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I suspect that yes, interviews are getting harder on average. I also think that even if they weren't, it would still feel that way for us experienced folks (also ~20 years of experience here). For one, as you get more senior, interviews will get harder in order to assess your level of seniority. Secondly, I found myself being very indiscriminate about opportunities early in my career, and very much opposite later on. That has meant that the companies I have applied for later have all had much larger pools of applicants and therefore much harder interviews.

I suspect the new grad FAANG recruits are at an advantage here (dubious though it may be), in that they are ready to grind from the get go. Those of us that started out in a different place are running into the hazing later in our careers and there's this existential crisis of "this isn't fair" and "am I a terrible engineer" and "screw them". It took me a number of years to move from denial to acceptance. I still posit that being able to pass these interviews have not made me a better employee, just a better interviewee.
Having people in approximately the same time zone and without language or cultural differences makes managing work much easier. Offshoring is very hard and if you are not careful very inefficient.
Out of curiosity, is the first person pronoun used in the original translation?
I don't get why companies play such games when paying someone. I've been interviewing with companies and even after doing well on the on site, they keep trying to skirt the issue of compensation by asking weird questions like "so how do you think you did?" Its like you know that i did well, otherwise you wouldn't even be talking to me, you are just gauging my confidence level so you know how much i'd be willing to bend when it comes to compensation. I wish they just had standard incoming compensation based on titles or something, its exhausting trying to duke it out with HR when all i want is to be paid fairly and write some code. They aren't doing anyone a favor to underpay because when when people find out, and they will find out, their work quality will decline if they feel they are being used and they will most likely not care about ditching the company for better compensation.
Your comment makes it out like everyone with Covid had pnuemonia and shortness of breath for weeks, when really it was a small minority.
Apparently in October 2020 Joe Biden believed that there was a federal solution to COVID. What has changed since then?

"We're eight months into this pandemic, and Donald Trump still doesn't have a plan to get this virus under control.

I do."

https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1316894374500962305
This is one of the big confounds: a lot of the companies which brag about AI prowess are relying on a bunch of generally not well paid humans to cover the gaps.
What is the product? It's really hard to figure from the home page, so I looked up on the web and found this[1]

> Today, we are excited to announce that Mars, Seyi, and I have teamed up to start Metaphor Data, a company dedicated to building out the DataHub ecosystem. Our mission at Metaphor Data is to help all organizations better understand and manage their data through the power of the metadata knowledge graph.

So, it's DataHub (hosted I guess) and ... something else? But I'm still not sure what this "ecosystem" is.

[1] https://pardhugunnam.medium.com/announcing-metaphor-data-c86...
Of course it'll start again the next winter... as will the cold season and flu season.

The only question here is, will there be lockdowns, mandates, masks and vaccine passports, or will we finally give up, focus on the risk groups, and let the young and healthy live their normal lives.
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> Next best option seems using the internet to target customers from that area and or getting a remote job.

I actually took the remote job path. I work as a freelance tech journalist and content writer for some foreign publications and companies and earn pretty good money, especially for a fresh college graduate.

As to migration, one doesn’t just pack their bags and move to another country, it ain’t easy. My country has many problems, but I dread what it’ll feel like leaving all my family and friends behind along with a system that, though bad, I’m familiar with, and move to a place where I know no one and have no fallback support.

Nonetheless, I do plan to leave my country for some point in my life, but I’ll definitely go back.

Also, I’m currently trying the really difficult route of building a successful online business that targets foreign customers but most of my efforts are proving futile at this point (I won’t give up, however).
The original popcorn time was not maintained for years. I believe most users switched to forks.
I didn’t get that vibe, and the wording of the reference suggesting writing some code at interview seems pretty mild too. You could read something between the lines perhaps, but the wording doesn’t seem unreasonable.

To me, that doesn’t seem like going out of his way to make Sten’s life harder.

Sten’s ability to then write code at interview will determine his chances for getting that role.

If not tested at interview, the new employer would presumably find out pretty quickly and the end result likely the same.
The main problem is these smaller companies usually don't pay very well compared to FAANG.
Link, for those who are looking for the (science table) source: https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/ontario-dashboard/
They maybe dumb but they get more human like.

If I ask those questions on places like reddit or 9gag the quality of the answers reaches similar low levels, excluded special knowledge groups and sections.
Assuming that the person you were working with didn't drain your wallet, there are many tools which can be used to actively monitor for commits being done on GitHub with secrets of sort.

The first one that comes to my mind is shhgit (https://github.com/eth0izzle/shhgit)

Anyone can self host it and then add multiple GitHub Dev keys to it. Then this can be used to monitor GitHub commits being done, majority of which can be categorized as "secrets".
"The conversations are impressively human-like, but they are nothing more than examples of what Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis have called an LLM’s ability to be “a fluent spouter of bullshit” and what Timnit Gebru and three co-authors called “stochastic parrots.”"

As language (especially English) evolves, how 'human like' is "human like"?
But we all agree that the government is legitimate, and so it's use of force is legitimate. Additionally, if the government forced you to pay it $1000 a year, even if you could deposit that in gold, you would still be forced to pay. The currency seems irrelevant.

It seems like what your saying is you believe taxation is legitimate, but requiring taxes to be pain in USD is illegitimate. Which, like, is just your opinion man (and makes the whole argument circular) I don't see any generic argument that makes taxation compatible with your definition of liberty but taxation in USD incompatible". I don't see really any generic definition of liberty that would distinguish between those two actions.

I'm rate limited, but to your example below of a currency no one could obtain, the government could equivalently apply a greater than 100% wealth tax. Or the government could define all speech as force or any number of other things. A capricious government can do bad things yes, but requiring taxes to be paid in a particular currency doesn't give them any more powerful ways to be capricious.
The UK has plenty of private banks printing notes - it doesn't seem to hurt them.
It's trivial as long as there are companies selling one-click solutions to do it.
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That sounds like a fairly typical cold, maybe edging to "bad" in my experience. I'm double vaxxed plus a booster about 1 month ago, and currently have Omicron. I have roughly the same experience as you, although less on the coughing, which is odd because I usually get a lot more coughing with colds.
Any centralized authority with a monopoly on force is going to have to levy taxes. Otherwise you’d end up with people just refusing to pay because they didn’t get the judgements they desire.

If there is a state _at all_ there is force involved. I don’t really understand what you believe is possible here. What you’re discussing is tantamount to assuming that American traditions of due process just exist in a state of nature when they absolutely do not.
I'm one of the authors - its so exciting to see continued interest here!

The biggest problem with Browsix today stems from Spectre mitigations: Shared Array Buffers aren't enabled by default in browsers, and static hosting sites like GitHub Pages don't let you set the right COOP/COEP ( https://web.dev/coop-coep/ ) headers to get them enabled AFAICT.

Additionally, Browsix hasn't been updated in a while, although I still believe the idea is sound. I don't have a lot of time for Browsix these days, but it would be straightforward to update Browsix with WASI support which would free us from having to use a modified Emscripten toolchain (and instantly enable running Rust binaries under Browsix).

[edit]: for additional context: we use Shared Array Buffers to give the kernel and program a shared view of a process's address space to enable fast system calls between Web Workers and the kernel (running in the main browser thread/context). Without them performance is unacceptably slow, as things like read/write system calls (a) require several memcpys and (b) create a bunch of JS garbage. Additionally, without them there isn't a good way to "block" handling a syscall in a WebWorker (which we need to do for non-event-loop C/C++/Rust programs).
This is me arm chairing a bit, but I feel like the term "discriminatory practices" and not "discrimination" is the key here. One is a legal definition, and the other seems to represent something like "leads to discrimination" but not discrimination itself.
> it is backed by the West because a stable dictator

Nazarbayev gave up over 1000 nuclear weapons to be disarmed when he came to power. This came with some explicit and implicit guarantees to not be color-revolutioned by the West.
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There is a big market of folks that install custom firmware on cheap Chinese media players/sticks - they charge a monthly fee (less than Netflix) and stream the pirated content from their own servers.
Ah, interesting. I admit that I am often a schmuck that takes contracts at face value. I have always had it be 24-72 hours. I have even been asked if I would accept an offer immediately (without knowing the salary range or whether I would get permanent remote).
Show me one major media site that takes < 10 seconds to load
> Sten did not get hired at Initrode.

This superfluous remark must be for the readers who think the gift basket from Initrode was because Sten was hired, and demonstrated gift-basket-level excellence in just a few weeks.
Genuinely curious: Why are you confident it will suppress wages?

I think it'll be the opposite. When _everyone_ is posting the wages, it lets companies at the top end use it as a recruiting tool, putting pressure downward to be more competitive on salary, rather than it being a blind negotiation.

There will be lots of companies that will have trouble recruiting, because they just aren't wage competitive.

This seems logical to me, whats the counter to that?
This was already discussed on HN 7 months ago [0]. I'll repeat what I said about it last time:

It's a mistake to focus on Norton in this context. The "correct" way of reading of this headline should be something like "reputable company puts an Ethereum wallet and mining software in the hands of millions of users".

Now imagine if tomorrow Microsoft decided to add a crypto wallet and mining tools to Windows, or Google to Chrome.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27379147
Probably more relevant to dealerships
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i don't know why the parent was modded down. It seems to me the governments are beginning to change the narrative to "the virus is part of life and the best we can do is get back to living.".
Many of us have.

It's very unfortunate that the Covid-anxiety many people have about returning to an office is driving them in the direction of always-remote. Fear is the mind-killer, as they say.
> I also understand that reasonable people can debate whether physical or mental health is more important.

I'm actually unsure what this means. I take it to imnply that physical health is more important, but I'm not convinced of that. Physical health impacts the individual and loved ones (via emotional labor and support). Mental health impacts the community (mass shootings); it's hard to predict the outcome of poor mental health per individual but it's clear on the whole that it's often the community that pays for it.
I understand some companies attempting to exclude CO in order to not post salary bands, but if we're talking about tech (or especially finance), good luck avoiding hiring in NYC.

NYC is home to a ton of tech talent, and that amount seems to be increasing (exodus from SF) since the pandemic started. I'd wager it contains more tech talent than any other city. I can't imagine a competitive tech company not accepting employees from NYC, unless it's an actual top earlier-stage startup like Notion that can afford everyone to colocate in SF.
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> The use of the WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram messenger services for military purposes in the Swiss armed forces is to be banned.

Key part being "for military purposes". To me it is bizarre that these apps were being used in the first place. Does a national military really not have better/more secure ways to communicate internally than off-the-shelf messaging apps?
Not really nude pictures - but I remember playing "Leisure Suit Larry" on MS-DOS as a kid.
I had an HP with similar touch controls (but with function keys) and I was always hitting the volume bar by accident.

This has all the problems of the first-gen Apple Touchbar and none of the benefits (being, essentially, an "iPad Nano" under the screen) of the original.

It's baffling that something like this can reach the market.
i'm swiss, our army is a joke, especially when it comes to IT. a 4+B CHF joke tho.

while i support the use of swiss secure solutions for critical stuff, it should be noted our beautiful militia is mostly there for a reason: allow male teenagers to become men, namely 1) play with explosives, 2) get drunk and 3) loose their virginity with prostitutes.

they will probably allow back these apps for military operations when they discover these are more secure than their proprietary communication systems.

can't wait they get their F35..
I'm pretty sure that GPT-3 and statistics-based approaches to bots aren't going to be truly convincing anytime soon. But there's another definition of "chatbots" that consumer-facing brands use every day to triage questions, attempt to answer them using good but not mind-blowing ML, and then escalate to a human being if/when the problem can't be solved. There is already a thriving market for these "dumb" bots that aren't attempting to have an uncanny valley type conversation - they advertise that they're bots upfront, don't try to be too cute, and provide the escape valve to a real agent when necessary.
Why is it justice to dole out physical harm (prison) for actions that didn't cause physical harm? America has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_United_States_in...).
You nailed it, man. I don't do terribly well on Leetcode interviews, on average, but, for my last job, my interviewer told me some time after I got hired that I had done the best on that interview that she had ever seen. That's because it was a real world question as part of a structured interview process, as opposed to "let's just 4 engineers to throw random problems at the candidate."
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Built on Hyperledger Fabric, a private, permissioned Blockchain framework. It's one of the few implementations I think has legs.

"Look Ma! No Cryptos!"
>> Sit in the front row, ideally the center.

+1 to this. The difference may sound sutble but is strong in reality. Sitting right there in the front of the instructor makes it feel like a 1:1 conversation, which is much more useful.
I don't have WhatsApp on my phone, it not part of the Android standard apps.
Could they instead have more than one set of employees? Maybe have people that only work 4 days a week but the business being open 7?
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We'll agree to disagree on everything you've said then :)
I am not sure either, but its been a few years at this point. I have no desire to work for a FAANG company, or to make even relatively good money, I do try to apply to the smaller places. No need to recite all the hiring tips though, I know them all! Think it's just a combination of bad luck and lack of relevant education (I have an MA, but it's in humanities).

That is encouraging though that not all interviews are like this! I have projected so much into the fantasy of getting a tech interview without ever having one, its easy for me to be swayed one way or another.
It will be very interesting to see how containment countries adapt to the future, where global eradication simply isn't possible. Perhaps there will be a sterilizing vaccine that makes it worth it in the end.

My heart goes out to those impacted by containment strategies. I was talking with someone from NZ or AU (I forget), who hasn't been able to go home an see his wife in two Christmases.
There was the idea that Java Beans would work like the COM model does for Visual Basic and it would be straightforward to build a GUI to build form GUIs.

That never happened, but few visual UI builders have come close to what Visual Basic was in 1995.

I liked JavaFX but I don't miss it.
Mushroomgrowers is probably the best one.
Other people are on that plane with me, but your attitude kinda makes me want to start a highly scalable business so I can one day take a private jet to NYC and really contribute to CO2 emissions.

But you've touched on a real problem with NYC... There's just nothing to do there besides eat at Katz's!

I go up there for my sandwich and then I'm stuck in the hotel for the rest of the weekend because there's never anything going on in NYC!
This might be the best critique of Web3 I've read yet. Especially this:
"Having rejected the foundational protocols of the web, these systems sail a parallel plane, connecting only over "bridges" and "gateways" which, in turn, give those who run the gateways incredible centralised power."
Well, it's not like they have a good reputation to maintain.
Yup, but with the opposite lesson. Giving up is a death sentence. Not giving up also is probably a death sentence, but it’s not an absolute certainty.
At the latest since Crypto AG, Switzerland can no longer be trusted.
I was aware of that, hence my initial statement (although TBH I expected the subsequent downvoting, which I clearly got because some folks don't want to see patterns of that kind of behavior as likely to escalate over time), I just didn't want to dig back in time to the literature, so thanks for that. To that end: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2573025/
In progress might be a better way to put it.

The copyright looks old on that page but if you view the source code for that chapter it was modified last month.
> So, starting today we are reviewing if and how our current policy on crypto donations fits with our climate goals. And as we conduct our review, we will pause the ability to donate cryptocurrency

You mean Bitcoin, Ethereum? Since they are the biggest ones currently 'destroying' the planet? I'm sure there exist eco-friendly cryptocurrencies that are suitable for donations?

But never-mind though, Bitcoin and Ethereum = ALL cryptocurrencies somehow.

So back to receiving Google's money.
That would be a separate case I would think, and not one that Gibbons' relatives would be likely to win.
Let's hope this turns out better than with Omnisec.

Omnisec AG was a swiss company with (hidden) ties to US intelligence services [1] that produced manipulated encryption devices. Switzerland's military was also using Omnisec hardware and I doubt they received the "proper" ones.

[1] https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/second-swiss-firm-allegedly-sol...
I'd love to see a numbers breakdown estimating the impact Omicron would have on the US if we had a nearly complete (say 90%) vaccination rate. How many infections would we be seeing, how many hospitalizations, how many people in the ICU? How much would this strain our healthcare system? And how would that compare with, say, the flu?
'power to trick' - that hit the nail on the head! The oligarchs, higher level bureaucrats, politicians, extreme wealthy etc. that is the superpower, at their core, they are magicians but not in a good, fun way, more like con-man who have mastered the power to _trick_ and deceive. I came to the conclusion sometime ago, that all these people of power and position are really just charlatans, albeit extremely good ones, they are nothing to aspire to and respect, they are no better then a grifter using 'slight of hand' and deception to remove as much wealth and power from others to themselves and when all else fails, they will resort to force/war if need be. In a nutshell, nothing but liars, cheats, cowards and dishonorable megalomaniacs that put on a (good) show for us peasants to better rob us blind.
This is mentioned in the first paragraph of the article:

> Its original developers took the service down and abandoned the project merely a few days after it launched in 2014. But since the project was open source, other developers were able pick up where they left off, and it's been killed and revived a few more times ever since.
I think things started to go wrong here

> The knight then grabs his longsword and bows.

"bow" here probably refers to "a bending of the head or body in respect, submission, assent, or salutation", rather than to the weapon. The knight grabbed his longsword and bowed to you. Your confusion then confused the game.

This does expose an interesting common "failure mode" for these types of bots: they assume that all conversations are rational, and are conducted in good faith (as in, no one misunderstands or is actively trying to confuse them). Janelle Shane likes to test AIs that attempt to describe the content of images by asking "how many giraffes are in the picture?", and since most of these have been trained to answer what is in a picture rather than what's not in a picture, they tend to assume that there must be some number of giraffes, and provide answers like "there are 1.5 giraffes".
I wonder if anybody has estimations of the contribution of anti-virus software to global warming. They run on almost all desktop computers, are generally large and bloated applications that consume tons of cpu for their continuous scans, I would not be too surprised if was far from negligible.
"Java" in 1996 isn't what Java is today. In 1996 Suns focus was providing a runtime for executing code anywhere on the network, on any machine. That's why security managers, class loaders, applets, rmi, and jndi were baked in from the beginning. That future didn't pan out; no one wanted to run other peoples code. So J2EE was the pivot to the Enterprise and server apps. That's what we ended up with.

In a way, Gates may have been imagining or extrapolating the "run code anywhere" idea to the cloud services of today, which we've seen is a bit of a threat to proprietary operating systems. Well, more than a bit.
More precisely, it's like selling a crypto miner with every new car. The use case overlap with a piece of security software is close to zero.
They are actually terrorists by definition. I mean those taking over the airport, police stations etc. There are peaceful protesters, but the troops are not after them
Honestly, I feel like the reaction would be similar.