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Senior devs. Is anyone else insulted by coding exams?
After an invitation to apply for a job with a YC company yesterday (an email from the CEO offering to "have a conversation") I got a generic invite to take an online coding test in Javascript.

I've written JS and shipped numerous apps in it over the last 20 years and let me tell ya, if anyone worked for me and wrote code like I saw on those tests, I'd fire them.

My favorite was a sort question that had an obvious bug. Both sides of the sort had the same test (so no sorting would happen). But the question wasn't about that... it was about which input would tell you the code was wrong. This is most ridiculous way to diagnose or fix a bug that I've heard of.

Nobody who really works on software works on these kind of bugs. And this diagnostic technique of arbitrarily working backwards to force a multiple choice solution is probably the worst method of programming that I've ever come across. No wonder so many companies are hiring shitty programmers and writing garbage code.

Without an actual problem and an understanding of the problem domain, no programmer is going to write anything useful for you. Frankly, I'm frustrated by this method of interviewing and selecting candidates. It makes me not want to work at places that do this.

Anyone else have a similar experience? Also, hiring managers... Do you find these kind of tests useful? Why? How?
Nothing in the video, but see somebameforme’s post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30615313). No need for hasty accusations of spreading misinformation.
Indifference to teacher performance is now "Republican policy"?

Also, teacher's unions are so powerless they can lobby to have this sort of obscurantism codified in federal law, apparently.
FYI your API docs page (https://docs.rownd.io/apiandsdks/#/rest) linked from the footer is throwing 500s.
Wonder if computer fairs are still a thing. Got fond memories of buying bits at them.
Why would one buy from a reseller over buying from Apple directly?
For Senior Devs - Women in Tech Week
As it has always been, innovation is made by lunatics on the fringe willing to work for little to no money because they are ideologically motivated.

Also, don't discount the innovation happening at FAANG companies. They do a ton of heavy lifting on boring-but-important problems!
i was answering his question
I'm the opposite, I thought all I saw and heard were real, and everyone I saw was a fake! Scary!
Rewriting Bash scripts in Go using black box testing
True, but the merchants with separate prices tend to be smaller organizations, since they need to fly under credit card processors' radar to do this. For a mom and pop shop, they may be willing to do the extra labor to make back the 3%, even if it's not something that would make economic sense to pay an employee to do. (Similar to how it's cheaper for you to mow your own lawn on the weekends, even if the money you save is less than your hourly wage at work.) Or they may view labor as a sunk cost and see cash handling duties as a way to decrease idle time for staff.
Ah, you must work for Amazon ;)
Are these arms large/long enough to allow for a 27" to go portrait?
TFA has one example where the university he worked at told him he shouldn't disclose. Another, Gang Chen was initially charged of failing to disclose, but it was later found that he was not required to disclose on the grant in question.
this is why whenever i write slides, each slide gets a title and a subheading. the subheading provides the implication of the slide and its contents.

done properly, one could read the heading and subtitle of each slide and never need to look at the contents, unless some specific detail is desired/needed.
Turning a web browser extension into a botnet
https://archive.ph/sPLXg
Tinder rolls out in-app access to background checks, powered by nonprofit Garbo
The original article by Edward Tufte which is referenced by this blog post can be found here:

https://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=...
That's on sway. I can try KDE, but I'd be surprised if the result is different. Just pressing ctrl-w opens the popup and definitely breaks pointer confinement.
Nice launch. How does this compare to clerk.dev?
>If they invade it will be seen as an act of aggression and one nation invading another.

Sure but that doesn't mean they are the same. Ukraine is a country that is recognised by both Russia and a UN member state recognised by most of the world. Taiwan is not recognised by China and only 13 UN member states.

It might be bullshit, but it's not the same.
I recall there being lots of "experts" around during the Fukushima disaster, explaining that there's nothing to worry about (because insert explanation of safety mechanisms in a modern reactor that either weren't there at all or were not working).

I hope the experts this time around actually know what they're talking about. It's hard to tell armchair experts and real experts apart.
meh. without the mandatory mobile verification, twitter is simply pointless to use via tor. maybe you are registered via mobile in a different country and you are currently in a hostile nation. if you are registered in the same country you are in, speaking against the government is pointless.

maybe there is a usecase, i dont know. i stopped twitter back in 2013 i think. the signal to noise ratio was difficult back then, i cant imagine what it is now. sorry.
Hey folk, I'm an engineer here at Rownd and super excited to hear all of your feedback. I hope you get as excited about frictionless auth anywhere and everywhere as we are!
Apple can do this because nobody else makes a high quality monitor that doesn’t look terrible.

In nice offices, each chair is a couple thousand each. Full designs easily $50k+. Theyre not going to mess up a such a thoughtfully designed aesthetic with some slab of black plastic and an Amazon Basics stand (which is what I use) to save $1-2k.
They could, but it might be a pain to identify what's actually bloat.
I’ve advocated for specialisation elsewhere ITT.

Element OS could choose a sector of power users and cater to them with custom features.
Saito Renho on Japanese economic growth, ‘Abenomics’, redistribution, and more
Yeah, that looks like the PA conf I'm currently using. Did you notice any difference after switching to Pipewire?
Mostly I can think of only the kind of individual personal circumstances that are easily dismissed by the HN crowd. Things like having a large gift card or store credit somewhere, trading in something else, only have cash and there isn't an apple store around, mail delivery too unreliable in your area, etc.
Well his brain is not your brain, and no matter how ridiculous you think he is, he has the final outcome of Apple to prove he's right. Put a different person in his position and the company would have bankrupted.
> You see how that makes it looks like you have animus

No, not really.

Do you see how your not answering my question, but rather attacking it, shows that you have animus towards me?
If Russia falls, there is no large country to back up their shenanigans.
They are still a year+ ahead of 3090 on process node. Max was about equivalent to a 2080, so 2X max does line up with a 3090. A big difference is no ray tracing hardware, which takes up a lot of die space. Same process node and no ray tracing hardware and nvidia would come in at far less die space (3090 is 628.4 mm ^2, M1 ultra is 850mm^2).

If Nvidia were on the same node and increased die space to match M1 (ignoring the CPU portion of the die size), they would then be able to run at a lower clock with more compute units and probably match the TDP discrepancy.

An iGPU isn't necessarily slower if the system ram is fast, and M1 was one of the first consumer CPUs to move to DDR5. 3090 has 936.2 GB/s with GDDR6X, M1 Ultra with DDR5 memory controllers on both dies gets 800GB/s.
Sorry, I'm not following. Introduction section of what?
History of Non-Secret Encryption [pdf]
AI is helping treat healthcare as if it’s a supply chain problem
> Nobody except deluded tankies

About a billion of these "deluded tankies" live in China.

> Russia does formally recognize them as a nation

Formal recognitions aside, but if you go anywhere from the Russian extreme left (e.g. Gorbachev) to the Russian extreme right (e.g. Solzhenitsyn), there's one thing they agree upon: they all think Ukraine is historically tied to Russia. Like it or not, there is a wide consensus in Russia with regards to that.

It has served Russian policy since the 90's to have Ukraine and Belarus as independent states, since 3 votes in the UN are better than one.
The numbers are extremely off - google alone has probably 50k SWEs
World’s Largest Chip Manufacturer to Launch Another Mining Chip
Economic integration with autocracy has not proven consistently reliable at preventing military conflict. So what's left?
Pull-Up Techniques for Everyone
>React and Kubernetes are toxic technologies. Their strategic purpose is to disempower indie devs

Wut? ...You're ...gonna need to defend that assertion. Just because BigCo's tooling is fit for BigCo's purpose does not mean they set out to harm smaller devs.
I don't think the artists would be happy to miss the opportunity to be on iTunes just because Jobs was slow, involved in marketing spin, and specifically obnoxious to this one guy. People and companies (yes, major ones) behave far worse all the time. Boycotts can make sense, but relatively rarely compared to the number of times such bad behavior occurs.
You do sometimes seem subtitles that say stuff like "[unintelligible conversation]" or "[faintly] I know", which I suppose helps preserve the artistic elements.
Free speech does not mean anyone should offer a megaphone to some private entity (especially non-individual ones).

It's up to Twitter and Facebook to decide if they want such messages amplified on their platform and to earn money for that.

Or we can make these platform utilities but then, we could also make ads illegal in public spaces (I can speak freely when I take the subway, but I'm not allowed to yell advertisements, and it's fine!).
Interesting to read the "dice rolling" part.

> investigating dice rolling patterns
A friend showed me a dice rolling game where you roll a bunch of dice and add up the values. I mentioned that if you roll enough dice and add up all the values, at some point it gets a lot less “random”.

And result turned out "true"? Rolled a die for 2500 times and the sum is all around 8500! I wonder what would be the results for 25/250 times? So, this is sum(expectations).. and for rolling a die, it is 3.5 [(1+2+3+4+5+6)/6 => 21/6], so the answer was 3.5 x 2500 = 8750. Should hold good for all numbers relatively large.
yeah. coding is ubiquitous, and tests show it. dev is an art and a science, and tests can easily screen those out. but that's why dev is rare and valuable. and that's why dev will eventually find its place, without tests. meh.
Postgres Auditing in 150 lines of SQL
Nyc yellow cabs are far cheaper than uber/lyft. They also tend to know the city better. Rideshares wiped out yellow cabs then drove up the price.
Sound is pretty messed up for me
Well, those ones you are talking about are ad-supported. I would not buy an ad-supported display at any price point, so a more reasonable comparison is the “commercial display” flat screens, which are still actually pretty expensive.
I think the point is to evade censorship in Russia, No?
The Chemistry Department specifically has horrible infrastructure and a huge part of the problem is that construction is very difficult. NYC isn't a college town like Cambridge or New Haven and Columbia has to pay more to get stuff built and on top of that it's a long process involving multiple constituencies. Just look at how long it took for Columbia's Manhattanville campus to come together.

There are plans in the works to fix these infrastructure issues but the timeline is frustratingly long.
internal documents leaked by Snowden and reported by the NYT confirmed the intent of the program

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullrun_(decryption_program)

stop simping for the nsa
I agree with not wanting a promotion, I’m perfectly fine with where I am compensation wise and job wise.

But yes, I keep up with the new shiny projects and keep my resume current. The tides are always shifting in tech. Managers change, companies get acquired, go under etc. It’s my responsibility to myself and my family to keep myself competitive in the market.

I’m not going to do that by not staying in sync with the market.
This is completely indiscernible from satire.
Use nitter.net to view twitter. Just http://nitter.net/username. It barely uses javascript (except if you want to watch video), no ads, no popups, no login, no "trending" section. Just the content of the person you're trying to read content from. All twitter links are replaced with nitter links, so navigation isn't an issue. Even if I had a Twitter account I'd use Nitter to browse. It's a lighter experience with no extra crap.
After sleeping on it, I'm not really happy with how my comment reads. Editing with an addition that clarifies my position.

... or wait, I forgot you can't do that after a certain time period. Let me be clear:

1. Given what information we currently have, I feel that CppCon organizers shouldn't allow Mr. X to present at/attend the event.

2. It's the organizers' right to decide who can attend their event, and it's my right to not associate myself with them/their events.

3. #include made multiple mistakes while trying to get to the bottom of this issue.

> You really think it's appropriate for a victim of sexual abuse to communicate with Mr X?

Obviously not, but you cannot tell me that there are zero members of #include leadership who aren't rape victims. I highly doubt that Mr. X has any argument that would be worth considering. I'm not saying Mr. X's words would have any impact on #include's position (or my position) whatsoever. I'm saying it's counterproductive to not at least feign diplomacy.
> CDs have significant error correction codes so if it sounds right it IS right.

For data CD formats, yes. For audio CD formats, readers are allowed to interpolate over uncorrectable errors (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C2_error), which would not necessarily result in an abrupt skip or pop.
Genuine question - why start with a virtual table at all in this case? Why not just import the data to regular_table from the csv file?
I give Tufte's (admittedly imperfect) thoughts on this deck and David Foster Wallace's This is Water (https://fs.blog/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water/) to every new member of my team to read and make it apparent that I expect them to have command of each document's implications.
The JVM is still operationally a nightmare. Without knowledgeable tuning it requires a lot of memory even for the smallest of apps which is the most expensive resource right now in computing and vastly constrains deployment.

That's not even getting into the Java ecosystem which is vast, but it's full of nightmares like remote debugging ports that allow unauthenticated remote access to the JVM's memory space.
Biological material, especially if it is disease related, can be easily misused. This sounds like the effort the USA had 20+ years ago in helping Ukraine in securing and eliminating their nuclear arsenal. Not because the USA was interested in more nuclear weapons, but because they didn’t want terrorist getting ahold of them.
Do you also think the US army should stop running recruitment ads targeting teens? What about BP advertisements which are really just to get political support?

What is political propaganda is a very… political question.
How do your links [1][2] support the claim that Ukraine is developing “biomilitary activities” (as claimed in the title of the Global Times article)?

They seem to point to medical research to fight against diseases, rather than “biomilitary activities”.
I'm not talking about discoverability. I do that myself externally by reading discogs credits for an album and going from there.

I would prefer a music streaming service to have nearly all of the albums or songs that I want to listen to. Having more songs means that is much more likely.
It got worse: while the admissions office and museum were using MIT hacking culture to attract applicants and advance its brand, the school changed both the type of officers hired for the campus police which is necessary due to its inner city location and started arresting students for attempting to pull off harmless hacks. I also heard some reports they got generally more aggressive towards the student population.

When I was there they hired older, very experienced police officers who were looking for a good, not normally intense final job for their career. So they were generally understanding and fit into the culture.

Aaron Swartz was an entirely different thing. Instead of hammering JSTOR from his own institution of Harvard to the point it blocked the whole campus, he disguised himself demonstrating mens rea, a guilty mind, let himself into a machine room and left behind the laptop to do his act of civil disobedience or whatever. And then proved chronically depressed people have no business committing such crimes. From beginning to end he demonstrated ill intent towards MIT.
I am not a twitter user, but I guess the focus is on circumventing censorship rather than privacy.
> That escalated quickly

Pfft

The company clearly had poor legal advice and/or didn't think things through, yet they want my money and personal data? At the very least, you should consider this error analogous to the Van Halen 'no Brown M&Ms rider', in that it flags sloppy practice elsewhere [1].

[1] https://www.insider.com/van-halen-brown-m-ms-contract-2016-9
I managed to publish first ever tech content under McKinsey
The size looks the exact same as this very site to me. It's #5e5e5e (effective, as it's actually a slightly transparent RGBa value) against #fff, so a contrast ratio of 6.48:1, well within WCAG AA standards, and a tiny, slight shift to #595959 would be enough to meet AAA.
Perhaps you’re not the only person who applied and they saw someone else first? You can’t take it personal when companies like that get thousands of resumes.
Does Brazil still have a 100% tariffs on foreign made electronics? And the US charges almost none to highly favoured nations ie. China. So $429 iPhone in the US will be over $800 after duties in Brazil. And this is not set by Apple but the Brazilian authorities.
Hi Hacker News! I'm a co founder and heading up design at Rownd. Looking forward to feedback and questions about your experiences trying out our product!
Why can't they put a status.json file on S3/CloudFront/R2/wherever?

And in an absolute worst-case infra collapse, someone there could manually edit/upload a new one...
Naga (a community project) translates GLSL directly into WGSL, unlike other tools.
Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World [pdf]
The new and novel thing is that there is a $400 upsell at all. I believe all of the previous Apple displays (Pro XDR excluded) have only come with a fixed stand (though some could accept VESA mount adapters).
It still needs to be protected from the elements and from nefarious actors. Which is why the US wanted to store the spent fuel in Yucca Mountain. However it turns out no one wants to have a repository of spent nuclear fuel in their state.
Writing SQL code is not easy, especially if you’re a non-engineer and don’t have the time or skill to do it yourself.
For a command like media player, did you try cmus?
I often find interesting books on the book lists from Bill Gates (https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books) and Derek Sivers (https://sive.rs/book).

And of course there are many good recommendations here on HN in book-related threads.
That quote is strange. Reactor #2 was shut down in 1991, reactor #1 was shut down in 1996, and reactor #3 was shut down in late 2000. So some of the spent fuel is a little over 21 years old, not 36 as the quote implies. Still a long time, but I wouldn't expect such a sloppy comment from the IAEA.
> Can you point to what specifically is misinformation in the article about Biden's order? Let me guess, you like cryptocurrency and it said things you don't like.
You also said that Biden has a monopoly on what we see in the press. Um, that's pretty far from true, and anyway, he is the president so I would expect his messages to be shared widely.

‘nuff said. You are clearly lashing out, so it would be better to discontinue this conversation with you at this time.
Indeed. I was actually about to buy one, they are within the same price realm as other good+ 5k monitors. I was reading through the stand offerings, debating between the height-adjustable or "not" (ie just the standard stand & most likely using my cheap monitor arm) -- then I realized/read the "integrated & can't be changed" and my mind was boggled. I abandoned at that point.

Not having the ability to remove the stand, like virtually all other monitors, is really just anti-customer IMO.

If I get the stand & later want to VESA-mount it, what, I have to sell the monitor to buy a VESA version?! Absurd & really disappointing, especially for a monitor product that otherwise seemed relatively well-positioned.
To all the people who complain that Twitter over Tor is pointless because you have to login: it's not.

A lot of people might have no concerns with identifying themselves with twitter but might be blocked by their ISPs or worried about some governments tracking them down.

In those cases twitter over Tor makes a lot of sense.

(and no, I'm not a fan of twitter myself and I don't use it)
Oh. Well, that's unexpected news to me!

They still DRM Apple Music (which you could argue is selling music, but as a service), and files which had DRM when you bought them, and movies, it seems.
The more this comment gets downvoted, the more it looks like death by tiny gray serif font, making the comment quite funny.
Are you are arriving at the conclusion that I'm calling people idiots because I say that scared people watch the news more often? People get scared because no one can be informed 100% of time about 100% of the topics.

When I say that scared people watch the news more often I count myself included, since this damn invasion happened I have some news channel 100% of the time because I want to know what hell is going to happen, if I have to stock up or if I need to build a damn nuclear shelter.

I do think that a big chunk of the news media is composed of a band of ruthless, unethical pieces of garbage.
Multipliers for other widths: https://www.pcg-random.org/posts/does-it-beat-the-minimal-st...
> In the bigger context, we always did and still do. Even going so far to actively support some of them and not just tolerate. Especially when they were supposed to keep "communists" in check.

And the West may need get more comfortable with doing that, since we've seen some of the consequences. IMHO, sanctions against Belarus were probably a significant contributing factor to this war (i.e. they put Belarus in a position to be dominated by Putin, who took full advantage to support/strengthen his invasion of Ukraine).

I wonder if some middle ground is tenable (e.g. make a deal with a dictator that he will get full support for life, as long as he agrees his successor will be a properly democratic government).
Kinda sad this didn't work out.

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Words like however and similar are often useful in the introduction of a paper to expose the context, current state of the art, and problem that your research is attacking. I'm in engineering though, so most research and papers follow the theme of "there exists this problem, current solutions are this and this, however they are not ideal because X, therefore we present this novel solution which is really great".