skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best way to get a job, without needing to do well at all on the interview, is to have someone already on the inside who can say "they interview very badly, but I've worked with them, and they are very good to work with". Doing temp contract jobs sometimes (not always) leads to exactly this. Even if the actual gig in question is not at such an organization, sometimes a person who worked with you on that will later on be working at a place you want to work at.

HOWEVER...while I sympathize with your distaste at interviewing, don't get too attached to the idea of not having to interview in the future. The labor market has, for almost half a century now, been moving in the direction of more fluidity, not less. Some people find a spot that allows them to avoid that trend, but don't count on it.

But, if that's what you're after, then doing as well as possible (including on the "easy to work with" aspect) in the temp jobs you get now, is the best way to compensate for being bad at interviewing.
That is interesting, but the study you cite concerns medical malpractice lawsuits. Determining that a doctor was negligent in such lawsuits no doubt involves difficult issues, but issues perhaps far less complex than those at play in the Roundup lawsuits, where, as the parent comment said, the jury must decide "does glyphosate cause cancer, and did it specifically cause this cancer."
I did that; finished around 2015, I think. The fees went up while I was there, but I have a half-memory that it went up in steps, or maybe if you were already on it the hike wasn't so extreme.

In retrospect, paying somewhere around 3500 GBP for a masters (even if it was basically "here's the textbook, see you in nine months for the exam!") that I could do in my evenings and weekends was a bargain. I should have done more of them.
Actually, the threshold to be in top 1% income bracket worldwide is $32,400

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/05061...
Well that’s why the defense cross examines the plaintiffs experts and calls their own expert witnesses. It probably sounded a lot worse when the roundup expert is getting crossed and has to admit to the amount they are getting paid to testify for roundup.
The judge decided on it, juries don't decide penalties, only the merit of the evidence presented.
How does Bus compare to Celery?
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In one of the tightest markets for software devs (and labor in general) of all time you can’t land a full time job? And you are refusing to date and get into relationships because you can’t pass an interview?

1) Maybe software isn’t the right career for you, and 2) Don’t let being unable to land a software development job prevent you from saving money and getting a girlfriend / boyfriend.

There are many other careers out there.
Amazingly, people often fail to respond to negative incentives, because they think they will be lucky enough to avoid them. See:
- heart attacks
- lung disease
- saving for retirement
- vehicle emissions
- etc.

And, even if you can’t afford the punishment for killing another human being, you might still be able to afford to take the risk to do so. It’s a sort of lessor version of a free-rider problem.

Even there, this is assuming that people that take on this level of personal liability are even aware that they are taking that risk.
Why should I not have them in the event that I want them?

Do you delete all your emails and wipe your contacts when you replace a device too?
Design Dependency Graphs
You won't snooze through this Ted Talk
If you come off in your interviews like you do in this post it’s no surprise. All you’re doing is saying what you want and virtually nothing about what you have to offer.
I’m not sure a type rating works that way. A Boeing 717 has the same type rating as a Douglas DC-9. The two aircraft have similar airframes and some common systems but are quite different as one was built decades later. What the FAA does in these cases is requires more training. A DC-9 rated pilot who has only flown DC-9s will not fly a B717 without several hours in a simulator. The MAX will certainly fly again. I suspect some form of a redesigned MCAS in addition to more training for pilots will be the end result. The airlines may have to spend some money training but they’ll still be left with B737 type rates pilots who can fly B737NG and B737MAX which is where the cost savings is derived.
It seems implausible that music is angrier than it was at the height of grunge and industrial and gangster rap in the mid 90s.
You will get there. Keep interviewing and learn what companies look for in a candidate. It's a bit of a numbers game to land a full time job and it can take some perseverance.
Since this problem is seen in so many countries, that does seem to be the case.

All-male moral authority is a real problem.
If you have trouble finding full time SWE roles after all your numerous jobs, maybe you are lacking critical skills employees want to see, or don't have personal projects that showcase technical depth.

Are you applying for junior dev roles? Maybe finding a career counselor of some sort can help. Reach out to your friends and ask for their honest advice of what they think you should do/add. Leverage your personal connections to get your first first full time job!

Ultimately, you have to persevere and be scrappy to find your first job. IMO the hardest part in your career is when you first enter the workforce. Always try to stand out and market yourself on how you would be a huge asset to the employer.

Last thought, if you are looking to join a great school/community of aspiring junior engineers and web developers, apply to Lambda School. I recommended my own brother and friends, and I have seen huge growth in their dev skills and abilities. I hope this helps!
1) Using average income, a clearly bad statistic, can't be justified by saying you could not find a good statistic. Unless you use a good statistic, your argument isn't justified. (cue story of drunk looking for glasses under lamp post etc).

Also, if there's no measured difference in individual household income versus health care spending, well then maybe his pet theory comparing average household income and health care spending isn't very applicable either.

2) "RCA is saying that, as a country, the U.S. spends more on healthcare because we consume more health care than other countries."

That argument is either wrong or tautological. The US spends more on health care for worse outcomes, as many studies have shown. If this person means we buy better outcomes, they are wrong. If they are saying we buy more stuff labeled health care, maybe true but that's because the system is bad, not good.
I think Volvo is trying out a "car as a service" feature where you pay a flat monthly fee (lease) but if your car breaks down or needs service they just give you a new one.

Edit- Here is the link in case I missed any specifics: https://www.volvocars.com/us/shopping-tools/purchase/care-by...
> The more time I spend looking for jobs and practicing interviews, the more I see them as a distraction, because I don't see them paying off.

I'm wondering why this is. As a programmer, presumably you are good at learning. Also, it's generally accepted that getting good at interviewing provides a high return on investment. Are you confident that you've been focused on the right aspects of interview skill improvement?
Unfortunately, that page says nothing about the corrections to the data that are required for the close proximity to active volcanoes.

Again, it's a very obvious question that's simply brushed aside by most sources. I'd be interested in finding just one that talks in any meaningful way about the algorithm used to correct the data from Mauna Loa specifically.
Saposs Concept for the Software Development
What about a receipt that shows you how much you would have spent had you shopped at a competitor?
Wowee!

Of course, it's not like the BBC is a reliable souce of musical trivia...

In general, there's no utility in algorithmic analysis of music or lyrics.

Consider the lyrics to the song these girls are singing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyg025aR-VY

I mean, it's like reading a poem written by Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz. It's so bad you want to feed your sensory organs to ravenous dogs. It doesn't even lose its repulsive potency through translation or subtitles.

Does that mean anything to anyone? To me, it means the lowest common denominator is as tasteless as ever.
Why does the teacher put "Well-Being" in the course title, instead of "Happiness", even when the course is totally about happiness? Does this mean happiness is the same as well-being? I highly doubt it.
My solution to being a bad interviewer was to be a company cofounder -- an option available to me due to the confluence of

- having a reasonable network from college of entrepreneurial folks who trusted in my abilities and wanted to start something new

- confidence in working quite well with people (can be reasonably replaced with a confidence in being driven and getting things done by yourself)

- confidence in learning what i need to do get things done

- low stress coefficient: i tend to work well under pressure

- a good appetite for risk: i don't balk at the instability and existential risks of building a company from the ground up.

Doesn't necessarily work for everyone, but I also think being a founder is not often considered as an option when the interview/job landscape is looking bleak (it was a last resort for me too, after struggling for too long trying to get a cubicle somewhere).
Taxi industry was already nuked everywhere. That's why Uber grew to such extent. Even drivers around here were happy, because they could work for Uber paying a smaller share than they paid to work with their own cars as a taxi.

Now we have a proven market, more competitive taxi industries, and even some competition. We'll be in much better shape if Uber go away than we were before it.
92% of people in China use WeChat pay as their primary payment method. Why can't/doesn't the US adopt a QR code payment system?

https://www.businessinsider.com/alipay-wechat-pay-china-mobi...
TLDR;

1: multi billion dollar U.S. aviation company that employs thousands of employees statewide screws up

2: the aviation company offers to send consultants to "help" investigate the cause of the crash, and not falsify or change the narrative of the story in of the African operated flight whatsoever

3: the reputable Airlines that used their plane, decided to do their own untampered investigation and found the aviation company at fault

4: leaks get out via a few ethical employees at the aviation company that the plane was not tested properly and was rushed to market to compete with a rival European aviation company

5: CEO semi apologizes and the company has nightmare of pr
Users. What's a more common operation: rename this file, or open this file? I think if you did just a general survey of operations on a files, opening a file is vastly more common than wanting to rename it.

(And including all operations, including those that might be done with a mouse. I think you should design the keyboard around allowing users to transition into being power users, s.t. common inputs are doable on the mouse, but faster (but obvious) on the keyboard.)
This is just another example of the increasing "___ as a Service" model that is flowing through many, many industries. Manufacturers and service providers are trying to manage their cash flow in a different way by getting people to pay regular ongoing fees instead of larger, one time fees at intermittent intervals.
http://archive.is/grv32
This is a civil case so does not need to be unanimous:

>Only one juror did not believe Roundup harmed Alberta but he was in agreement with fellow jurors on negligence and failure to warn.

>Three jurors disagreed with the amount of punitive awarded.

https://twitter.com/MariaDinzeo/status/1128044694582095873
Ask HN: Privacy Respecting Personal Finance/Budget App?
I'm looking for something like Mint.com for my S.O. and I to monitor our spending.

I'm wary of using any free tool, because it seems that just about every "free" service/tool out there is actually profiting from the "surveillance capitalism" model/network.

Are there any tools out there that are easy to use and privacy respecting? I'm more than happy to pay or give up some features.
In real life, eg aviation, you would formally verify the code and the firmware that interacts with hardware.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_verification
I've been hearing more and more as time goes by that development skills don't always necessarily include actually writing code. Following a shared process, breaking problems down, collaborating to find potential solutions, and evaluating the merits of candidate solutions are all "software development" but not "coding". You're on a team. The team has diverse talents. It's totally different than sitting alone in your basement writing the next hit indie game where you are the only one that can or will do any of it.

Have you asked the good coders you've paired with if they enjoy coding with you? Maybe you're a lot more useful and talented then you think.
I'd argue that convenience is part of the price.

I actually suspect that one big competitor to Amazon will not be another online store, but local stores providing free or cheap local delivery, and by extension services like Postmates.
Why don't you use WSL?

I can barely understand why you'd want to develop on Windows (ok, for non-Windows-only products) with it, but without it...
Well, the article made them look quite noticeable. 10% is a lot.
> There is no study that Mansanto can't buy

Are you saying that there's no study they couldn't create or that there's no study funded by another group they couldn't change? One of those is an exceptionally strong accusation (the other is still quite strong, but a different scale)
If it were that simple nobody would spend money on joining fraternities or sororities because one's social affiliations aren't written on the degree.
Probably a bad incentive. Government should remain impartial, easier if they don't receive the money involved.
You don't say where you are located, or why interviewing is a distraction. Without these bits of information, it's hard to give you specific advice.

I'd say that avoiding interviewing entirely is unrealistic. You will always be required to do an interview, even if you go through referrals.

I'd suggest reframing your CV to match the kind of job you want, and starting from there. You'd be surprised how the same experience can be written in vastly different ways.

From there, what helped me with interviewing is thinking of it as me trying to help the interviewer get to a good answer, rather than me trying to impress them. It suddenly became more natural and wasn't so challenging from then on.
The article is about "pop music", not music generally. The article is asserting that pop music—you know, the music that is considered a strictly middle-of-the-road, top-40, polished studio-establishment production; the music that is safe to play over the PA in a restaurant, and is used as an image-song for a character in the latest summer blockbuster; that kind of stuff—is what's getting sadder/angrier.

Which is surprising. It reflects a change in what people consider an acceptable emotional range for pablum. It's as if airplane food started tasting like something. It's something that deserves an explanation.
I think the difference with Overwatch is, Overwatch does have proper proxy for skill level, skill rating. You wouldn't deride a grandmaster player for using default skins.

In fortnite, you don't know if your squad member is good or not, but if they don't have any skins, chances are they haven't invested in the game. So even if you are good at the game, there isn't any other way to signal to other players that you are good without skins
I think this is one reason we have juries. They represent popular justice.

Justice is supposed to serve the people, it is not a rule-based programming language, there is a human element behind it. That's why we have magistrates, who make sure the rules are properly applied, and juries, who make sure the decision matches what the people want.

So in this case, magistrates decided that what Bayer did was punishable and the people, represented by the jury, decided that Bayer are assholes and definitely deserve it. I don't agree but it is, I think, an important component of a democratic justice system.

Of course, Bayer will appeal. So maybe this time, science will prevail. I hope so.
Interviewing is a skill in of itself. Practice. Grind Leetcode, HackerRank, and interviewing.io.

It's not the best answer because institutionally we are incentivizing the wrong behavior. But unfortunately until we make that change your best bet is to continue to practice, practice, practice until your skills at interviewing are refined.
This is just the industry trying to move towards a "tractor as a service" model which allows them to continue charging regular fees and offset the feast/famine of only having large up-front sales cycles.
Headless CMS in 2019
If the IRS didn't have a specific exemption for award settlements for personal injury cases, the government would be getting 30-40% of it, at least.
Read up on Baker v Carr which touched on the issue of redistricting. Specifically on whether the court could intervene in a state perogative case. On one side were a set of justices who believed that the court couldn't since they would be interfering in state matters. On the other side were justices who believed the court was the only possible body who could restore the voting power of minorities.

Strong first principles are great when we're arguing philosophy but it's pretty bad when we're preventing millions from exercising a fundamental right. The soldier who carries out atrocities because he believes in the duty of following orders is no less guilty of the atrocity.

This doesn't mean that the end justifies the means but it means that we must judge our course of action and the actions of others with their full weight, not only intention or goal but the direct cost too.
The fore/aft position has a lot to do with the AofA-dependent effect, as it results from the approximately cylindrical engine nacelles producing some lift when their axis is at a positive angle of attack (fuselages have a similar effect [1].) On airplanes with rear-mounted engines, this effect on their nacelles increases the longitudinal stability [2].

The high/low position matters for the power-dependent effect, and furthermore, what matters in steady-state is the pitch moment created by misalignment of thrust and drag (when accelerating, the moment around the CofG also matters.) A modest tendency to pitch down when the power is reduced is preferable to the opposite.

The issue MCAS was supposed to solve was due to the AofA-dependent effect. That's why it has AofA as an input, and not any measurement or proxy for thrust.

[1] https://leehamnews.com/2018/11/30/bjorns-corner-pitch-stabil...

[2] https://leehamnews.com/2018/12/07/bjorns-corner-pitch-stabil...
A standard pc keeps unauthorized users from modifying the system to protect you.

It does not protect your oem from competition.

Pretending that this isn't extraordinary is a very questionable tactic that Apple has handled in an innovative fashion.
That's why you don't let a single political side appoint all of the judges, regardless of what side you reside on. You don't have a balance of opinions if everyone has the same opinion.
> Perhaps I would not be so bitter if only (27+14)/150 of new buildings were (post)modern in style. But, much like in art, it looks like the style can only exist if it suffocates all others.

This is a poll about americas favourite architecture and not in which style to build. I think the poll is largely a function of fame. Buildings are being build in all sorts of style, but I think the sobering result is that a style in itself is not really saving anyone. I also don't think style can only suffocate? A lot of cities are mixed in style.
> the Roundup lawsuits, where, as the parent comment said, the jury must decide "does glyphosate cause cancer, and did it specifically cause this cancer."

The system isn't set up to answer or ask the question "did it specifically cause this cancer", because that question is known to be unanswerable.
Nope. It was October 2019! The paper valuation was whatever their last raise was (~$70B or whatever), but they were sandbagging on the equity and framing it as being worth far more than it was on paper.
I run psychology experiments (motor control/spatial decision making) in VR and and its been a gamechanger in the last few years. Create your experiments completely in software to allow them to copied, modified, and distributed much more easily.
Makefiles are so old and quaint, why not use "{flavorofthemonth}".format(flavorofthemonth=np.random.choice(frameworks)) ?
You're talking about juries from the same nation, even same state, as the jury who was utterly impressed by "if it does not fit, you must acquit!", right? Juries, that suffer from the CSI Effect[1]. Juries that not only are made up of scientific laypersons but judicial laypersons. Juries, that have been shown to fuck up every 1 in 8 criminal cases[2], where the burden of proof is supposed to be a lot higher than in a civil case, such as this one.

So, I am not convinced about your use of "obviously".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSI_effect

[2] https://www.ipr.northwestern.edu/publications/docs/workingpa...
And my favorite comment from there:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16399944

And a part from Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania#Modern_views

"Research into tulip mania since then, especially by proponents of the efficient-market hypothesis,[17] suggests that his story was incomplete and inaccurate."

So there is an actual agenda ("the efficient-market hypothesis" and obviously also the political forces with anti-regulatory ideologies) behind many of the claims that the bubbles aren't anything to worry about, or that some specific even hasn't happened.

In the case of Anne Goldgar's work, claiming that she found only 37 people who paid for a bulb more than "quite good yearly wage" of that time doesn't disprove that many poorer people could have spent less and were actually bankrupt, but that their fate wasn't recorded the way it was for the highest transactions and their initiators. It should not be surprising that the 37 richest people involved (which is obvious because the poorer couldn't have even invested that much) weren't hit too hard with a single speculation.
How do you know? A lawsuit judgement is virtually the only kind of punishment a corporation can suffer. They can’t go to jail, so how do you propose to punish a corporation for wrongdoing?
My understanding is that when a standby/secondary database receives a replication/write-ahead log (WAL) entry from the master, it still needs to process it, just as if it had been committed on its own system. That means ensuring indices are in memory, paging things in and out of memory if needed, etc. And if your reads are of a very different character than your writes, you might see circumstances where the writes cause things to move out of cache - things that would otherwise be in cache due to the read workload alone.

In general, standby/secondary reads aren't a performance panacea. If writes, and their cache contention, are consuming 50% of your CPU and IO on master, they'll still consume about as much on secondaries. So don't expect to be able to use 100% of the secondary's capacity. But it's a decent "growth hack" if you can tolerate stale reads and just want a way to scale horizontally without regards to costs.
I tweeted @SFPD yesterday my disgust at their behavior. I feel it's all that twitter is good for these days, registering displeasure at companies and agencies. Will they do anything about it? Likely not, but if enough people show anger at them, maybe the Mayor will fire the police chief.
Perl one-liners, the ones that overflow to several lines of code in your terminal.