skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"What are you talking about?"

The following statement is not very convincing: "maybe hiring is broken up when it comes to culture, gender, race, personal connections and class, but when it comes to programming tests, we certainly have it right"

Mistakes in other areas indicate mistakes are very likely in this area. Parallel with courts was meant to illustrate that

"They need money, maybe?"

If thsts the only reason, they won't put their faith in it, they will game the system to the maximum possible degree.

I think what we are doing in this industry is idiotic, we do not ask surgeons to do a 30-minute surgery on a dog to test their skills in surgery on people, we do not ask structural engineers to make a bridge out of matchsticks to test their skill.

Maybe we need qualifications that can actually be trusted, thats one possible solution.
Recent and related:

Freenode ops take control of 700 channels - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27286628 - May 2021 (942 comments)

Freenode Exists for FOSS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27283964 - May 2021 (22 comments)

Welcome to Libera Chat - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27207734 - May 2021 (526 comments)

Leaving Freenode for a new network - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27207440 - May 2021 (296 comments)

Freenode resignation is official, not a draft - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27205926 - May 2021 (16 comments)

The Freenode resignation FAQ, or: “what the fuck is going on?” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27169301 - May 2021 (8 comments)

I am resigning along with most other Freenode staff - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27153338 - May 2021 (269 comments)
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When a country has to ban people from leaving, that's how you know it's time to get the fuck out if you still can.
If I could afford any car I wanted I'd definitely buy one of those fast wagons, like the RS6 Avant or E63.
It is the same problem all over again. embedded is tricky because you want to do too much with too little.

Then every time there's advancements in what you have available, people add all the niceties back. And at this point it is not embedded anymore. It's just a low power full device. Just like java for the MSP430 (like anyone would spend $7.99 per chip for a TV remote with 2week batteries, instead of $0.004 and 2+month)

True embedded development usually doesn't even have room for a watchdog timer. let alone virtualization and memory protection.

This is not new. This is not embedded. This is just the usual cycle of hardware generation changing and people in academia ivory tower (or worse, google solid gold tower) having nicer toys than everyone else.
The best part about Elon is the story in the new Eric Berger SpaceX book.

Gwen had just started at SpaceX and spend a while coming up with a big plan for what she was going to do there - how she would sell rockets, etc. etc.

In response to this plan, Elon said "I don't want you to spend time making plans about doing stuff. Just do stuff."

Obviously there is a time and a place for planning, but after working at a monster Telco that is utterly consumed by archaic process and plans and documents, I would kill to work for a boss that prioritized doing stuff over planning doing stuff.
>> You'll be paying for later months

What does this even mean? In the US atleast, mortgages are a fixed set of payments. Usually, it is a total of 360 payments. You dont pay "for specific months" you pay a specific number of payments. Deferment means you still make all 360 payments, just at different times. Without deferment, you make 360 payments. With deferment, you also make 360 payments. In either case, you pay.

Renters backpaying rent is questionable. Once a renter is behind 12 months it is unlikely they will ever catch up. The typical response is the fear of credit blemishes -- except even this fear is gone in places like NYC -- many renters are holding occupancy of the property until all past rent is forgiven, wiping out all past liabilities.
Yeah, I think there's a pretty big difference between tech companies going private (often to double-down R&D investment) and mature consumer brands going private (which is usually a way to extract profits and milk the carcass dry, see: Toys r Us, Olive Garden).
I also worked at two companies like this. Both rank as #1 and #2 best places to work. A bunch of very competent people.
I think you're on the right track, they just view protecting the FSF as something that needs to happen regardless, and it can therefore be relied on. Then if there's a horrible flaw with a previous GPL, they can at least force their projects to the new version.
I still have Russian-American friends who strongly support Putin, even after this. Putin's support is what allows Belarus to pull these stunts.
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Incredible – I expect we'll soon see an uptick in illegal border crossings?
How would you go about finding out for sure? Do you need to visit the foreign embassy? Or is there some kind of lawyer you would talk to? If so, which kind?
Who would you suggest get the title? Honest question.
That might be because of social media censorship. GBD had their Facebook page deleted in February [1]. Martin Kulldorff has had his Twitter account suspended more than once, though it is now
available [2].

[1] https://twitter.com/gbdeclaration/status/1358449223197466627...

[2] https://twitter.com/martinkulldorff
they definitely don't oppose traceability, this is just a marketing scheme
In some cases sympathy is unhelpful or even counterproductive. When someone has an unrealistic or irrational world view they don't need sympathy, they need a hard dose of reality and maybe some practical assistance toward changing their situation.
Hi, I'm Ed. I'm a full stack web developer who's returning to the industry after attempting to start a brick and mortar business.

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Our deeply unnatural existence staring into glowing rectangles 8+ hours per day.
Small EVs are averaging around 3.5-4 mi/kWh. 60 miles would therefore be around 18kWh. You're postulating a mere 36 kW charger there. We actually have 150 kW chargers as being common, with 350 kW being reasonably often seen.

That said, not all cars will necessarily reach that level. Neither of my EVs would see a benefit from the 350kW chargers, as it requires a 800V battery architecture. But expect cars in the next 10 years to be generally 800V systems. So you're looking at 1000 mph of charging speed with 350kW chargers. There may be limits such that cars don't actually get all 350kW, but... yeah, we're already beyond your "acceptable" level. It's just not evenly distributed.

And yeah, there's fewer fast charging stations than gas stations, but if most daily charging is done at home, you don't need as many as gas stations. 5k is probably too few, but 136k is almost certainly too many.
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Maybe because of 50%-50%, your engineers just pile everything onto those In-Office days and do nothing on At-Home days.

The beatings will continue until morale (productivity) improves.
Unstoppable Code?
Probably the fact that organ harvesting of executees was done in other countries too. But yes, Wikipedia as time goes on is not the best source for politically contentious content.

I used to not really notice it because I actually agreed with the ideological slant of Wikipedia, but contact with other, non-English Wikipedias has seriously forced me to reconsider and now I don't trust any Wikipedia on politically charged content.
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Honestly, as someone who has 2-3 drinks per day, I've always been more surprised by the amount of people who basically don't drink at all. In that chart it's over half of Americans.

Travel a bit, any you'll quickly discover that a couple drinks in the evening is basically normal in much of the world. I'm not arguing that it's healthy (it's not), but the median American really doesn't drink much - our Puritan values run deep.
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I don't understand why your original comment was flagged. I went and watched one of the Q&A videos from Linus Torvalds you mentioned and it was very educational. Thanks for your comment, even though the HN comment cancellers hated it.
I think the stars have to be aligned for a project like that to work. You need buy-in from first-nations, a charismatic PM that won't get thorn apart for spending prodigious amount of money and general public goodwill towards the objective.

Truly is a thankless job.
Personally I'd appreciate it if:
1. We stopped allowing paywalled site links on Hacker News
2. We linked to archived versions of those paywalled articles, so that all of us can read them
Every freaking day.
You would suspend your measuring apparatus in a device that absorbed or heavily dampened the motion of the waves (like gas struts, or something similar).
They are as long and frustrating to parallel park as a minivan, but with half of the useful space. It was one thing when minivans were still built on truck platforms, these sedan platform wagons were more efficient and a better drive, but these days, a minivan is basically what a station wagon was, efficient as a sedan but more useful.
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That's a good point

Personally, I'd be happy to share my connection with another human being

This isn't really the same thing though, it's Amazon treating all its customers like a harvestable resource, and reselling that resource as a value-add for their other products
> including many foreign residency permit holders

Does that mean that people can’t go back to their country of citizenship?
I've onboarded a few people over the pandemic and that's really the only downside. I can't really gauge their mood while pair coding over zoom. So its harder to pick up on where they are struggling to keep up.

All that has meant is that ramp up time is a little slower. And I can come into the office for 2 weeks for the two times a year we onboard people. Hell, if we did an office rental then neither of us would have to commute into town. It may be shocking to hear, but new people typically live in the outskirts where housing is cheap. Right next to where I live...
> I can't go to purchasing and say “we should donate $50,000 on these 139 projects”, and it will definitely raise questions if you're paying for something vague or not clearly linked to a business value but selling support puts the project in the critical path for actually having to deliver it.

That's basically the point I'm making. Paying $75 for printed documentation is easy to justify if your job involves Perl. If four developers work on Perl code, that's $300, which is nothing to the company and a lot better than the $0 they're getting now. Another example would be prioritizing bug fixes and new features.
There are certain jobs that are very easy to outsource yet companies pay a premium to hire locals. I feel quitting instead of going back to the office will backfire for many. I'm not necessarily talking about tech jobs, which led the way in WFH positions even before the pandemic.
I was worried that my Eero routers were going to get roped into this, but thankfully the CEO confirmed on Reddit[0] that there are currently no plans to involve their products in Sidewalk.

[0]https://www.reddit.com/r/eero/comments/nnvs20/amazon_sidewal...
> why most modern democracies have reduced themselves into two party theater

Is that true? It's certainly not the case in Germany, where we have ~6 relevant parties at the moment. I'm pretty sure other European nations, like Italy, often form their governments from multi party coalitions as well.

In the US I'd primarily blame the way votes are counted (majority of majorities). I'd expect other parties to rise to relevance if a different voting system was used, e.g. parties getting seats in the house of representatives proportional to their votes, instead of composing it from the winners of the individual districts (or a hybrid, like in Germany).
:D Way to peg where I work. (I'm in finance).

I could definitely see ditching the coding questions on a lower paying job or a small company. You'd learn a lot more by bringing someone in for a month long probation (so long as they can talk the talk through the interview).

I could also see doing different interviews if what I did didn't have a lot of algorithm writing requirements. It wouldn't make sense for someone to consider algorithmic efficiency if what they are doing all day long is writing basic CRUD apps.

For us, we've got a lot of specific finance logic and calculations that we need to implement. It's not (always) straight forward "write some crud".
I mean everything they've launched works. Yes they don't have smart contracts live yet, but they do have sound tech[0] and some cool partnerships[1].

I'm no Cardano shill and would never buy at the current prices, but if I believed they had what it takes (which is more than just sound tech) to siphon off much of the Ethereum crowd and bring in more nation-state level projects in the coming years then the valuation isn't that crazy.

Again, I don't have such lofty assumptions and will be waiting for smart contracts before I consider investing, but to say it does nothing is patently false- and if my time horizon were in the multiples of years then I'd probably consider inclusion in the large pool I'd spread my play-money across.

Is it worth $44B right now? Obviously not, but investment is a bet on the future, not current performance- and I've been wrong a lot.

[0] https://iohk.io/en/research/library/

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/from-paper-to-cardano-blockchain-io...