skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, I think companies that foster an environment of growth and learning ultimately become more competitive in the market and have an easier time innovating, so its a big plus from the shareholder equity side, but certainly not their responsibility to elevate each and every employee.
If you hate twitter so much, then respectfully, why are you commenting? This post is exclusively about Twitter and Tor.
I work from home in a 1 bedroom in NYC and a normal sized desktop works just fine under my standing desk with dual monitors here. Even if my PC were Mac Studio sized, I'd have it under my desk to maximize desk space.
From the article (emphasis mine):

> This, however, is the story of a PowerPoint slide that actually _helped_ kill seven people.
This is the question. To me it appears that hiring managers are incapable of filtering without exams -making the hiring managers skills questionable.
Ouch! I've yet to see an app that does better than the mobile web. (It's a running gag that "app" rhymes with "crap".) I bet they collect more data to track you better though.
>everything is to be taken seriously (ie at face value) bc anything more than that would require agreement between those who disagree.

That's backwards.

Everything should be seen as profoundly not-serious, for precisely the same reason.
Outrage leads to clicks leads to ad impressions leads to revenue. Standard operating procedure for websites that sell ad spots. Common formula is <big company> does this or that, even though it is not of consequence to anyone or noteworthy.
If you hire someone who turns out lied on their resume, you handle it the same way every time - you retract what you have offered for the truth. Guy can't code? Fire him, hire another and take it as a risk of the process. Don't offend your entire talent pool for the actions of very, very few (I have never hired anyone or heard of this happening in 25 years) bad apples.

It might be more common now in the remote era but this has been a standard practice for years so I don't think it's a valid excuse.
https://spaceflightnow.com/columbia/report/rescue.html

Atlantis was already scheduled for launch 41 days after Columbia. Columbia had ~30 days of air. NASA believed that Atlantis prep could have been accelerated and launched in time to attempt a rescue.
Not FOSS, not a public protocol (IIANM), so - that's not it either.
The difference is that the pregnancy doesn’t affect the lives of all the people on Twitter. This guy was communicating with his clients, who had to respond to the news by working to prepare their albums for upload to iTunes. He had a perfectly legitimate reason for posting this on his website.
Are there any videos/tutorials on this? This sounds like it would be super interesting to see.
I'm not being snarky but I dont believe Mac people would know how to build a PC given their history of non-modifiable hardware and no way to repair them.
It's not unusual for the management/BOD decks I work on to be 30 slides + 100 slides of appendix material. Everything in the 30 slides is heavily footnoted and supplemental/support information is in the appendix. It's kind of bonkers but pretty much standard practice at certain sized companies.
True. But I could imagine that 100 years from now, kids may browse the Facebook feed of their great grandparents, maybe even as a immersive 3D recreation of the life of their relative from a century ago. Including all their personal notes and thoughts.
It's actually quite difficult (or impossible?) find to find a monitor similar to this.

- 27"
- 5k
- Thunderbolt with 96W power delivery
- Webcam built-in
- Functions as a USB-C hub

I have been looking for this exact monitor but gave up and went with a widescreen and a dock.
I wonder how many people actually know how big a regular military drone is. Maybe I'm too wet behind the ears, but whenever I think drone I think a dinky little thing.
Asking for fizzbuzz or a simple closure/curry add function (basically `a => b => a + b`) is far different than coding assignments.

I did one "two-hour" coding assignment that took me an entire day (and I was by far the fastest according to the interviewer who later admitted they'd not done the task and it also took them an entire day when they tried).

I don't plan on doing such a thing again unless I'm compensated fair market rates.
It's more than a name change though isn't it? It's access to women only spaces and women only sports etc. This is what people are really upset about. I don't think people actually care about name changes.
These cost $1500. In 2016, 5K monitors were... about $1300-$2000. There has not been much movement.
That's because VCs need an exit to make their money. They only care if the business is successful insofar that it can be sold or IPO.
Bluff Cove Air Attacks
> if you bft_free OWN with outstanding REFs, nothing happens and the bft_free on last REF does nothing as well so it becomes just a leak.

I seem to have solved this with a `wantfree` flag.
https://github.com/alcover/buffet/commit/ade05630aafdf5c940e...
How to make this work with private accounts of people you follow? Is there a way to "log into Nitter"?
I have monitor arm that works just fine. Cost me $149 (Canadian pesos) on Amazon.
The only one would be the Ultrafine 5K (though this has poor availability at this point).
Colors too. Maybe also dark black.
Ukraine should at least start respecting the Minsk agreements and stop its aggression against Donetsk and Luhansk
This thread was about any political propaganda on Facebook, but if you want to narrow down the discussion...

Some of us are old enough to remember when the US Intelligence community lied through NYTimes and NPR to drag us into the Iraq war. (Also the first Golf war. Also the Vietnam war.)

If you only care about foreign propaganda you’re still going to have a lot of evil done. And given that the US is the worlds last super power our own internal propaganda machine is pretty important.
> the Wuhan Institute of Virology was already engaged in some of the genetic engineering work described in the proposal

Sure, but that doesn't point to America it points to China.

> “The mail is filled with little envelopes with plasmid dried on to filter paper that scientists routinely send each other,”

It seems unlikely the leak happened at the Wuhan post office, but even if it did, how does imply American incompetence?
I've interviewed hundreds of programmers, and really, you cannot trust pretty much anyone.

There's so many people that think they can code, or just say they do that really don't, that some sort of basic coding test is necessary if the job requires it.

Our hiring rate for some roles is 200:1, but we pay handsomely for those.

Think it the other way around, interviews are a two way process, you're also interviewing the company, and the way they conduct the interviews, in many ways also tells you what they value. What they're like.

Take it as an opportunity to get to know each other. Bring this up in a constructive manner. It may make all the difference and provide a stronger signal to both of you, you learn how do they react to feedback and at the same time you show that you're capable of critical thinking and care enough about your craft to call bullshit when you see it.
Ask HN: What's with adult profile pics, usernames in YouTube comment section
There are shit tons of comments with adult content profile pic, usernames all over Youtube comment sections. The pics are of women in objectionable clothing, and the usernames are usually related to adult content words.

All the comments seem to be written by actual humans rather than bots. They are quite detailed and always on topic. Eg, If there is a vlog a Youtuber has posted, the comment is in detail about the contents of the blog, Youtuber personality, references to previous videos etc which a bot in current scenario cannot write.
How do you filter out pilots that cannot fly?

It doesn't always make sense to compare two occupations with each other and pretend they can use the same approach for hiring people.
There's a reason "dual purpose" exists as a term. Most American grade schools have "hacking devices", should we define that to be any computer.

And at this point, the Russians have demostrated a clear willingness to lie about anything in pursuit of their geopolitical agenda (see: months of explicit denial of preparing for a Ukrainian invasion, by all levels of their government, in official statements).
Majorities of the population of both Taiwan and China both see the issue in a more nuanced manner than what you laid out here.

You can go on and deride people who disagree with you as deluded here, but that’s projection on your part.
Physicists steer chemical reactions by magnetic fields and quantum interference
In Italy we have trial periods and nobody really uses them.
The DoD funds a lot of medical research to improve combat readiness. When I was an academic researcher, we were working on a project that was partially DoD funded to develop a diagnostic device which was meant for personalizing medication for patients undergoing cardiac procedures, but the military was interested in using it for developing personalized versions of QuikClot for soldiers who experienced battlefield trauma.

I also worked for a company which had several novel therapeutics for agents commonly used in bioweapons in their pipeline and the DoD was funding parts of that as well.
> They seem to point to medical research to fight against diseases, rather than “biomilitary activities”.

They are dual use research. Just like research for nuclear energy is the same as research for nuclear weapons. Research for rockets is the same for icbms. It's why we are so keen on preventing iran from developing their nuclear energy program. It's why we are worried about north korea's "space" program. The same thing with cybersecurity. By learning to prevent cyberattacks, you are also learning how to carry out cyberattacks. And vice versa. You can't research against diseases/viruses/etc without procuring, creating and developing them.
This cuts both ways though, China is dependent on foreign agriculture[1], which Russia cannot provide them right now (certainly it will be hard to farm in Ukraine during an active conflict). Particularly for things like pork.[2]

Stopping the flow of just pork products to China may result in enormous unrest and it certainly wouldn't be a given that the CCP would be capable of quelling that.

[1]: https://www.fas.usda.gov/data/china-evolving-demand-world-s-...

[2]: https://www.worldstopexports.com/international-markets-for-i...
I suspect you mean speed/bandwidth when you say scale, but that isn't the entirety of what scale means. try being in russia right now and buying products like netflix or similar sold in USD. With crypto you have free (as in freedom) money that enables consenting people to trade without the permission of oppressive governments.

As for bandwidth and speed there are _plenty_ of crypto solutions that match or beat SWIFT, which as of last year was probably peaking somewhere around 150k (very generous assumption based on 40 million messages a day) FIN messages a second. It takes many FIN messages to complete a transaction of exchanging money and there are numerous blockchains which do in excess of 50k tx/sec
I haven't done any since I have not switched jobs in a long time. But I would not be insulted by them. I am not proud. I try to take an egoless approach to the work and try my best not to consider myself above anything. I would take the same approach to interviewing.
It does for the megaphone salesmen.
In this case the vendor engineers were from Boeing - Ya know, the same company that brought us the 737MAX MCAS fiasco. I mean sure, hindsight is a wonderful thing but given the history of Boeing engineering culture since their merger with McDonnell Douglas I can see the possibility of someone gliding over something inconvenient

(not the one that downvoted your comment btw)
Monitor arms are much more complicated than a monitor stand.
> desire that the consequences of failure draw from the domain of the normal distribution

Almost all interesting tech we're playing with lately does not fall in this category... and there's nothing we can do about it, that's the evolution of tech.

When interstellar-spaceships will be built, they'll practically be equivalent to "planet destroying nukes" and pretty sure accidents will happen (eg. fully scortching a planet inhabited by a few billions). AI if something ~human-level gets capable of a stretch of exponential self-improvement will be similar, but that will probably be the end of bio-humans and nothing we can do about it so no need to worry (just focus on making sure important human knowledge gets passed on to our non-human descendants).

Only way to mitigate this is to DISPERSE (establish colonies on multiple planets) and MULTIPLY (so that an accident with eg. a 99% lethality thing still leaves enough humans around to maintain a technological civilization preserving the knowledge of our ancestors). We're a bloody virus, so better embrace our nature and start to act like an effective one. There's genocide in our pasts, and there's likely exponentially more genocide in our future, we need to be resilient and accept (mass) death as part of our techno-evolution...
A resource guide 'good enough' to get you started with PM interviews
Nah, that's over. The American public is too delicate to be exposed to official state broadcasts because they might be biased towards the state that produced them.
I've been reading these stories of interview questions for 10+ years now, and it seems to get progressively worse over time. It all reinforces for me the decision to be an independent consultant all my career. I get hired because somebody needs help thinking about their product/design, a project completed, or a difficult bug solved. We talk about what I propose for them to do, and I'll explain what I've done in the past that's relevant or useful. I'm not there to join the family, so I deal with Purchasing and Accounting, not HR.
Hell, it's even probably fair to make an editorial conclusion at the end -

"Given this, we strongly recommend against launch"
It is the very foundation of what we are building. We started as a data privacy company. When you authenticate with Rownd, the Rownd hub (on every website screen that uses Rownd), shows all of the personal data that has been collected by that app/site and you can turn it off with a button click. You can also go to mydata.rownd.io and self opt out of ANY data on any app that Rownd partners with.

We fundamentally believe that the end-user should control their data, we turn it into a feature.

Thanks for the question!
"OK! Per our agreement, you owe me $1,000,000 per share."

> he must sell his own shares to Alice

at the price she proposed!

> The counter-party has the choice to take either side of the transaction.
Seems pretty cut and dry. The partner can cash out 50% of a valuable company now or he can control 5% of a bankrupt abandoned mess in 10 years.

Leaving with >50% of the coffers and still expecting the company to provide value for 10 years knowing the current financial state is just disingenuous.
> Sure enough sometimes while rushing to solve an AoC problem (...)

>In a C program taking the same approach (...)

"Writing C" and "rushing" is a strategy that cannot give you correct, robust software.
To note I paid considerably less than half that for my $300 arm.

YMMV but shop around for corp clearance.
> Similarly for technical papers. Read the intro, the summary, skip to the end, read the conclusion.

This isn't an appropriate comparison. The purpose of the conclusion is to present the findings of the paper, whereas the purpose of presentation slides is not (or at least, should not be) to summarize the content of the presentation.
From the description, the test appears irritating for your taste but valid (if you pass you are able to reason about code in twisted, semi-realistic ways, and smart enough to win at multiple-choice exams).

Considering the bigger picture, this kind of coding test signals that the company really cares about you being able to code, to the point of pissing off some candidates in order to be sure about the rest. Moreover, it's a more cost-effective and objective test than a whiteboard interview: the company shows some competence at hiring.
Yes, I believe Google's team publicly says it helps add just enough random translation.
160 years ago: The Battle of Hampton Roads
It doesn't require a phone number. Created an account the other day with only email.
Given the phrase “deliberate, accidental, or natural”, basically anywhere.

The two hypotheses about the origins of COVID are natural (wet market) and accidental (lab leak). Back when “The War On Terror” was the political Zeitgeist-meme, there was at least one anthrax attack (deliberate), and I remember suggestions that terrorists might also try to trigger foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks or algal blooms (it may not surprise you to learn that the latter was suggested by someone looking for government funding for their existing research into algal blooms).
The percentage of people trained who go on to stage coups is so tiny I think it’s hard to reach the conclusion the Intercept is making.
Nope. I don’t see things as “insulting”, in general. It’s just cost-benefit. If it’s a great business with a great team, I don’t also need them to be great interviewers. I’ll just fix that when I join them.
I think this works like the opposite of a loss-leader, a product sold at a loss to draw people into a store, and/or like minor upsells at restaurants, like guacamole on the side.

I got this theory from the Apple Explained youtube channel when he talked about the $600 wheels for Mac Pros

Apple needs some high end items to keep its luxury appeal, but they really want the middle market without losing some perceived luxury appeal.

So you have a few items with crazy prices that won't sell well to keep up your brand image. Interesting that these land on not-necessarily-deal-breaker things, like can you roll your computer? Can you adjust your monitor height? Extras, stuff you could live without or work around (especially being able to roll your mac pro)

I don't think they expect to make a serious profit on the option. It's some kind of microeconomics thing. It might make the non-adjustable option look more attractive price-wise.
> that it doesn't really matter what they think

That sounds pretty clearly in contradiction with the Declaration of Independence and the subsequent United States Constitution and the subsequent United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
I might start to look into Linux again for DAW usage. I'm very much on Logic/MacOS and dip my toe every so often (well have done since Dynebolic days) but always go back to Logic.
That's untrue. Ergotron LX arms for example hold big monitors perfectly and last basically forever - currently priced <$200:

https://www.amazon.com/Ergotron-Monitor-Monitors-Up-Polished...
I'd bet they completely overengineered it with something that feels smooth and has the right amount of friction and balance and has a ton of precise parts that drove the price up, and will probably wear out in a very unpleasant way within 4-6 years of purchase.
Yep; this slide was worse than useless in that to the given audience it could instead read as an endorsement that launching is fine.
"The following are more of McCarthy’s words of wisdom, as told by Savage and Yeh."
There is 0% chance that the US would not respond to eliminate that adversarial pact, with violence if necessary. The US just wrapped up two 20 year wars, one of which had nothing to do with anything.
Looking at the picture it is just plain boring monitor (not that there is anything wrong about it). I fail to see a single bit of "thoughtfully designed aesthetic".
Russia tried salami tactics in Georgia in 2008 after NATO looked to expand there.
In 2021 NATO decided Georgia was still on the table (along with Ukraine), demonstrating that small actions aren't enough to stop expansion.

Also, simply pausing the official NATO process with Ukraine was insufficient, because the US was already giving a billion dollars of arms plus training to Ukraine independent of it's NATO status.
1. Excellent monitor arms might cost that much, most are closer to $200-300. Decent ones are way less.

2. This is $400 more than the other arm. You're paying $400 for the added height adjustment.
Check the FX!
Much more interesting from a technical standpoint:

>how would you even top a single 432mm2 chip that’s already pushing the limits of manufacturability on TSMC’s N5 process?

By enabling the M1 Ultra’s two dies to transparently present themselves as a single GPU

It’s a problem that multiple companies have been working on for over a decade, and it would seem that Apple is charting new ground by being the first company to pull it off.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/17306/apple-announces-m1-ultr...
Thanks! That is an awesome idea. Always looking for more ways to show off our tech! Appreciate it!
I wrote a tiny program to help me buy a puppy :)

The place I wanted to get a puppy from said that they didn't take reservations for the upcoming puppies until they were born. The only way to know when they were born was to check their website and then give them a call.

So the tiny program I wrote kept checking a webpage and whenever it changed content, it would sende a text message "PUPPY ALERT!".

A few hours after I deployed the program, I got message so I thought it had a bug, but no, the puppies had just been born <3
Nailed it. I think that very few people would say that Chinese state media is not a propaganda machine, and Axios has a noticeable spin to it in general.
Fees for international money transfer across currencies are always opaque and borderline deceptive.

If this is truly fixed cost, it would definitely be the first, but it's right to be skeptical.

The only reliable way to discover the actual cost is to do a round trip.

Convert a million X to Y, then convert whatever Y you get back to X, and the difference between that and the original million, divided by two, is the real cost.

Naturally this website won't show you that, because you can only convert from pounds but not back to pounds.
I could not get the automatic switching either, so I wrote this script.

https://gist.github.com/abdullahkhalids/21a51240c13e19bfbb63...

I have bound Win+Home to the "general" option that connects to my earphones and correctly lets all applications use them as their sink.
Thanks very much for this post. I'm currently going through the process of preparing and interviewing after six years of being at the same company. A lot of what you offer for advice validates my strategy. No matter your experience and skill level there's always apprehension and a bit of imposter syndrome so it's helpful to hear about someone who's worked through that.
Yes but there are regulatory, legal and potential lawsuit issues why just firing people is not like snapping your fingers. It's an exercise with significant friction
ffs -- hoping my company just moves their stuff to self hosted mattermost and calls it a day
CDC says avoid travel to New Zealand, Hong Kong andThailand as Covid cases surge
True, there are better ways to word it. That does leave out some detail that the original one had, like test velocity and not showing the thought process as well (like a formula on a math slide or deductive argument in philosophy).

My main point is that the title claims thus slide is what killed 7 people and basically blames the creator, but leaves out all the other failures. Slide formatting and wording (which ignores the actual discussion that should have gone with it) is really inconsequential compared to the rest of the process in a briefing.