skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will do live or take-home algorithms (~1h) and such for any company since they are fun and help me practice anyway if I'm in interview mode.

I will do take-home assignments (assuming 4~8h of work) or 4h+ onsite only if I am (quite-to-very) interested in the company. This is either the company is famous so I know them well, or there was a good interview process and they passed all of my questions/no red flags. If I'm on the verge of rejecting a company and they ask me for a sudden 4h+ process, sorry but not.

I live in Japan so it's been interesting as there's vastly different thinking companies, you have from the most modern flexible silicon-valley-like company (few, but there are) to very traditional ones that might even be confused when you reject them (again few, but some). Last time I interviewed I told a company I wasn't interested in their offer, only to receive an email later telling me they were not interested in hiring me. I could guess HR marking me as a no-hire was a lot better for that interviewer than marking me as rejecting them, but still made me laugh a bit of how much "no, I am breaking up with you" it sounded like.
Spotlight shows a System 7.5 desktop with “1.6GB available.”

I don’t believe you. ;)
There is really nothing inherently bad about sitting at the back of the bus. It is more so about the discrimination. It's a matter of principle.
Might as well take an Introduction to Semiconductor Devices engineering course while you're at it. Just as relevant when it comes to software development.
I owe a lot to Ryan Bates and Railscasts for transforming from a CS student to junior software engineer. It provided the details in mentorship that supplemented what I received IRL at work.
Glad I am permanently disabled. Now I just need to find a woman.

Any nerdy ladies here want to marry a handsome, brilliant, creative, well managed bipolar male in his mid 50's who lives in a minivan? :)
People will always have social groups that can be exploited to sow discord. Like I said, my personal solution was to stop paying attention to social media altogether, but that obviously won't happen for everyone.

While you blame the "brainwashed", I blame the executives and workers at the likes of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, et al. They know their platform is being exploited to rile up anger but it brings them the sweet ad dollars so they don't care. They can even feel better and feign some self-righteousness by blaming the "brainwashed" instead of the platforms they oversee...very difficult to get them to admit to the problem when their financial interest depends on it.
Virge provided hardware path at the approximate speed of Pentium 100 rendering 320x200 in software. If your CPU was faster switching to Virge was a speed downgrade.
Also missing Mowin’ Man and a bunch of other good ones
It is, the model will behave in a way to minimize (or at least approximate, most aren't convex) the loss function. This isn't magical or unexpected.
I don’t think this is true.

In high school my friend was caught and arrested for stealing a bottle of luxury cosmetic shampoo (dumb teenager brain). Not cheap but certainly not felony limit
> It takes months, sometimes even half that year for engineers to fully ramp-up on teams and integrate into the culture of a company.

Maybe that's because companies tend to hire whiteboard-master generalists rather than subject-matter specialists who may not be great at standardized technical interviews. ;-)

Also, if the company culture is ultra-bureaucratic, maybe the company should fix that instead of wasting months on every new hire.

Seriously, if a new engineer can't commit code within the first week, that's a company problem, not an engineer problem. Of course their code shouldn't go directly into production, but that's true of any new code. Give them something small to start, like some bugs to fix.

> That also doesn't account for complete cultural mismatches that cause instability in teams and hurt the impact of your other employees.

Technical interviews can't determine this.

> knowing its hard to get into a company signals to each applicant that the other employees there made it through that process.

I realize that's a signal, but it's not necessarily a good or accurate signal. I think it's mostly PR and hype. Reminds me a lot of fraternity hazing. Google engineers believe they're the best, and some of them may be, but some of them don't impress me at all. And as I mentioned, engineers tend to move from company to company anyway, so if Google engineers are "the best", they're constantly losing the best too.
Thanks for the feedback. It's certainly interesting to see that you did not find it helpful at all. I was oversimplifying so much that I felt uncomfortable about it because I feel like some aspects of my answer are just borderline wrong. I don't think I can make it even simpler. Explaining highly technical issues to people without any background in that field really is a tough skill that I apparently don't possess.

Also: I did not use ChatGPT. Proof: Any native english speaker can tell you that my answers do not come from a native speaker. I don't think ChatGPT can mimic that (yet). English not being your first language can have its virtues.
We are a smaller company, only 10 users. We are in the process of fully ditching Microsoft for a full linux stack using Samba for AD (for the leprosy known as Quickbooks alone). I've blocked MS at the pihole and was expecting people to bring torches and pitchforks. The general consensus was we should have done this years ago and how did you make my computer so much faster. To hell with Microsoft and their tripe.
I have something similar, but with traefik instead of nginx. Traefik integrates very nicely with docker using labels, such that the labels configure e.g. domain, path, http-auth etc for the web service running in a container.
Why should we believe that affluent parents clinician-shop and get a diagnosis from a friendly clinician? Because of the reporting that says so, linked upthread:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/h...

It's not a "wild conjecture".
They're "conspiracy tinged" because the media claimed they were conspiracy theories but that all turned out to be a lie.

Surgeons historically wear masks so they don't spit in open wounds.

Plenty of credible people claimed if you took the shots you wouldn't get the virus. Unless you don't think the director of the CDC or President Biden are credible.

I'm sorry if this is all upsetting to you.
> objectively more likely to spread falsehoods.

According to who? The "conspiracy tinged topics" that you describe so fairly were some of the most over-covered stories, were substantially wrong, and were known at the time of being printed that they were substantially wrong.

> Then you mention masks, as if there is something actually controversial there.

There is. While masks were thought by scientists in authority to slow transmission, Fauci told everyone that masks were not only useless but harmful, and that people shouldn't be wearing them. He later admitted to lying about that. That may not be controversial to you, but if you can't imagine or empathize with people being upset that the government was lying to them in order to manipulate their behavior, you aren't very imaginative or empathetic.

> There isn't (not to normal people, anyway)

I think that when many people who agree with you see bad faith argument like this, they start re-evaluating their position.
RFID

We have the tech to do this. They library system where I am put RFID tags in all the books. You put the all books you want in a special tray at checkout. (There is still a checkout counter with a machine.) The computer will instantly display all the books you have on the tray. You touch the screen to confirm all the books and it will check them out and print a paper receipt.

They can probably eliminate the checkout too, maybe. I imagine that they do it so that the user (you) can confirm what items the computer thinks they wanted to check out.
Oh what the hell, here goes nothing. I've haven't had constipation or diarrhea per se, although the consistency was always a bit softer and stickier than desired. Daily yoghurt consumption as a gut-probiotic has fixed this problem for me, although I still have to guard my sugar intake. High sugar intake destroys my gut biome (or rather, replaces it with sugar-eaters). Stressful days also seem to wreak havoc on my digestive system, e.g. the day of a job interview. Haven't found a fix for that yet, beyond mentally letting go (easier said than done sometimes).
This is bad advice.

Think about how many EU jurisdiction entities use AWS. You think none of them are compliant? That's ridiculous.

Since you're the one with the claim - explain exactly which laws and treaties make it illegal to use AWS.
Not research, but most government departments do have dedicated statistical bureaus!

This would probably fall under the BLS[1] or BEA[2], which are bureaus of the DOL and DOC, respectively. Another potential fit would be the IRS's SOI[3] division.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_Labor_Statistics

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_Economic_Analysis

[3]: https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-statistics-of-i...
Uniqlo stores are doing this, when you check out, you just put all the stuff you grabbed into a bin and the system will tell you the total price right away.
> A RESTful API with JSON Schema

Sure but I get it for free with GraphQL anyway.

> you can even make converting to better types be part of the zod schema

I'm not using TypeScript so this wouldn't be useful to me. That's why I mentioned that GraphQL is good for disparate servers and clients that aren't necessarily just React/Node/TypeScript.
When if is an expression early returns aren't really a problem.
It is always funny to read the comments on this site for a computer history post, you’ll get

1) I remember buying that card with my first paycheck

2) Oh yeah, me and/or my buddy worked on that

As someone who was a little kid for most of the 90’s, all I can say is thanks to everyone who worked on the stuff — it was a truly magical time when every time your dad brought you to the computer shops they’d have some new demo set up they could do things that simply were not even imaginable a last time. Plus since I was not even a teenager yet, I didn’t have to learn about the battles between which model of rendering was better, it was just pure magic.

Hopefully we’ll speed things up again soon. I’m worried that there may be a generation at some point that doesn’t realize we’re in the future.
I don't get you here, poor people are in much greater need of lifelines than rich people, removing the lifeline from poor people just because rich people also use it is just horrible.

The main effect of removing it is that disenfranchised smart kids don't get into college, replaced by dumb kids with stable homes who spent a ton of time studying yet were too dumb to score well on SAT. Colleges are already full of such kids, and so is the job market, we don't need more of them.
Oh yes!

I do remember doing this as well at Decathlon.
I think the problem is that a flat or "square" organization is artificial. Pyriamid shaped, independent of lots of valid criticisms that can be leveled at it, is the "natural" shape for executing work. There is way more coordination required (even if you only consider the number of people you have to talk to) in other models.

Put another way, a pyramid-like org if done properly can rely on "the invisible hand" to do much of the coordination. Matrix-like requires some kind of central planning, which never works
Is anyone surprised? It's been extremely obvious that all the players in the crypto space are incredibly shady grifters basically from the start. I honestly can't tell if the people on HN who constantly comment about crypto actually being useful are just young or are actively part of some form of fraud.
Soft Body Physics Explained: Physics of JellyCar
I would like to support this request for AI challenged developers :)

For things like these, I always wonder:
How much slower would it be to run such a model on a CPU? I mean, clearly a lot less interactive, but is it possible at all? Could it be chopped up and "streamed" to a GPU with less memory halfway efficiently?
What is the bottleneck currently on GPUs, memory bw or compute?
And they wouldn't even need to stoop so low as to make it non-FOSS. Just making it GPLv3+ would probably do it.
It sounds like you're buying into Harvard's argument that "asian applicants are systematically less likeable / weaker in intangible attributes" which is racist nonsense in my opinion.
As a Canadian I never took anything like the SAT. I don’t quite get why it exists. Or why people are convinced it needs to exist. Most of the world does fine without it.

That being said, I support whatever helps empower the diminished classes and helps quash the undeserved power of those born into money. …And in that case, the SAT might make a lot of sense now that I think of it.

Even if your teenage years were a quagmire and you have no grades to show for it, a single test can still open you up to academic opportunities.
Yes, it's actually much harder. But the final results are group by category order by rank. There is negative marking to discourage guessing, so the cutoff for certain categories can even be 0 or even negative
RailsCasts was awesome, thank you!
micro targeting is a threat to our democracy (cambridge analytica, Facebooks desinformation problem,..). Besides, why should third parties allowed to trade my digital persona, while basically knowing more about my interests and flaws than I am? I hate cookie banner as well but this excessive tracking must be stopped somehow.
Charging Station Goes Boom, EV Won't Work: What Happens Next
So does that mean that on average, “legacy” students at these schools are lower performers? Since their bar for admission would be that much lower?

This system doesn’t really exist in Canada so I’m finding it very interesting
I knew a kid in high school whose parents divorced for college financial aid reasons. As long you have a trusting relationship, seems easy enough to divorce, give one spouse the wealth, and then remarry when you don't care about FAFSAs any more.
Nah, NURBS are a dead end. They are difficult to model with and difficult to animate and render. Polygon-based subdivision surfaces entirely replaced NURBS as soon as the Pixar Renderman patents on subdivision surfaces expired.
I'd be satisfied plugging a game log/history into a system that generates the epic tale of your victory/defeat.
> Also, we haven't come that far in regards to gender roles. Women wearing pants and going to work, and men wearing nail polish is the extent of what was normalized in society. Anything else and we still view it with very traditional lenses.

Even this is an optimistic lens: a man wearing nail polish at work is likely to play very differently between a coastal city and a small "heartland" town.
It didn't: Uniqlo and Decathlon, to name a few, use exactly this concept at their self checkouts.

However, because RFID chips are too weak to be reliably read in bulk and at a distance, you need to deposit your items one by one in a special trough that scans them. And this is only possible because both Uniqlo and Decathlon are 100% house brand and can thus ensure the chips are present in everything, which is why random corner stores or supermarkets can't copy them.
> my personal solution was to stop paying attention to social media altogether

Agreed. I deleted all my social media accounts except for this one and it helped immensely. I sometimes feel like I live in a different world.
Since that's verifiably false, why hasn't Mozilla filed a defamation lawsuit over it?
I'm not so sure about that. The subsidies that a functioning public transport requires every year are massive as well. I wouldn't be surprised if they exceeded the cost of extra infrastructure (roads, parking etc.) required by private cars.
I've said for a while now that if I enough money to do something like it, I'd love to buy up the RadioShack name and re-open the business as effectively a bunch of local DIY repair shops like this. Work benches with tool rentals, test equipment rentals, digital microscopes etc, locker rentals and of course component sales (because yeah you can get resistors cheaper and in 1000 counts on Amazon, but being able to walk 20 feet to the counter and get the one you need right now and get back to what you're doing is valuable. Look into hiring some local old salts in the area that are retired and looking for some odd work from time to time and make sure you give them their own bench to work on their hobbies right there in the store / tutor the next gen.
Socioeconomically marrying down then is a big disadvantage for either gender, in the cases i am aware of. I don't however know how to find wider stats. thanks for explaining.
Anecdote but I’ve noticed there’s a big difference in the activities men and women do when they’re “idle.” In 2009 a friend got laid off and began to play World of Warcraft for like 14 hours a day. His girlfriend started to think he was intolerable in this state. It’s something like pathological depression.

I get the feeling that males not engaged in something perceptibly “productive” are judged very harshly.
Here is your answer: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/coinbase

Why does the press focus their FUD against Binance? that's the proper question one should ask, is that because the poison FTX failed?
I've had really poor deliverability from SES. Our emails went straight to spam on many providers. Just trying to do email verification on new signups.
> I am always worried about someone deciding to DDoS me though.

I've hosted a Tor exit node and other questionable stuff as a teenager, going from 1mbps upload to 50 mbps today. The site has been on the HN homepage, sometimes get featured on news sites like zdnet (that article gave me clicks for years on end), plus I run a file sharing service where anyone can post literally anything but the links are valid for one day. It has definitely hosted links to phishing and malware in the past (and I combat that when I see it, like replacing the short link with an info page "this was a phishing page" + infos).

In ~15 years, I never noticed anyone trying to take down the site. But your sentiment keeps being echoed in places like r/selfhosted and moves people to put their services behind some traffic inspection service, reducing the decentralized to a few places where all traffic passes through (often with decryption keys made available to them). It's still good to self host even if you do that, but I do feel a bit conflicted about that and wouldn't do it myself.
> it’s simpler to rewrite part of the system than to even maintain it for a month.

This is often a career limiting decision. Rewrites are often much more difficult, particularly when you are dealing with a system that is not fully understood. This often leads to what should be a quick re-write taking > 3x more time and money than projected. In the end no one will remember why the technical reason for the rewrite, but they will remember who made the decision.

I've made this mistake a few times in my career, and I always thought, this project, it is the exception to the no-rewrites rule.
Consumption of quinoa doesn't demonstrate your food choice as much as that you follow quaint trends.
The second to last paragraph supports a minor point you made.

But the others contradict most of what you said. The pro-affirmative action position that you outlined requires willful blindness and stupidity to accept. It is very emphatically not equally valid to the alternatives.

There may be better arguments for accepting affirmative action as valid. But that one is terrible.
I also go occasionally to the supermarket and I just put a tote bag or any kind of other bag into my big bag in case the stuff doesn‘t fit.

That can‘t be too hard and you should be able to figure that out without wasting several hundred reusable bags
An interface to preferentially compare and choose between 2 objects, using a Tinder like interface (swipe left/right mechanics). Every year I do a stack ranking of baseball players for my fantasy league. If I had this interface, I could easily setup an ELO comparison function to create my complete list out of a series of easier comparisons.

I have at times also wished I had this for just about any sort of data tagging. Give it an array of json objects, it displays the data and then lets you swipe super quickly through all the objects in the array, semi-randomly choosing which objects to compare. Would need to write the data out as well - that's the product.

This is probably worth a couple hundred bucks to me if anyone wants to build it and open source under a commercial-reuse allowed license. Every year I spend dozens of hours doing this and don't feel like I have done a great job of making the correct comparisons.
This actually exists. There is a pilot Aldi in the Netherlands.

The idea does not fail in countries with labour shortages. Even with increased shoplifting- it is simply too asinine employing people sitting on their ass all day scanning groceries. Labour costs real money here.
RailsCasts was an incredible help in my early web career, and I was so so grateful for the time and effort that went in to each episode. I've wondered about this story for years, and it's wonderful to see this story start to get told. I hope Ryan is doing okay and in a good place!
> you don't need to be able to have the compiler enforce constraints

Expressing such constraints and having the language/compiler enforce them is part of what I want from an expressive language. That way once I've expressed them, I don't have to ensure those things repeatedly for the entire lifecycle of the program. We each have our definitions and values.
I never said anything about whether "companies have DEI programs out of legal necessity". The parent poster made a claim about "every Fortune 100 company" and you said that claim was unrepresentative.

That is not true, and that is what I said and all I am saying now.
It's a loss of 8 Go stores, but Amazon has been ramping up the Amazon Fresh grocery stores over the last 2 years. There are 33 Amazon Fresh stores from my count.
Respectfully its going to be like this forever unless you decide to make a major change. This will be your next 60 years. Or it can be different in a few weeks / months.

One idea, may not be your cup of tea though...
I don't know your situation as far as family.

Have you considered joining the military? It provides structure, a million different career paths, travel, comradery and physical fitness. Plus a pension if you stay in for 20 years. On top of that there are multiple branches to choose from depending on your wants.

If I had reached burn out in my twenties, I would have joined the military.
Likewise here. I tell the time by the shape of the hands, not by reading what they're pointing to. I can glance at an analog clock and instantly tell how long it is until something, but it takes a moment to actually translate the current time to something I can say to another person.

Also because I use the shape instead of the numbers, I sometimes have trouble with digital clocks, and have to mentally translate the numbers into an analog clock face before I understand what it's telling me.
Ah, I had looked for zero, null, and 000 in the DES Wikipedia article but it wasn't mentioned. Didn't think to search for a dedicated article. Thanks!

Saving others a click:

> DES has a few specific keys termed "weak keys" and "semi-weak keys". These are keys that cause the encryption mode of DES to act identically to the decryption mode of DES
How old are you and why do you think you have lost your desire for learning?
What house were you in? When I was there, there were huge income disparities between the houses. You may have had that experience in one of the less-well-off houses if you didn't socialize outside of that environment much. There are a lot of rich kids at the school, but it's less pretentious than Harvard or others.