skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you’ve been looking for a while I think it’s totally normal to get some deep depression regardless of how you identify. Interviewing is stressful and draining and feels incredibly arbitrary. Also, at least in the US, your employment is absolutely tied to your quality of life; unemployment benefits are a joke and you’re on your own after they run out. I’d be depressed as well.

Not saying I disagree with you though, I think identifying heavily with your job makes it even worse.
> That's not what is being asked. It's explaining your thought process while actively doing the work in an "unnatural" environment.

In short, that’s a limitation of the study.

The study is comparing “explain your thought process aloud as you solve the problem” against “solve the problem by yourself and don’t explain anything”. There’s a whole range of sensible middle options, like “solve the problem by yourself and explain it afterwards” or “solve the problem with the interviewer and then explain it”.
UBPorts, technically it is Ubuntu and not Debian, but Ubuntu is based on Debian. https://ubports.com/
Yeah, I came here to say exactly this. I would guess that most people's schedules are based on wall clock times and DST doesn't matter, but I'm not really sure.

The author doesn't owe me anything, obviously, but I wish he had included a graph or two showing the normal variance (if any) over the same timeframe in a non-epidemic year. Then I'd have a bit more faith in his conclusions.
It's worth noting that Polk was extremely exhausted by his time as president and died 3 months after leaving office.
"Most of the low paying jobs have existed for decades in various industries (esp retail), but most of those tech jobs didn't exist 20 years ago."

How many low paying jobs are taken by e.g. a high paying e-commerce job? Hundreds surely. And if there are less low paying jobs you can pay someone less to do them because there are so many people looking for those few jobs.
macOS Catalina 10.15.6 and 2020-004 Security Updates are Live
Today, Apple released the following updates.

macOS Catalina 10.15.6 Update
Security Update for Mojave 10.14 - 2020-004
Security Update for High Sierra 10.13 - 2020-004
Patch & Security information, Download Links, Version info + size for BridgeOS, Combo, Delta, Full Installer app included in the links below!

2020-004 update link coming soon.

https://mrmacintosh.com/whats-new-in-the-macos-catalina-10-15-6-update-19g73/
That's not what he said. That's not what the rapport said.
My preference would be to hire someone as a contractor

When I was contracting it was common to be offered a job at the end of the contract. I always turned it down because I liked being a contractor. From talking to my peers at the time this was common.

If someone didn't want to be a contractor then they wouldn't accept your offer in the first place.
> I did not get the job at Google.

Not to troll, but have you considered that you perhaps were not qualified for the job? There are people that can recite details of convex hull construction algorithms.
Considering the fact that, you know, they built the damn thing, it's entirely up to them to decide what goes in and out.
TL;DR: posted fake PoC on GitHub. (I think, the post is littered with embedded tweets and memes, super hard to read or make sense of any of it)
65M Ethiopians don't have electricity
> If they want to reform tax law, then it should be forward facing, not trying to reverse previous established policies.

The EU argument was that Ireland's "previous established policies" were against EU treaty, and so the (alleged) special deal that IE gave Apple should be considered annulled since it was invalid from the day it was signed.

> On this basis, the Commission concluded that the tax rulings issued by Ireland endorsed an artificial allocation of Apple Sales International and Apple Operations Europe's sales profits to their "head offices", where they were not taxed. As a result, the tax rulings enabled Apple to pay substantially less tax than other companies, which is illegal under EU state aid rules.

> This decision does not call into question Ireland's general tax system or its corporate tax rate.

* https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_16_...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU_illegal_State_aid_case_agai...
lmao

all 0 requests to stop, just constant downvotes for telling people, rightfully, how much boot they're guzzling
Agreed! We are eroding the meaning of many words that we use to describe ownership and the exchange of goods + services. My sophomoric interpretation has always been that when your economy is shifting to being more service-centered that trend seems inevitable... but crud if it is not disconcerting.
I can think of several answers:

- Their violation may be more practical to verify experimentally

- They may be less prone to various loopholes

- They may be more beautiful

- They may elucidate something deeper about the structure of quantum mechanics
I have the same mental ambivalence about "engage the clutch". Is it engaged when the engine is connected to the transmission? Or when they are disconnected?

But this is English and we have words like "inflammable".
I spent a few minutes searching. J.D. Power has no information on the actual questions and I only found one article from the surveyed consumer side.

The Initial Quality Survey page: https://www.jdpower.com/business/automotive/us-initial-quali...

Methodology link: https://www.jdpower.com/ratings-methodology

Cars.com article about receiving a survey: https://www.cars.com/articles/filling-out-a-j-d-power-survey...
>And you're missing what these tests are actually doing instead: Figuring out which people have already seen the problem at hand, and probably memorized all/some of it.

That is literally my point. They are very much testing your ability to study for months on end. Study as in memorize. That is by design at this point and not a side-effect. If you aren't willing to show the ability to study successfully for months on end then they're not interested.

edit: Over the course of months of grinding leetcode you will see 99% of the problems they are going to ask. Then it's about memorizing the tricks and patterns.

edit2: And as I said below their recruiters are very open about what you need to do (grind leetcode) to succeed at the interview.
I have a new Dell XPS15, and the "ultra narrow bezel" kind of drives me crazy. I tend to do a lot of terminal based work, in full screen mode, and my fingers block the lower several lines of the screen when I'm using the on-laptop keyboard. It's a great laptop otherwise, and most of the day I'm using it at a desk with external keyboard so it doesn't matter.

(full disclosure, It's my first non-thinkpad laptop in decades, and I didn't pay for it, my job did).
I have the ubports version of the pine64 and it is still pretty rough around the edges but the phone itself is very solid. It was recently announced that there was an issue with the usb-c port preventing it from being able to correctly negotiate with devices, but they have already worked out a fix [1] which I have carried out on my device and can confirm that usb is now working. Furthermore they are working with makerspaces to help people find someone who can do the soldering if they are not able.

Coincidentally, they also announced a soldering iron called the 'Pinecil'[2] which is based on the venerable TS100 but with a risc-v microprocessor running freertos for $25.

[1] https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php?title=PinePhone_v1.1_-_Bra...

[2] https://www.pine64.org/2020/07/15/july-updatepmos-ce-pre-ord...
and I also said naughty things about you, and I'm having you carry flirty texts to that person.
Well, let me qualify my remarks to limit to those people whose opinions are worthy of respect, and can hold sway over other reasonable people.

I don't know what the opinions of these groups are that you mention, but in this case they sound fringe to the point of being ridiculous. I hope. I really hope.

Btw, is there somewhere (non-gross) to read about such theories being circulated? Maybe my deeper interest is, what does someone's life have to be like to be receptive to these kinds of ideas? And how do we fix it?
The same could be said that if you don't make good on investments or "the take" if there was one, you are handled.

Not saying I agree, but I can see where the circumstances aren't different.
I've been doing some "light technical" writing about data analytics systems. I've been adding metaphors to make it easier to read and skim. I'd appreciate any thoughts [1] as to how this might detract from the content or message.

I feel like I achieve both of the goals below, by taking time to justify why it is worth reading, and using interesting style to make it enjoyable to read and skim. I feel like this style might be useful in deeper technical posts [2], but I'm not sure if it still works.

> two primary goals to focus on:

> 1. Provide strong, concise motivations for everything you want to talk about.

> 2. Make it easy to skim.

[1] https://groupby1.substack.com/p/data-as-a-utility-tool

[2] https://groupby1.substack.com/p/snowflake-field-notes
There are a few issues with the scenario you described.

For health and safety, security and tax purposes you would likely not be able to have an extended period of more than a couple of days without some form of contract for that 'trial' period.

If you are an 'established' professional then you most likely would interview for a new job while currently employed. So even in the remote scenario that you would take a couple weeks holiday for a 'trial' you would likely violate the contract with current employer by signing a 'trial' contract.

This would only work for junior positions or for senior professionals who have taken some time away from work. But if you make this a part of your recruitment process, there is the risk that you are discriminating against 'currently employed' candidates.
Writing a Strong First Chapter: Avoiding Clichés
Were giant ground sloths immune to poison ivy?
Yes. In finance, pretty much all you do is proprietary and all opensource work must be painfully precleared, so most of GHs for people are empty.

Most companies (even megabanks) also have strict rules what you can and can't put on your linked in.

A resume is therefore crucial.
Who are the legal ramifications for?
I like this idea of phrasing it as branding.

In my experience nobody sits in one place and works on one thing for 8 hours a day. I am tempted to say that it's not only rare but it's undesirable.

I can work for approximately 5 hours straight without needing any sort of break; but part of becoming a more senior developer was to realize that this is actually a really bad thing for me. The “sweet spot” for me appears to be either 1.5 or 2 hours long. If I have some urgency I will literally shut down my laptop and move to a coffee shop or some other physical context and spend at least 15 minutes taking in the new ambiance before opening up the laptop and resuming a separate 2-hour burst of focused work.

The reason is basically that the flow state is good for one very important parameter that we might call ‘grit,’ the actual overcoming of pain and moving a project to completion... but it fails of course at a whole range of metacognitive processes which I might imperfectly class along at least three separate axes as... well, the words are not great but ‘creativity’ and ‘organization’ and ’empathy’ work. Flow states are really good for when you know what needs to be done and how to do it because your project is well-organized. They can be poor for stepping back and thinking “is this really the best way to satisfy that person’s needs?” and for stepping back and thinking “is there some more powerful idea I could leverage here which would make all of these sorts of problems just go away, even if it is a little strange given how the system exists right now?” and for simply asking “how can I clean things up now to make my life easier in the future?”. Even if you have individuals who by their personalities simply exude grit and radiate it for everyone else, which is an absolute treasure to have, you may want to balance them out with people who have a sort of moralistic imperative of “this is how a system like this should be built.” I don’t want to work with just hackers—but with hackers, engineers, dreamers, and evangelists—on my dev team. Either as separate people or as separate hats which people take on over the course of the day.
I've found this extremely frustrating writing tutorials. Let's say I have 40 of them. Every few days someone will jump into #35 and complain they don't get it even though it lists right at the start that to understand it you need to read #21, #25, and #31. And #21 will say to understand first read #5, #6, #7 etc... But they'll skip all of that and then get upset that not everything was explained. It's very frustrating.

I don't think anyone would jump to chapter 35 of a textbook and be upset it requires reading previous chapters but in HTML they apparently do get upset about it all the time.
OpenNebula definitely needs to revive the libcloud interface, or similar; I was thinking of complexity in operation more than using it. I ask mainly for general interest, as I can't think a free software management system would end up expensive enough for an institution which is too broke to retain staff. I might have a play sometime, and thanks for the response.
I haven't found anyone with experience to compare these sort of systems in operation after seeing the need a while back.
Scientists Accidentally Bred the Fish Version of a Liger
I just spent a huge amount of time interviewing for a new job. They put me through an absolute ringer — something like 10 total screens and interviews, over about a month.

At the end, I started feeling a really negative association with them. I would never sleep well the night before the inevitable next interview and it just got to become a really tough thing. And most of the interviews were totally no-nonsense, no pleasantries, just tough.

I ended up getting the job but I turned it down. The interview process told me everyone I needed to know about the company culture.
People bomb, including good people. That is sadly part of the system.

Once I had this candidate. Damn, I know my questions are deceptively simple on purpose, but he literally couldn't do anything. Not even a trivial brute force. Not even any related simple knowledge questions. Couldn't tell an average from a median. The only good thing I could write in the feedback was "seems to know some basic syntax".

It was quite a learning moment to read that everyone else was praising how this was the most brilliant candidate they've seen in years. Well, mine was the interview just before lunch, in a schedule that was atypically later than usual. I guess starting an interview after most people start their lunch break was asking for it. He also got hired - apparently the committee agreed that "can't think when hungry" is not really that important a flaw.
This is very depressing.
Using Prometheus to Discover and Monitor OpenStack Instances and Hypervisors
property prices are determined by what international investors with deep pockets and easy credit can pay.

The international investors with deep pockets own very, very, very few properties compared to regular people.

What if you lose the ability to pay? How secure is your paycheck really?

What if you lose the ability to pay rent? How does that make you any better off?

Keep your cash, and invest it somewhere else.

I have a mortgage with 75% of the principal left to pay, where the interest on the loan is somewhere between the third and the half of what I'd pay in rent for equivalent property. If I was renting instead of paying mortgage, I wouldn't have any cash to keep to invest elsewhere anyway.

You can find a new place to rent. You can leave if your community turns to shit.

You can also sell your house/condo and move somewhere else, at any time.
What? Just saying a minor software bug (possibly Spotify not integrating correctly) is not the same as a transmission or brake failure. Also, in Tesla's case the minor bugs can be fixed relatively quickly and for free. I don't know what you're talking about being used to software bugs.
There are literally dozens of reasons that tech interviews suck. However, they all mostly boil down to the same root cause: there's very little correlation between the content of most interviews and the jobs people will perform. Some real life situations that I've been on one side or the other of:

* Companies doing a "centralized" process that ignores the candidate. The questions are always overly generic and it really boils down to, "You need to want to work here enough to basically take any job we'll throw at you." Sorry, I don't want to work any company enough to just take any random job.

* Coders asked to complete academic problems that will NEVER come up for them in their real work.

* Coders not being allowed to leverage external resources like they will literally do EVERY DAY in their real jobs.

* Managers being asked to be coders in interviews.

* Questions that have binary "right" and "wrong" answers.

* Asking questions that have a million ways to do it and then honing in on one specific disagreement the interviewer and candidate had.

* Interviews that are more about the interviewer stroking their own ego and proving that they are smarter than the candidate.

* Completely ignoring that the absolute best indicator of future performance is past performance; not, "what quiz could this person solve in 45 minutes in an interview."
The scientific method means coming up with hypotheses that get validated via experiments, whose conclusions are reported and undergo peer review. And we generally have a pretty good idea about how strong the evidence is, or about how well a theory predicts the universe.

The "natural social order" for humans isn't scientific because there is none that we can identify, unlike in animals with much simpler social structures.
Social Darwinism isn't based on evidence, being promoted by quacks that are anti-science.

You're trying to draw a distinction where there is none.

Science is the way to seek truth. And yes, we should use scientific evidence to reject anecdotes, if that evidence is strong enough. Not sure what you mean in your last sentence but it sounds wrong to me.
Which leads back to my question: is it not possible that we may find a technological alternative to trees which scales better and does not require us to supply so much energy.
D'oh. "glamorous" above was meant to be "glamorize". Too late to edit now, unfortunately.
There is always 2 sides to every story.

Here is an op-ed from a top level cabinet official coming straight at him. Specifically stating Dr Fauci has been wrong at every major call.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/todaysdebate/2020/07/...

As with everything, it would seem that the truth is somewhere in-between.

Skepticism seems to be the order of the day
I'm probably not the best person to gauge that in general, but I think the "inherent" part is where we differ.

Going back to whiteboarding: I don't like whiteboarding myself, but to be fair it does measure certain dimensions quickness-on-feet, memorization abilities, ability to exude presence, fluency in language, etc. While these are laudable abilities on their own, I agree they might not correlate with overall on-the-job performance (but it depends on the job).

I guess "job performance" is this amorphous latent variable y that is correlated with a bunch of direct predictors x which we can measure, u which we can't measure, so we use proxy variables z to stand-in for them: y = f(x, u, z).

The worry is that some candidates, who may be bad for the job, but just happen to be good at these proxy dimensions (or train for them) might get the job; on the flip side, we may exclude certain candidates who are potentially good for the job but perform badly at the proxy dimensions. Whiteboarding measures the proxy dimension z.

Edit: oh look, an article on HN's front page on this very issue:

https://news.ncsu.edu/2020/07/tech-job-interviews-anxiety/
That's awesome, and not at all a surprise! It makes a lot of sense when building from the ground up to choose a great tool, and Julia has had some serious adoption in academia.
Astronaut Bioengineers Human Cartilage in Space Using Magnetic Fields
That's the way it is _everywhere_.

For example status.digitalocean.com is _not_ real time, it's manually updated.

And it's irritating as fuck.
Haha what? No, never. This just doesn't happen in the software world. Besides, Microsoft has some terrible SLAs. Even with Azure it is almost impossible to get a refund for outages that are entirely Microsoft's fault.
Home addresses aren't considered sensitive information. If you own your home that information is public. Cops read people's addresses (and SSNs) out over the radio all the time for anyone to hear.

I'm not saying I agree with this, privacy should be protected better, but that's the US.
How long does your battery last? I have heard it drains very quickly?
This is a great idea! I learned how to code (+ infrastructure, AWS, HTTP, and a bunch of other stuff) entirely through personal projects.
The end of the article is telling for me. It talks about surveys done in Los Angeles about how people feel when they moved there.

I was born in and learned how to drive in LA. After that, no matter where I drive is relaxing in comparison.
Sure. Stories are important. It's really not all that common, though, if we're being honest. According to this random memorial page[1] 48 police officers were killed in the line of duty last year in the US, an annual fatality rate of 0.006% assuming 800,000 active officers.

[1]: https://www.odmp.org/search/year?year=2019
It depends on whose wrongdoing is getting outed. US Gov is fine when the whistle is getting blown on someone else. When US Gov's misdeeds get brought to light, it has no greater purpose than deploying revenge against the whisteblower.

The last administration filed more espionage charges against whistleblowers than all previous administrations combined.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2013/06/edward-snowden-i...
> Generally if you’re rich enough for that sort of setup the building is rich enough for a doorman

That's true for newer buildings that are purposely built to be luxury apartment buildings. But if you're living in a building that used to be an office building or a factory then it's not necessarily going to have a doorman. This applies to a lot of the old industrial buildings in SoHo, Chelsea, the meatpacking district, Union Square, etc. It's basically impossible to change where the elevator shaft of a building is after it's been built, because it's part of the structural support system of the building, so you can't just move everything around to add a lobby and front desk to the ground floor after the fact.
You may be some sort of fascist if you believe police disproportionately escalating violence is acceptable, but maybe not. At the very least, you're confused, IMO.
Threadripper has its own socket type so I'd go with a cheaper or older one of those. Though I think third-gen threadripper is another socket entirely
Show HN: Gandalf, a simple and brutalistic URL blocker
Hi everyone, I just wanted to show a small python tool that I created today to avoid my own procrastination at work (which is ironic, given that I've procrastinated to do this). It's a URL blocker based on entries in /etc/hosts. It has a command called gandalf to start and stop the service blocking and adding or removing URLs.

I must say, it's very brutalistic, I've done it in a few spare hours I had yesterday and today, the codebase is extremely simple and it just does it job, nothing else. It contains a PKGBUILD for Arch Linux but I still haven't submitted it to AUR.

Hope you like it! Any comments are welcome.

https://git.sr.ht/~oscarcp/gandalf
That's a good point. I probably put way more into my identity as a designer than I should or care to admit. Thanks, gives me something to think about and work on.