skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also: think about all the candidates you implicitly reject and others reject. They are an opportunity. Hire people that no one else wants (for wrong reasons).

Go to universities and hire motivated juniors. Offer paid internships etc.

Highly recommend to follow https://twitter.com/gergelyorosz
I work for a small-ish engineering firm on a small rock off the Norwegian coast.

The local labour market for engineers, technicians and developers is pretty much empty - as in, everybody with the skills required and the desire to live here already does.

Recruiting more often than not means sniping, or, if we're lucky - that someone has recently found a partner with desirable skills and coaxed them into moving up here.

Anyway, we've found that word of mouth is the most effective way; we simply let friends and associates, former colleagues and whatnot know that we're looking for X.

This is a hundred times more effective than LinkedIn for vetting candidates - people are quite unlikely to uncritically recommend someone when they will be reminded of their sell-in for years if it is a dud. (Much unlike LinkedIn endorsements...)

It turns out with friends&associates, friends&associates' friends&associates &c, you can cast a quite wide net - and also, the sell-in works better both ways; the candidates who do show up for interviews already have been told ours is a good place to be and are, more often than not, a good cultural fit.

(And, before someone asks - 'cultural fit' means 'Happy to work in a rather unstructured madhouse where the unofficial motto is 'We've never done that before, so we're probably quite good at it!') - we've assembled a motley crew from just about every nook and cranny of the planet, from Sri Lanka via Belarus to Argentina and Japan and lots inbetween. Oh, and the occasional Norwegian. All making world-class subsea equipment on a small islet way out in the boonies.
Hey, I see you're on Odyssey at least \o/

https://odysee.com/@Naomi-SexyCyborg-Wu:b
In what way[s] for the Apple Watch?
> To be free, you have to stop wanting approval.

Which really pisses off the people around you. "Crab bucket" time.
For me, note-taking is:

1) a symptom of being a freelancer with multiple clients who revisits projects sometimes a decade after doing them. It is the only way to proceed -- even if you were to assert that persistent "documentation" of a project is distinct from "notes" about it, those notes are still essential.

2) a route towards making that documentation; it's easier to assemble documentation from things you've noted than to start with a blank page.

3) a way to know, deeply, what it is I actually think about something. Not just what I think right now in that moment, but why. What facts I took into account; what facts I disregarded, why I disregarded them, and why I might need to revisit that next time.
I'd actually be pretty surprised if the fully loaded cost of an employee in the UK was higher than an equivalent in the US.

Mind you - I'd love to see hard figures!
The first part about PIP is bs. No one on any of my teams got pipped and I know of only 1 person that I know who got pip'd (in my 5+ years there). No one is forcing managers to fire engineers. Most teams can't fill their headcount and are constantly short-staffed with the turnover so even if for some reason amazon wanted to "fire" 10% of the people on each team it doesn't make sense for them to do so from a business perspective as none of the projects/goals would be met if they did that.

The only accurate part is the last part where you said that it can be stressful and there are sometimes long hours but working weekends is not "common" unless you are oncall and even when you are oncall on most teams you likely won't even be paged.
> You have to ask yourself where is the line for critical thinking, for example flat earthers

There is no line. Everything and anything can be questioned.

There is nothing wrong with questioning the shape of the earth and then devising experiments to figure it out for yourself (as some flat earthers have done).

What the flat earthers do wrong however, is to then not trust the results of the experiments they themselves have devised (since these experiments invariably show the earth is not flat).

This documentary is really fascinating in that regard: https://www.netflix.com/de-en/title/81015076
Note-taking is a really reliable route out of OCD rumination, actually.

My day can be ruined by positive and negative ruminations. Writing stuff down really helps me let go of them.
So multiplying lies and propaganda is free speech?
Jow Rogan is free to talk his nonsense. Amplifying life threatening nonsense is not protecting free speech, it's greed, it's making money over others misfortune.

Rogan et Al. Know they spew nonsense, they don't believe their shit, it's just for the lolz. They are chaos agents enjoying seeing the world crumble while making money of it.
"Showing an openness to discussion "

Hell yes - there is way too much fanatism in this whole debate and I am frankly quite disappointed with Neil Young's initiative. This is not rocking the free world for me.
The real money is in the US - their wages dwarf UK's and Western Europe's programmers' salaries no matter how you look at it.
I do love the mission statement...

"Adventure before dementia..."
A mask is not a human rights abuse.

You know the difference between "the terrorists will get us" and "wear a mask to help protect others"? Only the second one is based in fact. Just because you refuse to believe such doesn't change this.
80k what? £80k is more than $100k. Or did you mean that the UK average is the GBP equivalent of $80k?
Low-moderation platforms tend to have...issues.

They attract trolls and extremists, the regular people don't like sharing space with trolls and extremists, so they leave. Rinse and repeat for a while, and soon all the normal people are gone.

If Facebook permitted everything, they'd just be committing business suicide.
I was expecting this question as some point and I was wondering myself the exact same thing. I started out takes notes a long time ago and it was helpful it was just not easy accessible so started my journey to find a better tool. I still have not found the best tool to do it in but the one I am using now is OKish. So each time the topic arises I really 'take note' (pun intended)
This may be a generational thing, but most IT security even a mere 20 years ago focused heavily on the human elements. Networks were different back then and people were far easier to dupe. You usually had to be on site to gain access to anything interesting. The social engineering tricks people roll their eyes at these days were invented back then for this purpose. Hacking is a broad term with deep roots. Let’s not gatekeep it too hard.
> There is no Intel 14core laptop with <45w power budget at the frequencies this benchmark was performed.

I didn't say anything about frequencies. :-)

But there is https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Core-i7-1280P-Processor-... which is 14core P series model with power envelop of 28w. I would personally take 5-10% lower performance if it results in decent efficiency.
While some people certainly seem to subscribe to "feeling their masculinity/world-view is threatened" interpretation, the fundamental problem that q lot of people don't seem to understand is that the internet changed the mechanics of fame.

The best explanation I've seen - and possibly the most important video on youtube - is "This Is Phil Fish"[1] by Innuendo Studios. It's not really about Phil Fish; it's about everyone who isn't Phil Fish acted when they decided he became "famous". In the past, being "on tv" or "in a band" or other traditional examples of fame required some amount of buying into fame. Becoming famous required media access that was controlled by gatekeepers. You had to work with those gatekeepers if you wanted to be "on tv" or whatever, and because you had to choose to participate, people often see the decision to become famous as also accepting some amount of responsibility to "act like famous people are supposed to act".

This internet fundamentally changed the mechanics of fame, because the internet IS media access. Now it is possible to become famous - to become a "celebrity" with a "responsibility" to act in a certain way - simply by being yourself in your normal everyday life.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmTUW-owa2w
It would fail, or at least be hard, for the reasons I listed.
I guess it depends on the stage, and funding level.

Those that have raised a large seed round (e.g. YC companies), or Series A, $100K USD for a senior engineer is pretty common.

Most of the remote jobs advertised here will be expecting that, including the UK companies:

https://www.workatastartup.com/jobs/l/engineering

Disclosure: YC Company in London. Not hiring, but our peers are hiring with these kind of salaries in mind. Not happily mind you - employers never like it when the market favours job-seekers!
Spotify committed to a deal they would have estimated around $1 per year per premium member on exclusive rights to JRE. Neil Young may want to influence their choices in how they mediate social/political discourse that doesn't change the discussion musicians should be having about whether they are the equivalent of films on Netflix. Sidelined for original/exclusive content that inherently has to have a social/political mediation run by Spotify.
Q: Is the leetcode grind necessary to land a high paying remote job?

A: No, you can get a good remote job without it.

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Q: Is being good at leetcode-style problems necessary to land a job at certain companies (like the FAANGs you mentioned but others too)?

A: Yes, you'll need to be good at these problems.

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Q: Is "the leetcode grind" necessary to get good at these problems?

A: It depends on your background, on your current level and on how well you want to prepare.
see also https://www.androidpolice.com/google-surve-free-legacy-g-sui...
As a developer, I frequently wonder about the exact opposite question: where does one learn about companies in need of developers, and about what these companies do and how they do it. For example, if I were a frontend web developer looking for a company that builds their product(s) as a progressive web app using web components, where would I look?

It's easy to find job boards filled with ads from recruiters; but hard to discover companies that you might like to work for.
Raiding graves, not to rob but to remember
> Well, I wouldn't agree with you, as journalists (and here I mean real journalists) are often members of professional organisation and they have code of conduct

This is a "no true Scotsman" fallacy. Clearly there are professional journalists who are not adhering to the code of conduct. So clearly you will claim that they are not "real" journalists, and that journalists are only "real" journalists if they adhere to the code of conduct. But this doesn't stop anyone from claiming to be a journalist, getting paid to be a journalist, or being part of the professional organisation while completely ignoring the code of conduct (as so many do).

> What we will have, oxygen deniers? They don't recognize oxygen?

We need the wacky thinkers. Yes, having someone champion a Flat Earth is a good thing. Groupthink is a very real danger. Remember the story of Plate Tectonics (someone saw how S America and Africa fit together, put together a theory that continents moved, was derided as a crackpot from all corners of Academia, turned out to be right [0]). Having an Oxygen Denier around would be a good thing, not a bad thing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_tectonics#History_of_the...
I wonder why would that be or where would that extra money would be going given we're talking pre-tax figures.
Everyone focuses on note taking.

Without the review and transformative writing curation of past notes its not very useful as it then mirrors someone focusing solely on getting good grades via route but never ever transforming that route into knowledge.
if there were a new sliced bread, irc was it
>The usual way to track knowledge and tasks is within a project. You come to a road block, do research, overcome, and continue.

That might be your personal experience/bias speaking.

For many creative endeavours there's not a "single project" where you do research, finish, wrap up and that's it. You need to track lots of pieces of information across many projects, domains, and across time.
Woow, thanks very much for this piece of interestingness. What even is this?

Even ad rolls (if you dig out the video id) have some sort of interesting "noone will see this" title :)

And random apps on the Play Store also have video titles.

Adding the video to Watch Later by replaying the request using cURL seems to work, at which point I can add the video to a playlist to find it later (yay), and also click through to see the uploader: https://www.youtube.com/user/GameloftVideos

Except for the bit where it says "This channel is not available" using the YouTube design from a few years ago and displays absolutely nothing, the account is perfectly normal, nothing to see here.

Wow.

What even is this?? [Edit: just realized I forgot I said that above. I'm leaving it in :P]
I’m much the same. I only keep note of:

- Stuff that has a lot of details that rarely change (all my insurance policies, what they cover, the policy numbers etc.

- Details that are “hot” in my mind right now that I might need in the same detail later (the steps to refill my boiler, the exact type of door handle I bought for my bathroom door when it broke, so I can purchase the same one once my kitchen door handle breaks)

With anything else (like, notes on books I read, notes on work I did) I either:

- Make too detailed notes which take too long
- Make too short notes that don’t hold any value
- Never feel a need to recall them
- Never remember to recall them if a situation arises

Still interesting to read how other do it.
It's much more expensive to hire in the US than UK, for engineering in particular.

Context - We have a UK company with US parent, and choose to hire in the UK for this reason.
Dislike isn't the same thing as questioning his merit as a footballer though. Especially as he is widely heralded as the being one of the best players of all time. I'd also suggest that disliking Ronaldo because he poses in sexy adverts is also pretty closely aligned with the same cultural issues that lead to dismissing women. And whilst I can definitely agree there will be some men who dismiss Ronaldo's merit as a footballer for being too sexy there is a massive difference in degree when compared to the general treatment of women for the same.
Well depends on how much i want to run, that adjustment period i usually take for setting a deeper & slower breathing tempo which helps with energy during longer runs(i think some may call this trying to avoid 'negative energy' in endurance terms).I have the same reaction usually with colder temps: go faster->higher blood flow->feel less cold.I also do more breaks in summer,it's definitely worse.I guess my lower BMI & generally less time for recovery immediately after are the main reasons for these changes.
I kinda wonder what kind of salaries FAANGs can pay while working remotely right now, outside of US.
While in US salaries can be veryy good, for example Google in Poland is known for paying pretty bad
scrolly, not story ;)
I guess they're referring to the upgrade from manual to automatic switchboards.
Author here. I think there needs to be more discussion about publication of dangerous biological protocols, and this one isn't particularly bad actually. (Truly evil people would want something worse than SARS-CoV-2.)
Meanwhile, my Release Radar playlist has about 30% songs that are unavailable and the home screen is full of recommendations for podcasts I don't care about.

Can anyone recommend a good alternative? Preferably with a decent selection of obscure metal. I'd like to try some other paid sevices before reverting to piracy.
Leetcode is not an 'absolute necessity'. Many firms do timed homework (I have seen anywhere from 90-min to 3-day time limits). I personally have not observed any statistical correlation between salary level and leetcode requirements; or know of any data studies on this.

That said, I have seen that even those firms without rigorous leetcode rounds have mini-leetcode questions during onsite that are the easiest of the easy leetcode problems; e.g. find the sum of an array of ints, find a duplicate item in an array, etc. So, I don't think you can avoid these questions completely, but at the same time, summing up an array seems like a fair sanity check for dev applicants. I saw one programmer (PhD!) from a Top-3 school in Europe that could not find a maximum value in an array. So, yes, some sanity checks, but I don't think this is what you are concerned about.

All those examples I mentioned above pay above (some well above) 150k USD TC.
If you want to make EUR100k/year go on upwork and charge EUR65/hour, take 4 weeks holiday and allow a 40% margin for non-billable hours. You can make that hourly rate doing any number of things that require no CS knowledge.
Well if they don’t have a job at all and/or their passion does not bring in an income from said passion then I don’t know how they will put food on the table.

My point was that this person conveyed themselves as a 30 year old dog walker who sleeps on the job and wants to work less hours. But if they could follow their passion they would want to teach. But this person was not making any strides in achieving this at all.
You may not need that extra protection (now), but society does.

It’s just like all the other kinds of safety measures we expect, such as seat belts, regulations w.r.t. food safety, fire protection, standards for tool safety, etc.

Nothing of that is needed, until you need it (I’ve never needed seat belts or airbags, for example, but can understand society requiring them)

If the industry hadn’t forced the world to https, I think governments would have.
> DOS door games

I learned about programming DOS comms, interrupts, TSRs, etc as a young teenager by writing a shareware door support library for PCBoard and QuickBBS in Turbo Pascal called TriDoor. It was only mildly successful as shareware (I think I made a total of about $300) but it taught me a lot and I made a bunch of friends along the way. I later embarked on writing a MUD like BBS package, but went off to college before it was finished. As soon as I had access to the net, the BBS got way less interesting for me.
> If note taking is used to help with memory, it should be done under rules or supervision, in my opinion.

You're kind of implying that failing memory is unusual/exceptional and that it needs particular attention.

Here's the cold hard truth of memory: your memory isn't as good as you think it is. No one's memory is as good as they think it is. And nothing you remember comes back out of your memory quite the way it went in.

Writing good, complete notes that could be read by someone else (complete sentences) helps you design the prompts for your future recall of something complicated. Because one day you'll be that someone else.

When I write code, I try to write code and comments that a version of me that is ten years older and persistently two hours short of sleep will be able to cope with at 10pm. My tireder, older self. Because one day he'll have to read it, understand it, and change it.

I try to write notes the same way!
"If your hot take on politics is that climate change, COVID and the war on terror are all the same thing "

I did not read it like this, but rather that all those topics are used by politicians in the same way. To generate fear, to control people. Neverending crisis. Neverending war. Rigid, emergency exemption laws for all eternity.
Very well described by Orwell in 1984 already.
I have a degenerative brain disease so if I don't write it up it's gone.
There’s nothing inherently amoral about nudity. Demanding modesty of others, and expressing how bad they make you feel, is a reflection of yourself and the damage that others have done to you.

While fascinating to read through the thread here on all variations and manifestations of evil in each eye of the beholder, please bear in mind that these are uniquely held disturbances from the writer.
I strongly disagree, this is equivalent to yelling fire in my opinion.
Is the Guardian elite enough for you?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/16/malta-car-bomb...

Not the whistleblower, but the journalist who investigated it.

Now, before you say this is proof that journalists are impartial and not beholden to elites... this is proof that journalists who act against the interests of the powerful and wealthy get terminated.

Other "journalists" see this and take note.

That's the stick. Then there are also the carrots.
Late but I have texted a number of times with the Kagi team and they do pay for API access.
And supplementing this rant: a very frustrating aspect of all this is these things are predictable at a high level.

* It is certain that in a given lifetime there will be some hostile act that causes hundreds to thousands of deaths.

* When you look at how quickly people can travel the world, it was pretty clear there were going to be some pretty horrific diseases this century. We're thankful that it wasn't Ebola.

* The climate has been a matter of crisis since biblical times.

* Financial markets are obviously healthy, deindustrialisation of advanced economies is a sign of sustainable progress, printing money then handing it out to asset owners has becoming the normal response because it has proven to work very well and isn't causing any social pressures at all (people voted for Trump only due to racism). So maybe the next financial crisis is unpredictable. Things seem pretty rosy in this department. No need to prepare.

Why humans are programmed to wait until midway through a crisis to start identifying the risks is a puzzler. The problems are very obvious unless people listen to mass media.
It's not that we should never try to establish facts. Rather, we should never prevent people from challenging them.
Balaji Srinivasan's scenario where both sides lose, https://old.reddit.com/r/weirdcollapse/comments/sbwf3e/balaj...

> What’s coming isn’t fascism or communism, like the left-wing and right-wing pundits will have you believe, even though they don’t believe it themselves. What’s coming is the exact opposite of that, a world where the civilized concepts of freedom and equity are extrapolated to their decivilizational limit, where you ain’t the boss of me and we are all equal, where all hierarchy is illegitimate and with it all authority, where no one is in charge and everything is in chaos.

> You can argue this may be preferable to the status quo, in the same way the chaotic Russia of the 1990s was on balance better than the authoritarian Soviet Union of the ’80s. You can argue it may be inevitable; as the Chinese proverb goes, “the empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide.” And you can argue that this transitional period of anarchy may be lamentable, but that it’s better than the other team being in charge, and that we can build a better order on the other side.

> Maybe so. But prior to any rebundling, I think we’re on track for quite the unbundling.
> By far the most widely-used character set, and the one which is easiest to work with for most implementors, is ASCII (IA5String) or latin-1 (T61String). Coming in a rather distant second is Unicode (BMPString), which has somewhat patchy support on most systems and is often difficult to convert into anything useful. Allow only Unicode strings wherever text strings are used. This has the added advantage that no 1988-level ASN.1 compiler can handle the ASN.1.

Ha, how the times have changed. I'm glad we've learned that forcing US ASCII on everyone just for programmers' ease is a bad idea, especially for an international standard. Of course the Unicode standard used for PFX is a rather obscure one, but at least it's Unicode...