unlikely to be meaningful, IME. Specific politicians are more and less credible in specific ways. To say 'all are not credible' is no more true or meaningful than saying 'all are credible'. Off the top of my head: All food contains water, but that tells us almost nothing about any food.
The original source has a bit more detail - from https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2118631119 (not open access):

> The average lead-linked loss in cognitive ability was 2.6 IQ points per person as of 2015. This amounted to a total loss of 824,097,690 IQ points, disproportionately endured by those born between 1951 and 1980.
Russia surpasses Iran to become most sanctioned country
Have you had any luck with a counteroffer, or considered that option yet? Of course, what stage the new company is at is meaningful here, but Series B+ they could afford to match; Series A or earlier, I think it depends.

Being so familiar with some of their open source code already feels like a nice leg up.

I don't doubt that a PM / TPM salary is lower than a backend engineer salary, but it could be good experience early in your career.

I wouldn't worry much about being able to transition back into dev work after 1-2 years out given how high the demand for developers virtually everywhere is right now.
With COVID and the rise of remote working there are a whole lot of companies where the developers are the asset, the commodity, where those companies are just the middle-man receiving for the work the developers do and getting the big part of the cut in the process.

Those are mostly the "sweat-shops" that hire developers that can work for less for several reasons. I see that in this particular case this solution might be very welcome to assess new hires.

But for more high-profile jobs and companies, the company that eventually follow this path will probably end with low quality hires, unless of course it just create crud's anyway.

Because this is a self-fulfilling prophecy in the end. Once the candidates know what they will face, they will train until they get good in that game, which most of the time doesn't mirror the qualities required for the job.
In Ukraine, the US is dragging us towards war with Russia (2014)
I've been doing this, fake specs are a problem on the cheap ones, watch for this.

Also checkout "Four Leaf Lighting"

I'd replace any fluros, including tubes.

Don't look at money/watts saved vs replacement costs.

Increase the lumens to better use your space, your space is worth a fortune.

The instant on will surprise you how it matters compared to fluros, it's like when a constant hum is turned off.

You'll probably save on watts as well. Fluros chew a lot on top of their rated wattage, old ballasts and startups.

All that said, society also needs to move to better lighting spectrum's. But the above is a good start. I think Cool White is better than Warm White when it's a while to bed, but do your own research.

And if any a@#holes try to talk to you about saving on wattage, drop them from your life. Your health matters more than trying to save an insignificant amount of energy, they don't actually care about the world they just like talking down to you, they are toxic people.
Totally agree with this. My work and study involves a fair amount of statistics. Yesterday I got accidentally nerd sniped by some bad date based numerology which I promptly spent 20 minutes angrily demolishing. It would have been nice to not see numerology on my fb feed because I could have put that effort towards something more constructive.
This should be tagged (2014). This article has made the rounds many times.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Outside of legacy systems, Hadoop isn't widely used anymore.
Wall Street is beginning to cut S&P 500 forecasts as oil prices surge
Government is not a puppet, because they are publicly against US actions, and asked US to leave.

They couldn't do anything about US actions, yes, because lacking military power.
No absolutely not. 8080 was a 3 chip solution from memory. The 8085 was, like a Z80, a 40 pin DIP, but even here the compatibility was strictly software not hardware. And in fact the software compatibility was a little less than 100% because Zilog decided to add an overflow flag by changing the 8080/8085 parity flag to actually reflect overflow instead of parity on arithmetic instructions.
One of the first models of the non-negotiable car sale was carmax. They always said it was non-negotiable, but if you looked at their sales the actual selling prices were often slightly lower than the list price. So, “non” negotiable.
You have a point, but I recall that when WW2 started many car companies started making tanks, etc, and mostly for the same reason: a specialized skill set that the government simply didn't have the capacity to meet at that time. The unmet need for IT security related work in government is vast.
At the same time, there's a difference between cyberwarefare strengths and operational security being practiced (or not) by the soldiers in the field. It only takes one person to break protcol and pull out an unsecure device. Or it could be done on purpose as a bit of plausible deniability of sabatoge.

There's a bunch of reasons I can think of than just Russia is weak about secure comms.
Note that neither OBS nor Visual Studio Code are native mac apps.
Your keyboard has letters on it. You can type all of those out.
facts, and thats just the consensual transactions

its actually kind of crazy about the ones that yank all of the liquidity and disappear, when they make enough from just the “normal” ponzi operation

there are a couple that are sustainable models
Surely it's a given that if you give a third party full read access, they'll read it?

There's no way people could invite CoolMusicBot to their private chat and have any expectation of privacy...
Ya but if anything happens to prevent that schedule from taking place, you won't get those shares. Is that not correct?
Curious where you work or who you know that gives you the strong insight that developers don’t care about Stadia. Can you share?
Web apps are stagnant too. Personal computing in general has matured and is mostly boring these days.
you should credit the people who wrote the code for you!

https://github.com/agencyenterprise/clickwheel-js/blob/maste...

https://github.com/aterrien/jQuery-Knob/blob/master/js/jquer...
I agree, some of the "clunk" apps feel real nice. Problem is, when you have 4 electron apps running, and your system starts grinding.
I figure the car companies would provide enough pictures and dimensions to make a test drive unnecessary, at least for me. The seats are adjustable, and I never have a problem fitting into the various rental cars that I've driven.

I just want to know if it will fit a double bass.
or diplomatic negotiations where people just talk past each other delivering pre-written speeches repeatedly like someone is going to hear something new the 3rd time you read the speech.
Truck stop pumps have much larger nozzles and pump 6-10 times faster than the limit for light vehicles "and that refueling facilities are exempt from the 10gpm requirement if used exclusively to refuel heavy-duty vehicles, boats or airplanes"

https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/FR-1996-06-26/96-16205

Right now the lack of standardization of high pressure, high flow rate pumps for large trucks is a problem that Nikola is working very hard to solve. The pumps that are standardized and in use right now are a major bottleneck.
What do you like about Mimestream? I'm happy enough with Mac Mail, except that search sometimes sucks. What am I missing out on?
I changed it to tail. I remember it as valley because it looks like a mountain and the tail part would be a valley.
As a Californian I have specific consumer protections when buying from dealers that I wouldn’t have when buying direct from the manufacturer. If nothing else, they are a manageable-size target for individual litigation.
I recently took delivery of a Mustang Mach-E GT, having ordered it online. There are still some "opportunities" for a dealer to "add value", but Ford has it pretty well streamlined, and it was not hugely different from the process of ordering our Tesla Model 3. The biggest stressor was being uncertain of whether the dealership would try to screw me. Which is a low bar, to be sure. I hope Ford can also adopt Tesla's remote service model (or force dealers to offer it).