skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FB job reqs are drafted in collaboration with engineering, not imposed by HR (but really they are often copy-pasted and slightly modified from existing).

If you look at FB job reqs in prod network engineering (network in title, infrastructure is area of work), the qualifications should be reasonable. This covers most roles that are not pure SWE or rack and stack (SWE and "deployment and support" cover those roles).

~3-4 years ago a director shared a req and asked that we pass it on to our friends / anyone that might be interested. Some of us asked why specific items were in the req since they didn't reflect the team or our work. We also noted how it reinforced bias (women tend not to apply if they do not meet _all_ quals. men tend to apply if they meet _any_ quals).

Response was "good point, we'll remove them" and our reqs got a lot shorter and less exclusionary.

You might note that we tend to not have any education requirements. At one point the req listed university degrees. This was funny because we had a bimodal distribution of uni drop-out (maybe no high school diploma) on one side and MS or Ph.D on the other.

e.g. zero education requirements section in job reqs for my team:
https://www.facebook.com/careers/v2/jobs/468265564478223/

https://www.facebook.com/careers/v2/jobs/190442889615860/
I’d argue that any data collected during the last year (including the data I presented about my current employer, of course) is not actually a very valid measurement. I fully suspect all companies (including my employer) that try to support fully remote jobs to re-assess in another 2-3 years time, when life does not have the massive confounding factor of a global pandemic. And perhaps we will find that fully remote employees or teams significantly over- or under-perform individuals who go into the office. So while we don’t really have good data on if remote work is good or bad right now (we certainly know it’s not terrible - most tech businesses thrived last year), companies that decide to not start supporting it at least partially are taking a very real loss (reduced talent pool), for a perceived benefit that may or may not actually be there, that we just can’t measure yet.
Before that we would have had lovingly troffed manuals, checklists, man pages, binders, and libraries of books sitting in our spacious cubicle. Embrace tradition imo!
At least here in Europe, returns are painless in almost all cases. Give it a shot!

This is especially true for larger and more expensive items (like electronics) where - I can not stress this enough - it is much, much better to buy directly from the company (I'd say 95% of all companies now have d2c shops on their websites).

It used to be the case that Amazon had an advantage in customer support and returns. I feel this is no longer true. I bought an expensive electronic item from Amazon and, when it broke, I send it in under warranty (in the EU, the first six months are essentially no questions asked repairs). Amazon send it to a third-party repair shop that send it back to me without any repair.

By contrast, I had to replace an item from a large consumer electronics company, which I had bought directly with them. They sent me a new one __before__ I had sent in my old item, and the new box included the shipping label to send back the damaged one. Much easier!

Beyond all this, it's obvious that Amazon is now home to fake and faux products.
It is my view that the only product worth ordering there are cheapo China duplicates, for a price where you will be okay if they break after one week of use.

Otherwise, go with the supplier. It perhaps takes more than a day to ship, but often it doesn't. You can return any item for any reason within two weeks (in the EU), and damaged items can be returned within warranty anyway - usually with less hassle.

So folks, please stop buying stuff from Amazon if you can help it. As this - and countless other instances - has shown, Amazon is no longer worth supporting, for any reason.
You can often pick stuff up at a local store - e.g. certain couriers have deals with local supermarkets. It sometimes means pick ups are cheaper than the standard paid options.
I don't see why you can't just give your "AGIs" actual emotions. The argument you're making doesn't make sense for emotions as the outcomes of our neurobiology, only for emotions as a kind of immaterial spirit inexplicably housed in meat-shells that need no explanation.
Monarchies have to respond to the threat of populist uprisings, but they're still monarchies.
"throw away"
Issue with such high ground temperature is that most of Siberian ground is a thick permafrost, which is rich in Methane clathrate, which if melts quickly can release huge amount of Methane really quickly, which is comparatively more dangerous than CO2 emission.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane_clathrate
> However, in the end, code is just a very detailed specification of the design that produces a desired outcome.

Yes, exactly. The code is a technical specification that is so clear that a very dumb uncreative machine can follow it perfectly!
america has a chronic work fetish
Neat! Thanks for sharing.

>Note: This visualization was designed for screens larger than 1024 x 1024 and for desktop-style interactions.

Why am I getting this warning on my 4K UHD display? Both Firefox 89 and Chrome 91 on Ubuntu.
The best person I've ever hired at four years experience in a field. He smoked people with 8-15 years experience.
I love QR codes. I love the idea of pointing my phone at a QR code and having something open up.

I hate how using a QR code actually goes. Unlock my phone. Open the camera app. Swipe to the photo mode in which QR codes work. Aim at the QR code and awkwardly try to tap the hovering URL.
I thought the same, so my quarantine project was a site which collects good Wikipedia articles and their respective discussions posted on HN. To make browsing more structured, it also tags every article with topics, in this case "Germany", "Time" and "Radio Stations".

If you find yourself one day without a good Wikipedia article to read, you may want to check it out:
https://www.mostdiscussed.com/
> - vaccines are unsafe

Not my words and not my point of view

> - vaccines are inefficient

Not my words, but I have read a study that tells a vaccine is efficient for 1 year. If I live in village and almost do not have contacts with people and do not plan to travel anywhere outside my village in nearest 1 year, isn't it wise to live that 1 year without a vac and take it after 1 year?

> but we shouldn't take them to let the virus mutate

This is not a cause for not taking the vaccine. Just a little counter-argument to statement that not taking the vaccine leads to danger (for society) expressed in mutations.

> Everything indicates that the vaccines are safer than covid on literally every single metric available.

Not in every. Imagine the vaccine is 100 times safer than a covid and imagine my probability to catch a virus is 1/1000 due to very few contacts in my village. So, math tells us that not taking a vac for that one year is these conditions is 10 times safer for me.
Tiny houses have a large cost per square foot. One of the early forces in tiny houses remarked that his house was simultaneously the smallest in his city and the most expensive per square foot.

Part of it is the cube square law's little brother, the "square linear law?" You have proportionately more wall for the enclosed area. On top of that you still have the expensive bits… bathrooms and kitchens.
A friend of mine had this happen at his condo building, I think the assessment was $150k. The HOA offered financing via an "association loan"
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I found Warzel's response to be incredibly childish, but to each their own I suppose.
A web app (as in SPA) can very well be a bunch of static files. I once wrote one at work, served off S3.

Client machines are powerful enough now to do a lot, e.g. to scan a full-text search index packaged as a static file.
In my middle school you could just x out of the Windows NT login window and get a userless session.

We didn't understand that we hadn't hacked anything, and neither did our teachers. Their misplaced awe at our ability to cloak our activities in anonymity was intoxicating.

Most of my cohort then are engineers now.

I worry that as security gets better, opportunities for creativity and exploration go away, which might not bode well for future generations.
> I've found bootcamp grads have been very good.

Which one? What was comp like for these new hires?
Ha! The name ROPE is because a rope is a group of strands, braided together into a larger and stronger form with higher tensile strength.

With ROPE, the four numbers combine together to create a larger and stronger estimate. I do estimates for clients, and ROPE provides a way for each stakeholder to see that estimates are really ranges of probabilities.
The problem is that it means that any compromised app, container or chroot can now be escalated to a full fleet takeover unless you have the mentioned mitigations in place.
This premise would make a delightful text adventure game.
You used to be able to Google for transaction information from a particular e commerce shopping cart and get .txts of credit card info, name, address. The wild west was wild.
"Software estimation" is not a specialized problem. Rather, it's just an example of what Daniel Kahneman calls "the planning fallacy." The same phenomena we see with software occur in many, many other fields.

Read "Thinking, Fast and Slow" where he talks about estimating the time to create a new textbook.
There's a huge difference between what we all did over the last year and a normal remote working situation. A lot of the worst part of WFH for most people really is a combination of WFH and pandemic pain, rather than purely being a WFH issue.

I've spent most of my career doing remote work. Since I planned on it, rather than being forced into it, I was able to do things like rent an apartment with space for an office and set it up how I like. That actually adds to my balance as I can "go to the office" and then "leave the office" when I'm done. A lot of people in the pandemic era aren't as lucky there since it was so unplanned.

More importantly to your point though is that remote work normally doesn't mean "only work from home". Outside of the pandemic I would regular take my laptop to parks, libraries, or other spaces for a change of scenery. With the pandemic that wasn't an option as places were closed. I'm hoping to continue this now that things are reopening.
I am note sure how one can even have database rights.

If I compile a record of all temperatures for the last 10 years, How can I prevent someone from also creating a database that has temperatures for the last 10 years?

That is why in US Law facts can not be copyrighted, only "creative" works, and facts are not creative they are facts
omg barely 14 years awa, there's simply no time !
Ask HN: What is a life-changing realization you wish you had sooner?
Glad to hear that situations like my own are not uncommon. Most of the people I work with before Covid I have never met in person.
And is another way to say this "side-effect free"?
Thanks! I just cancelled Prime too for similar reasons as the GP, and I have found excellent alternative sources for most things but fiddly bits like cables eluded me. (My online replacements are: books => alibris, cds/vinyl => discogs, photography => b&h, music gear => sweetwater/cl. I'm happy to report that each service is superior to Amazon in every way, even if it's slightly inconvenient to multiplex like this.)
That sounds funny to me, using arch for daily driving and Debian for tinkering xD
Not saying you’re wrong, I just found it amusing and slightly ironic.
Their return window is 90 days versus Amazon’s 30 and they actually let you schedule the return pick-up date. Also, their Prime-competitor Walmart+ service[0] ($98/year) has no order minimums.

[0] https://www.walmart.com/plus
so who actually gets this 70M if and when they pay it?
> the government unlawfully collected their data etc.

How did the ANT catalog leaks do that? Did you not notice Russia suddenly got more aggressive (annexing Crimea etc.) after the Snowden incedent?
Not necessarily. Apple's engineering team was the largest advocate for WFH, and everyone involved in digital manufacture doesn't have to worry about a thing.
It was a lot more complex than my summary above. The book is a good read, if you have the time.
> isn't it wise to live that 1 year without a vac and take it after 1 year?

I guess it depends on how many wives and children depend on you.
That's not how endowments work.

I'm 99.9999% positive that what you suggest would be illegal, and would land the administrators in prison.

As a lawyer once explained it to me, if person X gives organization Y some amount of money Z for purpose W, then spending even a penny of Z on purpose Q is felony fraud.

I could be wrong, but that's how it was explained to me.
I remember following him and Bobs game back in the day. Outsider art for video games
Tangential and largely unrelated, but a long time ago, I worked for a startup that got bought out by a megacorporation. The startup didn't really make us sign any NDAs or non-competes, so most of the people there had a fairly active github profile.

The transition was fairly smooth, but the megacorporation wanted us to sign NDAs, which most of the engineers did, but I made the mistake of actually reading it, and realizing that they kind of stuck an extremely vague non-compete in there. I didn't sign it.

I was at that company for a whole year longer, every week getting a "reminder" email to sign the NDA, which I never did.

I'm not a jerk, I didn't disclose any company secrets or release their code, but I doubt I was the only person who found that little "we don't feel like firing you" loophole, and the others might have been a little less nice than me.
"studently hundreds of commits from Samsung vanished inexplicably from the repo, since they were all submitted by engineers of Korean ancestry".
> Maybe Sales can close a major deal if they commit to a timeline for some new feature.

Maybe sales can sink the company.
I feel like no one responding to me in this thread is capable of understanding how the tone of your wording changes how it is received by others.

I understand how capitalism works and that this provides an option that wasn’t available before.

Telling people who have next to nothing that they can simply choose another house if they think this one is sub standard, while factually accurate, makes you sound like a complete asshole who doesn’t understand that they don’t have the resources to pick other options

That’s the entire point I’m making. Any response about capitalism or ADUs is ignoring my point and talking past me
so a slap on the wrist
> I still don't think Condorcet is complicated.

Conceptually, no. But we’re talking about, mostly, tallying complexity. Condorcet itself, and therefore some but not all Condorcet methods, is “simpler” than IRV in that the number of values that need to be tracked is smaller (at least where the ratio of the size of the electorate to the number of candidates is large, as it typically is in public election of officials), but that's not true of all Condorcet methods.

> One of the major disservices to Condorcet is that the vote-theorist communities insist on talking about the loop-breaking algorithms as being Condorcet methods, rather than as separate tie-breaking (loop-breaking) processes that are bolted on after identifying the (usually 1-member) Smith Set. Some of this is because the algorithmic implementations do both steps at once, but it's not necessary.

That's not a “disservice to Condorcet”, its a necessity for the evaluation of real-world election methods.
> Relying on your employer for these items seems unwise.

Why? Work is where you spend one third (or more) of your time during your adult life. Why the hell would I not want such a significant portion of my life to not also provide great benefits like opportunities to make friends, meet people, eat great food, and have fun?

If you scoff at people who want to make their workplaces more welcoming and happier, no shit the workplace is going to turn into anti-social, work-only hellholes that nobody wants to go back to. This attitude is a self-fulfilling prophecy, and a root of the problem.
Because I am terrible at making CSS do what I want, unfortunately.

Seriously, though, I think I do some type of aspect ratio check - maybe that's the culprit.
Record highs do not work that way. Record highs are by definition outliers. For example, in the Bay Area when we get some record highs during a heat wave, only around ~5-10% of station get new highs. Part of the issue is that except for San Francisco (which has 150 years of records) the records have only been kept for less than 100 years.

Let's compare two scenarios: (1) no warming and (2) warming.

With no warming, when a heat wave hits we get a few new highs. This is because (a) heat waves a rare events, so we may not have one in the record for that exact day and (b) due to microclimates in the area, the exact conditions will affect which sites are able to beat the record. And (c) there aren't that many records to compete with.

With warming, problems (a) (b) and (c) still apply. But you get a nice little bias up which should increase the number of sites obtaining new records. Yay except... the amount of warming so far means that it won't be a complete wipe out of new records, but rather just "more."

The question is how to distinguish the two cases. How do you tell if it's just the expected number of records being broken vs an increased number? The answer is stop doing that! Instead we should look at all daily temperatures -- rather than focusing on the count of record breaking highs -- because then we have a lot more data to work with.

In any case, the PNW heat wave does not match any reasonable expectation for the types of records we expect to be set by global warming because records would have been smashed regardless of warming.

None of this argument is an "anti-global warming" argument. Too many people conflate "science says this particular event was not a sign of warming" with "this person is a climate denier." If we're going to follow the science, that means less panic over individual events and more concern over the ongoing changes.
Political traders certain K.G. was outright favored in the NYC mayoral election
I think many of the companies that have announced remote options will also be adjusting salaries based on the local area's cost of living or cost of hiring or some other similar factor.
JS lazy loading is a thing of the past.
Just because some sites are slow to adopt, that doesn't make it a valid argument against lazy loading per se.

Native lazy loading is broadly supported, it works well, has no overhead, and you can override the behaviour if you always want eager loading.

There's no point in complaining about it that I am able to grasp.

I don't have data on this but I assume that JS lazy loading is dying rapidly because this is not a critical feature that must polyfilled for legacy browsers.

Of course, plenty of sites will keep their JS lazy loading cruft until the next code refactoring / optimization.

But I am very happy that native lazy loading has been standardized and implemented.
Can you contact their attorney?

https://uspto.report/TM/90721592/FTK20210522113954#3

From the filing

244 Fifth Avenue, Suite V284
New York, New York 10001
United States
646-785-1788(phone)
domee.zhong1@gmail.com
SECONDARY EMAIL ADDRESS(ES) (COURTESY COPIES): dmtm2020@outlook.com

From the NY bar (only match for that name)

Attorney Detail Report as of 06/30/2021
Registration Number: 5054689
Name: XIAOFANG ZHONG
Business Name:
Business Address: Not on File
Business Phone: (917) 819-2798
Email: xiaofangz@hotmail.com
Date Admitted: 06/19/2012
Appellate Division Department of Admission: 3rd
Law School: Temple University Beasley School of Law
Registration Status: Attorney - Currently Registered
Next Registration: Nov 2022
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I can see how hardware handling of switching, some filtering and maybe stripping TLS is feasible. Since you're knowledgeable of the subject, how would you index that information for future retrieval, which could be anything in the set of all digital representations of information in all possible languages and encodings? How would you determine what information is important?
“BS propaganda”? What would I possibly have to gain by lying…? Other people are allowed to have differing perspectives and opinions.
Perhaps those candidates, once hired, might also have disagreements with management about WFH policy.
That's fair, as I said I barely remember the details of this, and I know very very little about how these kinds of investments work.
Meltano raises $4.2M seed round
I'm super excited to see Meltano will applied across all sorts of industries!
Worse, the klein bottles did nothing to remove my black heads
> but what's the point then?

Learning. The result may not be meaningfully better, but you gain fuller understanding of the problem domain. The third rewrite might have a chance of being an improvement ;).
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My experience in the software industry is that engineers are just as susceptible to misinformation as everyone else. It is the exact same process which reinforces beliefs in flat-earth, anti-vax, chiropractic, homeopathy, the stolen-election narrative, and other such nonsense.

A number of folks are asking the question, "why does the HN consensus appear to be so far away from my experience?" I think the answer is really that noise is being amplified and echoed above the signal.

If you know you're just guessing based on what "seems reasonable" and "matches what other people are saying" you need to stop and re-evaluate the validity of your beliefs. That's an important part of critical thinking which is sorely lacking in this forum right now.
Actually no because it’s a “transformative use”. This is how search engines are allowed to show snippets and thumbnails.
Prime example here; you can tell which lines were added by HR/execs:

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2477201397/
How the Telephone Helps the Farmer (1905) [pdf]
Did you bring the security vulnerabilities you discovered to his attention before disclosing them on hacker news? Regardless of what you think is fair it's pretty clear you aren't acting with his best interests in mind.
Every complaint about remote work at scale should be taken with some caution. It's possible that managing remote employees is not more difficult in itself but is more challenging right now because we evolved from a WFO (work form office) world. So you as a manager have been exposed to fewer real life examples/books/online discussions/blog articles/talks with friends and family/ about managing remote teams. Virtually every executive, manager, leader in our current world has been selected by their ability to lead people who are in office.

My opinion is that we are in a transient state. We need to come up with new processes, ala Agile but for remote teams. We need invent new forms of managements, of organizations that scale with a remote first policy.