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One thing that I enjoy about Browning's videos is that he often will be proactive in helping victims. Sometimes he will catch scammers in the middle of scamming others and either call the victim to educate them about what is happening, sabotage the scam by reversing what the scammers are doing on their computer, or just refunding the funds with the scammers' own systems.

He might not be as "fun" and whacky as some of the other baiters, but it his videos can be quite interesting. He will sometimes figure out the hierarchy and layout of their company and network, their physical locations, business fronts, etc so that he can methodically take down the company.
They were harassed -- absolutely believe that.

Were they convicted of anything? OP wasn't talking about harassment, they were talking about convictions.
Ya, process vs people is a smarter dichotomy. More general purpose. Thank you.
I recently had to get a copy of my car loan from chase in order to get new state license plates after moving. The 2 options for delivery were by mail or fax...
> Why would a practical test be more effective than a discussion about prior work experience? Short coding tests under pressure are extremely unrepresentative of real work and I'm not sure homework-style interviews are much better. I personally don't want to spend an entire weekend on your test and I've dropped opportunities for that reason in the past.

These are good points, and the tests I have given are specifically designed to avoid these issues.

Personally I do this:

* Come up with a simple but realistic 1 or 2 hour task, and write up the request in plain English (do not write a tech spec). It should be task you'd expect anyone to be able to easily do on day one without any assistance.

* Include a short narrative about the end user that clearly implies a specific requirement or two, but don't spell out it out as an explicit requirement.

* Omit a small but important detail that any reasonable person would ask.

* Instruct them to provide a solution to the users problem, and ask questions if something isn't clear.

These are pretty simple to evaluate too:

* Does the code run? (i.e. can the candidate write basic code?)

* Does it meet the user's explicit needs? (i.e. can the candidate follow basic instructions?)

* Does it meet the user's implicit needs? (i.e. does the candidate write code to spec, or do they think about the bigger picture?)

* Did the candidate ask a question about that obvious missing detail? (i.e. does the candidate speak up, or will they make assumptions?)

You would be surprised with how many people don't have the ability to apply their ability to write code to solve simple problems.
> in fy2019 harvard spent $193M on student aid

That is only undergraduate aid applied directly to tuition. Per Note 12 on page 43, "Total scholarships and other student awards" was $613,243k, of which $457,639K was in direct credits to expenses.

That said, I don't know where the GP got the idea that most of the endowment is earmarked for financial aid. Per page 11, that earmark is specifically 19%.
Cheap and providing a long lived homogenous platform. Apple do this to a certain extent but not at the price point. You can customise with peripherals.
It’s great that Harvard started their free tuition program, but for most students it costs $60-70k/year.

Harvard is not “fairly cheap” and likely has something to do with their students largely coming from wealthy families.
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I believe every leader owes it to their company to utilize these government facilities. PPP loans are forgivable and they allow the company to maintain its staff during historically uncertain times.
Judging from the video description, while I would read a text based version, I don't respect the source enough to be willing to watch a video of it. Videos suck as a way to answer simple questions with simple answers. They are an absolutely terrible medium for that.

Can you instead answer the simple question : "What is the name of the legal entity which you allege duck duck go is providing money to, and which you identify as "antifa" ?
It's almost always the elderly and they're relentlessly pursued over the phone.

I think that's a stereotype, rather than a rule. I've seen articles in the newspaper occasionally where the victim is a person in their 30's or 40's.

I suspect that we don't hear a lot about that because there isn't a lobbying or information group like the AARP for 30-somethings. Also, losing $250 to a scammer is less tragic for a younger victim with a full-time job than it is for a 70-year-old on SNAP, so they don't talk about it as much.

When I worked in a large office with very ordinary, I saw people of all ages falling for scams. They just didn't know they were scams until it was all over, and then they just stopped talking about it.
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Underground HVDC is straightforward (supporting anywhere between 600MW and 1.5GW of capacity) and can be an effective replacement for above ground projects blocked by NIMBYs. More money, but doable, and in zero interest rate policy environments just borrow some more. You don’t even need to rip out existing pipes, you can leave them in the ground purged and unused.

I would expect that you’ll also see “repowering” projects where aging overhead AC transmission lines are upgraded to more efficient, higher capacity HVDC.
> whereas awesome has virtual desktops that cover all screens at once.

(disclaimer: Awesome co maintainer here)

I am not sure what you mean. Awesome tags are per screen and can be moved to other screens (since pretty much day 1). Can you be more specific? In any case, I am slowly adding support for Xmonad style "shared" tags across screen, so I am collecting comments/use_cases on how to make tags better.
I've yet to read it, but from what I've heard it should be pretty related. It's a classic, anyway, so there's nothing to lose.
My friend's 68 year old mother lost $118,000 to a similar scam: https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/consumer-alert-ocean...

Fortunately, her daughter was able to recoup the funds from the banks.
I think at 500 karma points you get the option to downvote comments.
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Amusingly, I tried this approach. What I found is that I would make up any excuse to not lock my device in the timer box.

Seems like my addiction runs very very deep.
My information is from various reviews, and the image quality has stayed pretty much the same the last three years according to that. The image processing has changed, but the panels seem to be pretty much the same within the differences you get per-panel anyway.
> low-material energy (i.e. energy with high power density) like nuclear

Nuclear is not particularly dense, kilogram for kilogram, compared to something like solar. A reactor and containment and cooling require absolutely massive amounts of concrete and steel.

And check out the size of the new SMRs that are being proposed; 1-10MW of an SMR isn't that tiny. I haven't run the masses at all like I have with solar and 1GW plants, since I'm not very familiar with wind turbines, but I wouldn't be surprised at all if wind and SMRs were within an order of magnitude of mass per MW.

Nuclear gets tons of energy out of small masses of fuel, but the rest of the infrastructure isn't so small, especially compared to solar which has massless fuel.
Reading the phrase "the end of life on this planet as we know it" to describe depressions or quarantines is a painfully big stretch.
This has been a popular fringe scientific theory for many years under the title Electric Universe Theory. Fringe for sure, but its lead proponents tend to be real scientists referencing real, peer-reviewed literature.
> If you're curious about missing money, go to the web site of the Secretary of State in every state where you've lived or gone to school.

It's not always the Secretary of State; e.g., in California unclaimed property is the domain of the State Controller’s Office:

https://ucpi.sco.ca.gov/ucp/
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Hopefully just a meaningless correlation, but it's a bit sad to see "other family" taking more and more of a prominent antagonist role toward the end of the author's working life.
Yes, this is how I use them as well. I’ll go to the unit tests after I have a decent understanding of the project and am looking for examples that aren’t covered in the README.
Seems like the FTC or some other government agency could save a lot of people a lot of heartache with a PSA targeted at elderly people. Commercials during daytime TV basically saying no one will ever legitimately call you and ask you to buy gift cards as a method of payment.
Ask HN: How many hours do you work?
I'm specifically interested in salaried IT jobs.

I did some searches on HN and found posts about proposed 6 hour work days, and how people are only productive for 2-3 hours a day. But I didn't see anything like this.

I work for a company that says they require 7.5 hours of work per day for salaried positions. Of course you need to work some extra hours in IT for elevations or support, which is fine. But I have been told that in order to move into a senior dev position or a tech lead, you have to put in about 9 hours or more. I consistently see tech leads working 9-12 hours a day. Of course being salaried, they make no additional pay for all this extra time. I wonder how normal this is.

I can't rightly see an intelligent person taking a senior dev job for a 7% raise while also increasing their hours about 15%. This basically amounts to you being compensated less for your time. My though would be that you should be promoted to those roles based on your skill and contribution to the company, not just an increase in hours.

What is your job, how many hours are expected, how many do you work, and are extra hours expected for getting promoted (and staying at that level)?
I wonder, if you fit some kind of propulsion and controls - will the model become flyable enough?
No, we're not all saying we need to replace journalism with some wacky new system.

What we are saying is that journalism has major problems with accountability and criticism.
Would it be hard to make a buckling spring switch? You’d need to use a pre made spring but that does not feel like cheating :). Those switches have a fantastic feedback and sound.
> a rapidly growing population of devs who feel like they're locked out due to the technical interview process.

I’m not convinced all these articles about “hiring is broken” and “interviews are broken” actually help with this problem. They are pining for something that may not exist (and may not be possible), and failing to help candidates understand and excel within the current system’s imperfections.

I get the impression that many young devs have skewed expectations and aren’t practicing job interviews before attempting them, and believe that their coding skills are the only things that should matter. The article here reinforces those expectations by repeatedly talking about evaluating competency without acknowledging that competency in soft skills like writing and communication and attitude are often at least as important as competency in software engineering, for example.

That said, I would very much agree with your approach and that a technical apprentice is a nice way for both the candidate and the company to learn about each other. Internships naturally do this without necessarily having the expectation of hiring the intern - though I’ve seen a lot of interns hired because they prove themselves competent.

One problem with a technical apprentice role as an alternative to longer interviews is that you have to expect to not hire a large percentage of the apprentices (otherwise there’s no point). In that sense, the apprenticeship becomes a much more demanding interview, and the commitment and risks are much higher for both the candidate and the company. As someone who does a lot of interviewing and resume reading and hiring, I’m not sure I would change my interview process if I hired more apprentices (but I already spend a lot of time looking for potential over experience.)
I wish I knew how to diagnose SSL issues in Firefox Android in order to learn more about why you’re experiencing issues here. If you’re on cellular, try WiFi? Does it affect any other phones in your house? Etc.
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This is quite good actually.

I would add that some elements of design are worth keeping up, like a general architectural overview and the details of some things, like state-machines or specific kinds of statefulness.

It can be done in the comments, at the package level, that way developers can keep it up to date without much fuss.
That depends on what it is you're programming, surely.
> We should all look to change ourselves before trying to change other people - lead by example and others will follow.

In general I agree, but it's much harder to do that if the other people are already (deceptively) acting like the are a good example.
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A couple weeks ago I was trying to decide whether to use a project that appears to be unmaintained these days.

I noticed a sad game being played in the issue comments, where existing users of the project keep wishing aloud for someone to fork, fix, and maintain the project.

It reminded me that I occasionally see an HN thread where someone looking for more experience posts an Ask HN that boils down to something like "How do I get experience and build my portfolio if I don't have any good ideas?"

I went looking to see if anyone was working on collecting projects that could use some help and found Adoptoposs. It doesn't yet have the feature I was actually looking for yet (somewhere I could submit a project that may need a fork-and-replace), but I think it could be a better answer (to "the experience/portfolio question") for the OSS ecosystem than common defaults like building a calculator or to-do list or note-taking app?
The scale of chemical batteries needed to handle a deeply decarbonized grid is almost unfathomable. It is certainly physically possible (i.e. not forbidden by the laws of physics), but to postulate that it will go off without significant hitches related to environmental concerns, resource issues, transmission permitting issues, land-use issues, chemical disposal/recycling issues, energy return on investment shortages, etc. seems really optimistic to me.

I get that this is what people want to happen but I just think it's vastly harder than most people think.

> Enough sunlight falls on Earth in an hour to power humanity for a year.

There's enough recoverable fission fuel on Earth to power humanity for a billion years. Energy resources is not the issue. Accessing it economically and in politically-compatible ways is.
I'm curious - what's the conversion ratio for this? I like the idea of this but can't help but think it's ripe for being taken advantage of (on both sides). Have you had trouble with converting to full time offers? Have you had candidates "waste" time/money by severely under-performing or not finishing tasks?
COVID hospitalizations in Texas Medical Center are at 350 and rising. https://www.tmc.edu/coronavirus-updates/tmc-daily-new-covid-...

In NYC, there were 358 hospitalizations and rising on 3/17, and 8 deaths. On 3/31, there were 383 daily deaths and rising. https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page

Deaths in Texas have been trending upwards since June. https://www.us-covid-tracker.com/?field=newDeaths&state=Texa...

Of course, there's no guarantee that the course of the epidemic in Texas will look like New York City's. But a sharp rise in hospitalizations does seem to presage a lot of deaths.
> From what I understand, a retail store doesn’t make any profit selling gift cards for other stores.

That seems dubious, considering they dedicate precious shelf and display space to selling them. Accounting can get crazy in the real world, but clearly they have a motive to move these things. The cards are on the shelf because the cards make money for the store, somehow.
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I would love to get the data for this. Would make a nice demo for a graph database.
Definitely this... I have a manager who always has an answer to every one of my suggestions or comments on 1-on-1s where it feels like he thinks my complaints are unwarranted. You don't need to have an answer for everything, just listen and then come back with a good solution.
> Building new transmission is unbelievably difficult in this age, and I think most of the opportunities for doing so will require repurposing existing, defunct infrastructure.

I think this is a very astute observation. Don't underestimate the value of an existing pipe running to almost every building in America.
This isn't HTTP Basic Auth, though: these days git with the right Credential Managers (and Git for Windows comes with a good one built in) support OAuth Access Tokens obtained with full OAuth login flows including 2FA authentication. It's theoretically no worse than SSH PKI, and in terms of practicality is often better because it is easier and more convenient. (For the users, it is clearly more complex that "install openssh" to implement if you are trying to build a git host that supports OAuth Access Token auth.)
Dang TIL too because I updated my email before I commented :)
>People who die of gunshots are COVID-19 deaths if they test positive

Citation needed, because that sounds like nonsense.
> you can handle a large and difficult work load with precision and attention to detail

This part may be true, but I doubt it's determinative: over a long career I've not found much difference between Ivy folks and State folks in engineering roles, and I can easily think of a few Ivy-Leaguers who ended up in very high office and whose fulfillment of your criteria was, at best, questionable.
That is false.

India was a socialist nightmare. Only recently has it switched to a market economy. It is still recovering and will take decades to recover. This is all well-known.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_liberalisation_in_Ind...

China recently lost its legal status as a market economy.

https://www.businessinsider.in/international/news/china-lose...

I thought these were well known. If you are willing to rectify this, I am willing to engage more, but respectfully decline to continue further otherwise.

> How exactly would you build a country that was politically resistant to outside interference from countries that are much wealthier than it? This is a genuine question

You can’t that’s why pure communism/socialism is a disaster almost always.

A better question is why other countries with US interference like Japan and South Korea have ended up being much more richer than before. North Korea without any US interference is much much poorer. (It is almost like a controlled experiment) Why is that?
Yup, and the reality becomes winners take all. Really starts to suck for us that ended up going to a ~200 ranked institution because we couldn’t get in to the prestigious ones (which, in all honesty, is much harder than finding a way to pay for an expensive school).
I comment my code[0].

I don't particularly care what people think about it.

I will say that I have turned over a lot of code, over the years, and virtually never get asked about what it does. When people ask me about my code, I generally tell them where to look, and contact me if they need explanations.

I don't get contacted, so I guess they could figure it out.

I also tend to write a lot of supporting documentation.

We do have to be careful, though. Documentation can easily become "concrete galoshes"[1], so things like header/auto documents are pretty important.

[0] https://medium.com/chrismarshallny/leaving-a-legacy-1c2ddb0c...

[1] https://medium.com/chrismarshallny/concrete-galoshes-a5798a5...
I'm not the original commenter, but I'd bet their logic is that the value of being at Harvard for 2020-2021 is less than that of Harvard for 2021-2022.

The expected value of a startup (heavily dependent on what type of startup...) is the same either this year or next, but the opportunity cost is less.
I'd recommend reading: https://liberationschool.org/tiananmen-the-massacre-that-was... as well as the WikiLeaks documents and draw your own conclusions. CBS, NYT, and many other American sources all also do not report this "massacre" yet I recall it being in my textbooks and it being "common knowledge".

It's become impossible for me to trust the US on anything domestic much less China. I'd hoped for much better from HN but it seems the critical lens is not being applied as much as a xenophobic one. :(
If you give up maximum throughput for flexibility, it's indeed possible to do just that, and AFAIK that's how many factories are operated. There's also a mix and match where you have "subunits" that operate specific subsection of assembly line in specialized manner and provide general resources to multiple further areas (if you play Factorio, such subunits can be directly compared with Assemblers or Assemblers blocks in bigger production lines). An example of such a block cane be manufacture of pipes or PCBs.
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I agree Harvard grads will be significantly better off in a job market than peers at lesser-known schools. However, one point of bitterness is that the value of attending Harvard next year is almost surely less than attending last year. Despite that, tuition is not being adjusted for students. In fact, it will cost more than last year.
Beautiful! an option to make use of wavenet api would make this 100w better.
It's a company who's business model is to fork an existing project and use it to remove advertising from content creators and replace it with their own, founded and led by an asshole. I'm not outraged, but I've long since stopped giving Brave any benefit of the doubt.
I used to work on software with a lot of international customers. On every release we had to go through rigorous testing to ensure our product could be installed off of CD-ROMs solely for use by the Japanese market.

This was 10 years ago, but even then CD-ROMs seemed antiquated. It doesn't surprise me that Japan would be one place they're still common.
Dude. They have infinite time. You don't
> What are the best effective measures to retain qualified employees (in general and developers in particular)?

Pay them more money.
> Dominion plans to use about $3 billion of the after-tax proceeds to buy back its shares later this year.

So, they sold this asset to buy back shares? This seems like a seriously short-sighted play.
Usually the ones who do terrible in the interview but the resume is solid. That person knows how to do their job but can't sell themselves. When they end up finding work they rely on good work.

The opposite is a great interviewer. They will have an even better resume. Rarely are the best workers but can somehow stage what little they do into looking like a top performer. Will likely move on when the going gets tough.
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