skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would guess the vast majority of people in my highschool were in the top fourth of income in America (including my family, we were well off but not super rich because my dad was in the military and then a commercial pilot and my mom was a teacher). I'm sure other people have different experiences but waaaayyyy more than the national average of people from my highschool went to college and I can tell you that while it was a decent school it was not filled with geniuses. It's why I think a large amount of the reason people go to college is cultural and that to many people college ends up being more of a symbol of status than a intellectual achievement.
Next time this happens, I recommend trying to find the root cause. "I appreciate your concern - may I ask what experience has led you to believe someone with my qualifications would appear bored? From my perspective, I've only applied and kept in the hiring process to this point because I am interested in the long term."

It's very likely they've got some other reason, and you can then clarify when they give you the "real reason" or adjust your process/resume/story for future applications with that information.
The news that there are apparently people with PhDs in Machine Learning who are finding the job market difficult enough they're applying for unrelated technical positions seems like it runs counter to the conventional narrative about high demand and trouble finding truly qualified scientists...
Well, there's always the whole "get a job" path. If you're single you might find a European partner which helps.

If you're a US citizen another temporary option (but among the easiest) is to get a working holiday visa for Ireland. I believe it's the only EU nation offering working holiday visas to the US. I probably wouldn't bother with it if the DAFT were an option - when I got one it was much earlier in my career.

Not sure how the residency requirement is a bad thing? NL is pretty nice as I understand it. Incidentally, this blogger did the DAFT and describes their experience: http://shawnindutch.com/
After my dad's manufacturing related engineering position moved overseas he got told by an automaker that he was over-qualified for line work. However no one was interested in his engineering skills even after he tried to pivot to quality-control engineering.

The pay and work at the automaker would have been great for him. Instead he ended up carrying mail until retirement.

I constantly think about him and remind myself to not get to comfortable in an industry.
What exactly is a college-level IQ? Does everybody who goes to college have a college-level IQ?
I wonder how hard it would be to write a program to automatically refactor code like this into something reasonably clean. My intuition thinks it should be difficult but possible... and extremely useful.
@IgorPartola, it sounds like this may not be the right fit for your setup
Yeah, I saw (and heard) that as well! Quite funny :) Cool to see the crowd and everything from his perspective, too.
Apologies, dang.

This particular issue is just a bit of a sore spot for me because I have a friend and a family member who both suffered sexual abuse as young children. Doesn't excuse my comments though so again, sorry about that - I'll make more of an effort to be less abrasive and confrontational in future.
That's great thanks. I enjoyed replaying Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 on the ipad.

What I really want next is Pharoah.
...for those privileged enough that can decline a job offer
Maybe some kind of (improved) Leap Motion finger tracking combined with a virtual keyboard would be acceptable?
Unless the gap was very recent, it would be weird for that to affect someone in software development. As a research scientist, sure (for better or worse), but if you have spent the past 5 years doing X then you are quite well qualified to do X somewhere else.
To a first order approximation, every $3500 he donates the against malaria foundation would save a life.

I'm all for Jeff Bezos operating as a more ethical businessman. And you can criticize him for that till the cows come home with no objection from me. But lets not criticize his plans for charitable giving. Lets not discourage that. Because at the end of the day, billions of dollars to effective charities will save millions of lives.

I live in NZ, which has a population of 5 millions or so. It doesn't feel like a small country at all. And yet Jeff Bezos could probably save that many people from dying if he wanted to. He could literally create another NZ worth of people in the world. It wouldn't quite be as cheap as $18B, but I suspect it could be done for less than $40B. So he would still have another $40B left to fix those worker-welfare issues.
This doesn't happen just because of age. While I was living in Canada, I met plenty of highly-qualified immigrants desperately looking for jobs, and would routinely get this response even though they weren't old or anything; its just that they would literally be applying for low-skill jobs because the appropriate jobs would not take them for lack of "Canadian Experience".
> nonsense credits

The assumption here is that education is nonsense. I think the skills are far less valuable: Education teaches you about the world you have to live in, in business, and as a citizen, a parent, a consumer, etc., by exposing you to leading people and ideas from around the world and throughout history. It teaches you to reason, by exposing you to the great thinkers now and in history. Reading blogs on the Internet isn't nearly the same thing.

If we send people home from college only with the vocational skill of building an integrated circuit, they will find that it doesn't begin to address most of the challenges in life, much less their community's and society's.

Integrated circuits aren't what the West needs to move forward at this point, to address poverty, discrimination, war, and all the other issues. In our current society, we do very well with integrated circuits and very poorly with life, social and political issues, perhaps we need to focus on education in the latter, not the former.
From the project-zero bug (https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=13...), it looks like the first discussion on the issue dates back to July 3, with a working exploit posted just yesterday.
> This is still being tested, but it's going pretty well.

AIUI, there isn't consensus today that proof of stake is actually workable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_stake#Criticism
I can barely even read the README.md ... too scary. This is perfectly in time for Halloween season! :'D
Yeah, I've read that blog! Very useful. I'm sure NL is wonderful, but I can't quite commit to living there full time. For one, all my friends and family live in California. It would be very hard to justify paying rent on an empty apartment for half the year just to keep qualifying, and I would surely get lonely in any case. (I guess I could Airbnb it out if there are services that can do the landlordy bits while I'm away, but it would be hard to ensure that this is possible without actually going through the DAFT process. Even finding a regular, un-Airbnb-able NL apartment without the NL SSN-equivalent is a bit of a Catch-22, since most apartments require the SSN but applying for DAFT is what gets you the SSN in the first place. And you can't apply for DAFT without a mailing address, as far as I'm aware. I think common advice is to stay with friends for a bit, but that doesn't work if you don't know anyone in NL...)
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The "traditional understanding" of getting an applicant to your job that is over qualified is that they are just trying to get a paycheck while they look for something better.

I put that in quotes because yes, I've seen it also result in an age bias and as I went from one side of the equation to the other, I spent some time evaluating what was and was not important to me as an employee.

About 15 years ago I came to the conclusion that "over qualified" was never a legitimate disqualifying disposition of a candidate. Simply put, if you are applying for a job that needs less skills than you bring and are willing to take the salary that is offered, how far 'beyond' the requirements you go is irrelevant. I asked a hiring manager at Google once if they would tell a sales guy "No I don't want the Ferrari at the same price as this Mazda Miata, its more sports car than I need to get around." Even if you never expect to challenge the top end of the sports car you probably won't turn it down. Similarly with employees, if you are up front with them about what the job entails and they are ok with it, who are you to say they will be "bored" or "twiddling their thumbs all day" ?

Answer is, you aren't. Hire them and get get a discount on skilz they are offering you. Your company will be better for it.
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Ask HN: Easier to pass job interviews in the Bay Area?
I have about 3 years of software engineering experience. I've been interviewing for the past ~4-5 months in the NYC area. I've been brought onsite to about half of the companies that I've had an initial phone screen with I never seem to pass the onsite interview with the reason always being something along the lines of "you were great but we are going with a more senior/experienced candidate".

That brings me to the question, is it easier to pass job interviews in the Bay Area relative to other large areas (NYC)? Reason being that there is more demand/companies/positions, other regions don't have as many large tech companies or desirable positions leading to increased competition. Or do I just suck at interviews?
Meanwhile, thanks to Equifax's amazing security, everybody else can get the same data for free ;-)
Lie. Get creative. I know it's hard. "I was building breeding dams on the Rogue River when I wasen't learning a new framework."

I have always felt the resume should be replaced by a test.
Yeah, that sort explains why it's so hard to get anywhere with vaguely defined free time projects.
I received some advice to omit the first 5-ish years positions from my resume and “reword” the line referring to my 20 years of industry experience. I'm older than my boss and it's definitely a bit scary. YMMV
If you like comic books where the hero has to travel in time to fight himself, you'll love programming.
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A policy has disparate impact if it is not intentionally or directly discriminatory, but it disproportionately harms a protected group. A random example might be to require that all employees are at least 6 feet tall. That isn't inherently discriminatory against a protected class so it might appear legal at first look. However it results in disparate impact because women are much less likely to satisfy the requirement than men. It could therefore be ruled discriminatory if the business could not prove why the height requirement was a necessity for the job.
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I'm not so sure. In the readme he says there are over 500 cases of "unnecessary boxing."
Evernote for long term ones. It's terrible to write in, but does a good job with search and storage.

Jotterpad for 'sketches' on Android. Sublime for PC. Sublime has such good plugins for notes that I'm using it instead of a lot of checklist apps.
Not only that, usually the "representative" doesn't even live in or near the area they are representing (sure, they may have an address in the area, but that isn't difficult to do).
When I hear about getting too cosy in an automotive industry my brain screams "modern day Germany".
There are linters which do a bit of this, but they only cover the lints they have rules for. I'm pretty sure no one has a rule for "all loop indices declared as class members" because no one writing code of this quality has yet used a linter. Many issues in this code-base are not tractable at all for automated repair: how are you going to rework thousands of line long methods into well-factored classes and methods?
This would mean that rich people have more fun, because their risks are lower.
I would love if we could get together as a community, take a project like this, and use it as an example for what a little refactoring can do.

As a cooperative endeavor it should be doable, but a competition would be more fun, though I can't imagine how you'd judge such a thing.
> read rates (# of reads divided by # of impressions)

Why does Toutiao use this metric to measure quality of an article?
I'm not sure that's true. If they don't want to hire you, they're less likely to, but at some point it might not be worth the effort to come up with an excuse. And, importantly for an organization, "they" might be a subset of people. If I have a biased coworker (where "biased" can be anything, but let's go with age for now) who doesn't want to hire someone, but can't communicate their dislike in email without putting animus towards a protected class in writing, and the rest of the team is mildly positive, the fact that they couldn't be brutally honest is probably enough to go from a no-hire (via the coworker's veto) to a hire.
Can you elaborate on "disturbed sleep patterns"?
In my case lack of sleep actually results in better mood, but is not a sustainable strategy.
sorry not something that would fit in 80 characters or so, start here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrogram

And really there is not much the image divulges, the audio was modified, recorded on unknown device, and the compression affected it, but there are hints.
I swear I know a guy who would have done this. I have worked with him. I have cleaned up his code. I have asked him to clean up his code and been yelled at in response.
That’s called split sections and it’s enabled by default in GHC 8.2.1. The main reason is aggressively inlined code compiled slightly differently.
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Comments like this kill me a little on the inside, I can't stand having real work devalued for the sake of contrived assessment criteria.
>"No I don't want the Ferrari at the same price as this Mazda Miata, its more sports car than I need to get around." Even if you never expect to challenge the top end of the sports car you probably won't turn it down.

Ferrari comes with very high maintenance costs, well beyond what regular Miata buyer can comfortably afford. (note: age/experience wise i'm probably close to the "Ferrari" myself :)
What really irks me with that particular sentiment (the land is historic/already in use) is how the federal highway system absolutely decimated communities of color in a lot of major cities.

They'd put a highway right through where the black folk live, and who cares? Well, all the people in that neighborhood care, but they're poor minorities--they have no political power, no ability to push back.

If you want to start talking about land being taken from people, don't fucking start with farmers in rural California and HSR, start with the inner city neighborhoods the highway system destroyed.
Not if it takes 6 months to get a new developer up and running on the codebase, and then they leave just when they are getting productive.
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> Although it's likely pre-pre-pre-construction

They're building the bridges right now, that's not exactly pre-pre-pre-construction.
Great job! The last Jepsen analysis for CockroachDB seems to have been done in February 2017, and suggests transactions can have stale reads in some situations — is this still the case?
A lot of that file is data.

Some of it is just plain data (arrays), a lot of the rest is a bunch of setters one after another.
I'm currently working at a startup where we have a few developer in their 40's or maybe 50's (not sure how old some of them are really), but what I see is that the market and investors are rewarding us for "moving fast with broken things". For example, we have no plan for handling unicode, and when things break people just try random mixes of encoding, decoding, dropping characters, etc, until the thing works this one time. Subtle issues like this go deep in our system, and yet it apparently looks good to our investors and customers. We get out the features they need quickly, but people will be cursing our names for decades because of the technical debt we create.

Maybe this is just because of my current situation, but it seems like the market rewards energetic programmers who can hack something together and constantly monitor and fix little bugs by hand any hour day or night. If this is what the market is rewarding then it seems legitimate to hire a bunch of cheap, young, energetic developers instead of more experienced developers.
Wow, that indentation...
401(k)s don't provide the level of security I want. Given the history that I've learned and the current state of demographics and financials around the USA/world, I think inflation is the only way out, until it can no longer be sustained and then revolution. Simply because so much of society is invested in the "market", I believe the government has no choice but to keep bailing it out, but I figure that only helps you keep up with inflation.

My ideal is to directly have ownership in businesses with strong cash flow, good real estate value, citizenship and property in another country or two, and most importantly, to have the human capital of knowing the right people in government/medicine/law/etc to be able to lean on the right people when I need them.

I'm lucky enough to have a stable family so that I can afford to take risks to try to make the above happen (some of which I have made significant progress in), but I definitely don't plan on depending on my 401(k) other than as a worst case scenario.
> Find one successful programmer at Google/Apple/Facebook/Cisco/

Point proven, eh? I'm not talking about these people (though I surmise there are quite a few in these companies as well who don't have that level of intelligence and simply tag along ...) but about the vast majority of IT workers working on some supposedly 'boring' database application.

Google and Apple in particular have been known for hiring highly qualified engineers only to then have them maintain some run-of-the-mill administrative software they're vastly overqualified to work on.
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No revenues is exactly why it's possible.
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>conventional narrative

That shit's been broke for employees since Agile was successfully marketed and they figured out how to reproduce it (blogs, news, and conventions lead to consultants). Same for Big Data, ML, AI, coding bootcamps, and DevOps.
When I was 12 (and computers weren't really a thing) I wrote an RPG. In ZX Spectrum Basic. It wasn't great (let's be honest, TerrariaClone sounds like the Mona Lisa in comparison), but it worked. I didn't realise at the time that this weird little hobby of mine would stick me right at the front of an emerging field. Nor did my family who thought I should be doing.. almost anything else. I got ridiculously lucky, all because I started writing bad computer games in high school.
The land grants weren't for the land that the railroads ran on. It was for adjacent property that they could develop or sell. And not all the transcontinentals relied on land grants (e.g., Great Northern).
Not if the person feels demotivated by the fact that the job is not taking advantage of their skills or experience. People want to feel respected and appreciated for what they bring to the table. Without that, they may lose motivation and thus be less productive than a fresh person with a strong desire to learn and grow.
Thank you for this comment - that's a really striking way of looking at these things. Makes me wonder just how many human interactions involve being that little bit of a sociopath. E.g., "putting your best foot forward" for a job interview or first date can feel like a kind of dishonesty, although it's expected in those cases. I wonder how you could start drawing a definitive line between "good" empathic manipulation and "bad" sociopathic manipulation, when even just smiling at someone can be manipulation of a sort?
This is an incredible combination of both reverse engineering skill and communication ability. So good!
When your date dumps you after the first date, the reason they give is never the truth. It's the same when they reject you for the job. There's not much of a percentage in stewing or arguing about it.
I'll move to this when it can run NoScript and RequestPolicy.
At the rate things are going, nothing since Mickey Mouse will ever again have expired copyright, as lawmakers will keep extending the copyright term.
Certainly true from what I've seen. The last company I was at was desperate to find a remotely qualified ML guy in the area (we were out of town), and three different startups I have talked to in the last two weeks have multiple openings for ML and asked me (who has no formal ML qual) whether I was interested.

So who knows. Maybe they don't want to move or it isn't sexy enough ML work for them.
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One problem is that we put our ancient brains in the midst of unparalleled stimuli in the public sphere. I can guarantee (aka I would put down a bet) a city person has far more stress than a suburb/country person on the basis density of stimuli. This is ignoring other urban stressors which pack on more stress.

I would be addicted to "something" just to drown out a sonic and visual tsunami that holds none of the calming charm of birds chirping. Not only a sensory tsunami but a social one where people have to remember more names and get used to either being excessively quiet or excessively histrionic.

So video games it is then. And then when mega AI complexes are being built, we can train loyalty and skills by submerging human resources into pedagogical simulations which compress a lifetime, of feeling, judgement, friendship, and morality, into a short RL time span.

And then we shall be spat out by that video game, perfected for the purpose of another video game (supporting your national/global AI complex). And we shall not complain because we shall see the most precious things destroyed in that simulation. By other national-AI complexes. Loyalty not only as face but burned into the minds of citizens.

Of course I'd be pissed off if I knew this universe was a simulation for the purposes written above...
> If you're using microservices and care about security, do yourself a favor and use a monorepo.

This seems like a strong reminder that "microservices" aren't really about having lots of independent little systems but are a different way of factoring your one big system.
The cynical part of me: it's just vaporware... until it isn't.
I think the analogy is more illuminating than you meant it to be - what if you can't afford the upkeep of the Ferrari? I mean, there are a lot of originally high end cars available for low prices due to depreciation, and people do reject them for more practical cars that cost the same.
I always think when this happens, "At least I must be improving."