skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you look at the release notes[1], Outlook for Windows is getting a lot of love too. The majority of updates are performance and bug fixes, but the UI issue you mentioned highlights the need for this type of TLC in the Windows client. That said, the frequency you receive these will be pretty dependent on which release cycle your install is set up for, as it can range from monthly to semi-annually.

The Mac, web, and mobile versions are getting a whole lot of feature releases in comparison to the Windows client, but virtually all of them are intended to bring those other clients to feature parity with the Windows client. I've interpreted this as more of Microsoft treating these alternate platforms as first-class citizens finally, rather than as neglect of the Windows clients.

This also isn't limited to just the Outlook client - it's a trend across the entire Office suite. For example, Power Query[2] is a really neat and powerful ETL system hiding within Excel (as well as used in PowerBI, and originating in SQL Server Analysis Services). It's been available for years in Excel for Windows, but only recently became usable on Excel for Mac thanks to a major refactor[3] to port it to .NET Core and strip out Windows dependencies. Eventually this will reach feature parity with and replace the legacy Power Query code in the Windows Excel client, then all net new development will be cross-platform and available on both clients simultaneously.

All things considered, I view the resource allocation across the platforms as a positive. Presuming the feature development happening for the non-Windows clients are as similarly cross-platform as the Power Query effort, it'll eventually lead to cleaned up Windows clients with decades of legacy cruft refactored out, feature parity and consistency across platforms, and substantially greater velocity as those resources currently split between platforms eventually consolidate and focus on a unified, cross-platform, and cleaned up codebase. And if the refactors continue to prioritize .NET Core, it also bodes well for an official Linux client eventually.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/semi-annual-e...

[2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-query/power-query-wha...

[3] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/using-net-core-to-prov...
Thank you, I hadn't arrived at that insight until you articulated it.

This is probably the main reason why I burned out last year (1 year before COVID-19). I started programming when I was 12, but after 30 years of acquiring knowledge and experience, I'd find myself getting blank stares at meetings when I explained the crux of a problem and how to go about solving it. The team just perceived me as slow and out of touch, without realizing that I had just short-circuited everything they were discussing. They'd arrive at the same conclusion I did in a few weeks, but by then we'd be on to the next challenge. Rinse, repeat.

So instead of getting into the zone on hard problems, I found myself going through the motions to satisfy productivity metrics slapping duct tape over junior-level spaghetti code. It was unfathomable to them that their technique was at fault because they were so deep in what they were working on that they couldn't see the forest for the trees.

I've decided to take a break for a year or two and am currently doing handyman work for a good friend to make rent. I'm healthier and happier than I have been in many years. So for anyone reading this who feels any unease about where the tech industry is heading, I just want to reassure you that you can try new things and the world won't come to an end. You're capable and have resilience that maybe you haven't had to tap into for a while. Maybe we're just coming up against walls that we can't easily climb ourselves, and we just need to wait for the industry to catch up to what we already know.

TL;DR: my life is basically the cliche ending of Office Space right now, but that happens periodically and that's ok.
I drove a rental Tesla recently. We were parked in a long line waiting to board a ferry and I was playing chess on the main console. When the line started to move, I tried to too and car just wouldn't go or start. People stuck behind me started getting impatient and honking while I was trying to figure out what had happened, turning off and on again, pressing random buttons, accidentally popping the trunk, etc. It took several minutes to realize that the car wouldn't start while you were playing a game on the console, so I had to quit the game, and then drive.

My point with this anecdote is that it seems to me that Tesla has many such features, some of which may change with software updates, and, given the expansive definition of "reliability" used here, perhaps this is a driver of issues.

I wonder what the rates would be if you restricted it to "issues requiring professional repair" or something like that.
No moderator touched this post or, as far as I can tell, even saw it until I just came here. Users flagged it. The baity title would be reason enough. Reddit drama tends to get flagged here also, for obvious reasons.

HN hasn't "decided" anything like what you say. The issue is that nationalistic flamewar makes people angry and dumb (and worse). People who want to rant and post denunciatory rhetoric—whom there are a lot of, and growing—need to find another place to do that. Thoughtful, curious conversation on China-related topics is as fine here, as it is on other topics, and as it always has been.

The way we operate HN hasn't changed. What has changed are macro social and geopolitical trends. We can't expect HN to be immune from those, but certainly we need to protect it from degenerating into a flamewar site, and that is what the vast majority of this community wants from us.
There is no data could collect that would tell them whether they are efficiently sorting good candidates from the herd.

Say that I wanted to sort men from women to only identify women. One thing I could do is have the candidate walk under a bar that was 5 foot 4.

Most of the people who would get through would be women. But this would not be an efficient screening method. I would still be losing many women to the screening method.

If I am only polling the women who get to the end of the screening to see if they are women, I can't evaluate the efficacy of the screening. Facebook/Google would need to hire some of the failed candidates to compare results.
You sure it's not just powershell?
Very true. I suffer from this myself, and I have interviewed for Google twice. When I interviewed the second time I thought I bombed, but I was hired. With the benefit of hindsight, I can rationally tell myself that me getting into some pretty high flying places is not a coincidence, but I'm 1/3rd of a programmer in an interview compared to when I'm not under stress.
What you’re describing has been Amazon for at least a decade and it’s transparently what they offer and how they market themselves, so the Walmart comparison is not even necessary.

If you are using Amazon to find top premium brands / products, you’re shopping in the wrong place to begin with.
> traditions are fine until someone occupies the office who doesn't care about traditions, then you need a legal backstop.

Maybe its just me, but I haven't seen anything during the current "kingdom" that was at all illegal. That's what's so powerful about it, what makes it unstoppable.

Before, kings didn't really know how to wield power.
Have a look at SpaceX or Comma.ai job openings. There are still quite a lot of jobs for c++ devs.
I'd get a lobby built around that elevator with an additional locked door.. or maybe I'm too paranoid.
I have a philosophical problem with leaking people's personal information but I admit that I'm curious. I want to see what's in this data.
The possibilities with an open phone are awesome.
I as a teen in the 80s, I never believed nuclear war was inevitable, but it was a constant background fear. In the suburbs of Houston, any nighttime lightning-strike waking me up would trigger the thought: "was that a nuclear detonation over the city?"

Those seeking to learn more about the mindset could check out ABC's 'The Day After' miniseries (1983) or the movie 'Miracle Mile' (1988) – which I'd suggest viewing with no other pre-reading other than this recommendation.
At least with studies on the Australian grid, it seems like the need for "baseload" sources is myth fueled mostly by resistance to upgrading to renewable sources.

https://www.energymatters.com.au/renewable-news/baseload-ene...
Munich has very strict limits on vertical height so that cathedral spires aren't drowned out by the buildings. On the edge of the city you do see some taller office buildings but not in the core, and certainly not to the extent you would expect in a major city.
It's still a bias - one that's exacerbated by a lack of diversity
Enough get enough money to perpetuate the myth of "everyone" getting rich in my experience.
This is likely a source of gender disparity in technology. Men tend to be more confident in math and engineering situations, even when they know as much or less than their female peers (the much-reported "gender confidence gap")[1][2][3]. We are disadvantaging equally capable women by using an interview format they are less likely to do well on.

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1949-8594...

[2] https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED542116

[3] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/05/the-con...
As a Tesla owner, I think it’s not a great rental car. A lot to learn.
The fact that we know we can rank French nuclear plants by their transparency level is already seriously screwed up.
It sounds like you are saying that this survey is meaningless because it disagrees with your anecdotal experience. If the survey is conducted in a rigorous and valid way, then it's the perception, not the study, that needs to be suspect. Does J.D. publish their methodology and data? The best I could find was this PDF: https://www.jdpower.com/sites/default/files/file/2020-06/202....
But you just wrote:

>And completely missing the boat on "right to free speech" != "right to no consequences".

Calling for the de-platforming, destruction of reputation, and career is a form of oppression.
Yes. One tribe is a cornered, bleeding, broken animal, one isn't.
> This article talks about formatting and other superficial stylistic issues.

On that note though, there is one thing that people have been doing for the past 5 or so years, maybe a bit more, with the formatting when they write online. In particular I see it often on Medium.com

They use blockquote to highlight some piece of their text. But the text in the blockquote is not a quote. Neither from elsewhere nor from their own text.

This annoys me.

AFAIK, blockquote has a history in the printed press of being used to catch your eye when you flick through a newspaper, so that you would want to buy the paper and read the article on that page. And the text in the blockquote was extracted from the text itself. Often from a part of it where a person that was interviewed said something that the editors found interesting. At least, that’s how I remember it.

Another type of use it is suitable for is to distinguish something quoted from elsewhere from the rest of the text.

But the way that it is being used now, it confuses and annoys my brain every time.
If we had prepared them in advance that this was just a trial thing and not made it out as a big deal, things would have gone differently. These viral clips kind of encourage you to make an occasion of it, though, which is the part that stings.

It became too awkward for the recipient to return it after such a fuss was made, I think (also we waited for a particular holiday, which ate into the return window). It was left with an "I'll keep trying them out", and that was that. There was a vague mention a few weeks later about how it made some flowers maybe look a tiny bit different, but if there was any real effect it was not significantly life enhancing for this person, and certainly not worth all the hullaballo or expense.
When did privilege become bad? I mean it is a reality we face daily but is it actually "bad" so should be eliminated? Plus there is no one privilege right?

At what point do I owe someone something for being less privileged than me?
The State-of-the-Art Open-Domain Chatbot in English and Chinese
Well, how come I am not surprised. Google is an ad company and I think lots of people still have not understood this. Google abuses that and does whatever they can to get more data. Ethics play no role for them.
I wonder if large companies get more of a pass with outages then small ones? Bias towards authority in a way.

If a service has a big enough base an outage could almost seem like a pass for everyone. “Oo couldn’t do that this morning GITHUB was down.” Whereas if my small GitLab server was down bosses could be “well why aren’t we on GitHub like everyone else, it’s up now?”

When google calendar was down a bit ago I tried looking at random people responses on twitter and many were “whew I get out of some meetings!”

Perhaps there is some accountability for large scale outages like these but it really feels like consensus is often “shit happens” which is totally reasonable just seems like it could hurt big companies a lot less.
Well, we've gone all-in on "digital community", which has the unfortunate outcomes of 1) easy to find your echo chamber of choice and 2) limited in-person interaction. In-person community can still be found, but it seems to be in decline. For example, teenagers are spending less & less time with their friends, and church congregations continue to shrink.
This video does a good job summarizing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkkiK4nplW0

JD Powers get maligned a lot, but they're an industry tool used by manufacturers to measure themselves against others. The survey has incentives to be accurate.

The Initial Quality Survey is basically a measure of how happy a customer is with their new car. I think a luxury brand like Tesla does especially badly because customers are already aware of (and sensitive to) potential issues with paint, body panel alignment & scuffing whereas mainstream brands' customers may not be scrutinizing their cars as much
> She will just say that the process is designed to minimize false positives and the expense of more false negatives. A bad hire is more expensive than a no hire.

That's what they keep saying. However, it remains to be proven that regurgitating answers on a whiteboard in 45 minutes implies that the candidate is not a false negative, or even a true positive to begin with.
They get him dead, which can enough for some particularly evil people with a grudge.

Look at e.g. (probably) the FSB poisoning Litvinenko, six years after he fled to the UK. After six years there wasn't much to gain for the FSB other than making an example out of him and retribution.
Apparently they made a truce, Russia stopped blocking Telegram recently.
That's an interesting point, but you're also describing a shrinking demographic.
> If toyota wanted to be less conservative and start using blazing new technologies in their cars, I'm sure we'd see the same issues there.

The Toyota Prius was the first mass produced hybrid vehicle and is notoriously reliable.
Here is the registry work around for those that can not patch right now. [0]

To work around this vulnerability, make the following registry change to restrict the size of the largest inbound TCP-based DNS response packet that's allowed:

Subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\DNS\Parameters
Value: TcpReceivePacketSize
Type: DWORD
Value data: 0xFF00

The default (also maximum) Value data = 0xFFFF.
The recommended Value data = 0xFF00 (255 bytes less than the maximum).
You must restart the DNS Service for the registry change to take effect. To do this, run the following command at an elevated command prompt:

net stop dns && net start dns

[0] - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4569509/windows-dns...
The fundamental reason is electoral calculus. The socialists, and then macronists, needed green votes to get a majority. The safety assessment is perfectly fine.
Back in the day, I'd use nail polish/varnish to color over the windows of EEPROMS that I didn't want to erase. And we used to use red polish on EEPROMS with classified/secret data on it for military contracts.

And also, back in the day, we'd sit in the lab and paint our nails with the red polish while we were waiting 30 minutes for the Data General Nova to compile our code.
I think your parent was describing the nuance between "voters" and "voters who are aligned with the legislative majority", which is fair.
It's widely considered comical.
Your comment reminded me of an article I think I read here on HN: https://qz.com/1737145/the-economics-of-driving-seven-teslas...
I know him personally and he certainly wouldn't. He's one of the most humble people I've ever met. I just wanted to emphasize that he's not just any NASA scientist.
A stringer captured this video below of a similar incident that happened recently in New York. Could this be related/ him?

https://youtu.be/iJIImjO9lVw
Peak Internet – The Censorship Bubble Is About to Burst
This survey isn't really a "reliability" survey per-se. It's more a measure of how happy people are with their new cars
Choosing the VCS myself. Even SCCS would work for one text file.
In the US upgrades of old plants in the US have gone wrong. e.g. see the San Onofre upgrade

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Onofre_Nuclear_Generating_...
I've only ever seen it slow directly following an HN/Reddit post.

It may never have been _instant_ loading, but it's always felt fairly responsive to me.
Sounds like a bunch of oughts to me, bud.
Fair point. The updated article is also a lot more articulate.
Can anyone recommend a good resource for learning about Dynamic Programming? Not from a FAANG interview perspective, it's something that I didn't really wrap my brain around in the algorithms courses in University. Five years into my career I still haven't ever had to use it. It's something I feel mildly guilty about.
JD Power is clearly in bed with the traditional Detroit automakers.

If you look at their history of rewards[0], you'll find that many times they choose the big three american companies vehicles over clearly superior import vehicles. They're vehicles on the page show one vehicle from each of the three big automakers in the US, one Chevy, one Ford, and a Dodge. There's also a Volvo in there that I'm sure fought some battles in conference rooms to get there.

I nearly get triggered every time I heard about these awards in commercials. They are not to be trusted.

[0] https://www.jdpower.com/Cars/Ratings
Interesting theory, but does the game theory hold up? If high interviewing standards are only good for scaring employees into staying put, couldn't one of the FAANGs "defect" and lower the bar, gaining a hiring advantage over the others?
Presumably the book I linked to in the original post: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520280434/tending-the-wild
I saw that exact chart discussed elsewhere. The general trend I concluded was this is a measure of how picky a brand's customers are. Since "problems" is left undefined these could be anything from "I don't like this button" to "the engine randomly stops running".

Audi and Volkswagen; Chevy, GMC, and Cadillac; Ford and Lincoln, etc are essentially the same vehicles. I suspect the more luxury you go, the higher the expectations you have for your vehicle. The interesting exception is Lexus and Toyota.

Anecdotally, I'm surprised to see Subaru with such high defects. I know a lot of friends with Subaru's and have only heard one bad thing - the seat springs wore out after several years of daily driving.
Sorry that's complete nonsense. it's routine in Europe and the UK to offer stock options. what's more you're only taxed when any gains are actually crystallised - so much more attractive / less risky than the US.
for me atleast that also came with experience. ie that would have been impossible in my first job search. But repeating the process of searching for jobs a few times over a decade, each time i’m preparing for interviews i’m able to build somewhat on previous times to where problems like that are manageable.
Being a startup, I would not be impressed if a customer gets a sample from the wrong guy by accident, or they have a security breach.

Healthcare + startups = bad
I've been interviewing SRE candidates for a long time. In theory, being able to make technical decisions under high pressure is integral to the job.

But interview stress is very different than work stress. It doesn't seem to translate well. Some people do fine during the interview and then crack under real pressure, and some people it's the exact opposite.

I've changed my interviewing to involve very little coding. I might do FizzBuzz on the phone screen just to weed out the folks who really can't code anything on the fly, but that's about it.

After that, most of my interview is me explaining some real works tasks that they would have to perform, and then asking them how they would try finding the solution and if they have ever solved a similar problem in the past, and if so, how. I also ask them about difficult problems they've solved, how they solved it, how they found the problem, etc.

My goal is twofold -- try to figure out how they research problems they don't know the answer to, how they investigate issues; and give them lots of examples of what will be expected so that they can bow themselves out of the process if they don't think it's a good fit for them.

This obviously works much better with people who already have a job, and are more likely to take themselves out of the process, but so far it's worked pretty well.
For me its even worse than Walmart. No matter how shitty it is, at least I know what I'm getting at there.

With Amazon its pretty much a gamble whether or not I'm getting what I actually ordered or some cheap knock-off crap.

For the entirety of quarantine I've been ordering directly from companies and its saved a lot of headache, sure theres no 2-day shipping, but I'm no longer receiving a fake Anker charger four times in a row.
The irony here is that PG loves the valley and one of my biggest frustrations with the valley is how cargo culty everything is - how hard you have to fight to do anything different from the SV way.

(Edit: I should add that I also enthusiastically agree with what he's saying here.)
Wokeness and its methods are by their nature an amazing social shield and sword, so they attract the sort of people who want to cloak themselves in righteousness and tear into others.
There was a really good Ted Talk to this effect called "The First Twenty Hours"!

link: https://youtu.be/5MgBikgcWnY
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imgur backup of the essential banner: https://i.imgur.com/XteJmBp.jpg

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