skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generally speaking, if you're going to live in a community you should take an active part in actually trying to make it better for everyone and do things for those who need help in that community.

If you don't want to do that then, in my opinion, it's better to leave than just sit around and complain hoping someone else will take care of problems. In my experience, San Francisco is a great example of this. A huge part of the population, many of them new, just complain incessantly without putting in any amount of effort to make it better. They'll vote and complain online and feel like they did their duty. It was by far my least favorite thing about the city and one thing keeping me from moving back.
That’s like saying you should never give any advice unless you exhaustively list all possible ways for someone to fuck up the implementation. Telling someone the pharmacy is on the other side of the street will raise mortality unless you also tell them that they should check for cars before crossing. And not run into cars. Or walls close to the pharmacy.
Companies could buy crappy software, could spend millions in unnecessary offices, expenses for unnecessary dinners, offsites, whatever, on crappy salesmen who can probably cost them more in the long run, etc
It’s a single person, if you identify that he can’t make it within the first 3 months, he will never cost you 500k.
Happily employed and had no trouble with coding interviews myself. So my opinion isn’t from some personal angst about passing this bar: I found it easy.

That said: I’m tired of the attitude that there is no effective alternative to this style of interview. You do know we hired people to do engineering jobs for many decades before the industry started cargo culting what they observed a handful of Silicon Valley mega-companies doing. Plenty of very competent people were interviewed and hired before this “relive your algorithms class final on a whiteboard” style interview process became the thing to do.

These interview processes are not the only way. As I said: it’s cargo culting where insignificant companies try to act like Google or some other giant in hopes that perhaps the billions in revenue will start rolling in if they mimic them. To me this behavior is no different than “founders” who adopted dress styles and presentation mannerisms imitating Steve Jobs a decade or so ago. …And bloggers who can’t resist the “considered harmful” trope.
That is one way to look at it I guess. But if it means a substantial pay raise then the amortized cost of those hours is negligible.
> I think we've recently found that people haven't decided which voices to trust and can be led to believe things placed in front of them. Paired with the ability to spread that information - there is significant impact on society.

> That's the reason some people have issues with fake news, from my experience.

From my experience, most people who believe Fake News is a significant problem are people who dislike WHOM some have chosen to trust.

Few see fake news coming from their preferred media sources, or supporting their preferred narrative, as highly concerning, and instead usually treat it as benign (human errors happen etc etc).

However, when it's coming from their political adversaries, or from sources they dislike, it suddenly is presented as some huge issue.

In reality, it is all the same, and people are decently good at filtering it out when it contradicts what they want to believe, and very bad at filtering it out when it agrees with them.

For an example of fake news from outlets like the NYT, the most egregious recent one has been the dismissal of the Hunter Biden laptop, calling it a Russian hoax, calling it "fake news", listing intelligence agencies (of all people) as proof of this, getting Twitter and Facebook to outright ban the New York Post article on it - when in fact everything in their article was 100% true.

How many people (especially Dem voters) have taken this story as "dangerous spread of Fake News by the NYT, Washington Post etc"?
I don't think it's breaking the spec per se, but web crawlers execute javascript and people hit reload on their browsers, sometimes accidentally. Automating this process may not be the solution here.

Personally, I think web crawlers like Bing shouldn't be executing javascript at all but front developers can't go without their client side rendering frameworks so search engines are more or less forced to.

As for a security mechanism, you want to emulate a browser as closely as possible to detect tricks like redirects from safe domains to attack domains and obfuscated URL crap. I'd expect any automated, non-interactive code to execute in a security analysis sandbox.

Is this breaking the standard? Who knows. What is a cloud antivirus but a web user agent running in a data center? The email protocol doesn't specify how the client should deal with links, the robots.txt only works for spiders, not for manually submitted URLs like those clicked in emails, and without a noindex tag you're going to see your page indexed by the mail provider company regardless of what your robots file says.

I think in theory your solution solves the spec breaking problem, but it doesn't solve the problem in practice because there are many other components for which there are no standards and defensive programming is required.
Ok, so you have a simulated brain, and a real brain. Both are to an external observer, functioning identically. For something to have any effect on the real brain, it would also need to have an effect on the simulated brain. Otherwise the simulated brain would deviate from the real brain and an external observer would be able to identify which is which.

Therefore by your definition of internal experience, internal experience has no effect on our behavior.
The problem is it is substantially harder to purchase real estate than it was 10-20 years ago. If you are thinking of multi-generational housing, shouldn't the family wealth be stored somewhere.

You can of course chip in pay rent etc. But wouldn't it be nice to know that the flat is owned by your parents/family.

From where I come from, this is a normal arrangement.
There have been plenty of historical instances of supposed morally & ethically superior people reducing the earth's population. Generally, those are humanities greatest moments.
Ah, that makes more sense. I couldn't imagine anyone envying much about our system.
Literally any other process is better, in my experience. Short take-home exercises. A system design exercise around a whiteboard. Talking the interviewer through some previously-written or open-source code. Pairing up to fix a bug in the org’s code during the interview.

Leetcode-style problems as an interview technique are probably the one that’s furthest away from testing the from day-to-day software development challenges most organisations face.
As a corollary to this, there is the infamous:

Client/front end guys: "you need to fix this query, it takes 10 minutes to run and the front end is timing out"

DBA: "err, this query wants to return 50,000 rows"

C/FEG: "yes, and?"

DBA: "what in blue blazes is your UI, or a user, going to do with 50,000 rows?"

C/FEG: "oh - we hadn't thought about that ..."
>If I could get them jazzed to tell me about their editor configuration, that was almost always a good candidate. Because people who care about writing code care about editors.

I agree with much of your post, but just wanted to point out that many of these things are not universal. I personally have little interest in code editors and even less in discussing them, though I do use Emacs and will probably never invest in learning another editor. It's just a tool to me though, and writing custom lisp functions to make it work just how I want has just never been of my thing.
This won't be popular, but special interests play a far greater role in the chilling affect for modern urban infrastructure than the so called "NIMBYs" do...

. Want to build a new housing complex? How many of the units are earmarked for 'affordable' housing, and you've got to have solar
. Building a new bridge? Better ensure at least one lane is pedestrianized so that that <1% of potential traffic can use it as well
. Want to extend public transit? Maybe, but you can't raise prices as it might affect the poor
. Want to build a park? Will it be fully ADA compliant so everyone can enjoy it.
. Want to install a sidewalk on a roadway? Have you also allocated space for a fully protected bike lane... can't get started without that.
So if I understand correctly, you are afraid of becoming a minority because you don't want to be treated like the current minorities?

Mask off moment there.
Why are you wasting our time with suicide numbers?
"Caring enough about stuff like your health to get flu vaccines linked to better outcomes"
I don't think this is infringing on anyone's rights.
Other people link their Liberapay, et. al. in the README. Many projects live outside of GitHub too that have links to donations on their sites.
> It'd probably be better for everyone if personal vehicles were outright banned in all major cities, as long as it's possible to live in a city without ever leaving it and to live outside the city without ever entering it.

I'm sure it is a great idea to divide the people of a country in city-livers and non-city-livers. It will bring wealth and happyness in this new world. And maybee the next big civil war...
Anyone have some stats on inference time and RAM requirements? (on specific hardware)
There are more mental illnesses / patterns etc. beyond clinical depression, but it's just the most prominent in people's minds. Here's an example: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/schizoid-pers... (note: I am not even speculating this is at all a diagnosis, merely pointing out that the symptoms you list are not exclusive to clinical depression). Of course, you can also have any combination.
I've said this before, but I'll share it here. This is my current interview process for any front end dev, regardless of level, including the thinking that goes into it. The whole thing is designed to take 2 hours or less. Note: We provide either a physical laptop if onsite, or an AWS box pre-set up for this.

1. Here's a project with a back end API server, it's a repository already cloned to disk, and includes a README.md with very detailed (local) deployment instructions, that one can copy+paste.
Thinking: Validates the individual's ability to read, and synthesise

2. Run the API server - this in turn provides a swagger API, that allows users to see the available APIs in their browser, and instructions to do so. The machine has various chrome plugins, Postman, curl, etc pre-installed.
Thinking: Validates curiosity, and basic understanding of the modern(ish) web.

3. The candidate is to create a new project (framework of their choosing). They have the time of their choosing to implement an impossible to complete task (which we share). They have to create <something> that can trigger various APIs to insert, update, and remove data from a database. We provide the sample data in text files such that copy+paste is possible.
Thinking: Validates if and how they reach out for assistance. Helps us understand where the candidate likes to spend the time of their choosing while working on a solution. Encourages a conversation about difficulties, frustrations, what could have gone better, and feedback.

This entire process is designed to ensure that we actively interview the candidate with something "real". It allows us to understand the real level of a candidate based on their efforts (i.e write tests, don't write tests). This is not perfect - but it's the best we could get. I'd love feedback.
This stuff is so cool and it makes me happy that we're democratizing artistic ability. But I can't help but think RIP to all of the freelance artists out there. As these models become more mainstream and more advanced, that industry is going to be decimated.
It matters a lot. Because if it comes from taxes that I pay, why would I not want to/feed bad using its resources?
Why are you exactly two years away? Isn’t that a weird restriction? Why not start now?
>I lost it when at my previous job I found a 20 multiline super complex type defined by another dev, asked him to describe it because I was in a tight deadline and had not time to parse whatever he was defining. He starts with "it's pretty simple" and then used like 10 minutes to describe me what he meant while writing on paper the various pieces getting confused two time

sorry about that
Well, at least the had a source to provide.
Anyone read this pdf/book https://sql-performance-explained.com and would recommend?
Because your document doesn’t
answer any of these questions, and I’m confused why you think it does.

You don’t actually specify any beef with what you call purpose #1 - an agreement within a group about how it should be governed. Except for, as you say, single developer or small group projects - that’s the stated purpose of ALL codes of conduct. Some may contain ethical postering or demands of users (i’ve never seen that) - but those are malformed codes of conduct and should be criticized for those flaws not for being codes of conduct
That's exactly how I frame my technical interviews as well. I only pick questions which I could tie to an actual, real-world problem that we've had.

A couple for example:

1. Given a set of number ranges (e.g. [1..3, 4..5, 9..20, 2..5]) consolidate them. Tying this to a real world scenario: we had a system that dealt with "time periods" and we needed to write a validator to ensure all future dates were covered by at least one configured "time period." One of the first steps to do this was basically the number-range consolidation.

2. Given a list of numbers output metrics like average, min, max, and mode. Now what if the list doesn't fit in memory and instead comes in as a stream (or from an iterator)? This one was inspired by an intern that got stuck when he needed to run calculations on data that didn't fit into memory. He was seriously about to request a host with 10+TB of memory before we stopped him.
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I live and work in germany so the environment might be way different then in the us or other countries.
What I do is a small programming task that candidates can do in there own time frame at home.
For the task you have to implement one interface consisting of 2 methods. Its nothing special in terms of computer science.
What do I look for in the solutions I get?
- Is the code readable?
- Does it compile
- Are there any unit tests
- The implementation needs to work with the filesystem, how is that solved and how is it tested (if it is tested)?
- Is there some kind of error handling?
I check these points and in the next interview with the candidate I discuss the solution with him or her.
maybe leetcode had some value before. way for certain type of person to evaluate their social peers in an interview.

now there are leetcode grinding courses and books, it no longer serve any purpose than to dissuade those who don't have time, or motivation.

good way to identify the desperate willing for a small % chance in an 8 stage interview when someone may still reject you for some unknown reason.
I want the freedom to do whatever I want, and however I want to my machine. I can do all of this on my Android(s). I can install debian on my Android with x11 in a sandbox and work if I need to (and have). But what I want again - is freedom.
It’s not censorship, it suggests a moral framework and a reluctance to be too forward. These are good things.
YouTube always comes up in this conversation, and I think it's important to think of YouTube as two companies. The first is YouTube as a social media platform. The second is YouTube as a production company whose primary channel is YouTube the social media platform. The woman narrating stories is governed by the first YouTube, but Logal Paul is governed by the second. Anyone who is sponsored by YouTube is a first class channel, everyone else is second. Any sort of intra channel disputes will rule in favor of the first-class. This was seen most recently during the Tesla jump stunt and how the content creator was able to completely squash the videos of the victim.
Seems a SFOS or Murena or Fairphone smartphone might suffice (not sure about eSIM). I am sure the Planet Cosmo Communicator and Planet Astro Slide have eSIM. With Waydroid you can even run Android applications on a Pinephone. What I like about Pinephone and Librem 5 is hardware killswitches. There's also the Steam Deck, it runs Arch.

All of these have different pros and cons. For example, some of these don't have a keyboard (which you may or may not care). But all have BT or USB and therefore could use a keyboard.

I ran LOS + microG on FP2 for a while, but back then without Gotify and Gotify-UP. With these I believe you can have notifications with top control, without using the Google framework.
But somehow, despite the fecundity of the Rosie Cotton-Gangees, with 13 children, the Shire had a total population of about 100k, the size of a small (edit: but not that small) town (or the UK population in 3000BC).

So either pre-reproductive mortality is through the roof, but never mentioned, they haven't been there long[1], or something bad happened recently (before the events in the LoTR)[2].

[1] Except Hobbits settled the Shire about 3000 (edit: 1500, I can't count) years before the books.

[2] The idyllic setting, lack of traumatic narrative and their 1500-year settlement somewhat implies they haven't been through some kind of brutal population bottleneck recently.
I don't think saying hello opens yourself up to lawsuits in the same way.
Please don't use OpenOffice, use LibreOffice instead. OO hasn't had a release in years and all the actual development happens in LO.
If I could get you to express that in an interview, I'd say something like "do you have any tools you find value in customizing?" and try to lead the direction in whatever you think of as "custom" in your world, so I can hear how it helps you be effective, so I can understand what you think it means to be effective.

I probably shouldn't have picked text editor as the example, it's really not about that.
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Unfortunately, yes.

https://lea.verou.me/2020/09/the-failed-promise-of-web-compo...
Maybe even do a perspective transformation + brightness/contrast/hue adjustment and optimize for the parameters which minimize the image difference.
Your colleague is dumb. Stored procedures have advantages and disadvantages. For certain data processing operations it is much better to perform everything inside the database than transfer large amount of data back and forth to some external application.

But I have also seen organizations with the policy that any operation touching base tables should be encapsulated in a stored procedure. This makes development extremely cumbersome, especially if some DBA is gatekeeper for the stored procedures. Something like this might have burned your colleague.
The fact that something is "an inevitability" (which is definitely not the case here) has nothing to do with whether it's a net negative or not.

This is like saying "you should classify this as blue" and then a response like "no, it's heavy".
I would like an Android portable 'phone' (I never call but want mobile internet) that can switch to Linux when in 'desktop mode' (so what Samsung has with DeX but then Linux), built on 'open' hardware. Fully open would be the best, but I know this is not (yet) possible.

The Astro Slide is the closest I have seen to the form factor I want (I had (and still have; they all work still) all versions of the Psion back in the day), but, while it runs Linux, it cannot easily switch between them and the hardware is not open.

I am really not very interested in 'as flat as possible'; replaceable batteries would be great, as would switches to physically switch off comms/cams be (like the pinePhone has but I would like them more easily accessible).
That's really a cool study! Do you think this will be adopted at some point? are there currently any efforts to solve this problem?
> Instead of blink comparison, look at the image the same way you do for stereoscopic images.

Stare at it for a while, and the sigh frustrated and say whatever, it's the same? Clearly you had more luck with magic eye than I did.
It's always been cool to some. Just not uniformly distributed, since people vary with their values and goals.
MANGA has built (or even contributed to in passing) basically 0 of the tools I use in production...
I guess this is using OpenAI?
This has already happened, to a large extent.

Search for most any topic on google, e.g. recipes, and the first two pages will be chock-full of AI-generated copy.
At least one of the researchers (Paul E. Schulz) disqualifies this study, his disclosure:
"Consulting Fees:
Occasional advisory panels for Lilly, Acadia, and Biogen.
Lecture Fees:
Occasional disease state education talks for Lilly, Acadia, and Biogen.
Patents/Royalties
I serve as an expert witness for medical malpractice cases and other types of cases. None related to this paper. Not sure where to put this, but i am on about 12 NIH grants, none related to this study. And i have about 12 treatment trials funded by many pharmaceutical companies, including Lilly, Acadia, Biogen, Roche, UCB, etc. None are related to this paper, in my opinion."

And that's just one, who is even admitting anything, the others can be funded through various shell companies which looks at first unrelated to pharma and claim they have nothing to disclose. You won't bite hand that's feeeding you.

I take any research pushing vaccination (especially something like flu vaccines which are pretty much placebo with 10-60% efficacy if you are lucky [1] [2], if not 0%) with big grain of salt nowadays after our experiences with these "safe and effective" COVID vaccines, which were proven to be not so safe and hardly effective at all.

[1] https://www.science.org/content/article/why-flu-vaccines-so-...

[2] https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/seasonal-influenza/prevention-...
>Incredibly, the state has not laid a single mile of track and it still lacks 10 percent of the land parcels it needs to do so. Half of the project still hasn’t achieved the environmental clearance needed to begin construction. The dream of a Japanese-style bullet train crisscrossing the state is now all but dead due to political opposition, litigation, and a lack of funding.

Surely this is the worst way to do a project. Not even having the land yet?

I mean even a kid would now know the incredible amount of leverage the remaining land owners have over you. They can ask basically any price for it now.
all to judge the person and not to reason on his words; if I point to the mountain, why are you talking about me? Im pointing to damned mountain, talk about the mountain, damn!
Another good one , while iPadOS has support , iPhones , like the op said, does not. One can only speculate this is done as a measure for web apps to not compete against native apps. To me that’s very anticompetitive.
English Grammar is arbitrary and there is really no such thing as a "correct" form, only a formal one. Which is kind of elitist and disparaging imo.

Ain't is my favorite example. It was considered proper English until the lower class started using it [0]

I'm not against formal grammar but to grammar nazi everyday language is to be nothing more than an elitist pedant who presumes form to be more correct than function (which is only true in creative writing imo)

[0] https://www.etymonline.com/word/ain't#etymonline_v_8076
I don't think the article applies to this idiom.

See for instance https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/by-your...

> by yourself

> PHRASE

> If you do something _by yourself_, you succeed in doing it without anyone helping you.

> "I didn't know if I could raise a child by myself."