skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Primary target of PIPs are college hires, and Amazon hires them via online assessment and a phone call verification.
https://archive.is/IYMAm
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I've always been curious if you can combine small turbine engines [1] with a drone to get something with some ridiculous performance aspects.

I'm not an aerospace engineer so I don't know what something like this would look like, what the range/ceiling would be. But these are used on some crazy model aircraft.

[1] https://www.pbsaerospace.com/small-turbine-engines
> In HTML we call this "position: absolute" and "z-index".

Nope. These don't make "more-or-less arbitrary relationships to each other" easier or more obvious. And they are still fully constrained to the hierarchical 2D-plane of HTML.

> In HTML we call this <canvas>

Only it's ... not HTML anymore. It's canvas. And yes, the irony is that to make anything custom properly you have to fully exit anything HTML- or CSS-related and use something entirely outside like Canvas or WebGL.

In any other world you don't: you stay inside whatever framework you started in.
Employment based PR depends on luck. If someone was lucky enough to be born outside of India / China, they will likely get their PR within 1 - 3 yrs.

Otherwise they have to do everything in their power to stay in the good graces of their Manager, and skip level for decade(s).
Wow. The hiring manager doesn't get to make the final decision?

I make sure that managers reporting to me always make the final decision on hiring (and firing) for their teams. That makes it more fair to hold them accountable for their team, because it's the team they chose.

Moving the final decision to someone else, like a "bar raiser," seems fraught with misaligned incentives.

Are bar raisers somehow held accountable for their hiring decisions?
That's why bar raisers have to be from a different organization than the team hiring.

As an Amazon Bar Raiser, our community takes our unbiased position and ability to veto hires EXTREMELY seriously.

We hire for Amazon, not for the team.
In the business world it doesn't take much to exert a big influence on a company.
I found the bug: https://github.com/bitnami-labs/sealed-secrets/issues/398 — it's actually an empty Issuer DN.

Seems like it was recently fixed too, which is nice. Now I'll have to find a way to upgrade…
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What's your beef with W3schools?

Probably a ten-year-old beef. W3Schools used to spam search results with questionable-at-best information. I forget whether they got bought, or just cleaned up their act, but the current version is vastly improved over what it was. Still, I have muscle memory that hesitates to click one of their links despite knowing that W3Schools sucks much, much less than they used to.
This author sounds like someone who has finally figured out how their body works, and is now desecrating their revelation by posting it online to help digitally overstimulate their peers. Bravo!
Paper Rocket Models
One detail maybe worth mentioning. Sebald wrote The Emigrants in German. But he also contributed to the English translation. Sebald left Germany and moved to England in 1966 when he was 22. By the time The Emigrants was translated to English, he has already lived in the UK for close to 30 years.
What do you mean with "so political"?

The hard part is getting the social dynamics right. Askers want to ask any question, answerers want to answer interesting questions. Keeping both groups happy is a hard task.

People complain about questions being closed (technically: "on hold") and marked as duplicated, but it serves a real purpose as no one wants to answer the same question over and over again. How you do it matters a lot though.

I have a number of gripes with Stack Overflow, and there are quite a few things I would do different. But I see a lot of people complaining about it who probably don't realize just how hard of a problem it is.
> "silence" historically has been and continues to be an avoidance tactic for dealing with racism. So there is truth in the saying.

Freedom, like freedom of speech and freedom of association, includes the freedom to inaction and silence. Assuming the worst (that someone is racist if they don't tweet about racism every day etc) is toxic behavior
I typically try to package it and push it upstream. It usually isn't much work and it helps others. That being said it is rare that something I want isn't in nixpkgs. After all by some metrics nixpkgs-unstable is the most up to date package repository, and only slightly smaller than the AUR https://repology.org/repositories/graphs

In some cases I do settle for using `steam-run` or `buildFHSUserEnv` but I don't think I am using those for anything right now.
Out of interest, I wonder how much of the company Joel and Jeff own? I hope it's a bunch and they've done well out of the sale.
My wife asked me who Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was yesterday, to which I replied "an algorithm for optimizing campaign donations based on press conferences."
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Because non-white people do not have classical music? I agree with the parent, you see racism where it doesn't exist. Why would your mind go to only "white" classical music?

PS I'm Iranian-Armenian; both have rich "classical" music history. I have myself enjoyed Celtic, Chinese and Japanese folk music. Music and rhythm is so ingrained in us that I don't need to do research to know all other nations had music in all eras too.
You can invest in Apple stock in the early 90s because you are a savvy investor who sees the massive potential, or you can invest in them because the stock shows up at the top of an alphabetical list. Either way you're rich, and get called a brilliant investor, while all the people who invested in ZZCO because they picked the bottom of the alphabetical list, or some other similarly random choice, are bankrupt.
I think most of it is really down to the quality of the answers you've given combined with the vast amount of users on SO.

I'm user 537XXXX with an account that can't be more than 8 years old but I did spend a solid 6 months actively posting detailed solutions to problems I ran into - ~50 in total. And some more general answers. Which has amounted to ~4.900 points. Which isn't _that_ much. Just 490 upvotes. Or 10 per answer on average. Still - that puts me in the top 8%.

My guess is that the high percentage is more due to the sheer volume ;-)
Yeah I’d start here, especially the names in the second paragraph.

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

Also I recommend Blackwell’s Anthology of Analytic Philosophy.
Here’s a bit of clock-related JS animation I did many years ago, which helps to explain how the LED hands work on the Corpus chronophage clock:

https://dotat.at/random/clock.html

more words on my blog:

https://fanf.dreamwidth.org/93037.html

I also wrote some notes on a talk given by John Taylor on how he made the Corpus clock

https://fanf.dreamwidth.org/96948.html

The Wikipedia page asserts that the clock is purely mechanical, without any computer programming, but I believe (based on what Taylor said in his talk) that the clock has a computerized regulator which makes it tick erratically, and keeps it synced to the MSF radio time signal. But Taylor is very cagy about it, saying he prefers the clock’s weirdness to be mysterious.

(if you have an electric kettle, it’s very likely the element / switch / thermostat were made by Strix, John Taylor’s company)

of course the video link in my blog post 12.5 years ago is now broken but it might well have been the same as this video blurb from John Taylor on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHO1JTNPPOU
I can see that. I think you're best bet is to throw that BotFramework out. I'm not sure why they keep it around, but they've all but replaced it with Power Virtual Agents.
Well, this still works.

`my_search_phrase -quora.com`
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> It's the choice of who gets out that matters.

You contradict your own point above

> has higher-ups (L7 and up) involved in deciding who performed according to the manager's expectations.

These higher ups tend to have extremely well-tuned bullshit detectors and it would be extremely hard for a manager to sabotage an employee and get them categorized as underperforming.

It would reflect worse on the manager not the employee.
Indeed, it seems like a garbage, clickbait article. It should not be on HN.
When my daughter started using the internet, my advice was "be a superhero". Don't use your real name, and don't show your face publicly.

I taught her to use a password manager so that she would have a different username for each site, and got here a primary gmail account that was easy to say, but not related to her real name.

Anonymity is an asset.
I must agree, their reach must be insane! Although my last question was like 3 years ago, I do visit it at least twice a week for quick answers.

I feel like most “often asked” questions has been answered. I very seldomly find that creating a new question is necessary as most things is covered in past awnsers. However for package related problems, GitHub issues has become the go to.
you mean the part where I literally stated being beholden to Apple? Apple made contactless payments pretty pain free. If someone else hasn't taken up the baton, then that's kind of on them.
nice. what stack do you use?
Is there a specific monocular you recommend?
It's not rare at all. Any field where the company or person paying for the code has absolutely no ability to do anything with it themselves anyway. And frankly people tend to keep and reuse their code anyway, but I prefer to be honest about it.

Here's an example I did: fast linear algebra algorithms in C to run an algorithm on a customer's device. They wanted the high level algo working, not my matrix code. I used it in other stuff for a really long time.

One doesn't need everyone in the world to unanimously agree to one's license terms. It's fine if you're repulsed by the idea. That's a important flag when considering potential customers.
Nix and similar projects are all going to be eaten alive by immutable distributions, Flatpak and new projects - that might work just like Nix but get the user experience right, and make packaging and maintenance easier. And no I'm not saying they do the exact same thing, have all the same features or target the same type of users.

For the developer tools side I like what Shopify did but I would never recommend that to my employer. Too many moving parts and not enough people using it that I would feel safe about it.
because for many...food is exactly that.

>with the caveat they don't have the same direct link with misery, mental illness, violence, crime and general anti-social behaviour

Many people use it exactly that way. Epecially with depression etc.

And ultimately I am not of the opinion that we need to manage other peoples vices, or sources of temporary happiness. Alcohol is a very social vice and 99% of people can manage it responsibly.

So provided they arent direct contributors to larger issues in society (such as meth/opiates directly causing crime etc.), I dont think the government needs to be in the business of restriciting people freedoms (which does include the freedom to self-destructive behavior).

Otherwise where do you stop? Mandating exercise? Banning burgers? Ultimately we cant nerf the world. Prohibition doesnt work, if the 20's doesnt show you just look at the drug war and marijuana.
All three links don't seem to conclusively support your comment and AA continues to be controversial for many reasons (e.g. adopting "alcoholic" as your identity). Quoting link #2:

"Mostly it [the new review] looks like studies of either sending people to AA or frequent counseling, and that yields similar results to other kinds of alcohol use disorder psychotherapies. That's what their main finding is," Saitz said. "And I, unfortunately, I don't think that tells us so much about AA effectiveness."

As an aside the average AA member attends 2.5 meetings a week and membership is 89% white[1], I had no idea. Where do non-white people get help in America?

[1] https://www.aa.org/assets/en_US/p-48_membershipsurvey.pdf
Honestly, perhaps.

Think of digital consumption like any drug or vice. The severity of its effects are different for every person, and so is the solution for each person.

Some alcoholics can do a social drink with friends as long as they don't drink at home alone. Others can't touch it.

For me, there are times when the mere presence of an internet-connected device in my headspace has a weight on me - a small weight, but it's there. I find myself feeling truly disconnected from the digital river /better/ when I put music on the record player and put my phone on silent in another room, dissuaded from touching it, "liking" a song, or responding to an unexpected text.
Thank you for the response, that clears it up a lot more. I think I was misunderstanding exactly what the relationship between the HM and BR is, I was assuming they worked together regularly and were team-specific instead of a shared resource between teams and not tied to the team that was hiring.
I would delete Messenger if I could. I'm not completely opposed to FB but have been using it less and less.

I've considered posting a status update that is essentially an 'away message', letting people know I'm 'away' from FB and letting them know they can reach me another way.
If your interpretation of fashion is "looking like others" then it means that your last encounter with fashion was when you were a high school teenager.
It's a good lesson in privacy controls at a young age.

I taught my daughter to never use her real name or post her face publicly. ...and to use different usernames on different sites.
Yes, as a 10-year user of Tumbleweed, generally OpenSUSE is left behind when it comes to downloading binary packages from first-party sources.

Even for the Microsoft software that "supports" OpenSUSE, historically that support was by expecting OpenSUSE users to use their RHEL packages which didn't always work well. [1] [2] (I don't know if the problems are still there, because I switched to the Docker image for `az` and stopped using `powershell`)

[1]: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/6184

[2]: https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/issues/7523
> It makes me low key angry because I simply don't believe that Agile is anywhere near interesting enough to justify being "deeply passionate" about: it comes off as phoney.

Exactly. It's like saying you're passionate about paperwork. Everyone thinks it sucks and we should do less of it.

Lots of people have to pretend to be more passionate than they are, but please pick anything other than business process.
I'll eat my hat, Simon Black, if "the Zimbabwe scenario occurs" or Texas attempts to secede because we're all desperate for their oil to sell to - well, who? I asked the Texas question because it is a bad question - because a positive answer indicates to me a distorted sense of the composition of American society.

America's wealth isn't the dollar's reserve currency status, it isn't its GDP (or conversely the debt-to-GDP measure), it is ~400 million humans and the natural wealth of the richest part of North America, combined with the easy geopolitical security of two vast oceans and two good friends. Our debt is made easier because of the strength of the dollar, just as the British debt was before the Suez crisis. But it is secured by our vast real estate, our technologically sophisticated economy, and, like all national debts, by the easy assumption of future growth in population and economy (this growth being the main reason the national debt is not analogous to household debt).
Unrelated, but does anyone know of a site specializing in procedures for changing one's sex, as done by an advanced professional (an expert, even)?
Yes, as a software person, I understand that. I brought this up because we were veering into "client asked" territory, and that where we see clashes between seemingly innocent real world asks and technology rabbit holes.
It still isn't clear if it is the change in water volume that is key to the technique or change in temperature / brew time, as in waiting longer results in a lower temp second pour but longer brew time. This conflates the temperature and brew time factors. I have always heard the key to a good cup is water temperature (between 195 and 205 F) and then adjust brew time based on preference (too short is green/sour, too long is burnt/bitter). I haven't found stuff like wetting the paper filter or stirring the bloom to make much if a difference.
I mean, you're not wrong, but you're also pretty damn far from the truth. Any way you slice it, the music industry of yore was affected by the same latent racism that plagued everything, and it's no surprise that white musicians account for a disproportionate amount of music published before the civil rights movement.
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OLX is the most popular Craigslist-type website at least in Portugal (and maybe in more places in Europe as well?)
Try Derek Parfit. His book "Reasons and Persons" touches on some fascinating questions (identity) with clear thought experiments that actually reach the level of clarity this article suggests.
Did they threaten any consequences to you?
Isn't Intel Bios Guard supposed to protect against this very attack ?
There's absolutely a place for creating new procedures or practices.

The problem is when the process gains consciousness and ego and fights for its own limitless expansion.
Lol! Purchasing this book was the very first online purchase I ever made from a very cool new upstart online bookstore called Amazon. <- Funny name I think. Not sure if it will stick around...
Please don't recommend that people use nix-env. It's one of Nix's biggest footguns and a huge support burden for the maintainers.

We've been actively trying to remove mentions of it from the documentation.

If you want something "installed" use home-manager. If you just want something for quick dev use nix-shell.
I think you're mixing up self-expression and being completely unique. Self-expression is about fitting in as much as standing out. It's about figuring out who you are, and how you fit into society. Fashion is about telling the world "this is who I am". It's a really good way to connect with like-minded people.

If you wear a business suit, you'll find company with conservative business people. If you wear all black, heavy boots, and band t-shirts you'll find company with people who are into the local music scene. If you wear Patagonia vests or startup hoodies you'll find company with people who want to code into the evening.
A good example is housing market in San Francisco. The tech boom caused many poorer individuals to lose housing because of the costs going up. People with full time jobs no longer were able to afford housing.

https://www.vox.com/a/homeless-san-francisco-tech-boom
What's the easiest way to get custom sounds on an iPhone these days? I remember getting a 'mosquito ringtone' many years ago, and it was not easy to transfer. I assume things are easier now?
Nixon wanted to have 1000 nuclear power plants operating in the U.S. by the year 2000. Today there are 60. Would this law have still applied if we followed up with our planned nuclear infrastructure?
It’s funny because I remember early on how Facebook status updates were treated as analogous to AIM away messages.
> the Bar Raiser- not the HM- makes the decision

To be pedantic, the HM makes the hire-or-not decision, the BR can veto a hire decision. BR cannot make a hire decision.
I think the big capability here isn't the technology, it's that they could get it into the country and deployed over a major air base.
Are there any interesting theories on the interplay of creativity and boredom?
I hate when people bring up survivorship bias about something like this. It's such a negative outlook. It's like a "don't even try because it's just a fluke that happened to them" type of mindset. It doesn't help anyone.
Github issues have also replaced most of my stack overflow usage. Part of it is that I'm now more experienced, so most of my questions are about edge cases or potential bugs and not "How do I call system()?". But it also feels like stackoverflow took off because it was lower friction than mailing lists and experts exchange, but has been overshadowed as projects migrated to github and most developers already having a github account, rendering it lower effort. This changed things by (a) having stuff in google results from other sites and (b) encouraging developers to write better docs to reduce the rate of support requests in github issues.
What's brutal is that healthcare tied to employment.
Taste is subjective, and there are many variables in coffee prep that affect different aspects of it. Grind size, roast level, brew temp, brew time, brew method, etc will all cause variations in the taste, some quite large.

You also have different variables in the taste itself. The sweetness, acidity, bitterness, earthy flavors etc. There is also the feel of the liquid, based on the amount of suspended soluble material and oils.

What causes the differences is primarily that different chemicals are present in the coffee, and more are created in the roasting process. Those chemicals all have slightly different rates in which they will become soluble based on temperature and pressure. A finer grind, higher temperature, or longer brew will all result in extracting more of basically everything, some of which might taste unpleasant to you.
That's orthogonal to the point. There are also teams with no "refractory employees", no morale problems, and no performance problems.

But according to this piece, Amazon and other companies who practice what used to be called stack ranking assume that someone needs to go anyway.

It's pure cargo cult management. Not only does it have no relationship to performance, it actively degrades it.

It actively degrades performance because these choices can easily become political.

Competent people may disagree with management, and sometimes they disagree for good reasons.

A culture that can't handle that is not a good culture. Good people who execute and have rational strategic insight are management track almost by definition, and throwing them out is not a winning move.
> find a way to hold journalists accountable even when they operate within the legal grey area of journalism

Step one: treat any article that quotes anonymous sources with deep skepticism. The sheer number of retractions and stories that turn out to be blatantly false (especially in the realm of politics) has become absurd in the past few years.

No startup needed, just some (un)common sense.
You don't achieve freedom from without security. They're one and the same.
I would assume that the Bar Raiser can say 'No' when the HM says 'yes', but not vice versa. So the HM would choose their own team. But it would be true that the Bar Raiser can't be held to account, since you will rarely if ever find out that they made a bad call.
Sounds like AWS Sagemaker no? Except this isn't cloud based and they also do optimizations on the model itself via aot compilation.
See: Music Theory and White Supremacy by Adam Neely[0]

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr3quGh7pJA

The TL;DR for people who will be immediately triggered by the title and not bother to view is that Western music theory was intentionally designed around white supremacist ideals. It is exclusionary of the ideas and contributions of non-European cultures, and purposely so, as it deems them inferior.
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