skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those momentarily misled by this condescending comment:

> Despite its name, financial engineering does not belong to any of the fields in traditional professional engineering

> It is generally (but not always) a disparaging term, implying that someone is profiting from paper games at the expense of employees and investors.

>Many other authors have identified specific problems in financial engineering that caused catastrophes: Aaron Brown[23] named confusion between quants and regulators over the meaning of “capital”, Felix Salmon[24] gently pointed to the Gaussian copula, Ian Stewart[25] criticized the Black-Scholes formula, Pablo Triana[26] dislikes value at risk and Scott Patterson [27][28] accused quantitative traders and later high-frequency traders.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_engineering#Criticis...
It would be helpful if people commented on why you were downvoted.

Americans have no appreciation for businessmen and businesswomen with experience. Sales people at Levi's who don't know how to measure your waist, roofers who don't know how to repair roofs, only replace them, dealerships who don't know how to repair, only upsell to the newest car.

Too much bullshit and not enough hardwork. Too many charlatans and not enough seasoned tradesmen, salesmen, and otherwise.
Putting an actual name in there is probably a lot safer than anything that might be described by a human as "just some gibberish". Pick an uncommon name, maybe from another country, maybe spell it in a different way, as long as it's still recognizable as a plausible name. Most operators wouldn't fall for it if the attacker says "just some random characters". The important part is to not reuse the name between registrations.

Combine this with similar unique answers to other questions and the chances of someone guessing them all become really small.

One thing I never tried is to just put something like Anyone_trying_to_reset_this_password_is_a_hacker_DQWIqw12E^1&UTFD@&$. Might be an inconvenience if you actually need to reset yourself.
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Be careful what you wish for...
There is no such law "don't be a jerk" or "don't be toxic". You think "social norms" are important to people because they are important to you. But, 1) norms are different in different places, in different social circles; 2) there is a lot of people who don't care what others think or want - some people are capable to sell own kids, some people are closer to the angels, like Keanu Reeves or Tom Hanks :)
I have friends working as senior developers for GE in Poland. Basically US branch outsource project to Polish brand because they are paid peanuts in comparison, then part of the work is outsourced to India branch which is paid even less. I have ZERO respect for American mega-corps.
What's really sad about smart TV's is they are essentially an all-in-one computer with no access to the computer part. For example inside an insignia smart TV I opened were three boards: power supply, LCD interface board, SoC/input board. The SoC board is pretty much a full motherboard as it had RAM, Flash, along with the Video and audio ports plus WiFi, Ethernet and USB.

It then struck me: "Has someone hacked a different OS onto one of these bad boys?" I couldn't find anything but some forum posts saying it's impossible as unfortunately the TV SoC's are all highly proprietary. Now just imagine if we could get access to those SoC's. Run linux, custom menus, remote mapping, control via ethernet/wifi, better settings management, run kodi on the tv, etc. It's massively frustrating.
Just ticked double opt-in in Mailchimp. But man don't troll me, I have that vapor sitting on my desk. ;-)
Maybe Iceland and Greenland can finally swap names?

I know this is off topic and doesn't add much, I guess I use humor in order to make myself feel better about dire situations (such as climate change tipping point).
If you can wade through the Twitter noise it's actually humorous. But - why have I wasted 50 seconds of my life on this? Damn you Bezos! :-(
I've seen them post before, but never in a group inside a long running thread like this before. Seeing their responses and then their profiles (small personal details to humanize them, but most of them follow 0 people) makes it so incredibly creepy.
> Most people will still use the TV and keep it connected to their network without realising the security risks.

Conversely, most people won't even know the TV isn't being supported.
> I don't think your point is going to get across.

Oh, I'm used to Internet discussions with folks of a certain mindset (I here carefully avoid a convenient, self-selected label that I suspect applies in this case, as its introduction is rarely helpful). They're incredibly common online and usually very eager to engage. Years and years of experience, here. I usually avoid it these days because it's almost always fruitless for all concerned, but felt like giving it a go this time.

> You're talking to basically a huge crowd of well-paid individuals who can and do frequently swap between employment and self-employment, including employing others.

Fussell's class-confused middle by socialized attitude, maybe, coupled with the income and means of his upper-middle and so especially off-kilter. "I'm a doctor, I make good money, I run my own practice, therefore the capitalist class is both what I'm part of and easy to join, so it's a silly and not very useful term". That sort of thing.
my concern is that people become conditioned to look for these lights, and draw the conclusion that light off = camera off. This is a bad precedent, as multiple built-in laptop webcam attacks to disable the led recording lights can attest to. If you need privacy, don't be in front of a camera or microphone. don't trust a clearly software controllable status light.
Where would you eat if you didn't have long to live?
That makes zero sense. Companies may want to increase friction for people leaving them but they want to DECREASE friction for people joining them. Using white boarding as part of your recruiting process would increase friction in the wrong direction.
Just wait until people realize proportional fonts are actually easier to read than mono-spaced fonts.
I started smelling something odd when the site wanted my personal info in order to let me download the report.

In general though, I find the claims plausible, but what sort of access did he & his organization have as outsiders? It's not like they had full audit access. Access of publicly accessible documents doesn't seem like it would be enough.
Coal plants in Australia, the UK and Germany are "closing"? Yeah, sure. They'll be "closing" for several decades to come, because neither country has a solution for its energy needs.

There should be a financial instrument to bet against governments making good on their grandiose plans for green energy. That might raise the odds of them actually succeeding.
I'm willing to guess the disagreement here is due to the definition what constitutes 'financial engineering'.

I would say most laypeople would agree that using applied mathematics to hedge investments and reduce risk is okay. Most would probably also say that creating overly technical mechanism to obfuscate what is really going on would not be acceptable. I think this is why people cringe at the prospect of more and more derivative financial products being 'engineered' to create value.

I personally say it gets gross from the standpoint that it is almost entirely a field of contrived rules of convenience. In other words, the 'system' is entirely human-created which comes with all the shenanigans humans bring to the table. This is in contrast to traditional engineering disciplines that are generally rooted in some sort of physics. A mechanical engineer can improve their understanding of reality, but cannot wave a magic wand and make different a different reality for their system to operate within.
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Wow, that is surreal!! Do you know what algorithm is being used?
I'm right on the edge. That said, there's some parts of Twitter I really enjoy (patio11, for example). But since a lot of his best stuff is hidden in the "Tweets and replies" section of his profile, I rarely get to see it in my feed, so I have to go through the "Search" section and see everything that's "just for me". Which seems to translate to "Just for getting me angry for no discernible reason" a lot of the time.
Emergency response drivers never assume they've been heard by any road users and are trained to look for signs of acknowledgement and awareness before doing anything unusual for exactly this reason. They certainly don't blast at speed around blind corners against the lights.
I buy this. But then again, why go through all the trouble? They can just reject you once they see how old you are (and blame something else or not tell you at all).
I think most slide decks are pretty useless but this quote was striking:

> "PowerPoint's celebrated ease and efficiency actually mask a profoundly disturbing but little-understood transformation in human communication. The slides, bulleted lists, and flashy graphics we all now take for granted [have] promoted a new, slippery 'grammar,' where faulty causality, sloppy logic, decontextualized data, and seductive showmanship have replaced the traditional tools of persuasion and argument [resulting in] the corruption of language [and] the dumbing-down of society."

Pulling this quote may not have been a strong choice. It requires the reader to accept the premises that language is being "corrupted" and that society is being "dumb[ed] down" in order to buy into the argument that PowerPoint is bad. Yes, PowerPoint is bad. No, I don't buy into the notion that society's changes today are without precedent - people have always blamed new technologies for corrupting language and making society dumber.

> [Writing] will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality.

- Socrates, arguing against reading and writing
If one happens to have an ipatched Switch with firmware 4.1.0 or lower, it's exploitable. I haven't looked into it much, but running Android on it then might be possible.
> Why would workers not just stop being in the union, since it costs $3k to join and 2% of your salary to stay? Because the entire workforce at a union shop has to quit at once, at the same time the shop has to decide that they are not a union shop any longer.

Or a majority has to elect new leadership in the union who will replace the problematic rules.

Or a majority (either of the whole membership or of workers in a defined subarea) need to vote to decertify (and optionally replace) the union.

Because of these, “everyone has to quit at once” is literally never an issue.

> Also PR and propaganda could easily make workers believe the union is good for them even if it isn't

Sure, but workers opposed to the existing union and employers and union parent organizations competing with the parent of the existing union (or wanting to become the parent of there is no current parent) are all able to deploy “PR and propaganda” (two different names for the same thing) against the established union, too.
The facts tend to be interspersed among the commentary. Often you have to cross reference multiple sources to identify fact from opinion or interpretation.
Not sure if anyone saw the tweet by Ken Childs - https://twitter.com/TheKenChilds/status/1161847717397696512/...

These Amazon ambassadors are complete fakes; and the top comment is about shutting down a conversation?
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I'm guessing you've never tried to modify a Fire tablet. It's an exercise in extreme frustration. I will never "buy" a Fire tablet again. I say "buy" in quotes because the way Amazon locks down the tablet means I clearly don't own it. It's just a long term pre-paid lease.
“Twilio, a communications company that works with phone carriers on combating robocalls.”

- The New York Times
Radio piracy isn’t actually a vulnerability though.
This actually has got a name in treasury circles: it's called "reverse factoring".
One of the very nice side effects is that when you're a big publicly traded company, you can generally afford to set up a dedicated entity to handle this business, which gets to be considered a financial entity by IFRS reporting standards, which (through a complex reasoning I won't bother you with) magically enhance your operating cash flow - one of the more important reporting metrics when you're not actually not a bank but e.g a retailer.
If you watch the demo video closely it's just a poorly tracked overlay stuck into the TV frame. I'm not sure what I was supposed to get from that 'demonstration'.
Exfiltrating surveillance data probably falls foul of some law as well, that's not the point.

People who remove antennae from their devices are doing so because the law is cold comfort after the fact. This is like telling a farmer they don't need guns because 911 will be there quickly enough. Nope.

It also seems unlikely that connecting to an unsecured access point can be said to be "unauthorized access". That would make like, free wifi essentially anywhere (hotels, fast food places, airports, coffee shops, libraries) illegal to access unless you like, asked someone first. It's in direct contrast with how probably 99% of people use WiFi.
It amazes me people still actually do this. Why would you, in 2019, not just ask a person to bring their laptop with their preferred development environment set up on it and ask them to solve some basic coding exercises there instead.

Physically writing code with a marker on a wall seems akin to asking a mechanic applying for a job to demonstrate their skill at repairing cars by performing a 'repair' on a miniature car made of lego bricks.

Edit: one thing I noticed once I started having candidates work on their own laptop was a) some very unqualified people slipped through the screen and this can be obvious when they have no programming tools on their personal machine and b) you can learn a lot quickly from seeing someone use their own machine -- you get a clean signal if they are adept at using their text editor, git, build tools, etc, without risk of a contrived setup making it a false negative.
you figure out if you really want to work there, and they do as well

I don't think this can be overstated. If you don't enjoy the interview process, you probably don't want to work there.

At the same time, interviewing is often the only way you can find out if a company is really serious about hiring. In my experience, most companies with organized HR have certain positions that they are "always hiring". Which isn't really true, they just want to have the light on in case a rock star happens to be looking for a job.

I've been on a bunch of interviews where it was clear neither the company or hiring manager was enthusiastic about finding someone to fill a position, but that HR was pressuring them to keep the light on.
The point is removing something you don't like is different from removing something that is anti-semitic. My example is a joke that makes you laugh but is inappropriate. It is possible to enjoy something and at the same time realize that it is offensive.
These are all real things that happen in real companies.
LoL, I feel like all the developers are doing is building tools for designers. Already 20+ new tools released this year.
Why not? What makes this particular use case not suitable for profit?
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Why Nations Fail (2011)
not a population problem, wage problem
If you're writing code on a whiteboard in an interview, syntax, library calls, etc, should not at all be part of the evaluation process. You dodged a bullet on that one.

Being able to "get the recursive solution fast enough"? Depends a lot on the expectations, might or might not be an eliminating criterion. Definitely a problem e.g. for functional-heavy environments, where that style of reasoning is expected to be your bread and butter.

In the general case, I've seen fairly senior developers crash and burn on basic programming interviews (be they on a whiteboard, on a laptop, or whatever other format) due to genuinely weak programming skills, so I don't agree with the assumption that some candidates are "above" these interviews.

Also, a lot of seemingly pointless questions are good questions phrased wrong. E.g. I will never ask you to implement depth-first tree traversal on a whiteboard, but will ask to pretty print a directory structure, and make a note of whether a candidate notices this actually _is_ depth-first traversal dressed up as a practical day-to-day problem.

Of course, just because the interview format is not fundamentally flawed doesn't mean that plenty of companies don't mess up implementing it in practice...

Then again, your PSes suggest you don't want a reasoned discussion so much as you just needed to get that off your chest, which is fair enough.
Common fails in a remote software team (and how to fix them)
Yes I too would like not for profit incubators so I can sit in them for free, build my business/collect my six figure wage and retire with lots of profits
> The company plans to lost $2.7b in 2019 overall.

This article is like 5 sentences. They couldn't bother to read it twice before posting?
You're probably right about that not being "financial engineering", as I wasnt familiar with the term prior to this article.

But other than airline rewards being generally valued more than store rewards, how are they different? I guess I can always tell the store worker "no thanks" before they start the annoying pitch, while the loud sales pitch on airlines is unskippable, blasted through everyone's audio system, and often happens when people are trying to sleep.
Also creates an financial incentive to try and spread FUD to tank the stock. "Skin in the game" is overrated. It inclines one towards partiality rather than impartiality.
What I really want is to use the Rasperry Pi as both a computer system and a throw away embedded module.

So I would want something like this when I program the Rasperry Pi to say control a robotic arm somewhere. Then I want to be able to pull the rasperry pi out of this tablet and actually place it in the robotic arm module.

So if I have several projects going on like auto fish feeder and / or auto plant waterer.... I want to be able to bring the tablet around attach the rasperry pi to it too make changes.

While the demo looks like this is what is happening I'm assuming that the final product is basically like a phone, the pi is eternally stuck inside the tablet?

$200 is too much for something like a auto plant waterer but $30 for the pi is perfect for this. Therefore make the tablet interface a module to the pi. That's the whole point right? Otherwise why use the pi over my phone? there's no point.
This thread was about the term, and that's the definition. If you have to change it to "you'll know it when you see it" then perhaps the definition is not so useful. The biggest companies have started from the smallest of ventures so your personal perception of size and importance has nothing to do with the term's qualification.

And no taxes are not theft, they are a contract in exchange for citizenship and sovereignty of the nation. Evading taxes is theft, by you from the government.
I don't think that matters. The Act has verbiage along the lines of accessing a computer without authorization, which is what you're doing by hopping on the network.
> Is being a part of the professional twitter community worth the hustle of having to filter out all that distracting twitter noise?

Not really. My biggest piece of advice: never tweet.

With Twitter becoming a social commentary behemoth, all it takes is posting the wrong thing to have a mob after you.

I have an account for reading and posting things related to my work. I never make personal posts because, frankly, who cares?
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Same with "culture fit" interviews imo. How people don't think they just create massive bias is amazing to me.
I happen to agree that whiteboarding is not a good use of time in an interview, at least that's what I've concluded from my own experience. But not everyone shares that opinion. And for what it's worth, I'd take a whiteboard interview with specific, measurable criteria for success over a coding challenge with no transparency any day of the week.

Please note I said "if we were to stipulate," implying that some teams value whiteboard interviews in good faith, not that I'm advocating for investing 30-60 precious minutes in an exercise that might not align well with what your team values in a colleague.

Edit:

I'd also like to point out that parallel parking is a well-defined task with a narrow set of criteria for success. Creating valuable software is not such an easily-measured endeavor.
I wonder if they got inspired by "Terminator" :D
Humans are more expensive than infrastructure!
To be fair, the Svelte bundle.js that you would actually serve to a browser is only 2.3kb. The 25mb is what the dev's computer has to store in its node_modules.

"Another nice thing: the node_modules folder for this Hello World Svelte app totals only 29MB and 242 packages. Compare that to 204MB and 1017 packages for a fresh Create React App project."
Something something "ethics" something something "no play gods"
> Medicine, psychology, and neuroscience all have different definitions of this stuff.

Well, maybe, but is it conventional usage in any of those fields to call the cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication low-level? Regardless, my ranking it high-level is not just my private usage, as you claimed. In fact, I would guess that it is a more conventional ranking than the one that seems to be implied by your method.

> How do you teach a computer what cells are in the abstract?

Well, precisely, it's at a higher level of abstraction than just picking out the word (I am pretty sure that's a conventional usage of 'higher'.)

>There is also some high level language decoding where people extract meaning from poetry, etc.

Poetry may be particularly obtuse, but that does not make all other meaning-extraction low-level. A lot of it, IMHO, belongs in that 'etc.'

PS to your PS: There are also concentration-demanding motor skills. And the point about your ranking method is that it seems to put thinking about a math problem at the same level as talking with someone, which you are claiming is low-level.
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Wind turbine BOM: 900 tons of steel, 2500 tons of concrete, 45 tons of plastic
I wonder when this trend of calling companies "tech companies" — just because they happen to use technology — will end.

WeWork clearly is a real estate company; Uber is a taxi company with an app; etc.
In theory, you could replace the CNI on worker nodes, but is that something that is practically useful (when it can't be done on master nodes in EKS) and supported? How would the kube-apiserver, for example, communicate to the metrics-server if it is not connected to the Calico network?
It's because repeating posts provide no value.