skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
100% yes. I did this 2.5 years ago, got a remote FAANG job, and more than 3x'd my comp. Remote FAANG-level comp is harder than to get than it was during COVID, but it is still possible.
probably eating more dirt
Personally I wouldn't terribly mind such an interview, but I do know plenty of people who absolutely fall to pieces when having to code while being watched, and it's definitely not particularly pleasant to me, either. I think the best interview I've experienced was one where the "2 hour interview" consisted of me receiving an email with a short, job-related task and then after an hour was up we spoke and discussed my solution. Respected my time, as it wasn't some open-ended take-home test that somebody with too much time on their hands could spend dozens of hours polishing to perfection, while still not being quite so "whiteboard-y".

With regards to Github projects and the like, I do ask about them in interviews, because I think there's a place for them as an early screening. Every engineer worth their salt has some war stories, and that's a good angle to approach their GitHub profile: if they have an interesting sounding project, asking them to talk about any interesting problems they ran into during its creation tends to make it immediately clear whether they're full of shit or not. It's not a great positive signal, but if they're not chomping at the bit to talk about engineering challenges, it's a strong negative signal.
Obviously we don’t have records for the majority cause of death in 100,000BC, however I see no reason to believe that compared to Paleolithic man there are fewer risks now.

Consider the top youth killers today: drug overdoses, automobile accidents, firearms, household accidents. These were just not possible ways that people could die in 100,000BC. Yet heart attack and cancer have always led death rates for as long as humans have been counting.

My hunch is that people for the most part have always mostly died of “old age” (cancer, heart attack, pneumonia, infection) for all of human history and while overall rate had dropped - the type has changed to be less random biology and more social-cultural (which is worse IMO)
> The government caused this, so it's not unreasonable to expect that the government pay for the damaged caused.

No. You don't just get to get the government to subsidize all your duration risk. You need to properly run a bank. You can buy shorter duration bonds in order to mitigate the risk from interest rate changes.
I imagine it'd be a particular boon for dance choreographers and intructors too
In my experience it’s super easy to see that the resume or github or a home project is fake. If not immediately then in like first 10 minutes of the interview. I don’t think that “people lie” is a valid reason to generalize. If anything, that’s the interviewers who are limiting themselves, not the other way around.
Nice, really hope I'll find some sweet way to cache similarish with GitLab-CI. Also kinda been thinking about how cool it'd be to run Kubernetes with Nix natively (so instead of a docker layer registry you have nix paths mounted together to overlayfs)
I get all my high end electronics through Argos as then I don't have to run the "is it fake" gauntlet with Amazon. Highly recommend.
You validate the same way they did back in the 30s and 40s. You use Cribs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Known-plaintext_attack
The Flash should be blue, and how SONIC got it right
Spent a lot of time in the NorCal regions (Klamath, Six Rivers, Shasta-Trinity), but only a little around Mendo. Any particular highlights?

Side note: And this is exactly how the best places get overcrowded, lol ;)
> What kind of hubris could look past that huge red flag?

I don't think it was outright hubris. I think it was commercial necessity, driven by the business model that OceanGate used: Rush needed rich tourists to fund the business, and he got rich tourists by offering them a close-up view of a famous shipwreck. To give his passengers a view that they were willing to pay for, he needed an oversized viewport.

He had already proven this business model with his earlier submarines, so it is understandable that he wanted to carry it on as he built vehicles intended to go deeper. Less understandable is that he set aside the reality that a large-enough viewport could not actually be safely procured. That's not really hubris though, just plain old profit-driven idiocy. The whole thing feels like it has less in common with the Titanic and more in common with the Ford Pinto.
Or at least in North America, younger people don't want to live in soulless suburbs where there's literally nothing to do apart from visiting the same big box stores, chain restaurants and bars in exactly same looking plaza.
>check out your local Indian grocery store - the spices are from major Indian brands and undergo a lot of testing, with additional certification for export to the US.

Well, uh, I'm no expert, having just read about this here, today. But what you are saying flies in the face of half of the comments here, doesn't it? What makes you sure that the "local Indian grocery store" is getting high-quality, tested spices?
If you collect a 50% tax from one village and a 20% tax from another village, it's expected that the second village will eventually absorb all the wealth. It's not surprising because the tax collectors happen to live in the second village.
Businesses shouldn't be allowed to be one so large that healthy competition no longer exists. Right now our markets are sick, healthy competition should have driven prices back down, but that isn't what we see happening.
> Windfall profits tax is a start, but what they do with the profits they collect is another. No one likes price controls, but taking short-term action or maybe enacting price stabilization could be very effective.

You are talking gravely serious interventions and I really think you are missing the knockoff incentive effects.
https://archive.fo/FRiS3

https://archive.today/FRiS3
I stopped reading Reddit during the protest and haven't come back. I don't want to support them at all. I found out about Lemmy and I love it.

So it worked for me, even if everyone else stays on Reddit I don't particularly care.
What if the entire world is mostly rational, and it is the HN crowd / snowflakes from the richest US suburbs who are bonkers?
> my point wasn't to suggest that the article's contents were unsurprising, but rather to criticize the HN title and provoke further reflection on causation

If that's what you wanted to do, you should have done that. A single glib sentence with no content in it isn't enough to "provoke further reflection on causation".
Keycloak is top notch in this sense. Really the best you can get. Oh and it’s open source, sonyou can self host it. We used to support ~2k daily users with an ha keycloak (running as three pods on kubernetes, with 2gb ram per pod).
I played the Halo 1 campaign, multiplayer didn't grab me.
> If your point is that IBM has enough lawyers and money to prevent users from redistributing GPL software, and they may have figured out how to exersize a loophole that will be difficult to do anything about it, especially cause of all those lawyers and money... right, indeed, sure.

It's not. The that IBM has here is that they're doing is not lawyers and money, it's that their customers depend on them -- vendor lock-in if you wish.

> If you are suggesting that we should all consider this just fine, and you don't care what the GPL intended to do, and you don't think anyone else should either, and we should all aspire to make money by getting away with subverting the GPL... okay, thanks for sharing? But as for me: nope nope nope.

I'm suggesting something else entirely. First, that if IBM is legally right but you/we/they don't like it, there's voting with wallets, or sucking it up if you're stuck with IBM. Second, I'm suggesting that open source is a business tool for everyone from a poor individual to a multi-billion company -- a tool rather than an end in itself.

Now, I agree that open source as an end is fun ("look ma', what code I wrote!"), but people still need to put food on the table. Just like fine art, where artists want total freedom of expression, but often produce the kinds of art that will sell well because... it's nice to not be dependent on charity. Even back in the days when artists had patrons, they still had to appeal to the patrons' tastes, and if they wanted to revolutionize art they had to convince the patrons that that was a good thing.
Would love to learn more about this type of reverse engineering. Do you have any resources or tips on getting started?
>I don't think it's a good idea b/c Musk is a truly valuable asset to the USA and a good person and he could be physically harmed by Zuckerberg who IMO is not yet properly socialized (give him another 30 years) and insignificant to anyone other than his firm's stockholders.

One of the weirdest sentences I've read on HN in a while
Falcon 9 uses a factory of safety of 1.4: https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/164283main_2nd_exp_conf_24_Commerci...
All of the commenters so far (and the article's title) seem to assume that this is causative of good health. Why is that?

I'm aware that fecal transplants can help cure C diff infections.

Do we have randomized, placebo-controlled evidence that suggests that gut biodiversity is causative of (and not just associated with other lifestyle features causing) good health? It's hard for me to imagine a good way to design such a study.

I thought the rigorously performed research regarding eg probiotics had mostly been disappointing.

Is there any reason to think that food that is good for human health would not also be good for gut flora health, thus heavily confounding much of the non-interventional research?
Eh, to me the chaos score seemed pretty opinionated.

After all, if the interview process is highly standardised the jobs must be highly standardised. That's fine if everything is a java web service and you only want to hire java web service folks. But if I'm an expert in machine vision for robotic applications, how are you going to validate the specialist skills that make me so expensive?

And what do I care about the interviews being consistent? I only have to go through the process once. And it's not like I'm relying on getting hints or leaked questions to be able to pass.
U.S. Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Coinbase in User Lawsuit
I would suggest setting up your own hosted auth provider (via e.g. IdentityServer 4) to retain ownership of identity secrets, then use SAML, OIDC, etc. to perform federated authentication with third party authentication and identity providers (e.g. google login, apple login, etc.)

This is more complicated yes, however you are less likely to end up in a situation where a core identity provider unreasonably raising their rates results in either a significantly higher cost-per-user or significant user attrition during provider account migration.

Or if you’re less risk averse just pick a major identity provider such as Auth0 and use their free plan for getting started easily. Many major providers offer “easy” migration away from their competitors and provide extensive documentation for how to integrate with their platform.
Wow, what a trip. The Russell Hobbs chrome-on-copper (number 11, first page of the '76 catalog) is like a wormhole to my childhood kitchen. I remember that red rocker switch so clearly now, how it felt to turn it on and off. It was beautifully spring loaded, so you'd push it a bit then the spring would take over and snap it on. My mum taught me how to make her a cup of tea when I was old enough to reach it - well before I liked the stuff.
Four Animators on Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Bad Working Conditions
Money > impact for some people.
I just got the prompt the other day and was WTF when it tried to call SOS... had to duck-duck-go how to disable this stupidity...
For documents intended to be read on-screen, I've had very pleasant results with Merriweather, Merriweather Sans, and Cascadia Code (for monospacing). Mind you, I use XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX, which make using arbitrary fonts easy. My math text is still in Computer Modern; I still have to go look at various pairings to see what I like the best.
I’d wager that it’s about doing something different than has been done with clear risk. No one wears respirators pumping gas, and if the gov starts mandating it I don’t think it’s a huge leap to assume push back.
Oh, man. I've never even looked for the dipstick on my (25,000 mile old) car.

I used to change the oil on my cars myself. I've never even tried on my newest car.
Yeah, JIRA could be handy and useful though you need to create tickets for every tasks with a rigorous monitoring with other backlog and story items.
I can't easily send money to an arbitrary person via Zelle because my bank only allows that through their app. Website only supports requesting that they mail a paper check to that person which will take some time.

I prefer not to have any connection between my phone, which is easily lost, and any financial data.
This article conflates diversity with gut health. It has not been proven that more diversity is necessarily better[1]. In fact, in infants a less diverse b. infantis dominant environment is probably advantageous[2].

If you're having a baby, the best thing you can do is to supplement b. infantis, especially the robust strain from Evolve Biosystems[3]. The Hadza have more b. infantis[4] which kicks off a set of immune host interactions that have positive effects on inflammation during the critical period after birth[5].

"After around 3 years, the gut microbiota stabilises retaining relative proportions of taxa with adaptations to composition harder to impose,"[6] so I doubt it's diet as much as it is vertical transmission of the right kinds of bacteria that set the infants up for a lifetime of healthy immune response.

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5103657/

2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6177445/

3. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7352178/

4. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9894631/

5. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009286742...

6. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6950569/
I get the sense that you’ve not tried it and you’re speaking extremely generally. That’s fine, you don’t have to. I’ll stop here though until you have an informed perspective.
This has more in common with Austin, Texas. Everyone is grumpy about all the people moving there, but the vast, vast majority are moving there from other parts of Texas rather than out of state.
> Plus, there's no fundamental reason we price bonds the way we do.

Discounted cash flow analysis / net present value is the one thing that we have in finance that's really a fundamental/intrinsic thing.
We never had one because my mum thought they'd burn the house down while we slept...
Very cool! It seems to struggle with mixed meter music, though (understandably). I've uploaded a song of mine that's mostly in 6/8, but has some bars of 7/8. It still makes smooth transitions, but on the wrong beat, which is very noticeable. I will try it again with a song in only one odd measure, maybe that works.
>They expect us to be swayed by a stock photo of a laboratory?

I don't think any picture of a lab would have any meaning to me, whatsoever. Is the product legit tested? That's all that matters. I don't care what the lab looks like.
I have a hard time believing they would have a greater variety than a reasonable modern day person.

Reflecting on today, I’ve had four different species of fruit, three different vegetables, and two different subspecies of Cheerio. Not to forget the different meats, nuts, and dairy.
I assure you I'm not being payed by anyone to make comments online, in fact my $dayjob is paying huge amounts of money to IBM/Red Hat for our partnership with them.

I've been using open source for over 20 years, and I admit to using CentOS because it was a FREE version of a stable RHEL distro.

I wish I could find a free, community-based and non-commercial distro in the Linux ecosystem that I was happy with, but I just can't. The closest one is Debian, but I still don't want to leave RHEL.
Yeah, I saw it too.. we used a precursor to Ubuntu Pro so I'm sure my message was less obnoxious.

I think they're also offering patches for some commonly installed third-party stuff like nodejs via Ubuntu Pro.

I actually quite like Ubuntu Pro for the fact I can send a developer a laptop and know that there's 24/7 support from Canonical. I was a little dubious at how good they'd be, but they were able to diagnose the problem and provide a fix.
The obvious answer here is probably that shutting down large chunks of the economy like that directly impacts its efficiency and ability to supply people with stuff, and there's probably no way of fully preventing that impact. There were a bunch of rapid demand shifts to different, non-shut-down sectors like home improvement and DIY followed by a huge spike in demand as people caught up on spending, there's not the capacity to satisfy any of that, and it makes no sense for anyone to build that capacity because by the time it was ready the demand likely wouldn't be there any more. (Look at all the big tech businesses that employed a bunch of people and then discovered the lockdown boom in demand didn't last, for example - and it's a lot more easier for them to scale up than a semiconductor fab or a car manufacturer or airlines or fossil fuel production or the entire wood harvesting and processing chain.)
They can get very creative when it comes to taxes
In all these systems where "the world over" we have the same end result, what do we have in common? Shareholders, for profit companies, consultancies, an entire sector of the economy is just consultancies. Its death by a thousand cuts set up by the incentives. You don't know what the hell you are doing, so hey lets act like you do by bringing in a consultancy who does know what they are doing because that's their job. In effect, you get to be bad at your job but be good at your job since you rubber stamped "bring in a consultant" on the project.

Then what about these consultants? Well, they don't need to actually solve the problem either. They just make various plans and present a slide deck to management at the end and collect a check. Whether the plan works or not doesn't even matter here, because the consultants got paid already and are on to the next job, the manager looks good because they brought in a consultancy, and if shit fails in the next three years well its no ones fault, because management will act like they did everything right bringing in the consultancy and will cut other staff first.

Consultancyism is everywhere these days. Its the next big thing in emerging markets which is even scarier and only a fig leaf away from imperialism with the terms of how some of these deals are struck, always to the benefit of capital with the people seen as a resource for extraction or exploitation. Consultancyism probably also encourages an unhealthy mercenary outlook on life. Never taking pride in projects because they are never your projects in your community, they are just jobs elsewhere to make some money.
Got it. I wish there was an up to date service level owner identified which will then reduce this to just a lookup and tagging. I have seen few engineering teams in other companies started doing that.
> MPT assumes that investors are risk averse, meaning that given two portfolios that offer the same expected return, investors will prefer the less risky one. Thus, an investor will take on increased risk only if compensated by higher expected returns. Conversely, an investor who wants higher expected returns must accept more risk. The exact trade-off will not be the same for all investors. Different investors will evaluate the trade-off differently based on individual risk aversion characteristics. The implication is that a rational investor will not invest in a portfolio if a second portfolio exists with a more favorable risk-expected return profile—i.e., if for that level of risk an alternative portfolio exists that has better expected returns.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_portfolio_theory
> Private landlords have been enriched at the expense of the wider society.

We are literally subsidising the least productive "profession" in society, to the tune of billions. It's an absolute joke.
> So it may be an uninteresting or unhelpful way to put it, but I think he accurately summarizes how many people who have studied economics would think about it.

OK, but again: this is not the narrative that is being pushed by corporations and conservatives. You can say, "Oh, hey, this is just textbook economics," but the vast majority of people have never studied one sentence of economics and are being actively lied to.
I think it should be pretty straightforward to make the Magic Nix Cache work on GitLab, too. They have a similar caching API. We'll take a look!
Oops, you're right! I was mislead since in my native language, in which I read the books as a child, he is called Ideafix :)
I've been an interviewer at Netflix and Amazon and both of these feel pretty spot on in the guide.

Not sure if it's still this way, but at Netflix the hiring manager was the only decision-maker. They took in all the feedback from the other interviewers and usually went with the majority, but they had the ultimate choice. You could say they had the Freedom to hire anyone they want and the Responsibility to deal with the consequences of that.

And yes, at Netflix we pretty much all just made up our interviews as we wanted to, although after I while I zeroed in on questions that would give me the best go/no go data and would repeat them often.

And at Amazon, what they say here is very accurate -- the bar raiser is the key person to impress. They and the HM have ultimate say on the results.
or pressurize the tanks using air cylinders that they later pump back up offsite.
Rate limit your requests; if you get 403 forbidden responses, you're editing and deleting too fast.
This was my frustration with the Pixel 4 as well. So many random things done on my phone, including Amazon 1 Click purchases or random emails about to be sent, etc. All because the stupid thing somehow decides that the screen should be enabled in my pocket. However, if I'm making a call with the phone up to my ear and move it to look at it..."no screen for you!"
If you use a normal browser like Firefox or Chrome the settings for fonts are there in the browser settings. Firefox will let you override the page's choices, Chrome won't. Zoom works for both.

> Does anyone have a good way to determine what font is used to render a particular character in any linux application?

You could take a screen-snip and run it through a font type identifier.
Try kiwi browser, it's chrome for android but with extensions
Our biggest mistake.
That makes a certain about of sense but I think you can usually get a feel for project-by-project dissimilarities in someone's background and figure out if they've been doing the "1 year of experience for 10 years" or the "continually tackling new challenges and learning from them" path.
>Yet another unambiguous data point

I checked. It's ambiguous:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolithic_diet#Health_effect...
Where do you think all your liquidity comes from when you want to buy or sell some instrument? The difference in price isn't all that substantial if all you do is buy now, sell when cash is needed in retirement, but if you're that kind of general index investor, one could argue that your contribution to markets is actually negative (whereas HFT is helpful by making prices better and spreads tighter). Buying SPX makes no differentiation between bad and good companies in the index and allocates money based on current prices (which are mainly calculated by HFT's who did the legwork to get to the current point).
The interesting thing is that Russia and China are capitalistic now, and they both manage to output a huge amount of high rise housing for sale.

Makes one wonder whether capitalism is actually compatible with democracy.