skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Honest Are You as an Engineer
Wonder how many people struggle and don't feel comfortable with doing what is asked by management because they feel its ethically/ morally wrong/ looting/ cheating.

Not sure how people just feel comfortable with white lies and not acknowledging their wrong doings. If flesh trade is a thing then so is this intellectual prostitution. For me I tried and got fired twice, now just staying silent...
I thought it was a good question too. I was prompted to think about Perelman the person by it.

It's the style of the remark that struck me:

> we should probably ask ourselves why
Is HackerRank so bad? If one does "whiteboard problems", HackerRank says, "boo, whiteboard interviews, just let me code and be able to search on Google, whiteboard is unrealistic!". Now if the company starts with a HackerRank test, that's also bad? I don't get it.

Look, a lot of people have good-looking CVs and can't code shit. I don't know about you but my experience was that one really can't hire based on CV alone. Also, I've seen "architects" that are smart and fairly knowledgeable people that failed to code very very basic stuff (as in, merge 2 sorted arrays).... I get it that at some companies you are expected to draw diagrams in Confluence as a main job, and might no longer have actual coding skills; but we want even the most senior people to actually code, and that doesn't seem unreasonable to me. So just because you're a very-senior FAANG employee doesn't automatically mean you'd be a good fit. I'm not saying they're bad employees, but maybe they just wouldn't be a good fit and wouldn't enjoy the job if they expect to just design stuff instead of actually implementing, too.
> no amount of open source code can tell a company if the candidate can work with others and solve problems.

Balderdash.
When was the last time an interview task involved working with others? I'd offer that open source PRs show this way better, and in an appropriate context (as a collaborator) rather than what we have now: adversarial interview{er,ee}s.
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Looks like I am on a similar path to you but you are a couple of steps ahead of me. Is there a place I can contact you with a few questions. I'd really appreciate it.
I use this on my Android device. Besides showing the stanrdard synrhing ui, I like small extras like the "run conditions", where I can force to run it when I need to, even on battery AND lte.

This fork is an example of "here's a good thing (syncthing) with some features thought out with attention to detail".

I will pay for an iOS client that can sync pictures natively (I can pre-pay).
There's probably not a single one-size-fits-all solution - what works for FAANG and their millions of applicants is lunacy when you're a three-person startup, much like adopting Kubernetes to run an internal web app with half a dozen users. It probably starts with proper training in conducting interviews, a respect for candidates' time, a realistic appraisal of your needs and budget, and constant feedback-driven refinement of your process.
Why did the mRNA technology remain unapproved for a long time since its inception?

What exactly was relaxed in the approval process that lead to its EUA?

Since the vaccine has been used population wide, will the missed studies or what ever due process eventually be done? Or will they be skipped, citing the real world usage (which was not controlled or followed up in a systematic manner)?

Also, these people suffered adverse events in trials, and I think everyone who is thankful for the vaccines should try to get some help to these people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mxqC9SiRh8
> Anytime macros are used for metaprogramming, it's time to reach for a more powerful language.

> I'm referring to both syntax based (AST) macros ...

This surprises me greatly. Various lisps are among the most powerful languages I know of and a large part of the reason is macros coupled with their ability to execute arbitrary code at compile time (which itself uses additional macros, which in turn invoke more code, and so on). What's your take on this?

(Continuations are also pretty nice ...)
Sure but I never applied...they reached out to me. Hence why I didn't read their materials to interview. I've been happily employed the entire time.
Very few people really devote their life to a corporation, at least as far as I can tell. It's either just a job to pay the bills (for most people), or an exciting project that you easily switch from when it suits you (if you are in tech or other such job).

To be fair, relatively few people really devote their life to religion or ideology, too, although I'd argue the average level of devotion is higher and lasts longer :)
This reminds me of the problem with naming knots. The Ashley Book of Knots (ABoK) has been the standard for quite some time, but it is still a difficult problem to index and search. As with this article, many knots, like many folds, have been "discovered" multiple times over the centuries, and naming & giving credit is clearly a challenge. I'm glad to see this article, but I don't see a solution any time soon. As the author explains, different countries claim credit, how would one go about proving provenance? I find it a fascinating problem.
At this point I think the proof is already quite clear:

[1] https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-37...

[2] "The people who are not testing positive in the current outbreak are those who have had COVID-19 previously and recovered. These people account for 9% of Israel’s population but less than 1% of recent infections, according to Kovler’s analysis."
source: https://www.deseret.com/platform/amp/coronavirus/2021/7/20/2...

[3] https://newsroom.clevelandclinic.org/2021/06/09/cleveland-cl...
I have an SE but the 1.44M floppy drive won't work at anything but 800K. I think I need to update BIOS in my SE.

I still have an Bondi Blue iMac that does MacOS 9.
Most probably, because manhole covers were/are made using cast iron, which were sand casted.

Mold for sand casting is easily done in lathe (turning a wood on lathe for precise shape is faster and more accurate than sawing).

So as one of the parent comment mentions - it is round because of production reasons.
Re: sample rate: you might be looking for the Audio MIDI Setup application.
The unit didn't have a dishwasher and they decided to put one in themselves. When someone has an issue my dad is there ASAP.

My entire point was that if landlords did nothing most apartment buildings would be unlivable in a matter of years. I'm not going to defend all of them as I've never been a renter myself, but I have seen what amount of work goes in to a small building just to keep it livable and safe for the tenants.
Not knowing Rust but looking into its usefulness to me, could you share some of the issues you see?

It’s always good to hear others experience.
For me calendar and remainder helps me achieve it. Having calendar for and ideal day really helps me navigate around the day.
I remember the modest hype around these devices. The hardware was made by an acquired company called Danger, who previously made the very popular Sidekick phone that had a keyboard and was popular towards the end of the era before real smartphones (I mean before iPhone 1). It was dead on arrival in part because it used a custom OS based on windows CE, since this preceded Windows Phone. This, and the prolonged death of Windows Mobile ultimately distracted from and undermined Windows Phone, which was actually legitimately impressive. It’s a shame we didn’t get a third OS competitor in the mobile ecosystem.
My take is because the manhole is round.
> If you're living in a domain in which your core competency is in constructing complex stone structures, then leaking that capacity to another kingdom or empire would be a risk.

How? The only military use of large stone structures is as fortifications; their primary feature is that they can never move.

And Egypt isn't even known for its city walls. That's the other civilization of the time, ancient Mesopotamia.

But on top of all of that, none of that is a brain drain issue. You're talking about a hypothetical issue of loss of state secrets. Brain drain is the concern that the local population of skilled workers will all emigrate, leaving the country unable to do skilled work. It's not the concern that other countries may develop the technology to do the same things that you can do.
How Afterpay Earns its Margin
I was thinking recently that it’s such a terrible idea to put todos in a list. A todo tends to be something that gives you a tiny bit of worry: guilt that you should have finished it already, stress that you might not be able to, etc.

By putting a dozen todos together in a list, your level of worry about that list as a whole is going to rise to the most worrisome todo. It’s poisoning the well. Now you don’t want to look at the todo list at all, because it becomes a source of anxiety, even if most of the items on the list are trivial or even enjoyable.
Observe a Service; Not a Server
jazzapple.com

https://jazzapple.com/us/
..if you live long enough to set it up.
It looks like a product but is secretly a subscription
>>Two economists are walking down the street and pass by a hundred dollar bill without picking it up.

I can't help but notice that the joke rests on an impossible premise that they didn't pick it up on first notice.
These numbers are misleading af. Most of those applications are just spam, not really relevant and never get read by any human. I’ve done ~150 interviews for backend roles at google and based on my experience 4 years ago if you make it to onsite you have 5-10% of getting an offer
> how do you know I didn’t copy the code from somewhere?

You can ask your candidate to explain the code... Is that not obvious?

> writing code for the sake of writing code doesn’t tell a hiring manager if the person can take requirements and translate that to an automated process

Kind of sounds like you don't know what open source software is.

> excuse my language, shit out code for the sake of appearing productive

I won't excuse your language. You sound like you're part of the problem buddy. I don't think you have any idea how to evaluate a programmer.
A screwed hiring system is something most companies appear to be able to afford, given how many have one. When that same experience is flipped around to the employee, they can't afford it and it's a disaster. Few employees want zero job security and an expectation to be wading through the job hire swamp every couple of years.

You're not describing an employee, you're describing a consultant. Not everyone wants to be a consultant, particularly since most people don't get any training in it before they have responsibilities. If proper entrepreneurship was a subject at school, then maybe people would be willing to be their own business, but that's not what the system creates (or wants).
Because you wish for others to share in its beuty.
Probably why there is so much vaccine hesitancy.

(I've had my jab, it's ok).
One of the best things about the GDPR isn't that the maximum fine is _only_ 4% of the yearly revenue, it's that it's AS MUCH AS 4% of the yearly revenue.

So when the court is considering fines, they don't go and look at a 3 million dollar fine and go "that's a good fine", they look at the revenue instead and go "the fine can be as much as 400M"
AWS-samples/AWS-incident-response-playbooks
i too stopped ordering tomatos for this reason

some people mentioned looking for places that advertise using heirloom tomatos, but you still have to give them a good pinch of salt

would love to join a startup that re-engineers flavor back into commercially-viable crops
TLDR: Capital recycling: Here's how Afterpay earns its margin.
Then do the same math. $100k income, maybe $20k savings after all expenses (if you’re lucky), a $3,300 fine is huge then.
It is if I understand this correctly: https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-37...
Thanks. I meant on the Micro PC. I guess you already mentioned KDE Plasma somewhere. I definitely don't take my laptop everywhere, but I'm contemplating. Such a Micro PC looks very promising, exactly for the reasons you stated!
How to Be Better, Together
You can get good raises by changing jobs. You can also get good raises by talking to your manager. Don't be passive about the income that you get.
Many sites were like this in 2004.

Kuro5hin
Husi
IWETHEY
Etc.

Modern boards like Notabug suffer from it without a moderator.
Plug for my favorite: https://alteraeon.com/
Jesus, how much did the stock rise? What was your TC before appreciation?
The State of Python in 2021
Yeah it really bugs me when companies reach out to experienced people, put you through multiple rounds, only to ghost and ignore you after. I'm looking at you Glassdoor.
Isn't it just as foolish to assume there to be a good?
> Those that do have smaller selections of works for sale...

Did you not see the name in the link? More to the point, can you point me to a major music store which does use DRM? I'm not aware of one. Perhaps you've been pirating music so long you missed the shift? It happened around 2009.

Here's an article from 2014 about the steps to remove DRM from your pre-2009 library. Tl;Dr, delete and redownload from Apple, no DRM! This is Apple's recommended approach.

https://www.wired.com/2014/03/kill-itunes-drm/
Cool! What do you think is missing from wasm for maturity? It seems great for something like CRDTs, since the code is reasonably self contained. I hear you about rust - I'm not convinced it'll ever be as popular as java / C# / JS for exactly that reason. But rust doesn't need to be that popular for me to enjoy it, or for the people who use my software to reap the speed & safety benefits.

I'll have to take a read of LogootSplit. I suspect most / all list CRDTs can work with this approach (using a list internally and doing an insertion sort). But I don't know enough about how logoot / logootsplit works to know!

And I really hear you about writing papers taking time. That blog post we're talking about here took nearly a month of time in aggregate to write. I wrote the initial draft in about 2 days, but editing and adding diagrams and everything was exhausting. There's still more work I could have put into it before publishing - I anticipated some of the things people were confused by in this thread. But at the end of the day, published > perfect and I have code to write as well!
But not all of us want to trade at that level of granularity. 'Do you have any mechanical engineering jobs' not 'Do you have any ceramic ball bearing housing design jobs'.
Xi Jinping’s Capitalist Smackdown Sparks a $1T Reckoning
My guess is it’s also a matter of practical usage: they’re made of heavy iron and a round one will fall in place whatever orientation it’s thrown over the cover, while a different shape needs to be carefully oriented. I suspect this also means less broken fingers.
I've had this experience too. Including with a 10-person YC backed company. I'm glad it's not just software engineers experiencing this. I suppose hiring is broken everywhere...
They're not over estimating the amount of new crime. They're estimating the amount of unpunished crime which is why a "spike" or a "wave" whatever that even really means, is having a disproportionate response in gun sales.
Don't forget John the Ripper:

https://www.openwall.com/john/
I've taken to relying on just my memory and then use a calendar to sketch out into blocks what I will work on for the day (just mark them as free so if someone has something important they can see those slots as available). I do this at the end of each day, ready for the next day. These then go alongside scheduled events (meetings / appointments etc). I settled on this after messing around with todo apps, todo.txt, spreadsheets, pens and paper, org mode, post it notes, etc etc.

If you just trust in your own mind, it will manage priority for you and get better the more you trust it. You rarely forget important things (they have an immediate need and make it known). Small stuff just mentally shuffles themselves to the back of the mind, if a few fall off the table, it's not going to cause any significant impact.

Doing this removes all the guilt of having big lists that need daily attention (where you feel you need a todo list to manage your todo list). This way I know I am tackling the important things, which are also what make me feel better as I know I have made an impact on my day. I am not going to start / end the day with a list of everything I have not done yet.

This feels like a much more human experience to me. As they say 'don't sweat the small stuff'
One of the features I love about the Things app: it keeps the checked todo item until the next day.
That, and you just didn't just go to a system that's hard to attack, but also hard to develop for.

Can you write software for that microcontroller in C? Sure, although you'd probably prefer Rust.

Now if you managed to find someone with a low salary who'd put up with writing screen software for a train, try telling them there's not just no Java, but no Heap and that they'd have to connect to the GPS chip via serial instead of having OS managed location. And then they'd have to integrate the streaming MP4 video for the advertisements on their own, without a filesystem or FFMPEG.

Haha, not gonna fly. No product manager in their right mind would greenlight that effort for "security reasons" if it suddenly takes 100x the amount of effort then.

We're using operation systems for the features they provide and the ease of development (as well as debugging) they enable, that's the answer.
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The only people that do this is the NRA. The government put a sanction on that kind of research in govt agencies because they didn't want to give ammunition (ick) to the NRA funded by the taxpayer.
I was in the same boat until a year or so ago. The resource consumption kept getting worse and worse, I’d have to restart Firefox every day.

I really miss Firefox but the memory leaks were just a deal breaker.
Yeah, I read that, but it still wasn't clear to me.

>Underrepresented Group This can be defined as a group whose percentage of the population in a given group is lower than their percentage of the population of country, community, organization or otherwise.

I don't know what the "given group" is here. Is it Gitlab employees? Gitlab software engineers? Software engineers in the US? Software engineers in the Netherlands? Software engineers in the world?

I also don't know what larger population they're referring to. The cities with Gitlab employees? The US? The Netherlands? Countries with Gitlab employees? The world? Gitlab employees?

For some pairs of values atheist is likely underrepresented, but for most pairs I think atheist wouldn't be underrepresented.
You will still pay for at least 4 KB or whatever the page size in your system is. If you reuse the buffer memory use will never go down, if you reallocate on reuse you pay the price of communicating with the operating system.
On x86 the virtual memory is just 48 bit big, which means you can have only 2^16 32 bit space entries.

To me what you are proposing seems like a clever way of allocating that has a pretty restricted use.
Julia is not object-oriented. If you want to dispatch on the type of action, you include it in the method signature.
The mouth of the 'hole' could be easily square, actually making a square shape is perhaps easier - since laying concrete is easier in straight lines.

So, most probably the shape of the cast iron cover (circular), drove the shape of mouth of the hole.
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VCs are now demanding real revenue these days. Same for public companies. You can still be losing money but as long as there is real revenue growth then it works. Eyeballs or app installs isn’t enough anymore. That’s why I don’t see a crash either.
I think https://momentum.earth/ gets a few things right (no affiliation)
The nickname "Ayesha" is not mentioned once in the wiki article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gayatri_Devi

From the original article: "Ayesha and Jai, as they were known to their friends, soon became India’s ‘golden couple’, its answer to John and Jackie Kennedy or Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip."
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I believe Windows's approach is localisation not globalisation. Many programmes runs properly only in designed locales, not that programmes run well in any locale.

Chinese/Korean rendered incorrectly on English UI because system hardcoded a font fallback, which put Japanese font first, regardless of how languages are ordered in the Settings. This is largely true for traditional Win32 programmes, like Chrome, Edge, Explorer.exe, etc. However UWP apps using the new UI framework (like Unigram, Intel Command Centre etc) behave correctly if setting Chinese/Korean as secondary language.

It's different on macOS or iOS however, if you set a system locale order as 1. English, 2. Chinese, then Chinese content will render correctly with correct Chinese system font PingFang.

Another issue that is also very important is that Chinese (Simplified or Traditional), Korean and Japanese share amount of the same characters but written differently. That means system must render the glyph in correct variant, like in the example of Source Han Sans

https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-sans/raw/release/S...
In 2011 the Iranian oil industry was hit with the Flame malware (they didn't know this at the time), which bulk erased drives of servers and workstations. Due to poor translations it was reported in western media as "Wiper" or "Viper," after the "drive wiping" functionality.

A year later when Saudi Aramco had the drives of tens of thousands of machines wiped (likely by Iran), the press assumed it was related or the work of the same group and also called it "Wiper."

Now it is a generic term for any malware that erases drives, often in a coordinated attack.
They can also drop you in the middle of the process. With just an email saying thank you.

I had a long interaction at Amazon where the recruiter told me they are trying something new. Their goal is to keep the candidates mental health in mind and create a welcoming and open process.

I spent 2 hours in the phone where she presented me with different process and what not. I even learned the name of her grand daughter, and her dog, and how she had to raise the grand kids when the mother was going through a phase, and how she had to paint her hair pink to keep up with the new generation. She gave me her personal cell, and we communicated everyday until my assessment test.

I passed the coding challenge. But that cultural or psychological test? No idea. Anyway, never heard from her again despite emailing and texting.
At a point, probably really soon, you’ll have enough money that you’ll never need to work again. With that type of salary, I’d be surprised if it was more than 2 years. Don’t stay in a job you hate just to earn money that you don’t really need anymore!

Though I admit, it’s hard to imagine walking away from 1m per year, even if you don’t necessarily need it...
In the largest study of its kind, researchers have found that high coffee consumption is associated with smaller total brain volumes and an increased risk of dementia.

https://www.indigocard.org/
But round one is easier to steal.. just roll them off. Whereas a square or any such shape, would be very inconvenient to move.

[Edit in response to a question]

Some people have attempted to steal manhole covers in order to sell them for scrap metal. China Daily notes that there has also been a problem with taxi drivers removing manhole covers to "steal water and clean their vehicles".
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-52400235
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