skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I consider myself an above average developer. In the right situation, I'd even strongly suggest that I can be a 10x developer. But there are so many things I either don't know or could massively improve upon. I joined a team where I feel like the majority of developers around me are at least as good as me or better, maybe much better.

I LOVE IT!
So close and yet so far. No business or corporation has an inherent right to exist, and if you can only turn a profit by shafting the people who work for you then you have no business in business.
Dedicated apart hotels are pretty common and its fairly common for "normal" hotels to have apartments or even entirely separate houses.
us-east-1 continues to have continually worse uptime than other regions (for, likely, good reason too, it continues to be the default region).

I've avoided that region and I can't remember the last time I had downtime caused by Amazon.
Adding Graphene to Fabrics Turns It into a Perfect Force Field Against Mosquitos
They have process to discourage each of those so called key elements. To earn a living wage, drivers need to earn bonuses by driving at specific times, for at least a target number of rides per session.

They’re not taking coding contracts ...
Maybe CA doing stuff like sending itself back into the dark ages of taxis will prompt tech to take up root in other states more. I can only hope.
They aren't contractors, and they are not employees.

That's why its called "gig economy".
No contractor is 100% independent. If I hire a plumber, they fix the pipes that I tell them to fix. They don't just do whatever they feel like doing.

If you're 100% independent you're not a contractor, you're retired.
Whoa, let's not be premature...
Didn't they already drop most Linux support?
Same. I thought it was my WiFi at first.
Brain food: a nutrient vegans lack
There's constant arguments about this, whether a driver for Lyft / Uber, or a delivery driver of Grubhub, Doordash, UberEats, is either an employee or contractor. And yet, I haven't seen talk of the creation of a new type of worker, one for the gig economy.

I get that there's a big difficulty in creating these laws, with politicians who don't know exactly what the solution is, but someone needs to start by saying look, these gig economy workers are neither "employees" or "contractors" with the current law definitions, so we're going to create a new definition of worker geared towards these cases which makes sure employees aren't being taken advantage of, but also makes it possible for these companies to continue.
Unless pigmented.
It's been 2 hours and they still don't have a red flag on https://status.aws.amazon.com/
is that why xda developers doesnt work
For those of you not reading this article (appears to be most) - this is a META article:

1. Main thrust is that all the HN posts on this topic are stupid and formulaic

2. Argues that numerous the OTHER posts merely list the negatives for one method of interviewing A, and the positives for another method B.

3. Lists every method of interviewing, showing glaring problems and advantages in each of them. Obviating the need for the discussion ever happening again.

4. Asks for something akin to evidence if we are going to drive the discussion forward.
Cambridge scientists reverse ageing process in rat brain stem cells
So, we're supposed to take ownership of our work when it suits our bosses, and alienate ourselves from our work when ownership is inconvenient to others?
Hypothesis 3: they do both
What is wrong approach and is good approach? I agree that ability to explain and clarify matter in many positions and are real thing. But I never understood what is meant by "approach".
Google could go the Apple route and make a proprietary version that silently substitutes itself. Instead they're pushing for a standards based approach
I find people who assume men are prone to violence to be sexists. I also find people who dismisses struggles because someones skin is white and thus assumed "privileged" to be racists. I would prefer to not have to work with people who express such views but I can live with it if people just keep politics out of work and professional settings.

Trying to address the underlying problem of why people has such views is a complex proposition and involves deep discussions based on evidence from neuroendocrinology, primatology, sociology, gender roles, social stratification, historical causes regarding each, and so on. It might very well be impossible if people are not open minded to the idea in the first place.
A ticket is a vastly different situation than one in which you could be subject to criminal prosecution. If I say something dumb which causes me to not be able to get a ticket dismissed, I'm out a hundred and fifty bucks. If I say something stupid that causes me to get convicted of a felony...
Masterpiece Theater
I would assume that Signal has not cooperated with China since they are banned there.
So, instead of using SUMIF, I always use SUM or SUMPRODUCT using the trick that in Excel True and False are 1 and 0 when used in arithmetical operations. This is unbelievably flexible. For example, if you want to sum all the elements of column A if the element in B is between 1 and 10 then you have SUM(A1:A100 * AND(B1:B100 >=1, B1:B100 <=10)). You need to press Ctrl+Shift+Enter, as this is an array formula, but otherwise it works like a charm.
While already available tools should have sufficed and PSI should be good for it, a very important capability that PSI provides system administrators is its high-resolution. Using PSI, with specialized tooling, system administrators can automate sensitive workload scheduling.

I'm sure someone is already working on integrating information made available in PSI to Kubernetes so that the automation bit is taken care of.
If they get classified as employees, does that mean the companies will have more control over how they do their job? I've caught multiple drivers bypassing toll roads (causing a much longer trip) even though Uber includes the toll fee in what they charge me.
Didn't Guido just recently remove himself as a central authority?
> AFAIK there are eInk displays available for rPi

There are hundreds in all shapes, sizes, and levels of color support. Quick search of Adafruit, Amazon, Digikey, or similar will turn up a lot of them.
> I don't think that a common sense definition of what an "employee" is includes "show up to work whenever you want, take whatever breaks you want, knock off whenever you want, show up wherever you want,

from the article:

> Uber and lyft have hung their legal hat on the idea that drivers are not workers because they have flexibility. This has never been the criteria on which courts have ruled if workers are employees.
I wonder if the case isn’t that we don’t allow new technologies to be truly decentralized. Email and web came from a time before... our market/startup forces in play today may not yield a new, true decentralization because the urge to monetize is stronger now than before.
And yet this kid posts on Medium?
By out there I don't mean in the physical world, I mean in the world of possibility.
Drone Ambitions Soar to the Stratosphere
Being a teenager wasn’t all fun and games before social media. Growing up there was a preoccupation with status symbols, which video game console you had, how many cloths you wore from hot topic, etc. Having MySpace was a signal that you had a computer and Internet at home. Likes and friends on social media are huge status symbols now. There is an admission that the narcissism this fuels is harmful. It may be that the social media train is running out of steam and people are going to shift to something else. I wonder if Corey Simon is on the front of a type of new status symbol: having the will to stay off social media and the lifestyle improvements that accompany it.
Gene Editing Transforms Gel into Shape-Shifting Smart Material
Mozilla says I was not fired: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/05/faq-on-ceo-resignat.... Are they lying?

On “racist”, you are wrong. But you seem to have trouble with the truth, so I will stop here.
I enjoyed this! It's the first time I recall reading an article about travel that obsessed over the local neighborhood of the hotel (including the hotel itself) rather than jetting here and there across the wider city.

I find so many delights in becoming familiar with a single building and its surrounding mere few blocks, with their quirks, people, shops, and eateries, than to hop around all of the busy "top" attractions. This has huge benefits if you tend to visit smaller cities too, as you are less likely to get bored if you engage in tourism "in the small" and don't need or want large attractions or spectaculars to satisfy you.

Being autistic and generally obsessed about the details of things rather than the big picture may have a huge role in my thinking, though. Clearly the majority do want to hit all of the attractions, and that's okay! :-)

Only vaguely related, John Carmack also seemed to make a habit of going on work-trips to hotels. You can read about it in his famous .plan files. He would drag a workstation to a hotel a reasonable distance from home and work for a weekend or an entire week without distraction.
This goes back to the idea that there is a "fungible" programmer that is universally substitutable between companies. In some companies, I am a highly valuable addition. In others, I am mediocre at best. I think of this like a sports team - a highly performing sports team both needs people of the highest skill and complementary role players that are the best at a valuable skill even if they aren't the best at every skill. It would be great if every team member was excellent at code craft, debugging, collaborating between teams, researching new third party solutions, and whipping up prototypes, but your team may not need all of those.

I don't like the term "culture fit" because it is a proxy for people who are already on the team, and often gets confused for "white, male, and likes to drink with coworkers." That said, I highly value "work style fit" and "team need." Are you running into code quality problems? Find someone who thinks about code quality. Do you need someone who can get a prototype to sales quickly to close a deal? That's a skill, and it's not a generalized skill.

All of the cases above can be valuable, but only contextually. Figure out what your team needs first, then craft your interview process around that.

(As for me? I have been in management for a while, but I am at my best in developing high functioning teams, collaborating between teams to solve larger problems, and crafting high quality solutions. I am not at my best in deep debugging sessions and quick prototyping. If it isn't my own startup, I might not be the ideal choice for employee 1-5. I may be the person you bring in when your team is expanding rapidly and you're running into scaling issues.)
Wealth and IQ, part 3 continued
> The point I am making is that a qualified software engineer will eventually figure out something to do with their life.

Fair enough. A true scotsman will never put sugar on his porridge.

> I'm saying that an intelligent human being needs to realise that the world is not necessarily set up for them and they either need to fit in, or carve their own path.

Indeed, a human being must either do one thing, or, failing that, do another thing.

There's at least two ways of reading what you are saying. In the one reading, you are giving questionable encouragement. In the other reading, what you are saying is a tautology.

I assumed the former, but apparently you meant the latter. You were right all along.
Let's hope it ends peacefully too then.
The 12-acre Fry’s site — the largest parcel in the study area — could accommodate up to 221 housing units based on existing zoning requirements, according to Palo Alto’s housing plan.

Up to 221 units on twelve acres.
“We realised that it wouldn't have worked if we'd put on the original Vantablack material, as the viewer would have lost all sense of three-dimensionality”

Isn’t that the point?

It’s a bit like saying an Escher drawing “doesn’t work” because the viewer can’t tell where the stairs start or end.
It will impact fewer software contractors than we'd think: many contractors really aren't. You're a W2 employee of the placing agency, and they are sending you, their employee, to their client.
I’ve had some great hotel experiences, but none feel like “home”. I’ve stayed at a few Ritz too and while they’re nice they still feel like hotels.

Your description sounds a bit like a luxury version of a nursing home.
Why don't they just do what the NYPD did to protestors during the RNC? Unroll flexible plastic fencing around the protest and then mass arrest everyone inside the fence.
If you took out the government-imposed security check at airports, would it still be faster?
Spammers have large networks of computers they aren't paying for (botnets), so they aren't paying the cost of sending messages. Proof of work really doesn't solve spam anymore.
$100B of course, my B key turned into an M key lol.
It reminds me of the retirement home where my grandmother lived for several years. Her room was like a one-bedroom apartment without a kitchen. I visited her for meals which were served in what looked like a hotel restaurant. Guests could pay for a meal individually. The total cost for her was not extravagant--cheaper than living in a house and making your own food.
>> Funny how such a basic capability doesn't appear as a batteries included thing until 40+ years after Unix appears.

Is there anyone on HN who knows why it didn’t appear earlier?

Lack of need? This doesn’t seem like a hard thing to implement - am I missing something in terms of implementation complexity?
>We are investigating connectivity issues affecting some instances in a single Availability Zone in the US-EAST-1 Region.

Well there’s your problem, people. Use multiple AZs.
And if they don’t have the resources to do it, I’m sure the CIA would lend a hand.
Cognito went down completely a couple of months ago (started returning rate limited to every request) and despite our contacting AWS to see if there was anything going on (and their confirming that there was) they never updated the status page. The way we got updates was by calling our AWS contact.
It looks like it was localized to zone D.
Not with chinese communists unfortunately
Go away, CCP troll.
Is there no way at all to reach Amazon EC2 instances in us-east-1 or is just the default route to the internet broken?

Is there any way for the owners of the instances to reach them?
This was covered in other news pieces. In Signal, your number gets exposed to everyone else in the group (similar to WhatsApp). The protestors didn’t want their numbers to be exposed to other people they were talking to. Telegram doesn’t, by default, show your number to others you chat with unless you choose to. Telegram also allows usernames to be used to contact and refer to people. The other factor is that Telegram allows really large groups (like 200K members), which Signal and WhatsApp don’t.
AWS always understates the scope on the status page.
Well, this outage says something about the companies that religiously depend on it.

If your entire service just went down as soon as this happened, Congratulations! You didn't deploy in multiple regions or think about a failsafe/fallback option that redirects from your affected service or instance.
What about focus on direct referrals who have worked with a current employee? The highest signaling characteristic I've ever found is someone who was recommended by a former coworker; there's a transitive relationship that seems to capture both the technical skills and a comfortable fit.

I realize this doesn't scale to the rapid growth of some companies, but most of us need a more modest supply of talent vs. giant pools of people.
Catching criminals?
How does RCS help Google "spy on users" any more than SMS?
You’re still using the credit until the end of the month though?
Interesting analogy. At least in the Netherlands, unless you have 3 or 4 contracts in a year, you are not really considered a contractor anyway, you are considered an employee. If you stay contracting more than 50% at a company for more than 2 years, you are not a consultant, you are just an expensive employee.

I know that in Australia 20 years ago, there was a big push to make everyone contractors, to get rid of employee obligations, the rules were changed to be similar to NL now, but I don't know what has happened in the meantime.
This is a great idea. Knowing HK, they already have a knockoff cooked up. Water balloons filled with this + balloon launchers would work well to fight back.
Easier said then done if that would mean synchronizing database and filesystem that is heavily written to.
Terrorists aren't blowing up trains, yet.
This is one of the features that I was wondering why it wasn't there from the beginning (according to article Excel 1 with VLOOKUP shipped 1985).
I recommend Chelsea Hotel (nyc) for a pretty vacant vacation. It's not exactly Hotel California -- some manage to leave -- but it is pretty close.
Companies are not the web.
Sure, but have you ever heard of a procurement project where this happened? At least to me it seems that you always hear delays and cost overruns of the type of F35, Zumwalt, Osprey. The usual explanation is that this is the natural outcome of a cost-plus modus operandi. How can a multi-billion project end up 2 billion below budget and 2 years ahead of schedule. We are talking about the same manufacturer that brought us the F-35 after all...
I don’t know enough about the legalities of the matter to agree or disagree with your statement, but I’m pretty sure that this event will cause the law to be either amended, superseded, or simply broaden the definitions of whatever premises are said to apply.
Also, it is one of the regions that gets new features first, which makes me wonder if it contributes to lower stability.
Lamport’s work is much more general in nature. I have to admit it’s harder to follow for the same reason.
The better analogy would be - if you have no oats, stop trying to make porridge. Or go and get some oats.

It is indeed tautological.

Which is my primary complaint about the prevalent attitude displayed in these hiring posts.

Porridge isn't going to change its' recipe for you.
Zone designations are account specific; zone D for you is not zone D for me
Somehow the repair market for cars doesn’t have this problem - Honda and Ford have no say in the quality of my repairs if I don’t get it done at a dealership, even if OEM parts are used.

The same and been historically true of almost every other company and consumer product, to the great benefit of consumers. Why should apple be different?

Repairs are not being done on Apple’s behalf. They are being done on the consumers behalf. I don’t think your analogy makes sense. If Apple wants, they can create a certification process and emphasize that they strongly recommend going to certified repair shops, the same way car manufacturers want you go to go the dealer, but I can’t see any reason why they shouldn’t be forced to allow uncertified repair shops and sell them parts too.
The train being Amtrak has nothing to do with it. The agents can do this same behavior on any passenger train or bus.
That the article which makes a claim to which I object makes an additional (unsubstantiated/uncited) claim that their former claim is true is not independent evidence, IMO. (see also: proof by repeated assertion)

Excerpts from the IRS "20 questions" test of employee vs contractor [0]:

Work for multiple companies. People who simultaneously provide services for several
unrelated companies are likely to qualify as independent contractors.

Flexibility of schedule. People whose hours or days of work are dictated by a company are apt to qualify as its employees.

Demands for full-time work. Full-time work gives a company control over most of a
person's time, which supports a finding of an employment relationship.

Need for on-site services. Requiring someone to work on company premises—
particularly if the work can be performed elsewhere—indicates a possible employment
relationship.

Method of payment. Hourly, weekly, or monthly pay schedules are characteristic of
employment relationships, unless the payments simply are a convenient way of
distributing a lump-sum fee. Payment on commission or project completion is more
characteristic of independent contractor relationships.

Provision of tools and materials. Workers who perform most of their work using
company-provided equipment, tools, and materials are more likely to be considered
employees. Work largely done using independently obtained supplies or tools supports an
independent contractor finding.

Realization of profit or loss. Workers who receive predetermined earnings and have
little chance to realize significant profit or loss through their work generally are
employees.

I acknowledge that there are other tests which lean towards employee, but it's far from slam dunk, settled law IMO, and flexibility is quite obviously one factor that courts consider.

[0] - https://www.oregon.gov/ODA/shared/Documents/Publications/Nat...
Nope, they specifically got an exclusive license from Pantone for the color in question.
The difference is that you are not "hiring" the tree trimmer 5 days a week, 52 weeks of the year. They have many "employers", and so are independent of all of them. An Uber/Lyft driver does not have many "employers", they only have 1/2, plus maybe their own other job.
I've noticed both Twitter and Reddit were having issues this morning, so this makes sense.
Bind mounts would be perfect, but I wouldn't count on Dropbox handling mountpoints inside the Dropbox folder gracefully in the long term. Remember when they stopped supporting all Linux filesystems other than ext4, a policy that they only recently rescinded?
According to the article the agents don't have dogs
Hong Kong seriously needs to study US riot control methods. It looks like amateur hour out there.

The rioters are throwing Molotov cocktails and the cops have no idea how to handle it. I’m surprised Eirk Prince hasn’t offered to come on as a consultant.
Multi AZ would have also sufficed. This appears localized to one zone, not the whole region.
Very good point. The best developer I ever worked with said to me one time "I'm thoroughly unemployable", meaning his skills, motivations and long term goals did not match what-so-ever with those of a employee developer.

He was a great resource but hiring him permanently would be a terrible mistake for all parties.
Is there some link to what the criteria is?
But it did in the 2014 Hong Kong protests.
That’s perhaps much too small to be an example of what the parent comment was talking about. This might be a good example of what the article is talking about though. These represent two different fashions, both of which have enjoyed widespread support at different times. The original is explicit and smaller and easier for someone who’s not you to follow & modify. The latter is event/callback driven, and more complicated to follow, but in a large codebase might be a pattern that is easier to build on, maintain, and refactor, as well as harder to screw up when adding new routes.
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Why is this even a question? The president can decide what is classified and what is not, it may not be good policy or diplomacy, but that’s the presidents prerogative.
This seems to affect a broad swath of the internet, perhaps because the us-east-1 region is so popular? My side project StatusGator shows approximately 15% of the status pages we monitor (including our own) with a warn or down notice right now, a sizable spike over the baseline.
I'm a software developer, very clearly an employee, and except for the last item in your list, all of this applies to me as well.

I don't care that they're slightly more independent. They're paid far less, and they deserve the same kind of legal protections.