skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Frankly depending on how aggressive the hiring is or how overwhelmed/new the recruiter is it might just be mass disorganization. I’ve had things like a new recruiter not notifying the hiring manager when they schedule something, or not checking in after an interview, etc.
And the 14 other bus protocols with service advertising aimed at microcontrollers are...?
Given that the ICC doesn't acknowledge it, that would be a rather extreme step to take.
Take a pill.
As with so many algorithms, he's trading compute time for memory and pre-compute time. Generating that table is costly, but once you have that table it's pretty efficient.
Wow I'd have expected much better from Microsoft and Grafana. That's extremely disappointing.
I've been through the hiring process with Microsoft -- it is VERY high touch, and this is definitely not normal. I can't speak for the other companies though.
"trying to validate emails with regex will never work in practice"

Of course it does. It just depends on how you define 'validate emails'. Your statement is ambiguous. The Friedl has an entire appendix on a single regex that validates an email address to the format described in RFC 5322, although of course maybe a proper parser would be better, from a technical perspective. However, an email address being in the right format does not ensure that the user that email address is 'associated' with (for whatever definition of 'associated' that is appropriate to the application we're talking about) can/will actually receive emails send to that address.

You should do both. Do a first 'pass' validation to check the user didn't make a type. This is more for user convenience, as this can give immediate feedback. And then send an actual email to see if email is deliverable there.

The problem here is not that they checked the format. The problem is that they check the wrong way. Although it's not entirely unthinkable that it's sometimes appropriate to add additional constraints to which addresses you want to accept, e.g. banning certain tld's, or even only accepting whitelisted ones. If your fraud stats say that doing that reduces loss, it's not unreasonable to add such a third filter layer.
looking forward to Arturito ;D
Dataset containing 54392 real-world Food Images [and computer vision benchmark]
A normal internet user wouldn't need to figure this out, they wouldn't have a .pizza email, they'd have @gmail.com.

There are two approaches

1) You can complain that they aren't serving you, and take your money elsewhere. They see the lost revenue and fix the problem, or they decide the cost of supporting you isn't worth the profit

2) You can conform and get a more normal email address like 99% of the world. I have enough issues when I give people my own domain.com address as they are confused it doesnt end in gmail or hotmail

Most of the 1% that have the issues will conform, so you're left with 1% of 1% who draw a line in the sand. And that's great, good luck to you and the 35,000 other Americans that fit in that demographic. Big companies are interesting in the 99.99% that don't though.

(1) is a symptom of the centralising, automation, and reduction in costs of services. If you don't fit in the 99% pattern (or even 90% pattern), you are rejected as you're not worth it, that's the direction the world is travelling in (google etc drop your account automatically rather than spend the money to look at it manually, you can sometimes get redress via complaining to your social network if you're lucky)
I love how people assume others are "anglosphere programmers". For the record, my official name is 40+ characters and I'm neither from nor live in any english speaking country.

But peoples official names have nothing to do with your personal email addresses, as you usually get to choose whatever you want for those.
Ah to be back in school, watching the clock tick down before lunch.
> I’ll use the old Eleanor Roosevelt quote

The quote seems appropriate for a person that doesn’t want to be talked about.

I get what it’s going for but “only small minds talk about people” feels like it serves political elites very well. Don’t talk about me and my conduct. Talk about the generalised idea of conduct by people who are somewhat like me!

I studied politics at university and learned enough about political ideology to last me a lifetime. But my biggest takeaway from history is that ideology almost always plays a back seat to human beings that want to retain or expand their power. Ideas are pretty malleable around that aim.
My personal experiences say this seems weird. I personally haven't seen people not show up for a scheduled interview. Ghosting afterwards? Extremely common.

I can see the Microsoft one being a routine mistake in an overloaded manual process. I have had recruiter working for a large company randomly disappear mid-process because they no longer work there. Took them a while to get back to me.
It depends on the level of abstraction you're addressing. One level may be "i need to store things with a quick search function", another may be "i need a storage of ordered names and expiry date for things", etc until you get to "I need a binary tree which orders by comparable types".

Where you split that process as a separate library you either decide to write or reuse - that becomes the problem to solve. A set implementation may be a problem to solve: https://github.com/deckarep/golang-set A btree may be a problem to solve: https://gitlab.com/cznic/b/-/tree/master/v2
FWIW, I had the same experience with a Google recruiter. I suspect there's just some dropped balls, and they have enough interview volume that it doesn't affect their hiring ability, so there's no reason to ensure the balls aren't dropped. Miserable experience, and one reason I will never bother with a large company for the rest of my career.
Me: "Surely the Linux Kernel has build options for x86 that includes no-FPU"

20 minutes later: "Oh right they removed i386 as a target because it sucked and wasn't maintained that includes i486... so now you'd have to target a Pentium or higher"

But seriously the Linux kernel does support not having an FPU... just not on x86 as best I can tell.
Of course he fully explained. He's actually skilled at dealing with people and situations - refer back to the part about pacifying customers and gaining contracts.
> That's the thing that gets latched onto and eventually the conspiracy nuts argue the whole thing must be true.

Exactly how things operate, "Project Northwoods was true, therefore the government is bad, therefore very real 'Government Program X' is bad" is the general algorithm.

With that said, I'm hacker. I seek the truth and will discuss it regardless of whether some wingnut seizes on it to make a false assumption.

I also have no problem attempting to correct the Boomer Doomers I run into at work and in life... they're just usually happy to go "Oh well, fair enough..." and then go back to watching whatever it is they're on about.

Cotdamn Gell-Mann Amnesia
More efficient in how many flips you consume to produce an unbiased bit.

Less efficient in terms of runtime (if you implement it as naively as I have described here).
I don’t know, honestly I felt the opposite way, maybe because I’m not Ukrainian and it’s not my native language. But I found the level of deep fake we can achieve nowadays truly scary. Even if it was a shoddy job, I feel like that’s enough to convince a lot of people, or at least stir confusion
U.N. Says Military-Violence in Myanmar Maybe 'Crimes Against Humanity'
Also, whether one likes Reddit or not, it has a huge userbase, and each subreddit is pretty much different than another. There are plenty of subreddits with really interesting comment chains.
The goal of diplomacy is to avoid stupid wars, not all wars
Have people already forgotten how much pressure the government was under in December to lock us down again? SAGE were predicting 6000 deaths a day, as if their modelling hadn't already been discredited ten times over, and all the usual suspects in the media and the Labour Party were screaming for more restrictions. If it hadn't been for partygate, the backbench Tory rebellion, and massive public resistance in the form of protests and more, Boris would have caved to SAGE and we'd have had another two months of our lives stolen, another Christmas ruined, another term of school missed, another million livelihoods destroyed and another ten billion added to the public debt - and it would have all been completely unnecessary, because Omicron was a fat load of nothing and SAGE's modelling turned out to be wrong yet again. But people would have pointed to the low death rate and said "I told you lockdown was necessary! If we hadn't locked down we would be seeing 6000 deaths a day!"

Also, these protests werent just against lockdown. There were enormous protests against vaccine passports, and they were successful - the govt had vaxpasses ready to go in the summer and pushed them back repeatedly before cancelling them in the face of public pressure and tireless campaigning from civil liberties groups like Big Brother Watch. If it hadn't been for the protests then you wouldnt have been able to go to Sainsbury's in the last six months without scanning your QR code.

Finally, there were also protests against vaccine mandates, and in particular the vaccine mandate for NHS staff. Personally I found those protests silly - I would have thought that NHS workers of all people would understand the importance of getting vaccinated, but the facts are that the government initially announced that NHS workers would be fired if they didn't get the jab then walked this back when it became clear that enforcing this rule would mean firing tens of thousands of intransigent NHS staff and they couldn't afford the shortages. There was a gigantic protest in London in January against the NHS vax mandate (not that you'd have heard about it on the news) - a protest which unequivocally achieved its goal.

If you don't think people were protesting against anything real or that the protests didn't achieve anything then you haven't been paying attention.
The RFC has a specified regex for validating email that absolutely nobody uses. Given that, matching on an @ (if you do it at all - even that is a bad idea. Just send an email) is the easiest approach that you're least likely to mess up.
> This, in a very healthy way, runs counter to "updating software for no good reason," which of course is the cause of pretty much all the e-waste.

You lost me there. Most "e-waste" is, IMHO, produced by inefficient software that is occupying a whole server farm where an efficient implementation will run on your router and still have enough resources to spare to brew a coffee. See thepiratebay, they disabled, IIRC, more than half of their servers when they switched to open tracker.
It’s always a bit of a shock to remember that “photographs lie!” goes back to the very beginning of photography. See this (probably) staged war photograph from 1855 — in Crimea, of all ironic places:

https://petapixel.com/2012/10/01/famous-valley-of-the-shadow...
Flipping through the tweet-replies, it looks like a lot of people noticed this.
> he is a web developer turned tech director, not a software developer. without formal education in the field

Even though I personally avoid the clusterf%%% of the modern front end development ecosystem like the plague, I would never say that “web development” is not “software development”.

As far as his lack of a formal education, with 12 years of experience, it doesn’t matter.

It’s not like my degree in 1996 from a no name school had anything to do with me getting a job in 2008.
But Syria and Ukraine are on the same continent: Eurasia.
One app that is decidedly not "eco" is YouTube on the phone.

Google holds your phone's battery to ransom, if you don't pay to use YouTube, as it doesn't allow you to turn off the screen (I can listen to adverts too you know, if that's what they're worried about).

Given the number of Android phones there are, I think that "feature" must have wasted an amazing amount of electricity and contributed to wearing-out batteries.

Rather than eco-certifying apps, some apps could be eco-shamed.
not anymore :) (as of 13:22 UTC), though I expect it will come back. eventually.
I was going to post "not normal at all", but then I noticed you mentioned recruiters. Are these 3rd party recruiters you are going through (i.e. not employed in-house by the companies)? If so you might want to consider the possibility that the recruiter is claiming to have scheduled an interview that the company hadn't really properly agreed to or were pressured into.

But in general when dealing directly with a company I'd say: no reply to an application is completely normal, but not turning up to scheduled interview is not at all.
"Bad" and "just how it works" are not mutually exclusive.
Strongly concur. Patchelf is indispensible for beating sense into third-party closed-source shared objects. The `--set-soname` option is particularly useful in correcting all kinds of ineptitude.
Yes. Though in practice you wouldn't want to generate that specific table for 1000 flips. It's far too big.
There is an argument that, by controlling the high parts of the Himalayas, China can control the rivers of Asia, in the same way that the United States controls the Colorado River and similar. With their civil engineering prowess, they can dam and divert them when fresh water becomes scarce.

Goodbye to the Indus, the Ganga, the Brahmaputra. China needs its own Cadillac Desert.
Great post! I'm wondering if the original BIOS manual still useful for today's, say, malware reaearchers?
It’s more frustration than elitism. Take the topic of Machine Learning for example, there’s really few people on planet earth that can discuss the implications of it in detail. To broaden membership into that discussion, you have to provide a lifeline in the context of ‘what are the implications of AI with respect to future work, will humanity ever have to work again?’ - ok, now most people can take part.

The frustration is, why is gossip and conspiracy lifelines necessary for topics that most people should have no issue discussing? You really can’t add anything without that stuff?

Anyways, I heard Hunter Biden is a drug addict, and Putin has cancer, and that’s why he’s invading Ukraine.
The blog post, demo, and website are incredibly uninformative (maybe informative, but not on own product's details). Eventually, pressing on "getting started" goes to a sign up for updates page.
I don't think I have ever experienced someone ghosting the actual interview but ghosting does happen for senior positions, and I think it's probably more likely due to the amount of attention that a senior level hire is going to get.
I have had problems with people using bots to spam abuse reports on my domains so that they can buy them after they're taken from me. Namecheap is one of two registrars that actually buckled.
Hes just watching regular TV, not using the C64
I price motor insurance for a living and in my models the absolute worst 'insurable' risks (ones that pass underwriting scrutiny) will have some sort of impact every 3rd year. If we filter that to more severe cases where there's bodily injury it moves out to 8/9 years.

What this means is the absolute worst drivers will go ~100k miles between causing serious accidents so the threshold between good, bad and awful drivers is really far out into the tails of the distribution. Without actual driving data to work from we don't know how safe FSD is and youtube videos are purposefully selected for views. Even so the sheer number and 'randomness' of fails is concerning because nothing like alcohol, speeding or inexperience to point to.
How Bad are Bananas: The Carbon Footprint of Everything by Mike Berners-Lee
>Why do we treat those groups differently then?

Because it's much easier and safer to integrate people with the same religion, ethnicity, that come form a peaceful country with a good track record in STEM[1], meaning they have a high chance they will integrate well with the locals and be productive, with a low chance of unemployment, crime and social unrest that usually comes from importing people from countries with a long history of extreme poverty, crime, civil wars, LGBT & human rights abuse, poor education and religious fanatism.

It's not racist to see that 2+2=4 and call a spade a spade.

[1] Ukraine is 15th place in the world in terms of medal count at the international math Olympiad, ahead of many richer countries like France, Italy, Sweden, Netherlands, Austria, and is home to manufacturers of planes and jet engines and other engineering marvels like the Antonov 225
Give up. Sign up for an ordinary email, buy the PS4, get on with important things.

There are too many screwed up websites in the world to get hung up on somebody elses.
I don't see how this works.

> The index of that position is a uniform random integer in a range from 1 to the size of the table. Use your favourite method to extract unbiased bits from that unbiased integer.

Why is that position unbiased and random? If I'm using a coin that produces heads every single time, then I'm always going to land on table position 0, so therefore the table index is biased.
If they are large companies, it is theoretically possible that the people assigned to interview you weren’t super invested and missed the whole thing.

At that point you basically have 3 layers of people (Hiring Manager, HR, Recruiter), that will do their best to make it sound like something other than:

Our interviewer didn’t show up to the interview because they were still in bed/too busy with other stuff/never informed they had to interview anyone

To have it happen 3 times in a row, with different companies, seems pretty improbable though.
Valid and delegated are different things. It didn't resolve to anything on the public internet, but it was a valid label and you could use it internally just fine. Just like .ITotallyMadeItUp is valid right now.
The Cloudflare API Gateway
You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. I live in Alabama where there is virtually NO CODE, and NO ENFORCEMENT, and there definitely aren't any God damned unions, either. My house foundation, light switches, and water delivery are perfectly fine, thanks. Matter of fact, I did the wiring and installed the well pump and a fair bit of plumbing myself. Didn't have to ask anyone's permission to do it, either.

Wow, imagine that radical concept--a society that functions well without government goons breathing down everyone's neck! Maybe we could even come up with a word to describe this amazing new idea. "Freedom" maybe? "Liberty"?

Enjoy your slavery, serf.
Conspiracy theorists must either ignore the internal inconsistency or have a highly convoluted way of rationalizing it. Unfortunately I don't think it's possible to reason with many of these people.
Completely agree with this, as much as these are "fun" they are very bad for accessibility.

In contrast with the increased understanding and use of the "alt"/descriptive text on twitter images its a shame to see the increase of these unicode characters on the platform.
Where is this company where the C-suite has the only people who Know The Business and everyone else is just a coding monkey?

Maybe at a tiny startup, but outside of that, I wouldn't expect to see it.
FTA: Instead of powering the search by attempting a direct one-to-one matching of keywords, a vector search engine attempts to match the input term to a vector, which is an array of features generated from objects in the catalog.
OK that's the shortest privately-owned domain I've ever seen. Jealous!
Well there was that explanation or one other I won't mention. So you have a relatively long name and you are still asking why someone would use their real name in an e-mail?

Because almost everyone else is, they should be able to too. It's not very difficult to understand really.
I was talking about Europe in general here.

And ... I would argue that living, working and thriving in London as software engineer with a salary north of 75k GBP is, in fact, a peak of one's career, hence my argument still stands..
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori on Way Home to UK
In the early days you’d just replace the font to get whatever interpretation you want. :)
That's the same moral panic there used to be about Photoshop.

It turned out that people don't believe tricked imaged without any context.
More that a display attached to the keyboard is horrible from an ergonomics perspective. Laptops turn humans into gremlins.
Please stop posting this on every comment you agree with, as you're not adding anything useful to the discussion, while also sending alerts to people for no good reason.

Click on the upvote button instead.
> Reading https://blog.cloudflare.com/ensuring-randomness-with-linuxs-..., I also don’t think that’s how Linux’ entropy pool works.

Where does the description in that article differ materially from what I described in the parenthetical remark?

(Of course, it does differ from what I described in the main text of the comment.)
That's wild. I get ghosted all the time by recruiters. They message me on LinkedIn, I reply, crickets.
Norm Macdonald knew all about it! Classic segment from The View [1].

"I thought it was a matter of record!"

[1]: https://youtu.be/Z3PP_SWHUQQ?t=93
Changing the clocks is basically a form of hibernation. It makes it OK for people to wake up later in winter by forcing everyone to do the same thing.

I guess any form of coordination is going to be more convenient for some parties than for others. The question is whether we really need to coordinate our entire days to such an extent. Many companies already practise a "core hours" schedule which allows individuals to be flexible about when they start work. This seems like the right approach.

I'm not looking forward to having to make normie appointments on Summer time during the winter, though. Making my way to the doctors at 5am in winter isn't going to be fun.
It's probably more common to have an alarm clock in a bedroom that you can just glance at. It's also a loud backup for early morning flights.
at the expense of search discoverability?
Yes.

Some while back, I found myself sitting next to an accomplished economics professor at a dinner event. Shortly after pleasantries, I said to him, “economic growth cannot continue indefinitely,” just to see where things would go. It was a lively and informative conversation. I was somewhat alarmed by the disconnect between economic theory and physical constraints—not for the first time, but here it was up-close and personal. Though my memory is not keen enough to recount our conversation verbatim, I thought I would at least try to capture the key points and convey the essence of the tennis match—with some entertainment value thrown in.

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist...
It was on the back of my mind, I remember hearing this :p
> Zelensky is a nazi,

He's not a Nazi, of course, him being of Jewish ancestry, but it did raise some questions for me when a Russian bomb (that killed about 20 civilians) did its thing in Kyiv very close to a boulevard named after Bandera. Bandera is of course a war criminal and a Nazi collaborator. That thing with a Kyiv boulevard being named after a war criminal and a Nazi collaborator you don't see in the MSM. The bombing took place here [1], you can see the Bandera-named avenue just close by.

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/place/50%C2%B029'19.1%22N+30%C2%...