skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I took a take-home assignment from fly.io a while back; they promised that every completion would receive real human feedback.

As far as I remember, I was told it would take a few hours, maybe 4, but the assignment looked rather fun, so I thought, whatever, let’s do it.

Maybe I didn't understand the assignment fully or missed some cues; I don't know. But it took me roughly 10 hours spread across two days. After 5-6 hours, you don't feel like throwing the work away; you just want to finish. It was pretty frustrating.

After returning the assignment, I waited the two weeks they asked for and heard nothing. I sent one email, waited a week, got no reply, sent another, waited some more, and still received no reply. I ended up sending a handful of emails to various addresses I could find. I even sent a DM on Twitter to one of the founders to let them know. No reply anywhere.

Overall, it was a pretty bad experience.
You might like pdfpc: https://pdfpc.github.io/
The person riding the bicycle does those things, the bicycle is a tool. A tool can't follow rules.

You can take roller skates off, get out of a wheelchair, and get off a bicycle.

Imagine you were wearing roller skates being pulled by a dog.

Imagine you were sitting in a chair, with a roller skate bound to each leg of the chair, rolling down a hill.

Imagine you were a flea in a roller skate rolling down a hill.

Imagine you were a dog in a wheelchair rolling down a hill.

Imagine you were a flea on a dog in a chair with roller skates on its legs rolling down a hill.
BlackRock and JPMorgan are going to make huge profits on the reconstructions. Hopefully the money goes into really rebuilding the country and doesn't get stolend by corrupted officials and banksters.
Not humans, the suggested headline specifically mentions the boat race causing the disruption.
The last bullet on page 3 (page 4 of the pdf) seems to have a character that was forgotten to be redacted? The same thing happens a few pages later
I've had this experience before.

Believe it or not, I've also gotten takehomes which took multiple hours, involved some non-trivial data retrieval and management, and gotten rejected with less effort than it took them to prepare the ask.

Later I had a sinking suspicion that it was not a real position, what it was was three brogrammers who found a way to get unemployed rubes to write code for them, for free, so they could deliver it themselves without having the requisite talent.

Are you positive that didn't happen to you too?
I am not relying on faith, I am reading the cited sources.
Yeah sure. (edit: haha, now this comment is flagged.. clown country)
As an engineer manager, I still try to write all of my emails myself.

I recently tried to take something I wrote and see if ChatGPT could improve it. I did not like anything it returned. It was a bit too wordy.
As an interviewee, I don’t really feel great about take home exercises. If the exercise is really tight in scope & it’s more of a validation of whether one can code at all, that’s not so bad, but coding exercises are almost never like that.

Coding exercises I’d be ok with:

- fix all the bugs in this repo to get the tests to pass

- implement a feature to show basic understanding of a concept

- do some quiz or puzzle to show you can achieve a discreet objective

- refactor some code to clean up a mess

- show you can use their SDK in a sane way

Ways to evaluate a coding exercise I can support:

- if you can complete this exercise, that’s all we care about

- we’ll use this exercise to implement another feature in a pair programming exercise

- using it as an introduction to the type of work one might be doing

- communicating that we like to give candidates a chance to code without the pressure of someone staring at them in a live interview

- promising an up or down vote on every exercise submitted

- doesn’t require back and forth with a someone to ask a bunch of questions, mostly because it really drags out the interview process

Basically if a take home exercise anticipates all the common objections to a take home exercise, tries to address those expectations, and has an attitude of “this sucks for us as much as it sucks for you”, I’m happy to jump through reasonable hoops.
If it were true, it would make no sense to try to censor it, so I'm going to bet on it being a joke?

I really have no idea who would care specifically about censoring it on HN, anyway.

I always thought everything he said was on orders from the highest, either to troll Western media, or else to make the regular military nervous so they wouldn't start a coup.
The exact phrasing in the intro is "You might know of some rule in your jurisdiction which overrides local rules, and allows certain classes of vehicles. Please disregard these rules; the park isn't necessarily in your jurisdiction."

But it's still a park right? On earth? What jurisdiction on earth blocks matchbox cars and space stations? Or even ambulances and police cars, which were the main ambiguous ones? Does some country not allow ambulances in its parks? Am I supposed to include the entirety of modern human culture as we know it as a "local jurisdiction"?

I don't think the intro instructions were very clear.
Wow, what a statement considering literally everything you just listed turned out to be a complete joke. I could not have made a better argument to prove a point.
What do you think he meant by "I'm not going to show you the full code, for safety reasons"?
I wonder how to compares to Anki
Do you think it has anything to do with a particular political faction spending the past decade or two rabble-rousing Americans to feel incredibly passionately about all sorts of internal goings on in China[1], as a distraction from poor domestic governance?

[1] Most of which have nothing to do with them, of course.
That's very frustrating, I'm sorry you had that experience. The most time I've spent is ~4 hours and I've definitely gotten to that point where I'm like I don't know if it's worth it but I should just finish it. And yea, to not get anything back from the reviewer/recruiter after that just feels bad.
On the one hand, yeah, maybe it's fine if the 100 morons per year have to sign a waiver acknowledging "this experimental submarine has not been approved by any verification provess. There is no reason to believe you will survive this trip."

On the other hand, last week I had to sign a waiver saying essentially the same thing when I rented a frisbee golf kit.

And everything in the state of California is "known to the State of California to cause cancer" .
Yes, they were defending in an urban area, but I think this matters less than you might expect. Russia's strategy was to saturate the Ukrainians with artillery, and they undoubtedly have superiority in this area. This kind of warfare basically negates the advantages of urban defence. Sure, it took a long time to make progress, but by design it limits the casualties of the attacker. I'd wager that most Ukrainians that died there never even saw a Russian solider.

Truthfully, no one really knows how many died (on either side), but Wagner stayed in the field vs 50-odd Ukr. brigades. How do you reconcile that with a favourable casualty ratio?
Huh. Gladiator is way cheaper than I remember. Would still be a bargain at twice the price.

At this point, I probably have about $900 sunk into Virpil controls. The Alpha grip and base, the Mongoose throttle and an extra control panel I just ordered. Just absolutely love the feel and functionality.
I use to flip through an encyclopedia from 1943 that my grandparents had. The army stuff from WW2 was some of the coolest stuff.
Hey, that’s still a win. It sounds like they respected your time and knew that you’re a rare bird.
Ocaml peaked 10 years ago. Truly Bizarre to declare it the new Rust.
YouTube Is Testing an Online-Games Offering
Damn, I thought fly.io was better than that.
Off topic, does anyone else remember the videos from December/January 2020 coming from China that showed young healthy adults dropping dead in the streets like it was a zombie plague?
Going off of China’s own numbers, none of that was reality, so what the heck was that?
Some ridiculous psyop? For what purpose? To what end?
I think there's some confusion and rewriting of history going on here.

The left wasn't denying the possibility that it leaked from the Wuhan lab. This was a theory very early on and it wasn't "denied" more that it wasn't substantiated.

It became political when it was asserted by people on the right, without any actual research or investigation, that was an intentional release from China.

Majority of that blame falls on Trump's inability to understand or articulate nuanced topics, particularly within geopolitical contexts. Instead of figuring out how to defeat the virus, majority of their energy went into pointing the finger at who to blame--a far easier task than being an actual leader.
The Trillion-Gallon Question: What If California's Dams Fail?
> - we’ll use this exercise to implement another feature in a pair programming exercise

One of my take homes had a follow up like this and I did enjoy it. The interview went well but then I got rejected with very confusing feedback. It's hard to win as an interviewee.
Just ignore them. They're apparently incapable of sending an email to the mods to ask directly and have decided to troll instead.
No, but I'm sure they were causing QC issues in earlier models, before auto manufacturers figured them out.
Wagner chief vows to topple Russian military leaders
Windows 8 and Windows Mobile embraced this aesthetic, and I thought it the best mainstream UI we've gotten since the 32-bit era. Everything resolves back to a straight edge, because computer screens are largely square, not round. Every object has a bold, flat color so you can easily and immediately identify it. And the background is matte black. None more black. Windows Mobile on an AMOLED display was a thing of beauty. It's too bad the design regressed in Windows 10 before proper dark mode was released for desktop, because by the time we finally got the clean backgrounds that would really make stuff pop outside the start menu, they'd already ruined the whole UI (including the start menu).

Of course this latest Windows feels like Microsoft designers have fallen completely into Mac OS X redux, which to me makes computers look like some kind of ridiculous hand-carved artifact from antiquity instead of the modern, practical tools they are. Alas, what could have been.
Why does that matter?

3 trips vs 1 trip? The people who went didn't need to go all together.
How did the guys in the OP do it? They used liquid fuel? I didn't know that was possible for model rockets
The carbon fiber obviated the need for expensive to produce syntactic foams.

The Bluetooth?

Eh. It was there.

The sad thing is, the carbon fiber hull material may not necessarily be a totally losing proposition if you can make the carbon fiber hull module swappable and recyclable, and testable.

Evidently they got, what? 20ish descents to service depth before it lost integrity?

If you worked from there, and figured out those pesky details, you could make something workable.

In fact, we may even be lauding the man if they'd done the 30 + journeys to service depth unmanned, and used the data collected from scanning/ultrasounding or otherwise probing that hull piece to draw strong, clear, unambiguous bars around "number of trips til new hull needs to be swapped in".

Nobody would fault the guy for doing that, and he may have truly advanced the State of the Art in ways he'd still be alive to enjoy.

But here we are.
> these companies aren't really hiring unless you are young and cheap

is this because its expected that younger workers work longer hours?
Can you point to a non-biased source that explains this in more detail?

I'm not a biologist, I don't have the slightest idea what the heck a furin cleavage site is, and so whether this is a red herring or a smoking gun.

But if you think this is such a smoking gun, can you point to somebody who explains in detail for a general audience what it means, why it's true, and how statistically unlikely it would be for it to be natural?

I just don't have anywhere near the background to know whether your comment is valid, but would like to know more.
That doesn't affect at all what you consider a vehicle or what the meaning of 'in' is.
It’s definitely not a joke.

https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-war-russia-nuclear-647a54...
I'm more impressed with his giant signature at the end of the post, than the post itself.
I feel the same way as the above comment. If you were an actual administrator in charge of fining people for violating the rule, almost none of these examples should give you pause. You wouldn't be trying to give a ticket to planes flying overhead, for example. With these examples, there really isn't much disagreement on whether action should be taken, so any discussion of whether a rule is technically violated is moot.
Good to see Chinese students expressing themselves freely on social media at least--China might not be quite as dystopian as we're often led to believe
I mean... yeah. Also she's literally the Rep for SF, home of tech.

That they're invested in tech stock is the least shocking thing imaginable.
definitive sources of evidence ? no
statements about furin sites being evidence of a lab leak ? no

But clearly enough for quite a number of people in scientific leadership positions to state publicly that any discussion of a lab leak is a conspiracy theory and to ridicule and censor anyone who thought so.

In fact, these scientific leaders were so good, and so on top of things, that they were able to do the research and examine the evidence, and come up with these strong unequivocal conclusions only a few weeks after covid started to spread worldwide (feb 2020)

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
We have certifications too - Azure, AWS, security ones, etc.

But a person with 15 certifications still gets asked to do a coding test
I only saw this mentioned in 1 other top-level comment -- ChatGPT (and yes, sorry, you may be sick of hearing about it).

There's a perspective starting to come up, ie ChatGPT is ruining take-homes. This tweet[1] is one example from the hiring side, but I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up flooding their inboxes and your submission suddenly is competing for time with a bunch of bots.

[1] https://twitter.com/djsmith42/status/1661156114883567616
Nurse here. A couple years ago, went for an interview at a hospital. Had to complete an exam in <1h. Some of the questions included drawing the anatomy of a heart, medication calculation, etc. I was never told if I passed. Went for a4-persons interview (they were 1h late...), and was offered the job (which I declined). Is it really necessary to assess someone using an exam when they have a professional license, references, and experience? Oh well.
>Jim backs his RV into the park. He does so without his vehicle entering the park.

He backs his RV into the park? That means his RV enters the park, right? What does the V stand for in RV?
Very strange

https://medium.com/together-institute/powerful-community-rit...
After skimming the site and code:

Do not use this, just use anki.

Anki has a free web version (anki web), and has free-as-in-AGPL desktop apps as well.

Maybe one day this software will be comparable to anki, but right now it's missing spaced-repetition (which is the only thing that really makes large decks usable), and practically all the other features of anki.
Candidly, I think that this comment is actually the one rewriting history. There absolutely, 100% was complete denial, all originating on the political left, that a leak from a lab in China was a possibility. No confusion about intentional vs accidental - total denial of the possibility in any way shape or form. Suggesting it was possible, much less plausible or even likely, was labeled racist. Attempts were made (with limited success) to suppress discussion about it, by removing the topic from social media feed recommendations and what not.

Someone else can look up sources for all of this if they want, but I don't feel the need to. It was just a couple years ago, and I remember it perfectly.

I presume you just spend your time consuming healthier discourse than I do, which probably means you make some better choices in your free time than I do, so I'm not accusing you personally of this - but the walking back of all the effort made to deny and suppress discussion about this issue and pretend it never happened feels a lot like gaslighting.
Unless someone is very good at finding SHA1 collisions.
What is the difference between being exposed to it from the WIV and it being bioengineered? GoF research vs. "lab leak?"
hmm when i tried again it worked,thanks!
Maybe a trick here, at least with online marked ones, is screen record a take home end to end with the result.
Then say - use that result or GTFO. A bit like how they let you drive a car after passing a test once.
Sorry for the late response - if you see this, I think Citi private bank still has some pretty cheap unsecured loan products.

Agreed, credit cards are a different beast and not as borrower favorable as those lines of credit, but probably with 10 years of responsible credit usage and a decent job could put enough on credit cards to bootstrap a startup with $0 outside equity. And there’s always the Argentina put if it doesn’t pan out.
> To oversimplify natural selection into “if you’re dumb, you might die and that’s good for the future of humanity” is absurd. There are many reasons why smart people do dumb things, like drive recklessly, use dangerous substances, or are careless with weapons. Their children might never follow that behavior.

This type of argument doesn't sit well with me. "Oh it's complicated and not a guarantee, merely a correlation.. so the initial claim is entirely false." It's the old "behavior is 100% genetic or 100% environmental, no middle ground" false dichotomy, just camouflaged a little.

You can apply this "it's complicated" to every phenomenon that you'd rather not understand - there's always extra detail affecting things that is poorly understood. E.g. there are many reasons short giraffes fail to produce offspring, but not being tall enough to reach leaves is one of them. It is a simplification (maybe some would have grown tall, but just didn't get enough food?), but a useful and legitimate one.

I agree with her points about schadenfreude and judging people, but just because we find something morally distasteful does not make it factually untrue.
conservatives want the lab leak theory to be correct? They controlled the levers of power at the time and didn’t do anything about it, didn’t get redress for the death, suffering, loss, and economic harm. I would expect they’d want the waters as muddy as possible.
Seconded.

I really struggled reading the first one though, then I listened to the other two on audible and they were great.

Well worth it if you can get them from Audible or Overdrive.
Rizin[1][2] provides basic diffing capabilities out of the box with the `rz-diff` tool. We plan to expose it in our GUI, Cutter, too, in the near future.

[1] https://rizin.re

[2] https://github.com/rizinorg/rizin
When you've worked with dozens of professional genius engineering companies, the idea that a clown is somehow running a fake one exits the realm of possibility for you.
Same as when your company hires an idiot coworker who bullshits his way through the interview.
Or a grossly incompetent pathological liar Presidential candidate...
Accountants and finance people are not the almighty rulers of projects.

If you can not get enough thrust under your rocket sectional area, your capsule will simply not leave the ground and your astronauts won't make it to the Moon, independently on the accountants opinion on the matter.

All of those things are important.
It's not necessarily Windows throwing away keypress events but the order of events system wide not necessarily staying in the expected order or the target for an event not being active at the right time.

If you activate the start menu with a keypress it's going to grab focus. Before it grabs focus the previous window in focus will get events. The same applies with panels (drawers? I forget Windows' name for them) in the Start Menu. There's a non-zero time between activation and grabbing focus to receive keypress events.

Everything from animation delays to stupid enumeration bugs can affect a windows not grabbing focus to receive keypress events. Scripting a UI always has challenges with timing like this.

A mainframe terminal has a single input context. You can fire off a bunch of events quickly because there's no real opportunity for another process (on that terminal) to grab focus and receive those events.

Note the above doesn't absolve Windows of any stupid performance/UX problems with bad animation timings and general shittiness. Microsoft has been focusing on delivering ads and returning telemetry with Windows instead of fixing UX and performance issues.
Because they want to make more profit.
Vehicle is a word with a dictionary definition -- why does it need to have a definition included? Would that definition not include other words, would those also need to be defined?
Do the missiles count as vehicles? Might not be able to bring them in.
Something like this https://youtu.be/UnTJScmSLYs
Eco flow can charge from solar, then charge a few appliances. I think Anker just released a similar product.
Bagheera_kiplingi
In anticipation of vindication, does the "left" not themselves then hope for the release of information which runs counter to their opponents, thus by consensus, a sword to fall on? Since without it their silly little sports team would be on the losing side. And of course in the event they're wrong they can run back to their echo chambers and self-manufacture plausible deniability. As will the right if proven wrong. In both cases either side wants to be correct — just for that little hit of "I told you so."

Of course this is all just silly bullshit. I have some inkling of hope that the truth will be made plain, but that's so implausible given current regimes and political paradigms that the only reasonable thing to do is ignore whatever is concluded, at least anytime in our lifetimes.
My understanding: Let's say Alma & Rocky purchase one RHEL subscription, and start programmatically downloading Source RPMs (SRPMs). Red Hat finds out. Red Hat says "as per the subscriber agreement, we are unilaterally cancelling your subscription."

Now, let's say Alma & Rocky go back to Red Hat and say "We want the source for these packages we obtained while we had a subscription." I think Red Hat could respond by saying "OK, you last had a subscription on X/X/202X, here are the versions of SRPMs that were in activate at the time your subscription ended. Oh, you want newer SRPMs? Well, too bad, you don't have an active subscription."

Could Red Hat do this? Sure. Would they do this? At this point, probably. Does that go against the letter of the GPLv2? My thinking is no. Does it go against the _spirit_ of the GPLv2? Yes.
Looks like two separate motors to me. The second one is staged after apogee and is only powerful enough to slow the rocket down.
Even if the park includes a skate park and a bike trail? I guess it depends on what size/type of park you are familiar with.
I think Putin has an easy enough time purging without an excuse like that
Anecdotally, there are plenty of people with obesity or other risk factors who died despite being fully vaccinated.

Meanwhile, I had a confirmed COVID infection early on, before vaccines were available, and had nothing more than the sniffles. I then had two more confirmed infections after having three vaccine doses, and had the same sniffles.

These anecdotes, like yours, are not very useful since they only confirm what we already know: no vaccine is 100% effective, and no risk factor is a death sentence.