skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "right" behavior you're referring to was literally motivated by the article you're criticizing as "dangerous", as is, I believe, the default behavior of the system call itself.
A contact forwarded my resume to an IT manager at my employer.

I interviewed and was accepted for a temporary position.

They hired me full time after a few years.
> And they answer, "Sorry, I cannot move forward without a number."

The thing is... I always say this back to them. Works pretty well. if they don't answer back is probably because the money is too bad.
Capitalism = capitalizing on resources to make a profit. Facebook capitalizes on our need for social acceptance to make a profit.
> They hired the first developer, and he vetted the second developer, and so on until they had a development team

This is hard for a startup in their early stage. Not sure how mature the company was, but let's assume it was young enough to have this very problem.

Direct team hire is a double-edged sword. It works well when your team is very competent and good at weeding out false positive. Basically, when you have a bunch of senior people with maybe a couple junior and mid-level teammates. A normal distribution is actually perfect for a team. Having a direct contact with your future teammate allows you to know the person ahead of time, especially for a very team. Furthermore, direct hire means you are hiring not just a generalist. Your SWE may not know what to ask a network engineer, even from a coding point of view. The downside is what happened in the story.

The way I'd like to go about it is to make sure we have two interviewers per round, even from the same team would be far better than one person vetting.
And New York City (and possibly the state, not sure).
I was going to call out this quote : If you read this far hoping for an answer, then I’m sorry: I don’t have a simple one. This is a difficult problem to solve.

And yet there is an answer, it is hire an experienced engineer. And the author glosses over the problem by not realizing they "solved" the problem by hiring him.

It is the bad calculus where one "experienced" engineer is going to cost you maybe $150K - $200K and yet you could get anywhere from 3 to 10 junior engineers for that depending on how far out you go.

It would be awesome of there were some sort of certification for "experience" sort of equivalent to the guild master status, it isn't an education thing it is a "oh yeah I've seen that before, lets not do that here's why" kind of thing.
There's "blame" and there's "fault". Faults are correctable, blame tries to place responsibility on actors. Few faults can be corrected without acknowledging where responsibility lies. There are multiple kinds of responsibility however. Responsibility for the cause and responsibility for fixing it. The same party who caused the issue isn't necessarily qualified (or authorized) to address it.
The idea behind blameless postmortems is to be descriptive without calling out bad action, and evaluating the fault holistically, and acknowledging the reason most faults occur is a failure of processes not necessarily a failure of a person. Fixing processes is much more scalable.
I've though about this and the unit economics look good, especially with so many GPUs sitting idle now due to crypto situation. There have been some attempts to build this (vectordash.com and vast.ai are examples) but not sure they achieved type of scale I think it is possible. There are about 5 million GPUs bought to mine crypto that are mainly doing nothing today. Getting 1% of them to join a marketplace would make for GPU compute that probably exceeds AWS, GCE and Azure combined. Happy to chat more about this if anyone is interested, my contact is in profile.
cannot find the link right now, but the gist was that those teams move very slowly and work very hard towards correctness.

https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff
invading requires intent to occupy
Gravitational potential-based energy storage is nothing new. There are lots and lots of ways this is harnessed; take a grandfather clock, for example.

That said, there are a few points worth noting, if I spend a few minutes thinking about this:

* You probably want to maximize "dumb mass", with relation to the lifting mechanism, to bring down your costs this has to be optimized vs density

* You probably want to maximize the height difference in order to make the system more effective:

--* Less losses due to the "fixed costs", both in time and energy, of positioning the mechanism for the next payload

--* If you have lots of blocks to move, or are simply stacking them, it will take up a huge area when discharged, which will at least make the crane system more complicated

So, simply stacking blocks does not seem like the perfect solution to me, unless you really want to max out the energy per unit of volume. This could make sense if you were stacking goods that would be useful elsewhere (think a warehouse that doubles as a batteries). Incidentally, batteries, fuel tanks or containers would be a rather good choice if you have to pick one of these.

Following on the double-use idea, there is already one distributed, underused infrastructure that is designed for electrically lifting things (though probably not power generation). I can see a few ways that elevators could double as auxiliary power storage units.

Of course, special care would be needed to make sure the extra weight doesn't compromises the buildings' structural integrity. The same could be said about virtually any other candidates, which includes existing bridges, dams, cliffs, etc.

An interesting take on this would be to see whether it is possible to take it offshore. In theory, given perfect water-proofing (or just good pumps) and logistics, you could change the geometry of a concrete-built floating structure, and lower parts of it extremely deep.
Of course, Archimedes doesn't help much with power density, but that wouldn't affect efficiency much (hydrodynamics would, if speed/geometry isn't optimized, though). As a preliminary approach, sea deeps near the coast could make it simpler. I suspect concrete composition would be the hardest part to solve, in that case.
Basically if you don’t eat enough good fats you’ll
eat bad fats, and if you don’t eat enough bad fats
you’ll eat sugar or carbs. So you want to make it easy
for yourself to eat good fats, and then round out the
rest of your diet with other stuff.

This seems so intuitive for some reason but have you come across any reading to suggest that this is indeed the case.

Any large study or trial?

Have you observed this first-person, anecdotally atleast in someone, over a sizable period of time?
> When we say a corporation has the right to free speech, we mean that you cannot restrict the right of people just because they’re acting together through a corporation.

Why not? We restrict the liability of people, just because they're 'acting together' (a corp). To make that trade off fair, it seems like we should limit their 'rights' together as well. Corporations are sort of fundamentally unfair as they exist in the US, because they get almost all of the rights a real person does, but they have almost none of the responsibilities or liabilities a real person does.

Either [a] corporations should be required to be responsible for their actions (eliminate all limited liability, leadership and shareholders should become personally liable for most actions of the corporation they lead/own), or [b] corporations should loose a lot of their rights as a tradeoff for the reduced responsibilities and liabilities (like the ability for a corporation to have 'free speech').
http://www.anagramgenius.com/archive/forty-acre-mule.html
I believe there was a buy-out provision but I’m not privy to the details. It was undoubtedly an expensive way to hire.
Author of lambdashell here - that is not the code. You can see the actual code by just doing 'cat index.js' - this is as the website states, a default lambda function doing an exec()- really, really simple.
Most companies outside of the Bay area.
I don't think it's crazy to suggest that roads and the standard of living in some places could decline to the point that it becomes more common to use currently-outmoded methods to transport goods over land. What if the future sees:

- Oil production decline to the point of significant scarcity

- 20000km supply chains falling out of the profitability zone

- Under-funded municipalities on the edges of civilization not able to maintain their roads. Some parts of the United States are already starting to un-pave their roads: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2016/7/26/the-un-paving-...

- Large-scale decline in standard of living

...Et cetera.

Given enough neglect and time, everything we have built will crumble. When "developed" places fail, they will start to look more like "developing" places. Dirt roads, bicycles, working animals, reduced conspicuous consumption, and maybe even wheelbarrows as a seriously-considered form of transportation - all of it could return in the long-term.
It does. What I meant was if jt would be easy to get depressed with "oh damn there goes my streak so why bother as il never know when the next one will be". Now you could eqully go "cool there should be another one so il just keep trying".

If that is the case, is this just not another angle at "never quit,you never know things will pop up"?
Only Street Dogs Are Real Dogs (2016)
In my experience, it's quite common to have longer standing connections or friendships with people who won't be willing to join a particular startup but who might help with specific issues.
What did the recruiter say?
So, how did that work out?

Does the recruiter give you a number or range?
Reasons to Skip Burning Man
Greek island to run on wind, solar power
It’s worth noting that while still likely largely accurate, ghc has evolved a bit since 2011
Incorrect, I know this is at least also the case in Massachusetts.
>Let me tell you where the outrage is coming from. It's not coming from UX decisions. It's coming from mind boggling suffering.

Oh please. It's like you don't even recognize how privileged you have to be to spend all day on Twitter whining about stuff.
This comes across as a slightly cringeful explanation of a phenomenon that I'm not really sure is a problem. The author's constant referencing of trendy ingredients comes across as an attempt to sound up-to-date with trends in cuisine, without actually knowing what those trends are.

Also, the article is factually incorrect - aoli is not mayonnaise, it's an emulsion made of garlic and olive oil; no egg should be involved in its production.

Finally, it appears that the author has it out for millennials in general [1].

https://www.phillymag.com/news/2016/01/08/boomers-millennial...
I know that not everyone can do this, but at this point, I just thank them and let them know I won't be moving forward. I've only been in this situation twice. One didn't move forward, in the other, the recruiter pushed, then when they realized I was ok walking away, shifted and gave me a range, asking if it sounded reasonable (it wasn't). I've also never had this experience with a company I was particularly excited about yet.
but a river is not an animal or human.....
> You can say... hey, I was upfront about my range, and I really feel like I'm <here> in that range for <these reasons>.

So why give range if it's actually a number after all? :)
Ok, understood. But my point is that PC side disk encryption and secure boot are handled in a standard fashion (TPM 2.0/ UEFI Secure Boot / Intel TXT) without needing another ARM chip and it's own proprietary OS. It's the whole solution looking for problem thing. If I run Windows or Linux on the Mac I think I won't be able to use the T2 chip for anything.
Joachim Breitner did a simple high assurances rts backend a year or two ago
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I’d buy one to bring to the beach with me.
"alone in a crowd": the book's author argues that actually this is the most natural human experience - we are "always alone", even with loved ones, even while having passionate sex, because our own concept of self is not shareable (barring some sci-fi trope): what I am feeling now while composing this answer is different from what the person sitting to my side (I'm on a bus) is experiencing. Same with me towards her, of course.
There are maybe 50 people in this bus, and we are fifty individuals travelling alone towards a specific German town... everyone has different stories and different reasons and probably different hopes or expectations about what happens when we get there.
And trying to make an info dump to another person to make him/her understand my situation so that I am not alone anymore would take hours if not days... and probably further distance each other, because the girl sitting to my side would then be unable to share how it feels to get a stranger twice her age to start describing his feelings about this trips, in English, too, which is not mine or her native tongue. ;)
Because lots of people that haven't run a restaurant have successfully started a restaurant, and people who were in the restaurant business started a restaurant, but failed to keep it going.

History is littered with people who ignored your rule here and have been successful.

I guess we can flip that around: why do so many people with no business background assume that they can start a business?
Why tracking your mood is good practice
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Overall, how much good vs bad is produced by Silicon Valley? I'm not so sure anymore. It seems like all the companies care about is to disrupt our lives, milking our attention and privacy dry.
That seems pretty interesting, Colemak looks like the most approachable alternative given that it preserve most of the qwerty layout, while managing to beat -or be pretty close- to Dvorak most stats.
Oh no, it's a good post! We just link to previous discussions because people like looking at them. It would be nice to indicate that more clearly, but I'm not sure how to do it without being too verbose.

After a year or so, we don't consider reposts dupes on HN. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
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Sure but that doesn't mean the F-key haters wanted touch bar as a replacement! Because it's worse - at least the F keys were usable across the OSes equally without kernel panics.
Yes, I had a Clevo-produced System76 model and I've had multiple hardware issues with it -- for starters, it failed to POST just days after receiving it, and System76 support did repair it, but they were not very accommodating about it, saying there was no way for them to provide a shipping method faster than ground even if I paid for it, etc. I want to like System76, but the truth is that my experience with them was disappointing.
I sort of assumed that's why the bought oculus, but no, not necessarily.

To believe otherwise is to fall into the trap the economist does in the following folksy anecdote.

An economist and his friend were walking down the street when the friend spots a 100$ bill on the ground. "Hey look, a 100$ bill!" he exclaims. The economist keeps his eyes locked forward, saying "Can't be, if there were - someone would have already picked it up."

Believe in yourself and your dreams, Cyph0n.
Do they have a search yet, that isn't searching by a hashtag? Twitter wins here by default with proper search and filtering options. How am I supposed to find people talking about something?
> They not only rescinded the offer, but they were ridiculous jerks about it.

You dodged a bad company. Not too bad.
The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
That seems a bit self-defeating. A thesis is just a longer than average paper, there's nothing magical about it.
Actually internal Iranian records from that period show that the occupation was actually a pain in the neck to maintain on operational and diplomatic grounds, though it was worth waiting until Carter left as a great fuck you to him in response to him having (unsuccessfully) sent in a special forces team.
Some anecdata: I’ve been using an iMac Pro which has the T2 chip (and thus, can experience these panics) for a while now and haven’t had a single kernel panic. In fact, I wouldn’t have even restarted this whole time if it weren’t for updates.

Similarly, I’ve used both second and third gen touchbar MBPs and haven’t had any problems out of them at all. They’ve both been about as reliable as my old 2015 MBP.

Not to say that others aren’t experiencing issues, but let’s not forget that the internet can act as a magnifying glass that makes relatively uncommon/infrequent bugs look much more widespread than they actually are.
Agree 100%.

The original article assumes you're going to go through the entire interview process before discussing a number?

What happens if the delta between you and the hiring company isn't just a few thousand, but multiple tens of thousands? Will negotiating ever bridge that gap? More often than not it will never happen, and everyone has wasted their time...yours especially.

In the current US job market, and let's say everywhere except the FAANG companies for reasons of this discussion, we're in a extreme situation where employers need people but aren't willing to move salaries upward to get it.

patio11 had it right when he said

"The explosive growth of the tech sector keeps average age down and depresses average wages. Compared to industries which existed in materially the same form in 1970, we have a stupidly compressed experience spectrum: 5+ years rounds to "senior." This is not a joke."

We're stalemated before we even finish answering the phone call or email from the recruiter. Knowing your jump number is the gatekeeper.
If you aren't technical yourself, how do you separate an experienced engineer from one who, well, isn't? This was the fundamental problem that the company failed to solve, and frankly I don't think there's any easy solution around it.
To me the most fascinating stability question is seismic. Wind is mostly predictable (apart from unusual events like microbursts). It would be easy enough to stack up a storm-stable shape before major predicted storms hit. Seismic stability would need to be considered throughout the stacking / unstacking process.

The cylinders have got to go, however. Stable stackable shapes are a thoroughly solved problem (bricks!), and stack at higher densities as well. Scaling up a press release model from the barrels they used for a real life demo saves very little time or money and implies an absence of familiarity with structural engineering, which will be this concept's #1 critical problem.
This is a poor characterization of the issue. First of all, "do the packages come from git?" is not a real concern (similarly, "but it came from Pypi!" is not itself a feature). The real concerns are all "what reproducibility/security guarantees does my package manager provide?". For `go get` and vanilla `pip install`, the answer is "mostly none, but this is more or less okay for newbies/prototyping--it's okay though because the packaging docs point them to the better-but-tedious things". Cargo and Go modules do a pretty good job about providing reproducibility and usability at the same time, Python's answer seems to be `pipenv` which makes some pretty great promises, but has been quite buggy/quarelsome for us so far (and it's not even "official" as far as I can tell).

To characterize Go's ecosystem (but not Python's) as "throwing live chainsaws at people and berating them..." is pretty blatant dishonesty, doubly so once Go modules makes its official debut.
1, it has to be 1 right?

I was exactly there too.
I opened in incognito and then it worked
Please don't let downvotes trigger you into breaking the site guidelines, which ask you specifically not to post like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

As for the parent comment, possibly it was downvoted because it used ideological tropes. HN is not a place for ideological battle (regardless of what you're battling for/against), because ideological battle tends to burn up everything else.

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> I can’t both ask a company to hire me knowing that I’m barely qualified and ask for the highest part of the range.

If you know what the range even is, you’re ahead of the game.
Seeing good-faith comments which break no rules I'm aware of being flagged is truly disappointing.

It's your forum and if you choose rule by law rather than rule of law, I am powerless to improve the situation. In ten years time, if you remember any of this, I hope that you might have a new perspective this topic.
That's interesting. I could see it having the same effect on me. Glad it worked out for you.
https://gist.github.com/scottstamp/db570d80c09cf5f357eac78a9...

Looks identical? The revision is from index.js.
Interesting read.

When I was in my twenties, loneliness, when it came, felt like the absence of another. Nobody specific, just a gap where somebody should be when you're travelling alone etc.

Now in my thirties, loneliness rarely surfaces. Company is great but there's never a need for it. I guess as you get older you become more replete and that 'gap' disappears.

It also seems that a feeling of saudade replaces loneliness as one ages - a longing for a place or a person that perhaps cannot be satiated. But unlike loneliness which you describe as "a specific type of sadness", saudade is less sad than it is bittersweet. Beautiful even.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudade
I think loneliness gets worse when we see "perfect friendships" on TV that last for years, like in Harry Potter or Scrubs. It makes us feel that we are missing something very important to human feelings - complete or near complete trust on another human being.
Why would you blame / punish the victim?
Exactly. Consider the case where you require one and only one security officer that has one and only one key. In that scenario the security officer can escrow with encryption the key file using SSSS . You could then distribute the SSSS keys to various executives who could use quorum to retrieve the escrowed key.
> Sometimes a root cause is simply that a person or group was not competent in their execution of a task.

If an incompetent person is able to take down a competent person's system, the "competent" person is to blame.
I suppose you'd have to clean it regularly. When the crane goes to pick up a block, it could do the optical continuity check then too. If it fails, that indicates that either the block was moved after it was stacked correctly (unlikely but possible) or it got dirty.

In that case, something comes along and cleans it. Maybe a rod-shaped brush (like a vacuum beater) that spins. Or a water jet.

Also, you can have more than one hole for redundancy. If one of them is clear, that should be good enough.

Hmm, or rather than holes through the middle, make them notches or grooves on the side and shine a laser through them.
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For general-purpose browsing, such as viewing email, using social sites, or banking, that's short-sighted, risky behavior.

If someone misses some old dev app, like Selenium IDE, then I can understand that choice. But that'll be a tiny niche.
I bought a copy of this map a few years ago to replace an aging National Geographic version and it has been a tremendous upgrade. For a while, we had it under a plastic sheet that protects the kitchen table[1], and it was great fun to discover details almost every night that were just really amazing.

[1] When we get a rolled poster we'll flatten it by putting it between the table cloth and the plastic cover of the kitchen table. Depending on the weight of the paper that can take one to 6 months but it leaves us with a nicely flat result which was can laminate and hang.