skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Devil's advocate.

Every bad hire costs the company $50,000 - 200,000. Sometimes more. They can also sink or demoralize teams.

Many of the people conducting interviews are new to the process and don't know how to extract signal. Sometimes scales don't line up.

When you have a revolving door of employees (because that's the way things are these days), have trouble scheduling interviews (busy engineers trying to get their own work done), and can't get enough skilled interviewers on a panel, then of course the process will be a suboptimal experience for candidates.

To a degree, companies would rather a good candidate was passed over than a bad candidate was accepted. Type I and II errors.

Companies also don't like telling candidates how they did because that opens them up to lawsuit liabilities.

You have to do enough interviews to get signal yet not piss off candidates. (Or your employees in the interview pool!)

It's a hard problem for companies too.
> They were optimized for apple sellers not apple eaters.

The American food industry is optimised for sellers, not eaters [1].

It is that way because the scalar nature of capital in America favours national businesses, not local businesses (or nutritional well being).

Consumers fit in with this model out of necessity because they are workers who cannot allocate enough time to food shopping, preparation, and cooking. Instead, they minimise the time spent on food procurement by going to the supermarket, which is the ultimate expression of scalar capitalism.

[1] Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
ISBN1400069807 (ISBN13: 9781400069804), Michael Moss, Random House, 2013
>Even with this, not everyone has the same perspective or the same exposure to the downsides. Not everyone will throw more resources at their problems, some will more than others, some will collect it and squander it more than others, no matter their ends.

Well, if the greenhouse effect is real and our planet cooks itself, then pretty sure humanity as a whole is exposed to the downsides.

>Events are always going to happen, and everyone will respond differently to them everytime. Sure pockets of consensus will form but to expect it to be prevalent among everyone is highly unlikely, and hoping for such to happen is a sisyphean task.

If you know there are cracks in the dam, you do something about it. If a hurricane is coming, you sound an alert. Tragic outcomes can be bounded and limited by human function.
Do you have an example? I didn't have anything break long term, so didn't get affected (luckily)
I understand that a person and a business are different, but it's worth contrasting if numbers are roughly in the same ballpark, right? A lot of businesses do start out as just one person.

In a year with like 300% revenue growth, I feel like Zoom can probably just treat this fine as cost of doing business. I mean, I pay a lot more than $3k in taxes per year!
Every process has pros and cons, you have to weigh the net benefits.
iPhones cost about the same amount as the equivalent from Samsung and Google though? The value per dollar on Apple products is very competitive.
Well, if all companies apply the same rule then you are not really free to choose are you ?

I don't take offense with the vaccine, it has helped to turn things around, it's the mandate that i have a problem with.

And again, tattoos, hair style and so on are things that you freely choose to do, they are not mandated and thus are not the same thing.
Another counter-example to my argument would be farm-frozen peas. They're unquestionably better in every sense, than canned peas, or dried peas, or peas which were not snap frozen at picking time. So not all food is worse for being industrialised. And as you point out now food handling methods have improved and food storage at scale through warehousing and distribution, there's every chance of quality coming back in as a price differentiator.
This is not a problem I'd had, but it sounds like something tree-sitter might be able to help with.

I've been using tree-sitter for syntax highlighting, simple refactors, and custom text objects in NeoVim recently (and love it, thanks NeoVim devs!). Have a play with the syntax tree it generates https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/playground (it can generate a tree for most languages, not just the ones in this playground).
Yeah I mean, if I got a $3,300 speeding ticket I would be furious for about a month.
Like I said, way, way, way worse stuff appears on TV and print every day. [See "X" at end of post, removed description of stuff in case it is your preference to skip reading it] It just really strikes a false note to me, on the author's intent. It seems that they were just aching to show how 2021 they are. [See "XX" at end of post, removed description of stuff in case it is your preference to skip reading it] [See "XXX" at end of post, removed description of stuff in case it is your preference to skip reading it] [See "XXXX" at end of post, removed description of stuff in case it is your preference to skip reading it]

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"X" This is one of the absolute lamest things to put asterisk on. (better put this asterisk on just in case there are some people reading this who take offense at the thought of calling someone else lame.)

"XX" What miserableness.

"XXX" I like boobs.

"XXXX" Sometimes I pick my nose.

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(I had to use "X" instead of asterisks because the editor interprets asterisks as italics and I don't want to bother to guess how to counter that with a slash or whatever)
Apple would take a hit in that case, but so would everybody else who use TSMC. Intel wouldn't be hit, but they also don't make ARM chips.

Apple makes a premium product, which means that they can outcompete others, especially Android, for the remaining chips.

Even in the event that there is no new iPhone for the year they will still make money on their services, and a lack of iPhone will not make it less desirable. Other smartphone makers won't be able to stay in business.
> Edit: OK, I'm convinced; I just found a report of a use-after-free vulnerability (now fixed) in Chromium accessibility code [3]. I guess I really didn't grasp how hard this is.

Appreciate your understanding. We also understand how important this is. While we don't publicly discuss every challenge we struggle with, we're usually pretty good at finding solutions to hard but important problems. And this is clearly an important problem, and a hard one. Do hope you'll keep up the pressure on us — as well as others like Mighty, Menlo Security, and zScaler — to prioritize this. And, whatever the best solution, if we find it, we're committed to sharing it with the rest of the industry.
With tomatoes, I thought it was more that most are not ripened on the vine, they are picked green so they ship better, then ripened artificially with ethelene gas. They turn red, but don't develop the same flavor or texture as a real ripe tomato.

Same with strawberries.
> Mass media is nothing new

You literally used "before printed media" as an example.

> you greatly over estimate how differently rumors and gossip circulate today vs any time in the last couple centuries

No, I'm pretty sure I'm correct in saying that the Internet has made broadcasting (mis)information easier.
unite + manage the world by a nat./logic. religion:reflect.,symmetry,1 datamodel
No other re-ligion (= back-binding [one etymological analysis] to some ideas to rely on for humans) is necessary for a society, but only reasoned about principles: reflection, symmetry, cooperative construction (by too many CAs -> 1CA).

Evolved religions like Christianity also abide to following principles. Their followers do reflect about the world, they are in search of beauty (symmetry), they try to establish one text as core of their religion. Uncovering an abstract core of every human society is our goal here for the betterment of education and world management. (Respect for every evolved religion is granted, but having different people adhering to different religions is not a good way to start thinking about a unity of humanity -- despite the potential of tolerance in various religions. )

[edit] top link was wrong, so excuse this post again!
CloudFlare positions itself as an all or nothing frontend to your site, not just a CDN you offload assets to. Even sites that fully front themselves with a CDN you can still poke around and find the origin servers.

For example you can drop requests to fbcdn.net (which last time I bothered to check was a good mix of Akamai) and still make a connection to Facebook itself and at least logged in and view HTML.

Obviously ISPs, internet exchanges, datacenters, and clouds operate very differently. But I imagine you know the difference.
> a lot of finance companies offering high salaries. Not SV level, but pretty close.

How close? let's say AUD 300k (I'm honestly curious, does Optiver/Atlassian/Google even pay that much here?) which is a mind-blowing salary in Australia, tops all kinds of taxes, it converts to USD 220K give or take, adjusted for higher taxes and cost of living, down to about 200k.

So a top earner 0.1% in Sydney makes as much as a strong 3 yoe engineer in America.
Increasing risk of liability for firing is real, as is increasing oversight of discrimination law. You can be fired on the spot for breaking company policy, or doing something illegal. Without more info, that’s what I might assume you saw. But getting fired for mildly low performance without notice is not normal, at least not among engineers in large companies, and assuming it’s not because a division or the company is being shuttered. Companies have to give people feedback and give them time to respond. Failure to do that can and sometimes does result in legal action compelling the company to prove the employee was failing and that the company did not unfairly discriminate even unknowingly, which is costly, difficult, and risky. Plus, most companies aren’t capricious with firing engineers, and are also aware that hiring is expensive and employee ROI can take time.
because it doesn't even have the sugar water taste going for it. it been so over optimzed for appearance shape and shelf life that the texture has become unpleasant, the flavor is non existent, and for years it was "The Apple" you have generations that had one of those awful thing sent in their school lunch every day (and usually threw it away without a single bite), that have grown up had enough of this garbage apple and it is now emblematic of bad flavorless fruit and vegetable in stores.
AGI isn't really about artificial humans.

It's about very good general problem solving software that's way beyond the capabilities of humans while not being aligned with human interests. Not because the software is evil, but because aligning values is an unsolved problem (humans aren't even totally aligned - and values also change).

If you have an intelligence that's very good at achieving its goal and you don't have a good way to align its goal with human goals, you can very quickly get into trouble if that intelligence thinks much faster than you do.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mMBTPTjRbsrqbSkZE/sorting-pe...

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ARaTpNX62uaL86j6/the-hidden...

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BEtzRE2M5m9YEAQpX/there-s-no...

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5wMcKNAwB6X4mp9og/that-alien...
Unfortunately all of the options are bad.

I tried to map out the space of info that I need to track in my engineering job:

1) Tasks from emails
2) Meeting notes with details of people who participated
3) Project related tasks that can have a long format and can be tagged/ delegated
4) Scratchpad for unrefined ideas
5) Detailed documentation for completed technical tasks / ideas
6) FIFO list of high priority small daily tasks

I try to fight the above battle of information organization with a combination of MS Outlook, Onenote, Github boards, MS Todo, physical Sticky notes, a physical notebook and scratchpad, but it is messy.

I occasionally try to find alternatives (notion, bear, trello etc) but no luck so far
Work on your own business ?
Are you (or they) suggesting that the 4th interview meaningfully reduces the number of bad hires?

I’m guessing not.

It’s poorly designed and/or poorly implemented hiring strategies that lead to bad hires, mostly through a lot of noise being collected during the interview process.

This is a very solvable problem.

Edit: I will add that this is an ad for Booz hiring, so of course they want more process.
> IMO farms and home gardens are a likely place for such pathogens to be exchanged

I'm more concerned about wastewater treatment plants
I think we need ask the question: is this fee enough to prevent bad behavior? I think not, then just be higher.
I have experienced the exact same thing. In fact, the worst person I have ever worked with consistently aced interviews wherever he went.
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Here in Australia the supermarket apples can be excellent. Tasty, crisp, juicy, sweet/tart, consistently reliable, and beautiful to look at.

Do you have Jazz apples? They are the best.
Because they can't just convert some of the space in their campus to housing because of zoning.
It’s weird I’m seeing this on the same day as

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28029344

So… which is it? Or did some employers not get the memo? Or is this tech vs non-tech positions?
Are you sure?

What if you were making only $25k/year the previous year, and the speeding ticket enabled you to get the job that's making $100k/year?
We have never replaced website ads with "[our] own". Check your source for this claim. I'm happy to follow up on where you found this false information.
A $3300 fine would get me to change my behavior.

I don't think Zoom is profiting from breeching privacy; I think they profit from providing video-meeting software. I think penalizing undesirable behavior that doesn't produce profit will motivate Zoom to take that undesirable behavior very seriously.
> I would really like to know what risks (other than useless non-technical HR keeping their jobs) there are after candidates have past a certain threshold for quality, particularly for junior positions.

It's harder to deal with emotional kids than it is to deal with incompetent engineers. Maybe that's why those non-technical HRs might not be as useless as you think.
Haha. But this is no joke. Normally demons live in a separate universe and stay to themselves. Interaction with animals can occur. But unprovoked interaction with human is rare.
Insurance, points, cashback, chargebacks. It's also a one month interest free float of your funds if you pay in full each month, meaning you earn some interest.

I know some debit cards are getting closer to credit cards in these areas but at least when I first got one, they were just plastic cash. You spend it you lose it, the bank won't support you with clawing it back.
the best jobs I've had were at most three or four interviews and then hired. The worst ones were more than 5 interviews and they still couldnt make a decision or one guy out of six didn't like you so you don't get hired...
Not a mindless cog, but more as a merchant or even a labour supplying Lambda function. Just simply acknowledge that my employer and I are trading, the arrangement may end at any point for business reasons, and likely will end in a few years as our needs diverge.

Needs can include a nice workplace and you can negotiate specific details about what that means to you. I did not mean to say that it needs to be money.
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The local supermarket sells whole roasted chickens that you can buy hot and ready to eat. The ones that don't sell are deboned and shredded and used for chicken salad, barbeque "pulled" chicken, etc.
“Pregnant Women”
Working at a company that doesnt pay for my training while my skills fall behond is a loosing strategy.
What I mean by conversion including demolishing the office building and building apartment instead not just retrofit existing office building to be a living space.
> Why is it important to you that your employer view you as a person?

It's not about being viewed as a person. It's about being viewed as a professional.
That's not the main benefit of using a credit card. The primary benefit of a CC is decoupling it from your bank account - if there is an issue, CC company will fight the charge for you and almost always side on your side.

I bought a pair of speakers costing $2500. I tried to reach to the company for a return but no one would answer. No phone, no email, nada. 1 month return deadline was coming up and I called American Express. Within literally 10 mins (no wait at all), I filed a claim and was done with it. 60 days later, I got the money back. Turns out that they couldn't reach them either.

Credit cards are more consumer centric than merchant centric and they're a huge boon to otherwise rampant asshole behavior from merchants. I also run an online shop and its a pain in the neck when someome files a charge-back, we just consider it as part of the cost of doing business.

In last 20 or so years of using an AMEX card, I've filed half a dozen charge backs. It's an amazing company, it's better than any other CC company in my opinion. They also have one of the highest fees and it shows why - their customer service is absolutely top notch - red carpet, the works.
More like “Hawaiian Shirt Fridays”.

Does everyone want to wear Hawaiian shirts at all?

Does everyone want to be forced to buy a Hawaiian shirt so that they can comply with the requirement?

For me, every day is Hawaiian Shirt Friday. I love wearing them. But I also know the difference between a proper Aloha Shirt and what most everyone else in the world calls a “Hawaiian Shirt”.

So, what works for me wouldn’t necessarily work for anyone else in the company, and almost certainly would not work as a company-wide mandate.

I appreciate the idea and that they’re trying to do something positive, but I really do want to stick with remote-only work from now on.
The discourse on this is interesting to me. I first heard it in reference to truly small fines, like less than a million dollars for a big company. Then over time it gets repeated for literally any fine, no matter how large. Now we are talking about a month’s worth of profits (Zoom’s profit last quarter was $227M), which is really quite a lot. It’s a similar magnitude event to a global company losing all its UK customers. Hundreds of people would be laid off for a screwup this big, whole business units shut down.
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Yes, it can be painful but not necessarily have to. Its not like there is no way to mitigate the pain.
Ah. I understand this objection.
I like Granny Smith sliced with peanut butter. They are also pretty good for cooking.
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/health-departments/bre...
> So why is remote work being blamed for driving salaries up, shouldn't it have opened up the talent pool for hiring companies just as much as it's opened up the potential choice for applicants.

Same reason house price rises are so sticky: you don't have to move unless you've got something better to go to. Rising salaries are about turnover as much as anything else.
> https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/215824401247234...

This paper talks about figuring out how to tell when dishonest people are taking the same survey more than once. Also, it's discussing people who voluntarily take internet surveys repeatedly to attempt to cook the numbers, not people who are involuntarily cold-called at an identifiable telephone number, and wish to avoid answering a sensitive question.

Again, not even close to what you're claiming. That's the third non-relevant citation you've put forward. I think we're done here.

> The general point is that surveyors know people aren't always completely honest when asked questions.

Of course they know that. They just don't talk about it.

And no, there's no "quantitate method" to tell how many people are lying, barring an external verification source independent of the survey.

Tell me the approximate percentage of people who will lie when a stranger calls them up and asks them how many firearms they own, then tell me how much money you'd be willing to bet on that being the correct number.
Great follow up tweet [0] where he shows built in a trivial to implement license check bypass for people in the scene. From his comments however it seems like it was never uncovered and instead crackers implemented a more complex difficult licensing bypass on pirated versions.

[0] https://twitter.com/dildog/status/1421877460782698500
Isn’t there an extremely high probability that a tunnel will run into archaeological sites that might derail or postpone the tunnel being built?
I want to know what HR people ask Santa for in their letters. It would be so confusing.
On all job responses you should spell out your minimum salary requirements before you agree to the interview, unless you are ok with wasting time on interviews only to get low balled on the salary side or it doesn't match your minimum requirements.
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Yeah usually a $3,300.00 ticket comes with some form of demerits so even if you pay the fine you lose your license if you do it to much. Can't think of a job where you'd benefit by speeding but losing your license would be fine.
they will never be a real woman
Good article, but the author’s conclusion is flawed. Pink Lady is the best eating apple ;-)

(Before anyone brings up Honeycrisp - I do think it is the best saucing apple.)
> Poor people of course cannot handle credit

That starts you down a very slippery slope of what other things poor people supposedly can't handle, because of course you know what's best for them.
As a naturally risk averse Australian it's been incredibly frustrating. Even 15-20 years ago I was thinking this can't keep going. Turns out I just should've invested everything I own.
> funding is not an issue for projects that solve the issues Bitcoin does

Funding is far less of an issue for an attacker who has a printing press, and it's the relative level of funding that matters. In order to defend against a 51% attack the defender must be able to spend more resources than the attacker. It's the "who can afford to lose more money game", where one side can just print as much money as they need while the other side has to earn every dollar. Are you really betting on the workin' man here? I wouldn't.

> attacking any single network does nothing to limit that demand

Demonstrating that they can afford a 51% attack on any blockchain they want to attack will affect the price of all crypto. Investors will need to discount that risk. This will surely affect demand.

> The idea that a centralized closed network that's severely hampered by operating restrictions can beat a well designed adaptable open network in the long run is a joke.

Nobody is claiming that the Fed's intention is to compete with bitcoin. They only need to attack it and destroy it. Remember, they want people to be stuck using their fiat currency, they don't want to make a competing type of sound money.
That sounds like infinite probation period to me
Taking 3.3% of someone's income is substantial, whereas for a business, this is a cha-ching deal for potentially getting a business edge by not focusing on privacy rules when momentum mattered.

Most businesses are structured such that failing isn't disastrous (creditors cannot chase after the owners), whereas a human experiencing financial failure is an extreme life setback.
It’s one off write off during earnings call. It’s really not a big deal at all, it can even cause stock price to pop, as it shows that company is big enough, that lying is cheap and gives you amazing ROI. E2EE was a big feature that helped to fuel the growth. One month of profits, once you’ve experienced extreme growth and tons of money infusion, is a great deal.