skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s the average. Many pieces of clothes are worn hundreds of times. Which means the median is probably lower than 6. Many pieces of clothes are probably only worn once or twice.
How do companies hire paralegals, staff accountants (no CPA), various business consultants, HR, marketing staff, etc? In my entire peer group, only the software engineers have ridiculously time-consuming take-home tests.
The vast majority of working engineers don’t bother with PE certifications.
I really like your approach and wish more employers employed it (haHaa).
As an applicant I'd certainly appreciate it.
You're basically describing HackerRank, and I've worked with some pretty terrible engineers who were very proud of their HackerRank credentials.

Write such a test. Give it to all the engineers whose work you know well, and see if it can accurately predict what they brought to your team. I would be very surprised if you could both spot good talent and dead weights reliably.
Just saw this. Thanks!
Choose a camp so a culture war can unfold.
> I ran benchmarks [...] matching the regex Ben.*H over 100 concatenated repeats of the King James Bible.

Is there a concern with these kinds of micro-benchmarks, where you repeatedly do the same small operation (matching the same regex), that your results will be skewed by the branch predictor, CPU caches, etc.?
I don't think people are complaining about writing code, I think they are complaining about the time involved with take homes (just having done a couple I can empathize with) and whiteboard codings "high stress nature".

I've also had interviews which just talk about work I've done before. Most industries only need that, and I'm coming around to those being the more valuable questions.
If I ever get around to writing my Notational Velocity clone for Serenity OS, it's going to be done in C++.
> Apparently the approved HN method is to arrange the resumes on a dartboard, throw darts at it, and commit up front to hiring whoever you hit unconditionally for at least two years without no possibility of having to fire them.

Yes, but to be fair, I am not convinced that such a method would yield drastically worse results than what is already done at many places. I am not totally being facetious about that either!

It's a jungle. People get hired or rejected for all kinds of reasons, meritocracy has less to do with it than we would all like.

The best approach is to keep one's professional network well-maintained so that when it comes time to change, your reputation precedes you. That's not always possible. Some jobs really are filled from candidates who drop their resume into an anonymous applicant vat on the web and hope for the best. But I think the best-fit jobs are often obtained when you know someone and they know you.
I think it's likely when they started Bitcoin they used a "genesis" account which they never intended to keep the keys of

They probably also had other keys that they mined early coins on that they did keep, this would be consistent with Satoshi being Hal Finney or Nick Szabo

> I imagine one would just come out, say they've lost all their BTC, that the original project was a failure but they have an even better idea now, and starting a new cryptocurrency with his name attached. Overnight billionaire once again.

1. They probably made enough off BTC to retire rich already, why go through any trouble to make even more money (not everyone has the drive to accumulate billions when they already have millions)

2. If they've destroyed/lost the original keys there is no way to prove they are Satoshi and nobody would believe them, like Craig Wright who claims to be Satoshi and started a BTC fork which picked up very little traction
To me, PE means either pulmonary embolism or private equity (and I have a hard time trying to decide with one I'd rather have to deal with). Which is to say there are too many initialisms these days and I have no idea what you mean even in context, and I wish people would take the time to write out words.
Twitter fails to remove 85% of Islamophobic posts, new study finds
I have found a large drop-off in time wasters after using Starblazer for my scheduling. Not to shill or anything, these recruiters are getting paid 10% to do jack-shit for you so I just send them my scheduling link with my hourly rate... you wanna talk to me? pay me (https://bk.starblazer.pro/Lazaro)
so when are we arresting engineers who built roads and trucks that were used for money laundering?
For Japanese companies, it seems to be common to ask candidates to complete coding assignments before any interview. These assignments are usually extremely complex, and would take maybe 2-3 days to complete, depending on the candidates experience.

Combine this with relatively low salaries even for experienced developers, I don't think it is something anyone should want to do, no matter how much you'd love to go there.
I think it's possible too, and I'm sure the military can/always is trying to cut money corners where it can so as to keep within budget, but I'm sure it all comes down to some massive cut in the military likely requiring us to decommit from some massive objective we currently are ahead on. Making sure we have enough presence to keep the South China Sea open, have enough equipment to give to countries we are allied with who have large enemies (see Ukraine, Taiwan), hold on to allies in strategic regions (see Israel - though I don't agree with what they do with equipment), be prepared for self defense or "necessary wars", be prepared to deploy to Europe because they underspend, maintain the nuclear arsenal so there's no catastrophe there, etc etc. No one wants to be the president who cut the budget so we lost in that field.
No, 5 to 10 is not unavoidable, sorry. The current most likely scenario assuming status quo is between 2 and 4, if i recall my IPCC properly.

And it's really _not_ the same as 10 !
Hello Everyone!
Dealing with huge data is a lot of work, and the only way to dodge it is to have an analytics dashboard that displays the required insights of data.
Solving this problem I have built an HR analytics dashboard on top of the snowflake database using DronaHQ. The main function of dashboards is to drive insights such as YoY revenue, employee job satisfaction, etc using charts and CRUD operations.
Benefits of using DronaHQ:
1) With the help of various pre-defined controls such as chart and dashboard control make the application is more interactive.
2) Ready-to-use connectors, like the Snowflake connector, make it easy to integrate them into the application.
The above link is a blog which I wrote defining step-by-step process on how to build an HR analytics dashboard.
You can also find a video in the blog, which will give you a walkthrough of how to build this app.
The first thought I had was that this was a Chinese Government imposed policy to stop anyone from discussing non-Han history and culture. I'm surprised to learn that, at least in theory, Tibet is still a separate country from Red China.
"The price shown should be the price paid" is not a "minute detail" it's like the fundamental basis of advertising.

What's frightening is how many people believe in the myth of the free market of rational consumers.
> This is the contention I have with the "fine-tune" argument against DM: there's still tuning needed from the MOND side to both make it a predictable tool across the universe and also ensure it still acts like EFE at home.

The whole point of MOND is that our gravitational theory is inadequate, and exploring what modifications are needed to match observations is the way move forward, rather than assuming GR is correct and searching for the missing mass it says should be there. We actually already know GR must be wrong because of its singularities, so this insistence on looking for DM despite the constant failures is doubly strange.

MOND's process of exploring what modifications are needed isn't "fine-tuning" in the way that DM has been tuned because MOND is not a final or complete theory, and nobody has presented it as such.
>Is a prospective employer supposed to suss this out entirely through verbal questions?

Yes

It's really not that hard to ask questions that evaluate a candidate's ability without devolving into trivia

Programming is merely logical thought converted into a terse form that a computer can execute

Ask how to solve a problem; ask what needs to be considered to solve it; ask what corner cases does the initial answer not cover; ask for something like a confidence interval on how likely you think errors will happen (and how you plan to respond to them); ask how the program needs to change when you convert it from a cgi-bin/ C program to Ruby or PHP or Go; ask how a solution looks different in any two of the languages the candidate knows/likes

Would you only hire a surgeon after they demonstrate an appendectomy? Would you hire a mechanic only after they demonstrate building a transmission from spare parts?
lessons learned the hard way
This was me as well, albeit the company asked me to time box the take home test to 1 hour, which I think is fairly reasonable.
My rule is that the interview process is symmetrical -- I will not be spending more time in the interview process than people at the company. Whiteboard interviews are personally a red flag, since they're a sign that the company doesn't quite know what they're looking for in an applicant, but they're not exploitative the way takeaway homework is.
>How do companies hire paralegals, staff accountants (no CPA), various business consultants, HR, marketing staff, etc?

Easy. They have a 15-30 minute chat over coffee or lunch, then they get hired.
"The effect may be considerable in a few centuries"

So optimistic! We F'ed up way before that!
Wow. This is a long article but it's very well-written and handles the nuances of this conversation very well.
Thrift shops are selling used goods for prices similar to fast fashion. Many don't enjoy this experience as it no longer feels satisfying to get a bargain.
Wrong. Germany for example is known [0] for money laundering through properties, because big cash purchases hardly ever get reported.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-15/germany-t...
It’s not shtick, it makes perfect sense to me - unlike your post which has no substance.
Group-think does not equal truth.
Just because there is no compelling alternative theory does not make the Dark Matter Theory correct.
It’s probably nonsense, like many theories in Physics such as the Big Bang. Our level of intelligence and understanding, at the moment, is simply too small to comprehend the mysteries of the Universe that we live in.
New ‘Langya’ virus identified in China
Lately it’s mostly CAM/CAE and HPC stuff. Some of these projects are indeed using other languages, like C#, HLSL, CUDA C++, Python.
What about it? Some people may not have a choice but they'd still like to improve their privacy / security.
I think you're thinking of N3. M2 is still on N5.
Professional Engineer license
>> The case highlights India’s overloaded court system, where around 40m cases are clogging up the system. Legal cases have been known to take 10-15 years to reach a conclusion.

Most interesting tidbit for me. Is this really true?
Dependabot only works reliably with lots of integration tests.
Past mistakes of militaries does not mean militaries should be abolished. Just like past mistakes of police does not mean police should be abolished (they'd just be renamed to something else).

You can be upset by past actions of the US military (or any) without calling for GP to quit his job.

I would be happy in a peaceful world, but a world without defense capabilities is a world of helpless people, not peaceful ones.
A new method boosts wind farms’ energy output, without new equipment
> quite a few individuals who ... that they just shouldn't have to do anything to get hired

THAT is your strawman. I would question that this is a "common" assumption - most everyone, when pressed, understands there is some need for an interview and some form of evaluation of skills. They may push back on specific mentions as one person already mentioned, but almost everyone falls in a middle ground where it's something like "yes, interviewers have to vet people, and that is hard, but it can be done in a manner that is respectful of the interviewee's time and properly reflects the kinds of things a person may be asked to do for the job in question."

I would premise that the problem isn't with (most) interviewees not wanting to do anything to get hired, but that (many) interviewers do not have a lot of experience interviewing and have just googled what other companies do and copied that, many times for the detriment to the entire process. If the interview process were actually thoughtfully designed to both probe the interviewee's ability to work with the team in question and ability to do the specific work the position entails, I don't think you'd see nearly the same level of disdain for the process.
Next time demand compensation for your time.
Jason Turner (C++ weekly) has a great collection of modern 'best practices' for new C++ projects:
https://github.com/orgs/cpp-best-practices/repositories
It is if you're not talented — these people are here, commenting now, that think solely "meeting people" and convincing them to give you things is enough of a life skill to go off of.
PyPI package 'secretslib' drops fileless Linux malware to mine Monero
What’s Clyde Drexler got to do with anything? :)
> Name me one interview method that actually has better results than that? Okay, lets eliminate the ones that are obviously unqualified from the ones we paste up, is your method still better?

Once we admit "eliminate the ones that are obviously unqualified", there's no longer a principled distinction between dartboarding and what we actually have, it's just a matter of degree of filtering.

The optimal level of filtering is almost inherently going to look higher to employers and lower to applicants based on their incentives. Fixing this is a coordinated action problem.
We’re getting air source heat pumps for our house in Michigan- including new tech that makes it still work to minus 20. However, due to the possibility of a polar vortex, and the decreasing efficiency below zero, the installer recommended a small backup furnace for the lower floor (the full electric backup option was electric heat coils, but that’s super inefficient). It will be interesting to see how often we choose to use that in practice.

The installer estimates I won’t save any money on energy bills during the heating season (like we would with ground source), but should be comperable. I also like that when we eventually get solar, we’ll be able to power our entire house (also getting induction stove).
Five Chinese state-owned companies to delist from NYSE
I am 50/50 with this. Livecoding is very hit and miss. If the answer comes into your head under the pressure, all good. If it doesn't you look incompetent. Usually it's 50/50 for me. So 2 hours of effort would likely get me pass. 8 hours of assignment should as well, but I have been rejected for ridiculously trivial reasons on take homes as well.
Weather Forecasts and the Lost Art of Common Sense
A bit weird, but still intriguing. :)
Same here, The take home assignments are easy for me, but I can't seem to manage to break through the live-code / leet-code sections with the guaranteed panic attacks.

Lucky for me, landed a role that had checked my github profile and answered some questions, which was sufficient to convince them. No waterboarding required :)
> It's not clear to me that DDG even does (1) though from the article - all the claims I can see are slightly weaker

Exactly right! The claim seems to be that DDG's privacy policy contains text that, if you squint just right while standing on one leg, might suggest that there exists something like "an anonymized per-person search history," maybe. Or they might have used that term to mean that there is no per-person search history. It's vague.
What about 1099-S reporting?
No, "si" is only used as a positive response to a negative question.

A: Tu ne vas pas au club, n'est-ce pas? //You're not going to the club, right?

B: Si! //Yes! ; this means B is going to the club

B: Oui! //Yes! ; this means B is agreeing with A, indeed B is not going to the club; in practice this is probably somewhat ambiguous

B: Non! //No! ; probably this also means that B is not going to the club, though it could also mean that B is contradicting A: B is going to the club.

In contrast, if A had asked "Tu vas au club?" (Are you going to the club?), B wouldn't normally answer "Si", since "Si" only makes sense as a response for a negative question.
Docsify https://docsify.js.org

Astro https://astro.build/
Not to mention include in filenames.
My NetBSD Mac mini G4 is a router, running tincd primarily.

My NetBSD IIci handles internal DHCP, RARP, TFTP, DNS, power failure alert propagation, and classic EtherTalk and AppleShare for the oldest Mac clients.

My NetBSD RaQ is a big NFS server.

My NetBSD Jornada 690 is just for fun. :)
Those resources (both equipment and guidance) must come from somewhere, and unfortunately usually they don't come from the school. Schools tend to treat science fairs as an extracurricular afterthought.

In Robert's case there are highly motivated parents and a motivated student, but it's really about the starting point. Motivation is something that can be fostered.
Lots of companies perform rigorous assessment tests for high profile or high paying jobs. IT is not the exception.
> Happiness as “Evdemonia” in Aristotelian scripts

Since when would Aristotle have used the latin alphabet?
Brightest stars in the night sky can strip Neptune-sized planets to rocky cores
There is still circuitry that we don't fully understand, along with the role of glia in information processing and with mysteries surrounding the processing capabilities of synapses/receptors and neuronal oscillations. That's not even the half of it.

There is so much in the way of biochemical pathways such as regulation of neurotransmitters and receptor and other protein trafficking and modification that the complexity is insanely difficult to comprehend.

And I haven't even mentioned the neuroendocrine system.
Ghosting is not a practice, it’s inaction. And no one really considers it OK. But passive, default behaviours don’t need to be considered OK to keep happening.
There are a few coincidences in the imperial system that make life easy. That highway driving speed is around 1 mile per minute is a pure coincidence.

Most/all of the other examples you list are pretty useless to me for daily life:

- A mile is closer to 2100 paces for me, a 6’2” guy

- 20min/mile walking is just as useful as 12min/km which is about equivalent speed

- Temps, sure it’s a nice 0-100 witch is symmetric but not much else

- 1/1000th of an inch doesn’t impact my daily life

- height and weight are similar to temperature. A pleasant range that doesn’t make anything in my life easier

- imperial volumetric measurements are actually insane and actively make my life worse. It doesn’t matter that they’re readily divisible by common numbers bc it’s impossible to remember what number to divide by to go between them.
> take note British Broadcasting Corporation

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize <-- Gàidhlig / Gaeilge / Cymraeg language options available

Gàidhlig

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/alba <-- a tv channel

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_nan_gaidhea... <-- a radio channel

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p09xzjpm

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/group/p09xwbsz

- https://speakgaelic.scot/

Gaeilge

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/group/p084p79m <-- not a dedicated channel like Gàidhlig but regular TV programming

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zqtw7ty

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007cpvp

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00cmsk6

I mean, thats just a very quick look, yes Gàidhlig is better served than Gaeilge but my feeling is that those looking for Gaeilge resources are probably looking elsewhere ;-)
Have you ever heard of a restaurant having applicants mix drinks behind the bar for an hour to see if they're really as good as they claim to be? How many administrative offices have their applicants perform regular tasks on dummy data sets? And, the other way around: how often do applicants have their prospective team lead perform an hour of work for them, to see if the company is a decent match?

I think these tests are a good way to have people without previous experience or formal education prove themselves. If you have skills, but no credentials, no public Git[la|hu]b, and no experience, you can still prove yourself with one of these programming tests. However, once someone has a year or so of experience or has finished formal education, the decision should be based on their credentials and the interview, not some kind of demonstration.
These days "microcontroller" refers to a part that has self-contained flash and SRAM, and the MMU/Linux-capable SoCs need external mass storage and DRAM to run. So there's a cost adder on the Linux parts. You might also need a denser PCB to handle DRAM signals (although Jay Carlson might be right on this).
Datacenter Props Up Nvidia as Gaming Sales Collapse
> React is from Facebook, isn't it?

Yes, but it uses a massive number of libraries that were not developed at Facebook.

> But yes, with an increasing amount of dependencies the process of updating such needs more effort as well. But then, we can postpone such updates, if the application under development is safety critical...

Postponing dependency updates is very, very bad for security. That is not a solution to supply-chain attacks.

> Well, one should be able to judge about the workings imo. Otherwise maintainability can get painful in the long run.

The whole point of APIs is that we do not need to understand the inner workers of code that we're calling. How many of us use bcrypt and couldn't tell you anything about the underlying algorithm?
Your opinion is valid and understandable, but has no bearing on top-level commenters career decisions.

And nobody here really has any solid ground to defend the US in those instances where they have morally slipped, but nobody has any right to say the US should not have a military because of those instances.
Ask if they have any code that they would be willing to bring in and discuss.
The first sentence of TFA says n2 was announced “earlier this month” (in 2022), so it must be mistaken memory or you were reading unreliable rumors.
Exactly. So, do homework and only apply to those companies that interview the way you want to be interviewed. Devs shouldn't be sending out 250 resumes to rando corps anyway. Figure out who you want to actually work for.
Why draw the line at 1 hour? If companies want good talent, they should invest in their interview process, such that take homes are unnecessary.

The only companies that asked me to do a take home are ones with horrible, unprepared interviews where it was clear interviewers were just kinda talking and feeling around for... something.
I think future generations will look back and think we were morons for choosing coal over nuclear. The radiation from particulates released by burning coal actually kills more people each year than the radiation from nuclear accidents has ever killed. Plus we also made a nice little climate change disaster on our little space ship Earth that's hurling through the Milky Way.
Experts troubled by Canada’s euthanasia laws
I would bet it's easier to do it with a 1 man company, the megacorps are famous for firewalling themselves from liability with very good contract lawyers.

You may also be able to get 3rd party insurance for this.
Musk’s specialty is selling vaporware and big promises.

Satoshi released working software without prior announcements and did hardly anything to promote it.

I don’t know how anyone really thinks Elon could be Satoshi.