skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would you avoid debt? Leverage and debt is the quickest way to supercharge your Investments and increase your net worth.

Having a high limit credit card allows you to build credit, earn rewards and have a safety net in case you need it.

Debt isn’t a scary thing as long as you know how to use it intelligently.
How else might you attempt to prevent or mitigate a DDoS attack on your server without using things which you consider to be kludges?
Those devices actually do have the capability of connecting to each other.
Could those long coding projects be a strategy to force you into sinking so much effort into the process that you're now in a weak negotiating position due to the sunk cost?

Yes, absolutely they can! And almost nobody talks about this. Most of the conversation about take-home projects surrounds cost/benefit ratio, but almost never as a negotiating tactic and sunk costs.
I know of a language learning app that specializes in accent reduction: https://www.bluecanoelearning.com/
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What’s happening is that companies want to completely remove risk from the hiring process.

In the real world, you cannot remove risk. You can manage it, but you cannot remove it. Asking candidates to go through 6 interviews before making a decision and not telling them when a decision will be made signals a risk adverse culture that cannot make decisions.
Wish is one. Though I'm not a big fan of their product.

The other is a Series D startup based in SF
Did he?

https://mobile.twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/14219965471...
Having made a significant contribution to Simon Tatham's PuTTY, I have to respectfully disagree. At the time the entire SSHv2 key exchange and user authentication protocols were implemented in a single function using a massive Duff's device (for asynchrony) implemented with C metaprogramming macros. It was a surprisingly pleasant experience.
I'm working in sell side banks and $200k base is pretty much top for VP you'll see. Bonuses are not significant any more. The exception is if you're a strat with lots of market knowledge you could hit that 350 TC but you'd need lots of industry experience.
If you could hack the physical wipers to make them troll the head of the government, that would be pretty epic. If nothing else, I'd like to see both the attack chain and the method to use the wipers to troll someone.
IMO a deployment that doesn't contain a user-facing feature is meaningless - so rather than being able to deploy literally every second, you only need to be able to deploy fast enough to make each user-facing feature (which is probably, what, 1/week/developer?) its own deployment. So assuming you have the kind of team size that I think is right (which is a whole other discussion), half an hour is good enough. (I'd still call that continuous deployment, because master is continuously deployed - but you only have feature branches landing in master at a rate of one per 30 minutes).

Your test-edit cycle should definitely be much shorter than half an hour, but you don't need to run the full test suite for that.
Are you saying Amnesty International is distributing Pegasus in open source software? Hmmm...
That technology is too advanced to be revealed to humans, didn’t you get the memo?
Credit bureaus do not know your salary unless you’ve reported it to them (and why would you do that?)
This could be a startup idea. I’m sure there are lots of tech companies that would pay lots of money so that their employees could master English and improve their accents.
Salaries in Japan are 65-70% of SF Bay Area (for FAANG, local is much worse)

London, U.K. is about the same as Japan. I don’t have experience with India, and my knowledge of Canada is too far out of date to be useful.

All those salaries are very good for the local market, but are also much lower than SF.
Yes, I agree, but that's not what I was objecting to (pun intended).

I'm not from the US though so bankrupting private individuals through court costs is a science fiction for me
People are getting less and less willing to deal with bullshit when they're in massive demand and there is a talent shortage in $x industry. And they're finding out they can move around easily now too in this remote-first world.

Something is going to have to change - really a lot of things. One of them is going to be that companies need to learn to figure out how to hire people without putting them through a grind-fest. Figure out how to deal with bad hires after-the-fact, but don't let yourself get screwed not hiring good talent because you made the interview process a giant pain in the ass to catch the crap.

Oh and compensation needs to go up to make some of these interview grinds worth it.
Accent is one thing, but mastering the language is helpful as well.

Nouns in English require an article unless they are:

- proper nouns (names)
- pronouns (he, him, her, it)
- indefinite plural nouns ("nouns require...")
- collective nouns ("pizza is delicious" "foliage is best viewed in autumn")

Avoid overusing ambiguous terms that are heavily context-dependent, like "got." Say what you mean: "have," "received," "was," "became," etc.
Memes have been weaponized in the modern political era. Anecdotal, of course, but I have read interviews with Qanon/hard core Trump folks and a lot of them started with pretty neutral or even liberal views that shifted over time. Many of them attributes the red pill and right wing memes as a contributing factor to their radicalization. Despite your labeling it stupid and moronic these forums do have the power to shift political narratives. I’m not passing judgement on these forums, but I no longer view them as harmless toys. Real people are shaping their world views on these forums and they are having a noticeable impact in the world.

Young people can be very bored and lazy and are very impressionable at the time in their lives when they may end up on these counter culture style forums.
I don't know, but assume, that the movie studios do this for movie theaters.

Seems to work pretty well, since too my knowledge those are only ever leaked by audience members pointing a hidden camera at the screen (with all the quality issues that entails).
Superspreader Houses to Nude Fights, Vaccinated Partying Not All It's Cracked Up
A big part of what prompted me to become a contractor. When I last did this, everything was at least 3 interviews, + sometimes even the recruiters wanted to meet with you first.

Finding your own clients doesn't start looking as bad, and a discussion to see if you'll work together is much better than an interview.
+1. This is the real comment about the situation, because the valuation is so 'ridiculous', it almost makes the nature of the business activity secondary.

For non-financial folks, dust off the little equation you may have learned in high school, where you value something that goes out forever, but where the rate of growth is higher than that of inflation and the risk-free cost of capital. It goes to infinity. So as interest rates go down, valuations grow. But as interest rates really get low ... the valuations vault into the stratosphere.

Only in a weird universe can we really expect these companies to grow at those rates for very long periods of time ahead of absolutely everything else without much risk.

So the discussion is really about markets, less so local types of consumer payments.
Incinerator ash and fume often has a very high concentration of heavy metals, comparable to coal ash. Definitely not harmless.

You're correct that sufficient incineration temperatures ensure the complete destruction of organic intermediaries, such as dioxins.
I thought that before the pandemic too. Apparently the mayor of LA has the ability to cut off power and water though.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/los-angeles-cuts-utilit...
Funny I read that and assumed the host was somehow scamming the author. I remember some sort of airbnb bait and switch to that effect.
What’s frustrating with this is that it fails a lot with no obvious recourse. I had to submit the same request multiple times to be successful, often cutting down the duration to just a month at a time or less, to get most of my history. There’s a few time ranges it just perpetually fails no matter how small I make the time window.
The reason they want to remove the risk is because it takes years to prune bad talent.
I work with users who have never used a terminal in their life, but still need all 3 of those things. I can tell them "Go download X & run it" on Windows. Getting those things to work on Linux would be a monumental feat [for them].
lol. i have a software idea that i'm working on .. there are many competitors but they're all terrible.. and someone told me "if anything, that market today is in total equilibrium, why would you try to compete in it?"

it reminded me of the time i did start my own business and the number of people that tried to talk me out of it was overwhelming. that's when i learned that a lot of people hate the successes and freedoms that others have.
Are those actual decrypted copies of the original stream, though? Or did they just re-record the output? For the latter you'd only need to break HDCP, right?
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That’s a question Mike Conley, 49, grappled with earlier this year. The software engineer, based in Indiana, US, had been seeking a new role after losing his job during the pandemic

This is ageism. I hope he realized this after 10 6 rounds of interviews.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19507732
Nearly everyone on my team is ESL: Russian, Korean, Chinese, German. Meetings can be a nightmare as everything gets repeated a few times. The Indian guys usually have the best English as they learn from young but accent can be strong. Congrats on working on it no one else seems to try:) .
> The beauty of maths is that it exists independent of all other considerations. This seems to be where Perelman comes from.

Okay, so why publish at all? Why not just sit in mathematical nirvana in a cave, having discovered the math-God?
I know a speech pathologist (think speech therapy for kids) who also does accent reduction for adults. It's a lot of the same type of thing: learn to make this sound with a different part of your mouth, then practice until you can do it without thinking, and since adults tend to be less cooerced and more engaged, it can go quite quickly.

Without trying to be mean, your writing could use work too. Practice writing more formally: have instead of got (mostly); capitalize things that need capitals, like English and I; spell check; full sentances with subjects and verbs; a space after sentances.
I actually worked on a startup to help with this. (We never got off the ground, unfortunately).

There are 2 main factors to focus on: Pronunciation, and tone.

Pronunciation is fairly straightforward; you can look up or listen to how words are pronounced to get a better understanding.

Tone is the tricky one. You need to learn how to correctly raise and lower your voice for individual syllables. Most native speakers have this hardwired in their minds, so you need to practice (a lot) to get the hang of it.

As an exercise, listen to some YouTube videos or podcasts with transcriptions. With one colored pen, highlight the syllables where the speaker raises their voice, and with another pen, highlight the syllables where they lower their voice. Then, practice speaking the sentence with the same tone.

It's a lot of hard work, but it's a skill that can indeed be learned.
Feels like that chart is slightly misleading - it’s easy for credit card debt to appear to be low when there are so many high value mortgages. $20k CC debt is only
2% of the value of a $1m mortgage.
And they're also in the situation where good talent isn't going to tolerate that rubbish.
It's not so much that you need to reduce your accent but that you must acquire a different accent, the one that happens to be mainstream. I don't know if that helps, but that is what a linguist would say. Everyone has an accent. It is just a matter of which is considered standard.

It seems like it would be hard for someone new to a language to even discern an accent. You have my congratulations for even becoming conversant in more than one language. I took several years of Spanish and still cannot carry on a conversation or read much of anything in it.
I think the third party screening companies will eventually win here. There will be an objective measure of skill at the job, plus some culture/fit interviews.
Are you a contractor or consultant? Because SW contractors are just quasi FTEs without health insurance and no termination notice periods
Marginal costs determine profitability, but don't have a lot to do with the price of anything other than commodities.
Watermarking is the kind of DRM I'm 100% okay with.

Please, sell me a watermarked but DRM-free video file that I can use with any player on any device. If I share it, you'll know it was me, but otherwise I have complete freedom. Win-win.
"If you are interested in accent modification, you can contact a speech-language pathologist. Accent modification is not provided in the medical setting, so try a private practician or a nearby university that has a graduate program in communication disorders or speech-language pathology. Not every program will have a therapist with this type of experience. I know that Emerson College used to have an experience accent mod therapist, though that may have changed. Many therapists can provide services remotely if there's not someone near you." (Quoted from my partner, an SLP.)
> I'd be interested in pointers to prior art of things which started asinine, and wound up literally deadly.

I've had a running interest for years in deaths caused by bad software design. "Bad design" doesn't necessarily mean bugs (although in rare cases it can). More often, it means building a system without thinking through the real world consequences, or hewing to an unconfirmed, biased view of how it "should" act in the real world. The 737 Max software that tried to deduce an angle of attack with too few redundant measurements, and discarding unlikely results, is an obvious example of programmer hubris. Facebook's news feed is another example of the failure to consider how individual secondary effects from an interface can engender massively catastrophic events at scale.

Cryptocurrency also started asinine, and is becoming increasingly deadly, as it facilitates ransomware attacks on hospitals and infrastructure. Any car manufacturer claiming to be "FSD" right now also meets the definition.

Whenever stories warn us about the dangers of technology, from Daedalus to the Terminator, they're really warning us about hubris. When tinkerers make machines or programmers write code based on their idea of how things should go, or how they're expected to go, based on their personal prior experience or fondest wishes, that's usually when shit goes off the rails.
My favorite part of switch is "git switch -" which switches back to the previous branch.
Ya, economics would tell you that it very well may be a hundred dollar bill and you should take advantage. But it would also tell you that you probably aren't going to keep finding them and it won't be sustainable to go looking for them.
If your application process starts with a human being—even better a technical human being—reaching out to me, followed by 2-3 interviews, followed by an offer, I am already on your side. If your application process starts with a HackerRank, followed by 2 phone interviews followed by on-site, followed by team matching, I will not be on your side. Oh and if there's random month long gaps in between stages, I will especially be uninterested.

I've noticed though that as I've gotten more specialized to compilers and programming languages, my application experience has improved significantly. It's not a large sample size but the last few processes I've gone through have been fewer interviews that usually involve going over a project of mine or doing a problem that's related to compilers. It's really refreshing to have an interview where I actually learn something about my field of interest during it. I know that doesn't scale because we shouldn't expect compilers knowledge for junior compilers jobs but it's a very nice change of pace for me.
Yes, that is true. For example, if you just read mainstream media, you will not see how the meatpacking jobs have all gone to illegal immigrants in the last 20 years.
Nothing's going to change at FAANG until average, non-FAANG companies can compete on TC (never). I doubt things will change outside of FAANG - because most companies are merely emulating the FAANGs and hoping they emulate the success.
Dutch (public) prosecutor, which in Dutch law do have the force of law.
There is room for far more than 2 large players.

https://2c2p.com/

https://adyen.com/

https://checkout.com/

https://braintreepayments.com/
I'm in the same boat. I'm French and have been living in the US for 3 years and I still have a thick accent. That being said I've improved.

To make my accent more "standard" I use a combination of the Elsa Speak app (https://elsaspeak.com/) and the American Accent Training by Ann Cook that comes with audio exercises that you can download. I can't praise the latter enough.

Changing your accent is long journey that requires dedication, but I'd say that with my app + book combo I'm seeing steady improvements.
AWS Billing reported that I was charged $28.43 over the course of 7 hours, for a total transfer of 306.916 GB. I believe this capture the ~25k page views the site received before I switched over to another static file host.

Lesson learned for me. Thanks to everyone in this thread for saving my wallet.
You’re expressing your opinion as if it’s a cold hard truth.
They'll miss most of the good talent if they're doing 6 interviews for a standard role. The candidates with skills and options will go elsewhere and you'll be left with the desperate dregs.
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This has been prioritized since long before Matt emailed me. It was specifically flagged during our diligence process of S2 Systems, the company we acquired for the Remote Browser Isolation (RBI) technology. It has been an engineering project that I have personally followed since we acquired S2 nearly two year ago.

Unfortunately, this has proved a non-trivial problem to solve, in spite of significant engineering resources dedicated to it, and we don't yet have an acceptable solution. But I'm confident we're on the right track.

The challenge is that the process of rendering content inert to local security threats also makes it also not compatible with current screen reader technology. Matt has helpfully suggested some ideas which are in-line with what we have been working on, but the diversity of the web makes the solution very complex in practice. While I appreciate his suggestion in this thread that if we would just hire him this could be fixed in a few months, I think he would acknowledge upon reflection that is flippant.

How the web is rendered and the diversity of web pages, especially dynamically updated pages, makes many solutions that seem obvious not tenable. We need to validate the solution we deliver will work across all the complexities of the web and across a broad range of accessibility devices while, at the same time, not introducing new threats. We already have a great team doing this work. RBI is still a new product for us, and it's only been recently that we've gotten the core technology to work to a level that's acceptable, but I'm confident with the work we're doing we will be the first RBI technology in the market with broad accessibility support.

In the meantime, we provide our customers a way to bypass the RBI technology to accommodate their visually impaired employees. In these cases, we recommend that additional safeguards be put in place for these employees' machines to guard against potential security compromise. This isn't a perfect solution, but it does help significantly reduce the surface area of attack while allowing visually impaired employees to do their jobs.

I hope that others in the space with similar technologies — including Mighty, Menlo Security, zScaler, and others — will also dedicate the resources needed to make their products as accessible as possible. Matt is right to call on the industry to prioritize the needs of visually impaired users. As we solve these challenging problems ourselves, we will share what we've learned, how we overcame challenges, and we will not do anything to restrict the intellectual property behind the solutions so the entire industry can benefit.

As for the rest of the discussion in this thread, I agree that Cloudflare is fundamentally in the trust business. It takes 5 minutes to sign up for Cloudflare, but only seconds to leave. We need to earn the trust of our customers, as well as Internet users in general, on a daily basis or we won't have a business. Appreciate everyone holding us accountable to that.
> If nothing else, im sure it shows up in the analytics if someone's netflix account is 24/7 streaming every episode of every show without break.

That would happen with or without DRM.
Again, I recommend you read the article, as it specifically mentions polls done involving broad cross-sections of economists, and non-American economists.

Instead of assuming the article has no valuable insights, I recommend you read it.

>>Rent control can take many forms: rental caps, incentives/benefits, zoning and housing policies, etc.

Rent control only takes the form of caps on rent, or caps on rent increases. The other policies you mention are not defined as rent control.
Magit is the king of staging and unstaging. You can even use it on remote systems via TRAMP.
> you cannot express the truthiness of a statement in the system within the system itself.

Of course not; I'm not talking about truthiness; I'm talking about truth.

> that what you stated above would be a huge result in mathematics

Not really; it's the same sort of trivially-blatantly-obvious thing as "two-boxing on Newcomb's problem is irrational" or "quantum superpositions never actually collapse".
It's a troll because they gave out the number of Ayatollah Khamenei's office as the passenger complaint number.
One tip from reading this post: I can see that you're writing sentences that are too long.

- Write simple small sentences.

- Put a space after your periods.

- For engineering communication use white-space liberally. This last one is not standard English writing style, but I love it for work communication.
Why I’m not buying into crypto
The worst performer you tolerate on your team sets the tone for the whole team.

The best teams embrace and level up their low performers and make the whole team better.

The delta can’t be too big.
The high end will be around 3.5% for amex.
> The National Business Research Institute study shows that a bad hire can have significant costs to an
organization – between $25,000 and $300,000 5 . Asking a candidate to partake in four interviews may seem like overkill, but it seems trivial compared to the cost of a “bad hire.” Organizations that hire the best data science talent ensure they spend the time to use the best hiring practices.[0]

It's a risk mitigation strategy.

[0] Data Science Playbook, Booz Allen Hamilton https://www.boozallen.com/s/insight/publication/data-science...
I have a similar experience with a twist. I rarely even get called for jobs I apply for, but by setting my LinkedIn profile to the equivalent of "Actively hunting," I get lots of calls by recruiters. Again, they call about positions that I'd NOT apply to but hey, they still pay well. And they're remote.
That's part of it, but it's concentrated around certain sectors (technology and startups) There is x5 ~ x10 premium being put on these companies compared to others.

Valuations in other sectors are still somewhat reasonable.
"furling" is clearly meant to a part of the joke, but I've spent enough time around sailors that it sounds perfectly natural to me.