skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many others have commented on possible biases here. That's true, but I also find this a really interesting observation based on a huge dataset. Once you can correlate it to actual job performance - performance reviews, whether you were fired or not, maybe even salary -, it might be one of the best ways to see if technical interviews actually measure anything significant.
$1500 in 2006 is equivalent to about $2100 today, so go ahead and buy that 14" MacBook Pro!
Then what are you talking about? Nothing was moved…
>No way to see what was done last week or changes made to the chart / table output from one person to another besides new versions of the same excel file (but still no way to see the logs)

Why are multiple columns/pages with the various stages of the data insufficient?
Not your wallet - not your fiat.
At runtime maybe (although that's also not 100% true) - but I've seen a big project go from being compiled in 10 minutes in our ci, to hours due to the introduction of large features heavily relying on templates. The fix was installing a k8s cluster to run the Jenkins build jobs distributed on bare metal nodes, this wasn't exactly zero-cost.
Egypt is mostly desert, the only arable land is on the banks of the Nile.
Space Organizations Unite to Support Approval of Starship Test Flights
It's more like: It is lost knowledge that these kind of gradients look garish and went out of fashion when we figured out how to make more subtle gradients. This is basically "programmer art". I think the lost knowledge is also for example how to make the corners less harsh, and how to add a certain physicality to the buttons.
CONCLUSIONS:

Among adults with a high baseline prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency, implementation of a test-and-treat approach to vitamin D replacement did not reduce risk of all-cause ARI or Covid-19.
I bet a MacBook with a Vantablack or similar exterior would be pretty darn cool.
Except the examples they give of absurdly high weighting are from the case I mentioned.

It being a factor is not unreasonable, there are lots of risk factors for diseases and race is often one of them, clearly for COVID-19 age is an extremely important one. Plenty of diseases are much more common for certain races—it's imperfect as all indicators are, but that's hardly a new or unique problem.
Check out https://quarto.org/

It's made by the team behind rmarkdown and is easily one of the best ways to make reporting easier.
It's great at keeping both programmers 100% focused on the work, instead of on commenting on HN.

But it does quickly lead to exhaustion.
this is laughable to me. Dropbox is so bad on all accounts. it's my least favourite cloud storage product
totally agree!

Atlassian made some comments like "Australian universities aren't teaching devs what we need them to know" a few years back. It triggered some discussion, but not nearly enough along the lines of "well maybe you should train people in what you need them to know then?"

As an industry, we're utterly crap at employing juniors, or training our staff. We expect everyone to have X years of experience and then get surprised when devs make technology choices based on what's good for their resume, not what's good for the business.

there's a full rant I have for whenever this subject comes up ;)
The logic being "They work at Google/Dropbox/etc... therefore they are the best performers" really irks me.
>(b) not a logical extension of collective ownership but rather that you want a traditional capitalist bank except where you are the owner instead of someone else.

Collectivism taken to the most localized extreme is individualism. This is a collective of one.

>(a) not really a bank in the sense that we mean when we talk about banks, or

You can ask these questions about any bank; the mere fact this bank is owned by the sole depositor doesn't change what a bank is.

>I'd want multiple owners for central limit theorem reasons. How would you work around extreme variability in demands if you are the sole owner?

The sole depositor is also the sole owner. It's a collective ownership of depositing customers, not those who owe the bank money.

But in the end I'm just exemplifying what the logic extreme of your suggestion ends in, which actually happens to be a system I approve of. You keep treasury notes in your wallet, lend them if you like, and pull them out whenever you'd like to 'withdraw' them from your demand account. There's no fancy rubber stamp or business license to back it up, but it meets the definition of a bank (which is roughly an institution that accepts demand deposits and possibly loans them out).
This is super interesting! Worth noting that another possible title is "... where the best performers were trying to leave during the study timeframe".

Really interesting to see dropbox so high - would be curious to see some other data to corroborate that they (at least used to) employ the best engineers.

From my time interviewing, I've seen clusters of very good candidates often be more reflective of which top companies were having a hard time, internally or externally. There was a while where my company hired a lot of people from Uber; right now we're getting Amazon and Facebook/Meta.
I was expecting something more than a shrug.
Are you talking about this? https://www.airbase.com/ The website does a great job at making me avoid it
A quite absurd change. That marker is supposed to be for an official record of a person's sex, not for pretending that they don't have one.

We're rather more sensible about this in the UK, with the Supreme Court recently rejecting an appeal to force the Home Office to issue such passports: https://sex-matters.org/posts/updates/x-passports-appeal-dis...
It's interesting that Google was not higher for communication. Aren't they known as the big tech company with the "writing culture"? I guess 'communication' means something different here.
Not quite. It's a motivational text for Moldable Development (https://moldabledevelopment.com). This is a way of programming through which programmers construct custom experiences for every single development problem. This is a significant departure from the typical development flow today, and Glamorous Toolkit is merely the arena in which to explore what is possible when thinking like this.
Excel includes Power Query which is a decent ETL pipeline tool.
Bitcoin being used as an extralegal way to acquire anything isn’t an irony necessarily, just a part of functioning money.
It seems like this isn't all that useful for JavaScript or other dynamic languages where what you really want is NaN-boxing? But I think I read somewhere that there are special instructions for this.
I think both you and the parent are both probably correct (from a US perspective) to varying degrees. There is less trust in institutions because information is more quickly and widely disseminated. Thus we more often see through attempts at dissembling and manipulation by large institutions (e.g. government, universities, corporations, etc.) that would have been quietly covered up in an earlier age.

Simultaneously, some of our institutions are becoming increasingly invested in identity-based politics and more prone to intolerance and silencing dissent which breeds another layer of distrust and resentment.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/canada-unlocks-vast-majo...

>“Just to be clear, a financial contribution either through a crowdsourced platform or directly, could result in their bank account being frozen?” Lawrence asked.

>“Yes,” Jacques answered.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/mp-mark-stra...
Can you explain? Are you talking about inline water heaters as the efficient ones?

I have only seen the tank style in the U.S. So it seems to fit, though I guess you are implying those will get replaced by something better.
They put out press releases and pitch decks boasting on how they were going to develop the best social network that the world had ever seen. They have investment slides citing their technical team, who supposedly came up with laughably vague "Infrastructure" slides:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1849635/000119312521...

And all this bluster just to outsource the re-skinning of an existing open source project. Vlad N listed as their CIO on slide 21 is Vladimir Novachki, CTO of Cosmic Development, a North Macedonian outsourcing firm. It would take about a week to recreate what they've done, costing about $5k max.

It's like saying you're going to make the #1 website builder then paying someone $5k to just re-skin WordPress. Given the promotional materials they've put out, it's beyond pathetic.
So, the best developers are always primadonna's now? Maybe the ones who grind leetcode all the time because they have something to prove are the primadonas, and you are somehow selecting for them.

For skills, balanced team makes sense. You put a 10x type person in a room full of 0.5x people then yeah they'll start complaining about the chair color because the job sucks and they would kill for the chance to get on a better team.
Wow. Just like in communism. You got to love the land of the free.
Frontotemporal Dementia: Not the Protein We Thought
What Is a Play-to-Earn Economy based on Blockchain and NFTs?
Improving forecasting by learning quantile functions
the process is incredibly inefficient and disrespectful. people have already paid for university degrees and getting a degree is no joke, certainly not at a european university. graduating without programming skills is impossible.

what companies should do is ask you to walk them through a piece of code of your choice and discuss that and/or hire you for a month as a contractor and pay you a fair market rate.
https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MM6F3AM/A/polishing-cloth
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it's the only time an Apple product cost more than the same configuration in another color. (Except for the Apple Watch, but they are made from different materials)

The Jet black glossy iPhone 7 wasn't available in the cheapest configuration, but it cost the same as the other colors at the configurations it was available in.

I think the black glossy iPhone was one of the most beautiful phones Apple has built. It was the closest they got to a truly seamless, monolithic phone. And it didn't have a stupid glass back that always breaks!
This claim isn't substantiated by the particulars: Bitcoin miners in these countries seem more than happy to cash their efforts out in USD, or in USD equivalents. Bitcoin itself remains speculative in nature, meaning that the amount of actual organic settlement via it remains relatively small.
The people taking advantage of the price difference, but also “the market” as a whole.
Do you mean Airtable?
If you use Windows as a daily driver, Voidtools' Everything should be in your top 10 first apps to install (or in your install script...). I have been using it for the better part of a decade, no issues, no resource consumption, just lightning fast searching for files of all drives on your system.
The API of Tensorflow and PyTorch is quite large. Even Tensorflow has a dialect specifically for TPU, so the notion of accelerator independence (especially when considering performance) has not been realized yet (though this is still a work in progress).

Anyway, how could you reuse your code wholesale when one of the most common operations is calling “.cuda()” on a tensor?
"The way I'd solve this problem would be to develop a new file format that was similar to Markdown but contained semantic elements (eg "this image is relevant to this bit of text", or "this text explains that text"."

It sounds like you're reinventing the Semantic Web:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web
The good news for you is if the target is to hire mediocre developers, you're likely to hit it.
Columbia also has the School of General Studies for non-traditional undergraduate students. Tuition is $58,440 an academic year, not including their estimated $26,010 cost of living, and they don’t offer much financial aid.
That's a much better analogy.

I just used an outrageously complex espresso machine to make myself some coffee. For most, that would be purely an inferior choice when compared to a drip machine. I think a lot of it depends on how much you want that last few %. I think a lot of people simply aren't interested in the investment required to get a little more out of their computers.

And as a computer guy, of course that makes no sense to me :)
Very nicely said.

There was a time when more households had am radios than electricity. A time when hams constructed their own rigs in a shack in the back yard - the ozone and noise from the spark gap and the stink of the battery acid was not tolerated in the house.

Many hams still construct their own equipment, especially for low power (QRP) operating [1].

I was captured by the same magic as you were. When you are in that dark, with only a kerosene lantern, to be able to listen to the all sounds carried through the ionosphere and bouncing off the Heaviside layer is a transformative experience.

Another thing you can listen to is the "dawn chorus"[0].

It's astonishing that, at any instant, there is a single voltage to be measured at the terminals of an antenna. Yet, through the magic of resonance, it is possible to separate all the manifold signals that have additively combined to produce that single, complicated waveform.

[0] https://naturalradiolab.com/natural-radio-signals/
[1] http://www.qrparci.org/
I guess running gitpods or code-server counts?

I'll admit to salivating over this way of working, all the grunt happening somewhere else but my keystrokes being low latency (since they're locally rendered and lazily synced by the web browser).

But anyone who says a chromebook is comparable to a macbook is smoking something.

I'm not even saying that as an Apple Lover, I use linux, but I'm aware of the limitations of the platforms.

IME most people use macs not because they think they're better than everyone else; but because the development experience is very "happy path" -- and the hardware build quality is high.
I wonder if people give folks high communication scores as a consolation prize. Like, “he didn’t do well on anything else but he can talk well”.

Anyway, interesting results. Let me do some Dropbox outreach and see how they are.
> indeed, the other is a proof of concept and will remain as is.

I've always said that a easy to deploy CMS is one of the missing pieces for the IndieWeb. Preferably it should work on any shared hosting. PHP/SQLite would be a good fit, but I understand if you have other preferences.
A while ago there was thread that argued (amongst other things) that you must be crazy if you make your product white. It said that white is always more expensive to produce because of more rejects along the whole production chain. It also argued that just because Apple could pull it off you couldn't.
I worked at the Apple Store when these were available. Anecdotally, a lot of people bought the black MacBook because of how it looked. Although I thought both colors were beautiful, the MacBook's screen wasn't ideal. It was highly glossy and had pretty poor viewing angle, especially compared to the MacBook Pro of the time (which was still available with a matte screen on certain models).

After using them for awhile, the palm rest on the black model would develop a nasty-looking sheen. The white one suffered from durability issues — the palm rest would chip in the place where the top case met the bottom case.

Those issues aside, I remember that time at the Apple Store with extreme fondness, especially the pre-iPhone days. We were slinging iMacs with Parallels and Windows XP to comfort the legions of switchers, all the while reassuring them that, yes, Macs had plenty of great software, even though its library paled in comparison to that of Windows. And, of course, iPods were the cash cow. Funny how things change.
Found your own company, be successful and start experiencing the same growth decline pattern.

Maybe it's a cycle to stop expanding human groups in excess?
> not enough people are going to make the choice you're posing to have any significant effect.

A billion flies can not be wrong...

I am not personally affected by what you choose to use. I could give two shits about it and go on with my day.

It's you who stands to gain or lose - along with all those that make a similar choice.

> That doesn't seem like "freedom".

You are also free to stuff yourself with sugar, drugs, play russian roulette, sleep around with any willing consenting adult.

But no, being free to do X does not mean that X is morally virtuous. And you don't get to say "spare me of your judgement" and you shouldn't be expecting any sympathy if you have to face any consequences when things blow up on your face.
Thank you, that'll be a good place to start. Cheers.
Man, 19, jailed for racially abusing Marcus Rashford on Twitter
Isn't this just a programming problem? Build an application that accepts the data, produces the result, and has a GUI for managing all exceptions? I've build many of these things.
> The war in Ukraine, amplified by the West's anemic and at best useless sanctions, have likely led to a famine which will effect millions of people.

I'm the _last_ person to defend the actions of states, but I don't see an obvious way the "West" - meaning the US/NATO/Europe - could have responded in a way that avoided this once it began.

> I'm sorry to be so cynical about this, but it has been like watching a slow motion, unending train wreck see the last year of foreign policy nightmares coming out of The United States.

Sigh. After regretfully defending the actions of states, I now find myself in the same position with regard to Trump. Trump's foreign policy - as odious as many people found it at the time - seems to have been quite effective at promoting international stability. I'll point out that it was in place for less than four years, so it's a fair criticism to say that this may have been at most a short-term condition, but... we didn't face the real possibility of global thermonuclear war during that time.

> Our foreign policy laziness/ineptitude has led to a situation where the leader of a nuclear armed, hostile superpower (Russia) has two choices: win his war against the west, or die.

I'll take issue here. Russia's actions - specifically, Putin's actions - have lead to this choice. Putin committed Russia to a war that was obviously going to be uniformly denounced by the international community. The invasion of Ukraine was poorly planned, poorly supplied, and had no reasonable victory condition. It was predicated upon the rapid collapse of the Ukrainian state. There was no fallback plan for how to handle things if it didn't crumble in a matter of hours or days.

I can consider the argument that our foreign policy set up the preconditions to allow Putin to be so completely reliant upon his own biased perspective, but I really don't think that holds water. If his perception of the Ukrainian state and people were so far removed from reality, who is to say that his perceptions of our foreign policy wouldn't be similarly warped?

> these absolutely idiotic sanctions we are imposing on Russia will lead to none of our stated foreign policy goals, and only suffering for the poor.

I disagree here.

The sanctions will lead to moving toward our FP goals and suffering of the poor.

We don't like to be so blunt about it, but the fact is that the very intent of sanctions are to cause people who are otherwise uninvolved to suffer. The idea is that those uninvolved people will then be incentivized to _become_ involved, disrupting the political and economic support of the target.

In other words... the purpose of these sanctions is to cause suffering among the Russian people, which in turn will make it more difficult for the Russian state to pursue military action. Given time, sanctions can even ignite revolution.

Finally: you're 100% correct to say that Putin has no good options at this point. "Win or die". Sanctions, long term, will ratchet that pressure up further and further until he is forced to make a choice. Forcing Putin to decide between losing and taking everything else down with him may not be in the best interests of the world...
Damn, you must have had some rough hires.

The very best people I've ever worked with don't fit any of those characteristics you've mentioned.

Although I will say if a developer of yours wants a different chair, get them a better chair. They aren't that expensive and they are durable. Sometimes the overhead of getting $1000 purchases approved adds up to almost the same as the purchase itself. Give your developers some leeway to order equipment, software, books, etc... without approval up to some reasonable limit. It won't cost the company that much and your people will be happier and feel trusted.
Oopsie. I totally took out the server. Should be back again later.
Maybe one of the side effects of this is that people only continue writing against PDF 1.7.
in the metaverse, you will have 3d tables, x,y and z axis, you would be able to twist and turn those 3d tables to get different views, join with other 3d tables
>..Many things that people stereotype as "typical" of African-American culture today were borrowed from poor Southern whites.

Like what, specifically in terms of music, religious practices, or foods.
> always thinking they can get paid more in their next job

Isn't that the definition of career progress? I don't think it applies to developers only.
The survey quality control questions are fascinating, I assume they are to stop MTurk bots...

>Quality Control Questions

>If I hvae trihty ehgit coayrns and I gvae aawy evelen how mnay coayrns wulod I hvae?

>Waht motnh cemos aetfr dcemebr but bferoe fberruay?

Link...https://osf.io/fksqj/?view_only=c8155ae67c7640189efcefeb6c8a...
Larger home with dedicated office areas? How many people are living in homes without computers? People already want homes that support using a computer, WFH status or no.
MT3333? Yea that's an improvement over the UART interface where it just sends out the data no matter if the other side is listening or sleeping. With the SPI interface you get an interrupt and can read the data at your own pace.

But I2C would do too if they would offer a proper register interface as opposed to always expecting you to parse those verbose NMEA messages.

Oh and only generating an interrupt if the fix is valid would be nice! But they just shoehorned the SPI interface onto it, exposing exactly the same data as they would over UART.
So if you have to wake up, parse the message and only then will you find out if you have a valid fix or can go back to sleep and try again.

Afaik they dropped the SPI mode in the newer chips though.
It's a dream of mine to own a Bookstore. Something similar to what's described in the article. Not a ton of books only books I know are good and interesting. Have the a store with a personal touch.

I just can't see how it's going to work financially. I don't plan to get rich from it but I sure would like it to sustain itself and be able to provide for my family. I guess if you already have a business that's bringing in the cash and you open the store as a hobby that makes things easier, this seems to be the case for the writer of that article.
I wonder about when you don’t need “the best”. Everyone needs solid role players too…

Nobody ever talks about getting good, but not “the best”.
The new MacBook Pros hark back to those late 00's ones in more ways than just the appearance. You can tell that Jobs' permanent drive for being ever thinner, lighter, and less adorned with ports is finally losing its grip on the pro end of the range. I bought a 14" Pro recently and its so nice to be back in a world where the MacBook Pro is designed to get work done - the keyboard works properly, its got HDMI out, MagSafe is back, and its got a screen proportioned for work rather than watching films.