skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven’t done this but I had a fun experience grilling my interviewer on the relevance of the technical interview. My interviewer worked at a company specializing in virtualization technology. The interview was done remote, and this technical interview was the first step.

I was asked to program a mildly challenging problem, the very type of problem you’d see in cracking the coding interview.. mind you I hadn’t done any prep before because my personal stance was that a true technical interview will gauge what I know on the spot, and not what I’ve crammed or pretend to know.

Sooo, it went as you would imagine. I very slowly talked through the solution with my interviewer and while I was able to solve the problem, it took me all of about 30 minutes at which point the interviewer politely told me it wasn’t going to workout and was happy to give me constructive criticism.

His first feedback:
Your problem solving is sound and you’re on the right track, you’re just way too slow. A good candidate solves this first problem in less than 10 minutes and also solves our second problem. You didn’t even get to the second one.

It was at this point I thought, “screw it, nothing else to lose so why not go for the brutal honesty approach.”

Me: how often do you solve a problem like this in your day-to-day?

Him: Oh never, this has nothing to do with the position we’re hiring for.

Me: So why is this part of the interview process?

Him: For the time being, there’s no other way to gauge programming talent in a short period of time.

It was at this point I was happy the interview went the way it did. This company would rather hire worker bees who cram technical challenges as opposed to someone who took the time to slowly think through a problem they hadn’t practiced.

Since then, I built a platform to hire junior and senior talent at my company which emulates a task a junior or senior developer may be given within their first few weeks. The challenge is simple although a bit time consuming. What’s amazing is that although we tailored the challenge for what we thought a good junior developer could handle, it actually has done an excellent job at weeding out senior developers who certainly were not senior by our standards and for the type of work we would expect a junior to be capable of.

Our challenge was to retrieve data on a regular interval from an intentionally buggy API, and visualize the data. Any language or tool was fair game.

Can you believe it? A challenge that actually asks people to do a task similar to what they’ll do on the job?
I have a tattoo on my arm of some (ostensibly) last recorded words of Evaristé Galois. A guy who did more for human progress than some whole nation states.

@cperceiva is in the k-equivalence class of people whose ability we lack the granularity to measure. He won the Putnam before making multiple unanticipated contributions to security in general and the security of FreeBSD in particular.

@pg has tagged him in particular as notable.

If he spends his time making information more durable in a probably secure way as opposed to folding proteins, I’m going to leave it to him to have decided between multiple highly compelling outlets for his genius.

In my observation he’s too humble to reply to the ankle-biting haters, but I have no such qualms: this guy is a fucking legend and if you disagree let’s have an argument.
Peter Thiel is the Jordan Peterson of capitalism.
> Give me an example of a time you disconfirmed a hypothesis.

So far, all of my hypotheses have been confirmed.
India shares its e-government tools with all as India Stack
>When you're facing massive capital gains taxes, and have an inkling that those gains will turn to losses, the idea of lending out the asset, spending the cash without incurring tax, then getting the asset back starts to look attractive.

The better strategy (and the one used by the super rich) would be to borrow against the asset, as the loan isn't taxed. And if the lender's only recourse is your collateral, then you're insured against the cryptocurrency's collapse.

With the strategy you've described, you're still keeping a long position in the cryptocurrency, and have increased its volatility.
I could not relate to her anymore

i don't want to analyze or criticize your feelings, but since i may face a similar situation, i'd like to explore how to avoid that for myself.

i do want my wife to be an equal too, but how can she be if she is not working like me?

a couple of thoughts come to mind: (these are random ideas, i don't know if they all make sense)

there is a school of thought that says that housework should be treated like any other respectable fulltime job.

like in a startup, there are fun tasks and boring gruntwork.
i am doing the programming work for the customers, which brings in the money and my businesspartner is managing the accounting, invoices and takes care of the office. we are saving the expense for a janitor, so we do cleanup ourselves, and since i am busy on the computer, it's mostly done by my partner (i remember reading about a CEO who said being a janitor was part of his duties)

so to translate that to a family, like a business, there are a number of things that need to be done. someone may be focusing on doing the work that brings in the money, and the other person is doing all those other things.

the point is, all those tasks are equally important for the success of a business as they are for a family. we would not consider a CEO to be less valued than the CTO, so why should the housewife be considered unequal to her money earning husband?

we are a team, where each of us is valued the same, but that doesn't mean we have to split the work equally too. instead everyone contributes according to their ability.

i think what your problem may have been that you simply were unprepared for the change and didn't know how to deal with it. i don't know how i am going to deal with that either, but at least i know it will most likely be happening so i'll do my best to prepare.

a few more thoughts of what could help to achive equality when one partner is not working:

make decisions together. especially about spending money. care for each others goals and interests outside of work and housework. in other words, take each other seriously, regardless of what the other is contributing. treat the housework as enabling your outside work, just like the CEO enables the CTO.
Same reason they're used in grading. How else do you ensure that "partially correct" is consistently weighted?

Certainly, in college, I recall one calculus problem, we had to find the local maxima or minima of a function, something along those lines. Long and short, I differentiated, plugged in for zero, and made an algebra mistake, got one right, one wrong. Something like that. 5/10. Someone else...differentiated, and ended with the differentiated function set equal to zero, but didn't solve for it. 8/10.

No idea if that was a lack of rubric, or a badly worded rubric ("got one of the maxima/minima wrong = -5 points", "Well, he didn't get either one wrong, so..."), but yeah, a good rubric would have prevented that inconsistency in grading that I still carry with me to this day because it was so unfair.
Do Uber, or Uber eats if you don’t want to deal with people too much. It will make you more than enough to sustain yourself with your experience.

Put yourself on upwork (I assume you know programming).

If not, take up an administrative job, remote if you can find it in HR or recruiting or something similar.
California takes bold step to reduce truck pollution: Electric trucks
I was his student around the time of release.

It was always an absurdist demonstrative to prove a point about the hazards that the game industry would soon be forced to confront.

It is now so apparent how shamelessly game developers will exploit human psychology instead of pursuing actual fun.. so it's not as useful of a warning.
Many hot peppers actually have a good bit of sugar in them. I was making some Tabasco sauce I'm the fall and the bees were very interested in it. I also grew some cayenne peppers that didn't have any heat and they were quite sweet.
I think it's fair to expect interviewee to solve 2 LC mediums in 45 mins given by the candidate. That's the current FAANG expectation. If a bad candidate is too costly for a company, so are a bad company too costly for a candidate.
Do animals have social constructs? Because they have dens and territory that they use to survive as well. Property is a pretty universal value.
As the meme goes:

> Being an old-timey doctor would rule, just drunk as hell like “yeah u got ghosts in your blood, you should do cocaine about it”
What are you talking about. There is more than enough money for high wages, the problem is 90% of it is in like 5% of hands.
The issue I have with react isn't the declarative views.

It's the automagical rendering.

I am unable to reason about how even a fairly small react code base renders and updates itself.

In my own projects, I've had a lot more success with lit-html - which is basically the declarative view layer of react - and controlling the rendering myself, usually with simple observables.

Also helps to avoid the react anti-pattern of having your views full of state wrangling.
"The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do."
-- B F Skinner

There is a vitalism[1] streak in some AI commentaries. People cannot quite define or measure human consciousness and yet readily conclude that machines have not achieved/will not achieve any meaningful form of intelligence.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitalism
One thing about Meta and Google as well to a certain degree, is that they don't seem to see things through. A few quarters of sub-optimal results and they just trash the idea.

It's a shame, because often times sticking to something is what eventually makes it become a success if the market was not ready for it at the time that it was released.
Indeed. Any cursory observation of human behaviour will disprove the Thatcherian maxim that people only ever do anything for their own selfish interest.
Do you have any sources or additional info on the latter? How did you determine that aromatase is the culprit? Thanks.
I've found most benefits that make me seem years younger are likely linked to:

- Some form of resistance training (in my case oly and general strength training)

- Walking a lot (a benefit of a walkable city) as part of routine, rather than a scheduled exercise

- Not snacking, sticking to scheduled meal times

- For me personally, intermittent fasting in the form of skipping breakfast. Not only is breakfast unnecessary for most of us, you'd be surprised by how much you can achieve fasted, you might even find an enhanced energy.

I'm sure resistance training can be substituted for other 'training' by which we mean a stimulus strong enough to lead to an adaptation. With the adaptation to the exercise comes some of the benefits - like optimal cardiometabolic health.
There's a big difference between "mostly vegetarian" and vegan diets, especially when it comes to cholesterol, due to the eggs, milk, and whatever else it let through in that "mostly".

edit: form those disagreeing, please let me know the flaw in my statement.
I don't see any mention of it so here it goes: try the minimalist approach, a pinhole camera. It's interesting, super low tech, cheap and it will set all kinds of limitations which in turn should give you something to chew on artistically. Can't go wrong imo.
Same. If this gets any success at all he's gonna get hit with a C&D pretty quick.
His analysis is based on the comparison between his grand father era and his mother area ; but this predicate is if not wrong, at least still unproved.

He took a sample of 2 persons, with different characteristics and made deductions based on that. Nothing can't be deduced from his sample in fact.

For example, we compare at the same time a 'psychiatrist' from period X, to a 'dermatologist' from period Y.

Psychiatrists in general will not have the same mentality as dermatologists!

Medecines in the psychiatrist area will meddle with the brain and will try to affect the mood of a patient. Effects are hard to measure and side effects often unclear.

At the opposite, it is quite easy to see the effects and side effects of medecines in dermatology.

You can tell someone: go have a walk in the forest and your depression might pass, but your scabies problem will not resolve itself alone like that...
Coming from the Younger Generation:

A lot of my peers don't drink. If they do drink, it's very uncommon they have more than one or two drinks at a time, sparingly. There's a definite shift. Multiple of my peers have cited their parents' heavy drinking and the result as a reason why they're choosing to go sober, which I can respect at one level.

That isn't to say I don't have binge drinking colleagues. Oh boy do I. I asked a longtime friend of mine how he handles his work (primarily onsite IT support) and he didn't drop a beat when he responded "Alcohol." Alcoholism has become the crutch to hold up some of the frontline support folks because of lack of staffing, lack of training, lack of everything.
If you look at the inflation corrected price of fuel since 1974 it isn't that bad actually.
Whether something is a value or not is itself subjective. It might be a habit to you while also being a value to some community.
Disagree. It’s totally reversible and becomes a reason to stick out in elementary school. Not piercing the ears is akin to naming a kid something weird.
“The Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers Model”

https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
Teaching people how to use Git is a BIG one.

Git is confusing for just about everyone. It is really easy to shoot yourself in the foot once you step away from git add/git commit/git push. Hell, you can foot-gun yourself even with the usual workflow.

GUIs help with bridging the gap, but because the GUIs make everything that's actually happening opaque, troubleshooting gets really complicated when something goes wrong (GitHub also sells professional services).

Github and Gitlab have done a lot to make Git easier.
https://indiastack.org/index.html
I admire your preparation of a fallback brainteaser to throw back at the interviewers in case you ever get flummoxed, but I feel it would take some real storytelling skills or charm to "sell" this as anything but a desperate attempt at a switcheroo. (Maybe the fact that I'm so pessimistic about this tactic means I'm the kind of person who would definitely fail miserably if I ever tried it.)
Do Google and the like actually use TCP in user space or they just use the Linux kernel?

Edit: Looks like they do but not for TCP from what I can find: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
Leon Trotsky
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/plexamp/id1500797510

I use the android version and it is great.
Being in a document from 250 years ago doesn’t mean anything except it’s in a document that old. Certainly doesn’t make whatever it says about elections free and fair. That defies logic.

Explain how the popular vote not mattering for president is free and fair?

Why are you choosing only one minority to care about? State citizens of Wyoming? Why not any other minority? Why not minority religions, colors of skin, political views, gender identity, sexuality, disabilities, mental health conditions? What makes not caring about these minorities fair?

Why is Wyoming even a state? Have you read up on the politics of how we got to 50 states? Especially the civil war and post civil war time period? How is that fair?

How is DC not having a voice fair? How is Puerto Rico, Guam, and the other territories not having any sort of proper voice fair?
And a good kitchen is 40% of the total floor area of a restaurant.
If this is genuine, it's a good indicator that more information can be obtained by making more risky hypotheses. If a joke then woosh on me. :)
This would be a waste of your time.

You have limited, precious time in the interview to learn about the company, their management practices, how they operate as a company, their growth history and plans, the composition of the company beyond the people you're interviewing with, and so on. Giving a single interviewer you're interfacing with a coding exercise would waste all of that valuable time.

A coding exercise would also be testing the wrong things. Often, the person running point on your interviews isn't a programmer in their day-to-day activities. At a tech company they likely have some technical background, but if someone has been a manager for 5 years and isn't coding day-to-day then what do you actually expect to get out of giving them a coding exercise?

As a hiring manager, if someone tried to give me a coding exercise I'd probably try to be a good sport and see if we could work it in 10-15 minutes, but I'd also be questioning the person's level of experience and maturity in the workplace. Hiring manager and IC developer are very different roles, and trying to give your hiring manager questions that don't explore their management style or how the company operates suggests that they don't really understand how the relationship is supposed to work.
Easily within most of San Francisco. It boils down to the neighborhood you live in, but a bus or streetcar can augment the trip. The downside of doing it that way is that then you also have to endure MUNI and depending on the time of the day it can feel taxing, so it’s better if you live in one of the neighborhoods that already has a good market street (e.g. Clement & Geary in the Inner Richmond).
Have you seen gbs-control?[1] It's not exactly what you're trying to do, but maybe close enough?

[1] https://github.com/ramapcsx2/gbs-control
Child labor is not covered by free market ideas because children are not consenting adults.

Consider this: free market capitalism enabled child labor laws. The reason is simple. Children had to work because non-free market societies did not produce enough surplus to make it possible for them to not work.

Free market capitalism also enabled 40 hour week laws.

Heck, it wasn't until around 1800 or so that free market agriculture produced enough food to eliminate the constant specter of famine that preceded it, and still haunts every non-free market agriculture system.
This is great. Is there some tutorial of this caliber for Pico's PIOs?
That's one way of looking at it. Alternative view: he burned up a cash cow for short term gains and it ended up being a shell of the company at its peak.

You can get a lot of mileage from a loom if you burn it, so much heat! What will you even do with all that heat? And then you need to make more fabric. Too bad you burned your loom.
You're right in a narrow sense but wrong in a broad one.

"It’s always more work to work with a company to get the last mile of the custom use case… than it would have been to just do it yourself."

This is true if all you need is a out of the box basemap with "data layers"

Many companies need to process data in real time or at least nightly to get it into a format that has all the information they need usually cross referenced and enhanced with multiple related data sources. These can be related via a primary key and simple or related via a simple or complex spatial relationship or spatial plus primary key relationships. This will require custom ETL pipelines that a utility company, for instance, doesn't have the in house expertise to create and maintain.

This also assumes you have the supporting elements already in place. Utilities often need to host data themselves for security or legacy reasons so they can't just use a cloud service. There are usually tools built on top of the data that need to be updated. A new geospatial system usually involves a lot more than just a new data layer. If that's all you need, then maybe these companies like felt are a good solution.
When I say 'Shopify Store' I mean for a niche provider of some physical good.

Imagine there is 'no market' for a specific kind of custom bike pedal maker for any individual city. Too small. But across North America - well - maybe there is enough of a market. Shopify enables little long tail retailers that may not exist otherwise, that can legitimately creative value and do something the 'Big Cos' cannot.

As for 'selling software' I'm not sure how Shopify works for that, though I can vouch that they have a good website maker, I like it better than Wix.

Indie Hacker is a neat place, probably some very good advice for tooling and tricks to use at the micro scale, just understand there's probably a fair bit of BS going on there, and that it's definitely oriented towards 'small time thinking'. Which is fine, but just be wary that's what it's about.
I guess we should cancel Level3, Equinix, AT&T and Verizon while we're at it?
> but used to pay people extra when they were the “get up and handle this” person.

When they were the person on-call, or only when they actually responded to an outage? Unless outages are really that infrequent, it pays to set clear boundaries on when and who is supposed to be available for an outage, and the cost of a dedicated solution like Pagerduty (or Grafana OnCall) is negligible.
Sensationalism and misleading/confusing headlines in the financial media
As an MD who is the son of a DVM:

Dad had his interests (hip dysplasia and veterinary orthopaedics) but was comfortable with pretty much everything including dentistry, most surgery and internal medicine. Newer DVMs do specialize somewhat in the sense that they tend to adopt more limited scopes of practice. There are even some that don't do spays and neuters which would have horrified my late father; those and vaccinations were the business bread and butter. Veterinary HMOs and PPOs are still a small part of the market and Dad never took them or completed claim forms for clients, but they're growing.

When I was in general practice I had a fair number of fee-for-service and cash pay patients (most were Medicaid/dual Medi-Medi and some HMO-PPO, but not the overwhelming majority), and I had the list of the (then) $4 drugs at the local supermarket pharmacies and we used that like a formulary to keep their out-of-pocket costs down. I'd say about a third of my patients were pediatric, the rest adults, and a smattering of prenatal. However, by modern standards even though we're trained to do it in family medicine I don't think many family practice physicians do full-scope because of the liability, particularly for prenatal care. I'm not in general care anymore, though I still see patients intermittently.

Veterinarians may have been more like yesterday's primary care a decade ago, but I'd argue that's increasingly no longer true.
That’s not their point. Their point is they have to get your useless notifications at 3 am and check them even when they aren’t urgent because you can’t know which is which until you read it. Stop texting people at 3 am unless it is urgent.
What the hell is this? Everything is hard, prepare for pain, work hard on relationship blah blah. Calm down, it’s not rocket science, people have been doing this forever. I have two kids and I can honestly say it’s actually really easy. Yes, they are not teenagers so maybe things get harder then but so far so good.

> 1. Sometimes for no apparent reason, you'll start crying

Give me a break, this is cringe.
> hangovers is largely the result of dehydration

This is mostly a myth.
> The challenge is simple although a bit time consuming.

This is really the problem though. You can't ask an interviewee to do anything too time consuming if you want senior people, who often have kids or are otherwise busy.
Or do. You need some iron in your diet.
this is a lame excuse. many americans have time to exercise and spend it doing other things
Closest thing to a walkthrough right now is the README in the trane-cli repo. It has the output of some of the commands so you can see what it looks like.

The only difference in normal usage is that you eventually reach the threshold to be shown more difficult units.