skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I had that exact one once early on. I did actually get an "if you could go back in time a couple years, what advice would you give yourself?" a little while ago, which 1) threw me, because I wasn't expecting much of that formula crap from this place, and 2) I hadn't prepped for, so I just punted, being able to think of very little other than things unrelated to work but also lame, cliché, or "don't interview at that place, you'll have to answer a dumb question and then you'll feel like an asshole when you can't". I tried to deflect with a joke but it didn't work. Oh well.

I've consistently gotten the "tell me about a time you fucked up" and "tell me about a time you worked with a douchebag" ones. And simple "tell me about a time you disagreed with someone at work"-type ones. Not every interview, but often. And unless you've actually had an experience that happens to make for a good answer to those, you've basically got to make something up. Even if you have fucked up tons of things and worked with a bunch of douchebags—the questions are weird because if everyone answers totally honestly some people will have way better answers, especially if they're also good story-tellers, because they've been lucky ("lucky") enough to have had an experience fitted perfectly to a good answer for those questions.

Even for the simple "time you disagreed" one, I don't exactly file away details about little disagreements in my head, so I can't form a satisfying tale from those—almost all of which were pretty boring anyway—sorry, so here's some made up bullshit again. Which will be better than most people's best honest story anyway. What the fuck was the point of these, again?

[EDIT] I actually think being a smidge less psychologically stable and well-adjusted might make it easier to answer some of these! Hahaha. Shouldn't have read the Stoics so much in high school, I guess.

[EDIT, responding to edit]

> I'm sure it made sense 30-50 years ago when people spent decades with the same employer, but anyone asking that question today is just indicating how out of touch they are with the real world.

Yeah the honest answer, based even on my relatively stable employment history, would be "somewhere other than your company, with a 15-20% pay bump (by the time I leave—30% over what you're about to offer me now), probably attained leveraging something I learned here". Just following the trend line here, don't blame me :-)
I've had it. I did indeed laugh. It didn't seem to matter in the end, got an offer.
I don't think the company had existed for 5 years. :)
UBI proponents tend to see it replacing minimum wage work but the most popular plan to date (Yang) sees it as a replacement for welfare/food stamps and other means-tested support for the poor.

How can it be both?
I think that we call this sort of thing a "loss leader" in retail. Unfortunately, it seems like some of these companies' entire market is a loss leader.
> Unless you run only their store apps on your computer(which most likely no developer does), then maybe what you say makes sense. Otherwise it's not better than linux distros like elementary OS where convention is also to use gtk only apps(similar to cocoa only).

This is, frankly, horseshit.

I run a lot of non-store apps, and absolutely none of them are GTK based, because GTK apps on OS X run through X Windows and look and work like dogshit. Next to nobody is voluntarily running that garbage.

Qt uses native text widgets, and works with the default input customization just fine. I can’t even begin to think of a development app that would be written in sdl2, a bloody games API.

Very, very few apps commonly in use by devs on OS X use anything other than native widgets, and it’s ridiculous to suggest otherwise.

The situation is a far, far, laughable cry from elementary OS, because outside of a small limited set of apps specifically targeted at such a niche distro, most Linux apps are still written in a hodgepodge of inconsistent wheel-reinventing mess of incompatible toolkits. The situation is night-and-day in inconsistency compared to OS X.
> you've basically got to make something up

Do you? I just say "sorry, that hasn't happened to me" if I need a 'not applicable' answer. I don't think it's affected my hit rate.

I generally just act completely openly and honestly in interviews. Could be a regional thing.
Ask HN: How seriously to take offer letters?
I have this innate skittish-ness around signing anything that extends to offer letters (especially at startups with options), and often get caught kind of off-guard when places don't want to give you a copy of their stock plan even when the thing you're signing references it.

That said, I'm not sure how much it really matters? It's at-will employment, so either side can back out whenever, they retain the right to change salary, benefits, etc. Comp negotiations have already happened. It feels like it doesn't actually matter too much if I see these documents now or later.

If I find out they were misleading about something when I do see the docs a few weeks in, all that's really changed is that I've lost a few weeks of my time (and I obviously wouldn't be going forward if I wasn't banking on trusting the company I'm joining to begin with).

Things like non-competes and not-solicits are the only things that jump out at me as having a meaningful effect even in a situation where you join and quickly leave if you find out you were misled.

So given all that, part of me wants to just not make things too difficult and go forward. Am I oversimplifying? Are there important things that you can only really deal with prior to signing that I'm missing?
Australia Newspapers Redact Front Pages in Media-Freedom Protest
A British actor left Hollywood to fight ISIS. Now he’s a man without a country
> tasked a PO, who tasked a team, and a frontend developer implemented it - and in this chain, in the end, everyone complied

You have only worked on big projects, right? This could be on developer.

It could also be a FE change that was supposed to be hooked up to the backend, but went out early.
> So we are incarcerating a lot more people for the same crimes somehow?

John Pfaff, a professor who studies incarceration, found that despite a falling crime rate, the number of charged felonies has been holding steady. He suggests that aggressive prosecutors are charging felonies where previously they would have accepted a misdemeanor. He suggests that part of this is because they need to burnish their "tough on crime credentials", and part is the state generally pays for prisons and felonies where the county pays for jails and misdemeanors.

https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=16...
>optimal workers

Do you actually talk / think in those terms?

At the end of the day, all I care about is: are you smart, can you think critically, will you get along with others. Same goes for everyone who's hired me. And a lot of it is just chance/luck.
That's the problem they're trying to address here.
Alexa and Google Home abused to eavesdrop and phish passwords
That seems unclear to me too. Can the 1 week trial period begin after you gave your employer your 2 weeks.
The Launching of Mozilla Firefox: A Case Study in Community-Led Marketing (2005) [pdf]
Frankly speaking, your moral framework needs work. Sincerely, the rest of society.
I can only imagine they pay terribly, exploiting the workforce they claim to value.
Ask HN: As a Marketer which direction should I take my skills?
6+ years of marketing experience and a BS in IT.

Itching to become more technical or figure out what paths I can take my skills.

What are some of my options in terms of learnings that can help me stand out more ie: a masters degree, technical skills, online courses?

I know this is broad. Any thoughts are appreciated.
I think you bring up an interesting point. In a discussion about household work, I've never actually heard a discussion about the types of things that men are just expected to do without anybody batting an eye. It makes sense that usually a man would be the one to bring up the 50 kg sack of potatoes to the 3rd floor apartment, but I've never actually heard this point being made that men also have some expectations placed on them in the household. It's always just summarized as "earn money, open jars, reach high places".
Plenty of businesses don't do background checks. Huge national restaurant chains often don't. Unless your employees are working with children or you are in a highly regulated industry I wouldn't worry about it.
Hard to take this seriously when “Watch my videos” and “don’t use a keyboard” are the first two tips.
Right, just fixed it. Thanks!
I too have the same problem. In my case, I am in cheap outsourcing haven. We have IT company captives which outsource absolute crap work. There is no cutting edge to speak of.

The last time I gave an interview almost 70-80% of the work was done in the US and they are throwing some unimportant work to their captive in their outsourcing destination.

I have 13+ years of IT experience. Most of the good jobs are filled internally by some kind of favoritism and the crap jobs are floated to hiring websites. The level of technical work is a joke. Most of the companies try to hire my experience level people for junior positions(4 years exp) because the cost is low or tell to go to management.

I see my friends in Silicon valley doing interesting jobs and yes, Silicon valley privilege is a thing. The American dream is a thing.

By the way we do not even have a social system to speak of. So lucky you!
Golang, Cloud, Kubernetes, Apollokit.org, Hofstadter.io (self plug)... All for various reasons, but overall productivity gains / removing dumb, repetitive or boring things

GSuite like collaboration when that came out

Documentation is important too, as is good UX/DX
> Climate change is being used at an almost religious level to justify pretty much anything climate activists deem necessary — regardless of any unintended (or subversively intended) consequences.

Such as? Apart from some investment in renewables and more fuel efficient cars climate change activists haven't exactly achieved much.
You know how Japanese train conductors have that point-and-call system? Well what these discussions are about are like point-and-call. They're not pointing at the people on the track (society). They're pointing in directions, and at the train, and calling out what is happening. They're pointing out these things going on around them so that everyone is aware of them, so that people will think, act, and react. Hopefully, the end result is better overall outcomes.

I think we still have a long way to go in figuring out how to have these discussions in a way that's more productive, but at least they're happening.
It's the first step in a lot of formal methods. Like proving an implementation's adherence to the model requires a machine readable model. Or proving certain aspects about the model.

For instance part of sel4's proof chain is a machine readable model of an ARM. It then uses that to prove equivalence of the generated binary to the high level spec of the kernel.
My depression ended when i found a fullfilling, well paid job.

Then i remembered a wise one said that opposite of depression = expression.

So when you express yourself fully - depression falls off.

That is exactly what happened to me after ~10 yrs of depression.
I also use Guacamole for remote employee/vendor access (with public IPs hidden behind a proxy like an F5 or at least SSL+HTTP Simple Auth), but I haven't ever tried to configure it for remote support session sharing type stuff.
Is that how you're using it? If so, how is it set up?
Even then, lets say the successfully broke all encryption and all communication - people would just go back to recording from a DVR and selling DVDs on the streets.
First 2200-Meter Transatlantic Contact by US Radio Amateur Reported (2018)
I think you can get away with a little of that, but you've gotta read the room a bit and have answers for some of it, and without prepping some fiction-loosely-based-in-reality ahead of time, I definitely do not. If everything's great but I no-answer three of those formula "soft" questions that probably looks bad. One, I'm maybe OK. I'm honest about other stuff but you pull out one of those "questions to ask in an interview" questions, you're probably getting a tall tale.

[EDIT] actually I'm fine on "tell me about when you fucked up". I've got a good real answer for that one.
Exactly what I was trying to get at, thanks.
If the software is not running when closed (system process) then it should mostly be fine.
Example Strategy for Tax Loss Harvesting
The Blind Watchmaker is mostly a book about evolution. Evolution does not explain origin of life, so it is not relevant here.
The main character makes a living by patenting things.
At my startup we did a round of "come in for an interview, pass FizzBuzz on a whiteboard, if you passed FizzBuzz you can come back for a 4 hour trial where you solve a small task representative of normal work in our normal work environment". We only hired students for 10-20 hours per week, so fairly low risk for both sides.

My main takeaway from that was that the actual talking was close to useless for judging candidates. One of the best people we hired looked horrible in the interview, while some others were great at talking about themselves but were at best mediocre otherwise.
Yeah I should have been more specific.

1. Shoot down with a potato canon as it flies over your land.

2. Take items that are now in your backyard.
No key involved, but a long time ago, circa 2008, I used to record my TV shows in my Rogers (Canada) PVR. It so happened it had a firewire port, and all you had to do was load the firewire SDK on your macbook, and when you play back your show on the PVR, you could capture the raw .ts (transport stream) which contained the MPEG2 video.

I think that's why most players now have no extra ports besides the HDMI as it was easy to bypass the HDMI protection...if you can call it that.
It is by Philz alone I set my mind in motion

It is by the juice of Arabica that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, stains become a warning.

It is by Philz alone I set my mind in motion.
Chris also thinks idea very interesting...

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/10/neurons-hide-their-m...

Like maybe neurons really use Pbits.
I think that being bad at emotional labor even (especially?) outside of work is something that is looked down upon quite a lot in society. We generally don't like the person that seems to get angry over minor issues, we expect them to manage their emotions in these kinds of situations, especially when they're not like 'us'.
For sure, that's what I meant by the ROI bullet.

I just often feel like people want estimates that go beyond the level of precision/accuracy you'd need to make a relative ROI call. And just in general don't do a good job motivating _why_ they want the estimate.
We don’t need another word for lying. Dark patterns are trying to trick your users into doing something they didn’t want to. The term exists because other terms didn’t capture this undesirable behavior well enough, and it need not be expanded to literally anything negative.

And not all sales/marketing tricks are inherently evil. I don’t think eBay telling you how many users watched an item in the past hour is immoral so as long as it’s accurate.
4:1 is the US average for software engineers.[1]

[1] https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.htm
It's a sign of cultural decline that people can only relate to each other using financial terminology.

The continued financialization of all things cultural is not a positive development.
If you want to see a Unix like OS on an 8-bit CPU, get a Motorola 6809. It was designed with high level languages in mind (four 16-bit index registers, two 8-bit accumulators that can act as a single 16-bit accumulator) and can even do position independent code quite easily (PC-relative addressing modes). Quite an underrated CPU.
> I've heard it so many times about people interviewing others, as "(s)he is smart, passed all test, but weird, I don't like to work with her/him". At this point, it is systemic discrimination.

No, that's a misnomer. Systematic discrimination implies the system itself codifies this behaviour - but instead, what is codified is _team fit_, which is often based heavily on intuition. Humans are capable of being good judges of interpersonal compatibility, and the best interviewers employ an appropriate amount of intuition in the process because only a limited interaction is possible and every bit of information available deserves to have some chance of being factored into the assessment.

Let's face it: for neurotypical people, a lot of autists are very hard to get along with. Their behaviour is not always predictable in the way that we need behaviour to be in a workplace; and when more pronounced, their specific needs are not something that we want to have to address in our coworkers.

It's good that small companies are often able to accomodate folks like yourself, but expecting big companies that more often than not are looking for cookiecutter, commodity employees that will fit the HR process lifecycle. If you need more input and aren't demonstrably going to produce more output than the average worker, from their perspective you're not the best choice to hire, period.

Of course, I'm sure you'll find plenty of people who vehemently disagree with me, claim that it is in fact systemic discrimination to want something like "team cohesion", and will make you a protected class soon enough.
"Speed up edge services" -- not very descriptive.
Between jobs, I call myself "a man of leisure". :-)

Here is the best articular I've seen on this:

"As Google’s historic August 2004 IPO approached, the company’s senior vice president, Jonathan Rosenberg, realized he was about to spawn hundreds of impetuous young multimillionaires. They would, he feared, become the prey of Wall Street brokers, financial advisers, and wealth managers, all offering their own get-even-richer investment schemes. .."

https://ritholtz.com/2014/02/the-best-investment-advice-youl...
Making Self-Learning Less Lonely and More Fun
I may be an oddball here but I prefer and still use to this day the original IBM VGA8 BIOS bitmap font [0] for monospace everywhere including IDEs and text editors. I grew up in the late 1980s and 1990s staring at DOS text mode screens and this font was pretty much burned into my brain. Generally I try to keep it at its original 16px height and avoid any sort of non-integral scaling or antialiasing blurriness.

[0] https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/ - the default font for that site; I use the PxPlus variant.
Encrypted DNS is a good idea, I just wish all of the basic protocols were getting encryption in-place, instead of being reinvented over HTTPS.

First HTTP/3 (nee QUIC) reinvented TCP and ports over HTTPS, now DOH is reinventing DNS over HTTPS... Sigh. Both of these would be better off by evolving and modernizing their respective existing protocols. And HTTP is a client/server protocol with a _heavy_ handshake cost, why are we using it for a quick one-off request like DNS.
I see a future where media consumption via general purpose computing platforms is dead and only special super locked down devices can only play certain media. Seems like Disney+ will start us down that road
>I'd argue that it is specialized education

Part of which in many programs includes familiarization with ethics coincidentally.

>A bridge is usually designed by a team of engineers... how do you bring ethics into calculating the amount of rebar in your concrete slab??

You are not a calculator. You are responsible for ensuring your specific part is correct, yes; but being conferred with the power to halt something that isn't up to snuff or to reject a plan for unsoundness also implies a responsibility to exercise that discretion. You (as the engineer) have those technical chops that others do not.

If you bow out and rubber stamp without a thought to the consequences of your actions, you aren't fulfilling your duty to the Public. With a bridge it's more straightforward, so it doesn't necessarily avail the civil engineer of the opportunity to exercise that discretion, but it is nevertheless there.
Wherever the guy in the article was going. (Donbas region is a part of Ukraine that's currently controlled by the Russian-backed combatants).
Thank god someone else actually agreed with me on this, I thought I was just tilting at windmills here
Am in this demo, and my interview experiences have been bewildering.

Whenever someone has actually tried to assess my skills and get me do something, so almost never, it is always fine. In an interview, I have almost no idea what is happening and it is never fine.

Yes, this isn't going to suit everyone but the point is that suits some people who were totally shut out before.
Yes, but their last common ancestor was not much like either. Lots about the sequence of changes seems to be established now: http://www.eartharchives.org/articles/the-evolution-of-whale...
Likewise, there's gvim, also with buttons/menus/etc.
For aviation this is getting very dated in the US. Even when I learnt to fly 20+ years ago we didn’t need it, Eveyobe had a GPS. But anyways charts had this:

https://www.cfinotebook.net/graphics/avionics-and-instrument...

Basically if you had a pen paper you could just write down the Morse code then compare it to the chart. Speed wasn’t of the upmost importance. And this is assuming the VOR was lacking voice capability.

For more information on using a VOR:

http://www.cfinotebook.net/notebook/avionics-and-instruments...

UK as I understood it was less fond of voice, and favored NDB and Morse....
Did anyone else find this article quite difficult to read? Perhaps ironically, I gave up by paragraph four.
No problem, you're not a buzz kill. I've thought the same thing.

Building a blog engine isn't breaking new ground and I might as well add features to an existing engine, where I won't have to build everything from scratch, and I can add/build any features I feel that I need.
In this case, the week long paid trial is work from home, and I did not notice anything that said that the work had to be done during normal businesses hours. It should be possible for most people to fit that in around their current employment.
Blue light is only emitted if the blue subpixel is lit (well, except for some backlight leakage on LCDs). So it is possible to sit in front of a screen without any blue light. Of course, this means you can't produce most colors, so it's not ideal for general use, but it is possible.

When in bed at night, I often use a software filter to cut out all but red subpixels. This allows me to read or work without causing melatonin suppression. Just clamping blue and green to 0 is a very poor solution though; I should swap to a proper "redscale" filter (think greyscale, but only red subpixels) that is based on the luminosity of the source image. The dumb filter has definitely confused me a few times when I can't seem to highlight any text.
I looked for a bit at the MiT dataset paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.03150.pdf) and I'm honestly not sure what human / general intelligence would be. There's only a single ground-truth category per video, but the categories overlap somewhat and multiple categories can apply. And the ground truth category is only 75-85% agreed upon by humans for some videos. The dataset was not constructed to have 100% performance by humans.

I guess to evaluate accuracy fairly you'd have to run another Amazon Turk project, where you run a classifier over the data, take the top 5 and replace the bottom one with the ground truth if it's not there, and then quiz the workers as to the best category. But it's a million videos.