skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hire for industrial IT, and being able to handle the anxiety of a high-pressure situation with grace (e.g. mill down, losing tens of thousands of dollars a minute) is an important factor. No one expects miracles, but you need to be able to keep your cool and work the problem, not waste time fighting with your own rising anxiety.

Seeing how they deal with a stressful situation is an integral part of the interview in my opinion, and I imagine it is a feature for any IT role where that is the case. Standard dev roles, or other roles where time-based stresses aren't as prevalent, may be different.

Only yesterday I had a candidate bow out 10 minutes into the whiteboarding exercise, which is probably best for both the individual and the company if that kind of situation is untenable for them.
Zoom may well be overvalued, but it is doubtless more valuable on a long-term basis than it was pre-COVID. So many firms in expensive cities will have permanently adapted to a world in which they can access talent from places with lower costs of living, and Zoom is an indelible part of that narrative.
It's not enough to merely criticize someone. The fear is that you are fired and your career is destroyed, which is very bad for you and your family. When expressing even a minor deviation from the party line can result in life-destroying consequences, all dissent and discussion is stifled out of fear. This is the chilling effect.
Quote the actual infographic rather than the uncharitable interpretation provided by the (biased) guy posting it.

As I read it, it's a list of traditional WASP traits. Some mostly good (hard work, objectivity, delayed gratification) others much less so (respect for authority, religious intolerance, commoditization of time, normalisation of the "rat race" as the only acceptable path to the only acceptable idea of success, etc)
Low interest rates certainly allow you to afford a more expensive home, but inflation adjusted price per square foot isn't actually skyrocketing for most of the US outside of the west coast [0]. For example, Dallas/Fort worth and Houston metro populations, the 4th and 5th largest in the US have both grown a whopping 19% in the past decade and prices aren't skyrocketing there. But they have plenty of land surrounding their cities that can be developed to increase the housing supply.

It just seems weird to me. Why are people paying such high prices when there is farmland so close by that you could buy and use to build some condominiums, townhomes, duplexes or even single family homes.

[0]: https://www.supermoney.com/inflation-adjusted-home-prices/
Here's a DW (german news org) article illustrating the German annoyance at some particular "low-level" incident:

https://www.dw.com/en/reports-fessenheim-nuclear-accident-pl...

I'm not sure there's an easily accessible list of all incidents and/or way to compare that against other plants :/

Ed.: also, yeah, it'd be cool if this wasn't causing an uptake in coal :(
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Yeah, this. I would go further back to when Christians got co-opted into politics in a big way in the 80's.

As far as the current "cancel culture" goes I was thinking about this the other day and I think that it's not that people don't want to hear counter-arguments, it's that we don't want to hear them again, after they have been put down so many times.

The "what about black-on-black crime?" question is one of my pet peeves: someone always has to trot out that undead zombie chestnut. Enough already.

(edit: while i was typing the above somebody has already trotted out the dead horse and started beating it in a sib comment.)
Probably because the physics wasn't well understood at the time. California probably isn't the best place to put a nuclear plant anyways, with all the earthquakes.
It's frustrating because the style of the entire page is completely consonant with the thing that it is trying to describe.
Multiple discussions about this on HN today, that's good. Maybe it will lead to the pendulum swinging back a bit.

Interviewers need to do their due diligence. Coding tests can have their place when interviewing for certain kinds of positions, especially for new grads and entry level positions. In the end nothing can replace checking references and looking into a person's work experience.

There is no algorithms and data structure whiteboarding test that can differentiate between a junior and a senior developer. Being senior is a product of acquired wisdom, not just skill. And in fact senior devs can easily bomb out a whiteboarding test because we're further from university CS experience.
I'm not making an argument about beliefs, but about perception.

I don't support everything Joe Biden does, but I still throw my support behind the democratic party because there are only two realistic options in the US today, and the other one is far worse.

If you're going to choose to say "All Lives Matter", you are choosing to involve yourself in a binary. And ignoring the context of that binary (that "All Lives Matter" is a reactionary statement that came about only in response to the statement/movement "Black Lives Matter") is done at one's own risk.

> Your claims are hasty generalizations with insufficient evidence.

So you disagree that "All Lives Matter" is a reactionary statement that only came into being post-"Black Lives Matter"?

Edit:

On Blue Lives/ All Lives people minimizing violence against black people[0].

And Tim Scott, who is known for being an "All Lives Matter" proponent, opposes ending Qualified Immunity (and indeed his proposed bill on police reform does almost nothing). Whereas Colorado's QI-ending bill was sponsored by Leslie Herod, who joined a Black Lives Matter march.

In the House, the Qualified-Immunity ending bill[1] is sponsored by only Democrats, among them many who are openly pro-Black Lives Matter, and, well Republicans don't seem to be[2]. Swallwell supports ending QI, Gaetz does not. Swallwell says Black Lives Matter. Gaetz refuses to say that, instead saying that All Lives Matter. Is that enough evidence?

[0]: https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/10/us/all-lives-matter-reenact-g...

[1]: congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/7120/cosponsors?searchResultViewType=expanded

[2]: https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/06/17/eric-swalwell...
My first question was how to share a presentation. Though I guess maybe this is targeted at user who wouldn't do this themselves? I don't know how realistic this is, particularly for a home device. Presenters not in control of the slide deck never seems to work.

On the specs sheet it does have an HDMI in, so I'd assume you can use it like a display, and share the input? It doesn't appear to be highlighted anywhere though.
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I feel in the tech industry, networking and knowing people only gets you so far - typically just to the whiteboard interview. Then you have to solve the leetcode problems just like everyone else. Especially so in larger companies.

FWIW, all of my friends who somehow managed to get into FAANG or other top tech companies swear that were they to go through the interview again, odds are they would fail. This despite all of them being great engineers.
Discussion is okay. Twitter and Reddit will allow you to post this link. Doxxing (which posting the denial of secrets link that is discussed could be construed as) is not okay. if you linked a pastebin containing all the info from equifax it would be taken down for example.
"Orthodox" isn't global. Orthodox is only orthodox within a set of people.

Gender critical feminism: the view that trans men are not men and trans women are not women is orthodox, if you look at all of history. It's orthodox in many parts of the US today. It's heresy in progressive circles.

Women as property: that may have been orthodox historically. In almost all circles in the US, it's heresy today.

Racism: it was orthodox historically. I would guess that in the majority of the US, it's heresy today - but it's orthodox in more circles than it should be.

You seem to be mostly using historical examples. That's not particularly relevant - we don't live there now. What's relevant to our lives now is that, within a given circle of people we interact with now, there is an orthodoxy for that circle.
I think the more accurate headline is likely to be "anxiety can negatively affect performance in interviews."

I would love to see what a control group of non-tech interviews looks like. Not sure what the equivalent "whiteboard while out of the room" is, but it's hardly just software devs who get nervous and can panic in interview situations.
> and also have a platform where they reach millions.

Until they're deplatformed.
What's nice about the way Lenovo is doing it is that they give a ton of different options for what you want and need. My X1 Extreme, for example, has a ton of different ports, 64GB of RAM, it's bigger, HDMI port, etc. The X1 Nano focuses on being lightweight and portable. If that's what I prefer and I don't mind it only having two USB-C ports, that's what I would go for. And I might! I'd be curious to see how much battery life it actually gets, and it has 5G.

What's dumb is that my "Pro" MacBook only has 4 Thunderbolt ports.
> All the OP pointed out was that this person had strong ties to Bangladesh, both in heritage in business,

No he didn't, can you quote that part for us please?
If one gets rid of those assumptions, the whole concept of orthodox privilege would be purely rhetorical.
Here is how this essay would change if you replace "truth" (which does not really exist in the political sphere) by "morally unacceptable to certain groups of people"

"They literally can't imagine a true statement that would get them in trouble." would be replaced by "They literally cannot image a statement which is morally acceptable to certain groups of people (to which they belong) would get them in trouble with those groups of people". Which is completely fair and reasonable.
Seriously? Would there be a shitstorm for years?
I used to agree. Now I work with a locally hosted github. It is down all the time and sometimes it just deletes all of the work from the past day. I thought it wasn't possible to do much worse, but I was obviously wrong.
I still do algorithms interviews, sort of. The one-hour interview format is an external constraint, so within that constraint I will do ~40 minutes of coding and ~15 minutes of discussing past projects. I ask a question where the algorithm itself is at most some list iterations or tree traversals, but the real difficulty is thinking through the data and figuring out the right generalizations and transformations to apply.

It seems to control decently well for people who have practiced for interviews, because they do the usual dance of asking some clarification questions, mocking the functions, and narrating their code, but many of them hit a wall five minutes in. It's not because their algorithm doesn't work. They're using the right algorithm. The problem is that they haven't thought through "ok what do you do with the data now that you've traversed the tree?" In my experience, for my job, that's usually the actual hard question. For example, if you're checking a JWT, are you validating it in a way that is hard to subvert? Are you taking any time to think about pathological data inputs?

The counterpoint would be "what about a candidate who has solid coding skills but stumbles on the problem space because they're unfamiliar with it?" In my sample size of approximately n=10 since I started interviewing candidates this way (admittedly a small sample, but it's the sample I have), I have yet to see someone who writes code well who neglects thinking through the characteristics of the data up front. That said, it's a real issue. Data is usually contextual, so you're at an advantage if you have experience in the corresponding problem domain, which is not something I'm measuring for in the coding exercise. While I try to pick topics that should be universal, I inevitably get surprised, so I offer three different topics based on the candidate's resume, and I give the candidate a choice.

The biggest weakness I've seen in my interview process (within the scope of what you can do with only one hour) is that it doesn't control for nervousness or people who just don't operate well under time pressure. Unfortunately that's an unavoidable consequence of the mandated form factor, so I have to try my best to help relax the candidate and then rely on my gut for how much nervousness or pressure affected the interviewee.
A review of the plant’s page on Wikipedia shows that it did indeed have a number of low level incidents. Do you have any sources about those being the true cause of the shutdown?
> rather than whether the candidate is competent at coding

As a really quick reaction it's worth noting that coding is probably less than 25% of my job as an engineer.

In others' experience is this also the case for you?
Truly is. But this pandemic in particular may have thrown into even further relief how some facts become political opinions.
These posts contain some details about incidents over the last few months:

https://github.blog/2020-07-08-introducing-the-github-availa...

https://github.blog/2020-05-22-april-service-disruptions-ana...
I think Cisco's in-house refurbishment center might be an option, it's the only way you can legitimately buy used Cisco hardware.

(I also feel like we should give a shoutout to HP/Aruba in this thread. No support contract needed, they straight-up warranty and support most of their network hardware for like 100 years.)
Eh, no worries. As I said, it's a nit, not anything that actually matters.
From my personal experience, people are more likely to read and share threads for a number of reasons:

* They don't have to go off platform.

* the base tweet can be much more eye catching that a link, even with social cards set up

* People may be desensitised to links that lead off-platform, because that's how Ads generally appear on Twitter

Then there are other advantages, like the fact that it tends to encourage you to write in a concise and direct way, with each tweet in the thread being like a bullet point. I often see people retweeting and engaging with a specific tweet from the thread; it's harder (relative term) to do that with a section from a blog post.
In a pandemic, incentivizing people to stay home instead of working is exactly what we should be doing.
There is a lot of empty space on earth even before we start terraforming deserts or building floating cities, or colonizing other planets. So the malthusian fearmongering that we are all going to die due to lack of resources is simply false. Having X times more people doesn't lead to us sacrificing anything but to producing 2^X more art and sciense. Even for such a simple example as youtube videos, if population is reduced by half, majority of people who make living by producing videos will lose half of heir income, and will stop producing videos. Developing new cpus will become much harder because research cost would stay the same, and demand would be cut in half. Moreover drastic reduction of population in the parts of world that produce most of our science would put under question even the ability to maintain the technologies we have now.
Sure - it's the one that's firewalls all the way down.
Your advice goes directly against your example and I would say that most companies interview like that. Surely the advice should be to spend time on interview prep regardless of how good you are at the job.
Perhaps "safe and responsible nuclear energy" would be compelling to a broader crowd. I think for some it's already insinuated by the phrase, but I wager it would help remove ambiguity for others.
My wife's company has been using Remotion and she says it's sped up decision making and helped the team feel closer together
I agree in principle that it's nice to be able to see the full conversations without clicking into a bunch of threads, but a problem that I have noticed when people use Mattermost is that they either forget or don't notice that people are using the thread feature and simply reply directly in the channel to an active thread. This makes it so that anyone who isn't looking at the channel loses track of the conversation. You could fix this by repeatedly telling anyone who does it wrong to do it right, but people simply can't make that mistake when the threads are collapsed by default.

As things are now, the thread feature in Mattermost doesn't really help that much, because if you want to be really sure not to miss part of a conversation you need to keep a separate window with that channel open anyway instead of just having the thread open in the same window.
From what I recall it was intentional on part of the early git team. They did want to make it clear it was a "dumb" VCS compared to work going on in some of the smarter ones such as darcs. git has always had something of the Unix "worse is better" philosophy at its core, and it is amusing it chose to wear that so much on its sleeve that it took that as a name.
We have the GitHub status RSS integrated into our Slack channel. One of my company's engineers noticed the outage at 15:06 UTC; the RSS feed picked it up at 15:49 UTC, though the message text says it was from 15:41 UTC. (And I think RSS polls, so there's some inherent lag, so I'd take the 15:41 UTC timestamp.) The half hour in between was us debugging, thinking it was us.
Having capital or hiring authority doesn't correlate with willingness to try to actually hire value rather than assemble something that they think resembles a team.

What I don't get is why no one is attracted by the social brownie points they'd end up with when their moneyballed team inevitably turns out to be 70% female.
Interesting. I usually do pretty well in interviews and I've always attributed that to my four years on the debate team in high school. This tells me it might be even more true than I previously thought. Even when I'm nervous as hell, when you put me in front of a judge (interviewer), I click into "performance mode" where I project confidence even if I know what I'm saying is BS, let alone just a bit unsure. This is how you win parliamentary debates when you've had five minutes to prepare for a topic you know little to nothing about—and I guess it helps in interviews too!

That and debate gave me the ability to just start a sentence without knowing where it will end and then talk my way to a conclusion that sounds like it makes sense (useful when you have 2 minutes to prepare a 3-5 minute speech on a topic you've never seen before). So when I get up in front of a whitebard, I just start talking confidently, and even if by the end haven't solved the problem quickly or efficiently or at all, it sounds like I've been thinking sensibly about it.

My takeaway, I guess—parents, make your kids do debate!
There are other avenues. I've been excited to hire somebody in the past pretty much on the strength of their detailed technical blogging. Kind of a mess in the interview, but I knew they could do the job coming in. (They were great.)
I think you can do 2 if you leave a slot in between and put a bit of thought into the airflow, but 4 would be tough without blowers/water.
O(2^n) is pretty horrific, though. ;)
My favorite question to ask in software engineering interviews is one that I believe to be un-burnable.

> It's 2140 AD, New York is under water up to X feet high. Buildings have been retrofitted with <magical-ish material> to withstand the water. You are in charge of keeping your building dry. If water gets in and damages the foundation, a few thousand people die or become homeless.

> Design a system that ensures that doesn't happen.

How candidates approach this, how they think about redundancy, how they deal with additional constraints or extra scenarios thrown at them tells a lot about how they approach things. The question is not about software (explicitly) on purpose so that it gets people out of the coding mindset.

With more software-focused systems you always get candidates who starts writing code and designing objects and classes and stuff. No, I want you to design a system. Stop writing code.

The reason this question is unburnable is that there's no right answer. You're being asked to show how you work through an abstract problem and design a solution. You aren't being asked for an answer.

So far everyone who did well on that question has turned out to be a great engineer. Whether they were fresh out of college (and learned a lot fast) or they were already experienced.
I think their concern was well-founded and the reason identity and politics have become so intertwined is because "the personal is political".

In Iran, homosexuality has been punished by imprisonment, torture, and execution. People who are gay in Iran do not have the luxury of being able to go and visit, they live under that threat every day. And many countries in the Middle East have similar policies and their gay population - rarely out - live under similar threat.

Wanting to go study the beautiful works of art in Iran is brave. As an atheist, it would be dangerous for me to do so as well, and yet the Islamic scientific and cultural golden age is still quite interesting to me.

But yet, it's still true that many, perhaps most of them "hate my kind" over there. Atheism is also punishable by execution in several countries in the Arabic speaking world. If I told friends I wanted to go study and live in Iran and they were concerned and asked me that question, I don't think it'd be disproportionate. If they said it was brave, I don't think I'd dispute it.

(Though in all fairness and perhaps you find this cringeworthy, I am fortunate and privileged in that being a straight atheist in these countries is a lot easier than being gay, and being gay and Muslim might actually exacerbate the threat.)
USB-C hubs nicely solve the problem of plugging USB devices, a monitor and a charger into a laptop. Like the docking stations in old laptops, but far cheaper. If you have multiple 4K screens or very high speed I/O devices you may need Thunderbolt, but for most people USB-C is fine.
> While $599 may seem like a steep price to pay for a Zoom-calling device when you can already Zoom from a phone or computer, the idea seems to be that it’s an easy way for newly remote employees to jump right into Zoom without having to deal with installing the software or setting up any complex equipment.

Hang on a minute... their partner manufactured hardware product is easier to setup than their own software?

How hard is it to install on the major OSes?

Seems like a strange angle.
I agree it's a worth exploring. Just spitballing, part of it may be the cost of maintaining old buildings, particularly when changing demographics lead to over-capacity in some neighborhoods and under-capacity in others. It may also stem from financial mismanagement. There is generally less parental engagement, since poor families have more pressing concerns, so it's easier for waste or fraud to go unchecked. I don't know, none of these explanations are particularly convincing.
Microsoft Outlook is crashing worldwide with 0xc0000005 errors
Yes, I’ve heard about closing this power plant for... decades. It’s hardly surprising. Moreover, given that Alsace was the most impacted region by the Tchernobyl cloud, it’s not too surprising that there was some local awareness and push to close it.
Poster I replied to cited colleague believing "there are some things that we all can agree on, like how rent control is a good thing." This remains substantially different than fact: there is broad disagreement. Stating otherwise is the problem.

I further disupte your characterization of the relation of economists to policy priorities, as I believe there are substantial conflict in the forecasted outcomes of rent control, not broad factual agreement between politicians and the cited American economists. However, this is not particularly relevant to the point of this thread, and we will likely not effectively resolve the matter in this forum.