skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You haven't answered the OP's question. Just because such interviews are avoidable, at some expense that I'll get to later, is orthogonal to whether they perpetuate age discrimination.

It’s not age discrimination. There is nothing stopping anyone at any age from studying “Cracking the Code”, going on the various leetCode sites and practicing.

If you have more specific goals regarding projects, locations, markets, scale, or salary, you might find only two or three places hiring and they might all have blanket whiteboard-interview policies even for senior or specialized hires.

In that case, you do what it takes. I said below that because of $bad_decisions, I found myself at 35 only qualified for mid level roles. 8 years later after following my own advice - job hopping, networking, Resume Driven Development, etc., I found myself reaching close to the maximum salary I could reasonable get as a developer/team lead/architect in my local market.

I don’t have to learn LeetCode to qualify for the next level, but I have spent the last two years immersing myself into all things AWS and cloud development/dev ops and project management so I could qualify to be an overpriced consultant.

If I wanted to move to the west coast and work for a FAANG, I would have spent the last year or two preparing for that instead.

I could have compromised on some of my goals and used my network to get a job elsewhere. I've been there and done that too, but I wouldn't have welcomed the compromise.

And the poster can make the decision. If he wants to play that game, he has to train for it. Don’t say you want to run a marathon and not be willing to put in the training and then complain about it.

I also no longer wish to participate in a system of side-door hires that perpetuates discrimination.

I’m a 45 year old Black guy from a small town in the south. Trust me,I’m not part of any “old boys club” by nature of any innate “privilege”.

It's easy to say what others "should" do, but they're not you. They might have different values and priorities that leave them with less flexibility regarding whether to do such interviews

If their priority is to work for companies that require hard whiteboard interviews so they can earn $300K+ instead of being a bog standard Yet another software as a service full stack CRUD senior engineer where they can earn $130K - $160K in many major US cities, don’t complain that they have to put in the work. I’ve had to put in the work to be qualified for the next level after my youngest graduates. I don’t want the travel requirements right now.
Directly to the PDF: https://srv-file6.gofile.io/download/dnaTwk/Toptal%20v.%20Be...
Yes, I agree with you overall. I'm not crazy about the algorithms-on-a-whiteboard process, even after having been on the other side of the table many times. I have very little confidence on my ability to judge someone's suitability as an engineer based on their performance at a whiteboard.

At the same time, I just wanted to point out that deeper interviews have flaws too. The time commitment is a real challenge, in particular for people that have kids or are in an economic place where they may be working multiple jobs. You don't want someone's inability to commit the time to interview to inadvertently filter them out. Especially because the people who have the least time are often the ones most in need of a good-paying, stable software job.

> edit: should add, I love your game programming book! :) thanks for writing it.

You're welcome! :)
Came to make this comment. I think all the popular programming hiring processes are flawed but as compared to other professions we are doing great. Most industries aren’t even trying to have any objectivity whatsoever. It’s purely did the interviewer have a nice chat with the interviewee.

My last round of tech interviews I know why I didn’t get offers for most of the ones I didn’t. The BigLaw interviews I went on I have no clue.
how little imagination you have
From the disclosures section of the report:

> Prior to the initial distribution of this Report on August 15, 2019, the Company also submitted this Report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Whistleblower Program and the U.S. Department of Justice’s FIRREA Whistleblower Program. Both or either of those submissions may generate profits for the Company independent of the financial performance of GE and/or the securities, derivatives, and other financial instruments of, and/or relating to, GE.

I don't know how the DOJ program works but SEC Whistleblowers can be awarded 10-30% of the money recovered as a result of their information.

SEC FAQ here: https://www.sec.gov/whistleblower/frequently-asked-questions
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how do you get this at all from TFA?

"In meetings, at dinners and in passing conversations, Mr. Trump has asked advisers whether the U.S. can acquire Greenland"

"It is also unclear how the U.S. would go about acquiring Greenland even if the effort were serious. "

"It unleashed a cascade of questions among his advisers, such as whether the U.S. could use Greenland to establish a stronger military presence in the Arctic, and what kind of research opportunities it might present."

etc etc.
> If your app needs to launch on a specific day (it doesnt)

Wow that's pretty presumptuous of you.

Or maybe it absolutely does? There are so many valid business reasons for deadlines whether due to contracts, school years, laws, whatever it is. Likewise that an app can't launch until a certain date due to licenses, agreements, tie-ins, servers, etc.
Never happening on something in the RPi price range; that socket will be far too expensive.
Rise of Electric Cars Threatens to Drain German Growth
No evidence has been observed and no empirical study is proposed.
I get the feeling he was looking at a world map with a Mercator projection.
Lighter perhaps, but if living were that much easier we wouldn't have the levels of anxiety, depression, burnout, and suicide we have. The levels would then be much, much lower. Especially as we do know so much more about these issues than we did even 50 years ago. But it seems, it's not that simple, something has changed that makes many people miserable in a way that seems to completely offset the material, for lack of a better word, decrease in strife in our lives.

Something about our psychology that meshes terribly with society, but obviously not for all members of society. However, those it hits seem to get hit quite hard.
I mean, that’s sort of what we’ve been doing. (Hi, OP’s coworker here.) We’re a bit unusual in that we release games on Thursdays. In our busy season, that can be every other Thursday, with an email and social blast accompanying it. In the past we’ve submitted and been approved on Wednesdays so our customers know they can often sneak in Wednesday night and find our release before the marketing blast. In future, our soft launch will be two days or more, I guess, but we will submit according to that three day buffer. It’s totally doable. The problem is we can’t market a new game until it’s available on all platforms, which we time on each platform to the day. Ie we know how long ahead of time for iOS and Steam, and we (until now) also knew when to submit for Google.

And a quick word on soft launch periods: It’s ok, it’s not the worst thing, but it’s not preferable itself. Hence the need for a timed release tool.
You'll always have just a layer on top of FireOS. Which means you can't rely on security updates for terribly long, and have to fight the system every step of the way. It could be made to work for a lot of uses, but it's way more friction than just running GNU/Linux to start with.
That's a viable solution too, though it comes at the price of UX complexity. HN folks tend to undervalue simplicity because they love learning new features and want all the things. But often, the best user experience for the most people means sacrificing some operations that are technically useful but not enough to carry their weight.
World's most valuable food brands: Nestlé, Kellogg's, Lay's and Quaker rule
A 9-5 quintessentially involves:

- no ownership of your physical and intellectual contribution to your employer

- devoting at great cost to your own personal life the most productive time of your own life to your employer

- running the very real possibility of marooning your skill sets for the exclusive benefit for and relevance to your employer (you do as told)

- running the risk of being fired at a whim especially at later stages of the “career”, becoming of zero value economically in a system designed to create humans as obsolete - much like when a slave is “freed” by a master when he is of no use to him.

I’d take toiling all day in the farms if it meant it’s my farm and it’s my time, and my way of farming. And my kids are toiling with me too.

Yes, this is quite the Marxist way of thinking ... but this perspective needn’t require a Marxist eye - see it for what it is from a value-system that doesn’t dehumanize and disenfranchises the individual from his works.
See also: HN discussion on gwern's "Why Didn’t Denmark Sell Greenland?" : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20366039
They might trust the person. But Ivy League gives plausible deniability.
Ok, I just arrived to Europe. What do I do next?
... and increases access/claims to arctic ocean & natural gas, which russia and canada are already more active in exploring / exploiting.
I don't see this. I would expect the Singularity to be mostly powered by hardware, software, robotics, and manufacturing, all of which are lightly regulated.

obtaining regulatory approval for innovations in various spheres (medicine, aviation) takes forever

If regulatory approval is the real bottleneck then there would be a rapidly-growing backlog of technologies that have been invented but not approved. Do we see that?

people wanting to use their present purchases for some amount of time before shelling out again for the next generation of tech

People are keeping iPhones for 4-5 years instead of 2 years but Apple still has enough R&D budget to release a new model every year.
He posted it in his profile. Check out his profile here: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sangerSCB
Crikey, that reminds me of the '90s! Thanks :)
Right, but all the others still have jobs. That's the point of the 2.4 million: there are the ones employed directly, then those employed by suppliers, suppliers of those suppliers, etc.
Decrement carbon: Stripe's negative emissions commitment
So China (or pro-China individuals) think that selling pro-HongKong tee shirts on Amazon, in the US, "ignored Chinese rules"? And why do they think we need to pay attention to Chinese rules in order to buy and sell stuff in the US? We live by US rules over here, thank you very much. One of those rules is the First Amendment.

We don't really care what your rules are over there. If you like them, great. You live under them. We're not going to.
Language does not allow for complete unambiguity. Any sort of communication requires context (eg. agreeing on a similar meaning to the words we write/speak). Any difference in context will derive in differences in meaning. We can never not "fill in the gaps". Listening or reading are exercises in translation and interpretation of meaning, which implies always having to fill in the gaps.
Most Americans aren't relatively wealthy, but also aren't on food stamps or other public programs.
Empiricism isn't so much in conflict with teleology as teleology is outside the scope of empiricism but frequently abused as grounding for accepting or rejecting claoms within the scope of empirical exploration.
The effects of the gulfstream are utterly enormous.

Compare the climate at the arctic circle in Norway/Sweden to Canada.

The Arctic itself is very asymmetrical as a result.
Sure for 100 billion-1 trillian dollars. It's at least worth as much as a large startup. They should also drive up the price by letting other countries like China and Russia bid on it.

It probably also has a bunch of resources on it, that will be accessible once it melts. They should rename it Trumpland if the purchase happens.
Son of a gun. I've actually seen that before (the different x-heights) and, debugging it, couldn't figure out what the heck was going on. And it was with one of those split-into-two-fonts thing.

So that definitely is real. Thanks for finally solving the mystery for me years later.
Planet money started as a spinoff of This American Life back in the 2008 financial crisis.
It definitely is. But that is rather low bar to clear, given that modern C++ is by far the least simple programming language in wide use.
Internet Videoconferencing with CU-SeeMe: History, Culture, and Usage (1995)
By word of mouth mostly.
General Electric Fraud – A Bigger Fraud Than Enron
Failed? It's doing quite well
Mods, I edited the original title from "Internet TV with CU-SeeMe: Chapter 8 - History, Culture, and Usage" because I thought "Internet TV" would be confusing in modern usage and because the Chapter 8 is spurious. The source uses "Internet videoconferencing" interchangeably with "Internet TV" in the intro paragraph, so I went with that. Cheers
actually the seed is also a hyper-parameter
I must be too cynical for this. Seems like the sort of slogan MLM people could have.
CNN and older HN news link:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20708185
It still is as large as Mexico:
https://thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTU1MzY0MTU.Mjc4MTA5Nw*...
On Linux, you've always also been able to just run:

echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq && echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger

to trigger a freeze. This could also easily be automated via SSH.
It's curious that Toptal is structured as a single member LLC. That would make it difficult/impossible for a VC to invest. And, while they claim they raised a round from a16z, it's not listed on a16z's full list of investments:

https://a16z.com/investments/

That would support the notion that Du Val promised to convert and issue stock to other parties and never did.
I generally agree with that, but would extend it to hypothetical other sentient beings, artificial or otherwise. With every species having potentially distinct moral frameworks that can have different answer to that question.

You could say I'm a species-level moral relativist. :)

Still, answering "what is actually Good" is not a trivial question because self-contradicting moral intuitions are too easily confused. Here is where science works better than other approaches (most of which involve just intuiting harder or relying on sloppy intuitions of ancients) -- if for example you value individual rights and have to decide if mandatory vaccinations are a Good or a Bad thing, there is no substitute to using a scientific approach, investigating outcomes as fully as possible and then morally intuiting at those much more fleshed out scenarios.

Let say you found out that mandatory vaxxing everybody would save X number of people, kill Y number with side-effects that would otherwise survive, cause Z amount of secondary goodness (ie some members of public becoming less selfish) and Ω amount of secondary badness (ie other members of public becoming paranoid and state authoritarian). Now you can look at those projected outcomes and weigh them using your conflicting intuitions and decide which parts you care more about. And if numbers change, maybe your judgement also changes.
That'll be some nice beachfront property in 100 years at the rate we are emitting CO2.
That sucks, I'm sorry. How do you know the quality of others' submissions?

>I got nervous and passed the question

I didn't know that was allowed. Has that worked for people in the past?
> If they need to pay their salaries, they'll increase menu item prices, and a la supply and demand, fewer sales.

You whooshed on the point. If their workers are paid higher salaries, they'll turn around and spend that money, and a la supply and demand, more sales! Details matter, making an argument like this without numbers isn't analysis, it's excuse-making.

And the counter point (with numbers!) is that people at the bottom of society are getting poorer. And that this is more important as an immediate issue than a innumerate macroeconomic excuse.
Beyond that, material costs are X assuming a 10k initial production run.
As a VC friend put it to me a few years ago: "I only get to invest in fools. Either they go into a crowded market where they will be crushed by the incumbent before getting airborne or they will go into a new market where they will run out of cash before getting airborne."

(if you're offended by his use of "fools" don't be -- he was being sarcastic: people can always find a reason to say "no").
I don’t know anything about this space or problem but I like this pitch. Good luck.
FWIW, if you want feedback on working code, Stack Overflow has a sister site Code Review[0] where people will critique your code and give lots of useful feedback. It's a pretty welcoming community so long as you're looking for a code review and not debugging help.

[0] https://codereview.stackexchange.com/
I feel like this is one of those stories like "Condoleeza Rice on short-list for Browns HC" that's just trying to flush out someone leaking information to the press.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_carbon:

”Carbon (6C) has 15 known isotopes, from ⁸C to ²²C, of which ¹²C and ¹³C are stable”

⇒ ¹⁸C exists (albeit with a half-life of about 92ms)
Isn't this obvious? I mean I'm pretty cynical, but the first time I ever saw "amazon's choice" I figured oh - they have a higher profit margin on this or something - it's obviously not (necessarily) the best thing for me.
This is truer outside of the Bay area- non-tech focused companies that see IT as a cost center, but have somehow decided they need to do 'Big Data Analytics'.
If white nationalist extremists take control of the White House again, I think that IRS audits will be the least of anyone's worries, especially for minorities and immigrants.
It'll be $80, it's a pretty good experience since everything required for the A64 soc is in mainline already or in the process of being upstreamed.
All modern ARM servers use UEFI since it's required by their server base architecture specifications.
The Em Dash Divides
You think other retailers don't have the same issues?
If you are making it work for yourself then congratulations, but this is pretty unrealistic advice for almost everyone else.
That's kinda the joke. The whole point of humanity is to create plastic, be baked to death in our own waste, and leave behind a wasteland populated by single celled organisms, some insects, and plastic. Carlin's jokes are way too close to the truth and freaking DARK.
Newly discovered organ may be lurking under your skin
It's exactly the other way around - it is now it's harder to progress without a degree and cost of living is higher.
Ask HN: How do you listen to podcasts?
What are your favorite apps or websites to listen and find new podcasts and why do you like them?

What are your biggest problems with them (if any)?
> It may be my own bias showing, but is there ever a reason to offer some person permanent residency in the country when you know they will need to go on public assistance right away?

Every single immigrant visa category in the US immigration system is based on something that has been specifically deemed by the Congress as a reason to offer people admission, permanent residency, and ultimately citizenship in the United States.

So, yes.
Are any people in agreement with me that Cloudflare's emphasis on neutrality is actually a bad thing?

I see several comments admiring how Cloudflare is willing to serve alt-right/nationalist/racist content in the name of avoiding censorship.

I never understood why this is a good thing. The argument seems to be that not-censoring things is valuable because who knows when Cloudflare censors something that is actually valuable/not racist or nationalist.

Considering tech companies tend to censor right-wing extremist content, I consider the probability of that happening to be very low.
Expecting to flip a switch for an app rollout is an anti-pattern. There's going to be a pretty slow propagation no matter what the policy is.
But how would you know?
I didn't say we were anti-gmo rather we are labeled as anti-gmo despite our reservations being about the patenting systems rather than the science.
The problem is the same as our current society, some people will never get along, stop trying to put everyone in a single platform
That is a fast way to burn a lot of money . Cloud Service Providers like the ones you mention heavily marked up sell metered bandwidth with no guaranteed allocation and are considerably more expensive than say a tier-2 player like hetzner/OVH or spinning your own servers in a Colo.
(disclaimer: I work for Azure on ACI and other container offerings)
Azure Container Instances (ACI) is what you're looking for. The intent behind ACI is to provide the easiest/simplest way for you to deploy serverless containers in Azure (no management of underlying infrastructure). See this to get started: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-instances/c....
Tips for Starting Your First Internship in Silicon Valley
I am not an idiot. Of course we are causing climate to change for the worse.
I don't trust everyone out there though. Most scientist and media people have a self serving attitude. They just want clicks
Absolutely, but it's worth mentioning that it's not zero-cost for those providers. (I have no idea what their actual cost is, and I assume they take steps to minimize it...)

EKS is priced competitively, with Amazon's other offerings. I was a part of the chorus of voices saying "wtf Amazon, control planes ought not cost, nobody else is charging for them" but I think this is fairly priced for what it is... it only takes four reserved M4.large instances to eclipse the cost of an EKS cluster, and you will likely want more than that if you are aiming for real High Availability and trying to build it on your own EC2 nodes.

The default configuration of EKS is fully HA, AIUI is built to be resilient to faults like failure of an entire region.

If you don't want to pay for the Kubernetes API, the interop chances for engaging outside support that it gives you, and the associated complexity required to support it and keep pace with the release cadence, then there is also Fargate which is cheaper at low scale, (or my preference, go with the competition who have all agreed to undercut AWS, so why not take advantage as it's clearly favorable to run at least some of those workloads elsewhere.)

And hey, there's even Virtual Kubelet on Fargate if you want to get the best of both worlds, right? Of course that one comes with a big warning, DO NOT run any Production...
Agree. I commented on a similar topic about flooding in this vein.

"It's 2c hotter" really sounds very benign to most people, I couldn't tell you what that would even feel like (do I know the difference between 25c and 27c?).

Extreme variance (and feedback loops) are far more problematic.
For a price that low, Google should buy it. Finally a use for that cash mountain.
Wondering if another language would be better in their situation is interesting… but you completely missed the point of the article tho. It's not about infrastructure costs but large codebase reliability and developers productivity.

More relevant questions:

- Would Go avoid or reduce the needs for all these static analysis tools? (probably yes)

- Is the cost of migrating millions lines of code to Go inferior to the cost of setuping all these static analysis tools? (probably no)

- Would the extra cost of migrating be worth it? (hard to say)
> All you can really do is be ready to throw what you get in the trash if you don't like it.

Are you kidding? I buy from Amazon specifically because returns and refunds are so easy.
No they do not. For example, every single memory card I got from amazon was fake, even if I explicitly selected "Amazon" as seller. Meanwhile every single card I ordered from Newegg was original and high speed.