skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the behavior of people who write computer music using realtime DSP environments is oddly similar. Yet it's instructive because I don't think electronic composers are in any way "addicted" to their environments.

> You keep using your phone after it’s no longer needed to solve a problem.

There is a large amount of electro-acoustic musical output where the purpose was obviously to employ a particular piece of technology or software, rather than the technology/software being a means to realize some musical concept.

> You spend more and more of your time on your phone to get the same effects

The amount of time feel giddy by getting basic sounds out of the computer is rather small.

The amount of time to get something that sounds "professional" is months if not years.

The amount of time to get a timbre as compelling as an electric guitar is so great that you'd probably have to become a full-time filter designer and stop composing.

> You feel strange when you don’t have your phone.

> You can’t stop yourself from using your phone, even if you don’t want to.

I heard about a composer who pushed to get an electronic piece on a concert that was otherwise acoustic. (This composer had written acoustic pieces.) The organizer gave in and made an exception for this composer, who ended up eating the tech people's time trying to set up the AV equipment and scrapped the piece at the last minute because he couldn't get his laptop to work.

> You have a hard time giving yourself limits. You might say you’ll only use “so much” but then can’t stop and end up using twice that amount. Or you use it more often than you meant to.

I once heard a composer say that the average CPU load of their piece looked to small, so they added "stuff" to the piece to get a more impressive-looking workload.

> You’ve begun having trouble doing normal daily things without your phone.

I remember having a conversation with a composer who got up, ran to get his laptop because he wanted to write a convolution kernel.

> You drive or do other dangerous things (like use heavy machines) while you are on your phone.

Luckily for society this one doesn't apply.

> You borrow money to pay for your phone.

Or for a fancy Mac plus hundreds or thousands worth of proprietary software.

> You hide some phone use or the effect it is having on you from others.

Well, that one doesn't even really apply to phones.

The overall point is that maybe people initially do stuff like this because they're insecure and don't want to miss out.
I have a car, but don't use it for commuting. It is slower and more expensive than public transit. During the day it's parked at home.

> That implies to me they'll have access to your cars location, which is information they can use for targeted ads.

I think you greatly overestimate how useful this is for targeted ads. And keep in mind that Amazon isn't really generating revenue from ads. They sell stuff and AWS.
This is very negative behaviour in sum, because it becomes a race to the bottom where you either forgo all tax revenue, or you dont attract large companies.

Its good the EU has rules in place to prevent this destructive behaviour.
Have you reported these performance regressions on their bug tracker?[1] I can't find it. Just time for the kernel to boot or you measuring something else?

In my experience, they have been quite responsive to quality reports. Like Mozilla, they have many tools to assist QA.[2]

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list

[2] https://www.chromium.org/developers/bisect-builds-py
Last time I looked into this the current estimate is that there are on average 10 planets per star, so we have 1-4 trillion planets in our galaxy, and there are 10 trillion planets in Andromeda.

The Universe is teeming with galaxies, which are teeming with planets. Given what we know now it is likely that they are teeming with life (organisms in a process of self-sustaining and self-generated action) as well.
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I'm talking about an average school for ages 4-11.

But this is not a competition about who has the most expensive schools.

I'd rather live in a country where education is free.
This feels spot on.

Having been on both sides of the table, I understand why these are true, but still don't like a lot of these interactions. The worst one is ghosting, there's no reason for an interviewer to leave you hanging, at least they should be following up to say "You're still in contention but..." and do the same regularly every few days until they can make a decision. The only thing missing from your writeup is the observation that the hiring process usually reflects the organization. If your interview and followups were chaos / overly-complicated / streamlined, the company is probably chaotic / bureaucratic / well-organized, too.

Also: @fuzzygroup built my job tracking idea! It's fantastic to see that my laziness has paid off, and I want to hear more about how JobHound works out for you. Please post a follow-up in a few days / weeks / months of what you've learned or what you wish you'd done differently.
Where's that in the ruling?
We paid less for WeWork in Chicago than we did for a private office in a relatively bad location, even before counting Internet and utilities, and got a month-to-month renewable lease to boot. WeWork is a lot of annoying things, but I don't think "terrible deal" is one of them. You can do better if you look (we're not there anymore), but it's a good satisficing default.
I think it has always been a matter of who's talking and what do they think want you to think about the issuance. If it's your investment advisor and they want you to buy it's High Yield. If it's a reporter who thinks the company is acting irresponsibly it's junk.
Sotomayor didn't even write an opinion here, why would anyone comment on her writing? I have zero opinions on the judge, but your post is pure BS.
I like this, but I don't $50 like this.
>The reason English has become the lingua franca for businesses around the world is evidently because the USA became a superpower and managed to gain a huge worldwide influence in both economy, military and cultural sectors.

That's true but it was already well on its way in the 19th century because of the British Empire.
We're mostly in English-speaking countries (US, UK, Canada, Australia). Especially cities like Boston, LA, NYC, London...

But we're growing the team now! We're no longer just two guys. So we should be growing much faster in the coming weeks/months.

Thanks for your support
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They don’t actually own any of the properties, the rent them, and sublease to wework members.
I would love to read one from HR's perspective! Post if you see one.
elinks actually kind of supports touch input in Termux. I tend to use it when I'm in a spot with very bad data coverage and need to check something. It's surprisingly usable.
The EU has rules. What govt would invest in ireland? How - what instrument of govt? That's not going to happen. The commission will issue a ruling on the destination of the revenue and that will be that.
I spend about 50% of my time thinking about and working at intersection of tech & real estate at considerable scale.

WeWork is in a bizarrely weird spot.

Building cap rates eg trading multiples are at all time, insane highs.

This inflation has been driven by institutional investors desperate for yield, with a lack of viable options.

And huge tech cos that are learning that amortizing property is a better use for their hoards of cash than seeing it rot in the basement.

So for WeWork buying into this hugely competitive market doesn't really make sense.

But conversely WeWork needs real estate to grow, and they like to grow in premium markets.

In these premium markets they are competing with dozens of other fast growing enterprises in the current economy.

Which means they are having to sign INSANELY big / long leases - they have $5B in LEASE CONTRACTS aka debt on the books through 2022.

So they are signing leases that are in the record price per square foot range to deliver their core product.

And meanwhile, as best I can find 85% of their business is still driven by "Small businesses, fast-growing startups and sole proprietors". (1)

And these segments, as known to anybody who plays in the "flex space" world, are the first tenants off the boat in a recession.

It is easy to critique and hard to create, as they say, but I don't follow WeWork's valuations or strategy.

(1) https://www.recode.net/2018/3/22/17119012/wework-massive-gro...
You could host on Tor, or via a vpn. AirVPN provides static port forwarding.
A few years ago my company had a big meeting for all senior mangers at a huge conference centre.

Problem was some perp had worked out they had all left their laptops in the company car a large number of which where hatch back's when they all came out a number of hatch backs windows had been smashed and the lap tops nicked.
This is one of the main oversights of UBI fans. E.g. disabled people definitely need more help.
“Love Thy Accountant”
I believe that in the US/Canada the solution is for the patient to carry a backpack full of medical records. Honestly though based on my experience with the medical system in several countries, and talking to medical provider friends, I'm not sure records, apart from very recent ones, achieve much anyway. e.g. Dr B won't trust that Dr A made the right diagnosis or that an old test result is to be trusted, and so on.

Personal example : I migrated (legally) from the UK to the USA 20 years ago. USA wants you to prove that you have vaccinations. However they don't actually take UK medical records as proof. Easier to just make everyone have the vaccinations again!
Wait, the government is looking for collusion aimed at stopping eSIM technology, so one of the alleged colluders is actually stopping the development? In what world does that make sense?
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I think it is a very reasonable test. There are other industries that regulate themselves in other ways. For example, a huge training process and then jail time for lying about it, for doctors or lawyers. Or other ways to eliminate the risk like hiring as contractors for specific jobs, or comission based payment.

For a senior role:

1. Someone who can't write and debug a for-loop and an if-statement isn't going to be able to provide training and support to junior level hires. At all.

2. Making high-level changes and performance improvement both require good process discipline, and the ability to write a lot of code to actually accomplish it.

I think there are high value software management tactics that can be implemented without knowing how to code, for example, change control, or enforcing limits on work in progress via. kanban, but for a role that has either "software" or "developer" I think fizzbuzz is a very low bar.

I personally like binary search as in interview question. The basic principle is simple, but there are enough edge cases and variations to make it interesting.
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The Fable of the Dragon Tyrant
This doesn't change the crux of your story--which is that Senior DBAs who aren't familiar with ACID are probably not good hires--but that said, "consistency" is actually a somewhat ill-defined guarantee [1].

And if you throw in distributed databases, there is yet another understanding of "consistency" (vis-a-vis the CAP theorem), which really means "linearizability".

Sorry, didn't mean to be super-pedantic but consistency as a concept may seem simple to the uninitiated but is easy to get tripped up on, especially for folks who are aware there is a deeper layer of understanding associated with the concept, but can't articulate it right off the bat.

All this is to say filtering people truly is a hard thing. The extremes are easy to tell apart, but people who hover around the average are much less differentiated.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consistency_(database_systems)...
I feel like sometimes it's out of the applicants hands if they come by way of a recruiter / head hunter. Sometimes non-junior devs who aren't quite to senior developer status yet have no control over the recruiters mistaking your pay at previous jobs and the pay you could make next time for the level of job you should be applying for / able to handle.

I've run into this issue in different specific ways earlier in my career and no matter what I'd say about skill level / lack of knowing required technologies / being willing to take lower pay in order to justify aiming for another role it didn't matter in the face of the possibility that the recruiter could obtain a larger % for themselves off of that senior / higher-than-in-my-range job's salary.

Maybe this isn't as applicable for senior dev role applicants as it is for some lower level dev roles but at the point an applicant is actually physically there in front of the interviewers I'm sure one of the last things they are going to want to admit is that they wished they were interviewing for a lower paying / easier job even if it's 110% in the favor of both parties.
> They're looking to hire senior talent to clean up the mess but aren't willing to make the organizational commitments needed to make that effort succeed.

Very well said and it happens in lots of areas where companies seem to wish for "big outcomes but all for free".

You will see this in security all the time.

"We have to make sure this thing is bullet proof."

"Ok it's going to take a month to harden and audit our the network and infrastructure and add monitoring and we'll be in good shape."

"Uhh ... no we didn't quite mean it like that ... can't you like install a plugin in half an hour that does the same thing?"

(made up conversation but you get the point)
Flickr has its own Privacy Policy [0] and Terms of Service [1], separate and different from SmugMug's. I actually think this represents a good opportunity to revisit, and possibly update, what is and isn't allowed on SmugMug as well, something we haven't done in ages. We'll see, still learning. :)

[0] https://www.smugmug.com/about/privacy-flickr

[1] https://www.smugmug.com/about/terms-flickr
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Anyone else getting a 500 error?
In a world where more and more power is concentrated into fewer and fewer large corporations, I'm not so sure this is crazy that they're not allowed to do this, nor that it would be a good thing if they were. The natural result would be that different states or nations race to the bottom chasing the corporations to locate there, depriving their citizens of substantial tax revenues that could have been used for the public good. Even if you're against social programs, there is still common infrastructure that everyone benefits from such as roads that need to be paid for.
> then the perpetrators tracked down where possible.

Do you think that Facebook should have the right to arrest criminals? Under which jurisdiction?

Imagine that Facebook is able to find commonalities between several posters, do you think that law enforcement is responding appropriately?
That sounds like a deeply boring speedrun. What's the time on a patched Morrowind?
I'm not familiar with this trial specifically, but my guess is that the reason for limiting it that way is to focus on the most plausible kind of welfare program in the group most likely to benefit in a large way (the unemployed) and get as much certainty out of the data as possible.

The question is; "is this a welfare program or isn't is??"

I mean, if the program is structured to provide benefits for the unemployed and if we're looking how much the unemployed benefit, then it is a welfare/unemployment program.

The article mentions that the participants also saw this as an unemployment program and it seems logical that given this, they'd react to it in the fashion that we already know people tend to react to unemployment. There are already some unemployment programs that promise to taper off benefits rather than abruptly ending them and these don't have much difference from other welfare programs.

The sell of basic income is - "everyone benefits, everyone maintains an interest in working, the reduced bureaucracy provides more money to give people." Those together aren't saying "this is program to get more people working" and if it just gets reduced to that, the original plan is basically lost.

Which again, isn't saying basic income would work. But it seems reasonable to avoid letting the discussion just degenerate to debates on standard welfare.

That said, I guess I could accept one argument against basic income - "it will never work because in practice, the waters are always going to be muddied by these studies (done by the same old welfare bureaucracies) until the discussion becomes just a discussion of welfare strategies."
I changed my phone's language to Japanese (which I don't speak very well).

Instead of mindless tapping buttons, now I have to think about every action I take. It makes using my phone tiring, so I don't use it very often.
> They're looking to hire senior talent to clean up the mess but aren't willing to make the organizational commitments needed to make that effort succeed.

Well yeah, churn and burn is my company's motto. At least we pay well.
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Installing Jekyll on MacOS High Sierra
Love the idea and I'm downloading it right now. I know I've felt these same things nearly my whole adult life.
Those who refuse to study history are doomed to repeat it. The only difference will be the Milkens of today probably will never face jail time while their "investors" lose everything.

Got some Bitcoins or Pets.com to invest in instead?
There's also the idea of having them put cold groceries directly into the fridge and freezer.

Or a dog walker being able to use an Amazon access to open the door to get your dog.

I think Amazon wants to go anywhere consumers will let them but they realize people are going to be very reluctant and some people will never be ok with it but they must think enough will for it to be worth the R&D.
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Yes please put an Amazon parcel in my car all day so my window can be smashed.
I've seen senior candidates fail coding interviews, get hired anyway, but then do OK on the job as far as I can tell. I believe it's more likely for new college grads with a few internships to pass coding interviews than senior candidates.
I've had this question and replied with:

const isPalindrome(str) {
return str === str.split('').reverse().join('');
}

And the post interview notes said bad performance on the isPalindrome() question since I didn't write out my own functions (interviewer did not mention to).
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Challenging Safe Harbor would make starting any new platform a lot harder, even operating a node of Diaspora, Mastodon, etc. legally very risky without pre-approval. I’m not sure the recent posts promoting those technologies had that in mind.
Yeah it worked great when we had 100 data points. Another thing to fix :-)
I don't like that it says 'Always meet friends of the same gender'. As a male, I want to be able to meet female friends as well. Why is it limited by gender?
Flickr has its own Privacy Policy [0] and Terms of Service [1].

[0] https://www.smugmug.com/about/privacy-flickr

[1] https://www.smugmug.com/about/terms-flickr
I actually do understand why people administer these tests in our field. There's so little to guide you otherwise.

The problem is that it's kind of awful, and I personally really do believe that it's driving people away from the field.

Here's my take (I've posted this on HN a few times). Many people find in person, at the whiteboard exams quite stressful. This is fairly common, many people describe exams to be among the more stressful events in their lives.

Over time, I believe that institutions that conduct exams evolved a bill or rights between institution and applicant. Exams are used, but they are administered consistently and fairly, the topic and subject matter will not be a huge surprise (questions are kept secret of course, but their nature should be predictable). People who pass or fail will receive an answer, and often get a score and feedback to know how they did. The people who grade the exams are provided training to ensure they evaluate people fairly, consistently, and without bias, and are expert in their field.

Now, I know that universities, medical boards, bar exam reviewers, don't always live up to this, but it is the intended goal. I believe that our field, software, subjects people to exams repeatedly, but without any of the bill or rights I descried above.

For example, how do you grade? Are you qualified to assess general intelligence? Can you understand that someone might not be eager to submit to your general assessment of their intelligence?

Now, if you want to say nobody is entitled to a job, I certainly agree. But the industry seems to think it's entitled to workers, and they just seem utterly blind to how off putting their practices are. And in an industry with concerns about gender, racial, and age discrimination, double secret assessments of people's general intelligence by interviewers of unknown qualifications is about the worst thing you can do.
Brain processes sight and sound in same manner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_credit_rating

when major banks/investors refused to deal with BBB or lower they called it 'Junk'. When they realized 1) the credit risk can be safely managed with modern financial theory and instruments 2) there was money to be made ... they quickly adopted it and had to figure something out to drop the 'Junk' pejorative.
Merchants use Facebook to flood Amazon with fake reviews
Sounds like they want to put it in your trunk.
Find sport events to attend, and players for your event. MVP
Cryptography on the baseball diamond
It’s not mundane to me when you consider how much mineral wealth is just out of reach.
Tor is a special case here: you can use any Tor DNSBL and it will pick up 100% of the nodes, effectively.

All Tor IPs specifically and publicly advertise the fact that they are an open proxy.
Yeah - I don't mean to imply this is all Stack Overflow's problem! I think more could be done, but the 'unknown unknowns' situations is really hard to provide support for with anything short of sitting down one-on-one and working through the topic.
Personally, if you gave me this answer I would accept it and then asked you how those functions work and how you would implement them. Still trivial, but it would tell me whether you are familiar with the basics or you just memorized some stdlib functions.
If you are hosting outside of the Google eco-system and want to be able to do geo-IP for a store locator etc., or just to set a cookie on a page with the lat/lon, how does one build a minimal app in the Google cloud to do just this bit of the task?

If this is easy doable then that would be an easy migration route.
> Denying browser location doesn't stop the app or website from using your ip address against some third party service to figure out where you are.

Just how like being uninvited from a party doesn't stop you from just showing up anyway (and trashing the bathroom for good measure).
Ah, so were you talking about the partner pricing, for integrating into a site/app? I can see how it would be helpful to at least have some prices shown for that, to show the ballpark. For a casual website owner who just wants to make the copy easier to read, the pricing is de minimis (just enough to make sure that folks are serious about integrating and not wasting our time with a bunch of back-and-forth). Shoot me an email if you want to talk further!
I joined at the same time as one guy who was working remotely full time, officially based in London. But he was the co-founder and the lead developper of the most used technology at Facebook, so…