skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
... or do what most sane people do and just ignore the messages.

I also had rather bad experience interviewing for Amazon few years back.

I was invited for a whole day of interviews. I already had 12 years of experience in the field, designing complicated stuff and I like to think that I am rather good at what I am doing at it is rather hard to surprise me.

There was of course screening checks but Amazon representative declined to answer any of my questions about the job I would be doing so the it was rather one-sided.

It is important for me to be able to get to know at least initial expectations from my new employer. I get a lot of invitations and I also must be able to screen offers that don't offer any chance to be interesting to me.

The whole day interview was quite costly to me, I had to take entire day off (as a contractor it means no pay) and drive 4 hours to Amazon site (and then 4 hours back).

I would normally decline continuing with the process given the unwillingness of the company to provide any details of the offered position and the costs that I was expecting. I only relented because it was Amazon.

I have quite a lot of experience interviewing. I went through a lot of interviews on both sides of the table and I was also experienced interviewing successfully for large companies with very selective processes. I have very good record of being able to predict the results of any interview meaning I can tell pretty well if I will or will not get offer.

All the interviews on that day at Amazon went very well except for one. On all but one interviews I was able to solve and confirm correctness of all problems posed to me without much help and I was able to answer almost every technical questions. The 2 or 3 questions I couldn't answer I just answered politely that I did not have experience and since I am not sure I would rather not answer that accidentally give an incorrect answer.

The one interview that didn't go very well, I was interviewed by a guy who posed a design problem to me. I was supposed to design a system for a parking lot. That was literally the description of the problem ("Design a system for a parking lot.") I was given no directions (what kind of parking lot? requirements? what kind of aspect of the system I am looking at? what kind of system?). All my questions about what I am doing were responded with that it is my job to figure out and no answer. I tried to pose as an analyst trying to figure the requirements but this too was meant with a refusal to answer.

Nevertheless, I put some assumptions and proposed 2 different solutions (one high tech with cameras, one low tech with tickets). Both solutions were refused with explanation that that's not what he wanted to hear.

It is not surprising I was declined day later and of course, no feedback.

Since then I got contacted at least 5 times by different Amazon representatives but I declined after representatives refused to answer my questions and stated I would have to, again, go through entire process to learn anything.
I felt the same. Another piece was avoiding regulatory scrutiny as far as any discussion on monopolies. It's amazing how much business acumen the guy has.
Indeed, though note that in many places (notably New York City), people can be stopped on the street with even less of a pretense of probable cause.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop-and-frisk_in_New_York_Cit...
A lot of the Anglo emigration occured during the Gold Rush period and some later to Central California during the Dust Bowl.

But the west was first colonized by the Spanish.

One of the first Anglos to reach Alta California was the Bartleson-Bitwell party https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Belden
A quick google of the name and you can see he is; however I agree: anyone could have that email address. If he's legit from Uber and wants correspondence about an Uber interaction he should be listing his @uber.com address.
Same happened here. I was junior so I blamed myself at first.
I agree. We pretend we know what we are doing, but we have no clue. It really sucks that insects eat our crops, but insects need to eat something, or they die. If they die, then whatever eats them will also die. No matter how you slice it, humans need to consume every ounce of available resources to fuel not only just our population growth, but our economic growth too. We do this by vast ecosystem destruction, replacing complex food webs with our own industrialized agriculture and production needs. Whether we use chemical pesticides or turn their homes asunder and starve them to death, or "snipe" them to death with gene drive fantasies, the result is the same: we're eliminating everything that does not participate in the cartoon food web of our own creation. This will not end well.
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I am familiar with the following languages: Python, Ruby, Java, JavaScript, C#, Go, Bash

I have used the following test automation tools: Robot Framework, Ranorex, Selenium, Fit, Nosetests, JUnit, Mockito, Mocha, Jest, Jasmine, Pandas

I have used the following infrastructure automation tools: Puppet, Ansible

What I do NOT do is security testing, at least not in depth.

I am looking for either full-time or part-time projects. I work via a company founded with a couple of friends that ensures that I am properly employed and all tax stuff is taken care of. I move from Germany to Poland in December and starting January I am available 100%. If you have a need, any need related to testing or software quality, do send me an e-mail at adam@simplyqa.io. I can do consulting, mentoring, time and material testing, automate or rework your automated tests.
I'd forgotten all about interop with DCOM until just now! Several years ago (when I last had to do it) I recall having to horribly mess with services on my local machine just to get anything to appear to work...let alone actually knowing if it did what I wanted (consistently) and then how to get that to work at a customer site (we were told to document it and throw it over the wall to support...)
I still use ZtreeW64 almost every day. It's a clone of the old xtree and still very useful.
This is one of those findings in psychology that's always seemed suspect to me.

What is salary if not a reward for work done on an ongoing basis? The vast majority of people would not do their jobs for free; they need that reward for them to keep doing it.

Similarly, I've tried harder at my current job than at previous jobs because the performance review, promotion process, and merit bonus/raise programs are much more rigorous. My employer hasn't gotten more and better work out of me as a result, and I've gotten better promotions and raises as a result too. Is this not a "reward"? I've seen, with my own eyes, coworkers putting in long hours at crunch time for a shot at a better annual bonus or higher chances of promotion (at companies where effort is fairly evaluated and rewarded).

What possible levers does a business have to pull to entice performance from its employees if not monetary compensation? Every other reward in lieu of money is (correctly) perceived to deeply cynical. Businesses exists to make money, and if you make them more money but instead of sharing that with you they just give you something intangible like praise, then they're ripping you off.

If effort can't be rewarded with money, then shouldn't the entire economy collapse? That is the basis of capitalism after all. Something seems to be deeply off with these studies.
There are a couple recent SwiftOnSecurity tweets about this I thought I'd share:

"Your email address is your identity. We are talking the rest of your life. I’ve done custom hosting for 10 years. My first email host got acquired by a conglomerate. That has not been pleasant or confidence-instilling."

"Need to remember, having your own domain means you need to stay financially capable at all times. You end up in hospital and bills lapse and domain scooped by a squatter? Get ready to start over in life like you’re 12. People do not appreciate what it means to have free email."

I would like to believe I'm savvy and diligent to self-host my own email. Odds are I probably am.

But the downside is colossal. One small fuckup on my part, and I lose access to my key to, basically, every institution I engage with. Irreversibly. Even if it never happens, the thought that it could would be a constantly pressing weight in my mind.
Explorer == Shell. The Explorer windows you see in the shell are merely windows.
Landlock LSM
Yup. I have to manually detect and correct for all the possible ligatures in all possible unicode in my text to speech pre-processor scripts. I hate them.
My wife teaches pre-veterinary students in university. It's not a dis-similar issue to the one here. A lot of kids (particular girls, at the moment, for some reason) grow uo dreaming that they want to be vets because they love animals. Nobody tells them thqt the path to becoming a vet is just as strenuous and expensive as being a medical doctor, but the pay is a tenth as much. And nobody tells them that clients can be far more unreasonable, and in some cases, downright nasty, about their animals than their family members (a byproduct, I suspect, of paying for veterinary bills out of pocket). And nobody tells them they will get bitten and scratched every damn day, and if they're large-animal a horse will break both their feet within a few years and they'll have to retire from arthritis in their fifties.

Suicide rates for veterinarians is one of the highest of any professional group.

The first day of sophomore year my wife always lectures about the financial and emotional realities of the veterinary field. She makes them make a budget for themselves that includes a hundred thousand in student loans and assumes starting pay in the high thirties. And every year she has students leave in tears. She frequently gets irate phone calls from parents saying that she has crushed their daughter's (in a few cases, their son's) dreams.

But this is likely the only time they will have had anyone tell them the cautionary tale. And it is the right thing to do.
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Collaborating with your computer using typed holes
I had that as well. it was some IBM product.. we figured out that open file dialogs on well, everything still let you start windows explorer. From there you could get a dos prompt and do stuff.

It was used for broodwar mostly, this was around 1998
> Such a low view count...

Many few pages have high view count. If you expect that good content has only high view count you are missing what Internet is.
Show HN: The Stan Test – a little quiz to see if we share the same worldview
That tool reminds me of KDirStat (http://kdirstat.sourceforge.net/).
The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine‎ – Page 433
“carried this child in his anus to Derry”

I guess so the child could smell the Derry air.
Clearly they need to be closer to AWS east for performance reasons... :)
It’s baffling how people in the roles to make decisions to change the situation can possibly see a reason not to. Don’t people realize we are all part of the same planet that’s going to get totally wrecked? I just don’t get their logic.
Reminds me of "Don't kick a man when he's clown"; Google finds 2 PDFs with this, due to bad OCR:

https://www.google.com/search?q="Don't+kick+a+man+when+he's+...

Credit: https://twitter.com/ObeyComputer/status/1050131788830560258
> I would see kids waiting for the school bus at 7 AM.

Brutal! Taking this to the extreme - I saw kids in the extremely rural Copper Canyon, Mexico, catching the twice-daily bus at 5am to get to school every day. Though, to be fair they all passed out within minutes, despite the bumpy roads and regular breakdowns. I would be ruined within a week if I had to do it.
Indeed this must be the case. I share the same given and family name with several folks in the US and I get their mistaken emails all the time.
Maybe punish those that break immigration laws and reward those who follow the rules?
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Even with eminent domain, you have to pay fair value for compensation. Plus, there are some clear guidelines California and the government setup for this. I don't believe there is precedent for building low cost housing in a safe, well-off, neighborhood (the kind that get people elected)
Oops. Yeah, obviously that's what I meant. I was working on twitter scraping perl scripts at the time.
Overall, this article strongly reminded me of a recent take on artists [0][1]. The entry prospects are similar - you're supposed to take on student debt which then you won't be able to repay for 10+ years out of the salaries you'll be able to command, even if you'd live for free. Unless you graduate from one of the few top schools, your education doesn't matter anyway, and even if, to get any success you have to either play everything perfect early in the career, or get lucky.

Honestly, this sickens me. Our economy still keeps overworking people to death, and the end results aren't even that great (e.g. typical restaurant food isn't better because of the grind, there's just 200% more of it).

--

Also, this resonates badly:

"Rather than put in the time or effort—then, when I had the chance, to go work in really good kitchens—I casually and unthinkingly doomed myself to second-and (mostly) third-and fourth-tier restaurant kitchens forever. (...) What limited me forever were the decisions I made immediately after leaving culinary school."

It's still infinitely easier in our industry, but being ~6 years past graduation, I increasingly feel I fucked up my career prospects by not really paying attention to it in the first year. Part of it was just life, but part of was lack of courage (or "impostor syndrome"). I should've applied straight to first-tier companies. I thought I wasn't good enough. Then some of the people I know got hired by FAANG, and I discovered that the standards at those companies aren't really "world-class". That was just a myth.

Fortunately, in this industry there's still enough wiggle room to not be completely doomed by early mistakes. I have a lot of sympathy for people in other industries, who like me weren't money-oriented and planning their careers since teenage years, who wasted their first working years and realized it only later.

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[0] - https://www.ejroller.com/2018/10/25/my-parents-give-me-28000...

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18328393
I thought Jack Ma was good but Bill is better. I wouldn't want to compete with him, Bill is fearsome and scary smart.
I guess I wasn't into Linux back then. Unix workstations were still around and I had access to some
Keep in mind that there could be a very good explanation for such a no-show, like death of a family member.

But if the company has no second thought about wasting time of candidates then I would stop asking myself how to "get in" and instead ask myself if they really need me.

Call me spoiled, but I'm not going to jump through hoops (like more than three interviews) and accept abuse just for the honour to serve. I am not a slave, and if my skills have some value then I will eventually find a company that actually needs them.
A year ago a comment here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15494524) pointed me to Eagle Mode: http://eaglemode.sourceforge.net/
Note: I've owned restaurants for decades.

This is absolutely true. As wages have gone up over the years, especially this year, and my managers have been more willing to let someone go because they don't perform as well as others or don't show the potential. We have always had a higher bar--and paid higher accordingly--but cheap extra staff might take some of the burden off the others if they could accomplish some parts of the job till we could find someone else. Some years, like now, that can take months.

Letting someone go means others may get overtime, which is OK by me. I would rather have a good person there, and pay them extra, than an under-performing person there who only ticks everyone off and leaves a bad impression on a customer.

What I find interesting is people think the rising minimum wage has no affect on the cost to the customer. Recently, I sold one of my restaurants to someone whose first action was to raise prices by 20% because we paid more than his other restaurants do AND he cut hours by 25%!
This seems nether technically nor philosophically relevant. Weird choice.
Not really comparable at all. The "Social Text" affair was a major deal because "Social Text" was a major venue of postmodernism at the time, and it was a major cause of the fall of postmodernism in academia.

Nobody was "fooled" by the Bogdanovs -- they were French TV personalities who managed to get a couple of bogus papers published in extremely low impact journals that hardly anyone read. Similarly with "Who's Afraid of Peer Review" -- there are thousands of minor journals out there and some aren't very picky about what they publish. In science, it is important to take note of where something is published as opposed to the mere fact that it is.
So there seems to be a solution for the housing part.

I wonder though if there is one for the job part as well. Even if you fix the housing problem to some degree by having much more capacity and cheaper housing. I doubt this would stay stable, if the Bay Area continues to grow - I don't see any serious sign that this is not the case - the problem will emerge eventually again. I wonder how the job market would have to look like to make this stable.
What do you mean those were the days? I use this pretty much every day at work. c$ etc are default shares that appear if you turn on File and Printer sharing. The NTFS ACLs default to read if you are an authenticated user (RW for local admins) and the share ACL is probably local admins only (domain admins get that by default). So, \\machine_name\c$\tmp works exactly as I need it to on say Windows server 2016.
Finally something I'm an expert.

> if they should go to culinary school

I didn't go to culinary school. It means I might be one of the best chefs in the world, however, I will never be hired by a hotel. For 11 years I cooked exclusively in the top 20 restaurants including 2 of the top 3 on the Bay Area Zagat survey, yet, I couldn't get hired for months on a private yacht because I was not 'culinary trained'. At these restaurants, my title included chef de cuisine and sous chef. Often I'd be the only cook without at least a 2 year culinary degree from CCA or CIA.

It was the same thing when I decided to start coding. I don't have a degree. It doesn't matter how incredible my github portfolio is. Nobody looks at it. I went years without being hired because I didn't have a degree. I code because I very much enjoy it like I still very much enjoy cooking, not because I want to make lots of money. I strongly regret not returning to school to get a 4 year degree in Computer Science. I working on data viz using d3 utility libraries and react native svg at the moment and spend whole evenings working through khan academy courses on linear algebra and tranforms with matrices because I don't have that knowledge.

If someone wants to enter coding, it's not necessary to get a 4 year degree in CS, but I strongly recommend it.
One of the most eye-opening papers in this regard was the integer overflow checking paper (which Regehr was coauthor on), which found that every library tested invoked undefined signed integer overflow. This includes SQLite, infamous for its comprehensive testing, and various libraries whose sole purpose was to check if an operation would overflow without invoking undefined behavior.

Belief that you are skilled enough to write C/C++ code that doesn't exercise undefined behavior either shows that you don't know what is undefined behavior or that you believe you are the best programmer to have ever lived.
One day the public will better appreciate physical isolation of separate concerns. Until then, expect more of this kind of thing with your single devices used for everything.
The "government" is the same people that live in those single family house and they like that their value is 10 times what it was 20 years ago
I wonder if at some point your e-book went through macOS's Preview program.

At work I sometimes have to copy blocks of text from a PDF into another document. If I do it with Preview, I lose the fi and fl ligatures. It only happens with PDFs created in-house, so I guess it's some kind of stylistic thing that comes from the guy who lays out the PDFs.

I eventually learned to use Adobe's own Acrobat, instead, and it works fine.
Monkey Sort: Microsoft Sinks Servers in Ocean, Iranian Hacker Threat and More
Thankfully Flickr was dead long before this final nail.
They wouldn't build 1 million apartments, for one, Apartments would likely be built at a slower rate than people moving there. Two, as seen in Seattle, only housing for the already wealthy is built. There is tons of demand for low income housing, but no supply because it doesn't make as much profit (if any) so there's no incentive for capitalists to house low income people and the cycle keeps going.

Before I moved into my current place, I was in low income HUD subsidized housing. It was a brand new building with rent control. Rent control worked great, but the owners didn't keep their side of the promise. Maintenance took months, all amenities we paid for were broken, access to the garage to store our vehicles was broken for 4+ months, elevators were broken for months at a time.

There is no way to get people to freely build affordable housing in or around larger cities under this current system.
If you mean Redox, that is hardly a production OS (yet).

People don't have infinite time and only search for security issues in software that's actually in use.

Which is one of the reasons that C/C++ appear more often in CVEs.
If you work hard for 5 years you will get it, it’s not a chance
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> A compiled binary that worked correctly won't suddenly run into undefined behaviour, that can only happen if you upgrade compiler versions...

Upgrading the compiler version and causing undefined behavior sounds pretty sudden. Here's my favorite story along those lines: http://pzemtsov.github.io/2016/11/06/bug-story-alignment-on-...
I got an appointment with Goldman Sachs for a 30 minute screening interview with one of their analysts. The guy called me 25 minutes late and without introducing himself proceeded to give me a highly specific question about how options work and immediately tell me he only has 5 minutes because he has to go to another meeting.
I found that on first run, the results returned were blank. Restarting fixed that.
Even worse, he tried to fake a proof.
Overlooking the horrendous message that no one should have any sympathy for a (formerly) homeless American because there are people who have it worse, are you telling me you see zero connection between my difficulties and these women who are treated worse? Are you saying we shouldn't work on removing barriers to advancement for women as part of the solution to this problem?

I mean, other than just taking some kind of shot at me like I'm just a whiner who doesn't appreciate how good I have it, what exactly is the point you are trying to make?
Nepotism by definition can't be consistent with meritocracy.
Cooking might be more taxing than sitting in an office, but come on, it is not exactly coal mining either.

Sorry, I don't buy into his arguing from authority pov and not just because he sounds like an a hole.