skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm looking at a 4 hour interview in my near future, so yes I'd like remuneration.

But even more than that, I'd like an interview that doesn't take 4 hours.
You can already do that using WSL2 mount.

After mounting an ext3-4 drive, you can RW into it using the file explorer.
We can... but it's not needed at the rate things are going. AI will be able to understand almost everything humans can and it's way cheaper to not have to rebuild things for machines.
The anti-foreign NIMBY reaction is going to be curious.

From a national, demographic, and budget perspective, this has to happen for many countries (quickly, at large scale).

From a local, cultural perspective, I see people being very resistant (relatively speaking wealthy, culturally-ignorant foreigners moving in in large numbers?).

In democracies... that's going to be an interesting mix. Especially when current residents are the primary voters.

I expect we'll see more successful countries form political alliances between immigrants and parties pushing for more skilled worker immigration.
I don't know why most people are assuming this is mostly for enabling non-technical users to write to Git repositories.

A popular setup ( so popular it's (was?) the recommended way to setup Saltstack's configuration) is to use it to basically mount an autosynced folder from a central location ( with the benefits of revision history at that location).

IMHO it's a much better use case since you can't make conflicts and it won't result in poor (autocomitted) git history.
Pretty sure that 1% is more of an ironic quip than a statistic. Since the things they can’t handle are listed include ‘cyclists’ and ‘rain’.
Not for everyone – I like to take one of my motorcycles or my sports car out for drives 4-5 days a week and never drive less than 100 miles at a time, all back roads and never on the freeway. That means fueling up every time I ride my Ducati with its ridiculously small fuel tank.
One thing to add here is that huge nonstop marathon drives are generally unsafe - most all people can’t maintain alertness for that long. I have done the 7-hour hell drive in the past, but I probably would have been better off had I been forced to stop for ten or twenty minutes every two hours or so.
They already are required, it's just that the fines are too small (~$100/day IIRC).
Right on that payments is a challenge in implementing this. Companies need to pay candidates, who may be anywhere in the world, a small amount of money on a one-off basis without the hassle of paperwork.

Tremendous.com (where I work) does this.

Candidates can get payments, gift cards, or donate the money to charity.

(we've been paying candidates to take calls, do tech screens, and complete projects, and it's easily been worth the cost. at some point we'll do a blog post on the conversion rate differences)
How much have things changed in these 15 years? Are prices and regulation rising or falling?
I've been using it since the Raspberry Pi 3 days (before rpi 4 came about) because ads affected them so severely. And now that we have the pi4 that can handle the load, I still have not changed from reading CNN from the lite page. And that has carried over to all my other devices. I just Google the title if I want to see pictures or video in the article.

I used to do the same with Twitter, but these days there is nearly no difference between the mobile and the regular versions.
I really doubt such a payment would be impossible to decline.
Yes, it's pretty blatant, particularly the cherry picked facts at the end about polar bears. It's sad people fall for this. We need to teach critical thinking and media analysis skills in schools.
I don't think they "forgot" but Nextbus is contractually required to maintain a WAP site by the SF MTA (and possibly other customers).

https://retro.umoiq.com/s/w2
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I don't think that reading the signs and the traffic lights is the significant challenge here.
In theory, you could also invest into laying a local fiber cable. It's not cheap (think 4 to 5 digits), but depending on the location, it might be worth it.
There was a submission here a few weeks back about ShitSpotter and how they seem willing to put in overrides at request of the police without necessarily having a basis for it.

If that's what happened in this circumstances it would be, police check ShoySpotter for more evidence, ShotSpotter hasn't automatically marked anything, police request manual review for gunshot they are sure must be there, ShotSpotter manual review process comes up with something and marks it as a shot with a human override.

There's a lot of places bias, or outright corruption, could cause problems in that process, if it's what happened here.
Not all crime is premeditated and most people aren't described as criminals.
Any sufficiently NIH'd can be considered weird. -- Not Isaac Asimov
Make the entire interview process take less than 5 hours. If you’re anxious about hiring a fake or someone who isn’t cutting it, get better at firing faster.

Only once have I seen an employer show a new employee the door within that “six month probation period” they talked about.

This is basically the ultimate form of paying people for an interview: the interview happens on the job for a while.

It also would help with an issue I’ve struggled with a lot: learning that the person is a jerk who doesn’t work well with others and has loud holy war opinions on minutiae.

A valid criticism of this approach is that it can be expensive and disruptive to turnover a position in three months.
Aren't you then saying that people from California or Arizona who come to Norway know 1% of what they need in order to drive?

I don't know anyone from Arizona, but the Californians I've known adapted quickly.
Scott Meyers thinks similarly, I think. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAWA1DuvCnQ
Could we please ban the words “unreasonably effective” in a title?
I found https://github.com/pfpacket/rust-9p to be reasonably good and easy to hack on. My fork (https://github.com/piscisaureus/rust-9p) has some patches to improve support for the 9P2000.W dialect used by Windows.
It will stop working in embedded with the thousands of arm boards completely unsupported by qemu. 8 bitters are fine though with avr
It sounds like it was specifically for a real, non-trivial problem out of their backlog.

> the strongest candidates self-selected into this paid screening challenge

...

> to make developer interviews more valid & inclusive, introduce payments.

This still makes them exclusive. Someone with a full-time job who's busy with life could easily not care about $600--they're time-limited, not money limited.

They also provide little evidence supporting their motivation of hiring better engineers. I buy that better engineers are better for the company, they just didn't show that paid interviews select better engineers.

All that said, I agree that a long-ish, real-world problem is a great indicator of job performance. Paying people just means you're not taking advantage of them. The bigger problem is still around time.
Now add up the money you spent to interview those 500 people using the fully loaded per-hour cost of all the staff time. It'll be much larger than the cost of paying your interviewees.

Indeed, this might save money on net at a lot of companies. So many places are much more careful about spending cash than labor hours. I could imagine paying interview subjects could add a crispness and a focus to hiring processes that is often absent.
http://slashdot.org/palm was available at least from 2000 [1] to 2016 [2]. (Perhaps a year or two longer, but the Internet Archive's crawler got banned in February 2016. The current error page was first archived in October 2018.)

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20001012050323/http://slashdot.o...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20160128183858/http://slashdot.o...
Reminds me of an economics joke:

Two economists are walking down the street. One spots a $20 bill on the sidewalk. He bends to pick it up, but his companion stops him. "If there really were free money in the street," the companion says, "then somebody else would've picked it up before now."
My initial thought is that paid interviews might shift the incentive of candidates from getting hired to doing more interviews regardless of interest in a given company. That might lead to a reduction in the interview -> hire rate, which then might increase the cost per hire even without considering the payout to the candidates for interviewing. This hypothesis should be testable. Though, the dynamics would probably be different if this policy became an industry standard.
update: hit the jackpot

the library is currently in use by Heroku/SalesForce to build deploy java apps (or something like that) https://github.com/heroku/java-buildpack/blob/master/go.mod

I wonder what sort of settlement you could get if you were to send them a lawyer for real.
We solved for this by giving Amazon gift cards - I believe you can have them go up to $2K
Well, if I code something that just move the car forward if nothing is in front, I am probably 80% there. Not sure if I trust their 99%. It seems an excuse for academics to not release an actual technology that works.
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I understood the comment to be referring to requiring a detour for charging. That was also my reason for not buying a model 3. I put in some normal trips that I take, and while it was technically doable, it took me routes I usually avoided due to traffic, tolls, or sometimes weather conditions.

I know my routes are niche (which is why the traffic is on the other road), but for me it just didn’t make sense yet.
You really don’t need a PHEV in the US at least.

Tesla charging options are so plentiful…

I say this to people and they say “but Teslas are so expensive.” And then they end up buying an Audi or BMW, and when they later test drive a Tesla, they regret their decision.
If you’re gonna give out take home project, they should definitely be paid.

I tend to reject take home projects out of hand because they take up my time but not the company’s, unlike a phone interview. I need to know the company is serious and values my time.
Cutting off jobless benefits is found to get few back to work
Every other year is probably more accurate these days. But is what it is.

Last search I had something like 6 in hand offers (a few more that would’ve transpired but they realized they were out of their depth). It takes quite a bit of time. You have to schedule significant time off or sick days to do it. It’s not something that happens in a couple weeks.

For me, I spent about a year studying(leetcode and system design), mock interviewing (30+), and interviewing. Spent about 3 months without an actual job and interviewing+studying. (Something like 25 interviews in a week at times - 3-4 onsites per week when not doing tech screens)

Got the offer I wanted in the end - isn’t exceptional offer but I don’t have exceptional names on my resume either. Make $400k/yr. It was either that or another high growth startup and I wasn’t finding any that were that appealing on comp+culture after interviewing.
I work in the area. I would say the static stuff that’s hard is stuff that’s also hard for human drivers, like poor lane markers or ambiguous signage. So I’m not sure that QR codes will help—-just fix the signage.
Interesting. 3 stories about Biden. 4 stories about Trump.
Somebody with codepilot to check it out?
Waymo has raised over $5.5 billion and has thousands of employees without so much as a product.

If this were any other startup it would be considered insane and never gotten to this point. Don't know why people keep dumping money into this project thinking they're just around the corner.

Even Tesla sold some cars when it raised a fraction of that amount, and $70 million came from Musk

> By January 2009, Tesla had raised US$187 million and delivered 147 cars. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Tesla,_Inc.
I would love to retire to the Japanese country and fix up an old house.
It is probably not as idealic as in my minds eye but would love to hear some experiences people have had doing this.
Referring to the CDC link I posted above, physician and clinical services are 20% of total medical expenses. That's your primary care physician, nurses, labs, and specialists. (Hospital care is about 33% of the total.)

20% of $4T is $800 billion. There are ~209,000 primary care doctors in the US (https://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/factsheets/primary/pc...), not counting specialists, etc. Each doctor therefore is responsible for ~$4M. Assuming for no reason whatsoever that specialists and outside labs, etc., take 50% of that, each doctor's practice gets $2M. Making ye olde "everybody costs $100,000 / year" assumption, that works out to 20 people including the doctor: nurses, receptionists, lab techs, janitors, etc.

Doesn't sound terribly unreasonable.
Interesting. It's hard to even find a functioning wap browser...lots of dead links.
LLVM internals, part 2: parsing the bitstream
You give executable permissions to a region of memory with machine code in it. The easy way to do this is mmap with PROT_EXEC then memcpy to it. Here's a good tutorial: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2013/11/05/how-to-jit-an-intro...

There is an issue with this on MacOS Big Sur where pages may not be writeable and executable in a hardened runtime. To get around that you need to write the machine code first, then mark it executable.

To execute the code you can cast it to a function pointer and call it.
If youre willing to live in a high crime area with no jobs and no kichen or bathroom, you can get a house for £1 in the uk.

https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/the-1-pound-houses-br...
Conservative talk show host Phil Valentine dies after battle with Covid-19
The only other industry I can think of that has interviews anywhere as close to as ridiculous as ours is the performing arts.

Why is that other industries don’t need 6+ rounds of interviews for experienced candidates?
> Specifically, there's an especially tricky road in I-35N in Texas

Seems like you could just get some data on that before declaring that "we're not even close". How do shipping Teslas do?

FWIW: my impression is that the things people think are hard aren't the problems that are actually hard. People here and elsewhere on the internet have spent years screaming about lidar vs. radar vs. vision. And... it turns out vision basically won. Something like half the Tesla fleet in ths US are vision only in the US now, and... the cars see stuff just fine. We're not having detection failures. It works.

If you watch all the FSD beta video being spread around youtube, much of it by drivers specifically looking for edge cases like this, most of the remaining problems are in pathing and decisionmaking, not detection. The cars see a busy intersection and then get paralyzed (there was an amusing clip from one guy of a car trying to make a left turn, giving up, and repathing a right turn that took it back in a loop only to fail at the same left turn repeatedly), or creep too slowly and annoy other drivers. Or they choose the wrong lane, or misread a multiple traffic light environment, or misread the need for detection (the one really dangerous video I remember had the car deciding to take a left turn across a broad street with a complicated blind corner instead of creeping out farther).

Those are bugs to fix, for sure. But they're not the bugs we thought we had to fix. Those bugs... got fixed.

So you can look at this as a pessimist and say "we'll never get there", or you can judge from previous experience that the hard problems won't turn out to be that hard in the end.

Personally, having been watching the progress in this space, my guess is that Tesla and Waymo (and maybe Mobileye -- no one else is close) get this basically fixed within a year or two.

At which point the debate will shift from "we'll never get there" to "we'll never be able to regulate this appropriately" or somesuch.
That’s because they’re humans. And also, even those humans who aren’t used to certain conditions will have a difficult time.
So I've been writing shell scripts for about two decades, about 75% of that time professionally. Parsing the unstructured, text-based output of utilities is not the problem for anyone who's had maybe a few weeks of training. Most `... | grep ... | cut ... | sed ... | awk ...`-abominations the post laments can be replaced by a single informed call to `awk`, making everything a lot more elegant and concise.

Having JSON as an intermediate representation to work on instead is not going to save anyone - what we'd really need is for all tool versions/variants output on all platforms (all GNU/Linux distros, all the BSDs, all embedded Linux variants, all commercial UNICES, etc.) to be the same, all the time. That's not going to happen, so shell scripting is going to stay messy.

Also, for my INTERACTIVE shell, anyone can try to pry free-form, text-based and semi-structured output from my cold, dead hands. JSON or YAML output might be an acceptable compromise between being easy to parse and bearable for human consumption, but for my daily work, I would rather have my tools make it easy for me, the human part in the whole equation, and not some parsing logic that might not even (need to) exist. Shell scripting provides most of its value from the fact that since I'm in its repl-of-sorts all the time, I can translate that familiarity to scripts and executables effortlessly, and I would not want that going away. But I am rather certain it would, if we had JSON (or another form of more structured data interchange syntax) adopted as the "universal" interface between UNIX tools.
Ending federal benefits failed to lower Florida’s unemployment rate
I might even say "Urban/Coastal USA, Northern/Western Europe and China" instead of USA, Europe and China. I expect to see the USA and Euro auto markets to become more fractured as climate change deniers, big government resisters, and just folks who romanticize the "good ol days" continue to buy ICE cars.

Heck, it's already fragmented - I just looked at the new car inventory for an LA-area Chevy dealer. They have 65 ICE pickups, 11 ICE SUVs, 7 ICE sports cars and 29 EVs, so about 25% EVs, well above the national average. Then I looked at a rural South Dakota Chevy dealer's inventory - 11 ICE pickups, 7 ICE SUVs and that's it. Zero EVs on offer there.

It might not be fractured in a regulatory sense, just that manufacturers typically sell their EVs in one sort of place and their gas-powered vehicles in another, and dealers only stock what they know they'll sell.
On the Internet, unless you sprinkle your words with emoticons, it is hard to convey irony or amusement using text alone.

You absolutely have the power to end the controversy by switching to a more mainstream license then adding a clear disclaimer like “use at your own risk”.

GitHub currently lists 465 projects that depend on your library, which means more than a handful of devs find it useful.
Belated reply, because I like your posts, and I don't want to be argumentative with you. :)

My mentor at that time was an AutoCAD dealer. He (eventually) explained the value added reseller racket to me. Very similar to franchising.

Autodesk and others sloughed off most marketing, sales, inventory, shipping, and tech support onto their dealers. Their reasoning, IIRC, was that while dev cost 7% of revenue, those other activities cost 30%. Why not get rubes to cover that overhead?

Further, turnover in the dealer channel was about 1/3 per year. A typical dealer would refinance their house (or whatever) for a few $100k. Burn thru it trying to get established. And there'd be 2 more wannabe dealers waiting to replace them.

It was very hard to not sell AutoCAD for a loss.

There were a few tricks to surviving and profiting. Consulting, training, and hardware, of course. The most capable productized their AutoCAD addons. The most successful of those then matured out of dealerships and formed their own VAR rackets.

My mentor created Rhino 3D. Most of the tech and code started as AutoCAD addons. Until they had bootstrapped a standalone MVP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinoceros_3D

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This was the 1990s. Autodesk is now the Computer Associates of abandonware graphics programs. Some of those legacy apps probably have enterprisey support contracts, so you're probably right about that. At a guess, it's probably part of the subscription models (everyone trying to copy Adobe's success).
seeing __doPostBack() in the source brings back some memories
That’s sweet. Can’t believe it took them that long to induct Ursula Le Guin, though. She deserved it decades ago.
> The Office of Local Government Minister Shelley Hancock, who has previously faced questions in Parliament over the shooting of animals in council pounds, did not comment

Quite the fetish she has.
A discussion between @ghaff and myself a few months ago on this aspect. I find 10--30 minutes a sweet spot as well, with an information-dense 10 minutes highly preferable.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27337668

For a deeper discussion pulling in more references and nuances, 20--60 minutes can work, but the content's got to deserve it. Excessive filler content ("Mayday: Air Disaster", The History Channel, "The Gift Shop Sketch" is of course the exemplar: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=7MFtl2XXnUc) is absolutely maddening.
How to move beyond recycling (part 1)
Australia exhibits a very high level of paranoia with extreme measures to prevent covid transmissions. You cannot even travel to some provinces without a 2 week quarantine and multiple required tests (e.g. Western Australia). All of these reactions to relatively low existence of covid transmission. How long does this go on till people realize that Covid is going to be part of our lives for the foreseeable future and locking oneself up in isolation and executing innocent animals is not a long-term solution.
Ok.

https://www.uscis.gov/tools/designated-civil-surgeons/vaccin...
> For me, I spent about a year studying(leetcode and system design), mock interviewing (30+), and interviewing. Spent about 3 months without an actual job and interviewing+studying. (Something like 25 interviews in a week at times - 3-4 onsites per week when not doing tech screens)

Ok so there is something terribly wrong with our industry.
It depends a lot of on the city and whether it's east or west Germany. Growing centers like Munich, Frankfurt and Berlin will cost you a lot of money (1-2k€ and up for ~60qm² w/o parking), while in Dresden or Leipzig you can find apartments in comparable locations for 300-500€.
Hahaha funny joke.

There are many of these unfunded mandates all around. Usually there is a small fund but it runs out instantly.
It’s about 56 per billion miles which is a significant improvement over 40 years ago, but also a recent upswing.

https://www.nfpa.org/-/media/Files/News-and-Research/Fire-st...
Why? Some companies have fairly predatory full time employment agreements that prevent you from having another job, forcing you to disclose any side hustle or contracting work. Sometimes they will claim to own everything you type on a keyboard.

I mean, I'm all for seeing this method work, but there is probably a reason the author mentions "interns". Were they able to apply this method with working professionals? Convenient how it's not mentioned.
Record rise in U.S. rents