skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been through it recently, you are right about the time investment. Though the resources are massively available and they are good quality (to my surprise).
Of course you need the motivation, but which kind of interviews does not mandate any motivation? Simply put the non-selective one where companies just need to fill a position with whoever can do the job.
People's conditions to prepare will massively differ from one to another, but we can't blame Tech for that. With Tech you will know one thing: you will be assessed based on your interview performance.
As always in such debates, we are creating straw-man like "the mother in Philly". How many of such moms were in high-paying jobs before? Are there more or less in tech than other areas? Has the situation improved or not?
To the best of my knowledge, I can just say that standardised interviews try to address one aspect of it. It is up to society to do the rest.

> Who is more likely to enjoy abstract puzzles/quizzes?

Assuming someone doesn't, is programming a good fit? (genuinely asking)
> COVID was a serious problem

It's still killing >4000 per week just in the USA.
> It was such a threat to the existing social order that the catholic church tried to ban its use against Christians for a while.

I'm pretty sure the same papal bull tried also to ban bows and it wasn't the first time a pope had tried to ban ranged weapons
Comments like that, even though he's just asking legitimate questions, are often downvoted into oblivion very quickly.

Given the amount of lies circulated by Ukraine's and Russian authorities, I'm always wary of accepting anything I read at face value.

Also, Ukraine has an abysmal track record when it comes to investigations (see those into the Maidan sniper killings and the Odessa massacre), so again, I don't see how you can immediately buy into this shit without the least amount of doubt. It seems most people do though and it makes me really sad.
It would be a great Netflix series...but in real life I think would have to be a combination of

- Neutrino accelerators.

- EMP weapons.

- Human Engineering.

- Espionage.

- Real time tracking 24/7 of the location
of government officials that could give
such order.

- A type of SEAL Team 6 team ready to go
anywhere and disable them.

- Most important you need an EMP solution
to disable Nuclear submarines.
> Platform independent and easy to understand.

The platform independence is implicit in the "HTTP" part of the name.
My free-software photography workflow
What’s insane about it? Tooling provides what’s needed to build, test, scan, deploy, manage and monitor.
Good insight. As a tech lead I do all those and then more. Also tons of code reviews and also need to understand what the DevOps guys are doing and handle the product guys and their plans.

Sure it's not black and white and every team needs to hold interviews in a way that befits them most. For our team the ideas I described work pretty well and we've been able to pretty much nail it from students to seniors.

I am just advocating that recruiting should not be a one-size-fits-all thing and that the massive prep industry is only focused on a certain type of interview, which is just not always the interview you should be conducting. Give it thought and spend the time to tailor the interview process to your team.

Here's to everyone's success while interviewing!
> Most credit or debit cards support offline transactions, so a shop can keep a battery powered terminal that reconciles when it comes online.

Almost....

Its been a while since I have been involved in POS payments, but IIRC there is a clear protocol which goes something like this:

1. If the card machine is online and working, use that
2. If the card machine is not working *AND* the business is willing to take on the risk, record an offline transaction for later reconciliation
3. If the card machine is not working *AND* the business *IS NOT* willing to take on the risk, call bank $phone_number for manual transaction validation and record the validation code provided at the end of the call.
> Battery manufacturer Theion has designed lithium-sulphur cathode technology that triples the energy density and requires 90% less energy to produce.

Compared to what ? Very annoying when articles do that, it shows a lack of rigor that does not inspire confidence in the rest of the article.
Defender may be better but I still don't like that you can't completely disabled it without breaking other parts of the system, like Windows Store.

Edge itself, as a browser, might only be equally annoying as Chrome, but my point is about Microsoft forcing you to use it.

Using third-party applications to restore functionality is not something we should consider acceptable.

I am using Windows 11 on a Microsoft Surface Go 3 and the UI is big issue at the moment. Some of the issues have been around a while now and are not entirely related to the Surface Go 3:

- Using 125% DPI scaling causes the right-click menu to be incorrectly sized, showing a scrollbar. If you scroll down, explorer crashes. [1]

- Rotating the Surfaces changes screen brightness. Also happens when attaching the type cover. [2]

- If you open too many applications to the point where the taskbar overflows, you cannot access overflowed elements. This easily happens when using the Surface in portrait mode, while having pinned a hand full of applications.

[1]: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/report-an-issue/repro...
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=30901634&goto=item%3Fi...
That quote, "God will know His own" was said at the height of the Albigensian crusades, which was carried out IIRC approximately 100 years later against the Cathars. Because the Catholic Church played such a major part in civil life, competing claims to authentic Christianity in Western Europe distinct from their church was considered an existential threat. I am in no way condoning what they did, but a good way to relate to the context in which they made this decision would be to consider how Sovereign Citizens are looked at by authorities in our contemporary times.
I guess there are two important questions:

* For individual banks and their customers, is it more likely that an AWS-wide exploit will compromise an AWS-hosted bank, or is it more likely that a self-hosting-specific exploit will compromise a self-hosted bank?

* For society, is it better that security efforts are concentrated in on centralised providers like AWS, or is it better that security efforts are distributed, on individual hosting entities?
I've seen the same thing as you for methamphetamine and amphetamine being "basically equivalent" but it was a study in rats. However, patients usually rate desoxyn (which is methamphetamine) higher (~10% higher) than either adderall or dexedrine (another amphetamine), and methamphetamine is supposed to be better at crossing the blood brain barrier. I'm not sure if I would call it equivalent/the same but they're very close. Especially this part:

> The anticipated differences between them in their effect on the body and mind largely aren't real.

You're totally right about that. People associate methamphetamine with drug abuse and amphetamine with people taking adderall, but I think it's a case where the dose makes the poison.

For the abusers parts, I've found Simon et al, 2001 "A comparaison of patterns of methamphetamine and cocaine use", that would indicate doses of 500 mg, usually snorted instead of "eaten". As an anecdote, a friend that used to abuse amphetamine consumed around 300 mg a day.
<blink>Came here for deprecated attributes, but found an informative article.</blink>
> if people go to university and actually study and work hard to get a degree, it should be normal they don’t have to go through this bullshit.

There are many flaws in this argument:
- what about people without degrees but skills, do they deserve such a job?
- Is university free? If not, do poor people deserve such a job?

Finally, we are not talking about the average SE job. We are talking about the top 10% of the jobs where competition is fierce. People at this level, as in any domain, are willing to compete fiercely. Should the marathon been shortened to 10k so that people who can't train can compete?
They are pretty standard but not accepted where credit cards normally are. In particular Maestro, I'm not sure about V Pay as I've never had it.

But when I lived in the Netherlands I had to get a credit card to do stuff like book flights or order on foreign sites.
That's more or less the same question as "what if the data center/servers operated by the bank gets compromised".

In reality it's always about tradeoffs: who to delegate to and who to trust.
whatever it takes to get that bare cash
Legislation and litigation threaten Apple and Google’s profits
Interesting choice of Victorian occult fluffery. The author of the piece does describe it as fantasy, but it's responsible for a whole host of exciting real-world madness in the 20th century and afterwards.

It's important to recognise that until the internet made it much easier for people to discuss ideas and find counterarguments, there were large numbers of people floating around claiming that the contents of these books were not only beyond reproach, but that <insert group invented in the 20th century> was an unbroken descendant of one of the mythical groups invented by Victorian pseudohistorians.
FWIW, I am on the list, and I certainly did not ask Apple for that honor ;P. (Also on that list: some scam that is pretending to be me, lol.)
What about you are now exposing yourself to additional risks from e.g. a malicious employee at the cloud provider, or jurisdictional risk from FISA requests to the CP?
Using Composer in a CMS: A practical approach
>The solution is to create that meaning for ourselves even while acknowledging that meaning is a delusion.

Well, that also can be presented as "freedom of purpose". If you associate freedom to some positive and desirable situation, then you should welcome with gratitude that universe doesn’t come with any pre-established meaning for your life.

You still have to deal with the fact that you can’t write on the book of universe as easily as you can fantasize any made up story, and that you are not alone with accreditations to write with some level of freedom.
Pretty much all the global majors at this point are de-facto state owned companies (either explicitly or by have been bailed out and probably will again if things go south, as any guide), so I'm not sure how much this will matter.
I am quite happy with Geofency on iOS for location logging for billing/time tracking purposes.
I didn’t know about Travic, thanks!
More convenient. In doom emacs it’s a single keybinding for exporting. Bugger-all setup required. Org also has good support for re-ordering and structuring of headlines.
> Facebook looks like it's failing to maintain its position

Facebook (the blue app) has 2.9 billion monthly active users. That's about a third of the human race. And it keeps growing quarter over quarter. So I'm not really sure what metric you're pulling from here.
There is no practical way of turning of telemetry completely.

Since telemetry is enabled by default, I doubt the portion of users turning it off is significant. I think the bigger problem is that you just can't derive meaningful data from telemetry to make the necessary decisions for improving user experience.
yes, but a lot of those advances were based on R&D that was done before the war. I think war is more a time where newer technologies are put to the test, those that don't fail see widespread usage and that's why we associate that war as the introduction of those technologies
If the hash is weak enough that you can afford massive wordlists like crackstation [1], then yes, those words will be in the list.

[1] https://crackstation.net/crackstation-wordlist-password-crac...
Sensors that scavenge their power are all the rage
I agree, but I think you need hope in order to be happy. I.e. happiness is the combination of high hopes and low expectations.

Without high hopes you could just be anticipating things to get worse which tends to lead to anxiety and just a general glum outlook on life. Hoping things will be better tomorrow, but expecting things to get worse is a subtle but important mindset shift.
I guess in that time it was not a position, and secretaries where expected to do the “compute” jobs. So mostly ladies learned programming, on the side as it where. They learned it on the job.

Programmer was not a career/job yet. There where no schools or papers yet.

So an interview would be about secretary tasks like calculus and bookkeeping, perhaps ask if you know how to type already. (Big deal back then) Source: my mom.
> Everywhere you mention had been within the Russian Empire 20 years earlier.

I mean, so what? Modern Russia is not the Russian Empire; it is a successor state of the Soviet Union. It formally seceded the same day as Ukraine (and Belarus). If it wasn't happy with this situation, then it shouldn't have done so.

Even if modern Russia _was_ a rump state of the Soviet Union (which, again, it isn't) it would have no more right than anyone else to former dependencies.
Why aren't all attributes CSS properties?
I always implement my own standards. I am faster that way instead of learning what others created. Obviously this is only true for less complex subjects.
There's a facetiousness to your reply that really doesn't help the discussion. My response requires thinking about clothes in a different way, but that's the sort of thinking we all need to engage with.

Since the 50s we've seen races to the bottom with clothes, homeware, furniture. It's all lovely shiny and new and when we've decided we need to change it, we burn or throw into a hole in the ground. Fashion has invented its own mechanisms and sub-industry to make sure things aren't just disposable, but that people want to throw them away. It's disgusting.

We don't do that with cars. We demand that cars are serviceable. Older cars doesn't carry stigma (unless they're clapped out). We need to start demanding the same from everything we buy.
> am I missing an alternate use of 'conceive'?

"conceive" is also used in the sense of "to imagine something" [1] or "to apprehend by reason or imagination: understand" [2]. However, an alternative like "understand the internet" or "think about the internet" would be clearer.

[1]: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/conceive

[2]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conceive
While it is nice that this option is available, it would be much better if Python itself would embrance the necessary runtime capabilties to not have to rely on it.
> but not to keep would-be-two factors in one vault.

So where? Having them physically spread around my house? in my PO BOX? Each have been cracked before, or are lost all the time (even by a simple fire).

What can an average person do better than remember one strong password?
Because attributes are not for styling.
Why though, it's a feature they did not pay for. It is horrible UX to show the button for disabled features of course, but if you've been told from the get go that you need to pay for feature X, why would you be pissed that feature X doesn't work when you didn't?
That’s interesting, Schopenhauer (and, to my knowledge, the Vedantic tradition) define suffering to be the positive aspect (not as in good, but as in known or evident) and what we experience as happiness to be a negation of that.

I’d be interested on exploring this further, is it an active avenue of research?
I think this is really cute and hope it takes off for you.

My initial thoughts are all about making the price point work harder. Would you consider a batched delivery system (if that's not how it works already)? So, collect the kudos from teams at a company in real-time, but only send orders out in batches weekly for instance? Then adjust the price point to a per bar cost + a flat delivery fee? That might reduce costs a little for people using the service. Companies might also want to cap expenditure if they are footing the bill. So, tiered subscriptions with up to X uses per month might be appealing?

Love the vegan + lactose free approach for accessibility.

The header video is a little low quality for me, it's a gif? There might be a higher quality way to load the video for connections that can handle it. The actor also over does it a little but I think that almost adds to the presentation.
A typical password manager is two factors: something you have (the password database) and something you know (the master password).
To be fair, a great joke, but not an original one (unless he is the original author -- I've heard it before in different contexts).
I think "talent" can be interpreted as being the amalgamation of those relevant microabilities. But in addition to innate talent, there is luck as well - besides being lucky enough to have been born into the first world, I think connecting with the right teacher or the right material that speaks to the way you learn makes a big difference.
The SAT Isn’t What’s Unfair
Does this work for Microsoft Teams? Because I use teams more frequently.
Try a different region. Never had issues getting ampere in uk oracle
> Trucks carrying almost 600 kilograms of highly enriched uranium had just left a nuclear facility

I see a small problem with this statement, and with the picture at the beginning of the article.

Uranium is dense: 19.1 g/cm3. Enriched Uranium has a similar density, within a +/- 2% from "normal" Uranium.

It means that a cube of 600kg of enriched Uranium would be approx. 31cm x 31cm x 31cm. You don't need "trucks" for that.
You can see a classic example here (around 2:20): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5vnpOp0U_g
Any non-fictions in the list except Oliver Sacks’s “Hallucinations”? The list lacks for some descriptions and IMO any fiction book just don't deserves to be called "unusual".
Exactly. Always, always create a virtual environment of some sorts for your python projects, unless you don't use external dependecies at all.

I ended up using poetry in the end.
Their media isn't telling them that, though, and that's extremely powerful.

Like, the US has a largely free (if not particularly competitive) media landscape, and ~30% of Americans believe that Trump won the election; this is _highly_ correlated with what media they consume. It's obvious nonsense, and ~nobody _outside_ the US believes that, but if the only media you consume tells you that all other media in the world is fake news... If it's like that in a country with independent media, imagine how much worse it'll be in a country with no significant independent media.
You can, when using modern desktop OSes, that is why DirectDraw/DirectText/CoreGraphics/.... exist.
> they haven't shied away from breaking -- promises anyway for this year

Non-election year actions, while unironically promising that they are going to give away money in the upcoming election year.
What's with the weird url?
I noticed that tiktok.com is missing, so this list might have been compiled sometime before 2019. I wonder if you could write a script that pinpoints the exact month or even day.
> "Exactly. containers are not secure sandboxes by default and if one is breached all those K8s networking ACLs are worthless."

Your suggestion being? Putting a sandbox inside a sandbox? How many layers deep should this be, before being considered "secure"?
The new battery tech is coming to market every few months, it's been improving regularly for decades in price/performance etc.

I always read these articles as having a subtext of "EVs are crap at the moment give 'em another decade" which I don't think resonates with me but is likely popular with certain segments and so gets clicks.

One key repeated talking point is "when our tech gets out the lab in a decade you can fill your EV just like your ICE". I don't want to do that. It was smelly, expensive and inconvenient then, it is even more so now I have a EV that's fully charged every morning when it doesn't even need to be. In 10 years time it'll be nostalgia like a fax machine or sending a telegram.
To Revive a River, Restore Its Liver
Beginner devs write code that is over-simplified, and needs hack on top of hack to do anything useful.

Intermediate devs write code that is over-engineered in places where it could be simple, while still needing a lot of extensive refactoring in the parts that deal with irreducible complexity.

Expert devs think deeply about the problem at hand, understand where the complexity is, and create a solution that is as simple as possible, but no simpler. After the fact, beginner and intermediate devs tend to think of this code as something trivial, that anyone could do.

This is why it may sometimes be tactically useful for the expert dev to sometimes take on projects that some beginner or intermediate team has been struggling with for some extended period of time, analyze it properly, and show how elegant the difficult parts can be solved.

Care is needed, though, as it can affect the morale of the other devs and even cause hostility. If the expert dev has a secure position in the organization and want to keep those other devs around, keeping a low profile as well as letting those devs take as much as possible of the credit is adviced.
See also: technical debt
Why is risk from malicious employer in cloud provider somehow different from risk from malicious employer in colocation, or even private data center?
<marquee>Never forget the fun of the early web!</marquee>

Yeah, I had the same cynical assumption before reading.

All in all, I can't remember coming across a deprecated HTML feature that I needed and didn't already have a better alternative.
There will always be enough until one day there isn't...
Then what /would/ you call Nazi dog whistling? I’m pretty sure most neo-Nazis would be piqued by these things.

You are also missing some other “suspicious” facts. I’m not going to argue this point any further though.
Which brand of pressure cooker though? I'm in the market for a new one. If it's good enough for uranium it's probably good enough for my beans.
Does SSE work reliably in mobile browsers nowadays? A few years back when I tried, it was working OK in Chrome for Android but mobile browser support didn't seem complete.
>What on earth makes you think Doom with raytracing is anything other then a curiosity

The attempt to add raytracing to everything w/o any regard of usability, e.g. this in the raytraced version is really hard to see anything if you are shot at.
Clubhouse launched with only an iOS app in 2020 with a waitlist and globally had 1.5M sign up to it in its first year of launch. Compare that to Truth Social launched in February 2022, also only having an iOS app and waitlist, but is geo-restricted only to the US and also has 1.5M+ sign up on the waitlist in less than a year and immediately is reported as a 'disaster'.

Despite what the media is reporting, I think it is quite early to classify a 'launch day disaster' as indicative as the entire product being a total failure.
No, the original comment talks about people taking advantage of other people through "concerted, top-down effort to manipulate and coerce", calling that "outside of evolution".

I claim it is textbook evolution. An almost trivial observation.

Note that mine is not a moral judgement. I said nothing about whether I like such coercion or not, whether I think it benefits humanity in the long run or not, etc. Just that it's completely in line with natural evolution – not outside of it.

Typical, normal, organic… whatever you want to call it. Not necessarily desirable because such vocabulary is alien to evolutionary processes.

The only way you could call organisms taking advantage of other organisms to gain preferential access to resources "atypical", is if you consider humans outside of the natural world. Then statements like "top down" and "unnatural" would have substance.

I called that view theist (mystical may have been better), which decremental took strong umbrage to, for some reason. But again, a rather trivial observation IMO.