skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a principal-ish software engineer, I'd be more than happy to do 7 effective interviews/meetings with a promising prospective employer.

Every career move is life-changing, and I want to get as good a sense as I can about the people, environment, and company.

I want to hear from different levels and facets of the company, get a feel for the team members or representative other boots-on-the-ground ICs (what they're like, what the environment is like, how they feel about the company), and also try to see their initial impressions of how I'd fit in.

What doesn't work for that is being on the receiving end of a barrage of "whiteboard this Stanford new-grad shibboleth 'so I can see how you think'".

The current Leetcode interview tells me only a little bit about the company -- and it's negative (but, relativism-wise, I don't fault people much for defaulting to currently popular ideas). But it doesn't tell me much more than that (unless the interviewer is also being rude as they go through the ritual, which would be another negative).

The Leetcode interview also isn't a very effective way for the company to get a sense of what I can do that a second-year CS student probably can't.
YES!!! What is that thing?! Haha
We should just have an HN bot that posts these comments if N<1000 or paper.includes(/rats|mice/) for people to upvote.
University of Washington, and University of Pennsylvania.

But I think the more interesting question is which field of study has done the most damage to credibility of academia?
This is just blatantly untrue. Some piss-poor unemployed KKK member yelling racial slurs at the TV during the 2012 election is still a racist, despite having infinitesmal power - especially institutional power! - compared to the person he is being racist towards. I doubt there's a single person who would doubt that. Would you?
Wow! Thanks for the tips! Will look into adding those during the next review.

Using docker.io/baserow/baserow:1.9.1 currently.

For now the image is marked as "experimental". And I'm looking into channeling future issue reports from apps in a more structured way and maybe keep app settings on Github for editing and reporting issues against. Without duplicating upstream efforts of course. Still lots of work to do here.
Honestly, I believe (at least for my brain), the path is a strong DMT experience, followed up with a regular microdosing regimen (two to three times a week, sub-threshold dosing). I can say that one time, I quartered a tab of acid and took the quarters over four consecutive days, and each experience "felt" the same in terms of intensity (which was very little) and focus control.

As far as I know, LSD and psilocybin both have a roughly two week tolerance curve.
There's no sense in getting madder at him each time you think about it. You might want to try to find a way to forgive him or at least let go of some of your own anger at his choices. It really can eat you from the inside.

Kudos to you for looking out for your mother. I'm the sole person who can look after my own and I only hope I have the strength to support her when the time comes.

It sounds like both of you could benefit from grief counseling, even this long after the fact.
To me "I refuse to adapt or change" is one of the most undesirable traits for an employer when some type of innovation needs to be accomplished then deployed.
The author of this article has misunderstood the piece it's responding to, and doesn't appear to be familiar with the literature. For instance, this response is dubious about the security implications of primality testing bugs, claiming that Prime & Prejudice --- famously relevant to RSA --- had no apparent connection to it (presumably they read the abstract and not the study itself, which repeatedly mentions RSA). It just goes on like this.

This is part of a pattern with this author. They're extremely attached to PGP. PGP uses RSA. Therefore: RSA must be fine. Recurrence of the same pattern: PGP doesn't use authenticated encryption. Therefore, authenticated encryption must not be important, or maybe it's even a negative. There's another example somewhere in the comments here about forward secrecy being overrated. (I can cite, but you should just take my word for it that these takes have been shared here).

It's frustrating, because the pattern isn't super clear in isolation (though this response actually mentions PGP as the impetus for the response) and, if you don't work in the field, it might not be clear how far these takes stray from cryptographic engineering orthodoxy. It's also frustrating because in general, we're not supposed to write things like this on HN --- a list of floridly bad previous comments from this author would be way over the line --- so one has to sort of tiptoe around the edges of the guidelines to find a way to describe what's going on here.

Anyways, caveat lector.

Hats off for describing Boneh's fault attack paper as "completely theoretical", though! Bold!
you should always be learning. and excited when you are. do you know everything?
Courage of convictions is an ideal to impose on yourself. You don't get to impose it on anybody else. You don't know enough about anybody's situation except your own.
You're incorrect about that. Americans earn far more. US median disposable income is far higher than the OECD or EU medians in fact.

It's so high you have to use countries like Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark as peer comparison points for median disposable income.

And the US full-time median income is even higher than the absolute median.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_c...
Cost externalization is the entire basis of businesses/corporations these days it seems.

Maybe it was always that way though
The ingenuity of computer hackers is literally on another plane of existence some times. It's these kind of ideas which make me proud to do computer science
Live ammo at crowd is something else. Don’t you think?
Rust does not reject shared mutability. Rather, it is explicitly reified via the Cell<>, RefCell<>, etc. patterns. Even unsafe shared mutability ala idiomatic C++ is just an UnsafeCell<> away.
I think it's called "changeset" at Google, or at least was, and "PR" is becoming pretty common everywhere because of GitHub. But "diff" seems to be gaining some ground as a general term in the monorepo/unified-build/trunk-only world. Uber uses/used Phabricator and I think there are some other high-profile shops as well.

I don't know that there's like one leading term, but I think everyone knows what "diff" means both literally and as a connotation that it's a rebase rather than merge workflow.
due to the total compensation

Yes..it's why people do jobs.
He did say a word since the invasion started:

"I'm not suspended from the ceiling above a barrel of acid by a rope that burns a little faster every time I tweet, you concern-trolling ghouls. I've just lost any confidence I had that sharing my thinking on this particular topic continues to be useful, because I called it wrong."

By "called it wrong", he means this, from February 11:

"So... if nobody shows up for the invasion Biden scheduled for tomorrow morning at 3AM, I'm not saying your journalistic credibility was instrumentalized as part of one of those disinformation campaigns you like to write about, but you should at least consider the possibility."
This is my blog post. I'm happy to answer any questions folks might have.

I've actually revised the code a fair bit since this post. There were some bugs where it was missing some repos. Retrieving all the right data via the GitHub GraphQL API is tricky to get right.
There is a very clear difference between "junk" DNA and "non-junk" DNA, the latter encodes proteins. That doesn't mean that the DNA parts that don't encode proteins are junk, this is more of an exaggeration or misunderstanding that is often repeated, but not what scientists thought.

There are clearly parts of DNA that are not essential, this is clear if you compare genome sizes between different organism. They can vary enormously, and not in a way correlated with any complexity of the organism. There are also parts of DNA that are remnants of viruses inserting many copies of their DNA, which are the parts that could be considered junk. Even those might have an effect simply due to their presence, but essentially everything in the cell has some effects if you look closely enough.
Archived: https://archive.ph/ZTURO
I wonder what the most powerful server you could create given reliable solar power like in the Bay Area.
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How much do things really cost?
A similar percentage or higher, given the climate at the time.
ZStd really seems like it should be the standard compression algorithm going forward from 2020.
>Second: Is it really fair to have just one or two developers evaluate you? When I first was an interviewer, I liked everybody! I would have hired them all. So getting multiple data points matters. Best to have at least a couple dev interviews.

Except FAANG interviews require excellence on almost all of the interviews, so the extra people only represent further opportunities to be denied.
Seriously, has the bar sunk this low? I was certain the authors would express caution in interpreting causality, but alas: "Our results suggest that some sexually transmitted parasites, such as T. gondii, may produce changes in the appearance and behavior of the human host".
If I could get a job in a week instead of 3 months of interviews? Yeah I'd be fine with that.
Went to high school in an affluent suburb in the 90s in the US. “Playing computer games with friends” was either on one computer or involved dragging a computer over to a friend’s house and wiring it together with their desktop. Parent’s experience rings true to me.
> I'd rather spend time in an airport than in a train station and Paris subway with all my luggage.

But once the plane lands you then need to get on a train or brave a taxi.
Having tried the taxi, that’s out.
That is a good question I believe, it exposes how embedded knowledge software engineers actually have and that wouldn't be something to measure very quick. Every interviewer is likely just trying to confirm if engineer is who he/she claims to be during the application.
Freedom is the freedom to say two and two make four.
A guy can be drunk and autistic while at the same time being 100% correct.

Just because you’re an expert in crazy people and you see them everywhere doesn’t mean this particular one is wrong.

And honestly, if you were a senator and had inside information that convinced you the pandemic was deliberate and funded by the US government, I would hope you’d act a little unhinged, too.
This seems like the right decision (and I'm saying this as an LGBT person). The problem is, it just doesn't seem like legislation is the right instrument for promoting diversity in boardrooms. But what is the right mechanism? I anecdotally recall studies that found organizations with greater diversity deliver better financial results, and that public companies have a responsibility to their shareholders. It's important to state this because businesses exist primarily to create profits, not promote social movements. There's a legitimate business justification to diversity policies.

I empathize with those in diversity roles that are tasked with finding the informal-but-not-legally-enforcable means by which to increase diversity. How are you reasonably going to achieve that? It's a hard problem to solve. It seems like something driven by society at large. I'm not sure if you can hire a person to solve this problem, honestly.
The real obstacle I see for these kind of projects is exposing them to the Internet. Standard wifi routers are horrible even with UPNP… The promise of having a globally reachable IPv6 address is also destroyed by the complexity/inability to have the wifi router forward something like port 80 traffic.
Curve25519 is significantly harder to mess up than RSA. You can go either way on the NIST curves vs. RSA, but at an architectural level there's simply less that goes around with the model of ECC than with RSA, which directly exposes an easy-to-use (and treacherously easy to fuck up) encryption transform. I wouldn't implement with the NIST curves at all, but if you asked me to pick between them and RSA, I'd still take P-256 over RSA.
That was acknowledged and accounted for in the original article. But given that we have curves that we believe are safe, I’m not sure this is an issue, at least any more so than relying on known-good ranges for parameters in any cryptosystem…
But why not get MORE power via generation resources sited with an eye towards better logistical availability? Rather than trying to force the use of canals that will have no logical role in power generation in a future where said canals will likely be empty.
5 to 7 interviews? Hold my canonical beer : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30735678
Has anyone tried this? I wouldn’t mind trying this with a higher level language
In addition to what other commenters have said I would imagine Snowden is keeping a particularly low profile since he represents a significant bargaining chip for Russia with the USA. The more fraught that relationship is the more likely one or both sides will reach for all the bargaining chips they have.

It's really outrageous to me that one of the few things the Democrats and Republicans can agree on is the unjust vilification of Edward Snowden. Someone who gave up an amazing life to protect and defend the American people against illegal surveillance by their own government. It should be just about as clear a hero's story as you get and yet here we are.
The term "junk DNA" was coined very early in our understanding of DNA. Even when we had no idea what it was for, very few respectable geneticists actually believed it was "junk" - basic evolutionary theory argues pretty strongly against it. But the name has stuck around for far longer than it deserves to.
Air travel is often directly subsidised too. Airline bailouts happen, and the the use of land, pollution of the air and the noise they cause are not paid for in full.
Why more monoculture? The Linux driver situation is already bad enough, but it is even more terrible that it's practically the ONLY operating system which has some hardware support.
Well, they might if a physicist gets involved and starts complaining that no one has defined their point of reference.
"Although the United States has many wars of aggression on its conscience, it doesn’t justify Mr. Putin’s aggression in Ukraine. A dozen wrongs don’t make a right. Russia was wrong to invade."

- Oliver Stone
Object Pascal, Modula-2, Active Oberon.

Just for starters.
These are beautiful words to remember him by.
Bit of a tangent -- I am not sure about how our brains deal with ambiguity vs sharp boundaries, but we can see a neural network change its tune quite a bit by adjusting this single number (i.e. the temperature parameter of Softmax function).

This trick has been used for knowledge distillation (KD) as well. Hinton et. al. wrote this quite approachable paper on the topic: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1503.02531.pdf

Turns out, one _needs_ nuance when one is trying to do KD. I am not sure if nuance and ambiguity as you describe are the same thing. But, even though it does not _feel_ like it, good generalizations over the lifetime of an organism might require dealing with nuance appropriately.

A subject matter expert might have more to say about this. I cannot imagine that this hasn't been researched in humans.
Nice profile!

I agree that it'd be nice to be able to add some more metadata to repos. Here's a relatively ridiculous idea ... You could simply add a `REPO_META.JSON` file to some or all of your repos then a profile generator could just grab all of those. But keeping those up to date would become its own chore soon enough.

With my profile generator I tried to pick the most relevant to highlight by filtering out forks and then showing things with recent commits. Those are the most likely to be something I want people to see, as opposed to repos with experiments I last committed to 10 years ago.
You are not alone. It's annoying. I chose default and minimized the selection try, but now the stupid icon is on the right-hand side covering their site's actual content. It's inane.
Here’s the source code:

https://github.com/OpenConstructor/OpenConstructor
> Do the parasites make their hosts more attractive so they are more likely to be passed on, or do more attractive people have more sex that gives them opportunities to be infected?

T. Gondii reproduces in felines, and is transmitted initially through their feces to other hosts. Humans catch it most often through infected food (meat, vegetables) or liquids (water, milk). Humans cannot transmit T. Gondii to other humans, unless pregnancies, organ transplants or cannibalism are involved.

So, regardless of how attractive an host is, he won't have more or less opportunities to be infected with T. Gondii than anyone else. This is not a STD.

Unless there is some sort of correlation between attractiveness and eating poorly corked meat.
I believe a major objective has been to destabilise the EU. The initial reaction at least looks to have been the opposite.
If it's taking months, then they're doing it badly. Our hiring process is five rounds but it never takes more than a couple weeks, including the negotiation phase. Our data shows that we need something like 14 resumes to get one candidate worth interviewing. Of those, it takes 4-6 candidates for one hire. Hiring and firing fast means we also have to invest in onboarding, training and allowing people to settle in. During that time, we've filled the current position and we're no longer interviewing candidates. Once someone is fired, we have to go through the whole mess again. That would be the most wasteful model for everyone involved. By my math, that's a minimum of two months of time on a single person (I think six weeks to fully productive is reasonable) just to go back to searching again. And that's just the US and ignores the two week notice (or more) for each candidate.

I hire in APAC too. Indian engineers are giving 60-90 day notices now and that's contractual. Two candidates, using your model, could easily take up a year. (Hiring in APAC take a long time already.)

I can only assume you've had some bad experiences lately but your personal bias has created a really bad mental model for you that would be a net negative for everyone.
In fact, I am skeptical of AI and ML in general for its effectiveness, purpose, and applications.

Agreed. It's all about the application and purpose (and the hubris of some of its practitioners), not the theory (or even the demonstrated effectiveness in certain areas).

When we see these disconnects at "work", on the ground -- in terms of lack of relevance / applicability to what the business actually needs -- they are sometimes quite startling, in fact.
do you have doubts those people are skilled?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Fitzpatrick
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21727925
> It’s dumb that some random library I once submitted a fix to (via a PR) will sit around.

For these at least GitHub will tell you that the repo is a fork in the data available from their APIs.
It also selects for people who will put up with anything, which to a cynical manager might sound like a good employee, except that our job is to replace labor with machines.

People who put up with anything are expensive. They keep billing you hours for tasks that could have been reduced to minutes by someone with a lower tolerance for BS.
> Easy to call for being courageous when your not the one facing life in prison.

The ease with which one points out the courage of another’s convictions is distinct from the courage of the subject of attention.
IMO the right mechanism is for people of [insert desired demographic] to start companies and make them successful.
Changed Europe? Changed the UK and very little else...

I mean, it's a cool bit of engineering and it took ages to build. But for most people in Europe means nothing.

> "It put international rail travel back in the game"

Yeah, for England. Again, for the rest of Europe, rail travel was always there.
> Eurostar and (the rest of) the French high speed network really compensate some simple geography.

Wouldn't German travelers also take advantage of French high speed trains when travelling to Spain?
How do you explain the fact that penguins, turkeys, and loons do not have penises even though they all fit your requirements for birds that should have them?
Sure, this is called being a kid. Zero responsibilities, also zero impact on the world. Having a family isn't about gaining status, obviously. What I hear is that this man's wife and children are the only thing keeping him afloat.
> Many services exist now that are because of the revelations

That's the narrative but doesn't really hold up to scrutiny.

> Signal

Moxie's original encrypted messaging apps date back to 2010 and Open Whisper was officially started in Jan 2013.

> Matrix

Came out of an effort to build a unified communications suite for corporations.

> Cryptomator

Never heard of it. More widely used solutions like Attic/Borg have been around since 2010.

> self-hosted Nextcloud

Nextcloud was forked from OwnCloud which was started in 2010.

> AD-blockers like uBlock Origin

Ad Block Plus has been around since 2005. uBlock Origin solves the same problem but does it better. Claiming this had anything to do with Snowden is a very tenuous argument.
Breaking them up won't reduce the new videos total, or increase the number of humans on earth. So Breaking them up doesn't help.

I think a 'bond' system where you put up money to get human appeal, and get half back if the appeal is successful. Maybe with increasing bond as you lose more appeals. Is a much better system.
> I'm not confident that the Faraday cage would be sufficient.

Faraday cages are not intended for that purpose.

Magnetic shielding is a well understood concept. What you need is some thickness of ferrous metals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_shielding#Magn...

https://web.archive.org/web/20070327130322/https://advancema...

https://interferencetechnology.com/magnetic-shielding-basics...

It's easy to test the efficacy of magnetic shielding yourself if you have a large, powerful magnet and a CRT monitor handy.
There are Chrome extensions to remove the ones you don't want so not sure why I'd pay a premium to remove them. w3schools is the first result when I search for "php loop" so Kagi seems to be full of the same spam you are trying to escape:

https://kagi.com/search?q=php+loop
See, what you describe is retail corruption. Small potatoes.

As I said, Russia would like to be as corrupt as the US, but is not powerful enough to be. They had to invade two neighboring countries, and more than once, to get paid any attention.
> It's important to state this because businesses exist primarily to create profits, not promote social movements.

Those at the top will often prioritize their feelings over profit potential. Corporations are not true profit maximizers, that's a total myth. It's one of the reasons why WFH wasn't more popular earlier, and why some companies are trying to force back-to-office to the point it causes some of their employees to quit.
The chance to successfully start a new company depends on the succes your parents and others in your demographic had.

It's not that simple.
If Edward Snowden hasn’t illustrated enough conviction to meet your standards, I am aching to learn who has.

He sacrificed his entire livelihood for his fellow Americans, yet whose most honorable efforts have still had no measurable political impact despite being the most important media story in the past decade, opting against sacrificing the fleeting bits of life he has left to call his own in the name of yet another unrelated cause.

Realize you aren’t criticizing a questionable action of his. You’re just brazenly insisting that he do more to impress you. Where is the logic here?