jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I interviewed w/ Google a couple of years back, didn't get hired. Interviewing is a two way street, and I won't BS if I don't know something. That said, had one interviewer who had 0 personality, 0 people skills, and didn't introduce himself. He asked one of the typical open ended questions, which was fine, we went through it a bit. At the end, he claimed there was actually a closed answer to the problem, wouldn't actual say what it was and just walked out. The two of the other few people I talked with were interesting and engaging. But it was seriously a mixed bag and didn't present a good face for Google.

Recruiter calls again a year or so after the fact. "You did well in your prior interview, but things didn't line up. Interested in coming back in?" Me - "The last impression left a pretty bad taste in my mouth. Not at this time."

Note - I was on internal referral as well as had apparently incredibly impressed the "phone screen" person (whatever that means). Of anywhere I have talked with, GOOG has been at the bottom of list in overall experience.
Reminds me of the rides at Disneyland that run continuously. The Haunted Mansion cars don't stop to let people on; people step onto a moving walkway at the same speed as the cars.

(The exception is to let someone who can't use the walkway or get on quickly enough, like a wheelchair user, to board.)
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“The beauty of doing nothing is that you can do it perfectly. Only when you do something is it almost impossible to do it without mistakes. Therefore people who are contributing nothing to society, except their constant criticisms, can feel both intellectually and morally superior.”

— Thomas Sowell
> By about half way down they gave up all pretence and started arguing that Pao's case was valid/accurate even if the jury disagreed.

where?
That's an interesting point. I didn't actually consider that maybe they pre-wrote this article. That does explain a lot.
> To be perfectly honest, the main problem I have with CLIs is that there's no safety net, and a single typo could lose hours of work or loads of files. There's no Undo, there's no Recycle Bin (or Trash Can or whatever you want to call it).

Incidentally, there's no reason that that is inherently a feature of CLIs. There's no reason that "delete" really being "reversibly identify as pending delete pending a separate action" like the Recycle Bin workflow is tied to GUI vs. CLI except historical accident.
Not to say I agree or disagree with this jury, but a dismissal or acquittal does not necessarily mean the case had no merit. OJ was acquitted, after all, and many, many people are wrongfully found guilty.
There are quite a few studies that support this; higher earners generally work more hours, since their time is more valuable. The only exception is at extremely high income brackets. Minimum wage earners are being paid to show up.

https://www.nber.org/digest/jul06/why-high-earners-work-long...

Companies that are better to work at have generally seen more growth in their stock price:

https://www.glassdoor.com/research/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/...

Doubt these findings will change corporate policies however.
The federal reserve sets this rate directly. They chose it to be at 5.25% (correcting my error in the above) because the economy was going well, we had less than 5% unemployment, and a high rate was generally considered necessary to fight inflation. https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/mone... is their statement.
> It is the US + UK that are blocking all exports

No. The UK government publishes a list of medicines blocked for export[1] and the vaccine isn’t on the list. The EU is solely to blame for being at the back of the queue and are the only state I know of to threaten blocking exports.

[1] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
> If you look at this visualization you see a higher density coverage over Europe and parts of North America. That’s what let’s them roll out early as the gaps at the equator eventually get filled in.

So, you've chosen to just show me an illustration of the sole effect in play, that I've been mentionng to you all day long?

9 hours ago "satellites in highly inclined orbits spend more time around the poles."

5 hours ago "A given high inclination short-orbit-period satellite serves all longitudes equally, and the distribution of latitudes it serves is purely a function of its inclination."

1 hour ago "The only thing you can really do is pick your inclination wisely."

This is not favoring the US. It is favoring things a bit less than 53 degrees North and South (the inclination is 53 degrees). Each satellite spends time up there (down there?) apparently reversing its motion from slightly northwards to slightly southwards, painting a big 'U' in the sky.

And you think this somehow invalidates the data in the study? The study assumed SpaceX's actual constellation dynamics. There's no way to favor North America "more" than the study does.
How may i know, this site not spying on my chat or not sharing my data ?
Yep and they will be brushless motors which means a controller that costs at least $85 per axis (though a $500 motor may have that integrated already).
Go prove it. Meanwhile, back in reality, Flash was taking over and it did have better JS-variant, better graphics, etc. before we in the HTML5 WHATWG group got browsers upgraded. No-JS happy talk about better Turing-incomplete HTML is idle talk. Go on if you must, but I'll stop here.

"I do not entertain hypotheticals. The world as it is is vexing enough." - Col. Stonehill, "True Grit"
In Brazil, all beaches are public by law. The owners are obliged to leave a path open so the public can access the beach. Not that we also don't have our bunch of billionaires, millionaires, judges and assholes in general that try to prevent it.
What exactly is polite about lying? It seems like an easy way out instead of the right way out: just telling somebody you're not interested.
Do I need to pay you royalties for implementing such a headphone-based security scheme in my device?
> In my case I can definitely relate to this for personal communications, I no longer send emails to personal acquaintances

I think we can agree that they have different strengths, I haven't seen much change in my usage of email for chatting with personal acquaintances because email has never been going strong there, unlike Instant Messaging…

> but a killer feature is way more efficient, especially in the long run

…if one thing, popular IM of today pack less features, not more, than those they replaced. Remember the golden age of MSN messenger? You had whiteboards, tictactoe/chess/… games with friends, screen sharing, fancy fonts & colors, "now listening to:" , wizz, … Ironically, XMPP inherited all those features out of necessity to be compatible with all those protocols (and I don't think it matters the slightest).

XMPP does have quite nice and unique features of its own, if check-out the other response :)

> WA offered users a way to text using the same phone numbers for free in countries where you had to pay

just like every other messenger then and now… (I'm not downplaying their coming ahead of this fierce competition, they must have done something right indeed, but "IM as a cheap alternatives to SMS" was popular a decade before WA)

> WA also uses the Signal Protocol, which I assume is not directly compatible with OMEMO

"Signal Protocol" is a mashup of encryption algorithms, signaling and session negotiation, at its very core there is the double-ratchet algorithm (for forward secrecy) and prekeys (for offline delivery), OMEMO is just that, implemented over XMPP primitives (with prekeys served over PubSub/PEP).

> My point is that it's not as simple as setting COMPATIBLE=TRUE to make every network compatible with each other.

Indeed, it would take some careful considerations, but eh, same can be said about TLS. At a first glance, I don't see anything radically difficult about it, the main point would probably be to offer a generic endpoint to serve prekeys and there's nothing revolutionary or difficult about that.

> I doubt Facebook deviated from the base protocol just for the sake of it

They did what every big business does: they optimized for their specific needs. When they decided that compatibility wasn't something they could monetize, they shut the gateway down and stopped caring about it. That tells nothing about the protocol, its capabilities, or of a presumed inability to extend it. For that matter, the X in XMPP stands for "eXtensible" protocol, and it's been quite good at keeping up for about 22 years, now :)
I wouldn't care about the people using their own mail server

I would just strip everything after a + sign
I guess keeping the ad blocker users in Google Chrome to continue collecting their data and also to keep them from recommending another web browser to their circle of friends is more valuable.

If Chrome stops supporting ad blockers easily, users can switch to Microsoft edge, Vivaldi, Brave, Firefox and probably many more.
I know I'm just a single point of data, but I routinely buy things on the Internet with Bitcoin that cost $200-300 USD. I always set the fee to just under a dollar and have never had any issues with the transaction being confirmed within 20-30 minutes, including in the last few weeks.

Of course, paying with Bitcoin saves the seller about 3% of the final cost, and they need not worry about chargebacks, which saves them more money in the long run, so they offer a discount when crypto is used. It's a win-win for me and the seller.
> but I suppose most people are not really traumatised by merely seeing someone's name

I mean there are cases where that can be devastating.

"Ohai here's your old abusive ex, here's a chat box just for good measure, good luck!".

There are people who I'd never ever want to be within a textbox and tap away from accessing me, for any reason, period.

You can get restraining orders in the physical world, the digital world however has no boundaries when the apps themselves are too stupid and are defined by real-world-illogical programming code. I wouldn't expect an app to understand a 'court order' but that's a real human construct. How do we design against that in the digital space, when you are so accessible that if you have a crazy dude following you you're basically forced to retreat as there's no effective measures/guards against this?
wow, if you're still using chrome it might be time to re-asses that.
> I think the paperback is too expensive for a book that is only 114 pages.

I find that a quite strange way of thinking...

I don't judge a restaurant's "value for money" based on their dollar per calorie. I don't choose a laptop based on how many components it has. I don't choose to watch a movie based on it's bitrate.

I kinda get that page count is an "easy metric", but iy seems super shortsighted to chose to not buy a book based purely on page count.

And even at $18, that's, what, a movie with a candy bar trip? A sandwich and a couple of coffees at a cafe? Cover charge to see a band at a bar? There seems very little chance that most people who read this site wouldn't get a couple of hours entertainment from a book like this, with at least as high a likelihood as enjoying a movie/band/cafe recommended here.

Having said that, I'll buy the PDF too, but only because it's my second preference after a Kindle Edition, which doesn't seem to be available...
> Badly paid engineers don't care about code quality if they don't get paid for it, which isn't true because open source is a thing.

When you do open source, you are the one who has to live with the results. Forever. I think open source proves the point you're arguing against.

Besides, the argument is not that they are paid peanuts, just that they are being paid for other things. The incentives are not lined up for freelancers to give high investment up front to reduce long term maintenance costs. That doesnt mean every freelancer writes crap code, just that on average its not a system that selects for easily maintainable code.
There's a couple of examples in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal_Mafia
> The market solution is really the best.

If the punishment is monetary, that's for poor people to worry about.
How do you know how much it's going to cost? I don't see that information anywhere.
Fasces?
Is there a reason you'd want this? It seems if Sony pulled SNAP that the "next gen platform" it was to be intended for may not materialize, or may use another framework? What good could come out of this SDK if there's isn't a device/platform to use it on? /newbie question
+1 - In my experience educated people is a good thing. I work with many of them, and I live and am related to them. However intelligence and education are absolutely not the same thing.

Intelligent people have a tendency to educate themselves, the education doesn't make them smart.
I say we have rights that supercede your say so.
Police provide a great service when you're not interacting with them. But when you are, you must always assume that they are looking at you as a potential criminal, even if you're in the act of reporting a crime.
Calling these "lying qualifiers" seems a bit excessive.

"To be honest", for example, is extremely common and doesn't all that often precede lies, despite its face value meaning. Sure, sometimes it precedes a lie, but then, so does the word "the". For example, "Look, to be honest, I really don't know why the server crashed yet, but I'll do what I can to find out." This is a sentence that many who run startups will have uttered at one point in their life without any intention of misleading anyone.

Even the "ultimate but-head" that the author presents, "I'm not saying that...", which he implies means "I'm pretending that I'm not saying that...", is not at all such a clear case. "I'm not saying that X" can and often does mean, very simply, that you want to be clear where your next statement stops. For example: "I'm not saying that the deal is off, but we're going to have to really work on clauses 3 and 4 before we can move forward." or even, more melodramatically, "I'm not saying that you murdered her, I really don't think there's enough evidence to make such a case at this point, but the evidence really doesn't look great for you right now."

Seeing as the author is clearly quite knowledgeable about words and their meanings, the question is, then, why is she making such a flimsy case? The answer is, perhaps, to be found in the conclusion:

Please don’t take this the wrong way — and really, I hate to say it — but the true audience for the but-head may not be our listeners, but ourselves.
Go buy and read the book SHAM first. Here's its website: http://shambook.blogspot.com/
Trips to the grocery store are pretty much the only reason I use my car, I bike everywhere else. I hate grocery shopping, and so I go as little as possible. Biking home with $100 of groceries is tricky.
Please don't tell me Safari 5 is deprecated and ask me to "upgrade" to Firefox.
the world would probably a better place if people published stuff because they thought it would matter to do so, not for ad revenue

1: How much of the content you read every day is created by people who are paid to do it? (many links on HN go to articles by paid reporters on news sites, or are commentary on such articles by amateur bloggers)

2: How much of the content you rely on every day that isn't paid-for content costs an absolute fortune to maintain and would disappear if there wasn't a corporate backer and/or financial incentive? (like Facebook, Twitter, Stack Overflow)

My internet would quickly become a very small and geocities-like place.
Nice writeup. One small error I noticed: the first manned flight was Apollo 7, not Apollo 8.
Did it occur to you that people use vim because it's useful, and not just because they are hipsters who want to look like Unix greybeards?
I agree in principle. But, in fairness, I felt that the "three = 1" post was out of genuine puzzlement. I was certainly puzzled when I saw it, and it was very enlightening to see lifthrasiir's answer.
Or liberate and enlist. Some of these tribes were what we would today call 'oppressed peoples'.
Um. That article describes a study where the researchers took recordings of different violins, looked for a difference in the strads, and found one. That doesn't establish that strads sound different, it presupposes it.

Surely if they wanted to show that strads sound different they'd need to test whether their method lets them predict whether an unknown recording is a strad or not?
you can do it, my current single contract pays 325k, and i'm just doing jquery(much to my dismay) and C# for it, all remote... been doin it for almost 3 years now. I live in a not very popoulated area . I've learned that there are plenty of very high paying jobs with a low bar..the things people go through to work for these big companies for such little pay and having to live in cities blows my mind. The best part is my current job leaves me lots of time for sidework to and to get experience in technologies i prefer to use.
Great point. Without rigor, expertise is rarely more than anecdotal.
One significant reason to use an old compiler is if you want to avoid having multiple package managers on your system (i.e. rustup _and_ apt).

The normal philosophy on typical Linux systems is in fact _not_ to require bleeding-edge compiler versions; there’s no “gccup” program. It’s the rust project that is proposing a new and different model.
One thing I like about these re projects: they allow porting to different systems by recompiling.

It is an interesting feat to run SDLPoP (re'd prince of persia) on modern systems.
They actually did try to make it work at all frame rates but I don't think they were actually able to test it very well because the hardware, as you said, didn't do it.
If you think the whole world of IT works on bleeding edge tech, you're mistaken.

Most distributions have an LTS that is supported for 5 to 10 years. You won't get the newest, hottest compiler on those platforms.

> So what?

Rust is a great language, but y'all need to calm down with the hype. "Not Rust" != evil.
Location based pay is generally set based on _cost of labor_, not cost of living.
is it "Political Connector" you are talking about?
In any case, it should say techcrunch.com will be back shortly, not wordpress.com
Very interesting, I did not know about the object persistence in picolisp before this. I will take a longer look at the language now.
"There're about a dozen...", or "There are about a dozen...".
Very, very good article. Another thing that bugs me about corp-talk is the phrases you always find on job adverts. Apparently every successful job candidate in Britain over the last two decades has had 'excellent interpersonal and communication skills.'
There are lots of companies like this.

Adaptive Path - been around long enough that many of the original partners have left. Took one foray into product development, MeasureMap (acquired by google).

Pivotal Labs - have one product, Pivotal Tracker, that's been well received but doesn't seem to generate revenue. Good reputation as Rails consultants.

MailChimp - Now just a product but was originally The Rocket Science Group doing web development.

37signals - All product now but originally was a consulting partnership. Not sure what happened to the original partners. Seems like only Jason is still active.

ENTP - Rails consulting and makers of Lighthouse.

I only have anecdotal info on those companies, but have a few thoughts.

The biggest seems to be that you need to have provisions for handling new and leaving partners. For example DHH is new to 37signals but got cut in enough that he now owns a Lamborghini. It seems important that you could allow for that.

On the leaving side, I think at least three of the original Adaptive Path partners have left. AP is still going strong, so you know they did the partnership in a way where they aren't burdened with non-contributing partners taking all the profit.

On the other hand, those three partners left to start their own startups, so there was something in the dynamic where doing product work required leaving. I think this might have been a lesson they learned during MeasureMap. They were so big that only a few people were working on the cool sexy project and I think it might have caused conflict.

I think the other big issue is leadership. I think AP had a rotating CEO position. I guess other partnerships might have a more clear leader. But regardless of the structure, I'm pretty sure that you need to make sure there's a clear and transparent accounting system that everyone buys into. I've heard lots of problems cropping up around financial misunderstanding.

Email me, I'd like to talk more about this: tony@crowdvine.com
On the topic of [1], since I've moved to a an area with a greater distribution of black women, this problem has been seriously brought to my attention.

My dating pool has effectively been cut down, with an advantage having gone towards black men since there is little or less difficulty with a black man and a white woman.

Having discussions with friends from outside of the US, especially those who live in Africa, have mentioned this exact situation - that African women have no problems dating a white male but blacks in America show little interest.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_and_controversies_dur...
Someone with more context can answer this better but I would guess that selling behavioral data to ad agencies is a thing?
Precisely what I was thinking.

How _incredibly timely and coincidental_ that now that Trump will lose much of his relevance and the Dems are in control all these platforms suddenly found a backbone.
There are reasonable concerns about precedent here, but it's hard to see a reasonable perspective where this particular enforcement action is "silencing". If Trump has something he'd like people to hear, he can simply announce a press conference, and dozens of major news organizations will be ready within minutes to share his thoughts with the world.
what’s would be your argument when utility cuts off water to your house? Or you will go to another company?
> Dropbox can operate in a similar fashion, re-packaging and reselling Amazon's services.

Yes, they can, and apparently have, but they're getting to the size now that they can achieve some significant economies of scale by building out their own storage infrastructure. Their profit margin has to be pretty low with S3.
Not sure if I agree. Networked filesystems require a strong consistency model, which forces you to give up some reliability, as we can plainly see today. That doesn't mean to say that strong consistency models are bad. They're easier and cheaper to work with.

If your system is not so mission-critical or self-sufficient that spending the time, effort and money to develop a fault-tolerant, eventually consistent system (e.g., see Netflix) is worth doing, then relying on a network filesystem isn't such a bad option. Of course, when you do, you should realize that the reliability issues tend to be a lot more fundamental than which provider you use, the number of customers they have, or what buzzword people associate it with them.
Even from a lawyer, any answer to that would just be opinion, since it hasn't been tested in court yet. I would tend to think testimony in court would override a gag order, but US courts are notoriously unpredictable.