skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ISO SQL standards docs are still ridiculously expensive :(

https://www.evs.ee/en/search?query=SQL&organisations=2
At a minimum I would say any new SRS app or site needs to be Anki-compatible. It just has such a big lead in terms of mindshare in the space - though I agree with other comments that it definitely has some seriously dated features. Any interest is the space is good imo.
> they want you to make sure you're making serious consideration of candidates in under-represented groups in order to show commitment to DEI targets.

It's illegal to hire based on demographics. I'm sure lots of places do it. It's lazy to me for HR not to provide feedback to the candidate based on some "upside" or vague liability.

> How do you think honest feedback of "you should stop providing misleading descriptions of your work experience in your resume" goes over?

This sounds like a really contrived scenario. I've been the hiring manager for several positions and I've never seen enough evidence to call out a candidate for something like this. Anyways, if it were true, just find a nice way to say it: "we were unclear about your work experience and the details didn't match our job description".
Similarly, the question asks "does it violate the rule" not "should the vehicle be allowed in the park". Of course driving an ambulance into the park violates the rule - but it's ok the break the rule for emergencies!

Which of course illustrates that in the real world there are always multiple conflicting rules that apply. Especially in content moderation.
"Anki isn't for everybody"

But I didn't see a single sentence about how this is different from Anki and why? Why do you want to reinvent the wheel when Anki is good enough?
Besides pruning (which is what you describe) you might find the "lottery ticket hypothesis" interesting. The idea is essentially that in a randomly initialized large network there is a subset of weights that are already closeish for a given task and training helps tune that and suppress everything else, and that knowing this you can actually get better results by pruning before training.
TCS sacks four employees, investigating malpractice involving staffing firms
Amazing to me the general attitude here towards take-homes.

I don't know, perhaps it's because I've progressed every interview I've had the opportunity to do a take-home on (and I struggle with most leet-code style whiteboarding interviews) but I've always seen take-homes as an audition for your software development style -- what you deliver in a take-home assessment is what they will use to judge how you'll deliver on the job, plain and simple.

I've only done take homes for companies that I've already passed initial interviews for and generally like the people I've talked to and have favorable impressions of the culture/workplace thus far. I wouldn't do a take-home before that, but I'd do a take-home any day before a leet code grinding thing.
> More surprisingly, we realized the time their current engineers and managers spent evaluating these takehomes just wasn't really a consideration for them. We tried to frame it in terms of "here's how much it costs you to evaluate these take-homes wrt time spent vs. us", but it was a difficult sell regardless.

employers don’t know, or seem to care, how much it costs them to replace and/or onboard somebody. usually because they have no idea how they’re off/on boarding hires.

not too surprising that they wouldn’t care about the cost of one component of the hiring process.
What's a concept?
From the guidelines:

> If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

I agree that it's intellectually gratifying, but Hacker News is supposed to be more of a tech interest board more than an "internet funnel" like Reddit or Twitter.
I feel like this is something where determinism would be a win. Maybe have indexing, but pre-prioritize certain common searches.

I notice that I get completely different results on my home and work machines doing the "start button, type" search. for "Downloads", expecting C:\Users\Username\Downloads, the home machine figures it out after three characters. The work machine seems to have decided that I clearly want "File Explorer, not any particular directory" and "Change how I download updates in spite of it being a corporate-managed box where I probably can't push that button without asking IT to remote in and do so" are what I want, even when I spot it the whole directory name.
Well many are further along then Europe is with their engine. Some are much further along.

> And the engine has to be in the same class - most start-ups work on miniature rockets, only good to launch a couple tons into space.

Read my to level comment, I have a whole list. And I didn't even include smaller engines.

> Bottomn line is, Europe does not have the intense private investment for this sort of thing, but the work still needs to be done.

I didn't say they should do any investing or building engine. What I said is that you can't just say ESA has a smaller budget and that's why they don't have these things.
after many unceremonious rejections, the first company that wanted an optional onsite interview hired me, after I went onsite.

so, people want to hire me when they meet me in person, and I can give more inputs of rapport. data point of 1.
I agree 100% Politely decline and move on. Those 2-4hrs can be better spent applying to other positions. Think of all the other openings you could apply to in that amount of time? 25-30? A conservative 10, with a good cover letter.

Good luck with your search!
But what if the statement is in context of jokes, like:

A: *saying something stupid as a joke
B: "I hope the country will impose death penalty to those who support it"

Or when it's used as discussion, like this, is it violating the rule?
TBH my past 2 jobs requested a take home assessment. 1 was a great job, 1 has been a nightmare.
Word 97 opens instantly on my Pentium MMX 200 Mhz with Windows 98 SE (64MB PC66 SDRAM, 8 GB CF Card running in PIO Mode 4). This is a little faster than my Surface Pro 9 opening Word 365.
It's also because journalists are experts in nothing but journalism.

Instead of finding domain experts and giving them communications training and a platform to reach an audience, we instead find people with nothing useful to share, and give them journalism degrees.

Journalism should be an activity that our most knowledgeable people do, not our least.
If it was a flawless run, you wouldn’t see it on here. If there are actual FSD fatalities, don’t you think they’d be all over the news?
OpenSuse Tumbleweed: State-of-the-art desktop and server operating system
I just assumed they were buried cause they were sucking kids into a jungle world and Robin Williams isn't here to save them.
Exactly! I wanted to post the same! This is misleading. The problem is the microwave bags not the microwave itself!
I used to do this sort of thing in Python. But then I realized that if I wrote my code in something like C++, I had fast code without running through all these hoops. Then I learned Rust which has many of advantages of Python in terms of higher-level niceties. Today, its just way easier to write some Rust code for a simulation then go through all the hoops to make Python code fast enough.
What? ESA seems very interested in reusable launch vehicles as of late.
If I am experiencing a bug in RHEL 8.x and others with similar hardware could also experience the same bug, it would be swell for me to be able to submit a fix that would stand some chance of making it into a future RHEL 8.x release as well as RHEL 9.x releases. If it is fixed in CentOS Stream, I think the earliest release this will feed into is RHEL 10, since RHEL 9.x is already released. It's quite possible the problem is already fixed in Stream because the package was upgraded but that upgrade is unlikely to ever make it into RHEL 8.x.
When I wrote “lab leak theorists” I had in mind experts who think it was a leak. I was not thinking of kooks. I should have been more explicit. In general, I think it best for intelligence agencies not to write things to counter what looney people think. Such people can’t be convinced of anything that is contrary to their lunacy.
Reading the title as "Technical Standards must be freely available PDF" also makes sense.
It's been a requirement for the majority of interview processes I've been in for senior and staff positions.
“What Andy giveth, Bill taketh”
This is an interesting concept with terrible execution as almost everyone will agree that most of the situations do not violate the rule.
Aka. the Soviet development process.
If I'm not given that guidance directly nor given a chance to clarify it as I do the solution (as with normal interviews), I don't really want to participate in the guessing game about what they want, if missing that guess results in all the work being wasted.

As others have mentioned, I find the "limit yourself to 2-4 hours" BS. I can stand up a new http server in 2 hours to implement some API, sure. Adding unit tests, integration tests, a readme, build instructions/scripts, containerizing it, adding detailed comments, linting... generally not possible to do in 4 hours unless you have everything set up before then (I can't use my normal dev tools to do takehomes because they're through my employer). IRL you would generally scope this as a week-long task even for experienced employees.

Maybe if I were unemployed and desperate for a job I'd suffer it, but most places I'm interested in working at ask whiteboard/design problems anyway.
Three people have acquired malaria in the US. They’re the first in 20 years
Indeed. This is important, and I pray Ukraine prevails in the broader conflict. But HN doesn't do well with breaking news, and this submission in particular was of rather poor quality: three sentences and a Telegram embed, all behind a Cloudflare CAPTCHA wall. Not that I'm any arbiter of HN's content, but I'd flag that kind of submission regardless of topic.
Apple Subreddit Goes Dark in Protest of Reddit's API Pricing Changes
They didn't cover this on TV news 6 hours ago. They do now.
This isn’t politics, it’s a rapidly unfolding military situation in a state with nuclear weapons.
I'm guessing it's just a negotiation tactic, for what exactly I have no idea.

Interesting times.
I had a similar thought, but the idea was basically to drain the ocean into Narnia.

Magical gateways would usually have a torrent of air flowing through them due to varying pressure on either end.
Works fine as long as you went to a top-3 law school or graduated near the top of your class in a T14 school... I've explicitly seen lawyers lay that out as the criteria they hire by.

I'd rather deal with obnoxious interviews any day.
Thorium is the first browser with HEVC and AC3 support even in a mkv container
I have no idea what your thesis is.

It seems to me that you’re claiming that the existence of undefined behavior is bad. Which isn’t actually that controversial outside of certain people weirdly infatuated with C/C++.

But it seems moreover you merely have a problem with it being called undefined behavior or something, as if the word itself isn’t harsh enough.

I don’t see it. I don’t see the problem with the definitions as stated. It doesn’t weaken any commentary about undefined behavior to me at least.

And again regardless of your hatred for C++ weenies it doesn’t change the fact that there are meaningful practical differences between undefined and implementation defined behavior, the distinction has to exist regardless of what you call them.

> Every undefined behavior is de facto implementation-defined because something happens resulting from the state of the machine and the code being executed.

Regardless of spec this makes no sense to me. Implementation defined implies something is still “defined”, like not in the spec but somewhere. Undefined means what it says - it’s undefined.

I don’t even disagree with your other points but I don’t get how complaining about the practical difficulties of avoiding undefined behavior have to do with a “definitions dodge”
Yeah, the costs of SAR when people made very dumb decisions is an ongoing debate.

In my country at least, the consensus is that we don't want people to _not_ call for help when they need it because they're afraid of being invoiced.

I used to be a ranger, so was involved in SAR to a small extent, usually triggering them, manning the radio, and hitting up other hikers who might have seen something for info, but a lot of our rangers were also volunteers with LandSAR, as they had the techical skills and the local knowledge.

And as far as I'm aware, there was only one serious attempt to invoice someone for a search.

An American serviceman with Operation Deep Freeze had left his intentions for a multi-day hike with the rangers, and when he didn't make contact within 24 hours of his expected date out, a search was initiated. The personal details he'd left weren't great, we knew that an American called Mike was following the Casey Stream - Poulter River - Lake Minchin - Townsend Pass - Taramakau River route, and we knew he hadn't signed out.

No details of his car (if any), or where it was parked, no local contact details, nothing much but an overdue Yankee Mike who was headed into an area where the route he was following wasn't quite here-be-dragons, but you'd certainly stumble into dragons if you made navigation mistakes or bad choices in general.

Volunter searchers on foot spent about 6 weeks scouring his route, and possible wrong turns he could've taken for, which involves very challenging terrain, they brought in both kinds of SAR dogs (the kind that are trained to find people, and the kind that are trained to find bodies) and, significantly more expensively, there was a lot of helicopter flight hours expended trying to find him. The rescue choppers had the IR cameras, ideal for finding warm bodies in the cold, and night vision great at enhancing any light emitted on the ground. Plus the massive spotlight and the winch and the trained paramedics etc.

(Apparently a small torch is very damn visible at night with the NVG, just don't be under trees, it doesn't help).

After those six weeks, the search was called off. A few months later he was eventually located by our Police who'd been following up every angle to identify him.

He was safe and sound at home, in Utah. He'd returned to the US shortly after his hike.

I'm guessing his deployment (or the season for flights to the Antarctic) had been at an end, so he went on one last hike and just forgot to sign out.

The Police took it personal,
and desperately wanted to invoice him for the rescue, even suing him in a US court if need be, but the diplomats nixed it as the US is very protective of its citizens, especially when they're in the service.
How about some sort of pedestrian sky bridge? No vehicles but also no carried skateboards for fear of dropping it.
I think tech news should not feel like it's somehow above normal human experiences, and there's benefit in observing mainstream news together. For example, the slashdot thread on 9/11 was well known.
> It's that any jurisdiction will have almost all of this stuff in common.

I'm not sure how you could say something like this so earnestly... All parks on Earth have the same rules on vehicles? You sure about that?
try: Run commands and inspect their impact before changing your live system
Is every single answer that there is a vehicle in the park? I skipped after 7 but I said all were vehicles in a park. I looked up the definition of vehicle before answering and all seemed to apply. Surfboard I wasn’t certain but I think it’s still definitionally a vehicle? I looked up machine at this point as this one was tricky.

From wiki
A vehicle (from Latin vehiculum)[1] is a machine that transports people or cargo. Vehicles include wagons, bicycles, motor vehicles (motorcycles, cars, trucks, buses, mobility scooters for disabled people), railed vehicles (trains, trams), watercraft (ships, boats, underwater vehicles), amphibious vehicles (screw-propelled vehicles, hovercraft), aircraft (airplanes, helicopters, aerostats) and spacecraft.[2]
> plenty of companies who do not require that

I'd love a list.

> even if you post about this everywhere, there is a very small chance you can change anything

What's your point? Don't post?
Yeah, I don't get what the score means. Also saw 11%. Clearly the number means something other than what people think it means, which is maybe the real test.
A threat to portable monitors everywhere: Lenovo Yoga Book 9i review
The same applied to when Russia began the war on Ukraine, but that was heavily discussed here
Ok this is getting strange. So does this mean Wagner is going against both Ukraine and the Russian military? But Russia is known to deceive whenever possible so any of this can all be BS.

Anyhow, I'm glad I'm not the one that needs to sort all of this out.
I got some very thoughtful and actionable feedback after an interview at IBM and it certainly made me think better of them.
Hard to tell if this is auto generated but I'd guess so. There's a somewhat egregious error. In the Helmholtz–Kohlrausch effect section the site states"

"The illusion where increased saturation (or chroma) of a color is perceived as an increase in the color's lightness."

But that is notably wrong. Lightness is a tonal metric (closer to white, more lightness) and is defined as such on that site as well.

In the H-K effect, emitted light of greater saturation (less lightness) is perceived as higher luminance (brighter) than emitted light of greater lightness.

A more accurate statement would be "The effect whereby colors of greater saturation than, but equal luminance to, a less saturated reference color are perceived to be of greater luminance that the reference color." (I'm sure that could be tightened up.)

A very different thing.
I don't think contributing immediately and allocating time to onboarding are mutually exclusive. I think ideally a well-structured onboarding process has you contributing (in small ways) as soon as possible. It doesn't necessarily have to mean you're just thrown in the deep end.
Those are exactly the questions the quiz should have asked, not clearly absurd examples that are unambiguously not vehicles in the park, like the ISS passing over the park.
The responsibility is 100% on the police. They're the ones who are systematically coming armed to 100% of protests, they're the one gouging people eyes out, pushing people in rivers, causing limbs to be amputated, they're the ones who murdered my 80 yo neighbor during a protest. The ratio of police vs protestors injuries is about 1 vs 10.

Protesting for the survival of the planet we're all living on is not a crime it's a necessity to not go extinct.
I'm curious which aspects of Anki you find to be "very, very dated"? I haven't used Anki for very long, nor have I looked into any advanced-looking features, so perhaps I haven't run into those aspects you were referring to.
There was a lot of discussion here when the war between Russia and Ukraine began, so why not also discussion about an event (Russian military coup) that may well end the war?
If it feels like a guessing game it's probably not obvious to you what the improvement is. They usually stick out like a sore thumb for the candidates that they're seeking if they're written well.
But of course there is a reason- wheel is mentally mapped to the windows' scroll bar
Touch pad is mentally mapped to the view/document like on a phone
Calling it subjective doesn't eliminate it
There are other coronaviruses (broad category) with furin cleavage sites, but there are not other sarbecoviruses (more narrow category) with furin cleavage sites. What those two facts tell you about the origin of Covid-19 is beyond my pay grade.
I doubt their mother sees it in such bloodless terms.
No, I agree. I just mean like when they say, hey this will take 2 hours, how do they know? Do they even care? Or just everyone cheats and does more than the allotted time?

I did one take home that was timed in coderpad. I thought that was a little more fair.
A hobbyist thinking their design is so advanced that a terrorist could never make a guided missile on their own.
It's definitely a rhetorical challenge, and even if TFA is using a poor analogy, it does serve to illustrate this problem, which feels to me like part of what it is trying to communicate.

I have a lot of experience thinking that I get the point of someone else's argument, and then realizing later that I didn't actually get the point, or not in a way that was useful to both parties in the conversation

When I don't feel understood it's usually because the counterparty hasn't said things that allow me to recognize that they have internalized what I'm trying to communicate

Changing tack a little, I think that this is one of the things that I admire about some legal writing, that they are intentionally addressing the act of communication in addition to the substance of what they are communicating. In addition there is a recognition that their words have consequence
My fridge can do the same. It’s rarely actually compressing

Some new fridges seem to have much smalker compressors, which run all the time.
In the past when I’ve given take homes (I don’t anymore) I genuinely would have wanted you to stop after the time limit. It would definitely mean that you weren’t the right candidate if you can’t do it in the time limit, which is OK! It’s meant to signal that it’s a bad fit. I wouldn’t want you feeling like you have to work after hours in the actual job, either.
What if I fly a helicopter 10 feet off the ground, in the area of the park. Is that 'over' or 'through'?
Didn’t utilities in NYC offer DC service for a long time? See https://archive.nytimes.com/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/...

Old buildings had elevators, lights, and so on, that operated on DC.
Keep in mind that previous trips to the Titanic involved multiple dives.

According to https://metro.co.uk/2023/06/22/how-many-times-has-the-titan-...

"OceanGate has stated that the Titan completed over 50 test dives, including to depths similar to those of the Titanic, both in waters around the Bahamas as well as in a pressure chamber."

Other articles mention 200 dives among three subs. So overall it's hard to know exactly.

I don't see what paying passengers have to do with it. If you could get a space shuttle ride for a few thousand bucks, half of HN would put nonrefundable deposits in today and happily accept a 2% risk of death.

I think the real difference is that more people romanticize space than the deep ocean. That's fine, but don't be smug about it.
I haven't used the OP's application, but I've used a variety of other WYSIWYG markdown editors. It's true that WYSIWYG is kind of pointless for READMEs or what have you, but for writing prose it's very useful to continuously understand what your output will actually look like. (And writing prose in markdown is great because you have a plain text, easily manipulated & cross-compiled storage format that you can read the plain text of easily if you have to)
When the dam was destroyed, one possibility I remembered was Wagner acting independently.
I'm not sure that I have an established opinion about TFA, but my tone was poor. I'm well rebuked
> Really it comes down to irrational VCs starting this bank run

I really wish there was more investigation of Peter Thiel on this. He issued very specific edicts to startups he was invested in on Wednesday night saying that they were all to have all funds out by COB Thursday.

He also then specifically directed one of his companies to have a loan application app up and running, and that it would need to be ready by noon on Friday (the Feds shut the doors Friday morning).

These were remarkably ... prescient ... predictions, and very precise and specific.

I cannot help but wonder if Thiel had some insider information on this going down. I'm sure he's probably quite friendly with SVB's board given how much money he's pushed their way.

It should also be noted that encouraging or pushing a bank run is in fact a felony.
Apple Reportedly Planning to Switch Tech Behind A17 Bionic Chip to Cut Costs