skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's ludicrously expensive too. A little bit of whole wasabi lasts me a long time as wasabi paste is sort of "foamed up" and I find the volume increases. It would be so worth it if I could cultivate even a single plant myself.

If you can't tell the difference, consider yourself lucky. I probably spend a few hundred dollars a year on wasabi and use it quite rarely.
>No feedback as to why I failed the test or anything

As a company, you can't really provide feedback on why people failed the test. Hell of a lot of people will get defensive and get into arguments with you that you don't have time for.

I agree however that one should at least tell you you are being rejected instead of ghosting you. That's just bad manners.
I do a lot of interviews for my company. We do coding assignments OR let you bring some code. We just want to talk with you about code that you are very familiar with and confident to talk about.

Almost everyone chooses to do the small coding assignment, because they don't have code to bring.
A baffling response at many levels. Both by the company (isn't this a great signal not to hire someone for their coding ability? Maybe everyone should put up a decoy solution) and the plagiarists (do they think the company hasn't seen the task before?).
Carpinteria on the California coast was a bitumen source used for waterproofing canoes. Much of Hwy 1 through Santa Barbara county was paved with asphalt from Carpinteria.
Indeed. I've offered them before to people who were borderline - i.e. in the interview they didn't really shine but I wanted to give them a chance to redeem themselves. Goes either way really.
Totally agree they are worse than DS&Algo(For those who consider them).
I love the "build a script" interface, very clear and transparent.
The thing is that if you practice for Google's interviews, at the same time you're also practicing for any other company that uses the same process (and that's many companies).
Alternative response: “Sure, I charge $xxx per hour, payable in advance. Please deposit to account xxxx and you get the solution 24 later.”
I wrote a tool that allows me to avoid the terrible Tempo web UI - you might be interested: https://github.com/smlx/jiratime
> Anonymizing spending on it’s own is not a crime.

Money laundering laws very much disagree with this.
Interesting to know! I suspected that might be the case, but didn't include it as I'm not all that familiar with the Brittonic languages.
I would write a newsletter about how to grow a newsletter from 1k to 10k subscribers.

In all seriousness, write about something 10k people would want to read and then go hang out where your audience hangs out. It's hard to give more detail without knowing more about your circumstances.
In the video he says that "yes/no" are for negative questions and "yea/nay" are for positive questions.
We don't know that. Perhaps someone else appeared to have more skill.
This very exact specific occurrence happened to me a while back and made me so livid I cold powered off the entire machine, downloaded Linux onto a flash drive from a different laptop, and have been running happily since. The forced auto reboot install of updates really pissed me off and then this forced ms account on install was the last straw. Haven’t used a Microsoft product personally ever since.
Is this something other than PRC propaganda?
My take on this what they were testing whether I could be pushed around, and I won't be. I'd not want to work at a place that plays those kind of mind-games.
It's only fair that a company asking you to do this should pay you because they should only be doing it once they are far down the funnel and perhaps deciding whether you are go/no-go in which case, paying somebody a few hundred dollars is neither here or there.

If you are doing it because you don't believe someone's ability, you should either pay them or be honest and say you don't believe their experience, in which case it is up to you whether you want to do it for free or not.

I find the ghosting unforgiveable though, I can't understand somebody being in contact and you simply not replying even if to say "sorry, we aren't taking you". Are people so insecure, they don't know how to reply without sounding aggressive/opening themselves up to lawsuits or something?
Agreed, Ptable is obviously superior.
Plagiarizing aka Parent Comment just made an Open Source "library". What's wrong with using those??
I think you give to much credit to the EU.

The main reasoning is something like this:

Climate change bad, green bio fuels good, subsidize as much as possible. We're subsidizing farmers like crazy anyway so maybe we can turn that fund into align with our other goals a bit. Oh wow we didn't realize there would be side effects.
The AWS builders library has quite a few good patterns / design principles

https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/
That's easy, honestly. Give people an option:

- host your own instance, no limits on usage because you're paying your own way, hosting your own images and content, running your own server

- use someone else's instance, they can show you whatever ads they like (though preferably in a sidebar, not integrated into your main feed) and subject you to space limitations. In a truly federated environment where users can easily switch between instances, those instances can compete based on ad and space efficiency. Some folks, like myself, might shell out for their own instance and host friends and family with no ads and ample space just to be nice.

Facebook as of 2009 was damn near "feature complete" social media. Messaging, photos, videos, comments, chronological feed. It's not that complicated. You could run the whole thing as an open source + donation based project, like Wikipedia or Mozilla. You don't need tens of thousands of engineers and venture capital that forces you to employ dark patterns and inject more and more ads and growth. Hell, I think that governments could even donate to a project like this since it's essentially a public service and (compared to Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/TikTok) an investment in public mental health.
If you ask a candidate to complete such a thing and then they turn in obviously copied work, isn't the author who published it doing the hiring manager a favor?
Clearly, but that doesn't mean it's a nice way to treat people.
They do note "Bad Actors cannot take over the system until they have played by the rules long enough to have accumulated sufficiently high reputation scores. Note they can only acquire reputation by being good Actors in the eyes of already-good Actors. "

However, the "mitigation" already demonstrates a potential attack for the proposed algorithm, namely, that once a bad actor does get some reputation score capital (e.g. by investing some money/effort on genuine good content) then they get the effective ability to invest that reputation into spawning a self-reinforcing farm with a large quantity of reputation bots (using the mechanism of periodic replenishment of rating tokens) who do not need approval from any good actors if they get initially boosted/sponsored by the bad actor, and they can then indeed take over the whole system by maximizing their effect of the rating process/investment which real users simply won't do.
> I will not do take home assignments for free if they take more than 1h of my time.

Even then, if something can be done in 1 hour, it can probably be done better in 2-3 hours or more. It takes time to show your best work. That's why many companies that do take-homes claim that their process takes only a couple of hours (but in reality it doesn't).
They’ve already applied to the FCC for the 2Ghz spectrum. They’re already launching the larger 1.5 satellites that include lasers to limit ground stations. They just had a successful test fire of a starship with the engines mounted this week.

What makes you doubt the company that made reusable rockets that land on boats and reflux 13+ times won’t do this? The ENTIRE industry said it was impossible but it was fully within the realm of physics. They pulled it off because it was possible.
In the event that I’m responsible for assigning these sorts of things, my rough metric is to come
up with a task that I, fully spun up on the task and already thinking about it, would be able to do in about 30 minutes.

I then time myself doing it.

I figure that means the applicant time commitment is under 2 hours, which seems not too bad.
I would have sent them a contract to buy the code for $15k.
I would ensure that the data size is managed if you hit the limits due to your policy Redis will stop responding to ensure the data it has isn’t lost. I would also turn on some sort of persistence for data recovery in case of catastrophic failure. Early on this is totally fine and I would setup some monitors in redis data size relative to memory and try to keep 20% overhead weird things start to happen when systems are memory constrained.
I use GoJira for this (https://github.com/go-jira/jira) and I'm mostly happy with it.

Gojira is the original name of Godzilla and the name of a heavy metal band so I always have to include "github" when I search for it.
The Wall Street Putsch
You can always publish the assignment on your GitHub and use it for future roles, explaining that you won't be doing any future assignments but they are welcome to look at the previous one.
It’s odd to me how people complain so much about being asked to write code (whiteboard, take-home, leetcode puzzles) in order to land a coding job.

Is a prospective employer supposed to suss this out entirely through verbal questions?
FAFO

Currency is a matter of national security. Crypto is still tiny when compared to the wealth central banks oversee.

If a crypto currency ever becomes large enough to actually disrupt the current world order it will be controlled by the USA. Money is power, and power is not ceded without a fight. Fight the banks for control, or limit that control, and you will find out what real power looks like.
Isn't this called a helicopter? Aside from the noise, etc. issues with them, what would be the difference between a flying car and a helicopter? The need for a pilot's license to fly one?
Up front, ghosting is not okay in general. But, a few counterpoints: It seems very unlikely they expected or wanted it to take you 6 hours. Possible, but certainly an outlier (and obviously bad actor) if so. If they expected you to spent 1.5-2 hours on it - a reasonable amount of time IMO - but when got it back you clearly spent an entire day working on it, that's enough to fail because you didn't follow the directions.

Additionally, software development seems to be the only area where the candidates get bent out of shape being expected to prove they know what they're doing. Take home tests are bad and have to be confined to an hour. Whiteboard interviews are bad and don't accurately model the day-to-day. Leetcode is bad because it's 10x harder than anything you'll work on. How exactly do we expect someone to get a sense of our skill at programming if we eschew every opportunity to... program for them to review? The exception might be extremely well-known people who have extensive public histories on GitHub or something similar, but by definition they're in the minority and 99.9% of companies don't need someone of that caliber.

I interviewed with a health tech startup and they had a good way to do it. We set up a time ahead of time when I'd be given access to the repo. 90 minutes later the interviewer was going to clone the repo and whatever was there was what he was going to look at. This was after a previous ~hour long interview where we did the "tell me about your experience" rigamarole that some developers seem to think should be enough to get them any job.
But what progress here?

Someone who worked for us 20 years+ ago charged you too much. Sorry, it wouldn't happen now.
Viruses nowadays are most commonly uses to establish botnets and steal credentials, so virus writers try to not disrupt the host and to remain as invisible as possible. The one exception being ransomware.
Is it classist to be against fast fashion?
Did the FT promote climate change denial in the past?

Sky News is no longer owned by Rupert Murdoch.
> Consciously or not they bet that in 40-60 years the system they live now would remain unchanged … laws to protect savings of the regular people still would be in place

I really worry about that. I have been steadily saving in my 401(k) for my entire working life, and while it is not a huge amount, it is a few years’ wages. Meanwhile, plenty of people have saved nothing for retirement.

I have no assurance that a wealth tax will not be imposed on that 401(k) to fund others’ retirements; I don’t even really have any assurance that income taxes won’t be imposed on Roth IRAs or 401(k)s, despite that being their whole reason for existence.

I can easily see some demagogue riling people up and calling me a wrecker or a hoarder because rather than spend my income today I have been saving it for the future. I can easily see a more restrained demagogue calling for me to pay ‘my fair share,’ defining that as some increased amount because I had the foresight and discipline to sacrifice for decades.

I can see that money I have been carefully husbanding through financial crises and wars taken from me, and I can see being told that I should be grateful to keep any of it.
Did you read the whole article? Ok, 2021 has been better than the last 18 years, but still below the long-term average (https://www.severe-weather.eu/wp-content/gallery/cryosphere/...), so "largest coverage" it is not - and also one good year doesn't mean that it will keep getting better.
That's fair, but if you don't think it's meant as a joke, what do you think the intention is?
I am not too sure getting paid for them honestly makes much difference. For an average job hunt the amount you would be paid is small compared to the hopeful raise you get. Plus tax complications.

Before doing an assignment just work out the “pot odds” and see if you want to raise or fold. Yes it is basically poker!
You are, of course, correct. You still could have made $XXX/hr for the privilege to continue this charade and then reject their offer.
Good for you, but NAC has a host of effects so you couldn't say it was due to glutamate for sure.

For example, NAC mainly increases glutathione, the primary antioxidant your body uses, so it may reduce the level of oxidative stress and lower your body's stress response. It also increases the level of SAM-e in your body (as you can transform sulfur containing amino acids methionine and cysteine into each other). SAM-e is a crucial cofactor for many processes including creation of neurotransmitters such as dopamine and serotonin. And an increase in sulfur amino acids (including NAC) also modulates your gut microbiome.
Very obviously? Am I missing something?

That being said, I'm strongly considering switching to a Matrix client these days, since I like the idea of encrypted chat that works across whatever client I prefer. If you're knowledgeable in the encrypted chat space I'd love to hear your thoughts on the pros and cons.
but most of it is that natural gas is a lot cheaper than coal and doesn't emit as much co2. the decision was more of a by product of chasing the cheapest energy source.
https://www.coe.int/en/web/impact-convention-human-rights/ri...
When goats eat weeds will they eat and destroy the whole weed? Or do they eat just down to the surface level of the ground which will let the weed grow back immediately?
Does it really benefit anyone? Massive organisations like the Indian railways don't blink at a fine of $160 and they certainly aren't going to change anything. Presumably most people don't get over-charged so there isn't necessarily anything they can improve anyway.
The thing about crypto is that 50% of crypto is outright scams, 30% is nonsense, 15% is interesting academically but completely useless, and 5% is transformative in a very narrow particular set of circumstances that very few people actually have.

And I'm being generous.
All children aged 1 to 9 in London to be offered a dose of polio vaccine
If I create a new type of leather wallet and then North Korea uses it for money laundering, can I be charged for "facilitation"? What about if I discovered electricity, which lead to money laundering?

Where is the line here, and who defines it?
This is not what empirical measurements show. It is referring to a minimum internal benchmark, rather than what actually happens. (source: work there)

If you're getting shadow banned somewhere, it is typically either the site itself or their CDN or bot management providers that is sending you into a challenge loop; hCaptcha doesn't control the behavior in those scenarios.
Group policy is your friend. I always disable automatic updates and Defender.
4 & 5 are simply nonsense.

3 does not really apply in France. There are extensive swathes of country which are hugely monocultured already with food crops. At the same time small farming, economically uncompetitive types of farming, and other forms of land stewardship are extensively supported by the state in various ways. The question of monoculture is much more complicated than to think that growing rape for biodiesel is going to remove biodiversity.
Shouldn't "defense" be in air-quotes?
If you get to talking about code (usually after a quick seeding of applications and a 30 minute chat), we will always talk about the code and also give feedback on our impression. So even if you don't make the cut, we hope to provide valuable feedback on why.
Or they had too many applicants and ignored him randomly, or they had an internal transfer, or they decided they didn't like his resume and never even looked at his code (no cost to have him do the exercise after all...), or they didn't like his style of tabs vs spaces, etc.
Often I want exactly the opposite of "relevant" results - I want results related to what I searched for, not to where I'm located nor to what's currently happening.

Someone on HN complained they couldn't Google their acquaintance around the time of the Olympics, because one of the participants had a name which was different but similar, and Google just couldn't grok you'd want to look for someone else than an Olympian...
Deploying Rust web app on Fly.io
Uses Rusts Rocket framework and Docker to deploy a web app to fly.io. The Dockerfile also works for AWS ECS.
So men are the only people who comment without revealing their gender? What about trans individuals? Does that mean I can reliably mask my gender by deciding whether or not I mention it in my comments and posts?

And this still doesn't answer what rules you or the men's talk expert you asked use. Anybody can claim they have "a lifetime of experience" in anything they want, but without either an empirical success rate or a set of explicit testable rules, it's all bullshit out of their ass.

>We have a lifetime of experience listening to a man's point of view.

I and a lot of other men have a lifetime of experience listening to women's point of view too, and yet I can find no sane man who claims they can identify gender from text, unless in very special cases.
Which is cool and all, but the side effect of this all is less people would be able to eat mustard. Prices going up is often inevitable but hardly a win.

It'd be interesting to have an accounting of what end-of-the-day benefits people got for giving up their mustard.
You don't need 15yr of foresight. I can see someone keeping their mouth shut for the first X years on the basis of "things are going well, my project is being adopted, I had better not F with it by increasing the number of coins in play lest there be unintended consequences" and then at some point deciding that things have gotten out of hand, the stakes are too high, pulling the hard drive off the shelf, drilling it and tossing it in the bay.
That's OK by me. I'd very much enjoy a small community of passionate people like us. My family and friends are fed up with Facebook enough that I could probably persuade them to switch. I don't need everyone on there -- just the people I care about and respect.

Of course I think the whole world would benefit if everyone switched away from Facebook, but no need to rush anything.
The size of the fine likely is somewhat revenue based, that's why they used Google to scare others.
Do pair-programming exercises. When the hiring company is investing a proportionate amount of their time in the process then I'm much more willing to participate.

It's much the same vein as that Canonical recruitment questionnaire that was doing the rounds a while ago - if you want to sit with me (virtually or IRL) and ask me questions, that's fine. If you want me to submit an essay that takes me hours to write then you're going to have to be offering me something I cannot possibly get elsewhere!

In the end it's about mutual respect.
Ironically, I find your interpretation of the parent comment uncharitable, because I never would have framed the core argument the way you did.

I don't think the behavior and results of airplane hijackings pre 9/11 fall into common knowledge, even on hacker news. That's a pretty niche, specific collection of 20+ year old historical facts.
> Hell of a lot of people will get defensive and get into arguments with you that you don't have time for.

I find this to be a bullshit cop-out. You can always ghost them after providing initial feedback if you don't want to engage in arguments.
Given the Super U reference, gp is presumably in France.
> weather the justification was correct or not is not what I am pointing out

This is however entirely critical to the whole thing. Pretty much every country which has ever launched an aggressive war has claimed along the way that it was defensive or in response to provocation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_declaration_of_war_agai... : yup, that's Hitler claiming that it was in response to US provocation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_declaration_of_war_on... : yes, after history's most famous surprise attack there's a declaration with "Our Empire, for its existence and self-defense has no other recourse but to appeal to arms and to crush every obstacle in its path" on the end.
I live my life similarly to yours. Then I read stories about how celebrities are using private jets to make 15 minute runs to the next town over. Or how the Saudi family continues to, you know, exist.

This is why I am pessimistic about humanity’s future. We need to make systemic changes, but those who benefit from the system will never voluntarily agree to give up that power, even if it means doom for themselves and the rest of us.
To me, there are three tests to figure out if a home assignment is reasonable…

1. Is it actually giving the employer more confidence or information about your candidacy?

2. Is it within the normal bounds of an interview? If someone asked you to do another 60 minute technical interview, would you?

3. Is the company clearly not trying to use the product of your code challenge?

To be honest, there are a lot of people who can look impressive but turn out to be totally under-skilled at coding. I’m sympathetic to hiring managers who feel like they need to test for that. As long as it’s not a super long exercise, they’re not just hazing you, and they’re not trying to use the results, I think it’s fine.
I prefer them to whiteboarding. Preparing for whiteboard interviews takes a lot more time.

I will however not accept a take-home coding test before I spoke with the engineering team and saw that they're seriously considering my application (i.e. it looks like I will be a good fit, and they just want to make sure I'm not some fraud who can somehow talk the talk, but can't walk the walk).
At least with live-coding, the company is investing at least as many person-hours as you are -- in my experience 2x as much, since there are normally 2 people doing the evaluation.