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> Words are tools of communication. They have meanings. Those meanings shift over time, and according to context.

This is exactly correct. Not everyone's experiences are the same, leading different people to wrap a situation or a statement in different context.

When some people hear BLM they wrap it in the context of the ideology of the founders, or in the riots they see on television, or in the intense anti-[insert group] hate on social media. Those people aren't racists, and they would happily work with you to combat corruption in our politics and policing. They want the world to be better, they simply disagree with how the movement is organized.

> Unreasonable people insist that they are being victim-blamed.

People who said 'All lives matter' early on were labeled racists and attacked mercilessly on social media and television. I don't believe these people are all unreasonable.
The Microsoft Effect
Suppose you're BigTechCo, and your interview process passes up this huge pool of talented developers who don't interview well. Then your competitor ScrappyStartup, who gives some of these folks a chance, ought to be eating your lunch, right?

Something to think about, especially if you're involved in a startup...
The answer is obvious: you should have migrated off IBM Cloud a while ago. Your business isn't the target market for IBM.
In a profession where

void f(const std::vector<std::string>& arg);

and

void f(const std::vector<std::string> arg);

do very different things, I'd say that you should at least sell yourself as paying attention to detail.

You could say that this is a poor design of C++, but pick your language, there's usually something like this somewhere. At least in any of the commonly used languages. (Although, C++ is particularly bad about it.)
Belarus, Ukraine, Russia have low taxation for the salaries in IT (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarus_High_Technologies_Park) To have your own 2-3 room flat in Minsk (Capital) by the age of 35 is pretty common for Belarusian programmers and basically unheard in the West. So yes, I can argue that programmers can have higher standards of life at home than your typical "tech hub" like London, Munchen or Dublin.
Yeah, because the 10x will probably have a sloppier resume and still go where they want while the average people who need to take every advantage will be more likely to meticulously fret over their resume like this.
I don't know if the article mentions this because (ironically) Bleeping Computer is now down, but you may be able to fix this by holding Ctrl while opening Outlook in order to start it in Safe Mode. Whenever I'm in a broken state, I do this, load it up fully, close it again, and start it normally. Then things usually work okay.

I had to do that this morning on my work machine, not sure if it was related to this issue.
The home being totally redone next door is my new alarm clock. its terrible to live next to, all day power tools and hammers going.
Not sure how this matters. You can’t bring criminal charges against some for being unethical unless it’s also illegal.
"Prof Ibrahim Abubakar, University College London (UCL), said: "If these predictions are even half accurate, migration will become a necessity for all nations and not an option."

So if the US current attitude towards immigrants persists, this is a future in which it does not compete well?
No need to bring in animals to explain this. There are a handful of human coronaviruses - I think 4 that are not SARS-related, but I’m on mobile so will have to dig up the study later.

Besides, once a virus jumps from an animal it either becomes a human virus (capable of spreading), or somehow is a one-off virus that can jump from animal->human but not subsequently to another human. If the latter, that effect is so negligible it would not explain 20-50% of SARS-CoV-2-naive individuals having t cell reactivity.

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While I’m at it, just a reminder to all that SARS-2 overall is a fairly mild virus, and the level of hysteria and death-inducing counterproductive response (lockdown, suspension of elective surgeries like Newsom did for a month here in California) is completely divorced from the fundamentals of this virus.

Also a reminder that unlike flu, SARS-2 primarily kills the very old / very unhealthy, whereas flu kills the very young and the very old. Thus when you run the math on population dynamics / herd immunity, the recurring yearly deaths will be vanishingly low (unlike flu) and thus amortized across years, SARS-2 is even leas deadly than the current numbers imply.

This is because once it has passed through the population, the set of SARS-CoV-2 naive individuals becomes dominated by new entrants to the world (babies/toddlers) who essentially have 0 risk of dying from COVID (it’s basically a rounding error). Thus while SARS-CoV-2 is and will remain endemic (circulating in the population), it will barely kill anyone once the current world population is largely exposed to it.

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Finally, a reminder that mentioning stuff like the above tends to result in censorship from social media platforms, which combined with the incredible bias of “news” organizations like CNN etc, means that those who are plugged into the matrix will never encounter real information about this threat. And surprisingly (although in retrospect it shouldn’t have been surprising to me), there are a lot of people on HN that have dranken that very kool-aid and thus will reactively downvote or even flag commenters who present their beliefs (however founded or unfounded) about the true danger of this virus versus its purported impact.

Also, since I’m already ranting, I just want to throw out that the narrative around “long-term damage” (often stated to be lifelong) is completely unfounded and contradicted by the research we already have about SARS-1, which is SARS-2’s much more deadly yet much less popular older brother.
That's.. how it works in the US. I have options. I haven't paid any tax or received any actual stocks.
Amazon knowingly sells tons of products that maim or children, and refuses to take them down even when reported. I literally saw an Amazon recommended product the other day where the #1 review was that it gave the person's kid lead poisoning. Even at it's worst Wal-Mart wasn't that bad.

Example: https://www.amazon.com/Star-Right-Flash-Cards-Set/dp/B073GBD...
So technically this is a pay-for-play kind of shenanigans?
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> a collection of writeups in media

...listed in a tweet.

I block twitter though /etc/hosts so I can't click through to see what you're talking about.

My point is, get off Twitter entirely.

> I was hoping that the so-called elites have some common sense.

I still can't figure out whether the world is run by evil sociopaths or well-meaning idiots, nor which possibility is scarier.
>things could be construed as problematic, and make efforts to better themselves

The substantive disagreement here is whether backing off things that "could be construed as problematic" makes you or the discourse "better."
I didn’t want children but my now-wife was persistent. We even separated for a year because I didn’t want children. The only way I was able to have my so far two children was by pretending it wasn’t a choice of mine — and now of course I have zero regrets. The idea that we can “choose” to have kids is somewhat ridiculous I think. (I realize this is counterintuitive.) But there is no calculus at all that can incorporate any meaningful “data” into that decision. If you don’t believe me consider that I didn’t want kids but just went through having them and my joy at this happening to me could not have been understood by any upfront rational thinking. There is no free will in this domain.
Would you agree that interviewing in psudocode is a good idea then?

But what's the content they should be interviewed on? You say no to quicksort. How about date parsing? That shows you have to handle messy cases.

What do you want them to write if not algorithms? Maybe we have a different expectation of what "algorithm" means? The term is pretty generic, but I feel captures more of the cross language stuff.

Compare a "How does javascript handle equality?" question which falls under "trivia", vs "Implement a hash table", which isn't too hard to do for a naive solution, and demonstrates that you know how the basic data structures you work with day to day work.
I answered it in another response, but I think this is why we're seeing a rise in meta-analysis papers. Take a bunch of small N's, consolidate them, and analyze their trend. This analysis can also be strengthened by evaluating the effect size of the phenomena [1]. However, I would say using effect in meta-analysis is a very complex approach that limits the set of researchers that could conduct the analysis appropriately.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_size
I've been told to reject a candidate because "he didn't seem that excited to work here"
The comments in these threads must give tptacek PTSD.
Given the local environment they operate in I wonder if someone was on the take for them to operate originally. Maybe the regulation changes cause Gokada to not want to pay but that wasn't copacetic with the demands of the "shaker"?

As you pointed out, business in these countries isn't clean and clear as it is in most countries HN'ers live in.

I saw crazy shakedowns in Northern Africa when I briefly lived there. I wouldn't doubt the same to be seen in other countries.
How do you generate the bulk of energy? Solar and hydro is a major natural disaster (mostly through ecosystem destruction, but also mining) and wind is not exactly safe. What else can you do?
Hey, that's unnecessary. I admit that my comment was written in haste and is not properly backed up and can't be properly backed up, not like that. It's a melange of several points, not well distilled. But the essence goes like:

1. France has a very powerful elite system and one specific route to get there (I'm not saying the engineering schools are that way). That's not controversial, that's just how it is.

2. This leads to a specific orthodoxy, symptomatic could be the centralism that leads to a strong centralization of power in Paris.

3. At the same time there is a very strong pro-nuclear sentiment that gets instilled into engineering students (conflicting and in context with a recent strong popularity of ecology), whatever mechanism specifically is responsible for that.

4. And France has (and even more so: had) a pro-nuclear government, linked to the enterprises running the power plants.

I'm not saying the engineers are incapable or specifically corrupt and to distrust your doctor, thanks you very much for the cancer thing, but that in this situation it is reasonable to have some distrust for security assessments of nuclear power plants in France.
Depending on how the HTTP library works, one might be able to return an error to the user, but preserve all the other call state in an open thread, and later on join it from an interactive debugger … perhaps even a Lisp debugger running in a Web browser!
Sounds like we're well on our way to having a 100% chance of being directly exposed anyway.
The Algebra of Algebraic Data Types, Part 1 (2013)
I don't see how internships help. I get the point that at the end you know if they're a hire but you still had to filter who to intern in the first place so you're still back to interview people to be interns which is the same problem you had.

Also, training a new employee or intern in your systems, code, company procedures etc takes a bunch of time and investment so it's not like you can intern some higher multiple of people than you'd hire.
If you're still a citizen of Russia, I believe you could get Russian vaccine instead, they are making a good progress too
> how do _you_ interview people?

I don't, any more. I'm at a company that enforces a very rigid structure that I don't agree with, so I simply opt out. I pay for it every review cycle. Ironically, the rigidity of that structure is explicitly intended to reduce personal bias, which is a laudable goal, and I believe it succeeds. Unfortunately, I think it just replaces personal bias with systemic bias.

When I did interview, which was a lot at times when I was in a leadership role at a couple of startups, my favorite interview technique was to let the candidate lead and I'd follow. If I wanted to ask about algorithms, I'd ask about one they'd used in a project they'd worked on. How did it work? What were its strengths and pitfalls? What others were considered? What bugs were found in its implementation, or caused by its use? Besides flipping the control dynamic of the interview, it often led to more interesting conversations. Highly recommend.

> what are some examples of better ways to measure general IQ and grit

IQ has been under a shadow since _The Bell Curve_ and I'm not keen on letting it back out. ;) If one must measure it, I'd say measure it directly with simple challenges (e.g. memory or pattern completion) or puzzles ... but even those are apparently fraught with cultural baggage and of questionable relevance to a knowledge-heavy domain like programming.

As for grit, it's often readily apparent from someone's resume. Were they self-taught, worked through college, or took a free ride? Did they stay with companies and projects through hard times and get promoted "in the field" or were they always the first rat to abandon ship? It usually only takes a few questions to figure out whether someone's a coaster or a fighter. Funnily enough, the people with the most actual evidence of grit are the ones least likely to have spent their time studying specifically for the interview. They were busy actually doing stuff.
Though when you stuff everything except the engine and brakes into the infotainment system, it does put you in a worse spot when your infotainment system locks up.

How many other cars do you need to learn a button combination on the steering wheel to reboot the infotainment screen when it crashes while driving, and then while it reboots your turn signals stop making sounds and you don't have a speedometer?
Thanks for the reminder. I actually read about this somewhere (probably on ArchWiki), while installing Arch a few weeks ago, but I totally forgot to actually opt-in.

Really nice distribution, btw! My favorite, so far.
In a lot of places, offices are also going to be a lot different for a long time. For example, masks, limited use of conference rooms, no food service/snacks/drinks, separation, etc.
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What isn't true? Do you believe that girls are equally interested in computers compared to boys at 13 years old?
The article you linked is littered with misinformation. I would not recommend that anyone read it.

It asserts "facts", like the false statement that wearing a mask lowers blood oxygen concentration by 20%, using citations of Facebook videos and conspiracy theory "news" websites as sources.
We don't really have good options for "industrial-size" batteries e.g. something that can offer many GWh of storage, which is something that would be required to sustain modern society through the daily (and nightly) variations of solar and wind power.

Pumped hydro can do that in certain places and with major changes to local ecosystem, so this is what we're using, but a full switch to renewables would need much more than what we can get from current pumped hydro locations.

Pneumatic, hydrogen or gravitation other than pumped hydro have never been a reasonable option in scale - there are various companies working on that, some of them have posted their PR pieces here, but up until now all that has been pure puffery with no way to scale to large amounts (GWh, not MWh) in anything close to practical costs or infrastructure size.

Electrical batteries are not yet sufficiently capable but they may be becoming an option in the near future. E.g. the Tesla superbattery in South Australia is (or at least was) the largest project with 129 MWh of storage - that is a step in the right direction, it is very useful for rapidly covering short-term fluctuations, but the 'superbattery' is comparably tiny, it's less than 1% of the capacity of a single decent pumped hydro plant which get 20000 MWh or more. And if we want enough storage so that the country won't have blackouts every time there's a windless winter evening, then we need much more than that. E.g. UK seems to consume 25GW electricity even during nighttime, so a single windless winter night with 12 hours of darkness needs 300 GWh of storage (so, some 2000 stations like Tesla built in Australia) just for the daily variation - without accounting for seasonal variation in solar and wind.

So the answer to "why not batteries" is that this will happen when we will have the capacity to install 1000+ times larger batteries than current megaplants while still having a reasonable price. I'm sure that this is possible and will eventually happen, but we're not there yet.
same for UC employees, but we set up a web site so the FOIA/CPRA requests don't have to be made https://ucannualwage.ucop.edu/wage/

It has our UC police in it too.
It looked beautiful and I wanted to share it! Do you have any thoughts on how it should integrate with component frameworks? (Preact, React, Vue, etc...)
The Samsung galaxy buds+ are a lot better. Rtings seems to agree as well.

Truth is, Amazon tries to be an everything company, and that simply does not work well, when the competitors have honed their specialty skills for way longer. I find that Google faces a similar problem with hardware.

At least with Microsoft, I can respect them going out of their way to make their products weird and unique in an Apple-esque manner. (Surface book, Surface pro, The Surface headphones, the surface buds)

On the contrary, Samsung and Apple for eg. derive their music prowess from AKG and Beats respectively. Bose and Sony have a long history in music. It simply isn't possible for even the biggest of players to break into the market if treat it like 'any other product'.
I have users that seem to have redirect loop issues with Outlook Online related to this outage. But I do agree their web client is nice :)
> Why not? If the position isn't a fit for either side after X time on-the-job, that's OK right?

In the US at least, health insurance is a big one.

How are you going to convince me to leave my current job for a 10 week trial period? That right there loses you the set of all people who are currently employed and are fine where they are right now.
No worries at all - they didn't even mention that the article had been amended, so most folks finding this HN thread now will likely feel just as you did. I appreciate your comment, as it alerted me to the fact that there is now an all-in-one page with a good overview of the issue and workarounds that I can share with others.
possibly, but then, never attribute to malice that which can be explained by ignorance. i can't say how many such folks there might be, but in any case, it's more likely that they're pursuing their aims of fairness/justice badly, not maliciously.
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Is the damage and waste from nuclear even close to all the climate, air quality, and even radioactive damage the equivalent amount of fossil fuel energy production has done?
Please stop putting words in other people's mouths or implying that someone is associated with racism when they're stating their beliefs and defending those beliefs with principles. It takes a more nuanced understanding of reality to accept the fact that someone can miss certain aspects of the past while at the same time acknowledging the imperfections of the past.

The freedom to express ideas - even controversial ones - is at the heart of a truly free society. A viewpoint based on sound principles can be true, while also being offensive to someone or a group of people. That doesn't make the viewpoint wrong. A doctor who objectively describes how a person's weight may be detrimental to their health is stating a medical fact, even though it may be deeply offensive to the patient.

To imply that taking offense (over "semantics" used by some people who express their views) is somehow equivalent to the unjust laws mentioned in Letter from Birmingham Jail is, in its own way, a mockery of what Martin Luther King Jr was fighting for. He defended free speech, even when it was offensive at the time. In our time, we speak up about our beliefs and some see them as offensive, but those freedoms should be defended all the same. Publicly shaming people based on false interpretations, and in many cases causing harm to them (as we've seen in the news recently in response to conservative viewpoints being expressed) is an obstruction of those liberties.

If you disagree with someone, debate them on principle. On the other hand, if you pretend that what they're saying is invalid because someone else chooses to be offended by it, you are no longer talking about objective reality. Without a basis in objective reality, public discourse becomes nothing short of a shouting match with rules that change with the wind. We've seen an explosion of that kind of behavior recently on social media.

Instead of being so adamant about picking sides and being "right", let's all listen a little more - to all viewpoints. Let's not paint someone as the devil because they disagree with us (or because we've given them a label based on other people with that viewpoint), but instead offer them a bit of respect and understand that their intentions may be just as honorable as our own, albeit colored by different circumstances and experience.

I'm not going to respond again to this thread.
They should have an Edit feature and ALSO display edit history. So, you will see the most recent version of the tweet but can also see the edit history. Nothing will be hidden this way.
Why would a collective like Debian or Ubuntu need to know what packages are the most installed? I know Ubuntu has their own App Store, is it perhaps to show which apps are the most popular?

If it’s for caching, can they not see which packages are most frequently accessed over http and implement caching that way? Or is that against their privacy policy? I’m not very knowledgeable on this subject but would love to know more!
I agree you have to be careful. However the takehomes I have had were a few hours of work paid at 50% of the hiring rate and that was where it ended. Great experience. There are companies out there doing this to make a great interview process and companies out there who want free work. It should become obvious which is which very quickly.
since it's a webshop it will mostly be cache misses anyway for the static generated pages, not sure that will help a lot.
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> Martin Rees believes with a vegan diet, no travel and spending most of the time in VR, Earth could sustain 20 billion people.

Is this being proposed as something to aspire to? Much better to sustain a much smaller population that can enjoy a varied diet and see the world IMO.
I don't think you need an open for this, you could just install nginx under Termux, or even not under it.
You can get a list of these on the SEC website. Another recent one was in amount 27 million. Some pay a fraction of the fines awarded. Big numbers here particularly if the whistle-blower approaches it in the right way. I have a few ideas on that...
You say that as if your boss can't wake up one morning and fire you because they don't like the way you pour your coffee. The only thing that changes is how much paperwork they have to do to make it happen.
At $5, most of the cost is almost certainly logistical.