skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$1.5k is a significant expense for your organization?
A $250 ad listing is a lot for your organization?

I'm sorry, but this sounds very strange from someone claiming to know about interviewing and hiring.

You need an engineering manager to filter out SAP programmers who want to be a senior full stack engineer? You need an engineering manager to figure out someone only has 1.5 years of experience?

How many people are you interviewing? How many positions are you filling? Seems like you would realistically need about 5-10 phone screens plus 1 or 2 in person interviews to fill a position. 3 if your phone screens were really off the mark.

I'm actually curious who hired you. Because this sounds like dismal operations management. Seriously, you seem to be a great example of how much a bad hire can cost a company.
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I started doing it because I _never_ use the camera and it took about 30 seconds. It's a _very_ minor piece of security, but it costs nothing. Incidentally, it was due to a (very obviously fake) spam email:

> You probably noticed your device is acting strangely lately. That's because you downloaded a nasty software I created while you were browsing the Ƿornographic website...

> The software automatically:
> 1) Started your Ƈamera and begun recoding you, uploading the footage to my server...[...]

> If you do not do what I ask you now, I will upload this ugly video file with you ... and the stuff you were watching to several video upload sites and I will send the links to all your friends, family members and associates.[...]

> I think 2,000 USD is a fair price for my silence. I know you can handle to send me this money - and it is enough for me to get lost. So how do you send the cash?? Bitcoin.

I wasn't worried about it being real, but being able to dismiss it out of hand is useful.
Ignoring the fact that a lot of the land has changed hands since then (the issue is concentration not identity of owners...a dangerous conflation): are you saying that a morality test should be applied to the family tree of all property purchasers?

I am sure this is attractive to you because you are a member of the "virtuous class" no doubt, but have you checked your family tree? How far back? What genetic crimes prohibit property ownership? Class traitor? Rightist? Capitalist Roader? Perhaps religion?

And why do these people still own land? Presumably you aren't personally being pressed into involuntary labour, so why do you as someone who is doing "all the work" still have nothing? These inbred landowners are presumably so feckless they would take anything (certainly, lots of these estates go for sale every year).
Agree. And as someone that is guilty of writing really messy code and then later Karma had its revenge as I had to clean up and professionalize someone else's tangle of python scripts, I think this is common for scripting languages. A lot of times things start out as one-off scripts, which then become personal scripts, which then become shared scripts, which then become critical to back end automation. Especially in the infrastructure/automation space, you'd be amazed at the horror stories of ducktape holding things up behind the scenes. Even in fancy places like big banks, or fortune 100 businesses. Things emerge organically, and most automation doesn't go through a formal specification/design/test/acceptance process.

Few people set out to intentionally write messy code. If I had to do it all over again, my earlier code would have been much cleaner.
how can we cure these poor people from this delusion that they have a right to possess what they have not earned?

life is inequitable you have to fight to get a higher station. substituting taking responsibility to create wealth for convincing yourself you're entitled to it just disempowers you.

I'm not saying it's not hard. but that it is hard is not special and that it is hard is the motivation to overcome it. and when you get there that your hard earned achievement can be taken away by people who don't want to overcome is wrong.

The fundamental point is this wealth is not some free right it's not some magical thing that just exists. wealth is precisely the value created by overcoming difficulties.

wealth is made by work and the people who make it ought to be free to choose what they do with it rather than coerced into surrendering it in the name of equity, a false equity which is inequitable to the moral nature of wealth, responsibility and hard work. that kind of idea is a disease that will erode away the social foundation.

I'm not saying wealth disparity is easy nor that it creates no problems. it creates a lot of problems but I don't believe the solution is by redistribution. at least not at this stage of human and economic evolution. while our species is still bounded by the amount of energy we can extract from our surroundings.

taxes yes, State yes, a social welfare net yes, but not to an excessive degree, and not to cure inequality.

if energy was free of course it should be distributed to all without cost. like air.

but it's not. to do so would bankrupt our species in the name of compassion. the greater compassion is the realization of the poor state we're in, and the preservation of all. not the temporary satisfaction of some who convinced themselves that things should be easy.

one day as a species we will get there. no crushing disparity. but we're not there yet. trying to live like we are already there is a toxic delusion that doesn't help us get to that more compassionate future.
If it is the same as the laptop they are using the W_DISABLE pin not power.
Remarkable! Thanks for sharing.
The terminal will still wrap that long line.

In general, this approach is broken by design, because the author cannot know where the commit message is going to be displayed. It might actually be in the context where wrapping at 80 or even at 72 is still not long enough (a tooltip in an IDE, say). Or it might be one where it results in a lot of wasted whitespace. It's much better to fix anything that does not handle wrapping properly to do so, than to impose an arbitrary limit that only really works for one environment.
> What happened on March 8?

The stock dropped 5%. And your point would be...?

> A single crash won't usually tank the company's stock, nor should it.

This was two crashes. Caused by gross negligence. Yeah, that ought to put a dent in the stock price IMHO.
Which of course has nothing to do with the actual political message in the original comment to which vondur was responding. Had that comment made any reference to a relationship between Boeing and a particular politician, or political group, it would indeed be fair to bring that to light.
Come come old chap, you don't get to be editor of an esteemed organ like the Daily Torygraph by cultivating self-awareness, irony, or other kinds of flim-flammery.
Doing the deletion before the commit means that if the commit fails, you're left with a row that refers to a non-existent file. If that's a problem, then it's better do the deletion afterward. And not just "step 1, commit to the database, step 2, erase the file from S3", because a failure between those steps will cause files to be left orphaned on S3. A good system would be to mark the row as having its file soft-deleted, and have a task the regularly looks for rows marked soft-deleted, make sure the file is deleted from S3, and then mark the row as actually deleted.
If you want to know the details, you should read the article more thoroughly. There is no back-propagation (or any training) involved, as this article is about what kinds of things neural networks can do in principle. I.e. how we can be sure that neural networks can in theory solve some problem we have. In practice, you have to actually find a network (by training) that solves your problem with a reasonable amount of resources, using the data you have, and that's a whole other issue (in fact, an entire research field!).
Sure. I just realize that so many people have been underpaid for no good reason, whether due to negotiating inexperience or discrimination or simply coming from a different geography or the nonprofit sector, that requiring pay history is not something I can support as a routine requirement.

Verifying any pay history info that is provided, however, seems fine to me. This could certainly be via pay stub, or it could be by contacting the former employer with candidate consent after the official offer letter is issued and accepted (worded to be revocable if the verification fails).
Jolly good show! Pass the port, my dear fellow. I'm told it's a cheeky little vintage.
> You seem to think its OK for a small percentage of people to have everything as long as you have the right to roam around.

Agriculture in the United Kingdom uses 69% of the country's land area. 476,000 people work on those farms. That farms take up a disproportionate amount of land compared to urban areas doesn't tell us anything about income inequality. Most people in England want to live in cities, so even the wealthiest citizens might own little to no land (how much land does a wealthy penthouse owner own if all they own is that penthouse).

To be clear, I'm not saying that income inequality doesn't exist. We just don't see examples of it by looking at farmland.
I didn't see a way to delete an account. Where is that functionality?
Large inheritances are inherently unjust. Citizens should not be accumulating dynastic aristocratic fortunes. Small groups of people should not – based on accidents of history – end up inheriting the accumulated wealth of the whole society.

This is not about opposition to private property. I’m fine if people own a house, or a family farm, or a small business, or even a controlling stake in a large business they built from nothing. (Though it would be great if at that point the public had transparency into their self-serving political activities.)

But passing billions (and the derived political power) down to descendants several generations removed who did nothing themselves to deserve it is ultimately a recipe for a deeply broken society. It creates perverse incentives away from long-term thinking towards large-scale fraud and abuse, and entrenches the political influence of an aristocratic class whose primary goal is to maintain their fortunes rather than contribute to the society.
Except when you really need an efficient health insurrance system, like cancer level efficiency. At least it's what I learnd from following US politics these last 3 years on reddit.
YC admits a wide range of founders, and gives them excellent access to SVs networks.

This whole class fatalism/cynicism thing is really disheartening to see repeated over and over on the internet as if it’s some fundamental truth, it doesn’t reflect my experience at all. It’s certainly not “sky is blue and water is wet” level certainty.
"...so it's going to take me more than 30 minutes."
LOL. Imagine an eagle with a telescope :)
Perhaps I’m wrong, but referring to issues in such non specific terms is not useful.

It’s very similar to a cloud provider saying “increased error rates” meaning total outage or 0.001% of users experiencing off-nominal behavior.

Is there nomenclature that’s better?
If you go far enough back in my family tree of European peasants, I’m sure there are plenty of bastard children of feudal lords in there. Not to mention thieves, killers, psychopaths, abusers, and so on. Likewise, I’m sure there are plenty of aristocrats (both historically and today) who are lovely people who treat their servants pleasantly and pay them above market wages, and so on.

That’s not the point. The point is that a small group today shouldn’t be the inheritors of the entire society’s wealth. We shouldn’t be judging people today based on the actions of distant ancestors. And the way to avoid that judgement is for the majority of absurdly wealthy people’s property to devolve to the state when they die.
it’s certainly preferable, but that is just once slice of data at one time... what is more important is the trend... are we in the midst of a huge reversal back towards those times?

it would seems so, and if so, i would argue it needs to be stopped before it becomes completely intractable...
There was a great article some time back about the hisstory behind it. A lot of the episodes satirized the show's own network and specific network executives - some of which flew under the radar and some of which probably hastened the show's demise, etc.

Fake edit: I think this is it:

https://www.theverge.com/2015/4/2/8285139/max-headroom-oral-...
I started interviewing candidates (including senior level) about 3 years after starting there. Despite being one of the youngest people on the team, the management knew that I had a good grasp on what the people we are interviewing should know to be successful at the company. I'm never the only person interviewing them, but I do have a strong say about whether someone moves to the next round.
Please see https://j.mp/titanium-dioxide for some more publications showing harm.
Hello! Maybe I should have said, "You can delete any of your portfolios". If you want your account deleted, which would just remove your username and email, you can email us and we are happy to delete it manually in the backend :)
The other reason is that it all shows up in history of the affected lines of code. Much later, when I'm looking at a line, and I see git blame saying "Fixed ...", I have to go look at the commit to figure out why it touched that line - and having to spend that time only to find out that the only effect on that one line was replacing two spaces with one is wasteful. When it's a separate commit with a clear message that says it's formatting-only, you can just skip it.
We just had a situation where they insisted on a design that they admitted was less safe in context but fit their standards better.
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Not the GP, but I make 10k a month, 15 years experience, Python/Django stack, 4 days a week 8 hours a day, no staying late at all necessary, I usually stitch libraries together, although solving complex problems all day long would be better.

I hope that helps!
They did. It used to be called Dragon V2.
The Smart Gun Doesn’t Exist Because of New Jersey and the NRA
most wealth wasn't earned but inherited, fuck out of here with your upper middle class delusions about wealth
In spaceflight, does 'anomaly' ever refer to something other than an explosive fireball?

Strangely enough, yes: the satellite guys use 'anomaly' to describe the (angular) position of a body in its orbit. I've never heard where the term originated in that context.
There's nothing wrong with Unicode text as a serialization format, so long as all your diff tools operate on the deserialized graph. I mean, when you do a diff on a database, do you care about the binary format of its files on disk?

And I don't see why you can't do this sort of thing with most languages that we already had. Indeed, this immediately reminded me of structured code search in IntelliJ IDEA, which has been around since early 00s. What's special about C# in that regard?
Running into barbed wire at neck level, in a canoe or kayak, is no fun either. Some of us carried wire cutters.
> Code formatting, code style, and linting is a solved problem.

Only the low hanging fruit. Yes, they'll reduce tabs vs spaces debates. No, I haven't found a linter that can suggest good function naming, and if I did it probably wouldn't work across all of the 10+ languages I get to use at a typical gamedev job. Most stylers and linters don't even catch basic spelling mistakes.

Sure, use tools to help, and push to adjust your coding standards to conform to the limits of those tools where practical and sensible - but even that's no panacea, it won't solve everything.

> If you're relying on individual developers to setup their Dev Env to do this you're doing it wrong. You need to have it automated with commit hooks.

Considering you commit locally in git I'm confused how you're supposed to avoid having any dev env setup. Maybe you'd suggest imaging your dev machines, but that's a massive waste of time for smaller shops where your install requirements change more frequently than your image gets installed, and tend to be user specific. You want a living document/checklist that you can update before setting up a new box, and default settings files, not constantly rebroken over-automation. Nor is the average FOSS contributor going to download gigs of images just to format a bugfix patch when trying to contribute back upstream.

> Anything else is a solution that results in aggregating nitpick reviews that ignore glaring structural problems.

You can't technology your way out of a social problem. I have seen low-automation environments without this problem, and I have seen high-automation environments with this problem.

You're not going to convince your coworkers to spend more time/brainpower into spotting glaring structural problems by ignoring half their feedback. They'll rightfully assume you'll likely ignore half their suggestions for structural fixes too, wasting their effort. Especially if your claim is that you "ain't got time for that" - don't got time for a quick and easy code style fix? How the heck am I supposed to convince you to spend the time to do more serious refactoring to fix structural problems, or add unit test coverage to catch what my reviews will miss, then?

I'm not saying you should manually fix up every style issue in your code, but if code formatting/style/linting is truly such a solved problem, then it's going to be way more constructive to setup the configs/rules/hooks to fix it for everyone once and for all, than to simply ignore it.
I'm a bit dubious of that site. A decent studio can be had for 2000-3000k even I'm SF. A good 2 bedroom apartment with 2 parking spaces and a patio close to Google that I was looking at was only 2.7k.

The salaries are also low in my opinion. At just under 4 years experience I'm making 225k yearly in TC, over 170k of that is salary.
I really enjoy McEwan's work so hearing this from him is kinda disheartening. That's a shame.

I've always thought of Sci-Fi as less about the speculative science--the "airlocks" and the "antigravity", as the article would say--and more about what it says about science's interaction with society. Sure a lot of the genre were cheap and cheesy (though I won't hesitate to add, enjoyable) stories from pulp magazines but the best of it is no less capital-L Literature as, say, Shakespeare. I don't see the need for distinction (as McEwan is reported to do in the article) as even these cheap and cheesy stories capture something about the attitude towards science at the time of writing.

Heck, Shakespeare is astounding because he wrote for the masses. A lot of the "respectable" genres could trace themselves back to penny serials too.
No! Without question one of the finest computer scientists I have ever met. Fearlessly independent and willing to try anything and everything.

Edit: the thing I loved most about him was that he was brilliant but also kind. A living breathing rebuttal to the idea that it’s alright to be an asshole in this field if you’re smart enough.

There is no excuse in this world for meanness.
Would it be possible to tell the recruiter/company something like "This is my current salary and I will not settle for less. So far you have hyped up this position as high paying. From this point forward if you offer me anything less than my current salary, the interview process will be ended and you will be billed for the time of mine you wasted"?
Decoupling is not free (especially long term, because it creates a new boundary), and when you decouple without any particular reason to do so, you often end up with more complicated code to do the same thing.
Hrmm I'm not sure that that's how I'd describe it
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I'm exhibit A. I signed up for an HDHP because I didn't want to pay a monthly premium and thought and HSA sounded like a great way to save for health expenses. I had a bout of rhabdomyolysis after pushing myself while at the gym, after doing some research and learning that it probably wasn't life threatening I decided to wait it out and self treat instead of going to the ER.
Okay, that isn't the point...but that is what you said: "why should the family whose main claim to fame is aggressive use of force"...how else is this supposed to be interpreted? Because of someone's ancestors, this group shouldn't own property. If you want to make a different point, then make it.

And it isn't random. You can acquire this property if you want. But be aware, you seem to be expecting to acquire the "entire society's wealth"...most of this land isn't that valuable and that land that is requires work (which is why it is valuable).

Again, I don't understand what your point is here beyond anger that someone else has something you want?

EDIT: Are you actually familiar with the population distribution and density in Scotland? A good chunk of this land is just agriculture and rough grass that has few economic uses. This isn't land that anyone wants to live on. The main concern of the govt, as I understand it, is to encourage forestry (which will mean more large owners, not less).
I'm curious about what he had to say about distributed storage!
Indeed. There is a history of only the answers the politicians want to hear being presented, and doubts and counter arguments being swept under the carpet. It's propaganda unless a reputable source can corroborate it.
It's easy to not give a fuck when you benefit from the inequality.
Only if your tests have perfect coverage. And by "perfect" I don't mean lines or branches, but program states.
Those aren't Yubikeys, though. They're Yubico security keys.
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AppKit doesn't look anything like HTML/CSS to me, nor does it appear to be heading in that direction.
Could somebody please offer some background on why this was posted? Is this a retrocomputing project, or an original account of a project undertaken when these things were current?

Thanks.
This is one of the trick questions they can ask to eliminate idiots. It's basically a creative writing exercise. I have a pretty Sartrean view on work. I play at being my occupation. The career/job doesn't define my existence. Deep down I could care less what I do, but I like to put on a good show.
I’ve had a HSA+HDHP for years.

I’ve always contributed the annual maximum into the HSA so there was never a question for me of running out of money to pay for care, and it hasn’t held me back from seeking medical care or treatment.

However, it’s perfectly possible for someone to elect the HDHP and not contribute to their HSA, in which case you could be facing a $3000 or higher bill without the money to pay for it. It seems like this is the case described in the article.

With a fully funded HSA I almost feel like I have the opposite problem, which is I don’t feel a need to attempt to shop around and compare prices.

In general it feels like the HSA/HDCP experiment has failed although I’ll keep using it for as long as it’s offered, as I like the ability to build up my savings every year in the HSA and eventually use it as a second retirement account unless I have a huge medical problem in the future.
Goodbye, Joe
>languages that stem directly from Latin (ex. Euskera).

Euskara is a language isolate. It is is unrelated to any other known living language.

>in my mind any area that has its own non-dialect language or was once an independent entity for a good while can claim to be a nation.

Dialect vs language is often a political decision, so even that criteria is subjective.
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