skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you do this with just 200 applicants for various positions, you've wasted an entire man-year of time that would be better spent on other things.

Why would I put in over a thousand dollars worth of time into a "maybe"? Is your company going to pay me what I'm worth for that time? Is it worth my time to implement some useless widget?

Loads of other companies are great to work for and don't require this kind of worthless time investment.
> Then they would have been fired unceremoniously and replaced with engineers that knew better than to make their bosses look bad

More engineers need to risk this and raise red flags, publicly, about potential lethal faults. Yes, you will suffer if you get fired; but our education as engineers (if I may include myself among those ranks despite being a software guy...) must be such that we would find _not_ raising the red flag shameful and despicable. So much so that it would seem far worse than losing one's job.
I admire your optimism, but almost every Steam Deck review complained about the UI. All the work under the hood looks really good, with Proton and pressure-vessel and so on, but they just don't seem to have the almighty yet tasteful UI dictator that a desktop distro needs. Unfortunately, that is also the part that the community cannot help with.

Still, can't wait to get mine and play around with the desktop. Ironically, I was planning to use mine for contributing to elementary, after having been locked out for a while (ARM Mac).
Sounds like a great children's book, "The Incredible Journey of Headphone Jack "
Stadia to Introduce Its Own Solution to Run Windows Games on Linux
As a hiring manager, they are very useful.

As an applicant, you should consider it a good thing. You work in one of the few fields where it is possible to easily and quickly test whether someone is incompetent. If it weren’t for the tests you would be in direct competition with legions of bullshitters.
Yeah I definitely remember reading a full analysis about what would be required to actually launch a second shuttle in time to rescue them, and it would require nothing less than war effort for an operation never attempted before, and of which literally every single part would have to work first try, with no delays, and even then there was barely enough time to do it.
Some people use Tor to bypass censorship or mask their traffic metadata from a local adversary
If you sent me a "four hour assignment" in order to determine if I'm "up to date" on practices you care about, that is a *strong* signal that you think your time is more valuable than mine. You can be damn sure I would "phone it in" at best, and most likely you'd never hear from me again.

You wanting to focus on specific skills/knowledge is a fine goal, however if you really care about these things at the senior end, you should make the investment yourself as well and take the time to actually speak to a candidate. Who knows, you might just learn something new.
I've accepted that real world development and interviews are 2 different worlds with little overlap.

Like many things in life, best not to think too hard about how things should be and focus on making the best with how things actually are.
So let me get this straight...because some groups got these BS unconstitutional anti-BDS laws passed in various states, they are now divesting from companies because of Unilever's refusal to sell in the occupied territories?

At what point do you just accept that the whole system is corrupt and rotten from top to bottom?
“Currently 17 people die every day in the US waiting for a transplant, with more than 100,000 reportedly on the waiting list.”

David Bennett was only 57. Heart disease, and related issues are a big problem.

While I’m hopeful for this technology, I wish there was a way for people to see heart issues coming much earlier in life so they can attempt to treat, or delay, the problem.
I'm going to buy this, once I've seen one in person. But as always I'm going to get a VESA mount version because every damn monitor vendor either ships a stand that is too short or one that is too expensive and inflexible and nothing between, Apple included. I'd rather use a third party Knoll one.
Yes. Having said that he was on the knife edge with the first trial resulting in a hung jury and he suffered greatly before and during the trial.

It’s very much a situation you don’t want to be in.
Quantum Computing as a High School Module (2020)
IMO this is not very useful because any speech for which you’d want anonymity will likely be banned on Twitter anyway.

You can jump through the hoops of procuring anonymous email address and phone numbers but in the end Twitter will ban any real political dissent. Cf. Last two years.
Biden’s Crypto Executive Order Puts ‘Urgency’ on Digital Dollar Research
Note that this is exactly what panorama software like Hugin [0] does - it even comes with a convenient command-line tool for this simple use case (aligning a stack of images that are mostly overlapping): https://wiki.panotools.org/Align_image_stack

[0] http://hugin.sourceforge.net/
How does GDPR, etc. factor into this?
> but aren't up to date on practices we care about, like accessibility, semantic HTML, app architecture etc. That stuff is important, I don't want to hire folks who ship apps, but the apps aren't WCAG 2.0 compliant or poorly tested.

If a seasoned dev hasn't been asked to do this in the past, i.e. it's not a requirement for delivery (it's the client or product manager that decides whether they want these features, not the senior engineer), then I'm fairly sure they'll get up to speed with these practices when they're asked to. I kinda feel you're probably binning some decent potential hires.
Tufte is not an employee of NASA. He is an employee of Yale, and a thought leader in information design. HE was the one saying the slide design is poor, and doing so not in the interest of assigning blame, but in the interest of highlighting ways to communicate better.

To say that "the slide doesn't have any issues" is laughable on the face of it. But it's immaterial; your claim is that "NASA just ignored the engineers from Boeing" rather than "NASA didn't understand the engineers from Boeing". Communication is a two party process, and believe it or not, NASA isn't actually incentivized to take risks that lead to loss of life and damages public perception of them; it's far more likely they didn't understand the stakes, and looking at the slide from that perspective, it's very easy to see why they would not have understood the stakes even if the Boeing engineers did.
as a multi-decade coder here, I believe this has stereotype-sort-of-truth, but is too restrictive in the labels.. look at musicians and think yourself a bit about how different kinds of musicians mature, and their interactions
How do you filter out hiring managers that can't hire?
Founder disputes (especially at this level) should be resolved through mediation before resorting to adversarial legal battles. Divorcing couples pay 1/10th by going this route.
one time some late-teenagers wanted to focus on FizzBuzz instead of the portfolio of code i wanted to walk through in full discussion mode. from a peer who already worked there, i should be glad i did not get an offer.
> These managers were REALLY that braindead? These are NASA managers in charge of life-or-death decisions

If you're in charge of 10000 life-or-death decisions, and are on a tight schedule, you are unlikely to give each of them its proper attention.
I kind of enjoy the puzzles. One time I was having a slow day at work and a recruiter called, I took a tech interview in the afternoon just to have some fun with the puzzles lol.
What countries does Apple.com not ship to/sell in?
Pockit: A tiny, powerful, modular computer [video]
Have you tried making any accounts online these days without a phone number? Good luck — there are extremely few services left that allow it due to “abuse” and other nonsense.

My favorite case of this is that you used to be able to create a google account through android without a phone number. Assuming this is still possible, if you do this your account will be immediately suspended for “suspicious activity” and require a phone to unlock.
Rental car giants embark on electric
Well it was mostly used for transcoding and compiling Go. The bottom end 8Gb Mac mini was significantly faster than the Ryzen on both.
You don't turn a bicycle for the mind into a monorail for the soul without doing some serious, respectable engineering, of the kind you and I will probably never be let anywhere near.
>Good WSJ article on Russia vs. China. In a nutshell, China miscalculated the situation. They will likely look to limit their bet (on Russia) for fear of becoming Russia 2.0 to the West. [1]

The tweet is from Neil Cybart and WSJ. You may know him as one of the more accurate Apple analysts. And most people still to this day think either China miscalculated it, or China's official stance is somewhat unclear. ( Paul Graham )

And as usual, Benedict Evans has much better take on the situation. Mostly likely because of his major in History.

[1] https://twitter.com/neilcybart/status/1500825861242724352
I, for one, have never taken a covid test.
The title of this post is claiming this slide killed 7 people. That's a pretty bold and accusatory claim that seems to leave out the other failures, right?
He lasted 2 months.
For reference, artificial hearts generally do 130 days -
(2018) https://syncardia.com/patients/media/blog/2018/08/seven-thin... with some notable outliers that live for years, and human to human transplant is about 9 years. Usually it's some related systemic problem that kills you under these conditions eg consistent brain clotting causing stroke or organ failure due to drug cocktails.
> What is political propaganda is a very… political question.

Good thing that's not the issue here. The issue is where it comes from. It can be political- I don't like that it's foreign. I don't think freedom of speech means letting known foreign propaganda run hog wild on your platforms and control your information.
You are quite viciously arguing a point the OP didn't make and doesn't even seem to hold. Chill.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93U.S._RQ-170_incid...
If this makes women less scared and closed-off towards random strangers i think it’s a good thing.

It’s kind of a real issue that most women are really shy and uncomfortable around randos and hide their identities online, rightfully so because of men who are just awful towards random women they see and end up stalking and harassing them. It would be really nice if there was a way to just filter out creepy and rude people.

But I have a feeling this particular service won’t actually flag work and will end up being useless. And flagging people for no discernible reason or worse, flagging some ethnicities or unrelated characteristics more than others will open Tinder up to lawsuits.
Most papers from before the 80s or so IME. After that, it seems like scientific papers became similar to patents: not written to elucidate, but to obscure and waste the time of readers. Readers are the competition in a big rat race, after all.
Only the one I took 2 years ago that had me implementing a marquee tag
At $OLDJOB we didn't use the leetcode or whiteboard coding but we did give candidates a dead simple homework assignment (I come from infra) like "stand up a webserver with a load balancer" or "stand up a queue system with a producer and a consumer" with their preferred infra as code stack thinking we were giving candidates the chance to show off a bit but good gods the stuff we got back from people who claimed to be mid/senior were scary bad.
I have an issue with the title of this piece. PowerPoint did not kill anyone. There are good people out there writing PowerPoint, and they should never be made to feel like their presentation software is responsible for seven people dying tragically. This was an engineering failure and a communication failure, but cannot and should not be laid at the feet of PowerPoint.

Alternative title: death by ears, how failing to listen and communicate killed seven people.
That's because there's this quite "sticky" situation of not every human being being the same. Nobody likes to talk about it and you get shunned or imprisoned for even thinking about it, but the world has actually groups of people with varying levels of intelligence.
Why the outrage? Apple is a designer brand. You are paying mainly for a new version itself, not its features.
Twitter is not a "leftist organization". Contrary to the belief of the somewhat unhinged, there's no conservative-hating conspiracy of tech giants, which are on the whole not particularly left-leaning where it counts. There are absolutely conservatives on Twitter; there have always been and it remains that way now.
The gloss of Slack was lost to me when they took down the irc and xmpp bridges. I really liked the freedom to do it my way.

Then it became just another crappy messaging app.
At the time, the CD was often the practical master. Many recordings had come from analog tape, sent to a mastering house, who burned the final master to a CD.

Anyway, I skipped this detail in the original article, but Apple let go of the requirement to use their special “put the CD in the drive” tool. We were able to deliver using master WAV/FLAC files, converted to their AAC requirements, and uploaded.
“Chinese people don’t attack other Chinese people. We are willing to use the greatest sincerity and expend the greatest hard work to strive for the prospect of peaceful reunification”

Warmongering indeed. /s
Researchers uncover how the brain separates, stores, and retrieves memories
Reporting this only helps Russia. Why is this being reported at all?
The limit is ~90hz, and they already have tech for pro motion (variable refresh rate) in macOS.
Decent monitor arms easily cost $300-500.
I think coding competency is really hard to assess in interview, and arguably the wrong goal in interview.

When I evaluated the real goal of interviews, it was surprisingly not to discover the best coders, rather to discover the best fit for the team. Consequently a chemistry/collaboration oriented interview was the most predictive of long-term candidate success.
A question I often ask myself (though I don't work with anything with actual human risk) - when are my concerns valid and when am I coming off as just having a bleak outlook.

My own personal experience is that it's easier to be concerned with the small things (we have to have naming conventions), than with big things (are we building the right thing). I think there is a tendency to think "it'll probably work out".
My Father, the Fool
>And here’s CGTN’s article on “biolabs” in Ukraine, citing Russia media outlets and official

There are biolabs in the Ukraine, as confirmed by Nuland in the Senate hearings. Whether they have bio-weapons or medical research, who knows, but you can perhaps understand that the Russians might be concerned?

What's really amazing about this story that only days ago it was painted as a Q-anon theory. Turns out it was real. We are neck deep in propaganda from all directions, but most people think it's only coming from the Russian side.
I did not make any statements about existence of bioweapons.

You said “There is nothing in the video saying the biolabs belong to the US, stop spreading conspiracy misinformation.”

I pointed out that there is in fact US DoD funded research in Ukrainian bio labs.

I have no idea if they are making bioweapons. I can’t prove that they are, you can’t prove that they aren’t. But I do know that Victoria Nuland stated in that twitter video that whatever they got in those labs can be used as bioweapons, so on that point I think it’s an argument of semantics.
I tried to read the powerpoint and it was not an easy task. The main point of the powerpoint is not supposed to be an answer to a riddle of fonts and words.

A quick and dirty re-writing of the title (and slide):

_______________

Review of Test data indicates incident is well outside of safety margins.

- Volume of ramp is 1920 cu in vs 3 cu in for test

- Once tile is penetrated SOFI can cause significant damage.

- Flight condition significantly outside of test database

_______________

Now that should get a reader's attention.
It is very sad and terrible situation. I am really sorry to my all Russians friends who experience all these difficulties now. It shouldn't have happened to them.

The same happened to many other people from different nations. If you were an Iranian student, who was studying in the UK, it was very difficult for them to pay for studies because you couldn't transfer money from Iran. I know students who simply worked during summer illegally, without work permit and got paid with cash to be able to finance their studies and maintenance.
Everywhere else? The environment, geopolitical opponents.

Bioweapons defense is pretty fuzzy, as until recently you generally had to study a strain for a long amount of time to develop and test an effective vaccine. Which means you have to have a representative strain. Which means you either need to get one... or create your best guess.

All while the environment and/or your adversary are doing god knows what out of your sight.

Miracles like a vaccine-in-a-year don't just happen. They build on decades of research and preparedness.
Shackleton’s legendary ship is found off the Antarctic Coast
... that "dependency hell" is a big problem in Java too. Like Python there are a few heavily used packages that make most of the trouble, namely Guava and Jackson.
Apple also have a warranty and service which is worth more than toilet paper unlike the other brands.
Wow! Thanks for finding this! I'm so glad someone saved it.

(I'm the original author.)
Knowing the price in advance vs hoping for the best is worth a lot, even if on average the latter was cheaper.
And was it determined that this slide killed 7 people, as claimed in the title? That seems overly dramatic and ignores the other root causes.
Or that they used VC money to outcompete companies using artificially low prices, and then raised the prices to make some profit once they got a hold on the market
So is this being done on purpose? Just a coincidence? If former, why is USA so good at toppling governments? Or does this happen all the time done by all sorts of country? Hard to tell if it's selective bias or if USA is just good at this.
"Surely there must be answers somewhere?" is just the sort of thing that somebody who values logical intelligences over other intelligences (i.e. HN readers) and who lives in a non-totalitarian state would say. It's possible that the only person who knows why things are is Putin. It's also possible that these events are purely emergent, and have no real logical explanation, and no real architect. Frustratingly, all things are not explainable.
I honestly think we are tackling two different problems - Clerk.dev protects an app or website. We create accounts that span apps and websites - and we happen protect them.

Clerk.dev focuses on creating a great login page using low-code tools to get there.

We want to kill the login page. We want first time users to be able to enjoy an app or website first and then, when they fall in love with the product, then you ask for validation/authentication.

We ask "what does it mean to be authenticated?". We go beyond authentication by creating accounts for end-users, giving them control over their data (GDPR, CCPA compliant) and allowing developers to use that account data to customize pages well beyond a single app. Authentication is more of a check box for us, what you do with the data is our product.

Overall, If you are using Clerk.dev, I'd feel confident that your apps are safe and your users are protected. They use the latest tech and have a great team.
Simon Peyton Jones's papers are really clear and understandable. He actually did a talk on how to write papers: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/academic-program/wr...
It used to bother me, but after getting an invite by a FAANG to do an interview I decided to go with it. Sure, I'm not a fan, but if you want to work at certain companies it's what you gotta do. So I swallowed my pride, took the test, and eventually got the job.

Worth it.
> Another NASA screw-up that they're trying to pin on the vendor engineers, just like Challenger.

And, for context, Edward Tufte, whose review of the slides is being referenced in this article, is the same one who misunderstood and misrepresented what the actual issue was during the briefing the night before the Challenger launch, in his paper reviewing the presentation the engineers made then.

Edit: previous HN discussions of Tufte's Challenger review here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10989358

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19034783
> Never forget that absolutely everything you do is for your customers. Make every decision — even decisions about whether to expand the business, raise money, or promote someone — according to what’s best for your customers.

Right, this isn't really about whether or not you take growth funding. This is about minimalism and focus.

The fact that some people who take venture funds see fit to use those funds in a vain way, doesn't mean that you're forced to use that kind of funding in a vain way. Indeed, you're more likely to succeed if you use the funding modestly, with humility, focused on where it can provide the most business growth.
Slack is not a good enough replacement for IRC.

Centrally controlled, heavy and bloated - nope, nope, it's just not it.
There's a bunch of political dissent on Twitter. Don't harass people or incite violence and you'll largely be OK.
Yet another reason you should "just say no" to NFTs. Just having a crypto wallet can make you a victim.
Or, change the way they live, work less and enjoy what little life they have ahead?
Endurance: Shackleton's ship found 106 years after sinking in Antarctic
M2 family Mac Pro upcoming…
In pure functional programs it's possible to copy the state (monad/environment/free variables), but it's not always efficient, depending on what those are.

In general programs, doesn't have to be functional, the environment is stateful and often has abstract, black box processes. This can be transferred as well, by copying some things, transforming others, and in general where necessary using a two-way pipe of some kind. By analogy, imagine creating a WebSocket at the same time as making a JSON-RPC call.

Except for the black boxes, this kind of transfer can be taken further to make a general distributed system. Think things like Paxos, Raft, CRDTs. If the data is also mobile to where it is used, this performs well for many tasks. When that is done, in some ways everything comes back to messages and state again and doesn't need specific pipes. That's more robust then the simple form of transfer.

The resulting architecture is often much faster than the non-distributed version for many tasks, and robust, but it takes a lot of tricky parts to make a general purpose architecture with those qualities and stay high performance.
I think you mean UncheckedIOException - https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/io/UncheckedI...

RuntimeIOException from Jira has an amusing (and incorrect, IMO) message:

https://docs.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/api/7.6.1/com/...

> An IOException was encountered and the stupid programmer didn't know
> how to recover, so this got thrown instead.

It's a misguided doc comment because "recovering" from error is usually the wrong thing to do - usually the right thing is to abort whatever action is taking place, whether it's a request handler, event loop or standalone program. Situations like low disk space, incorrect file permissions, missing files and so on usually can't be recovered deep in the stack or without manual intervention.
The buyer for this is a rich person who doesn't like to tinker with computers. They walk into an Apple store and say, "I want the best."
“… but I repeat myself”
Well, proof by counter example it is.
That’s exactly my point. The OP claimed that the kernel’s XHCI support is faulty, usbmon will rule that out.