skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The two things I like about them from a candidate perspective are that they're async, and that they generally have an actual problem to solve, rather than "solve N-Queens." Some companies (Dropbox comes to mind) have coding tests, but they're async, and they also aren't convoluted Leetcode problems.

I've also interviewed people using both live and a take-home review, and don't have much of a preference there. If the former, I can poke your thoughts in realtime, give hints, etc. If the latter, I get to deep-dive into some of your design decisions.
Interesting. "Key Hole" is the code name for the KH-11 reconnaissance satellite. [0] I never made the connection between the names.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-11_KENNEN
Yeah, a mechanical clutch would be a BEAR!!! All my personal vehicles have always had a hydraulic clutch. They make it so simple your left foot can just do it without you much noticing it.
>Despite all of its shortcomings, Wikipedia has been a relatively successful model. It is decentralized with an army of volunteers that try to stick to reliable sources. It leverages the fact that honest participants greatly outnumber malicious ones.

Still results in some segments of the site becoming captured. For example, the Leftist political commentator Kyle Kulinski was a frequent target of deletion on Wikipedia from what appears to be his criticism of the Democratic establishment. This effort to delete him was ramped up during the 2020 election and was successful. I lost a lot of trust in Wikipedia editors.

It exposed the possibility that older editors have spent the time building up a reputation only to be used later on when it is needed to silence some view or person. I had never thought of this attack vector before the 2020 election but I suspect dishonest actors are building up this database of "trusted people" on all platforms.

Despite him being re-added in 2021 after the election season died down, the anger I experienced during the 2020 election when this happened has altered my thoughts on Wikipedia. I personally have committed to never donate to Wikipedia ever again because I have just lost (at lease some) some semblance of trust in their editors.

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...
If I set a take-home test designed to take two hours, and then very clearly tell the candidate to take two hours, and then they clearly spent way longer than that, then I will consider that a signal that they don’t follow instructions well and don’t value their time appropriately.
Hackers reportedly deepfaked a Binance exec to carry out listing scams
Thanks for the link.
There is another thread talking about similar topic https://www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/uro3js/i_compared_t...
"b) Exploration of the bolded part of OpenAI's comment "Each generated image includes a signature in the lower right corner, with the goal of indicating when DALL·E 2 helped generate a certain image." (source)." (source link: https://github.com/openai/dalle-2-preview/blob/main/system-c...)

I feel the DALL-E 2 watermark signature could be a seed or something.
> If they can't walk, I suspect assisted living is the only option.

No, as mentioned in my sibling comment (and in the post you linked to earlier!) bike infrastructure also helps people who can't walk. Mobility scooters work fine on a bike path and people who can't walk (or have trouble walking) are among those who would use one.

You just need your city design to accommodate it. Bike paths help, as do ramps into buildings or ground-level entrances.

(I really wish we could popularize a term other than "bike lanes" for these in the US to acknowledge that they're useful for far more than just bikes.)
Things like Kiwifarms which provide a risk of substantial reputational damage if you're seen to be supporting them. There's a campaign on Twitter to deplatform KF from Cloudflare after more SWATting incidents, for example.
Stop giving up, we tested several alternatives not too long ago and it's possible to get a small DB for free: https://nixsanctuary.com/best-paas-backend-hosting-heroku-vs...
This does strike me as kind of weird but in the same way it's weird that github lets you author commits with other people's email address and it shows up with a reference to their github account. A lot of github has very strange UI edge cases which come from the fact their features are a leaky abstraction over core git operations. Since the PR diff shows no changes were made and the merged commit is one that's authored by an actual contributor, I'm not sure it's as much a security vulnerability as a curiosity.
> Fundamentally, AdNauseam's approach is the correct one: corrupted data is far worse for adtech than missing data.

No chance. No one cares if the data they have on you is accurate or not, least of all ad companies. They'll happily push ads at you all day and it doesn't matter to them what they're for. Companies will continue to use that false data to force you to pay more. An employer who refuses to hire you because of a false understanding of your spending habits or political views will never know the difference and neither will you. You'll just not get the job, you won't know why.

The data collected on you will be used against you no matter how accurate it is. Feeding the system "corrupt data" is still just handing them ammo to hit you with. It will always be better for you to avoid handing them data at all.
Heroku also started out with that generous free tier and look where we are now. Make sure your business works and is solid and protected against abusers before you start handing out free tiers because that's the hard part of anything free.
No. At these nodes it's all marketing.
I think bootcamps did what it said on the box. It showed their students to have small toy hobby projects, which is exactly what the free tier is for.

Also having taught a bootcamp, I think costs to Heroku for bootcamp students would be basically negligible. Their apps tend to only be accessed by them and maybe 1-2 others, and only are really actively used for a few months.
I read the Sloan piece yesterday, but still hoped that this post was about a timepiece I could wear on my wrist.

Brb... internet tells me Seiko did four models in collaboration with SG last year. They're OK but I wouldn't call them great.
You are describing one scenario where this invention could be used ("a system that calls 911 when it detects a crash").
The legal protection provided by this patent is _not_ limited to any specific context or scenario.

Let's take '707 claim 6. _Any_ commercial product with each and every one of the following bullet points ("limitations" in lawyer-speak) infringes and must purchase a license to this patent.

[1] A vehicle, comprising:
[2] a factory-installed first apparatus configured to generate an electrical signal;
[3] a factory-installed second apparatus configured to receive the electrical signal; and
[4] a retrofit apparatus electrically connected to the factory-installed second apparatus,
[5] wherein the retrofit apparatus generates a mimicked electrical signal independently of the electrical signal generated by the factory-installed first apparatus, and
[6] wherein the factory-installed second apparatus receives the mimicked electrical signal.
The numbers I cited before were total $ per pupil from all sources.
I think that's one of the reasons, but the main one is economical.

For a long time they dealt with the free accounts, so in a way they have already a lot of protections in place, and if they wanted they could keep the existing free accounts and just not accept further signups for this account type.
> On the roof, the device produced 72 mL of water in 4.5 hours.

That sounds more in line with what I'd expect from Massachusetts sunshine.
Really neat design for this telescope array - checkout the image embedded in the article with the description:

> Instead of looking out from a dome’s surface, the Argus telescopes will sit in a 10-meter-wide bowl, all aiming out a single skylightlike window in a dome.

Looks like photoreceptor cells in the retina of an eye all aimed up at the iris.
Pinterest is the genetically modified dinosaur clone theme park of the web.

The engineers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
These huge, powerful routers are exactly what you don't want your neighbours to have in an apartment building. =)
As a software engineer with significant experience I think the option to explain some existing code is valuable. This option allows me to show my skill with something that is typically more interesting and demonstrative than a quick coding test. As a professional I also value my time and find explaining how I know I can help with what needs to be done takes far less time and effort than going through a coding test and then discussing that.
> Noise and air pollution are in part caused by cars

Having lived in a Berlin Altbau flat, in a dense central neighbourhood, I can say that's not the biggest problem. At least not when at home.

Crappy neighbours are. For both noise and smells.

Techno blasting behind the wall. Arguing families and shrieking children, through the wide open windows. Passionate cigarette and weed smokers (plenty of them in Berlin). Smoke from cooking wafting through the Hof.

This is even a bigger problem if you are unlucky to have to live in a commie block (pretty much anywhere in Central Europe). Even more neighbours, even denser.
Population decline is a danger to the world's economies but it will be good for the planet.
I think you are understating the value of having a similar mindset. If I gave my SO full access to my money we would be broke in a week. She is utterly incapable of controlling her spending. Oh that $6000 couch we bought two years ago got a scuff so I got a new one. Its cool they gave me a $500 credit on the $8000 couch I replaced it with so it was basically free... Long term planning is not even possible for her, she spends ever dime she makes. Every lump of money has a list of earmarks that are already spent before she gets it saved.

I guess my point is perhaps it is less the separate bank accounts and more the incompatible mindsets that lead to the divorce.
Render does have auto deploys from GitHub/Lab so just `git push` is how people use us. Are you using a different Git host?
If anything, it would be good, so I could ignore all the political and economic garbage again.
So the poor builder is being gutted by regulations and paying licensed labor? If not for those obscene costs they would use better more expensive materials?

How can you possibly believe such a thing? That is just an outright foolish assertion. The labor cost to build something to code is the same regardless of the quality of materials. Builders skimp on materials to pad their margins. Even if they used cheaper unlicensed labor there's no impetus to use more expensive materials.
Disneyland has a sign that says "The happiest place on Earth". If it was just because of the crowds, then we would see the same sign at most major airports.
Git allows this. Github is just doing what it's told with the data it has. If you don't like this, ignore unsigned commits.
I wholeheartedly agree with your comment. The “move fast and break things” mentality works for the banal and unimportant, but not for the significant or important.

Who cares if a social media site is offline for a day? Society will be fine. Users will be fine. Is anyone really going to miss a random social media post lost due to misbehaving code? Probably not on balance.

But if you’re attempting to build a quality, say, EMR/EHR, or some kind of industrial control software, or a password manager, you have certain duties that are completely incompatible with that mentality.
Ah yes, because a company that decides to stop giving away its time and resources for free is now a "villain". Right.
All of them with an ebike and bike infrastructure. Hell, a golf cart would be an improvement due to the efficiencies of moving a smaller mass to get to your point A and Bs. Many nursing communities in Florida are in fact golf cart centric. I'd rather have the elderly in command of something that only goes 20mph and weighs 40 lbs than something that is capable of factors more that speed at orders of magnitudes more weight.
There is also https://caprover.com, which seems to be more advanced and supports compose and docker swarm.
FWIW tree-sitter has done a lot of the ground work for this sort of thing, if you need to support a lot of different languages.
How do you know they clearly took over two hours?

We love talking about productivity here. You're telling me employers will systematically fail the candidates who performed most productively in their process, because of a speculation they took too much time?
Considering that "the tacit convention on which the understanding of everyday language depends are enormously complicated," (Ludwig Wittgenstein) a system only trained on language, a small subset of how we acquire knowledge, will probably never attain the same level of intelligence as we do.
When google was pure this would absolutely not of happened.
There are a number of choices.

1.) You can treat it like pretty much any other engineering job and give a "normal" interview, which will vary a lot by company. You probably rely more on credentials than is sometimes the case with software development.

2.) You treat it more like writing, graphic design, video, photography, etc. and expect to see a portfolio. For fields like that, you might talk about thought processes or how they approach their work but the portfolio isn't really negotiable.

3.) In the case of software, you can maybe have someone effectively create a portfolio for the interview but now you're back to someone putting a lot of time into creating something--albeit possibly something reusable.
Ok now, who gave the Orcas access to tiktok?
in https://github.com/terroo/flappybird/blob/main/flappy.cpp#L1...

for (std::size_t i {}; i < pipes.size(); ++i) {

C++ has had range based loops for years now, can use that instead here.

for (auto& pipe : pipes)

I don't remember if the '&' is needed after the auto though.

anyway you should just use Rust, Zig, or Go...
I also can easily Google my name. There are only 3 of us, and one of them is my deceased uncle. It doesn’t change the fact that I probably haven’t had any organic traffic to my personal web site of 28 years for a long, long time.
100%. The signal you get from pair programming is enormous. You not only get to see the end product but how they think. Also it's a good gauge if the person is effective at communicating/working with others.
Using OS X Without the Mouse
True.

Not sure how paying for this service makes it any less likely that DDG will flip a switch to make that targeted advertising money though. That temptation will exist either with a paid service or a non targeted ad supported service.
3 year old GLC Mercedes SUV. And I hate SUVs, but needs must. I'd prefer to be still driving my previous Mercedes C-Class car.
> Users attempting to access the site are greeted with the message: ‘This subreddit was banned due to a violation of Reddit’s rules against non-consensual intimate media.’

It's perfectly logical. If a person does not exist... then they can't consent to having sexy pictures of them published!
True loners are rare I believe. There's also a lot of people that "participate" by not participating in social life. I've been truly alone a bunch of times and I realized that my introversion was not desire to not have people around, but mostly a weird kind of mode I was stuck into socially.
It's only ableist if your community is built solely around the car with no alternatives for these people who rely on cars for mobility due to these issues.
LastPass: Notice of Security Incident
The Blink Fitness example is telling in so many ways. It's not just that it's evil in the sense of mischievous, it reveals a sense of entitlement. I think this sense of entitlement to customer money underlies many problems in contemporary commerce.
Vehicles at 2am? That sounds like a step above 24 hours a day.
One of my favorites is a code review + take an existing codebase and add some functionality to it or fix some design issue with it.
That is funny we are literally about to run out of water over here in AZ.
He uses a space in front of his punctuation it’s terrible.
One thing I wish I could see but probably isn't compilable is how much an impact the test has on the final decision or what stage it's at.

Lots of the comments are pointing out a 2-4h takehome is a poor value prop from the candidate's side compared to a 1h leetcode which transfers better across companies. (I'd agree with this.) But a 1h leetcode is usually just a first hurdle to what's often another 1-3 rounds, while for me the point of the 2-4h takehome is that it's the only thing. You do it, we grade/talk about, we can arrange a more formal team meeting if you want but that's the whole process.

Am I alone in wanting shorter interviews but longer tests?
Hope plans for this will get released so that others can build their own. Would be great to use while sailing or doing costal hiking/camping
That's an absurd amount of work to do for free. Plus, it is useless: You won't learn anything new, it is going to impact no one, and it is going to sit stale at the inbox of 2 senior developers for 2 weeks until it is seen, as a chore.

This vicious cycle of wasting time must stop.
If the take home assessment is scoped to a small amount of time (1-2 hours is small IMO) with the expectation that the seniority level you're selecting for could complete it in less than that time, I don't see any problem as long as you don't put arbitrarily constrained time limits on how long you are willing wait for the submission.

I agree with you that if the candidate is going to spend the time to do the exercise, the hiring manager should be spending an equal amount of time as well in the process. But that effort can come from the detailed review of the code, the time commitment of which should be in the service of being able to have a meaningful conversation about the candidate's submission in later rounds (which is useful for your last point about discovering what its like to actually work with the candidate).
I know. I see it. And I don't know anymore how to tell people the emperor has no clothes. On odd numbered days I think the culture is going in a dangerous direction that will lead to unintended consequences. On even numbered days I think I'm just an old man yelling about the cloud, and if Gen Z really thinks all this is good and normal then fuck it. It's your world.
I'm in the middle of it, and it's clearly a great piece of work, don't get me wrong ; however, I'm precisely wondering if there is a "Designing Data Non-Intensive Applications" book out there :)
I don't think it would be good.

I think if there's reason for a niche, starting a clone is a better idea. In fact, that's already been done, like with https://lobste.rs/

I think that all forums degrade when there's more users. When people with a passing interest in a topic start bleeding in and leaving uninformed comments, that's kind of the beginning of the end for quality.

Also, we're always talking about the "small web," and this is a great example of how to keep it smaller.
What if I have a lot going on and need to divide my time? I understand why you're choosing to do this, but ultimately it's assuming a lot on part of the interviewee, and doesn't offer any flexibility.

If you gave me such a code challenge, I'd probably take it as a sign that company culture is to put employees under pressure and I would immediately decline.
In short no, but ironically the last time I read about rural 10G fiber the one guy they interviewed was a radiologist who wanted to work from home lmao. In short, I don't think he was too worried about dropping $1k on a router etc. Granted, if I remember correctly I think the ISP actually loaned him some enterprise routing gear.

hahaha found it... ironically it's a vice article [0]

0 - https://www.vice.com/en/article/gv5m77/10-gbps-fiber-interne...
> But, so many developers deployed their first app on Heroku and was a staple for so many bootcamps. Without it I'm confident we'd have less developers in the world.

Given that many (most?) bootcamps are for-profit, it stands to reason that they should be able to pay for a basic level of Heroku services that their students can use, no?

> Gonna pour one out tonight for Heroku.

You're acting like they're dead, but that seems quite a bit premature.

Let's remember that the purpose of a free tier isn't just to give free stuff away. It's a marketing expense. The hope is that you get people to use the platform without the huge amount of friction involved in pulling out a credit card, and hope that they not only stay, but require more services that push them out of the free tier. You also hope that these free users will tell their friends and colleagues, who might also become paid users.

I'd guess that many bootcamp users would just use Heroku for their class projects, and after the bootcamp was over, never use it again. Their projects would just sit there, deployed on Heroku, active, without being used. Sure, some would end up using Heroku at whatever job they end up at; but, critically, most of them will be going into an org where it's already in use, so the free tier would not have acted as a customer acquisition tool in that case. And sure, some much fewer number would continue using Heroku in a capacity where they wouldn't otherwise do so. And finally, sure, some even much fewer number would both continue to use it, and start paying for it.

I'm sure Heroku's new-customer funnel will suffer somewhat without a free tier. But presumably they believe it's better for them not to have all that fraud and garbage on their platform. And they've been around long enough that they don't really need to work on increasing mindshare all that much.
NYC has an insane number of bikes on the sidewalks, especially e bikes, and especially in Manhattan, and especially in the non touristy areas.
Zoom's internal decision making process which scaled 10-300M daily meetings
The problem is the professors are the parasites in many cases.
It’s kind of easy to take this extremely literally and pick it apart, which a lot of comments here are doing, but might be helpful to broaden what “solitude” means and maybe even read it as though it’s a bit allegorical. Also important to remember this was more than 100 years ago, and that he’s talking very specifically about how to write poetry. All the way through I felt like he could have been talking about social media.

Metaphorically, he seems to be saying (to me even more strongly than isolation): that motivation needs to be intrinsic, it should come from yourself and your own desires, not from others; and that you should practice your craft intensely and make sure the practice of writing poetry is free from interruptions or noise that cloud things. He may be naming the state of flow we all want using words for it that we’re not used to these days, along with a push for writers to set their own standards and not judge themselves by publishing metrics. These are fairly timeless and applicable ideas today, not to mention all of us programmers frequently dream of solitude and perhaps resent the fact that we almost never get it at work.
It'll be interesting to see how far things can go before people stop making these arguments. It's the same argument people made 20 years ago. Yet spending keeps going up without results. Check back in another 20, I predict "equity" will be as far away as today but a lot more money will be spent and the public discourse will be the same.

Also, there are different regions and schools where different ways of spending money have been tried. The best results you'll find in the literature are temporary improvements that wash out by the end of high school. The worst results are not even that.
That's NYC.
Because they weed out people that just do a bunch of leetcode from people that actually know how to write quality software.