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I've been interviewing job applicants for a very long time (15 years or so).

I've never given any detailed feedback, but I have made sure that they at least get a "sorry, we can't offer you a job" form letter quickly.

Noone has ever complained, except:

At one job, we did run into a pretty annoying situation. We were recruiting mostly from a particular pool of uni grads, and everyone was communicating via the same particular "forum". (Late 90s/early 00s.)

We interviewed a particular person in depth. He wasn't nervous. He was just not able/smart enough. So, we didn't hire him. We were very polite and friendly through this entire process. Gave him plenty of graceful exits from the problems we posed to him.

We sent him the usual polite email how he unfortunately bla bla.

Later that day, he started a major propaganda campaign against us, in the local forum.

We felt trapped - how could we say (semi-publicly) that we just rejected him because he was well.. not that intelligent? We ended up just ignoring (ghosting) him.

A few smart people there who could have joined us probably took this clown seriously though. :(
Oh, true. And the article implies mathematicians were generally expecting this result. But AFAIK there's not a strong consensus on which way the Navier-Stokes problem will go. So probably unrelated techniques.
> “However you try to spin things, this is exactly what happened. Snowden was in a position of trust, leaked all kinds of state secrets, and then tried to profit from that leak.”

That looks like _your_ spin on things. The only reason the leaks had potential for a profitable book written about them is that the leaks were the only possible mechanism for society to gain knowledge of egregious abuses of power and coordinated, deliberate violations of rights.

Attributing a profit motive to Snowden is deeply incorrect and unjustified. Government agencies acted out secret behaviors that egregiously abused their power and harmed people. The doing of those behaviors, regardless of the state of knowledge about them of the public, created a profit opportunity, no different than in journalism.

Nobody forced those agencies to do those behaviors and thereby create a sincere and urgent need for an expose that overrides any laws relating to the control of that information. They did that and are wholly responsible for it.
The other cool thing about Lightsail is that you can upgrade to EC2 should you need to go to the next level. I assume that the Lightsail instances are really some sort of EC2 instance that has a user friendly wrapper around it.
I agree, it's always been there to a degree, but it wasn't completely out the window till around that moment. For example. Gamespot used to keep their preview and review departments separate for a long time. It was thought to be a conflict of interest to mingle. I always respected that level of dedication to the journalism side of the content, and it seems so far away from the "Hey followers, I got invited to this event for free, isn't that cool" world it eventually morphed into.
Part time in a field like retail (for a multinational) or large US brand does not have any flexibility. They will often go out of their way ensure you do not get overtime while simultaneously disrespecting your time outside of the job.
I've known many artists, liked lots of them. Doesn't mean they're generally revered, lol.
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Matrix servers are kinda a pain in the ass to get up-and-running and to manage versus, say, XMPP or IRC. Especially if you can't get away with just running someone else's pre-built docker images for it, or whatever.
Also there's a sequel, which is basically part of the same book. I'm pretty sure he just split it up because the publisher wouldn't let him publish a 1500 page novel.
I think we're talking about different things. I'm saying they don't need cookies to identify you, not that they don't use cookies for anything. Saying Facebook can fingerprint its users without cookies isn't even a controversial statement. Otherwise how would they track users without accounts?
we're working on it as we speak! we'll keep you informed or just drop us an email listed on the site
Can I access the network from Emacs? I use ERC as of now.
Because it has been thoroughly documented?

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-campaign-russia-govern...

Here's another one about something much smaller and more local than the election:

https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-trolls-senate-intelli...

They were trying to get Americans to fight in the streets, and organized a protest and counter protest!
I think you're asking a subtly different question, namely: Did Russian efforts to influence the election materially affect the outcome?
Riot is a popular Matrix client and a good place to start., pointing your browser at https://riot.im/app/#/welcome

I'm unaware of a hacker news matrix channel (perhaps others can enlighten me), but joining the Matrix HQ channel (https://riot.im/app/#/room/#matrix:matrix.org) is a good place to learn more about Matrix.
Then single best commit messages you are ever going to find in any given project are in the Linux kernel:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
This is great, thanks. I have looked into maximizing the geometric mean before, similar to Kelly Criteria, but apparently that's a very volatile approach with a long timeframe before you have a high likelihood of approaching that maximization. I'll look more into Sharpe Ratio.

The general Bogle advice is for taxable accounts, pick something like a total us stock market index fund like FSKAX for fidelity. Low expense ratio, but you're right, it still has taxable long term capital gains and reinvestment every so often.
The 'Real Name' field shows where they're proxying in from. Like the normal riot.im "@username:matrix.org" or self-hosted "@username:theirserver.address.tld". Is this an option that isn't the default for most matrix bridges/clients/whatever?

I guess if it doesn't show in their realname field I wouldn't see it. But I imagine since the defaults seems to be what I described above the amount of users that turned that off will be fairly small and irrelevant.
Yeah, and I don't think anyone can ever have a definitive answer for that one.
But "Easter eggs" are even more religious so that phrase would need to be banned if we are banning everything some random person on the internet finds offensive. Even "holiday" is borderline because it implies a holy day which is also religious. If you give me a few minutes, I can think of a few reasons to ban "decorations" on religious grounds too. I'm an atheist so don't give a fuck if they are banned but I think that should indicate the absurdity of this situation and of even acknowledging the "issue." That's what the close issue is for.
Headless, schmeadless: a RPi with the Slowest Disk In The Universe come up to a functional GUI under a minute. Slower boot (and correlated, slow work) on far beefier hardware is down to pure crud. Sure, you need a bazillion updaters, two for each program, and three antiviruses checking each other - in other words, "users have fast computers, SHIP IT!"
ah no - just plain old Vue, Go, and k8s :)
Cases like these should be protected with whistleblower laws.

Legislation encouraging whistleblowing is a good thing.
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Internet sources claim >50% shinto and 30+% buddhism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Japan
I've never heard of Yondr before but, wow, what a delightful little technological window into today's burgeoning economic disparity. An entire company whose business model revolves around helping rich people hide their recreation from public view because they don't want the shame of their consumption being a little too conspicuous.

I assume the next natural evolution is a photo-sharing social network that only ultra-high-net wealth individuals are allowed to enter. That way you can still "Instagram" your life, but just to the other ultra-rich tech bros and Saudi royalty at your economic level. Now that I think about it, I wouldn't be surprised if this already exists.
Yeah ML changes the game here, not even the company really understands the machine singing the music to which we're dancing in that case. It's a strange situation.
> This crudely represents one way law enforcement and intelligence agencies (friend and foe) identify targets for further analysis.

What, using tracking pixels?
how about they hacked into private servers, stole private emails, carefully curated the most embarrassing segments, then released them throughout the internet? does that count?

There are many reasons and they are nicely documented at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_20...
About 30 years ago, when I was just a kid, my parents would make me go with them when they went shopping. I would always go wander around the electronics section of the store (I'm thinking of Walmart, specifically) to play with the computers.

At that time, Windows 3.1 was the latest and greatest and is what was running on all of the "display" PCs. Unfortunately, the password-protected screensaver was almost always activated -- meaning you couldn't actually do anything on the PCs.

Luckily, those passwords were easily bypassed! All you needed to do was simply power cycle / reboot the machine. Once it started booting up, you would just hit CTRL-C to interrupt and terminate the "autoexec.bat" file. Next, change into the "\WINDOWS\" directory, and open up some .INI file [0], find the line where the password was set, and delete everything after the "=" sign. Finally, save your changes, exit the editor, and hit CTRL-ALT-DEL to reboot.

The PC would start up and launch into Windows as usual, but without any password protection for the screensaver.

(A slightly older version of myself may have, allegedly, then set his own passwords on occasion.)

[0]: "sys.ini", "windows.ini", something like that.
You are already a distributed team. Here I share a few thoughts on why you're already doing work in a distributed style/setup, and discuss a few ways to help you improve the communication in your distributed team.
I'm glad I read the whole thing... but the dude needed an editor.

Several of his footnotes are essentially short stories and have their own tangents and footnotes. Sort of the literary equivalent to the "cut-away" phenomenon of the 2000s. Think Arrested Development or Family Guy or The Royal Tannebaums, where they made a joke and it flashes back to a mini-scene 15 years earlier. It breaks up the narrative and allows for deeper exploration of the joke or concept. Same idea with IJ, or other DFW works where he uses the footnotes.
I am late to this discussions not sure if I will get an answer.

How is that different to Company Policy not allowing you to have a 2nd Job? i.e You can only have one Full Time Job.
My Pixel 3 boots rather fast compared to my Macbook pro, or my Windows desktop that I hardly ever use.

I guess it just comes down to priorities. I'm sure if PC specs included "boot time (lower is better,)" we'd see boot times drop quickly.
Is the supposed evidence of Russian interference at all dependent on these false FBI claims?
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Your static site would still probably be better on AWS. Whack it into an S3 bucket, put cloudfront in front of it, and you have a globally scalable, CDN-enabled static site with at least five 9's of reliability and it costs you peanuts.
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That’s disgusting, and I’m really sorry to have read that happened to you or anyone else.

My policy is that anyone that completes the technical screen (2 – 4 hours of work) gets an on-site interview.

Just this morning, I had to spend about 20 minutes debugging a candidate’s code to get it to both build and run, but he’s still getting invited for an on-site.
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yup. https://github.com/alphapapa/matrix-client.el is your best bet (it probably doesn't support SSO though, but should be pretty easy to add).
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Nobody is proposing that sex trafficking should be legalized.

On the wider issue of prostitution, there is a fundamental difference between it and the crimes you mentioned: murder, rape and kidnapping are always wrong, regardless of whether money is involved. On the other hand, most people don't have a problem with sex between consenting adults; they only have a problem with it if there is payment involved. This of course raises the question why an otherwise acceptable act becomes immoral when it is in exchange for money...
From a nation-state perspective I would hope they attempt to interfere in the elections of their national rivals in order to eke out an advantage on the global playing field, just as I expect my own government to be doing the same.
I honestly don't care what you think, I explained my position.

I'll continue to use the one framework that supports typing styles, components, and state.

I'll continue to use the one framework that can bridge to every major desktop and mobile OS's native UI.

I'll continue to use the one framework backed by both Facebook and Microsoft.

I'll continue to use simple JS functions to build every part of my app.

You can use Svelte, lol.

Oh and don't use "we", you're one person.
I guess the point I was trying to make is that all that "extra" stuff isn't really much extra work at all and the same magic deploy tools could be just as easy on a VPS/bare-metal, but aren't because of $$profit$$ making it better that they don't make it super-easy to deploy on VPS/bare-metal.

I can make a script to do it all for me (and have in the past), but it's a bit of work.

That's really why the title of the article is apt being "the Amazon Premium", and not "the Amazon Rip-off".
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No need to reinvent video encoding. At least my local provider seems to fix this by having all the channels streamed as multicast continuously and then having the TV box request a small bit of video over normal TCP to do the channel switch immediately and only later syncing to the multicast. That allows you to change channels quickly at any time and starting to watch at whatever the latest I-frame was.

I notice this happening when IGMP forwarding is broken in my router and channels will only play for a second or two after being switched to and then stopping. Switch times are pretty good.
It's almost like a server is expected to spend approximately 0,000% of its lifetime doing POST.
Why couldn't a traditional computer fast enough simulate the brain you imagine?
My comment is related to how the thrust of the social commentary was almost wholly diverted by (speculation on my part) moneyed interests.
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Interesting. How much time do you spent operating that thing?
Maybe karma for what the US did to the Marshall Islands? [0][1]

I'm surprised the government doesn't approach any preexisting military base with suspicion and caution considering its own history of contaminating grounds with military activity.

To this day military bases across the US have contaminated groundwater from the relatively benign activity of using firefighting foam. [2] And that's in the US where there's supposedly an EPA and oversight of such things. At this point any grounds having experienced significant military activity should be presumed contaminated.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Islands#Health

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runit_Dome

[2] https://phys.org/news/2019-10-firefighting-foam-toxic-legacy...
Gitlab let's you do an awful lot and can be self hosted.
FSA gives you the entire year's contribution up front, HSA does not.
Well, yes. Strictly speaking, the truly pragmatic approach is indeed to not make language demands, and let things sort themselves out naturally. That is after all how a lingua franca gets established in the first place. Maybe I should have said 'should' rather than 'must'. In all likelihood, this is what will actually happen.

My comment was meant more generally: I strongly believe that in a domain that's as communication-heavy and global as computer software, adhering to a professional lingua franca will yield better results for the field as a whole than having each country write code in their own language, translating only when the benefits of cooperation become obvious.

This has been the case in every (Norwegian-speaking) company I've worked in. Separate documentation has indeed been mostly in Norwegian, but with almost no exceptions, code, configuration and commit messages have been written in English, even though none in the company actually spoke English as their primary language. Ditto for software configurations and OS installs. This has made it painless to search debug messages, ask contextual questions online, get outside help and has ensured zero interoperability issues in libraries and dependencies.

It also turned out to make it almost effortless to introduce foreign-language developers in our teams, a strategic advantage. If we were doing open-source software, these advantages would have been compounded. You don't know what you would lose by using a more obscure language, and the effects compound the bigger the impact your software turns out to have.

Much of this is probably a foreign idea to someone who has only spoken English from birth, but I've seen similar phenomena in other fields that are highly international. E.g. an acquaintance of mine works with biotech sales across much of Scandinavia, and although most people there will be able to understand each other using their mother tongue, using English in common communications greatly reduces the time required to sort out misunderstandings. The access to talent is increased by a multiple, and communications overhead is greatly decreased.

But of course there are nuances to this. E.g. in the case of China, there is probably a developer base in the millions that doesn't know English, and the world will probably be a better place if they are able to contribute anyway. And of course, the laws of physics don't care, it's not like there's some authorization board that will prevent their compiler from working if they do everything in Mandarin.

The domain of computer software will probably move faster if these developers are able to seemlessly communicate with the rest of the world than otherwise. But it's also likely that it will move faster with them contributing with a higher communications overhead, than not at all.
> I really loathe their location dependend compensation

Quick thought experiment: would you still disagree location-dependent compensation if they opened a physical office in your region, and priced their offers according to the local market?

Companies that have physical offices in multiple regions naturally adjust compensation levels depending on the local talent market. Why should it be any different for remote companies where the only difference is no physical office?
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> That would hurt society more than help because once the algorithms are public, the code's inner workings can then be gamed and abused. That's the paradox or contradiction: for the algorithms to be effective, they have to be kept a secret to prevent gaming.

What level of algorithmic transparency can one achieve without sacrificing gaming?

I ask this question because this is a common discussion for many aspects in our society. For example, we have designed laws over 100s of years despite the knowledge that they can be prone to gaming. The existence of gaming itself is not a good enough reason to have ZERO algorithmic transparency.
It's not only switching channels, even just turning the thing on. Also switching between inputs takes a long time, a large part of which is spend in the menu. The only thing I ever do is switch between AppleTV and PS4 and adjust volume because the PS4 is orders of magnitude louder than the AppleTV, yet so of that always feels super clunky if I have to use the TV remote.
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Isn't that, in particular, the land you would most want to put new bases on?
Is there any book/software you are using for the new "singing the notes" method?
This article is total garbage and will make you stupider for reading it.

1. Flawed warrant applications were made

2. Those flawed warrants revealed a criminal conspiracy at the highest levels of a presidential campaign, that has sent many people to prison. It is documented very well in the Mueller report. Further good background is the Crowdstrike report on the DNC hack.

This is gaslighting of the worst kind. The procedural errors made by the FBI while investigating the crime pale in comparison to the crime itself and this is a deliberate attempt to conflate the two. I have read Greenwald for the better part of two decades when he was writing independently on a Wordpress site and I have no idea what has happened to him.
Ok, I like your message and tone but I have to point out a couple of things where are not quite communicating. You are absolutely right that people can do worse than THC, e.g. alcohol and tobacco. (Although it is unclear if nicotine itself is worse. Worn as a patch it might be as harmless as caffeine.)

The potential dangers of Tylenol/Paracet is not about liver damage. There is an unexplored correlation with behavioral disorders in pregnancy that is not entirely explained away by assuming that people with behavioral problems take more Tylenol. Yet in the widespread population Tylenol is basically considered completely safe, as safe as apple juice.

My point is that drug education is not trivial and is full of unfinished threads, and there is plenty of room for abusing the messages.

Lead in gasoline is my benchmark for how hard it is to know that a drug (atmospheric lead) is having a negative widespread effect in the population (violence and IQ reduction). In that case, it took decades before the data was there, and decades more to build political action on the issue.

Yes, drug education is a good thing, but we also have to know that messages can and must change when data comes back. At what point is the data strong enough to put in high school literature? For example, the research showing a correlation between chronic marijuana use and testicular cancer[1]; should we put that in the literature? It is impossible to say at this point whether that is causal or simply related to a behavior that occurs when using marijuana, or perhaps even hormonal (people that like marijuana have a body chemistry that also maybe produces testicular cancer)? We simply have no idea. So yes, drug education is good, and we need more research on the effects of marijuana, and I don't think we can really speak authoritatively on its risks relative to nicotine or even alcohol. (No, not everyone can lead a normal life while stoned. Learning is most certainly inhibited, and a normal life involves learning things.)

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4642772/
I don't think that's an accurate description of why Yondr exists. The impetus for solutions like that were to allow for things like phone free concerts. You don't have to be rich to be annoyed with someone blocking your view holding their phone in the air.