skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one of the many pernicious effects of the Standard Developer Interview™. Despite the fact that older developers may have years of proven experience at other companies, pretty much every interview goes in assuming the interviewee is no better qualified than a random person picked off of the street.

Focusing so heavily on computer science trivia questions favor those who recently went to college, since those tidbits are so rarely needed at the drop of a hat in industry those neurons wither away with more time away from academia. Older developers know you can just look it up.

Take home quizzes and side projects require significant time investments. People tend to have less free time as they get older due to family obligations, changing priorities, and so on. People directly out of college likely have less of these external time pressures and would have less of a problem solving your so-clever little project that only takes 20 hours.

Until we, as an industry, get over the lie that hiring must be incredibly accurate and therefore favor the so-called "false negative", we won't get rid of this kind of discrimination and we'll continue to harm people simply because they're older; not to mention losing out on potential co-workers with a plethora of knowledge and experience.

It's bizarre to me that ageism exists. Other forms of discrimination can be traced to othering someone because they are dissimilar to you. Every single human will become an older person one day, barring early death. Perpetuating this cycle is self defeating in the end.
Not in a "high" security building you wont I remember going for an interview at huntings (an arms manufacturer) and I never got inside the main site the interview was in a room of the gate house.
I disagree with your assessment. I was responding to the following portion of the parent comment "I still think the vast majority of this concern over abuse is a red herring though. People just don't like it when their curated bubble is pierced by information that contradicts it, and they confuse being corrected with persecution and social status games."

I think I correctly inferred that the original post was dismissing very real harassment. I posted a somewhat loose counterpoint noting that many people claiming abuse are in fact the subject of death threats, which are not a "confus(ing) being corrected with persecution".

Lower in the discussion I took the time to point out California penal code, where twitter is physically located, defines death threats, regardless of intent as a crime. THis builds my point further, and I believe that the original post was not in good faith, or was not well thought out.
I completely agree that you should have the choice to opt out of this toxic "content".

But I believe the issue that RC is talking about is that the control is in the hands of the admins instead of the individual in Mastodon.

It allows something like GMail admins blocking their users to send/receive messages from HotMail, and then your only solution would be to create a second account in some other provider that doesn't block HotMail.
That's not enough; some registrars keep a domain parked and responding after the registration has expired.
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Come and live here. There are some other fringe benefits beyond the cheese.
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Protecting your abstract "employer" from a toxic exec is a political suicide. The right thing to do is sniff out who's the exec's political enemy and what move is he planning next against him and aid that person in his move without directly confronting the toxic exec. It's dirty politics, but it works.
It's incredibly irresponsible to see this and think "not my problem". This is the one form of discrimination that eventually comes for us all, unless you get rich or die first. And yet, does it come up in discussions of diversity and inclusion? Rarely, and if it does, pretty much just as an aside. I've never seen a company that had goals to hire people in certain age brackets, or even bothered to offer an age breakdown of recent hires, as they do with race and gender.
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Man, I grew up in Brevard, and I wish I could work there, but unfortunately all the software jobs are for defense contractors. You'll probably have to work remote if you want to get out of the defense bubble.
Here's a link to an article for something like that:

https://www.process.st/mvp-app/
Indeed not. The prosecution is on the Cops' side. The prosecution decides how vigorously they go after people in Grand Jury and open court. The Judicial system is on the Cops' side, even if during a jury trial they give words that "cops are just like everyone else" - they aren't.

It isn't a thin blue line. It's a big fat highlighter blue bar. The people, vs the Judicial System. And they're the ones that make and enforce the rules.
This came up on a search, but I don't know if it's any good: https://github.com/ihabunek/toot
Only millions? No problem at all.

Let's revise that estimate, though.

765,000 sworn state-level personnel in 2008. We'll round up to a million.

At $1000 each for hardened, certified cameras, that's a billion dollars. But we should expect them to last about three years, so $333M each year.

Storage costs are cheap, but secure handling of storage is not. Let's say one full-time $100K employee per hundred camera-wearing officers. That's a billion dollars per year.

So I'll go with a cost estimate of 1.3 - 1.5 billion per year for cameras for all police officers.

Is that worth it? I think so.
I'm not saying it's 0 risk. My point was merely that given the absence of such losses--losses that similar banks (e.g. in China) regularly sustain to support blatant industrial subsidies--then it's a stretch to call it a subsidy given the loaded meaning of that word in both politics and international affairs.

Yes, technically it's a market intervention. But unless someone is prepared to say that the Export-Import Bank is creating a bubble in exports, driving more exports than is economically sustainable, then criticism of the Export-Import Bank is unwarranted. Some economists are prepared to say that. But I think most economists--the ones who aren't ideological radicals--would say that it's a complex question, admit that it's probably serving some useful economic function, and shrug their shoulders. And of course most other people in the industry would absolutely say that it serves useful and necessary function.
First, you need to be precise in what you mean by "valid".

"Valid" can encompass at least these four possibilities:

1) the url follows the correct syntax for url's;

2) the url is valid as per #1 and further the "host" portion of the url (when it contains a name) can be resolved to an IP address;

3) the url is valid as per #2 and further there is a server located at the host (and optional port) value encoded in the URL that responds to requests;

4) The url is valid as per #3 and further the path and/or query and fragment parts defines a valid path on the server running at the host:port encoded in the url.

#1 you can do yourself, as it is just a check that the syntax is correct.

All of numbers 2-4 require some form of 'lookup' occur from some other system in order to verify 'validity'.
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> IIRC that isn't the default. You need to enable the option for that to work.

You're right, it's been so long I completely forgot.

It's auto_cd, and auto_pushd will also automatically push new directories to the dstack.

> zsh has about a thousand options you can configure.

I should probably go through the options list in its entirety one day, but technically according to http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/Options.html it's closer to a quarter of that ;)
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I can't claim to be more than an almost decent person myself. If you require the police to be angels, well, those are in short supply down here...

Note well: I am not saying that we should lower the standard of behavior that we expect police to abide by. I am merely saying that, in the real world, almost decent is probably the best we can actually find.
Those he said/she said events can turn into multi-million dollar lawsuits really quickly. It only takes a couple of incidents for the cameras to pay for themselves.

The data storage issue is definitely a concern, but I think it is one that can be effectively managed.
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There are 2 kinds of old people:

1. Old battle hardened veterans who can just jump in and clean the floor. The desire more battles and will confront problems head on

2. Folks who are in the industry for a long time and are productive as a consequence of experience and not because they desire to be there

There are folks intersecting the two sets above. But more often than not, folks in 2 are folks with families, mortgages and other commitments making them risk/battle averse. That kills their hireability.

The reasonably confident, smart old folks are the ones who just walk into companies and bash the young interviewers right away (I experienced this as the young interviewer myself).

Young engineers fit the above categories too but they get the benefit of doubt and get hired for potential. Older folks don't seem to have that luxury.
Let's see: Getting started

https://wiki.nftables.org/wiki-nftables/index.php/Main_Page#...

None of these is anything like a tutorial or introduction. "Quick reference, nftables in 10 minutes" claims to be a ten-minute guide but it's actually just an information dump without any guidance.

Some highlights:
"matches are clues used to access to certain packet information and create filters according to them."
My translation: "Matches are conditions for rules to apply. They match certain properties (hyperlink) of packets."

"position is an internal number that is used to insert a rule before a certain handle."
My translation: "position is an index into the list of rules. It can be used to insert rules at a given position in the list."

I don't know if my translations are correct due to the absurdly bad originals. It is like the authors explain verbs without explaining the nouns they act on. For the nouns, there are mostly just tables of them without any explanation at all. In other places, the few most important nouns are explained.

This alien logic is not only in the documentation, it is also in the syntax. Nobody I know thinks like that.
Maybe it's just me, but I find the presentation here quite distracting.
I think the answer to that is long and complicated. But a couple of things readily come to mind:

First, since sex is inherently dangerous for a long list of reasons, I suspect humans will never entirely escape an association between danger and attraction/sexiness.

Second, bad boys aren't necessarily a threat to her. Instead, they can very well be a threat to the control other people wish to exercise over her.

If "good girls don't," then a "bad boy" can be the solution. In some sense, he takes the blame for her "bad behavior" of getting her sexual needs met.

Bad boys are often men who do not respect the social norm that if a woman is in a relationship, she is off limits, not out of respect for her, but out of respect for her man's property rights. A bad boy who treats a woman like an actual human being in her own right, and social norms be damned, can be not only a good partner, but the best antidote to some really toxic social norms.

The assumption that societally labeled "bad boys" are really bad people is a pretty one dimensional view of a very complicated thing.
Funny, I noticed an absence of a far more cynical explanation that made me immediately doubt how balanced the article was: if cops know that the footage is difficult to obtain or can be easily suppressed, deleted, or otherwise buried, or if the legal system is already heavily biased in favour of law enforcement such that body cam footage rarely changes trial outcomes, then body cams don't actually contribute to additional accountability and therefore there's no reason to change behaviours.

tl;dr I see no reason to believe body cams have actually resulted in greater transparency or accountability due to offsetting institutional factors.
You have 3 options:

1. Search for a mastodon instance/server which might already cover this community, and then join up. Besides searching for servers via google, you can visit the following "Join Mastodon" page, and search for a server: https://joinmastodon.org/#getting-started

I see 2 servers when i searched for "scholar", though may not apply to what you want/need: https://scholar.social/about and https://tusk.schoollibraries.net/about

2. You can join almost any mastodon server, and then search for and follow users - regardless of which server they actually "live" on. Much like the concept of email, you can follow anyone, regardless of their "home server". I think someone else here has already stated, that in masotodon, you follow people, and not necessarily servers/sites.

3. You can set up/run your own mastodon server/instance that would focus on "discussing research / scholarly publications"...Again, you will eventually gain a following of users who would be interested in your topic, even though they won't need to live on your server.

I hope that helps!

EDIT: Not sure if it was clear, but in my option 2 above, my assumption is that you could follow users who would be interested (and perhaps already involved) in "discussing research / scholarly publications".
https://twitter.com/HydeNS33k/status/921404722699034624
1) The feedback loop is not just being filmed on the job, but the repercussions of being filmed while doing something illegal and being punished for it. It might take time for this to sink in, especially for the bad apples.

2) Having body cams on all police officers simply makes sense, regardless of the immediate effect. Knowing exactly (or more about) what happened when a citizen armed on behalf of the state interacts with regular citizens is an obvious priority. Even if enforcing body cams doesn't lead to a reduction of police crime, it will certainly lead to more legal action against police crime, which is typically stifled by police buddy tactics.
A very good lesson for the company, via a red-faced Mary. She'll share the lessons from this experience widely I'm sure. Excellent that she wasn't fired.

Not to say that this is anything less than completely believable, but I wonder why Mary's boss didn't check up on the cover story? I get that Sophie was able to hack the usual social proof with Mary with her pregnancy sob-story, but wouldn't her boss have asked who sent her?
Oops, I obviously meant "you can" but I probably typed too fast :P
> I don't think it is at all unusual to get paid significantly more than €40k..

It's neither in Germany. I have no idea where op gets their information. Sure, compared to the US pay in Germany is lower, but 40k is not even remotely on the high end for a developer.
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Yeah, I don't get it.
Well, you can buy Fedex, UPS, DHL, or AT&T employee shirts right off eBay still in the packaging in basically any size you might need.
Run this study again and put a prominent blinking light on the camera and I bet the result is different. It's not the fact that you are being watched that changes behavior, it's being aware of the fact that you are being watched. This is why many stores show you the video of yourself as you walk in. The mere presence of cameras is not enough... people have to be reminded they are there.
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She was hired to do this. As explained in the article, the company wanted to test their own security. She is able to revel in her deception because it's exactly what the company wanted from her.
Ask HN: University of St. Andrews?
I'm in the last year of high school. I've been programming a little and thoroughly enjoyed it and thought about studying computer science on a local university (I'm from Czech Republic, EU).

However, recently I somehow realised that I don't have to choose only from universities in my country. I started thinking about studying abroad, which I hoped would bring a better quality of education (according to university rankings) and also a better study-experience (new culture, foreign language).

When I did a small research on the topic, considering only UK as it seems to have the best study-loan policy for Europeans, the university of St. Andrews came up as a good choice.

Did anyone here study there, or does anybody have at least any second-hand information about it? Would you recommend any other university, considering my affection for computer science and (later) AI?

Thank you very much.
They still value raw CPU grunt for legacy software that can't easily be ported to use GPU. There's a lot of old software that has received billions in verification and validation work (especially in the nuclear area, which is important for DoE's mission) and porting it to GPU would invalidate that. This software is typically being replaced by more modern stuff, but it is often validated against its predecessor, so you still need to have the resources to run the older software.
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Counter counter option: Not all districts are created equally. We know from history that some districts have become so corrupt that the feds had to step in and replace entire police forces.

I suspect police abuse is not as wide-spread as we've been led to believe by social justice marketing, but I'm open to evidence to the contrary. Let's put our engineers to work and get the costs of these camera systems way down, and then let's put them on every cop in the nation. It's not just the BLM folks talking about this, the MRAs also have claims about things like men who are physically abused by women, cop shows up, arrests the man anyways, and those sorts of stories. One way or the other we can put a number of social justice issues to rest.
I read it when I was a teenager, but The Moon is a Harsh Mistress pounds this idea into your head.
We've changed it to language from the subtitle.
Why is the lifetime so short? Are the batteries non-replaceable? I'd definitely be looking into replacing worn out batteries on $1000 devices.
Hey man, I feel your struggle. I haven't abused my Concerta prescription, but I know how easy it is to do it (I have friends who have abused amphetamines). The only advice I can give you (which you almost certainly already know) is to actively avoid putting yourself in the situations that lead you to take it when you know you're not supposed to. You already know how much it sucks to not have it when you need it, maybe you can use that as the stick part of a carrot/stick strategy to help change those habits. I'm rooting for you man.
> Researchers tracked use-of-force incidents,

This is literally impossible. Researchers tracked reports of use-of-force incidents, which is factually rather different. If you hypothetically have fewer incidents and simultaneously higher percentage reporting of incidents when people are able to see if there's probable evidence supporting their complaints (i.e. the visible presence of a body camera), you could end up with a similar number of reports. This would be especially true when reported incident counts are percentagewise quite low relative to total encounters.

I'm not saying that this is true or even likely. I'm saying that it sounds like they didn't actually learn what they are saying they learned, and if true then that cavalier lack of contemplation is very upsetting.

> The primary outcomes of interest were documented uses of force and civilian complaints

The DC/Baltimore area has had some recent high profile falsification of evidence accidentally caught on camera cases. I notice that it's not discussed. Maybe catching when police plant evidence is a legitimately worthwhile endeavor.

Besides, we already know that gathering evidence of malpractice is irrelevant if no meaningful punishment ever results from it.
For those referring nftables, there’s a LOT of stuff in iptables that doesn't work in nftables: from simple things like xt_time to complex ones like xt_TPROXY. so nftables isn't a viable replacement for iptables just yet. In theory there's a compat layer in nftables to get around those, but I have never able to successfully build a binary that works.
How so? Are you saying the presence of the gifs actually makes it harder to read the text for you?
Hmmm, to me it sounds far too good/easy to be true.
I have similar feelings about its descendant the MD-80. The power to weight ratio on takeoff was a lot of fun.
I wonder how much different the whole thing is just because pen-testers get paid to do this by the same company, from somebody actually trying to do this for real.

Getting caught for pen-testers means something completely different, I wonder how that affects tactics.
build.rs is a fallback though, the main "language […] to describe how to a package a [Rust] project" is Toml and the Cargo.toml file (http://doc.crates.io/manifest.html), build.rs is the escape hatch if the main manifest file does not suffice.

Python uses a Python script as the main entry point to the package, and it's commonly problematic as doing all kinds of weird shit so your package builds (on your machines, until you change your configuration) is a smaller step than looking up what the system already provides, and thus the default. It also makes static package in(tro)spection much more difficult.
Yep, it's also terribly unforgiving to use.

Lose your wallet password and your money is gone.

Fat finger an address sending it to the wrong account and its gone.

Bug in someone's code and the coins get stolen in a hack: gone.
The client (assuming Android) is not in erlang. From what I've seen, WhatsApp actually tries its best to keep old clients running as long as possible, and they only stop working for critical functional updates.

There were Symbian phones which kept running WhatsApp till very recently.
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> This is one of the many pernicious effects of the Standard Developer Interview™. Despite the fact that older developers may have years of proven experience at other companies, pretty much every interview goes in assuming the interviewee is no better qualified than a random person picked off of the street.

Many people who interview feel like random people off the street. You really can't tell if the resume's completely bullshit until you ask them to sit down and implement fizz-buzz.

> Focusing so heavily on computer science trivia questions favor those who recently went to college, since those tidbits are so rarely needed at the drop of a hat in industry those neurons wither away with more time away from academia. Older developers know you can just look it up.

Is this still a common practice? Neither Facebook, Google, nor Amazon trains its interviewers to ask bullshit trivia questions to non-intern candidates (I don't know if they train them to ask, or not ask those questions to intern candidates.) I mean, it's entirely possible that particular interviewers at those companies do, but I have skimmed through many, many interview transcripts. None of them focused on bullshit trivia.

(Unless you feel that 'Is it possible to have a memory leak in a language like Java or C#?' is bullshit trivia. I've had people who have spent five years programming in those languages answer, with full conviction, 'No'. After some more prodding, they sometimes say yes, if there was a bug in the garbage collector.)

At this point, this feels like a meme that has been ten years out of date (Because all it takes is one person having a bad interview experience to revive it.)