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21elevenon Archive of tech interview questions of Google, Amazon, FB, Samsung and et al.

That's true but then companies would have a problem where too many people still look qualified after going through rounds of interviews.

If a given company has a lot of people who want to work for it then it makes sense for that company to have people attempt very challenging programming exercises so that the org can filter the applicant pool down to the number of positions they have open.

These companies have the luxury of being able to have hiring processes that turn away perfectly good applicants that couldn't pass their tests (false negatives).

21elevenon D-Wave announces general availability of first quantum computer for business

So it is more efficient at exploring the solution territory of traveling salesman type problems than classical computers?

21elevenon 20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tools, backdoor mentions

Is the person publishing it or are they linking people to a place where it is published?

21elevenon Goldman warns on inflation threat to dollar as reserve currency

Maybe as a straw that broke the camel's back. BTC and Ethereum have been poised to move upward for a while now due to market dynamics/cycle reasons. Markets have their own internal dynamics and do not have to be "news" driven.

21elevenon Ask HN: Resources to start learning about quantum computing?

his blog is excellent (and hilarious) as well. https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/

21elevenon Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app

There seems to be a markdown note-taking app trend... I just want to throw out there that I have been using jupyter lab as a daily journaling markdown editor for nearly a year now and am very much happy with my setup.

21elevenon Learn from Anyone

I assume this uses GPT-2. Or maybe you are interacting w GTP-3 through OpenAI's api?

21elevenon Live BTC transactions in Twitter hack

Hopefully most of this bitcoin is just the attacker sending their own funds to make it look legitimate.

21elevenon Oura Ring 2 Teardown

This may sound obvious but I find the main benefit is that when I have data on my sleep I find myself being more intentional about my sleep patterns. Because I can see the results of an intervention to, say, go to sleep earlier, I feel like I have more control over my sleep patterns.

For myself the sleep duration tracking is the most useful data generated from sleep tracking.

21elevenon Ask HN: Has anyone fixed their own bruxism?

I don't think 3 cups is problematic but I'd think twice about the evening one. It takes a while for your body to process the caffeine so you'd likely be falling asleep with elevated concentrations of caffeine in your blood.

21elevenon Ask HN: What are some good resources to learn how electricity works?

The Manga Guide to Electricity is great! Plenty of non trivial introductory textbook level material.

https://www.amazon.com/Manga-Guide-Electricity-Kazuhiro-Fuji...

The whole Manga Guide to X series is great.

21elevenon Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same as before?

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace