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"The Untold Truth Of Grant Imahara From MythBusters" (2019, 12 mins)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7PdllrAoL0
I sincerely appreciated that the technical portion of the interview for my current employer consisted of pair programming with their developers to improve on the pre-screening "take home" assignment I completed. It actually gave me a chance to explain my thought process and work through problems in a similar way to how it happens on the job. It was infinite preferable to white board algorithm questions.
Its actually a quote from here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescreen

Maybe I didn't grab enough context.
I am very aware that this forum is not political but these are unprecedented times. The world leader has created an impossible situation by getting elected on anti-vaccine and anti-science grounds and then trying to salvage America with a vaccine. Millions will die if the free world is not very vocal. If a moderator takes down this post it's with full knowledge that this is a disservice to humanity.
I would wager the opposite. That many people looking for a job are open to a (paid) trial week, when the alternative is countless grueling interviews that lead nowhere.
Outlook Crashing Worldwide
my flight back was booked for that evening, they weren't interested in putting me up for another night I guess
> Who would suspect more wisdom on privilege from proud sexist Paul Graham.

This is a great example of Cancel Culture. You attack someone's character, rather than their argument.

This is the definition of arguing in bad faith.
The most awarded brands section backs up your point too. Granted Toyota is number one, but then you have the three big American brands right after that.

Also it's hard to tell, but I believe the Volvo in the picture is the one that is made in South Carolina.
Gentoo Security Podcast
We had them at Intel, and I completely hated it, then 2015 rolled around with hot seats and the open office and I learned how lucky I was
Yeah, sometimes you may not be thinking straight, a have a little sleep hangover/anxiety Induced brain fog on the day of, and you can say bye bye to the job.
Not really that inefficient, like a 3 - 5% difference between Gold & Titanium[1]. Additionally the Corsair RM1000x actually breaks into 80+ Platinum territory in testing[2]. Also I am skeptical of a 1KW Titanium rated PSU for under $300 that's actually in stock.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/80_Plus#Efficiency_level_certi...

2. https://www.jonnyguru.com/blog/2015/10/25/corsair-rm1000x-10...
Probably not, because of caching and mirrors. There are many, many mirrors, including global CDNs. Debian makes no attempt at controlling package distribution. Also packages are signed, but sent over HTTP to allow easy caching, and there are no-fuss caching packages in the repos. If you have a site with even a handful of debian or ubuntu machines, you would be well served to setup a cache to save bandwidth and improve update download times. This all results in making it impossible to get even remotely accurate statistics server side.
Come on, blue ocean.

CVSHub.
Yeah like these do not have to be separate things. If I advertise a final price to you, "you will pay $4.95 for this thing," I can still communicate on the receipt that $0.50 of that went to sales tax, and if you are paying in a way that excludes taxes from being collected, e.g. SNAP benefits, there is no reason that you can't be charged only $4.45 for that because the tax is deducted from the advertised purchase price. If you are concerned about benefits that are "use 'em or lose 'em" you can always remit the tax to the person as physical cash so that there is transparency there. This is just a pareto inefficiency; there appears to be a way to make some folks better off without making any other folks worse off.
Scaling Rails is hard ? Github needs to move to CDN, static site deployment instead.
They may catch on fire but I don't necessary think they're lesser quality. I'm pretty sure they're using bose proprietary tech which probably wasn't cheap.
I think with a smaller product you're trying to fight for market share and retaining a client - Microsoft is so large and with so much momentum and dug so deeply into their customers that this sort of thing doesn't cause them to want to find something else. If it hurts to change, it's easy to excuse something like this.
No problem. If you ever plan to move to Psono, then feel free to provide me a dummy export and Ill create you the necessary import functionality.
So he's sexist because you disagree with his argument?
The root problem isn't the interviews themselves, but the belief that--despite a stunning lack of evidence--interviews are somehow useful measures of future job performance.

And I believe this applies to most job interviews, not just in tech.
the maga hat is the slogan that half the country voted for. it is not a misogynistic slur or a rebel flag. It encompasses a lot of ideas, mainly conservative. I don't know what a rebel flag is but I also wouldn't ban someone for it. this is the kind of tribalism that proves my point about cancel culture.
It means you're someone willing to spend two to three months on your life sucking a little dick for a chance to work at FAANG... the companies so good they've recommended 15 vacuum cleaners after purchasing one. How many hands do they think I actually have.
> What I need is a way that tells whether the person I'm interviewing can actually do the work that I'm hiring them to do. Maybe I should ask them about that. Maybe I should give them some problems similar to the actual work.

Would you mind sharing with us how to draw the rest of the owl?

Look, I don't even want to defend leetcode here, but it is a struggle to find questions that are:

1) Correlated with the actual work performance

2) Neat enough to be explained and solved in the course of an interview

3) Have objective enough answers so that it's possible to overcome likability bias in interviewers

4) Have objective enough answers to be able to meaningfully compare different candidates

5) Demonstrate that candidates can actually go from hearing a description of the problem to producing code that solves the problem
Somewhere there is a programmer that tried to fix a bug in 10+ year old legacy code (mso98win32client.dll) who has learned the bugs of legacy are features of today.
I studied in Iran for a couple of months and travelled a lot around the country as an anglophone atheist (that happens to speak Farsi). I don't think anyone ever asked me about religion. Everyone was nice.
>To wit: online libertarians screaming about how terrible identity politics is as a way to disparage their political enemies are absolutely practicing identity politics.

But haven't you heard? Anyone who places value on liberty is a libertarian, anyone who says something in today's hyper-connected age is "online" (because their ideas could make it to the internet, even if they didn't put them there themselves), and screaming is indistinguishable from speech because it exists on the same continuum. Furthermore, as you point out, identity politics is politics, but in an even deeper sense, politics can be anything. Furthermore, any claim can be construed as disparaging depending on the values of the listener, and "political enemies," if you think about it, really extends to anyone who is not yourself - because no two people believe exactly the same things. So, now that we realize the true meanings of all the words used, we are left with the sentence:

>Anyone speaking against anything are practicing activities.
Data Scientist, but would be easy to adapt.
"Retroactive co-founder" - I wonder if that approach would work in other areas too. Like, how much would it cost to buy the status of an "Original member of the Beatles"?
And an interview is very much marketing and sales of your skills :)
> > So where do you draw the line?

> On a case-by-case basis.

Let me guess: "at being wrong"?
Both the Pinephone and the Pinebook Pro recently received mainline Linux kernel support with version 5.7. Debian recently added support for the Pinebook Pro as well as the RockPro64. They have daily builds available here for most of Pine 64's devices: https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/arm64/daily/netboot/SD-c.... There's no Pinephone build yet but IMO it's only a matter of time. That being said, "Mobian" is just a DEBOS recipe with some custom software included that a user by the name of A-Wei has been maintaining. You could clone their repo and build it yourself if you'd like, it's super polished! Here's the Mobian repo: https://gitlab.com/mobian1/mobian-recipes
It's about popcon, except for the people who didn't read the article.
However, high rates of employees getting fired is bad for culture. People are always anxious about their jobs - if they see a few colleagues fired for nonperformance, a number of them will be driven to anxiety. (I am one of these people, and being anxious about job security ironically makes me much worse at my job)
I've had FAANG tell me to read Cracking the Coding Interview, sent me links to leetcode/hackerank, sent me PDFs with notes on what topics would be covered for domain specific interviews, linked me to their blog posts on architecture design, videos by their engineers on how to prepare, given me the literal behavioral questions I got asked, etc, etc. Facebook sent me well over a dozen links to guides for my interview and half of those had further links in them (including to a list of practice questions on hackerank).

edit: It is also very reasonable to study having done it myself and talked to people who have gotten into these companies. At 15 minutes a pop you can do 100+ leetcode questions a week. Spend a few months and you'll have studied almost every reasonable question. Most of them are repetitive patterns but around 5% have tricks you need to memorize. That covers 2-3 out of your 5 interviews. Behavioral you need to memorize around 5 questions that they'll basically give you ahead of time. System design is harder but there's videos for the 10 topics that will cover 90% of the potential questions.
>Think they could really benefit from merging with Toyota especially at this valuation.

Merging them would create a mass of online fanboys so dense that it creates an automotive black hole. It will be impossible for discussion of any other brand to build up enough speed to exit the fanboy-well.

Joking aside, brands that start with T and end with A seem to have a disproportionate number of very loud online fanboys. I can understand why they have the following they do but it doesn't make them any less insufferable.
I've always thought the SAT is basically gauging the same skill: can you study for a test and do well? The grades you get in college are mostly determined by how well you can study for tests. In the process, hopefully you learn the subject, but that always felt like a side goal.

I think tech interviewing is somewhat similar: are you focused and dedicated enough to learn something arbitrary and produce code for it?
I think an interesting counterpoint to my observation is Firefox claimed they lost a lot of users because Google services just broke in odd ways only on Firefox so users moved to Chrome.[1]

My counter to that would be, even though Firefox was and is a big company it's easy to change. A lot of services like Outlook, Chrome, or Gmail or just downright colossal at this point. Changing from Gmail isn't easy because of all the other services and logins associated with it.

Not to mention, Gsuite, GitHub, Outlook, and such are all very corporate. Higher ups make the decision as to when to use these often enough, so you can't just say "this has kind of failed us a couple times lets try something else".

So all in all, I still stand by my point, entrenched big companies probably get more of a pass.

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/former-mozilla-exec-google-has...
I live in Romania and the main ISP (by market share) doesn't use CGNAT for the residential plans (FTTH). And I also never had any problems with any IP blacklists.

That being said, I wouldn't necessarily recommend Romania to the OP as a place to relocate to. Internet is just too small a factor, and today there's good internet just about everywhere.
Thank you for taking the time to explain that, it is much appreciated.
A comparable workstation costs about a month of on-demand EC2 time or 3 months of spot instance time.

AWS GPU instances are really expensive.

The most cost effective imo is to build a workstation for development and then deploy to AWS spot if you need a cluster.

If you can't use a workstation for whatever reason, then use the new AWS feature to "stop" spot instances and use the spot instance as your workstation while being conscious of the high hourly cost and shutting it down when you're not working.
You could also argue that Tesla is misleading since it won't allow customers in 15 states to fill out surveys.
That's a false statement.

There's enough uranium in France - it's just not cheap uranium and open pit mines in Africa are more economical.

Additionally, France never had to even prospect for uranium ore, as incidentally many of their former colonies had plenty of potential for cheap open pit mining using cheap local workers....

For reference, just a few hundred kilometres east of their border, East Germany was the third largest uranium producer in the world and there's no geological reason why France should be devoid of it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Millennial_Project

> "The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps" by Marshall T. Savage is a book (published in 1992 and reprinted in 1994 with an introduction by Arthur C. Clarke) in the field of exploratory engineering that gives a series of concrete stages the author believes will lead to interstellar colonization. Many specific scientific and engineering details are presented, as are numerous issues involved in space colonization.
They just fit a sigmoid to it, that isn't a biological limit.
And the same for solar. There are several hours every day when the sun is shining nowhere on (Metropolitan) France.
> Fission is really the only option for always available industrial amounts of power

Why not batteries, of all kinds (pneumatic, hydrogen, gravitational), or specifically electrical? Costs, perhaps?

The argument between proponents and opponents of fission power rarely focuses on externalities costs. Opponents claim nuclear power is very costly when nuclear waste utilization is considered. What is missing here?

To paraphrase, given the current growth rate of solar+wind and other renewable sources of energy, one would think the biggest remaining problem is to neutralize intermittent nature of those sources - or at least of biggest of them, for which batteries would be a solution. Nuclear proponents disagree. Can we have good numbers to compare?
No, the interior and it's controls are completely different. The touch screen interface is a huge difference.
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For the Corolla vs Corvette example, Toyota allows you to open the hood and take the toyota engine out. The screws are all standards and tools are available to get parts you need to take the engine out. If you had the tools to fit the Corvette engine in place, you are allowed to do it. You could build your own custom engine as well and put it there. We can put a lot of after market stuff in our cars, replace tires, wheels or even engine if we want to. WE own the car fully.

With the App Store case, they don't allow you to open the hood, unscrew and take out the apple app store and put an alternate app store. While Jailbreaking is legal, you need to use a hack to open up your iPhone and Apple actively plugs those holes in the next versions.
If I tell someone that "Black people are incarcerated at a 3x higher rate for drug crimes they commit at the same rate as white people", and they argue that that is Black people's fault, what should I conclude? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23667342)

Is willful ignorance acceptable?
Personally I like the name. speaks to an idea of value.
> The issue is that nationalistic flamewar makes people angry and dumb (and worse). People who want to rant and post denunciatory rhetoric—whom there are a lot of, and growing—need to find another place to do that.

I understand and commend the taking down of nationalistic flamewars, for the most part. But that way of operating has one flaw: it gives cover for very back things being carried out, since very bad things are polarising and therefore its denouncing a "flamewar".

I apologise for the question because there is no way to ask it that isn't polarising, but I would really like to know: If Nazi Germany was putting Jews in trains right now, would a post about it get removed from HN? It's a serious question, I think your users deserve to know.
Because maybe they support families with their job? Unless they had a ton of savings, parents aren't going to switch jobs with a chance of being unemployed again in 2.5 months. I wouldn't do it and I'm young and single.
Do they get more of a pass?

I don't really know of any small services I gave up on because of outages more or less than I would for any other service regardless of company size....

The complexity of a product probably makes folks less likely to 'walk away' but I'm not convinced they do more or less for any other given company based on size alone.
I think it goes far beyond that. I'd bet dollars to donuts that you will find both protected and unprotected groups over represented in the false negative pile. Do women have more test anxiety then men? If so, guess what your process is selecting for. Do minorities have more self doubt than majorities. Same thing. And so on.

And that doesn't address the file drawer effect. I'm 54. I can code a binary tree, hash table or what have you, if I have to, but I am not as practiced as somebody fresh out of school, because that heavy lifting is done by libraries, and I'm busy contributing original mathematical algorithms that no one ever asks about because they don't have the background to understand the explanation. So I don't go on FAANG type interviews. I know I will fail, and if I don't my offer will be predicated on that apparently lower performance. At best I will have an utterly miserable experience. So I self select myself out, mostly on age.

This is not good, for so many reasons.
Centrists such as Bernie, AOC, et al?
I don't know why "accidentally" is in scare quotes when that's literally an advertised feature.
To throw another wrench into this: here’s another Matrix client, compatible with the same accounts you’d use in Element, with a UX more like what you’d expect from SMS/WhatsApp/etc: https://dittochat.org/

When it comes to open protocols, I think it’s a bit silly to say they’re “for” anything in particular; the protocol constrains their uses somewhat, but you can do whatever you want with them. I myself use Matrix for all of the above.

(Also, I suspect if you added chat bubbles and invite auto-acceptance to Element you’d have people arguing that of course it’s meant for small group communication! UX seems to shape expectations about these things.)
Well, I don't like being lied to. In July of 2020, has there actually been a lot of talk about privilege? Is that really where this thought process started? It seems way more likely that he started by complaining about cancel culture, so the beginning of this essay seems dishonest to me.

While I'm replying, I might as well link the comic I was referencing for anyone who hasn't seen it. This is what I think of whenever someone starts getting really abstract about free speech or not being allowed to say things instead of clearly articulating what they actually mean:

https://imgur.com/YWK9z19
is there a centralized place with information like this but for other companies as well?
People tend to forget that despite the Chernobyl disaster happening in Ukraine, Bavaria advised their citizens to not eat any mushrooms collected in the woods because wind blew radioactive particles across Europe.
Honestly if you built a better bridge more would come over.

Looking at white boarding comfort and judging that the person can't handle stressful situations when they have a defined role and understand the stack are two different things.

I feel like everyone wants to make a quick judgement and pat themselves on the back.

People can learn quickly but no one believes it.
> Fair enough, but consider the new SAT "Adversity" score[1]. Is that not essentially the same thing, but on a larger scale? It's still reducing the "vector" that oppression is supposed to be (from an intersectionality perspective) to a "scalar" value that is useful for sorting people into a hierarchy.

I don't know that the SAT adversity score claims to be an explicit demarcation of privilege. It wouldn't, for example, encode racial privilege since none of the signifiers are the test takers race. Some may be racially correlated, but I think we've already established that those are different. As far as I can tell it really only applies at the granularity of a high school and not a particular student (although I may very well be mistaken here, it's hard to tell).

But this is mostly moot since the Adversity Score plan was withdrawn[1].

> but do you think his opinion would be given a platform if he did not have that adversity score?

Broadly, yes[1]. Worth noting that Williams is and has been a staff writer at the NYT for quite some time, he was also the author (like the actual author, not just a signatory) of the Harper's letter that's been in the news. He's got quite the platform, even when it comes to non-race related things.

> Perhaps because you benefit from (in Paul Graham's words) "orthodox privilege"? That is, your ideas are not questioned on the basis of your identity because they are the "right" opinions[3]. For someone to question the orthodoxy, they must first establish their own adversity or risk being discounted (or worse).

That's a bit of a catch-22 now isn't it. My opinions will be discounted due to my privilege, but if they aren't, that's also due to my privilege. But I also don't think this is true: there's all kinds of things that I do question with my more progressive friends. But they're usually around economic policy, or procedures (I'm pragmatic, many people I know are not, so there's ongoing debate I see about reformist vs. revolutionary action with regard to the issue du jour).

Being a reformist as opposed to a revolutionary is absolutely impacted by my privileges, and I recognize that. I'm much more comfortable with the world the way things are than some of my "colleagues" in this context, so reformism is safer to me. But some people aren't treated as well by the system today, so they are much more willing to throw the whole thing out, deal with the chaos for a while, and build something new from the ashes.

That's clearly worse for me, but probably gets them to where they're more equal faster. Interestingly, I'm not even sure which of those two opinions would be considered orthodoxy among progressive circles. But I don't think people discount my opinions on the subject because I have some privileges. In some cases I think they're actually valued more.

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/27/us/sat-adversity-score-co...

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherrim/2019/09/11/the-s...