skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I don't think there's any state in the US where lying on your resume/CV is not legal grounds for immediate termination.

And any company that has thought about their hiring process for more than 30 minutes will have a probationary period of 30 or 60 days or so, after which employment can be terminated if the employee is not able to do the work.
Wow. I posted a quote from Time Magazine and the quote was flagged within seconds.
It depends on the home. I use 2.4GHz and disable 5GHz because it causes a lot of issues.

The latest issue I have is where the phone I'm writing this on keeps switching from 2.4 to 5GHz when in the bedroom. However, when it switches from 2.4 to 5 it becomes unusuable due to the poor SNR ratio. I wish I could pin it to 2.4GHz, instead I keep having to wait for it to drop the connection and renegotiate on 2.4GHz.
Exactly, boiler plate duplicate spam complaints > boiler plate meaningless reply.
Yes, it's been happening for a while. Google and Mozilla have been pushing (sometimes rushing) for more capable web browsers while Apple actively protects the exclusivity of some functionalities of it's app store, to the detriment of Safari users, making them feel an even greater gap between websites and native apps.

Originally, smartphones were to be the new way of browsing the web but it turned out to be a new way for OS manufacturers to profit over third-party software because developers had to handcraft a way of accessing their data over the internet from the device given that web browsers were not up to the task of delivering fast, snappy experiences. Developers had to create native apps for the simplest services even if they didn't need the extra functionality and APIs like notifications, background updates or movement sensors.

Today, mostly because of the increase in mobile processing power, the difference between a website and an app for trivial tasks (notekeeping, calendar, ordering a product, whatevs) is innofensive and overall imperceptible, making websites a reliable way of providing functionality once again.

Browser updates and new APIs will increase the amount of possible trivial services you will be able to access from anything with a browser and up-to-date processing power.
9$ an hour is also pretty bad for an adult.

I was making that sweeping the floor in factory after school when I was 14 (must be like 15 years ago).
Of course I live in Denmark.

(Not that I think tuition is a good idea, but it's not necessarily the problem).
I wish Google had more levers and knobs. For me it would be:

No unprotected left turns into major streets.

I value simplicity over expediency
Sometimes you wonder if they could possible move the route a little to the side. I live on an island close to Seattle, and airplains flying from California will fly straight over the island, almost like it is on purpose. You wonder why they couldn't move the route a little to the west or a little to the east and fly over the sea instead.

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/ASA1041
it doesn't seem like they have mentioned it but this is an alternative to their existing self-hosted dns solution.

https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome
The Elements of UI Engineering
This justify my paranoia about choosing 'random server'
Poor lady. She must have been super embarrassed .
Obviously the person has to have a clue what they are doing. But I would never expect them to have the details memorized. "I'd look at the docs and stack overflow" is a valid answer. As long as they had the thought process established of what was being accomplished. They knew where they were going, they worked out a reasonable solution but maybe didn't remember some command flag. Memorization is useless. How does the person aproach and solve the problem is far more important.
"How some random dude supposes Google calculates the shortest distance"
There's a little more related information on this further down in the article:

> Even before the arrival of Airnoise, airports had been dealing with a surge in complaints linked to the Federal Aviation Administration’s effort to modernize the air traffic system, known as NextGen.

> The multibillion-dollar program is changing the way air traffic is managed, moving it from radar to satellite navigation. Proponents say it makes the air traffic system more efficient because it allows planes to fly more direct routes to their destinations.

> But the shift has angered residents, who live in neighborhoods that are below the new flight paths. Residents in Northwest Washington sued the FAA over the changes but lost in court. A suit filed by the state of Maryland is pending.

My interpretation is that at least some of these people (see the lawsuit mentioned in the last paragraph — Maryland is where the woman mentioned at the top of the article lives) may be hoping to have NextGen reverted, which would send the planes elsewhere. It seems unlikely to happen though.
IMO if you knowingly purchase a residence under a flight path, you lose any privilege of complaining about the noise.

It's not just about knowingly purchasing a home under a flight path, it's also about the commitments made by airports and airlines. For example, an excessive noise event may be caused by a pilot not following a proper noise abatement procedure. And while airplanes have gotten quieter over the last 30 years, delivery companies frequently purchase older aircraft that may not be as quiet. As those freight operations scale up, they can create more noise than anticipated. Finally, the use of GPS assisted takeoff and landings can create issues - previously aircraft were more spread out in their takeoff and landing patterns, which would mean more people are exposed to (relatively) less noise. With the increased accuracy of GPS navigation, flight patterns and much narrower, so the concentration of aircraft on a flight pattern means fewer people are experiencing more noise.
> They perpetuated a fraud by selling something that doesn't exist.

It's only fraud if they misrepresented the fact that it didn't yet exist, which seems very unlikely.

Buying things that don't yet exist happens all the time. Thousands of people put down deposits on Tesla Model 3's that did not then exist. People regularly buy houses under construction, and people often lose money when the contractor fails to deliver. It happens all the time.
If the "review" from HN in the OP is fake, is it safe to assume that all the other "reviews" are fake too?
The Future Innovators Index 2018
I have been reacquainting myself with some so-called best practices as I muddle through my recent side-projects.

While some newer languages are interesting, the dev stacks today are a mess.

Also, While we have safe pointers and GC everywhere, the lack of technical discipline/professionalism in the industry is worse than ever. I recognize that the C-suite and VCs share in the blame for this, but devs are the ones building things and evangelizing the newest-hotness that comes onto the scene.

But I do have to remind myself that compared to traditional engineering tracks, software engineering is still in its infancy.

/get-off-my-lawn
I think he/she uses Docker as a development tool on his machine, with volumes and everything.
Google Maps most probably does not even use Dijkstra. According to my Algorithmics lecture notes, Dijkstra has O(|V|^2) which is too slow for large street networks.
We do not ship muxed binaries in allexe format: that's just used during dev. time, and we generate and ship binary code.

Distros could use multiplexing any time a set of programs are commonly used together, e.g., the programs in Clang / LLVM, or an entire LAMP/LEMP stack. It does require distros to distribute, e.g., the LEMP stack as a separate package, but the benefits seem to justify that: e.g., ~120MB total size for LEMP when muxed, vs. ~220MB for dynamic linking. This usually leads to comparable benefits in memory usage, as well.
How do you know that you're not just crap at interviewing? Assuming people are lying is both extreme and presumptuous, no?

Also, are your people actually reversing strings by hand every day? I sure hope not!
Nancy Grace Roman, 'Mother of Hubble' Space Telescope, Has Died
Maybe a cleaned-up Pascal would do the trick? It was a great teaching language back when I was a student. Low complexity, strong static typing, compiled language, no GC, pretty fast. No pointer arithmetic, harder to shoot oneself in the foot, but still easy access to pointers and easy ability to manage memory.

edit: What I meant by "cleaned-up" Pascal was addressing some of Kernighan's criticisms as seen in https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-on-pascal.html
(also, the Pascal syntax is a bit bloated)
On Linux, at least, there is such a central dialog. It’s just that Qt exposes the configuration via command line overrides
Are the airport administrators held accountable in any way?

Not necessarily the administrators, but the airlines (and sometimes individual pilots) can be held responsible and fined if the noise complaint is due to a pilot not following the proper takeoff or landing procedure.

Are they required to respond to the complaints?

The answer is generally yes, not necessarily to the complainant, but they may have to report complaint statistics to the public and FAA. The FAA takes this very seriously.
Not that there's anything wrong with reporting on the same topic by multiple publications, but this article just seems like a poor copy of this WSJ article published in August:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/airplane-noise-complaints-are-s...

https://outline.com/Kp3HcG

Out of curiosity, are there journalistic guidelines about publishing duplicate articles when there are seemingly no new pertinent developments? I haven't seen anything like this before.
Then why are airports trending towards satellite navigation? Do they not realize something that you do?
wait can you expand on how doing menial job helps? I actually have thought about doing that. Just to start doing things again.
How do you distinguish between addicted, and depressed and coping? Because nobody seems to be trying too hard to distinguish the two, and a lot of the time classify the latter as a subset of the former, which might be reasonable except that the two cases surely require different interventions.
Filtering apps by license is a great filter for intent. There are many reasons people write FLOSS licensed software for, but the fewest include wanting to get your data. For economically thinking professional data collectors who e.g. put some dancing pigs game out to get your contact data, the gaining access to a small population aren't worth the effort of open sourcing. F-Droid also has the concept of antifeatures, which upfront informs users about potentially unwanted behaviour like tracking.
How many times in your job did you have to implement reversing a string without calling a library?
I hate it when smart, competent people become famous, and a few years later they become total loons. Happens way too often.
This comment breaks the site guidelines, which ask: "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

Could you please not create accounts to break the guidelines with?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
They should make a button to file noise complaints about city buses. This would be very useful for people living in low-level apartments located on busy city streets.
The article is a complete puff piece. There is no substance to it whatsoever.
A rainy tuesday afternoon: we can land on a roof without complaint from the owners. But on a sunny saturday evening, suddenly the same flight pattern we have flown for years without issue starts my phone ringing

This isn't surprising - sound propagation is partially dependent on atmospheric conditions.
If Kickstarter were purely about pre-payments for guaranteed products it wouldn’t exist. Outside of deliberate fraud, lots of companies try to deliver things that they end up being unable to do so.
> Personally so far what I've seen working ok for us in human systems is to just have a talk with the person we are interviewing, see what his/her hobbies are and generally feel if he/she is a good fit.

Bingo. Thats basically our interview process. I could ask stupid technical gotchas but thats idiotic. Better to ask pointed questions like: oh you like to program micros on the side, if you've programmed SPI before tell me what your most fun debug session involving that entailed.

These questions tell me more than anything like fizzbuzz can. You dig into details as much/little as you need to based on the replies but I honestly think the people you want shine though with their stories, not their rote knowledge.

If someone started spouting off intentionally wrong things in an interview as stated in this comment tree, I would call it a day and say thanks for all the fish, but I'm not starting off having to rebut 2+2=5 for this company. Even if that is a tactic for discussion, lets just have the discussion, as it stands that just makes me not want to work there as now what is the day to day like? Do I have to prove the world isn't flat constantly? Better to not find out and look elsewhere, even the weird cs quizz jobs are better than trying to deal with those kind of dynamics.
The article relied on a number of stereotypes and tropes to carry it. In that sense it was very weak. It reads like a bit of catharsis for the typical Atlantic readership, who relish opportunities to feel outraged about the people in America whom they believe aren't on their team (so to speak).
I thought that when Tesla started taking reservations for the Model 3.
I'm not sure this would work. Many people that I've noticed seem to hide their networking gear, usually in whatever room the service comes in from the ISP (which is more often than not basements), because that's the most convenient place without running wires all over the place. People are typically using their systems everywhere but those rooms, because WiFi makes it simple to put a system wherever it is most convenient. Even if assuming, say, 40% of users have their main system in the same room as the modem/router, it's unreasonable to expect a lot of those users to use such a feature. Adding the cost, complexity, and size to a system for a feature very few users would use seems almost ridiculous.

Although, you could probably argue it already has one - macOS has native capability to share your ethernet connection wirelessly. No idea how many devices this could support, and it obviously lacks any features you would find in a router (firewall, port forwarding, etc.), but it's certainly an option.
There are two answers to this. The obvious one is, yes of course they could. The annoying one, is that it has to be negotiated, world wide flight maps would have to be updated, flight traffic control reprogrammed, and it is just easier by far in terms of bureaucracy not to do this stuff. After all, people must have known when they chose to live there...

The flight plan into Keflavik in Iceland goes directly over Mount Hekla (the way point is Mount Hekla, which probably made more sense back in the days of visual navigation). Mount Hekla is a fairly active Volcano, and is a little overdue for its next explosion, for which there might be at most about half an hours warning time. After all, people must know the risks when they choose to fly...
If you read the article you would have learned that this became a problem in the last 10 years because the FAA rolled out a new system for managing flight paths so a lot of new homes were now experiencing aircraft noise for the first time.
I would have imagined it went something like how a person reads a map: first look at the straight line between starting point and destination, then look for arterial roads closest to that.
https://www.quora.com/Does-Google-Maps-use-Dijkstras-algorit... : on Quora
In a properly functioning regulatory environment, an independent third party would establish a noise sensor monitoring network around the airport and use that data as feedback to stakeholders (officials, aircraft operators, private citizens around the airport).

This is almost exactly what happens in the USA. Pretty much all of the major airports, and many of the intermediate airports have aircraft noise monitoring systems. See [0] for example.

[0] https://www.dfwairport.com/aircraftnoise/
Why only complain about something when you remember to press a button?

At some point, someone is just going to hook up a decibel meter and automatically press the button when it hits a threshold. It might file a couple of bad complaints, but if the noise difference is significant, you could definitely increase your throughput.
Indeed, all that would do is make me walk out and say good luck with that tactic. I'll find somewhere else to work.
Yeah that wouldn't surprise me. I can imagine they've got some smart heuristics built in too to come up with suboptimal routes that are good enough.
Oh yes, definitely. But, you have to account for a crucial differences with physical medium transmission networks, where transmission fidelity counts.

The physical medium (the wire) must remain contiguous/unabraided and suffer minimal crosstalk interference.

This means the perfection of signal quality is being directly inspected by the customer, and that the product is non-portable, highly technical, and in personal, private spaces within the home.

Water and power are non-portable, but signal is purely graded by volume sufficiency being present or absent. So, to test, it’s either on or off, and once it’s on, job’s done. Very little haggle or complaint. Water quality is typically promised to be solved prior to the last mile, and last mile concerns are on the subscriber. Not quite so with digital service.

With cellular/wireless service, the last mile appliance is defacto portable. It’s a plain fact that handsets are pocket sized and semi-disposable/planned for obsolescance as a known quantity of the bargain, by now, at least.

With airlines, the variability of routing, origin/destination weather and ground realities combined with traveller fatigue, long haul concerns like sleeping in shared liminal zones means degrees of conflict are always on the table, so stewards, ushers, hosts and attendants expect static and noise, but require home-court advantage to operate.

Basically, cell providers can operate from beyond line of sight with wireless automation. True utilities like water and power can solve for quality centrally, and reduce field service to a binary volume of supply verification.

Meanwhile, airlines and and cable/phone companies must supply near perfect end-to-end coverage, and verify quality assurance in places where you sleep, confronting tired cranky people, where they relax, AS they relax (or try and fail to do so). That fact can’t be dispelled with a hand wave.
char as in c-har takes less effort for the mouth to sound out instead care.
Since you're attacking me, do you have any experience screening resumes? Phone screens? In-person interviews? Have you had the experience of a candidate that has apparently "done it all" on their resume, and confirmed their skill level when asked in-person, only to see them struggle with the simplest question in an area they deem themself an "expert" in?

I've interviewed well over 300 people, for positions from junior/entry-level to principal. If you read many of the comments to this article you'll hear other people with experience interviewing who also call out that candidates can and do lie. I don't like it, I'd rather it not be the case. I constrain the majority of my questioning to what a candidate claims to know on their resume. Here's a tip... If you don't know it (and I'm not talking about bullshit trivia questions), then don't put it on your resume.
Does Vomit Comet "weightlessness" feel the same a zero-g weightlessness? In the Vomit Comet, sure you're floating around, but you're really just free falling.
gross misuse of the term "methodology"
In a lot of ways, modern voice calls-whether video or just voice-suck in comparison to old landline Ma Bell landline calls. It’s mostly a reasonable tradeoff but I had a hell of a lot fewer dropped calls in the old days.
That doesn't answer his question. So the changed flight paths 10 years ago.. are they giving these buttons to people who moved under these 'new' flight paths a year ago?
Would you be so indignant about the article being dismissed if the negative stereotypes it anecdotally verified were focused on man hating social justice cat ladies or equality spouting yuppies who hypocritically abuse undocumented immigrants as cheap nannies and yard workers?
Nevertheless miners have a strong incentive to validate, so they don't waste their effort on an invalid block.
That style of question is perhaps the most horrible one to subject someone to.

Instead of focusing on the task of talking to someone, you end up trying to recollect instances of each kind of event, evaluate them on whether you can talk about them openly, whether they can sound impressive even if they actually are, whether they will sound plausible, whether you can recall enough details to avoid being called out as a bullshitter etc.

The people who can appear to answer these questions best are either a) prepared for them specifically or b) psychopaths who can comfortably lie and twist stories with a smile on their face on the spot.
It's like paying for a European vacation and getting bused to DC and shown all the European embassies.
Living with abuse in its many wonderful forms is a skill that queer people learn early on. The ones who don't, wind up with obituaries that politely avoid stating how or where they died, and a closed-casket funeral.
I think the issue in question is that these were areas that were originally not under the flight paths, but the flight paths were recently changed to put their homes under them.

So, perhaps they deserve some sympathy for the reduction in their quality of life and in the value of their homes?
Agree. I've spent a lot of time quantifying and logging parts of my life in the past, but I wasn't using the data to guide future action. So anything I track that isn't helping me achieve something, I now stop tracking.
Wow you’re very passionate in your dislike of Musk and have clearly put far more thought into him than I have. I really don’t study the guy, I was just trying to give him the benefit of the doubt. I’ll let ya carry on with your anti-Musk crusade. Good luck!
1) It makes your body tired instead of your mind. Give yourself a break, get proper sleep. There is no worry or decision making required

2) It resets your calibration for what success is. After a month typing data into a spreadsheet maybe supervising the team doing that looks like a nice step up? Maybe you would not have seen it as success before? Maybe after a few months you are running the next level up. Maybe then you see an opportunity for automation...

3) These kind of jobs are usually fixed hours. Everyone expects you to clock out and go home

4) Maybe you will find some parts of the job demeaning. Maybe that is the motivation you need.

Best of luck with it, whatever you decide to do
Another aspect to this problem is that the vast majority of houses in the US are made as cheaply as possible, and that means walls with very little mass and sound absorption.

If you had something like concrete walls like is typical for Germany, the plane noise would barely register.
I'm queer as a three dollar bill and the sorts of people who you say "wish me harm" have never been anything except kind to me personally. Their political decisions at a macro level can be debated, but I think the LGBT community has a lot of growing up to do when it comes to pretending like everyone in America wants to kill us.

Just imagine an extreme homophobe visiting the homes of gay couples and seeing the worst in them. Wouldn't you suspect that the bad things they saw were ideological distortions in part (if not whole)? What you are reading in this article is something like that situation, only with the orientations reversed.