skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could write the exact same comment about USG, and yet here we are...

"The Market" (or however you want to think about it) is not perfectly efficient - if it were, there would never have been any motivation to form unions because every employee's requirements would already be perfectly reflected in the companies they chose to work for. Rather, sluggish network effects and other non-invisible-hand structures dominate immediate results.

All power tends to concentrate. When it gets large enough, it attracts those who seek and hold power for their own ends rather than any benevolently stated goals. Your scenarios are straightforwardly mitigated by union leadership directly appeasing the leaders of such movements, the same way monopolist companies buy out possible competitors to keep a stranglehold - the creation rate of competition is itself limited.

I don't know too many specifics about SAG-AFTRA itself, but its hold over the entire industry is a good indicator that it is indeed too large. Its size implies politicking on the order of at least a city government. Conversely, that size may also be the minimum necessary to engage in collective bargaining across different production companies, and so any general top-down reform is a bit hazy. My only direct experience with this is seeing casual SAG actors having to do a bunch of extra paperwork to participate in a strictly non-profit hobby short film production. It seemed quite ridiculous and onerous, until I thought about the neighboring gradient of low-budget for-profit film production.
Economic progress saves human lives. You're trying to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
I think "WB coding is a skill like any other" is exactly the point. It's a skill that does not really apply to the day-to-day work of most programmers though, so using WB coding as a criterion favors those who have the time to hone it, or are recent grads (the exams in many CS courses get quite close to white board programming). It's unclear that it's a direct proxy for age, but it's easy to see that many more senior programmers would have neither the time no recent academic experience to have that particular skill well-practiced.
What's interesting is that we can only see things that are as big and bright as a star, and the occasional planetoid that happens to pass by exactly between us and the star. There are very likely a lot more stuff in the universe.
...but less money if Google spends the 5% on Google Plus or an Google Messaging Platform No.8 and doesn't double the company's value.
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Physicians are grossly underpaid for the level of education they have to go through, the amount of work that is done weekly, and the high stakes nature of their job. I'm biased as a medical student though.

Fun fact: ~5% of health care costs come from physician salaries, 8% is from nurses.
Does messy handwriting disgust you too?
Yes. The file is the only thing with legal protections.
That's actually a really good point.

https://www.lawyers.com/legal-info/personal-injury/types-of-...
Let’s begin with a technical interview problem. Consider the following coding question from LeetCode, an online platform for preparing software development candidates for interviews:

[statement of the Maximum Subarray Problem]

Before going further—and regardless of your coding
proﬁciency—we’d like you to spend a few minutes and take
a stab at this question.

From Wikipedia:

The maximum subarray problem was proposed by Ulf Grenander in 1977 as a simplified model for maximum likelihood estimation of patterns in digitized images. ... Grenander derived an algorithm that solves the one-dimensional problem in O(n2) time, improving the brute force running time of O(n3).

Jay Kadane of Carnegie Mellon University soon after designed an O(n)-time algorithm for the one-dimensional problem,[1] which is clearly as fast as possible. The same O(n)-time algorithm was later automatically derived by algebraic manipulation of the brute-force algorithm using the Bird–Meertens formalism.[2]

If you really think anyone -- short of a faculty-level algorithm specialist at places like CMU -- can be reasonably expected to derive an optimal solution to problems like these on the spot (as opposed to the way candidates are actually forced to prove their ability to "solve" them: by binge-cramming on dozens and dozens of problems like these for weeks on end, so that they have at least a 50 percent change of passing your "filter") --

the you're either very naive, or deliberately kidding yourself.
I'll give a non-orthodox suggestion: ClickHouse

You'll need to manage some stuff yourself, and assemble your own dashboards and stuff, so there will be some labor involved. That being said, I doubt it will be more painful than managing an ELK stack: there are just too many ways you can destabilize a cluster with it.

ClickHouse clusters from my experience are ridiculously scalable, fast, and stable. There are several other accounts to back that up, and a good case study is Cloudflare, which uses it to store and query all of their logs and metrics from all data centers (that's quite a few PB of data).

There are some projects on GitHub you can use to get inspired, but what you need is pretty much a ClickHouse cluster, Grafana, and a Log Shipper.
Even then sentiment analysis is comically broken. I was playing with a tool that analyzed Tweets and plugged in a variety of words and phrases. It thought the term “white male” generally had a pretty strong positive sentiment, but on drilling into the Tweets, every single one that it coded positive was actually very disparaging. However, those Tweets were often overtly sarcastic and/or used terms like “privilege” which S.A. models believe to be an indicator of positivity. Some S.A. models think that the term “white” is positive and “black” is negative (probably not a racist conspiracy, but rather because they are too simplistic to understand the racial connotations).
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I wonder if there is a market explanation for this rather than "CEOs are more evil and greedy now" that seems to be the dominant talking point. Perhaps running a company now requires more skills than it did the 1970s and before and yet there are not proportionally more skilled people. Just like software engineers are paid a lot because it's a high skilled job and the proportion of people with the talent and skill to be a software engineer probably hasn't increased correspondingly.
It's easy, but we're saving thousands of dollars a month using Cloudflare instead of our cloud service provider's CDN (~250TB/month), and that's without any kind of discounted egress agreement between our cloud service and Cloudflare (which is supposed to be in the works, but it's been literally years with no further word)
My guess is that the T&C grants permission for FB to record the primary user, and then the liability for recording (via FB) _other_ people falls on the primary user for recording while other people were talking?
Wow Vladimir. Just wow.
There must exist a middle ground somewhere.
I think it’s interesting when people characterize feedback about technical interview shortfalls as “complaining” ... reveals a lot of the pre-existing bias in this very contentious topic.
This reminds me of a couple of KYC companies, the ones that help you check a user's passport and other docs.

They talk a lot about algos, then when they demoed it to me it comes out that they actually send my picture to India for a human to look at. There's literally 24h service with real people there doing the "image recognition".
Whenever I talk to new grads, I tell them to value their equity compensation at zero for a small startup, for exactly that reason.

But, it's similar to a lottery: you should expect to lose, but an organization can't run a lottery and pocket the winnings itself under the pretext everyone should have known they were throwing away their money.
1) Excluding Google from the Android/Chrome’s options is possible: just remove it from that list.

2) DuckDuckGo has a list of search providers using their !bang query. It’s not exhaustive, but adding one to the list is a form submission to DuckDuckGo.

3) A break up is not necessary: the EU can charge Google increasing fines and significantly hamper Google’s European operations.

I think 1) and 2) together could work: the browser could have no list of search engines but could download a list of search engines from a known good URL when it run for the first time. The owners of the known good URL could be a consortium of search engine providers. There are definitely flaws with this approach, and it gives the user an extra choice, but giving the user this extra choice is the point.
I'm pretty impressed with the methodology they used to find a backdoor.....
Thats neither here nor there. The market already moved.
A normal, healthy human being is exclusively concerned by its own well-being and that of its immediate family.

This and other statements in your comment are assumptions rather than facts.Have you considered the possibility that your view of human nature is overly reductive?
That’s not how criminal law works.
Setting up my personal mailserver
They don't "just crash"

You need to run stuff you care about on them for that to happen. If you don't they run flawlessly for decades. I know of a switch that was up for 11yr (not a server I know, still a unix/linux based OS though) which is as much a testament to UPSs and backup generators as it is to the OS.
Haven't seen this, thanks for sharing!
I'd assume fresh water would be in rather short supply ? I guess it would depend on annual snowfall/rainfall in the time after the glaciers have moved on.
> That is, if you can get an interview

That's a solid point. Yeah, engineering interviewing could be better, a lot better, but as we push to improve it, it's really important to keep in mind how privileged we are. I remember having a discussion with one of my friends in a different field who was thrilled to get a recruiter pinging them on Linkedin, for example.

Also, given how chaotic the field is, and how people come from all sides (some with CS degrees, some self taught, some who worked at great tech companies, some who didn't, etc), assuming everyone's a bullshitter is unfortunately kind of expected. We absolutely should treat people with respect and dignity, but that doesn't mean being naive either.

And in other fields getting fired and even demotions are pretty common, while in big tech hubs thats nearly unheard of, except for extreme cases or very very entry level people.
How does he avoid it being a Sole Proprietorship and being on the hook personally for any lawsuits against it?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-15/facebook-...
I mean, it depends. Services crash, sure, that might be what they meant by "the server crashed". But it's very, very difficult for an actual modern kernel to crash and also not auto-reboot and resume whatever it was doing. Hardware failure is always a possibility though.
Trivially disproven by the handful of high minimum wage metropolitain areas. If New Yorker cooks aren't getting displaced at $15/hour, I think Missisippi or Wyoming employees probably have safe jobs too.

There's always an excuse. Yet real wages continue to drop.
TLDR: 1 in 4 stars, but there are some big error bounds.

"Based on their simulations, the researchers estimate that planets very close to Earth in size, from three-quarters to one-and-a-half times the size of earth, with orbital periods ranging from 237 to 500 days, occur around approximately one in four stars. Importantly, their model quantifies the uncertainty in that estimate. They recommend that future planet-finding missions plan for a true rate that ranges from as low about one planet for every 33 stars to as high as nearly one planet for every two stars."
Why Is Linux Preferred over FreeBSD (Or *BSD/Solaris/Illumos) for Web Serving?
Looking at Netcraft's August 2019 report:

> Netflix chose FreeBSD for its balance of stability and features (as did Netcraft once upon a time), but it is becoming an increasingly less common frontend operating system on the web as a whole. Only 60,200 (0.67%) web-facing computers are running FreeBSD today.

Source: https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2019/08/15/august-2019-web-server-survey.html

In fact, a bigger percentage of Tor relays run FreeBSD than web servers.

While many of the open-source server-side web components support FreeBSD (not all, thanks Docker), almost everyone running an open-source web stack (as opposed to Microsoft/.NET) runs Linux instead of BSD/Illumos. Why? Bigger community? Docker? Better cloud support?

I'm only talking about the web, not every single app running on OSS (FreeBSD is prevalent on firewalls and network/storage appliances).
> The singularity and AGI are apocalypse for atheists.

I don't follow the logic of this statement. I'm an atheist, and while I don't believe there will ever be any "singularity", I also don't understand how the impacts of AGI would be different for theists versus non-theists. Could you explain?
Honest question, which I can't really answer myself: Do people think the hiring process for developers is more broken as compared to other industries? My personal experience says that interviewing as a developer is often more straightforward and less arbitrary than what my non-tech friends have experienced.

Can anyone who has made career changes to or from tech give their experience?
The reason it can recover is the biodiversity, according to an ecology book I read once. As we reduce our biodiversity, the recovery is slightly less certain in an extreme case. Our attempts at biodomes show (at least as of 15 years ago when I read about it) that we don’t actually understand what the minimum mix of species needed for sustainability is
And studies have show that the laws that are made in the US correlate to the desires of the economic aristocracy not the broad electorate... this is why I say the representation of the current order as "fact", or a meritocratic, looks a lot like historical justification of aristocratic order as "divine right".
In other industries their past experience is also believed, rather then tested by random facts. I’ve had an interviewer ask me how to change Swift method names when exposing them to Objective C and then take that as an indicator of my whole iOS skill set.
Meritocracy is the lie poor people are told so they don't get uppity about where all the wealth is going. So in a way, yes, meritocracy is only for the poor.
Power structures see other power structures as a threat. Google would like to be able to do what they want, whenever they want, without having to negotiate with another entity, or even worse, getting sued by another entity.
I don't understand the downvotes. We are clearly at the same point with Google Search that we were with Windows at that time.
>I CEO of a large public company who fails is likely to end up with a ruined career.

So might Joe worker. Where's his compensation package?
Agreed. It's a scene like that which separates the very good actors from the truly great. While I enjoyed the remake, I don't think it comes close to the original.
Is there anything about Toptal that isn't scummy?
> are we now in an era where you actually expect to get stock when you join a company?

Yes, the last time I checked we moved on from the feudal era, at least in principle. There should be at least the illusion that employees have skin in the game by giving them a stake in the company.
More importantly, why should all financials be public? I think this could be something that made more sense before the internet age; before all such information was searchable so easily. Why is how you manage your finances my business? Why is how Cloudflare manages its finances my business? Unless, of course, it is applying to have every one as a potential investor, in which case it makes sense to inform every one as to its financials.
False dichotomy :) Just because something is different from the stupid option, doesn't make it a good option.
Either I have completely misunderstood you or you are simply wrong. It looks like you are implying that vdom is magical solution to long lists and svelte should have problem here. While in real world we have this: https://svelte.dev/repl/f78ddd84a1a540a9a40512df39ef751b?ver...
I'd be the same as you. All of my hobby sites combined probably get 1,500 views a month. I'd happily pay the $5 to cover that.
Woah... tell me more
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The UI is gorgeous! Also looks pretty useful although I haven’t used it yet.

I’ll be sure to try it out in the near future.
> A lot of times, companies do the right thing not because of morality, but because doing the wrong thing has a risk (from a PR disaster to a regulatory issue).

I think we've all seen that at this point in time public outcry and PR disasters matter very little in the larger scope of things for such companies (Equifax, Google, Facebook, et al.)
This only applies now because fundamental aspects of a competent modern language are still being added - it was only recent that you could have a const fn at all, async is only coming at the end of the year, there are still no HKTs, etc.

I'd be willing to bet Rust 2021 will be a great place to start at because it will represent 95% of what the language will become having already been put in place. From that point there will certainly be additions to the language in the forms of libraries and features but the mechanisms of how you write code in general will be solidified.

Until then yea, theres a lot of churn along the way to having a "mostly complete" language, especially when the point of the language is to basically be a kitchen sink of everything.
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Then this sounds like a contractual issue between Cloudflare and such people. I don't see why financials have to be publicly available for this to happen. In any case, it is rare that a company goes under with no warning. Even if it's not "public information", it's usually evident if it's seriously strapped for cash.
That's my issue with RadioLab. It is just constant interjection.
Something I've been wondering about...don't jails have cameras? Like, everywhere? How is there not security cam footage of this event?
Every year the entire Midwest experiences this nostalgia for long-gone weather patterns, probably twice. Once at Halloween where you'll commonly hear people say "when I was a kid we had to design our costumes to fit over winter coats" and once in December where you'll hear "remember when we used to have snow on Christmas day?"
It’s important to take device security seriously when your ass is on the line.
FWIW I still hit the paywall when I click on that link (and the other one referenced as bypassing the paywall)
If I use Facebook voice-to-text around you, why is that different from using a traditional recording device without your consent? Isn't that on me, not whomever listens to that recording?
Not showing anything for 1.5 seconds is considered acceptable?
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Every time this comes up on HN we see why the problem is so hard to solve:

- Nobody likes whiteboarding

- Take-home assignments are unpaid work, and candidates who are raising children don't have time to do homework after they get home from work

- Pair programming during interviews makes people uncomfortable because of the pace or because it's not how they are used to working

- People who currently have good jobs are unwilling to consider contract-to-hire or "tryout" periods

- Credentials, including graduate degrees, are no guarantee that someone is a good engineer

The current interviewing situation in the industry sucks but all of the alternatives are worse in important ways.
> This is sometimes called the Lake Wobegon effect.

Due to a humorous quote from Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion show: "Well, that's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average."
You can have a one-person corporation where the founder is the sole shareholder, officer, and employee and still be protected from legal liability. A very large proportion of LLCs are in exactly this category, as well as a decent number of S- and C-corps.

You just have to file the appropriate articles of incorporation, continue paying your taxes, and make sure that company business is done in the company name out of the company bank accounts while personal business is done in your name out of your personal bank account.
It's corporate cult-as-a-service for those who don't have an office that provides that for them.
You're right, I was a bit angry when I read this. It's rather hard not to get angry given the topic. I agree I could have phrased it more tactically.

I understood your point and I'm not trying to prolong the discussion. However, I consider the implication that my comment was entirely devoid of a point a bit unfair, so I'll try to rephrase.

I think there is no good argument to be made for stripping away the privacy of citizens, with the implication that it's okay since they are somehow less important than businesses. The fact that this is now getting somewhat regularly proposed is scary and a danger to liberty. To me, Barr's statement reads as a long-winded way of saying "it's not too bad if we punch holes in your encryption because your systems weren't secure to begin with and you're also not that important since you are just consumers". My point was to call this out explicitly and try to invalidate it as an argument for breaking encryption.
>Hey, it wasn't me trying to frame this as some unreasonable bias by HN.

I wasn't saying HNers are biased, I'm saying they're inconsistent in reasoning about these cases. (They're biased too, but that wasn't the criticism I was making here.)

>And its laughable, reframing big pharma as some poor unprofitable wretches.

It's even more laughable thinking that "whether pharmas are unprofitable wretches" is relevant to the economic effects of pseudo-price controls after the fallacy and inconsistency are explained.
But we are not in an "extreme".

All of the complaining is tiresome. Some companies have difficult interviews, many do not. Who cares?
What more would you expect from them? Not looking for an argument, honest question.
So it wasn't based on LC, but is probably isomorphic to LC, right? This is why it's hard for me to believe math is invented. Different people and separate efforts but all arrive at the same patterns with different names.
If you buy a voice recorder to record your voice, you obviously know it is recording your voice.

My parents, bless their hearts, can't even grasp the difference between a browser and an operating system. You're telling me they should just know the intricacies of data processing through... osmosis?

Non-technical people may think that the data is being processed locally, if they even think about the data at all.
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It’s still a separate legal entity. Sole proprietorship means there is no corporation, just a person doing business with their own assets and getting paid directly.
4) Pay an unaffiliated third party to run the auction, and pay to bid like every one of their competitors. Or if technology doesn't allow this, make payments to cause the same outcome. This is roughly your second paragraph, just a slight variant.

Choice of third party is tricky, but a dedicated or existing trade association that includes them and any interested major competitors on equal terms would probably do it.