skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the past, I might have said to her, “Dying is natural; it’s part of the human experience,” but without this experience, it would not have landed well. She had to feel this in her whole person, not just as an intellectual or philosophical exercise.

This seems to be a big part of the magic of psychedelics. So many mental issues are cognitive. It’s not always happening at the chemical level. Why would it be in a person who has a healthy brain, but their depression came on with their terminal cancer diagnosis?

The problem is cognition is really hard to change. Especially in adults and especially when things are going badly. The overall effectiveness of talk therapy is not great.

Psychedelics break down our normal barriers so we can truly know the things other people have been telling us and we’ve been telling ourselves. (Or they put us in contact with spirits that gift wisdom. Six of one, half a dozen of another). I talked with someone with OCD who finished a trip thinking “just because my hand touches my phone doesn’t mean it’s dirty”. A simple statement, but he had contact OCD and this had been a huge problem. Something about the message “coming from inside the house” made it work.

One thing I almost never see mentioned in these articles about terminal patients with psychedelics is the concept of the afterlife. Mushrooms are so Earthy, it’s like they tell you that heaven is returning to the soil. Other psychs (DMT, ayahuasca) can give you a picture of where your spirit goes after it splits from your body.

Aside from whether these spiritual beliefs are right they’re certainly less depressing than what the average American is walking around with. There’s “sleep and never wake up”. There’s “heaven, maybe, I think. But lots of people going to hell I guess”, and then, probably the most common case: “who the fuck knows?”. A bit anxiety inducing, really.
What does it have to do with Zelda games?

You keep saying I'm offended like it's some sort of magical word to dismiss what I'm telling you. You keep making assumptions and accusations about me and an entire fandom, for what reasons? Because we like a game you don't?

Grow up.
On another thread an HN comment complained that Win32 was becoming standard API for games instead of Linux native, thanks to Wine.

The reply kind of opened my eyes. If Wine/ReactOS do continue the trend of becoming better more stable platform than Windows itself, thanks to Microsoft hell bent on destroying their reputation, eventually, Wine/ReactOS can even Embrace-Extend-Extinguish Windows itself.

A man can dream..
Just because every program in C is also expressable in Haskell does not mean that C is Haskell or that C is a functional programming language.

The same is true of CPUs, which at their base level execute instructions line-by-line to move and load things in and out of stateful registers as well as doing simple mathematics.

Not going to keep arguing, as I can see from your other comments that you are going to try to hold this line, and also your reasoning doesn't really make sense.

Everyone has heard of Turing completeness. It does not imply that all distinctions between the semantics of languages and the structure of hardware thus are collapsed. It means that you can write an equivalent program using different semantics or different hardware.
Newline Guide on Creating React Libraries from Scratch
To be fair, they address exactly that point in the first few sentences.
It sure caused a lot of trouble. I like my video games without politics mixed in it.
How are there enough people on earth to create all that uploaded content? Even cutting out and uploading a quick clip from a show or something takes time.
Asking what the full interview process is at first contact can be telling of the culture and can be used to screen companies as much as looking at tech stack, company size/details, comp, etc.

That many interviews for a PM is ridiculous.
Managers should be honing the hiring process. If your team is clear about what they're looking for and thoughtful about how to get at it, you should be able to figure out if a candidate is a good team and technical fit in a couple of hours.
That's been my experience for 10 years. (Before that, I didn't even know Vim could have color schemes)

These things look beautiful on the web page. But dang it's so hard to get your terminal, Tmux and Vim/NeoVim to display properly. I've literally used Distinguished as my color scheme for 10 years just because I got it working, it looks nice and I really don't want to fight with configs.

I'm still not interested in using VSCode as my daily driver though. I tried it for about 6 months solid. It wasn't for me.
I was going to say this.

To add more: a single person (HM) might have biases for or against certain candidates. More people in the loop brings in diversity and helps to keep interviewers honest and consistent.

Also these roles are usually high stakes and the cost of a bad hire is too high.
Yeah, I had the same Jikes feel when I thought I would try work for a company for once for a bit than start my own; they said ‘we normally conduct 7 interviews over a 3 week period’. So that was it for my experiment working somewhere for now.
From the Science article:

"However, limitations of BAC cloning led to an underrepresentation of repetitive sequences, and the opportunistic assembly of BACs derived from multiple individuals resulted in a mosaic of haplotypes. As a result, several GRC assembly gaps are unsolvable because of incompatible structural polymorphisms on their flanks, and many other repetitive and polymorphic regions were left unfinished or incorrectly assembled (5)."

Looks like there were "gaps" in the sequence due to technical limitations associated with the original sequencing methods and the authors have filled in those gaps. I haven't read the full paper, though.
SMTP user enumeration for fun and profit
You just have leetcode their next product idea.

They'll rent some office space, put you in a room for 2 hours on a computer with no internet, and see how well you can grind through their problems.

Your score will arrive via the Blockchain to save on physical trees and allow for ready verification by future employers.
It feels weird to me to call optical media disks instead of discs.
Best of luck. I have no idea how to get hired. I jumped shipped from my last employer in May of 2020 thinking I'd take a 2 month break and then start interviewing. Over 18 months I submitted over 80 applications, and got interviews at 40-50 different companies. Total phone and video interviews ended up being over 110 before I basically gave up. I was trying to transition from a full stack dev mostly with perl backends into a full stack django dev. But I don't think the fact that most of my experience being in perl was the issue, as in some cases my past experience was not talked about much or not mentioned at all. Plus I've re-written my resume and linkedin to mostly only mentioned python and django projects that I've worked on.

The interviews were all the same mostly. Do a take home project or do leetcode problems while the interviewer stares at you. Sometimes I did bad, sometimes I did alright, and other times I did great. It didn't seem to matter. The funny thing is as I got more desperate, I started applying to crappier companies and more junior positions for lower pay. As I went down the ladder, the interviews got even more complicated and challenging!

A couple of years ago I got interested in HVAC technology after having my HVAC unit replaced and researching options. As I'd mostly depleted my savings, I started debating on jumping ship to be an HVAC tech. I could cram for an EPA certification test over a couple of weeks and get a refrigeration cert and then be nearly guaranteed a position at a couple of local HVAC shops for $15 an hour. The only reason I haven't done that (yet) is like you said because of my kids. My life story would be I went to tech school out of high school and was an avionics tech for 3 years, followed by 5 years to get through university, followed by 10 years of software developer experience and then 2 years of no work followed by becoming an HVAC tech working with high school drop outs as co-workers. There would be no telling my kids to get an education when this (forced) path I'm on shows how worthless it is. I've never felt so lost and useless in my entire life.

The other reason for not jumping ship (yet) is that I feel so qualified on django/python stacks. You could drop me into any dumpster fire of a django project and I'd be fine. It is extremely insane that the only people getting hired in that space are people with under 2 years of experience or people with over 10 years of django only experience. There is absolutely no middle ground (which is where I fall in).

I'm now debating jumping on a difference language with a smaller community (similar to how perl used to be) like golang or elixir. But there is no guarantee there but I feel like hiring in that space would more likely respect past experience or at least know that if you graduated college and have years of experience that you would be able to "mostly learn anything" and be reliable. Dunno...
1. Often, legally, firing people is harder than hiring.

2. Hire more, fire fast sounds good on paper but will destroy morale as the team identity will be constantly influx.

3. Engineers will spend less time onboarding newer engineers to the detriment of everyone because well, they might not just last.
In 2012 a Google recruiter told me the got 1 million applications a year. I'm guessing that number is higher in 2022 and it's similar for other similar companies. You can't give 1 million applicants 5-30 hours of contract work. You still need some process to select a few of them. What would that process be?
To be charitable, it may well have been a waste of time simply because of how terrible the rest of the bank security is.

I've had close to 100% success social engineering confidential information out of financial services companies and other service providers about myself using only information that would be available to a scammer.

So, if a scammer knowing your name and address could call your bank and talk them into giving out your DOB, then going through the effort of calling them back before giving it to them really would have been a waste of time.
Hire fast and fire requires even more effort and commitment from a candidate, I’m not sure how that would be an improvement. Firing fast would be like 3 months of interviews!

I’d also like to add that having multiple interviewers, if they have diverse backgrounds, is more likely to be equitable than a single interviewer.
"Hire more, fire fast" does not sound like a company I'd want to work for.
Presidents get tens of millions in "speaking fees" and millions in donations to their foundations.
yes, skylights are 'windows in the roof'. They often have a matte/white finish to diffuse the light.
> I would hire you to do 30 hours of contract work where we pair program on real life things.

You say this as if most (or any) candidates could do this.

If you currently have a job, then you almost certainly won't have time for this, unless you're single with no hobbies. If you do have time, you may not be allowed to moonlight under your current employment contract.

And if you don't have a job, you _still_ may not have the time or desire to do this!

I'm currently jobless (by choice - I wanted a break) and I started interviewing a few weeks ago. It's exhausting! Even if I could squeeze in 30 hours of work over a couple of weeks, I wouldn't want to. I had 11.5 hours of interviews this past week, and now you want me to spend another 10-15 hours pair programming with you? Absolutely not.

If you spread those hours out over many weeks (6 weeks at 5 hours per week) the candidate will be done with the process everywhere else much sooner and they'll just accept an offer before this process finishes.

If you want a trial period, make an offer and have a 3-month probation period during which you will give the new hire regular feedback (at least once a month but more often is better). Doesn't every company do this already, at least implicitly?
If the hiring process is faster, then the time wasted bringing in the wrong person is decreased significantly.
The problem with this approach is that any real task requires a lot of internal knowledge (functional and technical) of the system which an outside candidate will not have. The pairing employee will have lots of it though and it is likely the candidate will appear inadequate even if the employee is aware of the internal knowledge difference. It is not straightforward to be productive on an alien code base from the get go.
Not directly, but look at the last sentence.

> are solution must always seem to involve paying for more things (this cases houses)
Russia asked NASA to end sanctions to save the ISS, but the West didn’t blink
If you understand the war as one facet of a broader struggle for economic dominance, and a prolonged conflict as something desired by both sides, the question doesn't really make sense.

I think a better question is: what if this conflict - and the accompanying energy and food shortages - are here to stay for the foreseeable future.
Ugh, I couldn't get through half of this article without throwing up in my mouth a little.

Look, I'm a huge fan and believer in the benefits of entrepreneurship, but can we stop pretending like more than a small fraction of these "solopreneurs" (I hate that word, I guess if it's French it sounds cooler than "self employed") will be making more than an Uber driver?

We are moving much more towards a "Hollywood" style economy, where a few superstars gobble up the majority of income and capital, while everyone else working at Starbucks dreams they'll "make it big" one day before half of them end up in porn. What is, and has been, disappearing is a broad-based, stable economic system that benefits the masses.

I don't mean to be so negative, but these ridiculous "rah rah" articles that obfuscate the true nature of what is going on infuriate me.
Sure, and then this test will closely correlate with IQ, strongly select for you-know-who, and we’ll be right back where we started.
That last sentence leaves me on edge; sounds like "hold my beer". Strike that last sentence; new paragraph:

At the point where people have done enough iterations of this that they're realizing they can't scale out of the tech debt, the two most common hair on fire questions seem to be:

* What the hell is going on? (pipeline visibility)

* How did we get here? (typical code versioning is inadequate)
I absolutely did have faith in my religion, despite the fact that it can be (and had been) thoroughly disproven. Mostly because I simply wasn't aware of that fact.

The LDS (Mormon) church, like most religious groups, put a lot of effort into insulating itself from criticism. It presented me a narrative about itself that is contradicted by historical record, most of which is published, albeit less energetically, by that very same church.
I've been saying this for ages, but as consolidation and increasing commercial rent continnues to erode local businesses, the "mom-n-pop shop" concept is growing online.

People are selling custom wares on Etsy/Shopify, running a Youtube/Twitch channel, becoming Amazon FBA vendors, etc. A big difference is that both expenses and revenue are lower, and people are usually dependent on one or multiple big corpo platforms for customer discovery and continued success.
> yes, by firing live ammo at the crowd, which in itself is nothing strange

Right.
It's not so much effort or commitment if the team is fully remote.
> Many of those powerful people work in the government

don't know about the US, but AFAIU many of the people who want free hands try to put some of their people in the government

being directly the ones who work for the government means having your public and private life constantly under scrutiny and that's a no go for such people

One should ask (IMO) why people vote for them or believe that people like Sanders are commies who want to destroy US lifestyle ...
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Agreed, a team I worked with added a very short (few minutes) screener quiz because we had about 10-20% of candidates make it past phone screen who struggled to write a simple function.
If something is optimally compressed, you can’t compress it further.
Can't comment on the lawsuit part, but of the handful of people who were "it's an open secret you need to work around them" bad, only 1 was fired. Even if they can be convinced to leave, they'll usually stay through their next annual bonus (which I don't fault them for, even if I fault them for other things). So, starting from the point where it's obvious they need to go, everyone who depends on their role needs to wait at least half a year before they can start looking for a replacement. It's a ton of damage, especially on smaller teams.
When I interviewed at Microsoft for an intern position in 1988, about 7 people interviewed me with coding/puzzle questions. So this style of interviewing has been around for a long, long time.
How is it going to be cheap for the rich? They make their money off the externalities of climate change. All that "unearned" income is going to disappear meanwhile "earned" income through work won't.

You have all these insane people following the protestant work ethic, who want to work all day even if there is not enough for them to do. Yet simultaneously, they won't work on solving climate change because for some strange reason the "economics" (perceived or not) don't "work out". The interest rate that must be paid to investors i.e. 0% by far exceeds the interest rate that the market can actually deliver. Kind of amusing. It's like people purposefully put on a brain cage and then act completely helpless as if they didn't choose this to happen.

The fact that we even have to argue about this, while short term interest rates should be negative feels like a bad joke.

You must first work then play but if you keep working in your play time, then work itself becomes play, it won't remain work and no amount of distortion by decree will change that.
Why do people simply assume big tech companies are dumb and they haven't thought their hiring process through?

Amazon literally has a research team focused in hiring, and they run A/B experiments to continually improve the process. The current interview format is not a cargo cult, is a high refine process through the years.

Is it perfect? hell no, but it isn't the mindless copycat people make it to be. They have actual data to back up what works and what doesn't, although it might take several years to happen (like when Google finally dropped brain teasers).
I completely agree.

The increasing and decreasing blips as seen on your Manic Miner example is what I remember as iconic jumping sounds. The pitch and tones of those blips you vary from game to game but they were prevalent in the 80s era games on 8-bit micros.

After that I’d say it was shorter version that still employed a rising to lowering tone but which didn’t span the entire duration of the characters air time. The Super Mario example demonstrates this. Sonic The Hedgehog did too.

I find it weird to discuss jump sounds from an era where encoding PCM data was trivial but ignore several generations of games where sound effects had to be programmed as tones.
Most people with jobs probably can’t devote 5-30 hours to contract work during the workday. Plus most employment contracts won’t allow this kind of side gig.
> Minimodem can be used to transfer data between nearby computers using an audio cable (or just via sound waves), or between remote computers using radio, telephone, or another audio communications medium.

It should be noted that any signal that can be modulated and demodulated can be used to exchange information, so either visible or IR light, ultra/infra sound etc. It's just a matter of building the right hardware interface.
A phyric victory that comes at a great cost to Russia.
Conventional Warfare: Ballistic, Blast, and Burn Injuries [pdf]
> Given that he was removed parliamentary vote [1] [...] But you know, apparently none of that counted as democracy

The source you link says this:

> The constitutionality of Yanukovych's removal from office has been questioned by constitutional experts.[192] According to Daisy Sindelar from Radio Free Europe, the impeachment may have not followed the procedure provided by the constitution: "[I]t is not clear that the hasty February 22 vote upholds constitutional guidelines, which call for a review of the case by Ukraine's Constitutional Court and a three-fourths majority vote by the Verkhovna Rada -- i.e., 338 lawmakers." The vote, as analyzed by Sindelar, had ten votes less than those required by the constitutional guidelines. However, Sindelar noted in the same article that, "That discrepancy may soon become irrelevant, with parliament expected to elect a new prime minister no later than February 24." The decision to remove Yanukovich was supported by 328 deputies.[b][191][194][19][195]

> Although the legislative removal by an impeachment procedure would have lacked the number of votes required by Ukraine's constitution,[193] the resolution did not follow the impeachment procedure but instead established that Yanukovych "withdrew from his duties in an unconstitutional manner" and cited "circumstances of extreme urgency",[191][194] a situation for which there was no stipulation in the then-current Ukrainian constitution.[196]

Yes, ignoring the procedures doesn't count as democracy. Popular support doesn't give you a right to ignore constitution. Just because you feel the other party is a bad guy - and he may well be - doesn't mean you can invent new laws in the spur of the moment.
Page 256 (241 in the page print) for "The Physics and Mechanisms of Primary Blast Injury"; I was trying to find information about the effect of lying flat on the ground for surviving a blast, there's some graphs on page 269.

Here is that chapter as a standalone PDF - https://ckapfwstor001.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/pfw-images...

This would be relevant information to those living in Ukraine right now.
> What I didn’t realise at the time, was that all these CDs and DVDs would become a grand experiment of reliability and longevity. When I read data from these backup disks in 2021, I had a 100% success rate!

My own experience is pretty good, but not 100%. I burned a lot of CDs from 2001 to 2006 or so. Most were discarded at some point, but in late 2019 I ripped all that I had (39 CDs) with (GNU) ddrescue. The vast majority (77%) had some small amount of read errors. I was able to recover 99.88% on the worst disk (a brand I'm not familiar with: "D"). That disk was about 15 years old. That's pretty good, but not 100%.

This experience underlined to me the importance of having parity files in addition to the disks themselves. When I do a Blu-ray backup now (roughly once a year for the most important files), I also burn a DVD with par2 files.

Back in the 00s I didn't verify checksums, but as a test I checked zip, gz, and png files on the oldest disk I had (Jan. 2001, 100% recovered). Those files have internal checksums to detect corruption. All those files passed. I should probably perform the same check on the other disks.

Edit: I ran my script to check internal checksums on my disk image for my worst disk and 19 out of 635 files tested were corrupt, all png files. That is worse than the recovery percentage that ddrescue reports (97.01% valid vs. 99.88% recovered). That's roughly 0.2% lost per year.
Yeah, a valid philosophy is that a company should have to spend at least as many man-hours interviewing me as I spend interviewing.