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> For my current job I got grilled with leetcode style questions.

I don't mind being asked a leetcode style question or two in an interview. Even if somebody struggles with solving an unfamiliar problem off the cuff, you can see if they they take some logical problem solving approaches.

But it's frustrating that no practical web-development questions are ever asked for those kinds of jobs.

For instance, security is really important to the survival of any company. An insecure system that has a data leak could literally destroy a company overnight. Having a secure system is far more important than knowing a more efficient algorithm for sorting some data or whatever.

But I've never been asked 1 practical question about security in a technical job interview.

It's so painfully stupid it hurts.
Author here! Trivia: I really, really wanted it to run Doom, so that I could have a section titled "But Does It Run Doom?". This is challenging with no screen; SDL has an experimental ASCII backend where in theory you could draw terminal graphics over SSH. But it refused to cross compile despite repeated efforts.

So, sadly it does not in fact run Doom.
If there is high demand and not enough to fill the roles or you’re able to go almost anywhere… then sure it’s bidirectional.

But the majority of people it’s one sided. They don’t have the option to challenge the interviewer. They need the job, the income, and cannot risk getting rejected by appearing picky.
On one hand, this is awfully clickbaity, it would be more fair to highlight the Wayland work.

On the other; Wayland work? Also not impressive to flex stuff that should have worked a decade ago.
> This isn't some untrusted unauditable binary blob from a possibly shady manufacturer. Everything it will or will not do is right there for everyone to see in the published source code from which it is compiled and packaged.

Compressed source code archive is over 300Mb. That's not a manageable amount for one individual, so I wouldn't expect it to be systemetically reviewed.
Apple and Foxconn lobbied India to relax labor laws. Unions are fighting back
How does letsencrypt guard against this?
GP is deeply concerned about getting locked out, and your solution is to use a secure enclave?
It's all 100x faster and 1MX more.

Yet humans are the same biological systems.

At what point does it go from entertainment to obsession to something like heroin? There's a point where it does, and we could probably figure out a metric.

It's disingenuous to pretend 'oh there's nothing new here'
Is working for half time for half the salary an option?
FYI is a 1:1 repackage of Wikipedia current events page. Without citing the original source.

If you want to bypass the (unethical) middleman, try this feed:

https://www.to-rss.xyz/wikipedia/current_events/

Edit: oh. you’re the middleman. https://bradgessler.com/projects/legible-news/
Freeplay: Prompt engineering, testing and evaluation tools for product teams
A low-code to build FULL-STACK apps
Most no-code tools focus on building websites with CRUD operations. What if you would like to build full-stack applications that need to capture complex business logic? So I was thinking of building one.
A figma prototype is in the link.
I think this is easier to build apps this way by correctly abstracting triggers, actions, and data flow.
Curious to know your thoughts and insights. From a basic Figma prototype, Do you think it's easy to use and intuitive to build software apps with this tool?
Thanks for your time in advance.
Borges’ depth of knowledge of philosophy and mathematics far exceeded what would have been covered in the BA he received in 1914. He was an autodidact who quietly studied a great deal of topics [0]. Beyond being an educated man of his time, I think he was a genius.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_autodidacts
In the first Tomb Raider games, the map was grid-based (I think this was because of limitations of the original Playstation console), but the character could be positioned freely - it's not like moving one step took you to the next grid cell...
And get the US into completely insane, destructive wars.

You’d think there would be some punitive action for the 2000s intel that Iraq had WMDs. This “intel” got us into a war that cost trillions of dollars and thousands of lives.

Nope, instead the CIA just got more money.
While this feels like just a delta in the scheme of things it sounds like it is a delta with the "wrong" sign.

For ages now it is clear that the Linux desktop community has lost the plot of how to move forward in the era of "cloud" and "AI" even while its value proposition, intrinsic advantages and cumulated achievement are immense. There is fragmentation, duplication, silos, and lack of interoperability among the vast array of available open source desktop apps.

And now there is AI knocking on the door. Of all the desktop apps Libreoffice is maybe the one that is exactly in the eye of the AI storm.

Its pretty obvious that cloud "productivity" suites will be increasingly integrating these algorithms and new functionalities will completely subsume and/or obsolesce old paradigms.

Libreoffice having access to local and sensitive data and a huge range of open source data science / ML libraries should have been at the forefront of integrating open source AI. Not only gaining a new lease of life for the next decade but enticing maybe many millions more users into FOSS platforms.
There's some discussion about the Mojo programming language[0] which I found interesting.

[0] https://www.modular.com/mojo

> Mojo combines the usability of Python with the performance of C, unlocking unparalleled programmability of AI hardware and extensibility of AI models.
Wordpad has read docx files for a while now.

edit: I just checked my Win11 VM, and Wordpad is included by default. It also reads and writes docx and odt.
Really cool, but I can't help thinking: All that effort, and you're email address have a "5" in it....
Cool concept. But no way am I plugging that into my computer without creating a sandboxed environment with no network access.
> To simulate the mechanisms of the human brain, Ritter and her team use digital data from brain scans like magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as well as mathematical models based on theoretical knowledge about biological processes. This initially results in a “general” human brain model. The scientists then refine this model using data from individual people, thus creating “personalized brain models.” […] “We can reproduce the activity of individual brains very efficiently,” says Ritter. “We found out in the process that these in silico brains behave differently from one another – and in the same way as their biological counterparts. Our virtual avatars match the intellectual performance and reaction times of their biological analogues.”

Huh, I hadn't heard of this before. Does anyone know more about how exactly those "in silico" brains work and how they compare to their real-world counterparts? I mean, the article makes it sound as if the researchers fully understood how the brain works and had managed to create a faithful digital copy, which I find difficult to believe.

EDIT: The original paper says

> To study neuronal processing in silico we created BNMs [brain network models] for the 650 subjects using a tuning algorithm that fits each participant’s simulated FC with their empirical FC (Figs. 2 and 3). The BNMs use coupled neural mass models to simulate the electric, synaptic, firing, and hemodynamic (fMRI) activity of a 379-nodes whole-brain network. Each node consists of one excitatory and one inhibitory population that mutually and recurrently interact. To simulate long-range white matter coupling, the neural masses were connected by each participant’s SC, which were estimated by dwMRI tractography. Importantly, we added feedforward inhibition to increase biological realism

Sounds like they used small neural networks for simulation and adjusted the weights between the neurons to what they saw in participants' MRI measurements.
FreshRSS is pretty robust. Been running it on my own server for almost a year with zero issues.
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Once a week: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
If you don't want to run your own service, Innoreader is good.
The salt thing isn’t in the same league of nonsense as the foot thing. It does tell something about the person.
Oh nice! We got a public gqui now
No, not since around 2017. I personally use Jekyll now for all my startup-y websites.
Could you expand on the Google docs comment?
I’m going to be honest: I can’t find a single way the criticisms of PIT you’ve linked relate to the conversation at all. We are discussing why the $5k/mo SF spent on tent villages is incommensurable to studio rents. Even if it were the case that PIT overrepresented people with mental health or drug abuse issues, it’s still true that the 10k or so homeless individuals counted by it had a 70% rate of reporting those problems. Which means housing them is not a matter of simply paying rent.
This is a very important detail. Temperature > 0 means a different result every time
Also would be interested of the best local coding LLM on a 4090.
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It's about IQ, not "Intelligent Brains" which is editorial about the validity of IQ sneaking into the headline. It's not hard to know your IQ, there are tests.
> " liberalized law is detrimental to the health of workers, impermissible under international labor conventions, and dials back century-long strides made by workers’ groups to restrict work to nine hours. “Now, the clock is turned back” "
Anand may have dodged a bullet there, on the other hand.
This was a novel idea once. But nowadays I would stay away from plugging in a usb device of someone I just met.
In other words, it doesn't run Doom yet. Great project, and excellent execution!
I'm saying things under the assumption that this type of electronic voting is at least as secure as mail in ballots. I have ideas about how pay/force can be prevented, but nothing super definite.
Sports are virtuous, drunkenness is not.
In Sierra Leone, Reasons for Hope
Another interesting robot that was created a year or two after this article:

https://techfinder.stanford.edu/technology/new-soft-robot-sh...

Veritasium did a video segment on it:

https://youtu.be/058hRtaCWC0
> I've had too many candidates talk about "we" and the general project, or what the team they were on did. But when I try to get at what they specifically did I get nothing. Sure we need team players, but not just cheerleaders. Take credit for your work!

I had this conversation with a co worker when he was made redundant. I reviewed his CV and he didn’t put any of the stuff he had worked on.

He said he didn’t add it because it wasn’t something he did by himself. It was a team effort. So I asked. Did you do X on project? “Yes”. Did you do Y on project? “Yes”.

It sounds like you contributed to those projects. If you get asked during an interview, you can absolutely take credit for working on those things. That’s your contribution!!! Yes it was a team effort that got the project over the line and made it successful. But you contributed to that effort and you should be proud and take credit where credit it due!

He was a bit taken back. He thought it would be lying or stealing to put those projects on his CV.
It’d also highly possible they did nothing wrong and the guy wanted to tank the interview for another reason. A favored candidate, opposing the team expansion, racism/sexism/ageism etc.
What would be the easiest way to get his work on kindle with zero recurring effort on my part ?

I love Money Stuff but hate reading for pleasure on an LCD display?
It's so disheartening because there are so many brilliant and talented people that work there, and only want to do their job and don't want to be involved with politics.
But it's absolutely true that Kaspersky is compromised by the Russian government, and their products and software cannot be trusted.
This doesn't matter at all and can be filtered in microseconds.
Three Chaingrass Poems
Yep! I reformat it so it’s more readable, donate $1 per subscription to the Wikimedia foundation, and display link to a content license per page.

It’s about as unethical as clicking the “Reader” button in your browser.
>They never released fully functional Linux support

Which is something that killed my interest dead for their hardware despite being exactly the kind of person who should fit their profile for a customer. But if they're willing to lie about Linux support, what else will they lie about? SO I continue to look...
Bytes are all you need: Transformers operating directly on file bytes
Thanks, I'm aware of kanata, though haven't properly investigated it yet, the one area where it can beat Kara+ is if it implemented non-delayed based home row mods (though that's still an open issue; don't remember whether QMK supports it perfectly or also with delays, but a software solution to this would be much appreciated for all the laptops).

The low-level remapping and higher level app-specific and context-aware functionality is the Holy Grail that's still unachievable in any system, unfortunately, so that's why I specifically asked about the combo

> What are you looking to do

There are way too many interactions for me to list, it's anything from disabling all shortcuts when you play a game to quitting Insert text editor mode when you hold I, to making chord-based command menus with visual cues in apps that don't support anything like that, to inserting special symbols with helpful popups that only popup if you stumble and forget which key is next, to showing a palette with apps to launch with single keys without having to remember all those keys

You simply can't achieve it only via QMK-low-level approach
Many, many years ago I was at a company where a manager (M1) wanted full root access to all of the internal servers (mostly file/web servers, router/firewall and the mail server). It's lost to the sands of time as to why, but he was persistent.

There was quite a bit of back and forth between the team that managed the servers, the owners of the company and M1. After a few weeks M1 was finally given access. Within a couple of days he brought a complaint against another manager (M2) that M2 had hijacked M1's personal email and was storing it on one of the internal servers.

Meetings were held into the night to discuss what should be done. M2 was called in, credentials revoked and they were placed on leave while an investigation could take place. Overnight every single server was compromised and no one could get in to anything.

M2 brought in a lawyer, the company brought in a lawyer and all of management and most of the employees were sat down in a room to figure out what to do about this mess.

Turns out M1 had re-used the same "password", which was a single lowercase english word, on EVERYTHING. His personal email, any account on any service maintained by the company and had changed his secure password on the superuser accounts he had just been given to the same one.

There was a literal paper trail of M1 providing this password to the majority of the people in the company. Provided in printed memos asking to have accounts set up, emails asking to have accounts set up, other people having it on the standard sticky note on monitors, M1 saying "and make the password..." in the common workspace for anyone to overhear, etc etc.

Of course, one of the servers had SSH open for remote access... and you can see where this is going.

Expensive forensics team was brought in, servers recovered, and it was determined that M1's account on the SSH server was targeted by automated logins not too long after he was added to the company's website.

M2 is cleared and brought back, M1 had their role decreased and was gone not soon after.
I see a lot of geeks giving advice on how to hire other geeks, but I'm guessing most of them had never being involved in the hiring process.

In fact, if you sum up all the recommendations of people online about recruitment, you can't hire anybody, because every single move is something you should not do according to one of the self-proclaimed new expert.

Once again, as a developer, I can only notice how much of a diva my peers have become. We are very lucky we are a hot commodity on the market, because I tell you, no other professionals get a pass for a tenth of the things we claim we are entitled too.
I tend to prefer Google over other docs tools. Occasionally I hear that people feel it's terrible, but I don't understand why. Would you mind sharing a few things that bug you the most?
does weather count as news feed?
Woooww. This is reporting with an agenda.

> Google contributed $45,000 to the RSLC after the leak of the [SC abortion] draft decision, according to the CPA’s review of the tax filings. Others contributed even more in the months after the leak, including Amazon ($50,000), Intuit ($100,000) and Comcast ($147,000).

> An Intuit spokesperson pointed out that the company also donates to Democratic political organizations, and that “our financial support does not indicate a full endorsement of every position"

> Although these companies did not directly give these vast sums to North Carolina’s anti-abortion lawmakers

Lololol
> And socialism is not communism.

You are wrong:

"Communism (from Latin communis, 'common, universal')[1][2] is a left-wing to far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism

> Lula is not a communist, he hasn't been since his first 2 terms between 2002-2010.

He is communist, because his political articulation and the structure assembled to stay in Power, is communist. Is his Doctrine Communism? He never read a book his whole Life, so I guess he has no clue about theory. His thing is money and power. Like any other communist.
Agreed (mostly). HN is a form of news, but personally, I rarely consume The News™. A useful read is Robert Dobelli's essay "Avoid News
Towards a Healthy News Diet": https://chuck.is/files/Avoid%20News_%20Toward%20a%20Healthy%...
Heh. I am George Hilliard V (that is, my dad is IV and my son is VI). So it makes a certain amount of sense!
I began to lose interest when the second sentence supported my prior assumption.
So you want to burden every one else with a setup dialog that nearly all of them don't need. Say this dialog takes 10 seconds to read and dismiss. That's 10 seconds of billions of people.

If I had you instead look at this dialog for 10 seconds a billion times, it would consume 317 years.

Your desire has just spent your life. As this was only hypothetical, would you reconsider?
What if you make a USB network device gadget and serve a mjpeg video stream to it that's the framebuffer/screen output? Web browsers or VLC on the host can show the video, and if you can get ffmpeg compiled and running on the device I think it has a fbdev input that can capture the framebuffer directly and likely convert it to a mjpeg stream (even acting as a http or rtmp, etc. server).
exactly. I was going to say the same thing, then I realised I'm in hacker-news and then afraid of getting down-voted.
> a data leak could literally destroy a company overnight

Source?

I'm sure we "wish" that were true, but data leaks haven't even destroyed companies whose entire existence is predicated on storing data such as Equifax.
This is a fair comment. I ought to have clarified that I was indeed making a gross generalization. I share your perspective on the creative arts; I don’t care where it comes from, if it’s good.
I really wish more blogs took on this creative approach. it's hard but such an excellent presentation style. IMO it's the best form of sharing information online
But that's why the best time to interview for a job is when you are already employed and are not really looking for anything new.

I did so many interviews without any intention of ever accepting the offer, it would be almost comical. But, it's great practice for when I actually want a new job, and refusing offers always massage my ego.
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I suspect that even in North America there are less privileged demographics outside your circle of interaction with many people lacking access to a smart phone.

I have no issue with the notion of expanding voting options to include a well thought out smart phone option but I have real concerns that limiting voting to only that would disenfranchise people outside your ken.

Recall that a number of indigenous americans have had their right to vote restricted simply by living on a tribal reservations with no conventional fixed address.

Sure, they might have a phone .. but I offer that as an example of the "oops, didn't think of that" consequence of assuming everyone has an address.

The assumption that everyone has internet access is no different.
I did not expect that to be the reason to be honest.
Because I don't feel any shame out of what seems like the necessary thing to do. But maybe you can show me the commandment from on high where I should feel shame. Or better yet than shaming, you could provide an alternative that works.
John Candy RIP
Is LibreOffice really that slow?

Sure, it takes a while to start up, but after that my experience has been that it's as performant as Microsoft Office or Google Docs (ie. pretty much instant for everything I've done with it). Just start it once and keep it running, and you won't really have to worry about performance.

As for aesthetics, it looks fine to me... just like any other generic office app... besides which, aesthetics take a distant third place behind functionality and performance for me.

As for suing, what are you doing that you have to even consider suing someone?

That never even entered my mind for any software that I've ever used in my life.
What's more important for RH's paying customers? Apparently their movie industry contracts are the ones keeping the lights on for the desktop group...
Supreme Court Rules Companies Can Sue Striking Workers for 'Sabotage'
Thanks in large part to our research partnership with the group at Princeton CITP, Let's Encrypt has deployed a system we call multi-perspective validation. We validate domain control from multiple network perspectives so that an attacker would have to pull off several simultaneously successful BGP attacks in order to hijack our validation. It's not perfect but it makes it very difficult to do. There are other improvements coming that will further improve effectiveness.

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~jrex/papers/multiva20.pdf

I believe the Google Trust Services CA recently announced that they have started doing this as well.
Perhaps designing a society around profit motives was a poor decision.
Who is “them”? WaPo?
Everyday, the Financial Times blog, called FT AlphaVille, has an article called "FTAV’s further reading". Sample: https://www.ft.com/content/26e8d3a3-34e7-43b2-9927-829047027...

It is an excellent jumping off point!