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> Also, many people these days act like the threat of nuclear war went away with the end of the Cold War

Lots of people seem to be convinced that MAD is a sufficient deterrent for nuclear war. Which may be true if your safeguards are perfect and your actors are always rational. But in reality, all it takes is a mistake or a madman to set off nuclear armageddon.
Most of the job: was that explaining while you write the code, under time pressure, or explaining your debugged code after you've tested it a bit and have confidence in it?
I find it interesting that academia often points out that skills interviews have a soft-skills bias, but rarely do I see them consider that this may be a feature and not a bug.

> “Our study suggests that a lot of well-qualified job candidates are being eliminated because they’re not used to working on a whiteboard in front of an audience.”

This is a common daily task at any company I've ever written software at. People who can communicate their ideas effectively are better at their job.
I never said that threads are better than blog posts. It's a different format and provides its advantages.

- First of all, threads are often long-living i.e., authors update it over time. It allows them to surface the content every time they update it.

- Secondly, often every tweet's a self-containing idea. Blog posts usually are worried and need more time to grasp.

- Also, it's not only easy to consume but also to share.

I like, write and consume both Twitter threads and blog posts.
If you get anxiety during a job interview it is because you don't have enough experience, you have a massive ego or you were raised improperly. I've never met anyone who gets crippling anxiety from a job interview when they've done what they say they have done and they are humble enough to just admit when they don't know something.
You're probably mostly concerned with the American experience, so this might be tangential to you.

I grew up as a white ex-pat in a Philippines. While I don't think I ever tried to abuse it, but I could definitely get away with a lot of things even if I dressed as a hobbo/gangster.
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I sometimes wonder if this is not just the novelty of social media, but rather the new normal. ie, perhaps social media will always be this divisive? This is a very limited metaphor, but it reminds me of how a moth circles around a flame. Usually, a moth would use the Moon (or Sun) to navigate, which is focused to infinity. The flame is close by, and the way the moth's natural circuitry works causes it to malfunction. A straight line becomes an inward spiral, towards the flame.

The basic problems of social media are nothing new to human behavior: tribalism, moral judgement / righteousness, extremist viewpoints.

But I wonder if it's a bit like the moth and the flame. With so many extreme opinions from so many strangers, we begin spiraling to more extreme positions, and taking sides in a more extreme fashion. Under normal conditions extreme opinions can still exist, but they are usually tempered by contact with other people. Even when extremity existed in the past, it at least appeared to be stable over time. ie, you'd have single group with unified (albeit extreme) ideas. People are normally meant to be socially and morally judgemental. (to what degree, and about what is up for some debate, but as an animal we like to make moral judgements.) But, they're also meant to find consensus within a community. Well, the internet breaks down some of that consensus building, while also introducing and amplifying more and more extreme positions. I really wonder that like the moth, social media breaks our normal intuition for social judgement and coalition building.

And lastly, I wonder if it's any surprise that things seem to have gotten crazier since most have been on quarantine -- away from normal people, but glued to our screens. Maybe that's just anecdotal on my part, though.
In the previous post comments there was an interesting debate on the etymology of the word riot. It's a French borrow in the Middle English era, so its etymology is at best "complicated". The "riot of color" idiom was one of the first written usages in English indeed predating the use of the term for violence, but the French word was "debate/quarrel" so it's hard to rule out that violence or negative connotations weren't always hand in hand in the metaphor underlying "riot of color".
Its really funny. I was interviewing at a large company recently and the way they do interviews is weird. Each team that is interested in you does their own on-site. The first one I bombed b/c I was so anxious but after I experienced it once, I aced all the other teams I interviewed with. Nerves definitely play a role, its cool to see that it is being quantified.
the greatest lie ever told was convincing the American people there is only a "left" and a "right"; a "correct" view and an "incorrect" view. just like sports teams, bad guys and good guys. one must win and one must lose. perhaps it wasn't always this polar but it feels like the vast majority of opinions are arrived at by simply listening to their pole's consensus and knee jerking to attack "the other", rather than critical thought.

and for politicians, this is the greatest job security they could ever imagine. probably 50%, if not far more, of their votes are gained simply via the letter next to their name. really, does any politician actually care about any national or local issues? why would they even waste energy to think about it. simply follow their tribe's consensus and ensure self preservation, salary, perks, social status and power.
Idea for an startup: Paying a service to do independent health checks to popular services with the ability to select the services i would like to be notified of their health status.
I used to be super anxious and get brain freeze.

This doesnt' happen to me after I grinded leetcode for a couple of months.

you are anxious if you feel unprepared.
In most places in the US, the black guy with nice suit will be less likely to have that experience than a homeless looking white guy. But a black guy with a nice suit will experience it more than a white guy with a nice suit.
The reality is that unless you're well known - no one cares if you lie about this stuff.
Definitely weird, but it’s a local news site and New Yorkers eat up housing market gossip.
IIRC GitLab is super transparent about service outages, so it may not be that they're less reliable, but that they're more honest about it.
Only a small fraction of MIT's revenue comes from tuition.

https://web.mit.edu/facts/financial.html
Fahim Saleh was born in Saudi Arabia and was killed in a manner that "appeared professional" and then dismembered.

This could easily be an atrocious crime by an individual or related to — for instance — organized crime in Nigeria, but it is sobering that one of the usual suspects when something like this happens is a state actor.
> We're made for a high fruit diet

Yeah, sure, we’re made to primarily eat something you can’t find for 9 out of 12 months. How do you keep believing this crap?

> Yes. It's been shown again and again in large studies that humans do better on predominantly whole plant foods.

No, it really was not. Any research you link to will be riddled with problems like measuring the wrong thing or affected by heathy user bias. Just because it confirms your belief doesn’t make it a good source.
I would like to add that on almost anything made by Cisco that is smaller than 4U there really is not any kind of hardware secret sauce. Small switches like 2960 are little more than off-the shelf switching fabric from one of the well-known vendors of such a thing and software. And really only interesting thing about the software on the device is the Cisco “feeling” and branding.

Also counterfeit Cisco hardware seems to be a major issue for Cisco since at least nineties. It is the reason why there are hologram stickers on almost anything. Then there is the observation that a lot of Cisco hardware contain some kind of completely unnecessary FPGA/ASIC implementing some comparatively trivial functionality, I suspect that the whole reason for this is to make counterfeiting harder.
>Randomized controlled trials have been done.

Do you have any examples?
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This article sounds too bad to be true in my ears. For example, Germany is shutting down their coal plants gradually until 2038 (why would they then commission one this year, as stated by the article?). I agree it sounds stupid to shut it down prematurely, and I agree the green movement (at least here in Sweden, and apparently also in France) is many times doing stupid things that actually harm the environment, but this article does not seem to aim to portray the full situation as objectively as possible.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/world/europe/la...
From the essay: "The more extreme will even accuse you of specific heresies they imagine you must have in mind, though if there's more than one heresy current in your time, these accusations will tend to be nondeterministic: you must either be an xist or a yist."
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A lot of deep work requires domain knowledge the juniors don't have.
I regularly switch between American and French layouts. I don't think it's particularly hard.

Edit: If that wasn't clear, I meant that I touch-type on both layouts quite easily.
It’s not about the tweet, but a collection of writeups in media. I was hoping that the so-called elites have some common sense.
It absolutely is counterproductive! It's also a form of gaslighting: we have a problem in this country (assuming that you're also American) with extrajudicial murder of black and brown people. Instead of talking about that and how we've gotten to this point, we have to to rehash the feelings of an extremely powerful man who is anxious about feeling vulnerable on the Blue Bird Site for his opinions. It's perfectly fine to talk about that; I wish we wouldn't do it under the pretense (and abuse) of terminology like "privilege."

> when the point is something we can all agree on, which is that everyone's ideas should be tolerated, orthodoxy or not.

Except that we don't agree on this: I do not believe that everyone's ideas should be tolerated. I think there are ideas that are analytically incompatible with my existence, and that something roughly resembling the paradox of tolerance[1] applies to them. I've written up a more constructive summary of my opinions here[2][3].

[1]: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/toleration/#ConTolPar

[2]: https://blog.yossarian.net/2018/08/20/Disagreement-Language-...

[3]: https://blog.yossarian.net/2019/07/24/Reasoning-about-faithl...
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... HN is mostly professional software developers though. Running a GitLab instance really isn't hard.
The new J2EE.
So have them explain it to you after they complete the problem with you out of the room.
Especially when the company picks up the tab.
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And the capitalization. Do I want to take writing tips when the title is botched?
Had the same issue this morning. The lagging status always causes the issue of "is it you, me or GitHub?" snaffoos. Really annoying to have these issues so consistently. Would switch to gitea or similar in a moment given the choice.
Used (and worked with) Privacy for a while. Really like it.
Hmm...but if everybody is stressed out, then it equalizes and you're testing for skills again, just skills under pressure.

And having skills retained under pressure is actually a valuable trait in this industry. And at least at desirable companies, the process is designed to minimize false positive, it doesn't care that much about false negatives. This is by design.

My guess would be that they filter out orders of magnitude more people with poor resume-writing skills or that didn't go to the right school.

Although I do agree that interviews that you can/must practice for are silly and there's a lot oof that around.
Hey there, great questions. Sperm has been frozen for 40+ years and then thawed with no issues. In fact, scientists believe you can freeze sperm indefinitely with no loss in quality.

That said, when you are going through the thawing process, you will lose about 50% of the frozen sperm. That's why we do a post-thaw count and motility check 24 hours after freezing, to make sure we know exactly how much of your frozen sperm you'll be able to use in the future.

By the way - if you are going the IVF/ICSI route in the future, of all the sperm you've frozen, you really only need one healthy sperm per attempt, as the sperm is injected directly into the egg. This is the latest technology in sperm and is very commonly used nowadays.
It does suck that it’s like this in an industry where you have a lot of non-neurotypical people though. People who are very good and capable but on the spectrum, or shy and reclusive, who really can’t do the networking and conference scene thing, etc. Wish there was a better answer than to tell them they just have to be wired differently.
Well they are auditions rather than interviews. So it seem to be accurate.
They may well have not rode up with the killer. Get a set of fire keys and you can force an elevator to go to any floor, regardless of what fancy keys or tokens the elevator uses to restrict access. And since the elevator opens directly into the apartment, you don't even have to get the victim to unlock their door.

Edit: I can buy the FDNY fire key on Amazon. Anyone could have pulled this off.

Edit 2: The NYT article (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/nyregion/dismembered-body...) does say he was in the elevator with his killer. It seems the ABC7 article is lacking a lot of information.
I suspect there are better IQ tests than random algorithms questions.

Isn’t the nfl scouting combine bullshit though? The players who tend to be most favoured are those who did well at playing football in the previous season, rather than those who scored well on the IQ or creative writing or jumping tests
While I do agree with the premise of the article, my gut reaction is "tell that to the community living in Hunter's Point in San Francisco."

That community has suffered from being around radioactive waste from nuclear research for decades, with no real resolution. Regardless of whether that radioactive material is because of (or relevant to) nuclear energy, I have to imagine telling them "our solution to climate justice is nuclear energy" would not get very far.
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1. Can you provide a source?
2. still a problem that they’re not replacing not with green energy though right?
I have no idea whether it's even possible to find out how the different reasons have factored into the decision; it might as well just have been due to the age or seismic activity and nothing else...

But, in reality, it was probably a mix of all 3 and some more.
That experiment assumes that SWE job is exclusively about solving technical problems, so we can just "lock the candidate in a private room and let them solve it".

In reality human to human interactions, sometimes stressful, are part of the job. Customer & PM requirements, technical debates, giving feedback, explaining your technical solutions, etc. are common.

Maybe part of the problem is the education that does not prepare people to reality of the job.

Note: I do realize that SWE interviews suck, and I'm not trying to defend them. Just making comment on the study.
I'm not impressed with this argument, which we are seeing more of these days. Expressing one's opinion on controversial issues risks that people will be pissed off, but it isn't just the originally expressed opinion that is "free speech"; the furious criticisms of the original opinion are also "free speech". Refusing to associate with people because of their expressed opinions is also a right.

And there isn't one orthodoxy, there are many. The range of opinions that can be expressed in the vicinity of Paul Graham without risking that he won't fund your startup is very different from the range of opinions that an assistant professor going for tenure in a humanities department may express, but it's not clear whether Graham is conscious of the orthodoxy he himself imposes, by his economic power.
Ah. I had assumed that part of the Greek setup came from relatively small owners with an individual plot of land and a much smaller owner-occupied building on it. Perhaps this is expectation is in error!
The one beauty I can attribute to polykatoikies is the balconies. They are often filled with plants (at least my parents kept it that way) which makes for your little private oasis in the mess that is Athens.

Neoclassicals don't have that
Germany takes like 30% of its energy from coal. They should have kept the reactor running until coal energy is no longer used in Germany.
Huh, the fact that we have not discovered (or they discover us) any advanced civilizations or even evidence of any in our galaxy makes me believe it extremely likely that civilizations wipe themselves out before very long. Right now, Global Thermonuclear War and Climate Destruction top my list as likely causes.
Yeah larger desirable companies already have no shortage of well performing candidates to choose from so why make the interview more fair in any way? That would just make selection more difficult for them. Smaller companies might not have this issue but will probably follow the practices of larger, more successful companies anyway.
Here's an example for what I'm using it for: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23608360

I explained the technical details in the sub comment.

I was looking at buying one of these Titan cards a few weeks back but then nvidia announced the next gen processors were coming out so have decided to wait until they refresh the 2 year old titan line instead of paying full prices for an almost out of date card.

When training models for the object detection, the current algo we're using isn't focused on memory efficiency. So the 8gb card we currently use to train models is unable to process images at the correct resolution. We have to down scale about half to get it to fit. With the Titan RTX you get 22gb which is enough.

On another note, the titan cards aren't the same as the normal geforce cards. Nvidia have gone to great lengths to ensure product differentiation so they can charge power users with business budgets more than people sitting at home playing games. One of the good things about the titan cards is they have a dual memory controller so you can write and read at the same time which improves your fill rate.
I did this many times back when I just had a plain cable modem, not router or anything. I havent tested since I switched to a Modem Router combo, I would suspect it wont work under that setup.

But yes, my original point stands. I can run the tool, change my network cards MAC, restart the Modem, and I get a new public IP address. Ive been doing this for years to bypass IP blocks.
Switzerland is worried about Fessenheim, too.
I know it's a bit of a aside, but somewhat related:

I wonder if the lightening of regulations has something to do with China starting to gain a foothold in the African markets.

I wonder if the next first-world war will be fought in Africa.
> The condos in the building are full-floor and the keyed elevator opens right into the apartment.

Doesn't this mean that anybody with the [widely, publicly known] FDNY elevator override key can get right into the apartment? I've seen far too many physical pentesting talks (i.e. any at all) to trust a setup like that for my home in a city.
Their second description is not 2FA, but password recovery.

At best, the support rep is confused between the two, very different, flows.

Your understanding of 2FA is correct. If what the support rep said is accurate, I wouldn't trust them with my money.
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Engineers tend to over-focus on correctness. I’ve run hiring process in the past where over a year we interviewed around 50 engineers. Feedback from our own engineers involved in the process would often be like “Seems like a nice guy. But his solution to the challenge - one he’d never seen before - had a bug in it! And the solution was just O(2^n) and failed to notice the O(n^2) solution. Even though I glared at him a lot and kept distracting him with hints” ... I’m exaggerating for effect of course but some form of that would happen often
And that was a pure personal viewpoint. Consequences of children for society and whole planet were not analysed at all.
On the other hand, each app has a developer name right under the app name and includes a link to their T&C/Privacy policy, so it'll be interesting to see this play out.
> Thats why the self hosted options are there -- and why GitLab has a competitive advantage in this sense.

GitHub has GitHub Enterprise

> Cloud solutions are great -- however they have a golden rule, don't go down ever.

Oh where oh where can I sign up for this mythical unicorn cloud service?
This can be said of all interviews, not just tech. It’s hard for great many people to put themselves out there. I mean interview itself is a performance, isn’t it?

Having said that communication and interpersonal skills are big part of most jobs even in tech. We hardly develop software in isolation these days.

I don’t know about other industries, but in Tech there are some really inexperienced interviewers out there, who’re impulsive and lacks discipline in conducting objective and meaningful assessment.
Operating mode sounds much like it happened with Jamal Khashoggi, could he be another victim of MBS or some other Saudi prince?
Your limiting your screentime to more than 20 minutes a day?

Perhaps your article title should say you intend to limit your screentime to less than 20 minutes a day :-)
Same, well not winter, I assumed I'd die in initial strike living near major targets.

I, and many people of similar age I've talked with since, did not believe they would live into adulthood. Believing nuclear war was imminent and inevitable.
Why even bring up Russian intelligence anyway? If you're going to mention state actors, why even mention China and Russia and not ISI, RAW, Mossad, IRGC, Saudi GID, or even North Korea? It's all so arbitrary.
@TitaniaMcGrath is a parody, and not a particularly subtle one.
Nuclear weapons are NOT climate justice.
This is absolutely not true. I have seen amazing scientists and engineers get turned down by FAANG companies because they did not happen to study particular algorithms that were featured in that day's set of questions, and mediocre engineers fly through because they put in more time studying, or perhaps got lucky with the subset of technical questions that were asked.
It's weird of the article gives plenty of direct citations from nuclear operators, while at the same time acting like French 40+ year old fission tech doesn't have any issues [0] or sustainability problems, and how the French could dare to shut down one of their first reactors.

Particularly in the context that most discussions surrounding nuclear fission power generation lead with "modern designs and reactors being so much better", now we are apparently at the point where even running the same reactors close to a century supposedly represents no problem?

Afaik originally the life-span for most reactors of that kind was 40 years, how far past that are we willing to go? And what consequences will there be if, once gain, the "one in a million that would never happen" incident leads to yet another catastrophe?

[0] http://watt-logic.com/2016/11/25/french-nuclear-problem/