skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The neighbouring comments only give you a part of the answer. Yes there is psychological things, i.e., "if they default, could other default" that makes people more sceptical wrt to the same class of assets (in this case property handlers with exposure in China). But there is _also_ the thing that some institutional investors are only allowed to hold certain parts of their assets in certain risk classes.

The subprime crisis got triggered, by one-to-many defaults, which triggered a downgrade in the rating of the securities that the single loans were packaged into, which _forced_ institutional investors (think pension funds) to sell those, which depressed prices, which made the securities even more risky, which let to further downgrades and so on.

But there is also the point that the investors of Evergrande may have planned these payments for their obligations. Which, depending on their current stability, may make them unable to honour their obligations, which makes them go into default. Which can then trigger a downgrade of their rating and we are back to the setting above.

Unless you know about the exact structure and timing of all payments of all investors and how they cover their payments. There is really no way to be sure that it doesn't lead to a cascade. There is also no reason that it _has_ to lead to a cascade of course.
A lot of accidents have been caused by the almost complete lack of automated monitoring and good alerting on airplanes.

I find it very surprising that there isn't at least non-AI software to monitor what the pilots are doing.
First, you've got years to worry about this

Second, there'll likely be a Linux distro you could run on it in a decade when it's finally fully EoL'd
But what if I as the user install software on my phone that isn't capable of calling 911?

I own the phone and I am able to install whatever software and whatever operating system I like. I don't want it to seem like I'm defending Google here, but should manufacturers really be responsible for the software someone installs on their portable computer?
What do you mean by, "language policed"?
A few things:

1. I paid the same price as your preferred RO solution. Water filters are a commodity. Additionally, the filter supply I bought is cheap as hell compared to competitors. The change schedule doesn't change between vendors. How exactly does any of this mean I was "taken for a ride"?

2. Alkaline filters remineralize the water. Not to any great effect, but they do return the pH to 7. The magnitude of the effect? Incredibly minor. The actual cost? Incredibly minor. Why don't you just chill out and mind your own business?

3. Britas are carbon filters. I assume you believe the carbon stages in RO systems filter next to nothing as well? Also, you'll note that the Brita is being used as a storage device, so your critique is not only unasked for but unwarranted as well.
Yes, it's "relatively" easy. They had over-the-air delta updates with Android 10, but not for 11. Here my current steps for each ROM upgrade. Installation would be similar:

- Connect USB

- Boot in Fastboot: Press and hold Volume Down, then press and hold Power

- Install TWRP recovery `fastboot flash boot twrp-...`

- Select to boot recovery mode using Volume Up/Down

- Format system and cache partitions ONLY. Leave data and internal

- Choose Advanced > Sideload, then run `adb sideload PixelExp...zip` on computer
I get that. Just remove the 'extra'. That is a good first pass. I was thinking the longer term you want to show the 'original' higher in the list? Wouldnt you? What sort of criteria would you use to make it so it shows one copy vs another? Probably in many cases it probably would not mater much. But if you wanted to figure out linage of imports it could be? Some projects could have thousands of forks. Yet only maybe a dozen of those actually have anything going on. Those would be more useful to show?
I suppose you have reviewed the source code of Go and Zig compilers with the same attention to design quality then.
> Lantz enlisted fellow game designer Bennett Foddy to create a simple combat visualizer for late-game battles

That's a name I wasn't expecting to see. (But that's not you, you're an acrobat. You could swallow a baseball bat.)

Anyway, I think what Universal Paperclips is missing is a pacifist mode where you manage to contain the AI and decide to only convert, say, one third of the universe into paperclips, leaving the rest (containing Earth) as some kind of cosmic nature reserve.
They’re the norm in Scandinavia, unfortunately.
You used the IQ test as an example of how your needs are fairly basic. Is it possible that your needs are not basic, and you may in fact expect high standards of your employer?
> Will the People's Bank of China be paying Evergrande's foreign debts (aka bonds)?

No, why would they do that? They're saying that they'll pump money into the economy to prevent a price slump from causing other defaults, there's no expectation whatsoever that there will be any compensation to bondholders; losing money if the company defaults is part of the bond investment business. China might offer some assistance (e.g. subsidized loans) to some affected local companies for domestic policy reasons, but they're very unlikely to gift money to foreign investors in this case.
Can't all that be modelled with keys/signing? Can you elaborate more on the risks around automated key management?
eBPF will help solve service mesh by getting rid of sidecars
Personally I can really recommend the „Unhook YouTube“ extension. It’s really customizable and allows you to remove autoplay, recommendations and even the homepage. It’s really easy to configure and really did help me reducing my time spend on YouTube without breaking the entire website.
From reading the article, it seems they need to raise more money to actually resume many of their construction projects (which is where their revenue comes from), and because they are unable to repay existing debt, no one else wants to give them money.
The concept behind Georgism is ancient.

In Biblical Israel all land was redistributed every 50 years.

The exact implementation probably wouldn’t make sense in our times (they divided the land initially by lottery, and all land sales reverted every jubilee year. Everyone “went back home”, all at once - effectively resetting the Monopoly board to restart the game).

However, the idea can probably be adapted using a more gradual, non-synchronous, and non-tribal method. (Perhaps pay the land tax with shares in the land?).
That seems right. When people get into money trouble they will start skipping some debt payments first. The mortgage or rent is usually last to skip for obvious reasons.
These bonds have a cross-default clause (not sure if correct term) which means if you default on one, you technically default on all of them (I guess exactly to prevent what you mean and screwing the lower ranked investors)
I do the same thing for linkedin. Pick and select the "timeline" post page or whatever it is called and block it. Completely eliminates the social media bloat so I can focus on the only reason I still keep a profile on there. Now mostly for just chatting anyhow.
Using your repo, I get an error:

execution failed: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'value')
That's a great resource. I had never heard of this attack vector before. Thanks for sharing the link.
Craig Murray, friend of Julian Assange, was just released from a Scottish prison for the crime of jigsaw identification of some of the accusers in the trial of former First Minister, Alex Salmond despite the fact that many journalists from mainstream media had published information that allowed their readers to identify some of the accusers explicitly.

So it's not just a problem of dictatorships in second or third world countries. But then again, maybe it is.

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/
This is one of the ickiest things I've ever read about Scandinavia
I see a black squirrel, which is kinda rare .. I pull the phone to take a picture and somehow it gets stuck and asks me to enter my pin.. Suddenly it doesn't recognize ,y fingerprint.. I finally get the camera app to open... It takes another second to be able to take the picture.. By the time the phone is ready, the squirrel is gone!!
>"Being able to write code that doesn't crash after a while isn't really a high bar."

Totally agree.

>"it quickly gets ugly because you have to deal with legacy code that wasn't written in modern C++"

I do not work with the projects (I assume monoliths) of such size so I guess I can count myself lucky. I would guess though that this amount of code accumulates over many years and I suspect that the majority of languages along with libs and other accompanying stuff would change as well over the time. Maybe C++ is not so special in this regard.

I was hired once to fix old PHP application which was insanely giant. The type of code I saw there ranged from beautiful to making me nearly puke. It looks like the situation similar to what you've described but in completely different language. Again the cause here I think is total size, many developers coming and going and their qualifications.

Also for as long as I can remember (40 years) I've almost exclusively worked on creating new products from scratch. Again extremely lucky. For new projects I would definitely advocate C++. But if one wants to do it in Rust / (insert your own favorite) for example I have nothing against it. Seems like a matter of taste to me (assuming compile times are reasonable and do not impede workflow).

I would admit that I would never dare to write / mess with some code I see in system libraries or some other template heavy libraries. It can be extremely complex language wise. But I've already mentioned it in original post. Do not try to be Alexandrescu. Those are special people. And this is also special purpose type of code that is not needed for general application programming.
The only I can think of is journalism and similar.
you always work for yourself first. if the job doesn't develop actually useful skills that can be taken elsewhere then you're pigeonholing yourself, as youre now seeing.

Lesson learned
> (we don’t get to vote, so we literally cannot)

That simply not true. Millions sacrificed their lives so they countries could be free. You just don't want to fight and you are happy with expansion of communism.
The West is not going to fight for you, you have to do it yourself. Don't be cowards.
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As a hiring manager, the common theme I see in your post is a condescension toward everyone you interview with. You project an unwavering belief that you know how to run other people’s companies and hiring processes better than they do. If this is projected at all during your interview, the companies aren’t going to be eager to hire you. (And to be honest, they’d be right)

For example:

> Sometimes you get the job and when you start rolling questions and ideas, you get a "talk to the hand" followed by "that's now what you're here for". Why hire a senior person as a poster, if you're not willing to be challenged and listen to different ideas? Nobody is asking you to agree, just play ball with convincing arguments. Too much of an ask, I guess.

There’s nothing wrong with asking for clarification about reasoning, but when someone is constantly challenging every decision made by management then it becomes an impediment to getting things done. If you want to be the person calling the shots, you should probably be applying for management positions. If you want to take an IC engineer position but constantly argue with the work, the company will eventually need to isolate you with a patient manager or remove you from the team in order to keep everyone aligned.

> Sometimes they talk so much about fit fit fit, but they don't even bother with a personality or IQ test (which as a former hiring manager, I find very valuable because it allows you to balance the team, not because you see how high/low people score)

I’m kind of stunned that you think coding challenges and tech interviews are useless, but you insist that companies use IQ and personality tests to hire coders.

Personality and IQ tests have been widely panned by the tech industry because they have very little signal but very high noise. If you expect companies to give you IQ and personality tests, you’re going to be disappointed. More broadly: If you expect every manager to reflect exactly how you would choose to run things, you may be trying to act as a “backseat driver” manager without taking the responsibility of actual being a manager.

> It's just maniac managers creating work for them to manage with tech they don't understand.

It’s clear you have a strong lack of respect for everyone you’ve interviewed with, from your description of “shitty challenges” to “maniac managers” being disappointed that they aren’t giving you IQ tests. It may not be obvious, but this level of anger tends to show through during interviews even if you try to hide it. Experienced hiring managers are going to pick up on it and flag you as a likely difficult employee to manage.

To be blunt: If you find yourself interviewing at and working for a significant number of companies and finding intractable problems with all of them, it’s time to consider that maybe your own perspectives are the common denominator problem. Part of working a job is accepting that other people are making decisions and setting the direction. Providing constructive input and feedback is good, but you need to also have a good attitude about disagreeing and committing to go in the same direction as the team.
If Assange did precisely the same thing and exposed Russian or Chinese war crimes the idea that he was justly imprisoned for espionage because of the methods by which he did it would be universally mocked and condemned in the west.

Conversely Roman Protasevich's airplane would be downed and he would already be in prison on charges of "fighting on the front line alongside neonazis" (evidence is that he did neonazi azov PR but probably did not fight), while the Russians condemned us for imprisoning a valiant journalist.
I disagree with this. You sound like a manager I'd never want to work for because you seem to believe this relationship is all about you and I'm some kind of servant.

> Almost always asking for "meaningful" jobs. What even is that?

A lot of people like to feel like they're contributing positively to the world. If you can't explain how their job does that then maybe your company isn't a positive in the world.

> Sense of entitlement, _YOU_ liking the hiring manager? It's your job to get the hiring manager to like you, not the other way around.

It's a two-way street. Why would I want to work for a jackass? That's a recipe for unhappiness. I want a manager I can work with, not one I have to suck it up and work for.

> Not knowing your place: You were supposedly not hired into some leadership position to change the world from day 1, you have opinions, they are based on previous experiences, made elsewhere. Shut up, listen, learn, observe and do your best to do what they ask of you, at least the first half year or more, and then start gently providing input and resistance, show that you can do it their way before trying to get them to do it yours.

Ok, this at least is decent advice even if I don't care for the 'know your place' framing.
I don't think anyone is expecting google to patch every phone on the planet (assuming you mean every android device ever released). But they should be able to patch every phone of theirs including every old pixel and nexus.

And if they can't, they should make it clear to the user/owner that their phone isn't supported and that means that their lives or the lives of others could be in jeopardy as a result. In fact, perhaps their phones should have an expiration date and should just stop working after sometime. Or at least disable critical functionality that their required to be in compliance with (FCC regulations) since they've decided to no longer support the device. Moreover, this date and timeline should be clear from the point in time when you purchase the device.

Of course this could all be done by the network providers only allowing supported devices on their network, but we all know how that would end up.

This isn't just some bug, and if google wants to participate and be taken seriously in this industry, they should stand by their products and customers.
You've had a few answers so far, but what I've read in the news is different:

(1) The rating downgrade that Fitch gave Evergrande to the default on one series of bonds may trigger accelerated repayment covenants in other bonds (source: https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/economy/2021/12/9/bb-chinas-ev...)

(2) The default is reflective of the concern that Evergrande has no money, and although they've been able to stave off defaulting on other series of bonds so far, holders of all series of bonds should expect more defaults later unless Evergrande's debt is restructured. (source: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/09/business/china-evergrande...)
> Can someone here enlighten me how a default can be "contagious"?

The 2010 movie "Inside Job"[1] about financial crisis in US presents real-life examples, starting with the Icelandic financial crisis.

There is also this Warren Buffet interview[2] which presents his unique viewpoint on what happened in the US around the time Lehman Brothers defaulted in 2008. You probably won't gain any knowledge from it other(edit) than how the financial sector assigns blame.

edit: word "other" added in previous paragraph

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2IaJwkqgPk "Inside Job (2010 Full Documentary Movie)"

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2VSSNECLTQ "Warren Buffett Explains the 2008 Financial Crisis"
What bias would they have that would be reliably backed up by them?

('Scandanavians are the best employees' perhaps, based on this thread..! But that aside.)
Often in situations like this -- where everything seems to be wrong with everyone else -- I remember that old Dysfunction Inc. post that had a tagline something along the lines of "The consistent feature of all of your dysfunctional relationships is you". It's a nod to the fact that often we need to stop and self-reflect instead of constantly enumerating the failures of everyone else.

I have limited insight into who you are, which is a post that was likely made in an irritated state and probably is a bit over the top, but various phrases in it are red flags. Having hired and managed for two decades, they sound irritatingly high maintenance.

Questioning why someone uses something is completely valid, for instance, and should never be met with resistance. Questioning in a derogatory or dismissive way (which if you're going to go on about "maniac managers creating work for them to manage with tech they don't understand" seems likely), on the other hand, is going to yield eye rolls and a complete lack of interest in humouring your question. Angling to be "smarter than thou" in a discussion or interview by trying to prove the existing team or group dumb in their choices will never, ever succeed.

We've all been there with the guy who sneeringly questions everything being done. It's incredibly boring.

I'm playing devil's advocate here, and it isn't personal. I'm just going on the limited bit posted.
Different theme, Darcula is the one included by default in a lot of intellij IDEs.
A thoughtful reply, thank you.

I'm not talking about necessarily getting a dream job, or even a good job through your network, especially if you're aiming high, but then rules are different then, you can't both be "perpetually rained-upon unlucky never getting a break unlucky dev" and be "well, I could get _THOSE_ jobs, but I'm so unlucky because I can't land absolute top-tier ones even though I definitely feel like I deserve it." at the same time.
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From security point of view, yes.
I hate how cryptocurrency sucked all the air out of the room with decentralization to the point that the term is now hopelessly linked to it.
With no sarcasm or irony whatsoever, this is a fantastic way to stay connected with people—if you can be online at the same time as them regularly and they all actually want to play Minecraft.

The advantages you get with a more traditional-style private social media site are accessibility and asynchrony.
thats mad, you'd get better idea how 'smart' someone is by having 20min conversation.

I guess thats one of those local idiosyncrasies
In the universe of the United States Senate.
I was wondering too. Since the little hype no one talk about it.
For every engineer on six figures there will be many many of them on five figures. We read about six-figure engineer salaries because people write about them. $100k is well above the US median. I don't think there should be an absolute expectation that every engineer position earns $100k even at 10 years experience. Some will, but many won't.
He sounds like a person high in creativity trying to get along with standard developers who, by and large, are not creative people.

Creativity is a one of the big 5 character traits and pretty immutable. If you are highly creative you #need# new experiences, it's not just a preference, it's necessary for your psychological well being.

Moving into and working with companies dominated by non creative types, who prefer order and structure and consistency, can be soul destroying. People of this type often find themselves pushing against huge structural resistance to change within organisations and it can seem inexplicable because they fail to appreciate how different others are to them.

It can be quite a revelation to appreciate that other people might actually be adverse to change, rather than energised by it.

Your response is a standard response from someone who isn't high in creativity, who is not particularly open minded. you do not appreciate the #need# for creative expression, just as he does not understand your strong preferences for order and consistency.

Both kinds of personality on this axis of the big 5 are useful to a company in their own ways. Low creativity is useful for maintaining systems, keeping things running in known environments. High creatives are best placed at the frontier of the new, where the land is not yet known.

There is also some merit to the farmer/hunter stereotype imho. Farmers like consistency and routine, hunters are open and distractible and creative.

My recommendation to the OP is to go work in startups. Big companies are usually heavily populated with farmer types low in creativity and high in other traits.
The OP needs to go to the edge where he is needed, not in the middle where he is not.

But honestly in my career it has not been easy to find the right positions either and over time I have come to understand the problem as described above.
Creatives need to be in a role where new ground is being broken, with freedom to express their creativity.
This is not an easy position to find and won't really become available until later in a career.
But this isn't unique to the developer career, it's a general problem for high creatives to find a place in a society that wants them to be a cog when they have a deep, powerful, unchangeable and fundamental need to be anything but a cog.

It's a hard challenge, and they should treat it as just that, a challenge requiring a creative solution.
I really enjoyed reading this! Thanks for taking the time to write it up!
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My hot take on this.

Yes it matters
Yes there will be contagion
No it won’t stop until the government (Xi and PBoC) agree on how bad it will get before they start bailing others out.

Now that too big to fail is dead in China, expect more failures, basically.

https://t.co/TXNfUdoVi5
On airliners? There's tons of them.. TCAS (you're about to hit someone), GPWS (you're about to hit something), EICAS (your engine isn't doing so well), etc.