skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What percentage of the 100 applications include a personalized cover letter these days?

>It's a number's game. You must send a fuckload of resumes ...

So you recommend not bothering with personalized cover letters? At this point I'm really starting to see the sense in this.
> the asymmetry in the ease of adoption vs. difficulty of opting out

A term related to this idea is dark pattern.

This is a good overview of the idea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxkrdLI6e6M
> The high parasitic capacitance of solderless breadboard makes it unusable above about 10MHz. You also have to deal with unpredictable contact resistance.

Most of which really isn't a problem with digital circuitry and microcontrollers because most of the peripherals are on board and your communication buses are all low speed (most <1MHz--USB being the exception).

The biggest issue with modern circuits is that even your low-speed clock lines need to have series termination resistors--even at low speed--even on a PCB. This is a weird artifact for an amateur to grasp.

The issue is that even the cheapest digital chips nowadays have super high-performance transistors on their I/O. Consequently, a 10 cent microcontroller can respond to a 1GHz signal bounce or reflection on a 100KHz clock line. And, oddly, an FR-4 board makes this worse, not better than a solderless breadboard.
If I do not control what happens to my body, what freedom do I have? I am not advocating that I individually control the expulsion of an entire group of people at a national level. I demand only control over my own reproductive function.

Women in these United States of America have no paid maternal leave unlike all other countries except 2 others, we have the highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world on par with Sri Lanka, and until Obamacare rolled around did not have automatic pre-natal care in our health insurance plans. Why should I relinquish my right to self determination for a nation that cares so little for my successful motherhood? The US at a policy level has no skin in the game, yet a large group of its citizens want to tell me what do? Screw that...

We tolerate all sorts of nonsense in the US that ends people's lives in the name of freedom. Just look to the pro-2A crowd. They take no societal accountability for the lives of people in their policy preferences. Why should I accept any less for myself?
In addition to some of the other suggestions in this thread, invest in the people you care about, particularly family and friends. Invest not just money, but also share time and expertise. Invest in their education/training, help them towards better employment (maybe help them start a business), help them make progress towards their goals. Help them "expand the pie" and make them understand that you want them to pay it forward. It's easy to forget this when using an individualistic lens, but friends and family could be your best safety net in tough times -- this is probably the only investment that is also invested in your growth and well-being. Done well for a couple of generations, this is often what seeds "privilege".
Varies from country to country of course. The UK has comparatively little job security and benefits and it is an expensive place to be out of work. I did the back of the envelope calculations for the Netherlands a few years back and the amounts spent on this are quite high. I've confirmed with friends from Finland and Germany that the situation is similar there.

But based on the numbers you cite, the UK has about 66M inhabitants. So 167 billion/ 66 million, is about 210 per month per capita. Not great to live on of course but it's a start. And this is absolutely everybody counting babies, children, the elderly, etc covered.

I quickly googled some numbers https://fullfact.org/economy/welfare-budget/ that are loosely aligned with what you cited with a little more detail. Based on their number of 217 billion, you get to about 273/month. That's a little under what wellfare gets you per month (https://www.gov.uk/income-support/what-youll-get).

Interestingly that 217 billion includes only 2.4 billion as unemployment benefits as opposed to a category of 'other' that is listed as 14.5 billion or 18 pounds per month per capita spent on what I assume is bureaucracy. That 217 excludes NHS, which is another 110 or so billion; or about 138 per month. Since that basically already takes care of healthcare for everyone; no need to change that.

You get where I'm going with this. if you start doing back of the envelope math like this, stuff starts adding up towards an admittedly lowish basic income for everybody being feasible at the cost of 23% of GDP. It gets better if you take into account that some people live together (aka. families) and can pool resources. It gets even more interesting when you start looking at the tax situation. Income tax + social insurance fees don't quite add up but can be supplemented by VAT, corporate taxes, and other fees. Arguably, if you make labor cheaper, you could raise the corporate taxes a bit. Also, people that work still pay taxes over what they earn extra. There are a lot of people that are not working at all right now that might work a little bit if it earned them some extra.

So, it's not a zero sum game and there are lots of financial knobs to fiddle with here of course.
i assume that did not work because the challenge would fail because it looks that only google dns would return invalid results.
Birth control is not 100%.
The Toronto Attack and Preemptive Politically Correct Shaming
Jordan Peterson used this guy as an example of someone that is truly committed to environmentalism, as compared to the typical clueless feel-good armchair activist that achieves little.
>Because you do not have power. Remember that, always. When you get promoted, when you enter management, when you get a stellar performance review, you are simply fulfilling the whims of someone else.

I hope the author learns about labor unions some day, hopefully soon.
Back End > ALL (as long as you're not using PHP)
Nell's tutor started recognizing the job offers for the tutor lessons and choose to become the dedicated one.
I think Prudential Insurance (48.0.0.0/8) is even weirder.
Nope. Things have been this way even back when it was "the time when things used to be that way." When vinyl was popular, and before CD's were a glimmer in Philips's eye, the audiophiles held out RTR tape machines as the holy grail.
Zuckerberg did a whole tour in China then to get politicians to allow Facebook back in, and embarrassed himself in the process:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/19/world/asia/mark-zuckerber...

They also refused to allow Facebook back in.
I left Microsoft a couple years ago, with no desire to work at Amazon. I had no problem finding interesting companies in Seattle for interviews. Facebook, Google, Apple, and Twitter are all here. Not to mention a bunch of startups that are generally run by people with experience at those larger companies.
I've always struggled with this idea that people are trying to apply logical models to illogical situations. Ideal buying size is not going to save you from a 10 minute pump and dump.

Optimal holding percent is not going to protect you against a total whale coming in and selling off because they're bored of the currency.

Trading is based on emotion and the control of that emotion. Buy into technology you understand and find valuable. The only calculation you need is to know what you're willing to lose and set your stop loss, everything else is a bit of a waste in my opinion.
Just crazy small type, can’t read at all
Surely related (and warning!):

During this period I received an email from:

ship-confirm@amazon.com

purporting to notify me of the despatch of a non-existent order; with an attached .zip.

Nothing about the message, except the .zip and suggestion of an order's existence, was at all suspicious - all links point to amazon.com.

I checked on amazon.com (without following a link) and on amazon.co.uk (where I would usually shop) and an order with the given number does not exist for my account.
Just added it!
It's remarkable how many "we're being transparent! out of the sheer goodness of our hearts!" emails I've gotten lately.

I also think it's hilarious that Techcrunch is acting like it's their doing that this is coming.
I Hate Open Offices
If I were to re-read Snow Crash, I would skip all the talk about ancient Sumer and the Sumerians. IMHO, that book would be greatly improved by eliminating all of that.
Yep it's still there. Looks like we're good until at least the end of that LTS release, Nov 2020!
I think this is a fallacy of immigrant parenting. While I was growing up, my mother's mantra was always: "Go to college, get a good job, you will make money and everything will be perfect for you."

In her mind, success could ONLY come from a) college and b) a good job (doctor, engineer).

But here's the thing -- white collar jobs are just as subject to cost-cutting and instability as any other job. And perhaps, in the end, a "perfect" job in which you work yourself to death for a paycheck is hardly a happy or rewarding way to live.

Open your mind. Life is insecurity. Be open to change and you will thrive.
If you send an email to support@we3app.com, I'll add that choice to your account.
This writing seems to confirm something I've been suspecting for a while: the STEM shortage is a myth.

Think about it: how can companies be this picky if there really is a STEM shortage?

On a sidenote: I recently understood why meetups, events and networking is important: to interact as little as possible with HR.

I've recently a particularly bad experience where the HR person called me very early in the morning (without asking if it's a good time to talk) and then proceed with a third-degree interrogatory with all kind of questions, even reaching the point to interrupt me while I was articulating/motivating my answer in order to make another question.

That was so rude I got very angry after that call. That is not the way to handle a phone interview, that is not the way to handle a conversation of any kind.
> The problem is that originalism attempts to make lawyers into historians

So does textualism, and while lots of people accuse judges of having different philosophies, most (in the US; there are other judicial Philosophy that exist) of them (at least, in terms of how they justify decisions) are originalist, textualist, or somewhere in between.

Most of the complaints really are not about originalism vs. other philosophies, it's about people with a particular ideological bias (primarily, right-wing) in how they tend to see original intent accusing people who see the intent differently of not being originalist (left-leaning observers do also
complain about right-leaning “originalist” judges acting in bad faith, but don't tend to frame it as being about originalism as a virtue and deviation as a vice.) I mean, none of the people on the right praising originalism and raging against judges for not being sufficiently originalist were upset at Scalia, who explicitly and firmly rejected originalism in favor of strict textualism.
Diamond Age included a remote human tutor who acted as various characters in the imaginary world of the YLIP.
Ask HN: Need help understanding role at Google
I have a interview for the Product Technology Manager role at Google next week, job description https://goo.gl/ntTHLs. I wasnt able to find much information regarding the role online and wanted to request if someone could share insights about the role. While on the Google careers site, the role comes under Product Management, I wanted to know how this role is different from regular PM, what does the career path look like and how is the role compensated compared to PM. Thank you !
Not that it helps, but he didn’t get laid off - just saw coworkers getting laid off.
Humble Capcom X Sega PlayStation Bundle
The Count and Contains methods are not on string, they're both extension methods on IEnumerable<T>, which string gets for free by implementing IEnumerable<char>.
Except they banned trading as well as sales. Trading beer is legal.
There's a lot of people on this rock. Even if only a "small portion of the population" can do the work, that means there are tens of millions (literally) around the world who could do your job as well or better than you.

You are the lucky beneficiary of restrictive immigration and employment policies.
Amazon has non-competes?
Reddit and Hackbright’s Strategic Scholarship Fund to Support Women in Tech
It is odd how that has not happened in the mobile phone form factor or even as part of an add on case.

I do think you have a point in that there should be marketspace for what the old Nokia was - something that could stay on all week without babysitting the battery.

Website accessibility is possibly an important part of this, if everyone wrote proper responsive websites that met accessibility standards to look good on mobile then these should read fine on an E-ink display. All text messaging apps should look fine too.

The trick to making the device work is probably the camera, if you could easily connect the screen of another phone to it then you could do selfies and what not. A convenient device to facilitate that, maybe top up the battery of the main phone and work independently of the main phone on a duplicate/tied in SIM, that could work.
Can you elaborate on the idea that companies should spin off departments? On the face of it, I don't see how that could work, but I probably don't understand your idea fully.
Full Stack Developer (Ruby on Rails)
No - survived a round of layoffs...
> 0. The creation of a deep, long-lasting relationship between tutor and tutee

I have spent over a decade in school and this has literally never happened to me. I went to second rate middle/high schools, so maybe teachers in "good" schools have some deep insight which makes interactions with them actually desirable?

In any way, this desperately does not scale, at the current ratios you would require a single teacher having "deep, long-lasting" relationships with ~hundred students at once, which just isn't feasible.

Even if every adult in the society got involved, the proportion drops by just about an order of magnitude. I can't imagine myself tutoring a single child, let alone ten of them!
DNSSEC only "helps" if you can get CAA working reliably with it, because otherwise, it's only role in this attack is to lock CAs to a particular IP address. But this is a BGP hijack: attackers control IP.
>It is pretty obvious that YouTube is intentionally driving away independent content like H3H3 productions through dishonest and inconsistent policies

I don't see how it's obvious YouTube is doing anything. By your own accord, its the advertisers who don't want to be associated with certain people, not YouTube. YouTube very likely doesn't care as long as they get a cut, from the perspective on advertisers they've been dragging their feet.

If those people don't want to pay you via YouTube's black box, then it's you either have to negotiate with them directly or find another revenue stream. YouTubers have been treating advertiser money as a free, unbiased, public money source when it's not - and as advertisers spend more and more, we are going to see them require creators funded by their dollars to stick to their song and dance.

The reason why YouTube is turning into another element of cable TV cabal is because its largely funded by the same source (Turner group makes 60% of their revenue from ads, despite only managing pay-tv only content). It's not surprising that the guys funding medium A, will also want to apply the same restrictions to medium B.

The reason I think the video is misleading, and also what I can't seem to understand why everyone makes this same mistake, is that they frame the issue as something YouTube is doing, and not something advertisers are doing. The billions paid out over the past decade are now going to have strings attached. If you don't want to sell out to "the man", then find another revenue stream and don't depend on advertising.
With all of the ways that we hear the environment is being damaged by humans, it's nice to hear about a way we're trying to improve it.

This give me hope.
I agree as far as the novel/ridiculously-long-essay dichotomy goes. That said Snow Crash is usually called a satire of (post)cyberpunk and as a satire it needs to adhere to the formula more than just another entry in the genre.
Note that, in general, spouses of H-1B holders are not allowed to work. What this change would do is remove the "Employment Authorization for Certain H-4 Dependent Spouses" regulation from 2015, which said that if you hold an H-1B visa and you have an approved I-140 (application for permanent residency), then your spouse may work.

In most cases, if your application for permanent residency is approved, then you just immediately become a permanent resident and you and your spouse have the right to work regardless. The exception is if you come from China or India, where the number of immigrants have hit the statutory caps, and there is a waiting time (currently between 6 and 10 years, depending on the type of green card application [2]). So I think the upshot is that this will make things more difficult for Chinese and Indian green card applicants.

[1] https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-worker...

[2] https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/v...
My spouse has hit this too. They report blatant hate speech and get back a note saying, "We reviewed this and it fits within our guidelines." Then other much more mundane things are removed. It makes no sense.
$8 once, forever?

I'd say this could be $20 - $30 forever or more. Sublime is $80 for each version, Synergy is $40. That's your market area.

$8 is high for mobile, $8 is CHEAP (it makes it seem like you will cut corners) on PC. Your market isn't casuals, it is hardcore users who will splash the cash for something.

I love this idea actually.
Physically? Hammering on the keyboard sitting in a dark room wearing a hoodie. Its not like you need to start pulling cables to do this sort of thing, internet routing is all software and configuration based which is pretty much its core characteristic.
Yeah, hopefully now they don't have a progress bar that consumes most of the running time :)
I don't think that's enough plastic to make a dent in the amount of plastic already out there.

If that happens, at least we'll get valuable information on how to improve the system for next time.
if this only happens once in 20 years to you, then you've been quite lucky or have done quite well. In the tech industry, companies have lay offs on average about once per year: every year your there, you roll the dice.

It's not just troubled books. Many have lay off quotas they need to fill: jack walsh style of management. It's just how modern day capitalism works.

There is however, one upside. All that laying off means they'll have to do a lot of re-hiring to replace all the employees they laid off.
I've worked somewhere where we used this approach for one of the 5 interview sections.

Even being upfront about our low expectations and providing very friendly and helpful people to pair and guide, it lead to record numbers flipping the table and stomping off premises before the completion of the interview.

I don't use this approach now, as I don't think its a good use of time (and I think an interview should be a positive experience even for those that fail), but it did provide, I believe, a fairly strong signal of the attitude with which a candidate approached learning new things (but not really anything else).
> It shows -- the quality of the answer is quite poor.

Are we talking about the same question? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17731457/hide-show-conte... I'll admit that it's not always easy to judge if an answer is useful to someone else, but it looks to me like it answers the question, the user "accepted" it, and it has 23 points. What makes you say it's "poor"?

> I guess the only assessment you considered is your own

The only strike against it you cite is some push-back in a comment... What else do you have against it?

> which simplistically assumed time to answer is the most important factor.

On top of the user accepting it, it having 23 points, it answering the question, etc.

I mean, I think I would be pleased with the outcome if I were the OP. I think I would be pleased to find that answer if I came from a Google search. If you honestly think that this is an example of "people continuously questioning the poster's motive" and exemplifies what you don't like about SO, then yeah, I don't agree with your assessment. It's not an attack on you, chill out.
During a recession, businesses--large and small--are going to cut out all the frivolous VC-style perks: snacks, booze, trendy furniture, etc.

WeWork isn't cost effective vs renting your own office space, it just removes the friction (and yes, some of the related costs) involved with getting a "trendy" SV-style office.

During a crunch, I think we'll see alot of these businesses retreat to sparser accomodations in run of the mill office buildings removed from downtown. WeWork will be constrained in this environment, since the record leases they are signing will place a pretty high floor on how much they can lower prices to compete...

If the market rages for another 5 years, WeWork is gonna hit it out of the park. If we recession before that, it'll implode spectacularly.
Not sure if any job or career exists that is impervious to some kind of replacement / oversupply. Maybe doctors, but the barrier to entry is almost stratospheric.

Ultimately, to paraphrase Machiavelli, our ability to thrive rests on our own prowess. I only wish such statements were immediately useful instead of requiring lots of introspection, filed-testing, etc.
Just realized this is OS X only! I want this for Ubuntu and I'll give you $30 for it. :)
No, it wouldn't. It comically wouldn't: in a BGP hijacking attack, the attackers control IP. It doesn't matter what your signed DNS record points to; attackers will just make that address theirs.
Regardless, you should always max out 401k and IRA every year. Because you only get taxed with those once, it's better. Investing your after tax income into something that will get taxed /again/ is not optimal compared to 401k and IRA.
Can't fully agree in quite a few points. I understand how the author got that feeling tho. Doing interviews is always eating away at one's confidence, no matter who you are.

1. no one believes anyone can actually code - I experience quite the opposite. People expect others to be able to code just because they are currently employed as software developer. That's not true at all. Sooo many people can't.

2. Coding interviews are not about findign the solution but about showing some skills, showing how you handle things under pressure, your ability to explain what you do etc.

3. homework assignments are not done in professional environments.

4. interviews matter more to you: I agree and really hate this. You need to give 120% before you even get to the point where you can choose what you want. And at this point you suddenly have 90% of the power and often not enough energy anymore to make anything good out of it.

5. And yes it's even part of the job of the company to NOT let you know why you weren't hired. Still, I think you often know after the interview how it seemed. Good feeling = chance, no good feeling = no chance, weird feeling = usually weird job as well.

PS: One side note. A senior coding position might feel age discriminatory because senior is for talented ~28 year olds to mediocre ~40 year olds. A 50 year old should be architect/manager or not switch jobs.
I'm happy you agree, but how is being a monopoly better than being a government sponsored monopoly? They result in the same outcome.