skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
not to be too critical, but you should read the article before commenting on the content of the article.

to be clear, they spoke to two people who had offers rescinded and a former recruiter at Stripe who talked about general turmoil in the hiring process.
I'm not going to say that never happens, but it's never been the case for any of the jobs I've had. The contract I've signed commonly states words to the effect of "subject to passing background checks".
I'm similarly disappointed in Debugger.jl, but I find that Infiltrator.jl often helps me get where I need to go for intra-function problems.
> Since we're presumably already talking about changing the law, we could presumably set up a system whereby those legal obligations are reduced according to those judgements.

I mean, sure, we could presumably amend the Constitution to weaken due process protections to allow that kind of collective punishment, but that's a fairly drastic measure with enormous knock-on effects.

But also, that takes much deeper and wider political support at all levels to pass than just electing DAs that will prosecute cops for crimes; if law enforcement has enough politics pull to prevent the latter, it has more than enough to prevent dismantling fundamental Constitutional guarantees just to make punishment of officers not proven to be directly involved in wrongdoing easier.

> I don't actually advocate it, but (paraphrasing) "that doesn't even make sense" isn't the most interesting response.

It may not be the most entertaining, but the proposal is incoherent on many levels, so its really the only possible response.
It's not blame, it's advice.

Advice that is strongly needed, because most people think "they have nothing to hide" until they discover than:

- they do

- they can't
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I see comments talking about Stripe's "PR", not just in this thread, but also the one from a couple days ago [1]. I agree that Stripe's hiring practices, based on the information available, certainly warrant criticism.

But I also think it is important to distinguish between Stripe the product and Stripe the company (and subsequently its hiring practices). Based on what I've heard, developers love Stripe, and they are popular in YC too for obvious reasons. PG's essays have often mentioned the Collisons [2], and Patrick Collison is admired (presumably) universally for his smarts [3]. All the above mentioned praise stems primarily from two things:

a) Stripe having a well-functioning product

b) The Collisons being incredibly smart and driven individuals

Both of these factors in conjunction imply that Stripe will be heavily admired. The love for Stripe is therefore a manifestation of that implication, and I dont think there is some PR machine working tirelessly to polish the Stripe brand.

It is a fallacy to extrapolate the sentiment surrounding product and founders to assume that Stripe will automatically be a "good" company.

Needless to say, my heart goes out to those who had offers rescinded. As others have mentioned, an offer can set in motion events that are seemingly irreversible. I hope Stripe uses this as an opportunity to reflect on their hiring systems and fix them to be more waterproof.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29387264
[2] http://paulgraham.com/ds.html
[3] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stripe-ceo-patrick-col...

Edit: fixed grammar
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This is an international forum.
Had somewhat similar experience... 2014/2015 maybe. Unsolicited call out to me, asking me to interview. I had a couple of questions - one of which included salary range. I was being expected to go take days off and fly to them, but they wouldn't give me even a basic range. Nothing. I declined to go further.

I told someone who then said "well... that's not the way you get a job!" And I said "but... I didn't want a job. They called me. They wanted a worker, but wouldn't do me the courtesy of basic information before I was to drop whatever I was doing and come running to them on their timetable".
Which is why no employer has ever checked my current company. They check with my past managers.
Havent rotten fruits been around since forever?

Our evolutionary ancestors could’ve involuntarily consumed alcohol way before 20k BC.
Every offer letter I've ever received has language to the effect that it's contingent on a number of things, including a background check.
Perhaps there could be a grace period? If you're clearly not using it within 6 months then it reverts and you get a partial refund?
The HR of Stripe really, really sucks.
I started the process and I asked to stop it after the 1st interview. I couldn't ignore so many red flags.
I'M in the UK and I absolutely do not trust the civil service at all.
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When you say ‘encyclopedia’, are you referring to those old collections of books that we’re obsoleted 40 years ago?
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I wonder if there is a way to connect to it through usb in order to wipe it.
Another subtle consideration is that with long-lived, highly-backward-compatible languages like C++, you'll have a bunch of people on your project who still write C++ like it was ten or twenty years ago (because that's when they learned it), and so bring down the code quality of your project. Whereas choosing a new language (like Rust at the time) means that everyone who claims to be able to write it at all, is working from the same, recent set of language idioms.
I feel like removable SD card is a tech person solution but ... kinda doesn't solve it for a lot of folks.

Most folks are just going to take nudes and not strategize much and expect them to remain private as part of the typical photo taking and sharing workflow.
As well as up, down, pgup, pgdown, alt+left and alt+right on Chromium Linux. Stopped reading when I saw this enforcement of how they think their site should be experienced.
good thing you're running on a server then.
Also legally, if a company makes an offer and you make a financial change on the basis of that offer, the company is legally liable for all costs incurred.

Now, getting that money is another story...
I don't see a contradiction here. It's terrible that Google allowed this to happen, and the individuals responsible should be held to account. Also, it is a good idea to be very protective of nude photos. I found the original comment useful for thinking about how I could avoid this situation personally.
The RMA instructions should include using android.com/find to lock and wipe an inoperable device if it ever gets turned on again.

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6160491?hl=en
I love Advent of Code. As I sit here trying to prepare for my next set of 'leet' interviews, I wish employers could switch over to this style of tech questions. Advent of Code requires good coding and problem solving skills. Leet coding requires you to memorize every operation for dozens of data structures like how to insert elements in a min heap.

( Insert elements at the end and swap with the parent until the tree is correctly ordered again. Good luck figuring this out in 20 minutes if you don't know it ahead of time. )

( Now prepare yourself to remember how to insert/delete/search for elements in every other data structure with any number of different qualifiers when it's not going to be obvious at the outset of the question what kind of data structure to use )

( Oh and make sure you've memorized the time and space complexity )

( Not that I'm bitter or anything )
I like this one: https://darebee.com/challenges/hug-challenge.html
Turing Pi 2: 4 Raspberry Pi nodes on a mini ITX board
Or IT
>There is no right to not receive another's germs

Intentionally coughing on someone is a prosecutable crime in many parts of the world --- What do you think makes it a crime?
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Prudence is certainly a choice one can make, but in no way should it be recommended or required.

Google is supposed to be trusted with the world's emails, photos, and other Android data backups. If it is necessary to take precautions against Google misusing data, then that cuts to the heart of their business model, and is a material threat to consumers that they should be informed about.
These guys sent it in for RMA because it couldn't be turned on

Also the photos were in the google account so none of this advice would have mattered anyway aside from the advice #4 about not doing it, which is moot. They and many people probably auto backup all photos on the device to the google account. Not sure if there is a way to distinguish which photos are too sensitive for online backup with that service.
Were you aware the the WHO and eco-health were strong-arming scientists to agree with the natural origin? This story got memory-holed but it happened

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In 2 of 2 of cases where I've used krazy-glue to try to fix something in an electronic gadget, the stuff wicked into a connector and ruined the device. So I dare say, if the phone isn't the waterproof type, just dribble some of that stuff in there e.g. through the SIM drawer slot and bye bye.

I usually terminate truly obsolete gadgets that could still contain recoverable login information etc. by physically destroying the motherboard, e.g. by drilling into it or prying off the flash chip. But for non-removable battery types that's iffy; what if you short out the battery and cause it to catch fire? I've just recently found a usable charge a 2012 vintage LiPo battery that came with a robot kit that hadn't been built in all those years.
Google told me recently that their process typically takes 6-8 weeks! They are absolutely losing candidates but they must have enough applicants to still be ok.
Project Euler problems seem to be all math based, at least as far as I've seen. Advent of Code problems have numbers as results (most of the time), but aren't always based on some mathematical formulation(s).

See 2019's IntCode puzzles for instance for something very far from Project Euler. They also had the side-effect of benefiting anyone who spent time refactoring their initial versions to create a better interface, a later day (23?) has you run 50 IntCode computers concurrently and communicating with each other. This became very hard to actually implement for many people because of the structure of their simulator and how they'd handled concurrent simulations earlier.
You are joking from my typo but it is actually true. All those computer cables are heavily impregnated with phthalates and usually sitting in warm areas. Do not put them in your mouth, and wash your hands after touching.
I had to buy dozens of old phones on eBay once for testing a new SMS product and I can tell you that most of the phones were not wiped and lots had naughty photos and videos still on them :|
This also sounds like a huge failure state for everyone involved. I just want to negotiate and then get back to building cool stuff. Presumably companies hiring me also want me to be building their product and not doing interview practice all day.
I've lost a laptop in an airport shuttle with intimate pics on it once, and got worried sick.

After that life lession, I always made sure to have a veracrypt partition for this stuff. But a separate, offline device is better of course.
> without out pricing people who want to host a legitimate non-commercial personal site

Don't buy a .io domain for your personal site - stick to the gTLDs or national TLDs that are run by trusted governments (for reference, I have a .ca TLD because I trust the Canadian government to keep the cost roughly competitive with gTLDs). ccTLDs that have been bought by private companies are essentially privatized in a way that gTLDs and government-run ccTLDs are not.
They are treated the same way. Engineers only get higher salaries as we are more rare commodities.
> Those tiny bits of negative news just stick in your mind.

There's an interesting psychological process here that I don't think I've seen described before.

You would expect that the higher the reputation something has, the more resilient that regard is. As if good reputation means the thing has a large number of "reputation points" and can thus afford to lose some while still retaining a large quantity of remaining rep points.

But the perceived effect is the opposite. The higher the reputation the more fragile it is to bad news. When a middling reputation thing gets some bad news, we consider it not particularly newsworthy and its reputation is unchanged. But when a highly regarded thing gets tainted, the pristine edifice comes tumbling down.

I can understand why our brains would work that way: we are incentivized through our evolutionary history to be highly attuned to detect deceipt—actors that are not what they appear to be. So bad news about a good person is read as vital information that causes us to re-evaluate everything we knew about them in that light.

But it's not clear to me that that model logically scales to an entire organization. Organizations are not monolithic entities and when an otherwise great org makes a misstep, that doesn't necessarily mean it's rotten to the core.
DO you unironically quite believe that this people do not believe in what they do?

Do you think that medicine is a nothing or all kind of thing?
DO you believe that those who do not trust big companies that have paid millions in criminal fines, reject the rest of medicine?

You are simply not Supposed to "believe" in science that is reedit tier thinking, Science is a process and in such process mistrusting leaky vaccines that reduce T cells amounts is ok.
Medical Science is not monolithic.
How about if it's the 1960s, and you're a flight attendant, and "being sexy" is semi-officially part of your job. And your job is requiring you to get an abortion (which is still illegal in the US, and so you're going to have to go to Sweden to get it). And if you won't, well, nobody's making you - you can get a different job.

This is, as far as I can see, the most directly analogous situation. Those who support vaccine mandates, how do you feel about this situation? (And note that this was just an "unofficial" employee mandate - there was no government entity involved.)
I mean, faking out a mechanical music box with electronics, and then driving the only physical part with a decapitated, silent music box is sort of outrageous.
Ok, we've reverted the title above.
Why are you still their customer?
Bit of a shame that this will go viral and we’ll never know if Google would have properly handled this on their own. I’d like to think yes but it’s tough to believe the crook’s first attempt at this was also the first time they were caught.

That said, I’m wondering if Google didn’t farm out their repair work to a 3rd party, leading to this situation.
Bitcoin and the Dunbar Limit
Of course it was xkcd: https://xkcd.com/552/. The exact text is: "Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there'."
A cross validation strategy can drastically impact model performance
Fixed now. (Submitted title was "Courts block Covid vaccine mandates for healthcare workers nationwide")
Vaccines should not be a personal freedom choice. They are a life saving invention, where did we go as a society that this is suddenly up for debate? Antivaxxers on HN of all places, what the hell.
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This sort of leaking is now a felony in most US jurisdictions, e.g. Illinois: https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/revenge-porn...
Those vaccines are/were sterilizing, meaning the vaccinated person cannot carry or spread the illness after vaccination. Covid-19 Vaccines are non-sterilizing and only lessen-symptoms. As we can clearly see, vaccinated individuals still spread the virus. Not only that, but vaccinated individuals are an added evolutionary pressure for the virus, which causes the emergence of vaccine-evading variants. This means new variants can bubble up within vaccinated individuals, like we've seen with Omicron (and most likely the case for Delta as well).

Thanks!
This. Especially for compound lifts (eg: back squat, bench press, deadlift, cleans, etc). Building good technique and form is essential to avoiding serious injury and making sustainable progress. Having a trainer, even 1-2 times a month, is a good investment if lifting is a part of your routine.
Getting a free all-expenses-paid weekend in Mountain View is a perk to a lot of people

If I weren't busy with the familoids at home I'd love a free plane trip and fancy hotel stay. Er, in non-pandemic times at least
Why not both? Romani are an example of ethnic persecution alone, but Jews have to deal with an added layer of religious persecution as well