skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have done over 1,000 interviews for a FAANG competitor that IPO'ed in the past 10 years. Completion time (in minutes) of a coding puzzle is essentially the only objective measurement taken during these coding puzzles, and is sadly the primary datapoint fed into the hiring manager's decision. The hiring managers usually adjust the cutoff based upon whatever quota they want and/or if they're expecting people to leave. I've worked directly with a VP of Engineering and that's really all he wanted to hear.

The whole process is missing a feedback loop to the evaluators, resulting in the OP's situation. In my own situation, it took several years after that mess of being forced to shotgun candidates to pick apart what in the experience was actually predictive of success and what wasn't. To this day, the most successful hires from my perspective were those who just really wanted the job and wanted to contribute to the product; definitely no strong correlation with "leetcode" ability.

It's not just that the coding quizzes are poorly administered, but that the hiring mangers and leadership industry-wide have been obstructive to getting evaluators feedback (for starters, what did a candidate's other offers look like? where were they 3 months after the interview?) and especially tight-lipped on sharing interview questions. That last bit is particularly obnoxious because people monetize their insider knowledge either through things like Rooftop Slushie or they take a more Gayle Laakmann angle. (Just to be clear: while many questions are "protected under NDA," many questions are also stolen from other companies-- interviewers asking them are already violating their own NDAs when asking them, or potentially when feeding the question bank of their new employer).

What you can do is go to your manager in your 1:1 and ask for interview feedback. Ask what happened to candidates 3-6 months after the interview, even if they were hired (perhaps not just to your team). Start to get feedback, and then work from there. You'll probably do better interviews, and at least curtail some of the information arbitrage culture in the C-suite.
It may make no sense to you (or me, much of the time), but should they be allowed to say it? I think so.

To me, I think it’s valid for a group of people to organize and write a letter criticizing someone, and then to send that letter to the person’s peer group. They can also criticize the employer of that person. That’s part of what of what being in a free speech society entails.

I don’t agree with the positions, but I think the complainers should have a space too, even if it’s outside of the relevant institution.

I also don’t like that universities threaten people’s jobs over this such complaints. I agree with mc32 in that such places should tolerate unpopular or contrarian opinions. And that’s where I view the problem appearing: it’s not the angry internet mob, it’s the university giving in to them. It’s up to the university to show thought leadership in their own spaces, and to ignore such ridiculous controversies. If signatories on my imagined letter threatened to stop working with the institution if not have their requests met, it might be best to cut ties with them, not the allegedly problematic peer. The university has to show that leadership.

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I don’t know what form it would or even should take but these kinds of “Performance Improvement Plans” where the person being coached is set up for failure needs some kind of alternative that incentivizes employers to either responsibly dismiss the person or otherwise be genuine with “performance improvement”.

These tactics are hard to prove if someone goes to court over it (probably) but are just as hard to recover emotionally from and can stunt a person all the way to their next job or many.
I’m currently leaning towards Twitter tried a bunch of things to stop this and hootsuite got caught in the fray

Or maybe it was a multipronged attack that included social media management software and OAuth

but the hilarious most visible solution is that Twitter now disabled all verified accounts

and they should keep it that way
Since the GitHub repo is a top search result on Google, care to mention a filename?

All I see are lots of "removed for partner depot" comments which are the kind of thing that shows up when code has been stripped down for public/semipublic sharing
Lua is just great. In Fluent Bit[0] we expose Lua filter capabilities. So end-users can write their own scripts to manipulate record logs and accommodate keys/values easily with a simple programming logic:

- https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/pipeline/filters/lua

I am happy to see performance is being improved, as of now we stick to LuaJIT, since our use case is pretty simple we have not found a good reason to move away from it.

[0] https://fluentbit.io
It is not easy to avoid these mega-corps though, they make it very hard. If you go to the supermarket, how do you know any product that you pick is not coming from a shitty mega-corp? How much time an average person is willing (or able to) spend to check they are not giving their hard earned money to a mega corp? Maybe they will spend a few hours researching when they shop for a high ticket item like a computer, but a chips bag? water bottle? 3$ chocolate?

Then there are monopolies like internet service providers. Even if people want to switch, they can't, in many places.

Unless there is mass awareness, nothing is going to change.
Yes, I've seen the notion floated but never seen much evidence one way or the other. I wish people were less afraid about voluntary self-exposure, we could perform some really enlightening trials if the ethical go-ahead was given.

(Personally, I would volunteer to be exposed to real SARS-CoV-2, but I would not volunteer to be on the receiving end of any vaccine candidates.)

Anyway, it's dubious that masks do a great job in decreasing viral load, but I think this another case where if they do the effect size wouldn't be that great.

Regardless, this really highlights how we're proposing universal measures for things that are not well researched. I like the approach Sweden has taken: if there's not strong evidence, we just don't do it. Simplifies so much.
New York’s finest protect New York’s richest though.
You'd need 100-200 acres of utility solar to propel a panamax at cruising speed.
That's certainly what veteran news-editor J. Jonah Jameson would say!
It would be reasonable for exchanges to parse Twitter feeds and other social channels for anti money laundering and fraud signal, similar to Github shipping AWS secrets accidentally exposed in commits to AWS for triage/suspension.

Once you’ve got the infra in place, you can have AML and other compliance staff triage and action from a dashboard (blocking suspect transfers until further review has been performed, and releasing transfers of a review shows nothing suspect).

(Have done some AML/KYC work in the fiat finance space)
I think he added a sidebar to his web page.
Well, it's middle school + high school + likely the freshman year in a college. The time to make some key decisions, socialization choices, etc. Being severely embarassed in the process could reflect pretty badly on that.
Whatever works, works. I stopped caring about LinkedIn a while ago, so I just switched my profile pic to a pic of me shooting a flamethrower with a hawaiian shirt on about a year ago.

Results: interest from recruiters didn't drop at all, in fact, it increased (though I do not attribute it to the pic). However, a few recruiters specifically mentioned that they thought the pic was cool, and that alone was worth it.

Also, it isn't just recruiters from "hip tech startups" responding positively to it. I got hit up since then by a bunch of different places, including the usual FAANG, finance companies (Citadel/Two Sigma/etc.), tech startups, etc.

No one seems to have an issue with the profile pic, and I like it, so why not. And no, it wasn't intended as a humblebrag, a lot of people I know get hit up by recruiters in the same way, despite them having pretty standard pictures and not being some coding superstars. And I am not one either.
So you hire good actors/liars?
They'll probably just use CoinJoin and a mixer
Way more effort and risk there, much more difficult without existing underground connections.
I'd suspect the web interface has UI that's wrapped around the semi-public API. It's that web interface I'm worried about.
Yeah, like altering a POST variable.
It's from the NYT article originally associated with this post: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/nyregion/dismembered-body...
Interesting point. I'd be surprised if most universities were trying to build out apps for the current quarantine though.

More likely they just email links to Zoom conferences or something to that effect, no?
Twitter Commie hacks are in full force downvoting
Yes, but tracking that is not easy and we're "only" talking about 120k USD$ here - single persons have been scammed for more. You can steal one car and be above and beyond that.

That's my theory on why they (presumably) didn't touch the stock market or the POTUS account - even if they're found, they really can only be charged with a modest damage sum and some vague hacking accusations; nothing that warrants a global manhunt.
My wild, unfounded conjecture: the attacker discovered this recently and had only a short, fixed time window in which to run a scam. Maybe the time before some maintenance update? So none of the more sophisticated approaches (like selling to the highest bidder or manipulating some stocks) were practical before the vulnerability would be repaired.
If you imagine short notice and a couple-hour window when US markets were closed, are alternative hacks really that much more lucrative?
I'm constantly amazed that people who are critical of billionaires and corporations, never wonder why billionaires and corporations are usually democrat supporters.
Amateur astronomers discover exoplanet in the habitable zone
from: https://archive.org/stream/twospeechesbykar00marx/twospeeche...

He's saying don't be fooled by people picking up our talking points, a revolution in Germany will be hard pressed to prevent the country from fragmenting. Federalization in Germany, a nation just forged from a patchwork of feudal estates, would invite an immediate return of society to a feudal configuration.
Some might see legalized euthanasia as a benefit.

Really, though, I was making a sideways joke about all the "cured in mice" headlines we see on HN.
I'm not a huge fan of cloud in general. Office 365 provides a lot of value for our organization. In addition to Office and Exchange we get a bunch of other things like Sharepoint, Forms, Flow, etc.

I had terrible problems with hosted Exchange from Intermedia. I've had pretty good luck with Exchange on Office 365.

Office 365 support is absolute garbage, they really want to punish you for contacting them, especially so if you've found a bug.
Please be kind to the people that are working on this problem, right now, at Twitter and the countless hours that will need to go into remedying it.

Hopefully, an eventual post-mortem is gonna be juicy and then we can critique all we want.
That is very close to how I interview people. The worst thing about white board coding is the adversarial relationship between you and the interviewer. It’s so much less stressful when you can team up with the interviewer to work on a problem together, and it’s much closer to being a real work sample test.
> Honestly, as a candidate, I would be 100% satisfied with a bitesize fix to an open source library that your company maintains, or even a bitesize fix to a closed source library under contract. Or pair the candidate with an employee who is working on a real, minor task at your company, and let the candidate "drive". Give me something real to do, not some contrived situation about an ordering system or building the next Twitter.

It can take relative ages to become familiar with a code base, especially a large one, such that you can easily hop in and commit fixes that actually work. I'm not going to spend hours trying to gain context for the code, or deploying and testing it.

The employer is going to ghost 80% of their candidates anyway, and if your fix does work, you just did free work that benefits the company for little to no gain for yourself.
And this is how you make that happen? I can think of at least 400 ways off the top of my head of doing that without involving BTC or $$.
Being stuck at home without access to peers might force a lot of teenagers to quit. When they closed the schools, I asked my spouse, now where are teenagers going to get their stuff?

High schools are a "super spreader event" for chemical addictions.
Agree. Its far more valuable to see how a candidate approaches problems than some memorized recital show. I don't expect perfection, but if their reasoning is sound that becomes clear fairly quickly. I usually also include some imperfect questions purposely to see how they handle that. While we wish client projects were nice and clean with orderly data and tight requirements, the truth is that is rarely the case. It's useful to see how the candidate responds to those types of things. I had one gentleman argue with me about one of those questions claiming you would never see primary and foreign keys between tables not perectly match in the real world. Well when you are matching data from entirely disparate systems, you typically do. Anyway I digress.
Again, it’s not saying those things are bad. It’s saying those things enjoy a special status.
> Rule of thumb: ~70 characters per line.

i wish HN followed that! i usually end up putting it in a narrow window (or emulate a narrow screen; Ctrl+Shift+M in Firefox) to make it easier to read.
Have a look at this writeup by the author of lezer, if you haven't already: https://marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog/lezer.html
Skywatch: Single Shot VFX Walkthrough
The Twitter backend is probably heavily sprinkled with statements like `account_handle match { case "therealdonaldtrump" => throw new TrumpNotAllowedException("can't do"); }`

Especially after the last insider account tampering event.
Robot wraps fiber optic cables around existing power lines
It's only 1.5km - 2km, and it looks promising, but I wonder how do they splice it. I was hoping the video would tell, but unfortunately not.
Not sure. They only require the host to sign up - guests may join anonymously with the link.
They do all of the things you mentioned, but some of the people are on social media.
Finding a buyer is not the problem, the problem is the buyer finding you.
Ah, you're right, azangru was being more literal than metaphorical, I didn't read carefully enough.
Four States Are Sharing Driver's License Info to Help Find Out Who's a Citizen
Or it’s just a good samaritan doing all of us a favor
In the case of Apple it's not really accurate to say they paid 0%. Instead, their taxes on overseas sales were deferred until they were repatriated into the US. Upon repatriation they paid $38 billion in taxes on $252 billion of income, or a tax rate of 15%.
Not exactly sure what tripped you up. The palm is facing downwards, but the hand motion is opposite and easy to tell even if you're a foreigner. Source: am foreigner living in Japan
They hack thousands of accounts and make national news, I doubt they are that worried. They probably just don't have access or they would have.
The SEC would be able to trace the trades, and the person would be busted. Bitcoin allows them to remain anonymous.
Also obfuscating money can be important for an individual's safety. For example for victims of domestic abuse or human rights activists in repressive countries.
Connect2id and OAuth.net were great resources. But unless you were already familiar with the topic, they were a bit difficult to follow. That's why I started this article with some analogies!
I refuse to believe there are people who can be aware of BTC enough to go out of their way to even obtain some, and then fall for a scam like this...
Exploring a New Postgres Database
For whatever it's worth, I haven't gotten any sort of spam or followups from them.
Haven't bothered to look for a ToS!
Big discussion currently #1 on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23851275
Any system can be gamed by the determined. Luckily, most people are not that determined.
You just kind of pull/draw on the cigar without inhaling to get the smoke in your mouth, then "exhale"/blow it out. You don't really inhale, if you're doing it "right"
Write through caches would need to send the tweets through the normal channels for them to 'fan out' instead of writing directly to MySQL. But essentially what you're saying about possible backend compromise.
Imagine being on some planet far away, just living your life, and a literal star comes through and ends all life in the system.
We both know that "robbery" was a figure of speech, but for the sake of the discussion, I can rephrase it another way.

Whether state(s) should be in the business of "producing things" is for another debate, but it's not controversial to claim that they should be in the business of taxing things.

Now, you can go about taxation the stupid way, collecting unreasonable amount of money from the wrong people/companies for the wrong things. Or you can do it the smart way. CCCTB is the smart way.

I'm not that I'm against making money. But making money should be taxed, preferably the smart way.
Yes, I understand the point you’re trying to make, and this analogy is fine insofar as it refers to some kind of fictional/hypothetical conversation about torture.

But this characterization of anti-torture arguments is a straw man, not reflective of how the discussion goes in practice, and itself missing the point of converations about torture’s essential ineffectiveness.
> Sure, but given that it may not be possible to achieve perfect equality, I'm not sure how it follows that we are at a global (or even local) maximum of equality, which seems to be what you shorthand "okay" to mean.

The only way to prove that we aren't at a global or local maximum is to make the case for some specific set of changes. If this isn't the best of all possible worlds, show me a possible world that's better. Even if we agree about the values, we can still disagree about factual and counterfactual questions enough that maybe I won't believe your better world is possible, or that your possible world is better.

> Like, holding values constant, "make marijuana legal" would reduce inequality. It might have some second order effects that are problematic in general, but it would reduce policing inequality. I don't see a counterargument to that.

The original value we were trying to maximize was the value of black lives, because your claim is that nobody can possibly support the status quo while believing that black lives as as valuable as white lives. So let's try and stay consistent here--you're the one shifting values on me all of a sudden! :)

I happen to agree with you about cannabis, but as I said before, that's the same as saying that cannabis should be legal irrespective of racial equality. And that's because we agree that cannabis usage is less of a threat to black lives than the enforcement of cannabis prohibition. I think the number of black people killed in police encounters due solely to the prohibition of cannabis is probably very marginal. I might be wrong, but again that's not a values difference.
Cruise control maintains the speed as long as it is physically possible. You don't need to supervise that it maintains the speed, it is able to do it on its own. It is (usually) even better than a human in maintaining the speed. Of course you still need to control the steering wheel or brake for obstacles -- but that's nothing cruise control promises to control.

On the other hand, lane assist is good, but it is not good enough to keep the lane without supervision. It can get confused by strange markings, obstacles, construction work, weather etc. It might fail to keep the car in its lane, although it is easily possible for a human.
Not an expert, but it seems to me that calling it "structure" in the headline without context is extremely clickbaity even if technically correct.

Why not say "Scientists Observe a New Cosmic Structure for the First Time"?
Sure, I'm not saying that there is perfect overlap between the most susceptible and the most infecting individuals.

But people who travel around a lot, meet a lot of different people, are simply more likely to encounter an infected person and get infected, and in turn are more likely to unknowingly infect everyone else they meet. The same mechanisms that make someone a "super spreader" is also what makes them more likely to get infected, and to get infected early in the pandemic.

We know that for example medical personnel got infected in way higher numbers than the general population, for obvious reasons. But they're now also more immune than the general population, for the same obvious reasons. And as a result, intra-hospital spread decreases.

Yes, it's two independent measures, but with very high correlation.
I think what both of his sentiments are missing is that we should try to shape society such that the good beliefs are also the conventional ones, instead of praising people for having unconventional beliefs for its own sake.
Yep, it was a struggle even when I thought I was supposed to be writing pseudocode. I've had some really great interviews using coderpad and similar software (including the company I'm at now), and it's such a better representation of how the interviewee actually codes.

I don't get how my interviewer (an engineer), didn't see the problem with it. I know that Google wants to use their own products, but that can't possibly be the norm for other Google interviews.
I guess it implies that the attack was from the inside?
Disproportionately escalating violence? I'm not saying the cop should get a few punches in, but detaining and arresting a suspect is not "escalating violence".

Since you seem to a stickler for "proportional violence", would you be ok if the cop just located the suspects car and firebombed it? I mean, that's proportional, no?
What is the point of someone sending btc back to himself?
They must do some crazy code obfuscation or security though, because the source hasn't leaked.
That’s certainly a valid interpretation, but it’s not everyone’s interpretation. Someone could post that picture with different intentions and be a potentially stellar coworker. So you’re welcome to your worldview of course, I‘d just suggest being careful about judging everyone according to it — otherwise you’re guaranteed to make miscalculations.
I just can't imagine that a solar farm could absorb as much energy as a diesel motor of that size can output. Can someone with more knowledge on that spare some insight?
This was interesting:

For example, in our study, all of the women who took the public interview failed, while all of the women who took the private interview passed.

That is an amazing statistic! From 100% failure to 100% success!
It’s also just much easier. That’s why the owners use the key instead of breaking a window.
Question is, in what direction.
You could make the argument that it is marketing.

I suspect it might filter out specific job offers - it would be interesting to know the offers that are left.
Don't tell my coworkers this---we use Lua to process SIP messages for the Oligarchist Cell Phone Company. I found LPEG to be way nicer than Lua's patterns (or even regex) for parsing, and there are other networking modules besides that one professor's version (which one is it, by the way?).

It's also used in Redis, and there's at least one major network router that uses it.
That logic makes no sense.

So if a group decided to plan explosives and demolish a empty government building, you'd be like "come on, buildings have no feelings, leave them be"?
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=peter+thiel+blood
Get admin access from unlocked phones, make a bitcoin wallet, use admin access to send tweets with double-your-bitcoin tweet. Start thinking up accounts you think would work well for it and start going through them one by one.