skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If her husband was simply being "made redundant" (i.e. laid off for business purposes) then you're right, it's inconsiderate to the employee to give less than 2 week's notice of such a change.

My point is, however, we can't know if that's what happened here.

Imagine for a second (and I'm NOT saying that's what happened here) her husband was terminated for sexual harassment. Should the company have given him 2 weeks?

The problem is we don't KNOW what happened, and for legal reasons Tesla won't respond (nor would any other company, probably).

A firing, layoff, termination -- without detailed, explicit evidence it's very hard to assign blame. This person has given us little detail so I think we should be cautious about how outsiders evaluate the outcome.

It's disappointing however to see this on the front page of HN as some sort of implicit acknowledgment that what Tesla did was wrong when we don't have a full, independent accounting of what happened.

Just put yourself in the shoes of a company or manager that's had to let someone go for legit reasons -- would you publicize them? We need more data but this tweetstorm doesn't really provide it, IMHO.
Are you saying that depriving people of places to sleep makes the city more livable.
I will ask you about you projects, then I drill down till I find something technically interesting and have discussion about it. I will concentrate on failures, not on successes.

Gives me better signal than solve a problem on whiteboard question.
My dad needed to play a video file sent to him by a lawyer recently. I assume it wasn’t QuickTime compatible.

Well, he couldn’t get in touch with me and installed some crazy video player he paid for on the App Store. I was shocked.

Literally, the first result when I search for “video player Mac” on Google is something for VLC.

Why is it so hard for less technically knowledgeable users to find reliable, spam/malware/marketing-bullshit free software?
> Just to play Devil's Advocate for a minute, what if companies were prevented from firing or laying off employees because of the financial situation of the employee? Should the company be forced to keep paying redundant employees as some form of social justice or obligation?

Sure, why not?

This is common practice in lots of pretty successful and pleasant countries. It's also common practice in systems like academic tenure. It's got its downsides, but so does at-will employment.

The primary reason I can think of to not do it is that it makes life tough for small employers like startups, who simply may not have the resources to pay out people for an extended termination period. So have it kick in once you hire N employees or make more than $M in revenue. (We do the same with plenty of other protections with social justice overtones, like anti-discrimination / anti-harassment laws.) Once you're Tesla-sized, though, you can afford to give people months of pay when laying them off, either as notice or as severance, giving them time to interview for another job and letting benefits like health insurance continue.
They didn't have signs to that effect (regarding fares)?

Caltrain has the same "honor" system, but conductors often do proof-of-payment checks.
Using subway stations as shelters during off peak hours is a masterstroke of efficient infrastructure. Every city should do that.
Was there a specific attack vector you commonly saw from candidates in interviews? It would seem pretty difficult to fake having built a real product or made significant open source contributions. In fact would probably be as difficult or more difficult than faking having written a book, and as far as I know book publishers aren't constantly trying to weed out would-be authors who have faked their previous publications.

I'm not saying you're wrong, especially since we hear about this kind of thing all the time, but I just don't see anything about coding that would seem to make it uniquely conducive to this sort of deception.
Well, it's good that your doing your homework on it first. Because, once you start using one, the cost of switching rises a bit because each year, they have youre last years info which comes in handy quite a bit: they can pre-fill out some of your stuff like addresses, employers, name, ssn, etc. Also, look for one that doesn't raise your rate once you start using it for a few years: some of them do that.
My whole argument was essentially that you don’t have choice. So how does your wish matter? I would argue that it doesn’t since you couldn’t change it even if you wanted to. Or I guess you could say you’re in luck since you are getting exactly what you want. I mean, what is the odds of that?
The amount of forested land in the US has been pretty stable for the past century or so. (Not sure about other countries.)

https://www.fia.fs.fed.us/library/brochures/docs/2000/Forest...
This seems pretty unrelated to the idea of covariant and contravariant four-vectors in relativity and electromagnetism. I wonder if there's some clever and insightful connection, or if it's more that the words just mean "varies together" and "varies oppositely".
Larry Fink's 2019 Letter to CEOS
I'm not exactly sure what point you're trying to make here. k8s is not meant to be a paas, but no one is trying to make k8s harder to use.

I work at Google on a large team of engineers dedicated to making it as easy as possible to use.
Odd that they name a card for kids after a vicious predator.
This is a great question and I’d love to see some links / wild-ass guesses
Er, just to check, are you aware that Tesla announced layoffs of 7% of the company two days ago https://www.tesla.com/blog/tesla-company-update ? Are you claiming that the poster is speaking of an unrelated layoff? Or that Tesla swept up sexual harassers in the 7% layoffs?
makes 2 billion a year on public transportation

No, they make money on real estate to offset their losses on transit.
> get denied because my solution wasn't flawless.

Not all companies handle it like this. I had a take-home exercise as part of an interview last year. I hit a real snag on a fairly small part, I couldn't figure it out, and I ended up leaving a bug in my submission because I simply ran out of time. Very frustrating.

It was raised at the interview; I admitted that I knew it was there, and that I hadn't been able to figure it out. We discussed possible causes: it actually turned into a pretty interesting, though minor, technical conversation. The interviewer eventually told me that he had figured it out after a little investigation (and I expressed my gratitude for the explanation!)

I ended up getting an enthusiastic offer from them.
> most of the US government is designed to self-sabotage things like publicly run transit anyway

What level of US government is sabotaging transit? The federal government doles out at least $2.3B every year for transit projects[0], meanwhile state and local governments throughout the US are approving tax increases for more transit.

[0]: https://www.transit.dot.gov/funding/grant-programs/capital-i...
I don’t know what your work-sample looks like, but unless it’s time actually working with your team on a real project, it gave you no indication of whether or not someone was “capable of delivering”

You may think you filtered out people who failed your test, but you have no indication that that’s the case – you could just as easily have filtered out people who don’t like tests or people who don’t test well

I trust you’ve found some decent hires, but I’d suspect you passed on many as well

And, I don’t know about your work environment, but I’d prefer someone who can have a friendly conversation and do good work... I’m surprised you bothered giving your work-sample test to people who didn’t pass the earlier test
Running LTSC in a VM right now with Linux / KDE on the host. It is very snappy indeed. A few ideas:

- you aren't running off an SSD and Windows Defender is choking your disk I/O out from under you

- you haven't allocated enough memory to the VM

- you've just installed the VM and a Windows Update is going on behind your back and dragging things down

Opening the Task Manager and seeing what is choking the life out of your machine would be very helpful.

I agree with the parent poster that LTSC is generally pretty great if you've got to run Windows. For everything else, there is KDE :-)

edit: formatting
I did mention that GUIs have limitations in how accurately they can represent machine state. You've done a nice job in elucidating some of these limitations.
I looked up the severance package for my company - amazingly they do pay out the annual bonus, even if you leave mid-year, it's just prorated based on how much you worked that year. However, I think there is some exception if you worked less than a month that year.

Seems pretty fair.
Sorry, I mean that the volunteer maintainer of the latexmk package in Debian hasn't updated it since 2015. Arch probably has a newer version from the latexmk authors (and I think Arch does not have the same culture of individual package maintainers, in general).
Do you think it's always worth the effort to get that lower false positive rate? Other professions seem pretty happy to do a trial/probation period after less elaborate interviews.
I agree with your overall point that we don't have enough info to judge parts of this story, but Tesla publicly let go 7% of it's workforce due to financial pressures and Elon even posted his letter to the workers a few days ago, so this is pretty clearly a general layoff for business purposes, not someone being let go for misbehavior.
Well, I actually willing to spend time on a problem, because it is interesting and I can do it in a fun way and learn something new.

But I have 0 tolerance policy towards puzzle whiteboarding tests. It is total waste of time.
> Once you're Tesla-sized, though, you can afford to give people months of pay when laying them off, either as notice or as severance, giving them time to interview for another job and letting benefits like health insurance continue.

Wait, how did you make that determination?

In Musk's most recent letter to employees he said Tesla made a 4% profit in Q3 2018 and the forecast was lower for Q4 -- you think companies should be obligated to pay for employees they don't want or need? Just because they're a big a company and it'd be inconvenient for the employee?

I don't understand this POV at all, can you explain?
That's why I'm asking for more non invasive diagnostics and not experience based "you're fine [and it would cost too much to check further]". I won't die because or someone's habits.
So now everyone who wants to leave the company will be a negative force, hoping to be fired. Not such a great idea.

Vesting is fine as a concept. Just understand that whatever dollar amount to they're telling you is something you have the chance to earn over a period of time. It's not a bonus.
I started running aggressively last year and developed bracycardia for the first time. The change to my physiology was pronounced. I was faster and stronger than ever before (even compared to high school performance as I was almost breaking a 12 minute two mile) and my resting pulse rate was in the 40s. I was almost 39 then.

I learned some things from that were never clear before. It’s more about the journey than the goal. I was running on a treadmill and started after recovering from surgery. I started at an 8 minute mile pace and could barely run a mile. My goal was to increase the distance instead of speed and gradually worked up to a 10k (50 mins) 5 days a week. Then I was able to work on speed and resistance here and there. I have asthma and remember running through an attack on one occasion to make my distance goal and break from a performance plateau.

At the time I was eating a lot of fatty, greasy, meaty foods. The foods were heavy and high in cholesterol. I had tried the ketosis diet the summer before and lost 25 pounds, but I was not intentionally practicing any diet at this time I was running.

You don’t achieve performance over night. It’s similar to programming in that it takes practice solving hard problems and listening deeply to your environment. With enough practice and persistence you make goal and are changed as a result.
I'm curious if after they founded the company, and developed the technology, did they run their technology on their founders and employees to find out who is what - and perhaps got rid of people who were flagged.
In this case the terminology is by way of, roughly speaking

type theory <- domain theory <- category theory

Perhaps one can draw a link from the latter to the operators in electromagnetism.
Are yo saying most of candidates commit fraud? Do you have any data on it or just following common sense nonsense?
In d: __traits(allMembers)[1]. If you just want variables, it's _slightly_ more work, but not a lot.

1: https://dlang.org/spec/traits.html#allMembers
Hmm, I think you and many others do not get how complex a general purpose infrastructure can and should be.

Kubernetes is very simple. And it will become much more complex with the growing hardware, network, and applications it's trying to manage.

What's missing is that there is a layer of complexity on top of k8s are still left for figuring out. And I think the operator's pattern is the right abstraction for service jobs. Some kind framework is still needed to handle the batch/offline workloads though.
No. That kind of heart disease can be cleared by not eating meat.

many heart diseases have nothing to do with blood chemistry.

source: i have valves turning to shit and never had a problem with blockages or high cholesterol.
Oh man, nostalgia wave right there! One of the first things I would do when setting up a new Windows machine was to install that icon pack!
My wish alone doesn't matter, and why would it? I am not the only engineer. As a collective, software engineers absolutely do have a choice as you can see from the recent collective bargaining that caused Google to drop unpopular projects. Obviously that leverage extends into the realm of compensation too.
Isn't it just... mostly money? I mean, if you want to hire someone good, who presumably has a good job, you have to pay better than what they are getting now.

I think this is probably especially true in Europe; I mean, as far as I know, people get like a 2x-4x raise moving to silicon valley from europe. If you pay more than your local competitors, you will largely have your pick of the candidates.

I mean, yes, things other than money matter a lot, too. But as an employee? I think that's really, really hard to judge from the interview. The money is pretty easy to judge, and as far as I can tell, total comp is a good 'honest signal' that I'm going to be treated in other ways. How much money they offer is a better indicator that I'll be treated well, in my experience, than anything anyone can say at an interview.

I think as workers, we're not doing ourselves any favors by pretending that an employer can get the best people without paying the best rates.
> Participants were just blown away at being able to eat all they wanted for the first time in their lives and lose weight without even trying.

Anecdotal, but this is me at the moment on keto. For the first time in my life (I have been obese since 5) I am not ravenously hungry all the time, to the point where I can just eat one meal a day without much struggle. I eat as much as I want now, the only difference is I don't want much at all. Oh, and I can't eat many carbs.
It probably has a lot to do with things like how much it looks like actual handwriting. Whether you think it's bunk or not, there are people who think they can tell a lot about your personality through handwriting analysis and there are neurological conditions that impact handwriting, so it's not just outright crazy talk to think handwriting reflects something important about the author.

So my assumption would be that to whatever degree humans associate handwriting with things like personality or personal disability, we will tend to associate those concepts with fonts that touch on similar patterns, if that makes sense. (Maybe not explained very clearly.)
I think it mentioned it’s solid state, less moving parts but I’m not positive. I ordered one to test so I’ll post back.
Same. It's crazy to me that people are saying that they can hear the difference between 24-bit 192khz recordings and something like 320Kbps MP3 or 192 VBR (which is what most of my personal collection is at). Back in the day on [huge;y famous private torrent tracker], FLAC and 192k VBR were the gold standards, with most opting for the VBR version. I personally have some VERY nice headphones, speakers, and sources (Senn HD800s, Westone ES60, KEF LS50, RME ADI-2 Pro, etc), and I can't hear the difference between this high-bitrate stuff and the lower encodes. I CAN hear a HUGE difference between bad recordings and good, but that doesn't stop me from enjoying my favorite albums. I have other headphones, speakers, IEMs, and sources for different needs, for example working out...I like my Jaybird Tarah Pros, and even though they're not "audiophile", I've still had tons of enjoyment with them doing things like skateboarding, mountain biking, and riding my motorcycle. Horses for courses. The HD800s is NOT great for bass-heavy music, so in that case, I'll switch to a Shure 1540 or Beyer DT1770, which even though they're more in the higher-end mid-fi range, have each brought me many hours of pleasure over the years.

This is a fun hobby, but it's possible to make it less fun by arguing on the internet with people about it. If it sounds good TO YOU, and it's worth the price TO YOU, then never let someone make you feel bad about it. Some people buy $10k cables (or "worse" imo, cable elevators [e.g. https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/the-finest-cable-elev... ]. I think that those are ridiculous, but some people swear by them, and that's their choice. I'm the guy with the inner tube under the turntable playing with air pressure, because I love a good hack and have a penchant for DIY. I've built speakers that sound bad, but I've always learned something from every build. If you want TRUE REFERENCE sound, look up exactly what gear your favorite recording studio uses, and buy the same set-up. Otherwise, just have fun :)
Interesting examples.

I have interviewed candidates who:
* Have impressive products that they "designed and implemented.
* Co-authored a book.
* Founded and ran a {programming-language} user group.

In all 3 cases, the candidates came across very well when talking at the surface level. Digging deeper, they (in the first example) overqualified their contribution, and none of the 3 could write the simplest of code.

There is a reason why coding tests exist.
Amazon Knows What You Buy. And It’s Building a Big Ad Business from It
I think that could have been a poor choice of words on my part. From memory, when asked nearly the same question, I don't think it was suggesting frontend validation exclusive to backend validation. Then again, maybe that was how it was phrased. Ugh. Maybe I'll edit my original post.

You are definitely correct, however.
Of course. But do you have specific knowledge that the 7% layoffs was the explicit reason this employee was let go?

You don't know. I don't know. So why are we passing judgment?

If the tweetstorm was about why it's misguided corporate governance for Tesla to lay off 7% of its workforce, OK, let's have that debate.

But that's not what this thread discusses -- it specifically blames Tesla for laying off 1 person. But we can't possibly know the specifics of this individual's situation.
You seem confuse Borg and borgcfg.

The evaluation rules are merely a borgcfg artifact.

Disclaimer: I maintain borgcfg.
20 hours a week?
My wife's current psychiatrist is awesome at this - he quotes the scientific literature for relative risk levels when talking about medicine changes or interactions.
It makes perfect sense as is. It is almost my experience.

A coworker of mine bought 11 acres. (That's one more than 10. These lots go to 11...) He has sheep and goats and chickens, and he can shoot his AR-15 in his yard. Interestingly, he grew up in San Francisco. His current lifestyle is ridiculously incompatible with his city of origin.

I settled for a little 0.4 acre lot with a modest 3500 square foot house. (1619 square meter lot, 325 square meter house) By settling for that, I got to live within a mile of the beach and within a mile of work, and I paid off the mortgage in 8 years without trying terribly hard.

So that's close. I suspect you'd normally have to commute about 15 or 20 minutes to get a whole acre, and they go for $220,000 to $500,000. There is a house on 1.3 acre (like a football field) selling for $320,000 that is 11 minutes away, but the house was built in 1957. If you don't mind paying a couple million, you can be 5 minutes away with a modern waterfront home on an acre or two.

So this is non-urban life. It's mostly not even rural; we have an airport with about 7 passenger jet flights arriving per day. Senior developers live in nice houses, paid-off unless they really go nuts. They can have waterfront access, or room for a horse, or room to shoot and raise sheep. They can get McMansions. They can live within walking distance of work.

I just can't see giving that up. Sure, cable cars are cool and all, but that doesn't compensate for what I'd have to give up.
rms identified
As I discuss above -- if we want to discuss the wisdom of laying off 7% of a company, let's do that.

But that's not what this thread discusses, it talks about the injustice of 1 person being laid off. And we can't possibly know the exact specifics of this individual's situation, so why are we passing judgment?
This is FUD, basically.

Yes, don’t start squatting and deadlifting without learning how to do it properly.

Yes, start light, you only have one spine and two knees.

No, it is not “extremely easy” to injure yourself if you show a modicum of good sense and avoid max lifting.

I agree with GP that squats and deadlifts will improve posture in a relatively short period of time. They are among the best exercises, period, for improving health and vitality, while being objectively less risky than, say, jogging.
So buy a bunch of property so you can walk a straight line or... don't walk. This is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever read here.
How can you design something that needs to be implemented in code if you yourself can't write code?

If you can't produce in the trenches, what makes you qualified to dictate what those that are in the trenches are doing?
I had a chuckle at the background image using ALLCAPS, which is infamous for its lack of legibility - e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_caps#Readability
I was very close to do it and I did a poor job hiding my annoyance.
It didn’t stop there. The coding challenge was standard bs done in a glitchy online tool. Yet another clone of coderpad which implemented poorly. I asked the interviewer why did he pick this specific question and how does it correlate to what they do - answer was not encouraging.
As you guessed, I didn’t pass he interview :).
At one place I worked we called it the "cool job tax" because it was mostly reflected in salary.
> Are yo saying most of candidates commit fraud?

Nope.