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> it is kind of expected to cram and prep for these "abstract problem-solving whiteboard

Well exactly - they may now have family commitments such as caring for people that make cramming impossible even if it was possible before.

> If there is one thing that Facebook developers should not have an issue with, it's in passing these kind of processes.

But they may have passed their interview a decade ago at this point. They may have also come in via an acquisition and so not formally interviewed at all if they come from an early startup.

You can take someone who passes an interview at Google but fails at Facebook, and vice-versa. These interviews are so incredibly astronomically tough and so subtle and fickle that it's no guarantee to be able to move.
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> I don't think a company's purpose is necessary to eat the world but that's going into opinions so I will refrain.

I agree. I just mention it because the companies that 'eat the world' will be the ones people have heard of. And those are not collectives.
*Insert joke about Qs using trig*
Signal also provides shareable links or QR codes for inviting people to groups now (this feature wasn’t there before, but was introduced some months ago).
To respond to your edit.

19th century London: they razed whole neighbourhoods to construct the Underground.

21st century London: they propose to raze the St Pancras estate (with compulsory purchase orders) to build the HS2 railway.

But cycling doesn't require razing: the solutions I have given to your suggested problems don't raze a single thing.
> gerrymandering seems more dramatic in senate races

You can't really gerrymander senate races, since they're based on [basically-] fixed state borders.
> The article pretty clearly points out that for large swaths of the economy things are absolutely just fine, that in aggregate things are just fine, that aggregate measures of debt and savings are both looking quite rosy.

That's manifestly untrue. Aggregate measures of debt are at an all time high, measuring across government, households and non-financials [1]. Household savings have gone up but that has to be placed in the context of massive state intervention. Essentially you're not only taking money from one hand and giving to the other but a massive mortgage has been taken out too, to come due on future generations at the expense of future GDP.

[1]: https://www.fitchratings.com/research/sovereigns/us-non-fina...
Agreed. In England, however, tunnels particularly in towns tend to attract anti-social behaviour, which is rather unfortunate.
From what I understand, Signal messages should really only be considered encrypted in flight. At either end the massage could be picked up by an insecure device (custom keyboard, keylogger, screenshots, etc.), and a determined hacker will be able to compromise any casual user’s phone.

Still, there’s value in encrypting in-flight messages.
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>The most used measuring stick is the CPI, which (1) does not include e.g. assets

Why does this matter? If your cost of living stays the same but TSLA/BTC jump up 10x why should that count as inflation?
> anonymous mobile phone SIM cards

I want one of those and I think prices will spike.
>She wasn’t getting paid the $7M total because of her deep interesting take on markets. They wanted direct access to the power players and to see how their mind works.

Eh. People make these kinds of statements, but though that may be true in some cases, it isn't true in many other cases. For example, there are plenty of organizations that are flush with cash that want a political celebrity (whether it be Yellen, Hillary Clinton or Obama) to come and speak to their membership or conference without expecting anything in return other than the speech they give. Why? Because people like to be around celebrities, political or otherwise.

I attend healthcare conferences where attendees number in tens of thousands (paying hundreds per attendee to attend) and hundreds of vendors paying hundreds of thousands or millions to display and advertise their products... For that conference to shell out $500k to have Hillary Clinton do an opening speech is peanuts.
> Is it possible to do the right thing and be working at Facebook?

Yes.

> I think we can take as a given that every engineer at Facebook could easily get a job elsewhere. To be a Facebook employee is a conscious choice.

yes, but loosing a lot of benefits.

> should you avoid working at companies that are a net negative, or should you stay there to try to improve them?

Thats two questions. And it's been on my mind for about a year now. I was bought out. The tech we make could be a brilliant tool for mankind, or if deployed incorrectly, commoditised stasi/KGB/Chinese secret police as a service. I don't want it to be the latter. If I leave there will be less voices of dissent.

FB is a whipping boy. There are things that it should rightly be criticised for: not adhering to its own ToS for celebrities. Not enforcing age restrictions for instagram, not having enough diversity in its India operation. Myanmar.

The difference between FB and the rest of SV is that FB has an utterly utterly shit PR team, who sits apart from the company. They love sniffing their own farts. (for example I only found out how many small companies advertise on FB when I joined. yet they reference this heavily only once, and expect a single full page advert to win people over.)

Let us not forget that whilst FB is a data dustpan and brush, Google, Amazon, Apple, and your ISP are data hoovers. most of FB's data is collected willingly. The stuff your phone snitches on you every minute is extra ordinary. Amazon is literally selling a live feed of your front door to the police.

I don't seek to admonish Facebook of its failings. They should be fucking hauled through the shit. But, we should also start to look at other companies, especially with the rise of AR.
So we should just throw up our hands in the air and start killing each other. I guess nothing else can be done. But hey, at least we can feel morally superior about ourselves, because they've started it, right?
Got it, so all we need to discredit any idea or proposition is to associate some violent people with it. There goes the Democratic party too between the explicit support of previous riots by some of its representatives and their racist history with the KKK and enslavers. Do you think that makes sense?
The Republican Party has, for fifty years, been the party of hate and white supremacy. The Republicans would've faded into history after Kennedy and Johnson incorporated civil rights into the Democratic platform had Nixon's aides not developed the strategy of winning enough votes to be a contender by appealing to all the disgruntled ex-Democrat racists. As a result, the Republican base has been a bunch of far-right loons who fantasize about overthrowing the government for much of that time. This was true long before Trump ever seriously considered politics. Trump just exposed it for what it was, making the American far right feel that finally they were being listened to, finally they were in control. And by approving the insurrection against the government, he accidentally got them to show their true colors.

See, I was there the last time an idiosyncratic tycoon had a go at the White House and galvanized the right, namely Ross Perot. He roused the right wing from its malaise and, inadvertently, created the conditions of rage and hatred that led to Timothy McVeigh. So you're right -- Trump is just a footnote. The hatred he stirred up is much bigger than him.
I don’t work for Facebook (or any other big tech company) and don’t plan to. My understanding is that censorship is a government activity.
I've read your link in more detail. I don't think your analysis is accurate. To be exact the part about receiving emails inciting violence. I think there were no such emails, but they asked Salesforce did they do anything about potential future emails inciting violence.

Salesforce says yes. They probably either suspended the account or put in some kind of verification step where Salesforce needs to whiteflag the email to go forward. This was they can stop any potential email inciting violence, but still isn't extremely damaging to the company.
I think we're throwing the baby out with the bathwater by framing the argument that way. Possession and transmission of child pornography has always been illegal and technically an infringement on freedom of speech, but we carved an exemption for that because the negative effect on political speech is minimal.

That does not imply it's always been open season on silencing political opponents.
Perhaps a more germane example is that for the past five years one wouldn’t wear Trump branded apparel in many parts of virtually every major US city unless part of a large group.

The sports analogy is quite good though. For the vast majority it’s just red team vs blue team based on identity and emotion with precious little ratiocination.
You can pay via PayPal and the author likely receives money via PayPal.

One could cut out the middle man, but at the same time, it's a prettier interface to look at specifically made for the purpose of donations.
I think people need to look at the bigger issues. What caused 70 million people to vote for trump and what caused a mob to descend onto the government building in the first place.

People on the other side of the wealth divide sense something is wrong with this country but are unable to put their finger on what. Attacks on tech workers is really a surface level issue.

Misguided radicalism happens in places with deep economic issues caused by things that are too complex to completely reason out. What causes wealth inequality? Nobody can put their finger on it but people will make up a reason if they have too. Usually that reason involves attacking anyone and any symbol on the other side of the wealth divide.
> Fixing GCC 4.9 to address this bug is out of the question; the GCC developers have long since moved on from that release.

I really don't understand why that is. 4.9.x is the last release branch in the 4 series, so it's not as though there is another 4-series branch to maintain. And 4.9.0 came out in 2014. I don't see why it is out of the question to release 4.9.5 - with the patch already having been backported to 4.9.4 by others; and the fact that there's no change in library API, command-line arguments etc.

Now, perhaps it is the case that GCC doesn't have enough manpower to support releases for 6 years. But doing so can't just be dismissed as "out of the question".

Compilers are very fundamental pieces of software - perhaps no less than OS kernels - and they shouldn't just be "moved on" from.
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No, I think it's funny for Ron Paul to be complaining Facebook did the exact thing he said businesses should be able to do.
The double standard being set in the reaction to rioting and the death of people, police officers and federal agents in this country is going to tear a rift in the USA for decades.
As federal buildings were under a siege for months, David Dorn was shot, in Oakland a federal agent was shot, with the "ACAB" rhetoric emboldening people there were 7 police officers ambushed and killed across the country, etc.

These are all terrible things and should be punished as equally as storming a DC federal building or killing a DC police officer. The issue is going to be the fall out of how last weeks incident was compared to the months of rioting preceding it that just happened to be for a different cause and encouraged by different politically motivated people and parties.

There will be no unity when for months major media outlits and influential politicians are helping gaslight half the country that the riots and deaths were totally uncorrelated at best and quoting MLKs "A riot is the language of the unheard" when evidence became too much to simply ignore.

People who are cheering on the politicization of deeming half your own countrymen terrorists because disagreements on social or fiscal policies from the actions of a few of them who feel disenfranchised whether it's taking a few hours of BLM/antifa riots and labeling all left leaning citizens terrorists or taking a stormed capital and applying it to 74.8 million other people who lean right are going destroying this country more than any riot participant could dream of.

2020 (if i'm honest it extends back a lot further than last year) should be taken as a lesson that people can feel completely disenfranchised regardless of if you believe them or if they really are at all, and that disenfranchised people can lash out in terrible ways they otherwise wouldn't find themselves capable.

If payment processors, twitter, AWS, salesforce, facebook all decided that actions of the 10% of BLM protestors that turned into violent, destructive and deadly riots represented 100% and applied these same actions we would be seeing even more violence, destruction and death but with the weight of a newly renewed sense of victimization and purpose. We are all going to deeply regret the response of all of these actions throughout the next few years without being able to give them the credit they deserve.
(I'd wager the aggressive banning of far left and right wing views from twitter, youtube, facebook is responsible for creating places like parler in the first place for instance, when we censor and disenfranchise people we are only going to distill those feelings and they tend to get uglier)
The system is absolutely not built to be anonymous, this is a blatant lie.

Did any ineligible voter cast a vote in your anecdotes? No? Hmm.
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This is bad for the environment of trust and good faith that the SaaS industry has relied upon for speedy growth. Since I am a registered republican (just a normal, non-political person who ticked the form at the DMV), will I be denied service in the future for something that I had nothing to do with? Will democratic party membership be mandatory to do business in the future, as similar expectations exist in many one party states?

If that's the case, "Hello, Fellow Democrats, I Too Am A Democrat Who Believes All the Right Things One Is Supposed To Believe."

Sure, this is just targeted to the RNC, but you cannot avoid also intimating that such measures won't be expanded in the future.
A technical bullshit argument of the highest order. They want their money, so they clearly viewed them as just human enough to participate in commerce, but also not human enough to actually do what was asked of them.
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What are you learning right now? My last side project was recently derailed and I am curious to hear what other people are spending their time studying/learning about.
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I’m a moderate and I already get lumped in as a “Nazi sympathizer” by people in my work and social circles. I know people like me are next to get targeted with this shit.

Folks are content to throw around big words like “treason” and “Nazi” in these situations without any in-depth explanation. They should realize as soon as they don’t toe the narrative of the mainstream those same tactics will get used against them. You would have thought we learned this lesson from McCarthyism.
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are you sure that those 70m are who the RNC represents?
Ask HN: Is it safe to develop, deploy and manage DeFi apps?
The legality and regulation of crypto currencies have been in discussion for over a decade now, with some governments taking a permissive approach, and others being hostile towards it.

In recent years DeFi tokens (ex: Ethereum-based) gained traction bringing forth platforms allowing people to lend or borrow funds from others, speculate on a range of assets using derivatives, trade cryptocurrencies, insure against risks, and earn interest in a savings-like account.

As someone interested in this space I wonder, to what kind of legal risks are maintainers of these platforms exposed to by developing, deploying and managing DeFi apps?

A quick internet search on the subject brings up concepts of "Securitization", "Howey Test" and updates on regulation discussions:

[1] https://www.crypto-news-flash.com/sec-commissioner-warns-ethereums-defi-token-could-be-securities/

[2] https://coinrivet.com/what-to-expect-from-cryptocurrency-legislation-in-2020/
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Also received 2 donations in total for my 2FA authentication app for mobile phones (and web runtimes) over a span of over 7 years. Since a few years I haven't madeany contributions to it as my daytime jobs took over and have kids since. Over the years noticed many companies suggested my projct as an alternative, but this caused people to expect me to be their support for lost bitcoins, etc. If there would have been some incentive I might have reconsidered working on it, but recently archived the project.
> Is this really a practical problem?

Oh, yes. There are many industrial settings in which toolchains are set for systems provided to customers, and those systems don't get a full software revamp for a decade if not much more than that.
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I think the real alternative to the new web is the old anonymous usage, not at all single-sign-on. It would just increase the problems monolithic platforms pose.
It makes me sad to see developers donating time and effort to support an ecosystem (VSCode) built explicitly to spy on users and promote proprietary software.

The fact that VSC's core is released under an open source license is irrelevant to the harm that is being done.
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Redox isn't a kernel: it's an operating system, and being POSIX compatible definitely makes it a “unix-style” operating system.

Here, nobody claimed that the Redox kernel was unix-style, so you're fighting a strawman…
Can someone who knows about processor design summarize this for me? Will intel have a comeback or is it all about ARM/AMD now?
But what's the alternative? Should we just let people incite violence to their heart's content, and then be surprised when people actually carry out the violence because they have been brainwashed? How is that better?
> Its also worth noting that tens of thousands of pubs, clubs, bars and restaurants effectively no longer exist.

Probably millions of small businesses are gone in the US alone, not thousands.

Most HNers are wage slaves and don't understand microeconomics, but for self-financed small businesses, their stake (capital) is gone. You're looking at forced retirement for most of those former business owners.
> System programs can be in user space for instance a run time for another language.

OK, I can live with that definition.

But what does it have to do with the language you write your compiler in?
That may very well happen. But the equal and opposite response here would be to setup your own infrastructure.

We may very well see a "soft secession" as we have left providers and right providers and then we began to geographically locate ourselves around these providers.
Eh, companies have knowingly accepted clauses like that for decades. Visa/Mastercard didn't get crippled when they cut off WikiLeaks a decade ago.
I am sorry, but I am calling bullshit on that.

People are not working at Facebook because they don't have other options.

This is not some last resort, minimum wage, no other options work.
People spend weeks or months preparing for interview and then some of them move to the other end of country to work there. In fact it's pain in the ass to get job there, so people there really want to be there, and jump through hoops to get there.

They are plenty other related job's that will keep your family fed and clothed. People are not working at Facebook because they don't have other options.

There are plenty of people on this planet that have hard time putting food on the table and clothes on their children, equating them with Facebook employs that make 150k+ is just wrong
Plain text is the universal computer interface. We will always be "returning" to it. We never should have left it, really.
That article says Russia meddled in the election. There is nothing there to say they did it in coordination with Trump or any of his staff.
No attempt was made to violently overthrow the US government during that riot.
This myth that trump supporters are humble working class people needs to end. These are people with money. Guns are expensive. Travel is expensive. These people have means. See this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/11/13/white-tru...

Just because someone wears Carhartt and drives a kitted-out truck doesn't mean they're working class. That's a costume, and you were fooled.
Do they really need to be like whatsapp for massive adoption?
I think you are the one who are incorrectly underestimating the contribution of Muslim empires and civilization in preserving ancient Greek learning and books.

The Muslim centers are not only preserving ancient Greek learning and books, they are cherishing and enriching them for several hundreds years [1]. To them these ancient Greek books are equivalent of modern days da Vinci's paintings that can be weight in gold, literally no kidding. At the time, if you are doing translation of any Greek texts you can get paid by the weight of the translation in gold equivalent! Please tell me at any other time this is happening in any part of human history or even now.

It's also reported that at one time, Abbasid Caliph Al-Ma'mun was demanding an original copy of the Ptolemy's Almagest book as the condition of a truce between Byzantine Empire and the Abbasid Empire. This is really something big because based on the saying of Muhammad that prophesizes any Muslim leader who can defeated and conquered Byzantine Empire (Constantinople) is the best leader ever. He basically abandoning this potential privilege title because of an original copy of Ptolemy's book. If you think he is too weak to defeat Byzantine and resorting to lame truce, please think again. He basically conquered and subjugated entire modern day Afghanistan for good, and only a few legendary leaders that even managed to do that including your beloved Alexander the Great. For the record, the mighty British Empire and USA did not manage to do just that.

Al-Ma'mun is also the founder of the "House of Wisdom" where Al-Khwarizmi was the first director of the center and his name is very familiar because apparently the "algebra" and "algorithm" words were derived from his book title and his names, respectively. Because of his contribution to science one crater in the moon (Almanon) is named after him[2].

Believe it or not, according to some of modern historians, the extreme love for knowledge of the Abbasid Empire was partly blamed on the downfall of the Abbasid Empire at the expense of Islamic spirituality. This perhaps mainly due to the Islamic teaching that says after you're dead there are only three things that can increase you deeds in the hereafter. Firstly your God fearing children, secondly your donated and lively wealth for charity (waqaf) and thirdly your contributions to the knowledge that are beneficial to other people.

[1]How Modern Science Came Into The World, https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt45kddd

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Ma%27mun
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WhatsApp behaviour without your address book is quite half-baked, perhaps intentionally to pressure you to giving it access.

If you don't grant it access, it won't let you associated any name with messages and conversations. Everything shows up with just its raw phone number, and the list of conversations is a list of raw phone numbers with messages, which makes it hard to know who messages are from.