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Details are scarce right now but I actually noticed the hacking rampage after checking out my timeline to see Elon Musk being apparently hacked as well.

EDIT: Bill Gates too, but that I noticed via someone else in my timeline as I don't follow him so it seems something more widespread due to some Twitter API or 3rd-party app indeed for I wouldn't believe these high level people would not have 2FA enabled...
That seems like a bad deal for the company. Even though the person is a contractor, you just trained and ramped them up for the last few months. Now, when they are most productive, you are going to let them go, and replace them with somebody who you will have to train and ramp up all over again.
> Offtopic, but schools are closed for the summer.

A very substantial share of schools either have a year round schedule or (especially for secondary schools) offer a summer session if main instruction is on a traditional schedule.
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Whoooa a pack of illustrations for your projects
How can anyone call nuclear power "safe"? Have we discovered a way to actually deal with the nuclear waste yet?
A juggling test would also be fair and objective. Just hit LeetJuggle for a few months before the interview and you’ll be golden
Tesla's fallen into the trap of thinking that minimalism is the same as simplicity, elegance and ease of use.
There is something to this idea, but the discount on the first few months of work as an opportunity to "prove your value" doesn't make any sense. If your value isn't sufficient, they shouldn't renew or take the next step. The C2H process already excludes the value of many valuable benefits.
I think the person probably meant that they had to apply effortful attention while driving. Due to practice, the process is usually automatic/unconscious.
Yea, this guy loves C2H because it makes him a lot of money. It "solves" a problem for employers - which is all he really cares about. Good employers don't use C2H because they recognize talented people have plenty of competing offers for direct-hire.

If I'm quitting my current job to come work for you, I'm not taking on the financial risk for a job that YOU decided needs to be filled, set all of the evaluation and success criteria, and know what your company's culture is actually like.
Ask Microsoft to reimburse you for your time.
Can I ask why you refuse? For me it is more of a formality at this point. I know it won't tell a lot about me, except I cared enough to put in the hours to get this job, but still you have to do what you have to do. I'm pretty senior as well but don't really see why I should not do this when everyone else has to.

In general though the tech industry has a really hard time hiring senior people, perhaps for this reason. I was at Google for 10+ years and did 100+ interviews, HC etc and once you talked to the people in charge of the process they admitted that the process is really weak for hiring senior (L5+ in Google speak) candidates. They in many ways perform worse than new grads in coding interviews which is not really surprising.

So Google hardly hires anyone experience before you get to the director levels (hardly as a percentage of course).

The other well know secret is that if all of us would try to do an interview unprepared we would probably fail.
Clean the connectors while they are in their fixture. This opens up the possibility of cleaning several simultaneously.

Making something more precise than a human hand is not particularly difficult. If you don't have the manufacturing capability to do it, there are plenty of job shops out there that can for a reasonable price.

If you can make the connections faster, you can run more in series, so you probably don't need 20 sets. Even if you did, making copies of something is cheap compared to the initial development. External hardware can be set up to service multiple stations.

Many cables moving together in properly choreographed ways are going to be far more robust than an intern fumbling around. If you're making the tooling such that it is difficult to do routine maintenance, then it's a poor tool design.

In general, fussy and fragile things are the best for automation - you're already bending over backwards to deal with it. It's when things are easy for humans, with their amazing ability to adapt to circumstances and immense contextual knowledge, that automation struggles to produce competitive results.
"After the BlueLeaks data was published, Twitter has permanently suspended the DDoSecrets Twitter account, citing a policy against distributing hacked material. Twitter has also taken the unprecedented step of blocking all links to ddosecrets.com, falsely claiming, to users who click that the website may be malicious."

Funny that Twitter had no problem with the Wikileaks dump from Bradley/Chelsea Manning.
How should a user consent to a Google A/B test other than agreeing to use the software that has A/B tests in it? They run 10s of thousands of tests every day
I am focusing on the algorithmic part, which is the only thing I can influence in my company's interviews. I wish we would evaluate candidates with some pair programming, but that's never going to happen.

> incredibly high stakes algorithm riddles

Yeah there you go. This is your problem (Google/Facebook I assume?). It's more than questionable to expect candidates to solves complex algorithmic problems on a whiteboard in 45 minutes. You should ask moderate algorithmic questions that offer many solution approaches and accept solutions that are "good enough". It is not about having a candidate gaining some magic insight that some MIT student had 30 years ago during his master thesis (and reproducing it in 20 minutes lol). It's about giving a reasonably complex problem, that is not too easy but also not too difficult and allows you to focus evaluation on:

* Does the candidate write proper code that isn't far from compiling? (If they can't, they don't have the experience. It's like not being able to write without a spell/grammar checker. Small mistakes are fine. Big mistakes indicate lack of understanding.)

* Does the candidate have a structured approach to problem solving (all the time I see people starting to write code immediately and getting completely lost in what the problem even was. This is a red flag to me and baffles me each time again.).

* Does the candidate debug his code and walk me through. Does he find obvious bugs while doing so and can he convince me that his code works? (If not, and that happens often, its another red flag)

* Can he rank the speed of his solution with other theoretical solutions? Let's say they found an N^2 algorithm. I usually ask if there is anything faster (even if there isn't). This shows if they have some decent fundamentals in CS and are able to think about the boundaries of an optimal solution and how far they are from it. This is something, people without a CS major usually can never do and unfortunately also not too many with a CS major. It's kinda relevant though, if you optimize for performance and have no clue what the theoretical limitations are, then you are grasping for straws.

There is one big secret for getting A LOT out of easy questions:

I start to modify the problem statement and see if they understand how this changes their solution and their algorithm. People who don't have a good grasp of CS will fail miserably at this task, because this isn't something you can memorize.
This is only true at FAANG, guys, stop working at FAANG its not doing the world very much good and there are tons of companies around looking to hire you that are. The future is starting now and FAANG engineers won't be a part of it.
French and English are strictly equivalent.

moyenne is mean or average. The formal name is "arithmetic mean" and "moyenne arithmétique".

median is médiane. people frequently use any word but median in both languages when they want to talk about the median.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_mean

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moyenne_arithm%C3%A9tique
Yeah I got that too. I would tell them, "do this in your favorite language" and sometimes when they get stuck they say, "I don't really know Python that well". Then why did you choose it?!

Although my favorite was, "I don't know how to write a loop, my IDE usually does it for me".
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Oh no, confusing median vs mean is a very specific interview question I've bombed in the past so hard that the interview almost immediately stopped!
And notice that all the "worst performers" are luxury brands. Is this not simply a matter of those who spend a lot also expect a lot?
> smells of propaganda

That breaks the site guidelines, and we ban accounts that do that, so please don't. Your comment would be just fine with the link and the second sentence.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
So I think this is partially why these questions actually have value. They cannot completely be faked, you need some level of competence even after months of leetcode.
My net income/gross income ratio is 0.59, which means an effective tax rate of %41.

Are you sure about that they are not taxes? Those payments are decided based on a percentage of your income and are mandatory, which really sounds like a tax.

Mandatory insurances/payments are taxes in disguise, where you support other people directly for a specific purpose, unlike indirectly for a general purpose. Either way, the state gets the money and distributes it, just like a tax.
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All you have to do to become one of "Them" is to buy a stock share. Never has been wealth creation more accessible than today.
It's worth noting that it's a fairly small team doing an increadable amount of work. They've mentioned being overwhelmed with queries, even it this update. It's not Apple or Samsung. I'd be patient, maybe ping them once more just in case they missed it, try the forums instead of email as well.
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As someone that has been waiting for their RMA process with a Pinebook Pro for more than a month now I am incredibly disappointed with their customer service.

Getting any kind of response from then can take two to three days and all you get is "thank you for your understanding and patience" while they "wait for the manufacturer to provide replacement parts".
Almost every single family home on the planet can be broken into just by smashing a window. That's a far bigger vulnerability than the possibility of hacking someone's elevator. Most burglars are not very tech savvy but everyone knows how to swing a hammer.
How does C2H get rid of interviews if there are more candidates than roles to fill? Surely you need to filter through anyway. At that point, C2H has the downsides of a permanent position (having to pass an interview) without the benefits of stability, health insurance, holidays, ...

Besides, from the hiring company perspective, only unemployed people or people who really hate their jobs would end up sending their CVs. The competent people who are currently happy where they are would never try C2H. So they are missing a lot of potential good candidates that way.
You have to conceed that the independence of the ASN is at least debatable.
Maybe you do, but most people "vehemently opposing nuclear power plants" only pay some lip service to fossil fuels. I've yet to see an anti-nuclear activist declaring that Germany and Japan have nothing to be proud of, considering their carbon footprint. Granted I didn't search very hard, but every anti-nuclear opinion piece I've come across praises how "Germany and Japan showed" that it's possible to shut down nuclear power. The staggering environmental cost of fossil fuels is at best left in a footnote.
People are welcome to express themselves, and other people are welcome to express themselves as well as a reaction.

If you don't believe in freedom of expression for those participating in what you call Cancel Culture, you don't believe in it at all.
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I see lots of posts critical of companies and interviewers. The problem is there are too many qualified candidates for some jobs and companies must weed out candidates somehow. If they have 100 qualified candidates for 1 position, how would you rather they pick? The real problem is something else. It's a lack of jobs, inequality, the cost of living, and I don't know what else. Many people are getting squeezed.
Windows 10 gets a lot of love too. So much that updates often brick the entire install and deletes files and folders.
Anyone can edit a screenshot.
> Attach to the wifi and... all the porn sites are blocked.

This cracked me up.
The Julian Assange "poison pill" link was posted on Twitter, and later the password to the archive was also posted. This provided FULL UNREDACTED versions of all the leaked info.
This must be a shot over someone's bow.

Edit: Or a trading play? That would have taken place while the markets were open, though. TWTR after-hours trading is off 3% on the news.
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Nuclear safety and waste are among the most serious of issues, but it is disturbingly common and dishonest to present them without comparison to the safety and waste problems of the alternatives and without optimizing for safety per kilowatt.

Coal particulates, acidic gasses, and CO2 are awful. Natural gas CO2 is awful. I hardly need to elaborate, yet this is the alternative we chose.

It's not just coal that has problems, though: hydroelectric power has an appalling history of accidents leading to enormous death and destruction, yet it maintains a sterling reputation in environmental groups, at least compared to nuclear. Why?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dam_failure (sort by fatalities, look for Banqiao Dam at 170000)

Wind and solar installations illustrate why it's important to count per unit of energy produced. They commit the "sin" of low density. With wind, you construct a gigantic edifice of concrete, steel, and fiberglass, likely in a remote location or even out at sea, and at the end of the day you can power a couple neighborhoods, some of the time. In a nuclear power plant, you construct a gigantic edifice of concrete and steel and you can power a couple of cities, all of the time. You have a handful of experts in a concrete bunker, compared to, say, residential solar with an army of contractors running around every roof in a city every few years. Slips and falls won't get a HBO miniseries, but they ruin lives just the same.

At scale, it all must be accounted for. It has been, but the results don't line up with public perception and as a consequence we collectively made a terrible mistake.

https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
I think I recall reading this is why teenagers new to driving get in to less accidents than teenagers used to driving - the group new to driving felt they had to pay closer attention compared to the group that was used to driving that would constantly distract themselves.
I feel left out.
> As of now, 121 people have sent cash totally more than 2.5BTC.

Fool and his money are soon parted.
As opposed to what? JD Powers seems to do the same. If you have a better survey with more rigorous standards that actually has enough data to by useful and comparable across many cars and years, I'm all ears.

Here's what both Consumer Reports[1] and JD Powers say about how they collect their data.

1: https://auto.howstuffworks.com/buying-selling/consumer-repor...

2: https://www.jdpower.com/faq
I don't see why it's FUD. Having the engine go under the mount pushes the car... up in the air, where it can roll over. The fact is that mass distributed at the nose and tail (gas tank) is worse for dynamics than having the mass evenly distributed along the bottom of the vehicle.
I worked at a small US defense contractor for a couple of years. I was not in that loop, but my impression from those that were was that this sort of thing was to be expected if you entered into competition against the wrong incumbent.
A number of the systemic issues with contract to hire have already been raised, but here’s another: taking a C2H job can immediately render you ineligible for unemployment, as you are now self employed. If the contract doesn’t work out, you could potentially have lost eligibility for not just unemployment benefits, but related food and health benefits. That’s particularly relevant now with the souped up pandemic benefits.

I don’t disagree that it would be nice if every candidate could take the time to try a company out before they join them, but the real world really can make that impractical. Some of the suggestions this thread makes around “buying” ones way out of these problems (such as knowing to have paid for COBRA ahead of time and being able to afford it) represent knowledge and opportunity that is all together distinct from ones ability to do the job.
I've found a combination of transparency and a liberal ban policy to be helpful.
Yeah I dunno about that... a long (or even short) list of 6-12 month C2H gigs that didn't turn into full-time jobs screams trouble -- either you're a jerk, or you're bad at the tech.

If you're consistently swinging from contract to contract you're a freelancer, and you should be arranging contracts accordingly, not letting headhunters/recruiters control the playbook by dangling full-time employment.

I agree with the grandparent: C2H usually means you're unemployed, or you want out of your current gig badly, or you're aiming slightly higher than you're qualified; if you're qualified for the role and already have a job then they should be willing to take you on from the get-go.
1m total, not (necessary) tech workers.
Some pics of the tweets: https://twitter.com/TheHackersNews/status/128350208126595072...
This exactly, and I'd add another thing - online only communities can become dominated by the folks with the absolute strongest feelings / opinions. Most offensive or most offended, most absolute in their thinking. It tends to drive the folks I'm interested in hearing from out. In a social group they'd quickly just not be invited to stuff, or might value other aspects of a relationship and so dial back a bit. Online - not so much.

There's also very little consequence for blowing things up into bigger / click-bait style headlining.

If community is bouncing ideas around, thoughts, etc, then that is much harder online.

I've found getting off social media helps HUGELY in naturally helping get other communities going.
Perhaps less confusing than Signalling someone :)
I think one of the questions is gizmo factor. My car doesn't have an infotainment system, so I can't have problems with it.

A premium car with premium luxuries like bluetooth, air conditioning, GPS, self-driving, power windows, heads-up display, that button that open doors on minivans, airbags, and the like will have a lot more failures than a 1950-era Ford F150 truck. Does that make it a worse car? A better car? Or a bad survey?

Tesla has a lot of gizmos. Luxury cars have more gizmos than my car. I think the survey reflects that more than anything else.
A zillion years ago I was able to see some of the internal communications around the development of OS/2. One topic was the way that non-system floppies would (fail to) boot when left in the PC. What the user would see was something like (I forget the exact numbers)

SYS!012345

SYS!876543

...and they were supposed to go look that up in some reference book to see what it meant.

The question was why they weren't outputting something human readable like "Unable to boot from non-system floppy". And the answer to that question was that, as an international company, they couldn't expect everyone to understand English.

So why not output multiple different languages? Well, the code to output the message has to fit in the floppy's boot sector, so the space is very tight.

And so there was discussion about whether it makes sense to give up having only 99% of users understand it, and instead have 0% understanding.

I think the killer argument was the person who suggested outputting a message something like

______
| |__| |
| () | X
|______|

which would just barely fit, and I think is almost universally understandable. Of course, the inscrutable message eventually stuck anyway.
> It would be nice if he could at least outline what it is that he believes he's not allowed to say.

If he did that, the near-certain fact that whatever he is complaining about is regularly said by people who are prominent and active figures would kind of negate his point.

I mean, at least, every time anyone else makes the mistake of making this argument with specific examples of things that are supposedly not allowed, that's the case.

But as long as there are no specific examples, the claim is not meaningfully debatable, which is preferable to the one making it, when it is false, than if it is easily falsified.
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> Wait! i have multiples solutions. ...

I think those are reasonable measures.

> But closing a nuclear plant to replace it by gas (and coal, even if temporary) is easier.

I assume you'd be less angry if you were aware that I oppose that as well. I think it's in general opposed by the people wanting nuclear energy to end.

Talking mostly about Germany here. The process basically was 1) Have a strong agreement that nuclear energy is bad, fueled by its insecurity, costs and the waste it produces. This is driven by grassroots movements and green parties. 2) Conservative politicians say "Okay, then we replace them with coal. Oh, and we cut the subventions for renewable energies." 3) The same people that organized the successful protest against the nuclear plants now organize protests against the coal plants.

No one is happy about that process. The only good thing that came out of it is the higher usage of renewable energies. And that because of that the coal plants now are unprofitable. But that is partly despite what the conservative politicians wanted. They even blocked the building of new wind turbines because they look bad. Exactly the contrary of what had to happen the last two years.
Same anecdotal evidence on my end (S85). Despite the fact that it's technology (less moving parts) could make it the most reliable car, it ended up being the least reliable. Usually one service appointment fixed 3 things and broke 2 other things in the process. Wait time for an appointment was 3 weeks. I was done after 3 years and 40k Miles. Life is too short.
> but that doesn’t take away from the fact that Ringo was there from the beginning

That's a rather curious bit of revisionist history. They played hundreds of live shows and made several released recordings before they hired Ringo - and that's not even counting the Quarrymen/Johnny and the Moondogs days which represent another 2 years before that.
In fact the "status access violation" message would be much more confusing for the "normal" non-programmer person.

I believe the actual error would be "access violation", status is only the prefix. But I don't think that text would help normal users more.

As in: "Who is that General Protection, what has he done to my computer and why is that his fault"?

"General Protection Fault" were the words actually presented to the "normal" users before. It surely didn't help them to read that.
Ethics? You are asking people to study and spend hours working on LeetCode problems for something close to completely useless. On the ethical scale, people that accept to spend hours of their limited life doing so are probably not the ones I would think of as "looking to work on something great"
> I anticipated this response of yours.

Ok...

There's an upper bound on the number of deaths, that's good. It's bad to carelessly accept having to hit that upper bound.
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So many accounts are affected, this seems to be a system-level hack rather than a compromise of individual accounts.

Someone has found a way to post a tweet from any account they like?
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