skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The criminal justice system needs a lot of fixing. The rate of incarceration and criminalization is insane in a Western context, and does not actually help community safety. This is something that there's broad consensus about among social scientists.
When it comes to programming, a lot of the higher-paying positions are mostly bullshit around advertising/marketing or the infrastructure supporting that.

There is non-bullshit programming out there, but it's usually hidden away because it's about supporting existing, real-world projects that often use "legacy" technologies that aren't considered cool anymore.
Ok, we'll replace it with some of the mud in the headline above.
There's also Jim Browning (not his real name)- https://www.youtube.com/c/JimBrowning/videos

Although his practices are more... grey hat, he's managed to successfully shutdown whole companies. He provided content for a BBC documentary too: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000fzx2

Even though he regularly sends information to authorities, it is very rare that they will do anything.
Ah, maybe the cup is half full, and with Covid there is one more source of good opportunities added to the others:

Net, if you want a good job and can't find one, that is, can't find someone to create a good job for you, then create a good job for yourself.

Historic opportunities: Fantastic, historic, resources -- computing, computing infrastructure, software tools, mathematical methods, and digital communications, all essentially dirt cheap and often essentially for free.

Exploit the resources and go for it! Create a great job for yourself!
Well, from what I read here in Orange County CA, the state forced the county to count people who have tested positive with Antibody tests to now be counted as a positive COVID-19 test, even if the tests were done long ago.
nyc said 21.6% antibody on 6/13. 32k deaths, 8.4M ppl => 1.8% IFR. CFR is much more complicated because policy changes on testing and hospitalization will make cause CFR to bounce around. Anyone argue that's a worse case scenario?
This is a great idea for apprentices/entry level talent. However what I see in FAANGs is that though we claim to have a shortage, the reality is that demand is low (internal headcount) and supply is high (for ELTs). The leetcode style coding interviews is very very pushed for so that we can have a standardized process whether that is what the job entails or not. After all most of the work being done is on some custom stack anyway. The downside of this it ends up impacting experienced engineers who are being evaluated on the standardized tests rather than experience sadly. I feel this may even be the desired outcome!
I'm wondering if much of the discussion here is even about the article, which advocates for things we long know work better:

* Structured interviews

* Blind auditions

* Competency-related evaluations

The title "Job interviews don't work" is rather bait-clicky when clearly they advocate that _some_ form of job interviews work. Or are at least better.

As a technical hiring manager for over a decade, here's where I'm at:

- The best interview is an internship. We can't always do that and often we need senior talent now.

- The next best interview would be a portfolio. I am so envious of artists with their public portfolios. If there's one thing I wish we as an industry could figure out, it would be some way of stopping to test and retests ourselves as if we have to constantly reprove what we've already done and instead find a way to better showcase our work.

- The next best technical interview would be a "homework" project, but I've come around to the mentality that this just isn't fair to candidates. As a hiring manager I love it, but most folks just don't have the time to do a bunch of unpaid work. Even if you compensate them, it's unrealistic for many.

So we're mostly back to the suggestions in the article. They're good. A good hiring process is not easy but it's worth it.

And finally, a bit of anecdotal evidence: yes, there are folks out there you probably shouldn't hire. They aren't a good fit for the role. You want to set them and yourself up for success. That said, there are probably more people who can excel than you realize. A major factor in their success is the maturity of the team and leadership that's already in your company. Sometimes you'll get lucky and hire some rare talent, but if all you're doing is looking for "rare" talent, then you're likely poorly calibrated and relying too much on outside talent to come in an fix the mess already on your hands.
I second that: Outlook forms design and it's VB 'macros\programming' circa 2001.

Still gives me nightmares.
Athletics are going to be reeling.

No announcement yet, but this effectively kills football, no?
That's just a bizarre thing to conclude, I think we're done here.
" there is no comparable pool of labour anywhere in the world " -> this is not fully true, as when wages in China started to rise, lots of labor offshoring moved to SE Asia (e.g. Vietnam) and there's still a lot of potential for the same to happen in various African countries.
I bet Autodesk products are also used to design airplanes and cars which contribute to climate change. I bet they are also used to design plastic containers which also contribute to plastic pollution.

Software is a tool. It is the responsibility of the user not the writer of the software. If we get away from that principle, we would do ourselves great harm.

Do you want the word processor companies to be responsible for what people write? Do you want encryption software companies responsible for what people encrypt?
8 MiB Shrek is kind of an AV1 meme at this point.
I’m a programmer but I do the exact job mentioned in the article as the most bullshit: call centers / IVRs. But at least mine don’t suck and pass information back and forth unlike the example.
I kinda thought the original article was BS. After all, who is more likely to be an authority about whether a job is useless or not: the person willing to spend tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars for it to be done, or some writer?

OTOH, I think there are jobs which could be removed, but the explanation for their existence is far more boring than some great conspiracy to create BS jobs: it's just path-dependency.
I think a solution to this is for all the giftcards to add a delay of one week in order to cash in the points. This way the scammed would be able to get some money back once they realize it was a scam.
> Competency tests have helped me get in the door.

How so? The door was already open if the company decided to give you a test.

My impression is that coding tests either offer neutral or negative feedback during an interview. It's not like a candidate can manipulate linked lists in a way that shows particular brilliance.
200K would be in the realm of possibility for someone at the very bottom of the band, I think. I thought you meant ~150K as in half of 280K. That would be really low.
The higher penalties was probably the result of more than just admission by BP.
Environmentalism had much more of a focus by both the American public and the presidential administration than it did with Exxon’s disaster. The calls for consequences were much louder and supported.
Why is it ironic and why are they math phobic?
I'm friends with quite a few Harvard MBAs now (think what you will, but the ones I know are all great people :) because my partner is a Harvard MBA. Without a doubt, they all said they'd take a gap year if they were in the current situation. Half the value is the credentialing, but the other half is the experience and network you build through it.
>Weird for me that they could have billions in the bank and still ask for tuition.

if you make something free, people don't value it. Harvard has a lot of financial aid for students who legitimately can't afford the tuition, and charges a lot for students who can.
>almost no real in-person time to connect with your team

I work on a very distributed team and, in normal times, we just physically get together in one of our offices or in conjunction with some event a lot of people are attending anyway a few times a year. Most of us (normally) travel a good part of the time anyway so it's really not especially disruptive.

I actually agree that remote teams should have some real F2F time but that needn't mean living within commuting distance of a common office.
Wow. What a selfish perspective. It's art. It made this guy happy. It makes me happy knowing it exists and the complete write up about it. How much is that worth. I can tell you my happiness is worth more than zero. Can't speak for the artist, but willing to guess it is more than zero as well. Who are you state where this individual's time is better spent?
Deaths are a lagging indicator. 2-4 weeks behind case counts.
so let me get this straight, a software company should try to regulate the coal mining industry? thats like santa claus regulating the toy industry.
In Firefox on a desktop, sometimes one "tick" of the scroll wheel jumps down an entire page, sometimes just a few inches, and the scroll wheel stops working until the page is finished moving. You also can't scroll up once you get to the bottom of the page.
If I spent my weekends flipping burgers instead of kayaking/backpacking/etc, I'd have more money too. But why on earth would I want to do that? This person clearly has some source of income sufficient to let them "waste" hundreds of hours, I don't think they need to be in a rush to dig up more money.
Yeah, but the majority that actually get around it are those who are already not supporting the government. Millions of others are being brainwashed by the state limiting data. It's an awful implication, considering how vital the internet is to modern life.
A couple random things:

1. How did Adam and the Ants never get sued over "Jolly Roger"? [1] The melody and even the arrangement are pretty much a straight copy of Morricone's "The March of the MacGregors" [2] from the movie "7 Guns for the MacGregors". Morricone should have at least got songwriting credit on "Jolly Roger", but it is just credited to Marco Pirroni and Adam Ant.

2. There are some interesting covers of Morricone songs. The Ramones did "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" in some of their live shows. Their version was pretty straightforward...if you heard it in isolation you would not have thought "Ramones".

Wall of Voodoo did "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly". Their version sounded like a Wall of Voodoo song.

Great music stays great even if arranged for and played on instruments quite different from what it was written for. An example of that is the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain's version of "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly" [3].

3. If all that comes to mind when you hear the name Ennio Morricone is a bunch of great spaghetti western music, it is worth getting a compilation or two of his work and listening to it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR4n-oo32Jg

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peGmy_oRz38

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLgJ7pk0X-s
Heh, I remember when Android first launched, I made a little calculator app for it so it was ready on launch day. Few months later, I got a completely plain text message from some random email address, saying something like "congrats, your app was one of the first 10,000 apps on the Play Store, to say thank you we would like to send you a Nexus One. Please fill out your details on this page <link to some random spreadsheet>". I immediately thought it was a scam, there was absolutely nothing identifying it as coming from Google, nothing that would give me any confidence whatsoever. But, I googled it, and yep, Google has announced they would be giving out phones to early developers - so I filled out the form and without ever receiving any further communication from them, a Nexus One arrived in post couple months later. It was incredibly bizarre, and in hindsight I wonder if they did it on purpose to limit the number of phones they needed to send out.
> The point is that unless you're willing to say that people who get abused in DMs don't matter, then arguing that leaving DMs open is broadly useful is just plain false.

I appreciate the nuanced response. I think it's possible to argue for the contrary position of the second clause of your statement without entailing the first clause.

I do think that leaving DMs open is broadly useful for getting feedback, especially from people who just want to discuss or provide links or private support without making the conversation public. There are folks (like me) out there who just don't like interacting publicly on hot button issues but want the option to quietly express support or provide context on disagreements.

It's not just really Twitter DMs that I refer to but really any one-on-one channel where someone can provide feedback in a respectful civil way -- e.g. a Contact Me button on a blog, or something similar.

That said, I do acknowledge it is not a one-size-fits-all prescription -- I merely propose it as something that does work and could work for folks, but it does depend on a variety of factors like power dynamics (as another commenter noted), who you are, your mental health, the topics you discuss, your attractiveness to trolls, etc. I'm not naive to the ugliness of people on the Internet (hey, I'm on Twitter -- such ugliness is publicly on display every single day). In order to open oneself up to private communications, the recipient naturally needs to have a mental distance to delete/report any discussion that is uncivil or abusive -- not everyone can do this, and even people who can sometimes have to shut off that channel temporarily when things get out of hand. But there are a number of people on Twitter who do allow DMs and who temporarily turn it off and then turn it back on when they feel they're ready.

At the end of the day, what I'm saying is that I feel there's value in removing the performative aspect of Twitter if one's goal is to achieve higher quality discussions. Opening up DMs? One can take it or leave it -- it's as optional as exposing contact info on one's HN profile.
Amazing! Thank you. Will be reaching out :)
I don't want Autodesk to become political, they provide a tool, not a (political) ideology. I'm sure Autodesk products have been used to design bombs, weapons, great polluting machines and what not - but it has also been used for some truly inspiring stuff.

Autodesk is like a hammer, it's not the hammer manufacturer's fault in how their product is used. Do we want hammers to be restricted to only those whose political ideologies align with ours? The dangerous part is, we already see essential services such as payment processors taking political stances (blacklisting customers based on their political beliefs).

Autodesk's PR response is awful, to be completely honest if they were going to go down this route, they should have just remained quite. Their real mistake was to have a commitment to environmental impact. It could have been re-worded to have a green company infrastructure and to actively support green projects with tools and grants. We should all look to change ourselves before trying to change other people - lead by example and others will follow.
What an insanely beautiful model. It makes me happy to think that humans find the time to do things that have no value beyond their beauty and the pleasure they give to people who work on them.
> I’d say that is not the number one thing.

Well, that's sort of presumptuous of you.

Also your response had nothing to do with my comment nor your rebuttal to my comment.
I did not argue that this situation is "bad," I argued that it's "hostile to people who want to start families."

Now, you can guess based on my emotional language that I think it is good to pursue policies that make careers more open to people who want families. And, as it happens, the US government agrees, in so far as it designates wanting a family a protected class for the purpose of employment discrimination.

My argument, devoid of moral content, is:

If it's your aim to avoid excluding people who want families from a career, you need to regulate the amount of hours people in that career are expected to work, the amount they're expected to travel, and the distribution of lifetime expected earnings (don't unnecessarily gate a prosperous 40s behind penurious child-bearing years). Since this particular career is overwhelmingly government-funded, free-market analyses miss the point - the government decides how many Physics Grad Students there are, what they're paid, and largely what their future career trajectories are. Given that it holds the purse strings it also holds substantially more power to regulate working conditions than it otherwise would.

It's empirically obvious that people who want families are excluded from science, and I'm positing that the above is why.
This page appears to have a bad certificate configuration. What is the content?
Is it really that arduous to have a high-level understanding of what the method you're calling does, at least at the level of knowing whether or not it returns the type of object you want and whether it takes ownership of its arguments?

There's a separate question of whether the standard library should be inconsistent with itself, but it seems like a reasonable choice -- you can't efficiently use a json file without doing _something_ invasive to it like loading it all into ram, but a csv file isn't burdened the same way, and you probably don't want to be limited by available ram when all you need to do is enumerate a csv.
Thicker than VGA and Ethernet jack... without oversized touchpad... if it has upgradable RAM, disks and battery...
where is the Amazon link?
> Especially women are often relegated to menial work

I think this is the phenomenon you describe (Office ladies):

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

But not all women are like this. There are career oriented women that are not interested in menial work or becoming housewives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyaria%C5%ABman
Yes, it is conceivable that you could use cheap electricity from renewables, but it would have to be a lot cheaper than electricity from natural gas for it to make economic sense, probably something on the order of 5-6x cheaper. You get a factor of 3x just by using natural gas to heat directly, and then you need to account for bigger capital expenses for building plant and storage, because the cheap renewables are not available round the clock, so your production capacity must be significantly higher to produce more when they are available, to match the same average production of a standard natural gas plant, which can have smaller reactors etc but work around the clock. I think hitting 5-6x cheaper costs on average might be hard.
It is actually partially his work (though probably it evolved as such later), see the Singapore Airlines ad campaign from his site:

https://www.lucaiaconistewart.com/singapore-airlines

But yeah I agree, this kind of tedious repetitive work is nothing for me either. I need to do hobbies I can learn from. While this would have been incredibly educational (about aircraft design, construction, project management etc), it also contains a lot of highly repetitive work like building hundreds of the same seats. No thanks.

But anyway I wanted to say that hobbies aren't aways perpendicular to jobs or making money. I've used many things I've learned from hobbies in my job, and in fact my job is pretty much my hobby. And even with unrelated hobbies you can sometimes pull them into your work (as he did here). IMO this is the ideal way to go, yet for a lot of people unfortunately not achievable in this society :(

But kudos to him!! Wow, it looks amazing.
Long term may be a better description than permanent. But we don't know and won't know for a while what long term complications are caused. Look at HIV, you get a cold and then nothing maybe for years, then everything falls to pieces. It may not be as severe as HIV and it may be more severe than pneumonia. Why do you want to take that risk when you can avoid it with some simple precautions? If it turns out that these aren't permanent then you can go and catch it next year, no need to rush in now is there.
I'm an advocate for when it works, but it takes real commitment and effort. It takes engineers who want to mentor and see it as part of their responsibilities. It takes managers willing to mentor mentors and hold them accountable.

It takes all of that AND it takes the luxury of a company that has the excess in time and money to invest like that. Some companies don't. I've been in both companies that do and don't. When you're running a tight budget, you can't responsibly hire talent that is going to take a year to do a job you need done today.
The VCs come across as extremely thin skinned people who think no one has a right to criticize them and any complaints about their companies are unfair slander. Those arguments are basically the clear justification why journalism is important and exists. There might be some 'unfair and mean' journalists, but writing about the problems of google or whatever is important. Those people complaining are the embodiment of rich people who can't take any criticism without going out and hiring lawyers to try to squelch it.
It wouldn't matter if the courses are shared. Anybody in the world can now get access to the very highest tier of educational materials from sites like MIT OpenCourseWare. Universities sell credentials.
> I don't want Autodesk to turn away the revenue they need to keep making products I use.

More than that, I don't want companies selling products to get to decide if I can use them based on what my business is. A product for sale should be available to all, regardless of why you don't like me today. If you don't like making money from me, you can always set up a MFFAM policy: Morons Funding the Fight Against Morons. (So named by Nearly Free Speech). Basically take the profit from my purchases to work against me, but don't deny my purchases.

Anyway, even if you won't sell to me directly, I could likely setup a straw purchase, which is just wasting resources.
Please read up on the science. Climate change is bad (as is particulate pollution from coal mining) but it is hardly the end of life as we know it.
Hydro storage and flywheel storage have very different use cases, typically.

Flywheels contain tiny amount of energy, but can respond nearly instantaneously To provide frequency regulation on the grid.

Hydro has massive amounts of energy storage (days+ worth of output), but takes a looot longer to respond than flywheels.

I think we will see very little flywheel or dam construction in the coming decades; battery storage is becoming cheap enough that it will hit the non-linear inflection point in deployment in the next few years. First, lots of lithium ion, and likely after that lots of flow batteries.
Also the "doesn't degrade/burn-in/shift whitepoint after a year of ordinary use" category.
If your site was misunderstood, you should take that as valid feedback that you did not communicate your product effectively. Clarifying it for us is a great response, but acting like someone was not justified in critiquing it in the first place is simply a false expectation on your part. If you post on HN, you will get critique.