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I did. Once I joined the companies that did not openly answer my questions during interviews (about finances, strike price, etc.), I ended up realizing all the negatives/problems of the companies from the inside.

Then on, I had only two choices: (1) ignore the problems and not worry about future, or (2) act fast and start interviewing until I have options if something goes wrong. I chose the second option, and hence a lot of interviewing.
A more interesting tool: a tool to stylometry-fuzz one's writing.
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Why do you assume that correcting bias must come from some position of personal offense?
Global warming/climate change is, above all, one result of an experiment of unprecedented scope. "What happens to this planet when we release vast quantities of heat trapping material into the air?"

This is the very first time we've run this experiment, and the experiment is ongoing.

In other words, there are and will continue to be enormous uncertainties about the details of what's ahead of us.

> if our solutions are making things worse as we try to engineer

As what one might call a 'climate change alarmist', going back a couple of decades now, I hear you and I don't necessarily disagree. I am far less eager to push forward with, for example, geoengineering and other grand responses than my fellow climate change 'true believers', simply because of how uncertain all of this is.

Having said that, we as a civilization need to increase all manner of related research 100x or 10,000x, as soon as possible.

In the same way that we have been forced to directly manage all kinds of natural resources because of our actions (for example: deer populations), so also will we be likely required to directly manage our atmosphere in various ways.

But we need to be really fucking careful about it.
How does that follow? If I benefit from a stock rising, that doesn't necessarily mean I value that benefit above all else.
Does a few engineers leaving hurt google? No. Does the massive PR storm that will never be erased from the Internet cause problems for them down the road? Absolutely.

The fact this is posted on HN and the regular gauntlet of tech sites is enough to have a major impact on their recruiting. I, like many of the people here, am a frequent target for Google recruiters and Dragonfly is more than enough for me to turn down an interview with them. Maybe they will have more luck with fresh college grads and interns who are less discerning.
We've long had singular "them" with a history dating back to at least Chaucer. It's the best we've got.

Yes, other languages have the same problem.
I'm currently deciding whether or not to go with a startup for the first time and this post really resonated with me. Thanks!
I have "showdead" on but can't see any of those or are you talking about another topic?
Why would paying for a product that I use be a bad thing? I think it is better than the alternative that we have now.
I find it infuriating when I am on google, click a link and the yelp app just opens without any sort of warning. Youtube isnt far behind. If i already had something open in one of those apps, and was coming back to it, my state is cleared.
But what you describe is not at all what the article is about. This is about identifiable information, which has nothing to do with anyone’s humanity.
That explains why you, in particular, can't take a risk at starting a business. It does not explain why healthy/young/single/childless people do not try it.

Since we are talking about anecdotes - whenever I mention some success in my business, most friends get bored. Yet if they get to another create-a-crud-form job - this is being celebrated like some kind of achievement. I still hear talks about how small business is celebrated in the USA (i am immigrant), but I do not experience it in practice.
Not really, no. Then again, I'm assuming that this only applies to early screenings and in-person / live interviews will allow a person's subtler characteristics come through.

Personally, back when I was in positions that participated in hiring, I didn't give a damn about a person's name, gender, race, skin color, sexuality, gender identity, age, personal hobbies, political persuasion, religion, food preferences or any other characteristic that wasn't directly related to: Can this person do the job we're hiring them to.

If we needed further consideration to distinguish between equally competent candidates, then we'd look at how motivated they are to grow, aka contribute in other areas. Not because we wanted younger people with longer (cynically: cheaper) career paths, but because the needs of companies change over time, and a flexible outlook means they might keep pace with change, and that's something anyone can do.
Singular they/them works great. Only in the Victorian era did we start viewing that as a problem. It's got a way longer history than that.
I think you're confusing real with measurable.
Competancy is assessed at interview, not at sift. The sift simply identifies that candidate meets the minimum possible spec for the role and can be interviewed. They may end up well exceeding the job spec after competancy based interview.
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I think they are overlooking a very important point, and that is public transportation costs at the same time.

The Stockholm region is divided into three public transit zones, and you have to pay for each zone you cross. So travelling across town would cost you three coupons, but going a few stops would just be one coupon.

The problem was you pay based on how many zones you travel in, not distance. So if you took a subway two stops and crossed a boundary: bam! Two coupons.

When they introduced congestion charges they also imposed a "one coupon" rule: you never had to pay for more than one coupon.

So public transit became a lot more attractive over night at the same time that cars got more expensive. Small wonder that people switched.

Now they've gone back to three coupons though...

And anecdotally: the inner city feels just as congested now as it did before the charges.
I'll bite because I find this point of view fascinating. So you have 100 candidates of whom you know the name, date of birth, and gender as well as their first language. But unfortunately someone messed up and these 100 candidates have 0 qualifications listed. Under threat of being fired you have to pick the 10 best qualified for the job by the end of the day. How do you choose the candidates? You like the name John and people over the age of 42? Do you see now how none of it is really relevant?
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I attended and gave a presentation at one of MIT Media Labs sponsors meetings years ago, and had a fascinating discussion with the guy from Phillip Morris about their use of visual programming languages in the tobacco industry. But he didn't get into specifics about how they were using visual programming to convince people to smoke more tobacco, though.

http://www.ordiecole.com/logo/media_mit_edu_sponsors.pdf
>Toxic masculinity

lmao
I think perhaps one effective use by a central entity is to have trust centralized but proof of work is distributed.

An example would be that I, as the central entity, know which public keys/key pairs I want to trust, and the proof of work is the owner of said key signing a given block with it. So as the central authority I can't unilaterally rewrite history, but I can unilaterally decide whether the chain is valid.

E.g. Alice wants to deliver a package to Dan by means of Bob and Carlos as couriers. So Alice signs the initial block using her public key and gives the package+signed block to Bob, who signs and gives to Carlos, who signs and gives the package to Dan. Dan can independently verify his trust in Alice, Bob, and Carlos's public keys and then be sure that the package was passed along in the manner recorded in the blockchain.
the left insists there is bias against minorities and women in tech, however blind testing from interviewing.io proves that women do better when their sex is known. so if they keep insisting i propose we go incognito until they realize that there is bias against white men in the tech industry since they have a diversity officer.
Them works just fine here, get over yourself. The use of singular they in English is hundreds of years old.
I've got about 14 years of development experience and I also leave off some of my earlier experience on my resume. I do it not to conceal my age, but because the stuff I was doing 10 years ago is so much less interesting and relevant to my applications today.

Does my outlook not resonate with you/other older employees?
> When asked why they used nightly, people responded with a broad range of reasons including: access to 2018 edition, asm, async/await, clippy, embedded development, rocket, NLL, proc macros, and wasm.

as for how `rustup install nightly`
Wikileaks also denied ever communicating with Roger Stone, but we now know they did in 2016.
your questions are either rhetorical or too harshly worded to have a chance of being answered before getting flagged
Grammatical gender is an unfortunately-named construct that has little to do with sociological gender. The main connection is that most common words have grammatical genders matching their sociological one ("der Vater," "die Mutter"), but even that doesn't hold very well ("das Mädchen"). There's an interesting theory that grammatical gender helps reduce ambiguity, because the inflections of surrounding words make it clearer which roots they modify.
Except this isn't a person walking into a place and being mislabeled by another person.

it's a computer that has zero concept of gender.

I don't think that being mistake for a different sex is even cause to be offended.

That person doesn't know and can only go only by what they have seen before.
Tech support.
Dont forget AAPL! (who hesitated, but ended up capitulating on the iCloud front).

I think the moral of the story here is that it's better to sell out from day 1 than to be seen as a hypocrite.
For a long time, there were really useful things that were available only in nightly, I believe.

The Rust team has also done an unprecedented job of balancing stability and improvement.
> "> Apple under Tim Cook is more concerned about being profitable through rent seeking than making products that people are willing to pay a premium for."

> "This just does not match any available data. Look at where Apple gets the bulk of its revenue and profits: hardware products and optional services."

you seem to be looking backwards but the statement you rebut is forward-looking.

yes, apple historically made its profits on hardware, but the point the parent and the article is making is that apple's business model is changing toward services and rent-seeking through its platforms like the app store.

> "Rent payments are not optional..."

the 30% apple charges for apps is not optional. as implied by the article, apple could charge 50% and developers would have no choice but to eat that cost.
Can you expand on which information you think should be included and might be being omitted under that scheme?
Interestingly, this, and other similar curious pictures, are readily found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system

That is, once the dollar dropped the link to gold, and money could be printed, a lot if things went increasingly haywire, down to the circus of bailouts in 2008 and "quantitative easing" afterwards.
Are you trying to solve the problems caused by an insufficiently sized ops group? The other posts in this sub-thread imply devs are going to make a destructive mess of your whole system architecture, but I find myself blocked on more mundane things like being unable to fix deployments or builds, or toy around with a new Amazon service in dev because every new service requires new IAM roles and guess who exclusively owns that ability?
I guess it's eventually distributed but but still centralized in terms of using ipfs and having to go through gateways.

A truly distributed means of hosting is everyone hosting their own websites from their home connections. It's simpler and no central authorities are needed. Home connections are plenty fast these days. And the best part is that you get tons of storage space and you don't have to 'upload' anywhere.

You can also make real websites instead of 'single page application' javascript monsters.
"Them" almost always works fine if you don't know the name.

You don't really get asked "do you want to meet him?" without getting more details prior in the conversation that help set the context around group/singular.
In the statistical sense, assuming equal gender ratios in contexts that do not actually have equal gender ratios is an INCREASE in bias.
Of course you're going to know who you're interviewing. The whole idea is to anonymize the PRE-interview phase, specifically, selecting candidates. That selection post excludes personally identifying information.

If someone lies on their CV and is caught out another/more candidates will be chosen to interview, no?
Are these results published in multiple languages, as the survey was conducted in multiple languages?
Recently I've been thinking about inherent biased towards applicants based on their prior work / educational history, in terms of organizations they have been to.

I get that it acts as a moderate signal of how tenacious and inherently able that applicant might have been in the past if she went to XYZ school or ABC company. But there will be so many false negatives!

A lot of folks who probably would be otherwise capable of the job at hand would be dismissed for not having the right pedigree. Also, past performance is not always the best Intuit if future success.

And then of course is the issue of how do you even define success, especially in case if university graduates. How does a Yale or Harvard define our measure success for its students... Probably in terms of potential impact they have on the world or how good their names may look on the rolls 10 years down the line.

A lot of the issues, especially in terms of job applicators but also applicable in admissions process, ultimately comes down to information and numeric asymmetry between the organisation and the applicant.

If there was a way to somehow capture the readings - however brief - for rejection or selection of applicants or a documented scoring methodology, that itself would bring a lot of change.

I would love to know if some resources to further explore the alternative models of applicant assessment which does not place as much importance on the past organisations / schools they have been to.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated
this is click bait.
Honey, not vinegar.

Advocate to management that they be promoted as soon as possible, to a role where they are less involved day-to-day with you. Get your peers in on it. Focus on fear and greed to keep their golden boy employee onboard and not having to replace them.

At the same time, try to get them hired at another company. Find some good recruiters (not the ambulance chaser phone spam variety) and pass their resume around. If your coworker gets wind of it, you have an honorable, believable, and selfish motive: the spiff from the recruiter if they get hired.

Sometimes the best way to push somebody away/out is to push them up. It comes off as positive instead of negative too. Win win.
"ooooh this person has MIT/Stanford/Harvard on their resume, just like I do!"

"eh, midwestern state school"

"what even is an HBCU are those accredited?"

"fortran though?"

the initiatives are at least conscious of sensitivities in the space, but we have a long way to go
you can easily find the average CPM rates for ads in your country. Example: https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tqZyrVruR5k/WYCwQSiFnLI/AAAAAAAAG...
Climate change wiped out the 'Siberian unicorn'
"Them" has been valid English usage for centuries. It fell out of favor somewhat in the late 19th century (thanks to the same sniffy Victorian prescriptivists who decided that you shouldn't end a sentence on a preposition just because it's not allowed in Latin), but has been on the rise again for several decades. Yes, it's somewhat ambiguous, but it's grammatically correct and it's really the best option we have.
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I'm sorry but it's not possible. When you work full time, you have little time left, maybe 4 hours a day. These are not prime working hours, they are leftovers. You make very little progress which discourages you even more. You feel guilty about watching TV. You try to do something on the weekends but let's be real, the five days in between are really going to break your flow.

I feel like the idea of a "side hustle" is selling false hope.

Maybe people call something a "side hustle" just so that they can brush of criticism with "it was just a side hustle".

I've convinced 3 people (2 friends, one person on hacker news) to quit their jobs to work on their ideas, pursue self-study and figure stuff out. They've all been very thankful and the progress on their respective journeys has been much faster.

You can't build something cool without devoting yourself entirely to it.
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It depends on the use case and who you are licensing it from.
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Precious few of them nurses but there’s always room on the org chart for more middle managers.
> The headphone jack issue just seems like a solution in search of a problem.

Agreed, removing it doesn't seem like it really gained anything. It was neutral at best and likely negative on the average, perhaps my smaller network that has discussed it just isn't negative and decided to not say anything at all.
Yes, just to get an onsite interview. I saw this many times and it's very sad.

Also, I relate this to culture. Not to offend anyone, but from my personal experience lying in CV is much more common for some countries, that for others.

Scale maybe terrible, like multiple certifications in some field with no actual basic knowledge or skills. Like Certified Senior (sic!) Software Developer who can't tell you difference between stack and queue, or CCIE certified network engineer who has no idea what is DNS and how it works (real case).
It's very easy to use nightly (install via rustup, then `cargo +nightly blah --args` instead of `cargo blah --args`), and there are (ugh, still) a number of somewhat popular libraries that require nightly versions of the compiler.

In particular, using nightly allows you to opt-in to a number of experimental language features in exchange for maintenance burden. It's not a choice I make, although it's fun to do every now and then just to get a feel for what's available in the nightly builds.
It’s like many things designed by committee of stakeholders with very different needs.

Everyone gets what they want, except for the end user!
I see your point, but I disagree. I find that the narrative elements provide context to the data that helps me (and likely others) better grasp the personal impact of these changes.

Additionally, as another commenter noted, this is a magazine article, not a news story. The format is intentionally different.

That said, I think I've noticed the elements that you complain about in more traditional news stories as well. I just think that they're more acceptable in this format.
There is the retailers margins and the licensing cost. That’s 25%. That’s not including the infrastructure costs, or credit card fees.

The publisher, in the case of music, charges the artist “return fees” for digital and streaming music.
You have a different definition of easy from most people I know.
Fraud is not the same as theft.
I believe that's due to the entrepreneurship and hard work of the individuals in the country, and not of the political system itself.

Congratulating the CCP for lifting the country out of poverty would be like thanking the US political parties for making the USA the largest economy in the world (as opposed to the hard-working entrepreneurs and workers who built this country into what it is today.)
Why not learn from normal text-files instead?

Why connect it to a facebook-owned, proprietary service?
Not currently, as we only blog in English.

We’re still, as a project, working on i18n. Conducting the survey was one of the big first steps. We’ll get there.
It ok though if <$100k they charge as below:

>We do not charge any account maintenance fee for any account that meets the following criteria:
Greater than 100,000 USD in average equity for a calendar month or
10 USD in commissions generated in a calendar month.
1. A "quite a while" is less than a hundred years after Godel and in math? Compared to 2000+ years of Aristotlean logic dominance in hard sciences just because Romans inherited most of their scientific views from Greeks, not from Indians/Chinese?

2. It depends on domains of applicability, if you think of it.

In pure CS and math? Yes, the visible value is limited, because most problems we choose to try to solve can be solved with math apparatus we're armed with. Value I know is mostly limited to optimizing problems that have poor solutions with binary logic.

In practical engineering? ATPG, to my understanding, requires multi-valued logic. Analysis of large phenomena and automated decision making becomes an order of magnitude simpler problems, with better efficiency over chosen metric. Temperature controllers, decisions based on photo-metering (autofocus, exposure adjustment), etc. Somehow, even with lack of readily-available building blocks and tooling, it turns out that there are problems people are motivated to solve from scratch, and MVL/FL comes handy.

It's only stuff I overheard of through my life among bright engineers.

3. Moreover, the biggest impact is not in CS (as original presented paradox isn't, as well), it's on human judgment, decision-making and general assessment of reality, where "neither true nor false" (I don't know) is the first stepping stone to make the world much easier place to live in.
I had this exact problem three years ago. My software RAID was over a raw device, not a partition, and when I got new hardware for a home file server that had been running for seven years, the new motherboard wiped the superblock. I was able to recover most of the data with some data recovery tool. Unfortunately, some of the files were research data where the filename was significant, and I lost all filenames and paths during recovery.
Yeah, I'm not trying to imply the speakers are hard to waterproof. Just that the 3.5mm is arguably even simpler.
Thank you! That's why I love HN :-)

Would you happen to know what kind of compute power was required? Was it run on a colleague's PC or workstation or did it require supercomputer time?
> hyper-storified

I've been complaining about this for a while. I can't stand it. And thank you for giving it that name, I was looking for something to call it.
This is still a meaningless question, because different languages are good for different things.

Are you as productive in rust when doing web front-end development as in javascript? Are you as productive when doing one-of scripts as in perl? Are you as productive when doing exploratory data analysis as in python? Are you as productive when doing database queries as in SQL?
Singular they for known specific persons is not hundreds of years old, singular they for unknown/unspecified persons (e.g., known only from a role) is.

OTOH, using it as gender-neutral for a known person isn't a big stretch, and it's the least awkward option for that role.
I think people also forget that there's a decent amount of fortran in numpy. I'm pretty sure they are the originators of f2py as well