skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The contract that the interviewer has may not look anything like the one you are going to get. The only contract that matters is the one you sign.

Every company will negotiate the contract with you and they will frequently be happy to negotiate other things than just your bare salary. There might be things that you care more than others and the company will be happy to provide you with.

A lot of people treat the contract as a formality. Don't. The contract is there for you to feel safe and for the company to get what they need, too. This is the actual agreement between you, everything you had before should lead to writing down what you figured out in form of a contract.

As to asking for reasons of previous person leaving, I think turnover rate is definitely better question. One that can be followed with an actual discussion about the reasons for this or the actions that are being implemented, etc.
Being in a country which is not sympathetic to their targets. Then you can have office buildings and payroll and everything, right out in the open.
Nuclear war is more unsafe than releasing a corona virus and yet it is a possibility. Releasing corona virus is not as bad as a nuclear strike. Where does it land in terms of how to respond. There is no threat of China invading the U.S. and vice versa but there is a threat of causing a global disruption. China is much better equipped to deal with a viral outbreak than the U.S. This is especially so given the effects of disinformation regarding vaccines has caused. The CCP is much better equipped to deal with supply chain issues than either major party in the U.S.

Sometimes just the threat of releasing something is enough to change the response other nations are willing to do. If China invades Taiwan are we willing to risk dire consequences by militarily intervening? Suppose a virus is released but has less effect on people with genetic markers that East Asian people have but Europeans and Africans do not.

I believe your view of how a corona virus can be used is too limited.
There's an existing GitHub ask for this to be implemented. It's not terrible jumping between work and personal and work environments but it would be nice if I didn't have to.
Most port forwarding you need to connect to Fly apps is baked in. Here's how to get at a remote postgres:

$ flyctl proxy 15432:5432 -s -a fizz-db
? Select instance: [Use arrows to move, type to filter]
> gru.fizz-db.internal
iad.fizz-db.internal
lax.fizz-db.internal
lhr.fizz-db.internal
ord (fdaa:0:446b:a7b:20db:0:77a5:2)
ord (fdaa:0:446b:a7b:20dc:0:784c:2)
yyz.fizz-db.internal

That forwards whichever you select to local port 15432.
How does this compare to the new Geometry Nodes in Blender? The flexibility of what people are producing in Blender 3.0 is staggering.
Not necessrily mask, but defenitely people brought of the question of "cleanliness", which might be very close to hand washing and mask wearing: https://www.vox.com/2020/2/7/21126758/coronavirus-xenophobia...
Your iPhone cannot get hot because of protections built into the platform. Apps are heavily restricted in the damage they can do (and the runtime they can have). No app can render your phone unusable unless it exploits these protections.

The real thing keeping people safe is the operating system itself. The App Store is just a revocation mechanism for when something defeats those platform protections. That is what Developer ID is about on macOS: a revocation mechanism, only activated when platform security is breached.

People think that sideloading means Apple can’t scan for malware… Apple signs every single notarized binary
Another data point for you: I knew ~80% of the words from both sides. Because I read sci-fi, study Japanese, and sew. I feel like I broke the test.
Very poor reasoning in this article.

He totally ignored the business fundamentals of the entertainment industry. Content is king and content is an extremely capital-intensive business. No existing entertainment business is willing to cooperate on content distribution because that would severely reduce their margins.

Netflix's strategy is indeed the right strategy because they can create long-lasting IP and horizontally expand their business into other entertainment verticals.

Aggregation is by far the worst strategy in content distribution because you don't have bargaining power. As you start adding users to your platform, you will proportionally lose power to renegotiate licenses because IP owners will attribute your growth to their content. It's a zero-sum game.
That article doesn't say much about education right? Just age
Star Trek Remembers VFX Pioneer Douglas Trumbull, Will Name a Ship in His Honor
At the height of a loneliness epidemic, it's hard to get a personality and talk to people.

Don't get me wrong, your conclusion is spot on. Getting there is the hard part.

Another factor is we live in a period in time where we have so much choice on how to spend our time, products that are personalized to each of our own tastes, that creates sparsity of shared experiences.

No longer is there a movie like Star Wars, that you could throw a stick and find someone who shares that experience. Now unless you're suckling from the teat of mainstream media, you need to go out of your way to find someone who shares your taste in film, music, art, games and ideas.

I'm honestly surprised there hasn't been an experiment adding a social component to Netflix.
With regard to this particular personality axis, I often wonder if companies like TikTok, Facebook, Google, etc have a propensity score (or similar) associated with each user.
HBO is Warner Media. They'll be fine. Microsoft thought it was going to own all of media in the early oughts, and produced... Slate and MSNBC. Apple isn't making much of a dent with Apple TV.
We have other terms and other words we use when talking about some of those things.
Hate crimes against AAPI went up 339% last year: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/anti-asian-hate-c...

That's remarkably higher than the average increase.
Upvoted, not for the article but for the discussion here, that generally suggests it was contamination.
You are posting this question into what is mostly an anti-crypto echo chamber.

It's a bit like asking "is the internet just a big scam" in 1998 at a magazine and newspaper trade conference.

The people here are too engrossed in the world they built and lack the imagination for how it could be completely transformed to offer you an objective answer.

My opinion is that 98% of crypto is either a scam or just bad ideas that will fail, but the remaining 2% will be the foundation the future of commerce and technology will be built on.
Wait. What will they do to babies?!
You aren't wrong about the writing style. Reading it is a hard slog.

> The idea here seem to be a security token that generates its own random key and never lets it out of the device.

That is an idea. It's one that's been around since the first pin pads were developed a few decades ago that have since evolved into the TPM's we have today. But it's not the idea being pushed here. What's being pushed here is a way of protecting the key.

The answer to the question "if you have access to the key long enough to extract the key why do you need to clone it" is simple enough. It can resist giving up it's information until you prove you're you. Example: enter the wrong PUK in 8 times and it destroys it's secret key. It's another concept that's been around for literally decades.

There are stories about people going to enormous lengths to extract the keys out of similar devices that will resist merely probing them. The one that sticks in my mind was Mondex, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondex, where a University used an election beam to reconnect some test pins (which I presume performed a very similar function to the JTAG on this device) to extract secret keys. That "hack" killed Mondex, although "hack" is probably the wrong word. Mondex put up a $1M prize, and the hackers won it.

There are also Youtube videos of people reverse engineering chips using little more sandpaper and a digital microscope. And they do that for little more than few seconds fame on Youtube. At the other end of the scale, the lengths people are willing to go to protect secret keys is extraordinary. Look up the price of HSMs some time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_security_module

So I say your wrong - a iron clad way of protecting the key really is a big deal. A cheap, true PUF (as they call it) would be a breakthrough. But after reading the article and the comments here - I have no idea if they've even moved the needle.
I think there's a misunderstanding about what Netflix has to do.

Netflix has to provide content that everyone enjoys. Everyone doesn't like the same thing, so it's necessary to have a bunch of content near "interest clusters" that exist within "everyone". This necessarily means that the majority of content will be disliked by any one person, because no one person likes all the genres. All that matters is that the hours of entertainment that you will enjoy is enough to justify the fee, each month. If you actually liked 90% of the shows on Netflix, the company would almost certainly be a failure, since that would mean they were only targeting your interest clusters, which is almost certainly very small compared to the whole interest space.
And that rare contamination would happen exactly with the most dangerous (at least world impact-wise), in decades? Still plausible?
The Good Place isn't a Netflix original. It's an NBC show.
I was hired to create a software department in a well-funded , but "old" hardware-oriented company with ~100 employees. In retrospect it's "funny" how much time I spent trying to get the company to accept that developers should be able to use e.g. Linux/Mac, rather than Windows. It tooks several weeks of actual time spent. Insane.

I got there eventually. It's one of those things you don't expect, having worked with smart and flexible software people your entire previous work life. These hardware people were smart, but also incredibly "square", for the lack of a better term. Everything was so insanely rigid.

So much more to tell, but in general: be aware that hardware company culture is very, very different. I don't think it's possible to change the culture unless you change the CEO.
I guess the real question is, how many came down with flu symptoms in November 2018? Or 2017?
By supporting closed ecosystems designed to take away power from you?

Take one guess.
I'll add

- How technical is the CEO? Can/does s/he program? Ph.D. Degree? If the answer is anything yes to the former it bumps up by ~10% the salary expectations (12% if she's a music major).

- Who (name and function) does the group (my boss' boss) report to?

- How's internal accounting structured: is this division a profit center or a cost center (if cost center, bump up amount by 25%)

- What's the philosophy behind compensation? Somewhere serious will use a stock based comp. If they don't, or tell you it's not in the local customs, maybe they would be more comfortable with your consulting rates.

The rest (how they raised money) you should already have a pretty good idea before walking through the door (pitchbook is your friend or just ask around). Free drinks and admin rights on workstations are a given, of course, for any serious offer.
Did the First Americans Arrive via Land Bridge? This Geneticist Says No
I like the way android gates access to developer mode.

You have to go through the settings and find your build number, then tap it 7 times. Super easy for someone knowledgeable to intentionally do, but basically impossible for someone to do accidentally / get tricked into.
They're not usually working off of a broken model, they legitimately get no positive interaction with women.
The number of hours I've lost to this game are uncountable.
I'm guessing checking boxes for KYC requirements.
As an interviewer, I've been on the receiving end of most of those questions (or some variation of them). It's a pretty reasonable list.

One thing though is that most interviewers don't leave a whole lot of room for a barrage of questions so you really need to pick the two or three that you really want the answers to. For example, you probably don't want to waste time asking explicitly about version control at a company that you know does open source on github. Open ended questions about engineering culture will give you a much better picture (e.g. what's the story w/ tests or deployments or design autonomy or whatever).

Or, what you can do in addition is ask the recruiter (or whoever the first point of contact is) if you could spend 30 mins to talk to someone on the team, outside of the interview window, just to have a casual chat. Some companies have this arrangement setup as an official transparency program, others are more than happy to arrange it informally.
That feels low to me. I dropped out after half a year at a state college and had to pay $20k. I do not believe those numbers.

https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/loans/student-loans/stude...

There seems to be a bunch of variability here. In support of my original assertion of 150-200k, that site has multiple average debts for different fields in my stated range.

Actually, the article you linked confirms my original statement. Look at the "graduate loan debt" section.

From the article you linked:
Average student loan debt for a professional degree from a private, nonprofit institution $243,300

I have no idea how they got 28k when most every number I see on that page is much larger.
Also you could argue that Virologists also have a conflict of interest, speaking out in support of the lab leak theory would not only jeopardize their ability to continue receiving grants from the NIH, but also could result strict regulations/bans on the majority of their research.

So Virologists have a choice:
A: State that this virus is natural and be hailed as heroes as funding into your field and research floods in.
B: Back the Lab Origin betraying all of their colleagues, become social pariahs and hated in society for being guilty by association for 6+ million deaths. All while you life's work and career all gets thrown down the drain.

For a Virologist supporting the lab origin only has downsides.
Is one guy on Substack now "the media"? If so then I'm starting to understand why "the media" has become the go-to bogeyman for any cause we want to complain is under assault.
This article makes me embarrassed. Not that they wrote the article, but that it had to be written.

A single web application with a single database is how everything should be built unless necessity demands more complexity.

It's the way people do things in the "uncool" enterprise world every single day.
Push messaging isn't really that hard. Sure, one connection per device adds up, and you've got to manage the queue of messages, and authenticating devices, etc.

The hidden challenge is tracking connection tracking timeouts in stateful firewalls and NAT gateways, so you can keep connections alive with the minimun of data exchanged. This is like if ISP A has a clean network, you only need to ping once an hour, but any packet sent will be recieved without delay; but ISP B needs a ping every 60 seconds or further packets will be dropped without notification. This isn't that hard either.

Bandwidth of push messaging is nothing compared to app downloads, and probably more of the effort would be on attracting quality applications and vetting applications and maintaining business relationships.

All that said, Google lets non-play apps use Google push, as long as the phone has play services, not sure why Apple would do it differently.
The original paper, which is more informative and less spin-heavy, suggests an infected technician or PCR test of a virus sample were relatively unlikely to be the source.

It also suggests there were likely samples taken from at least three different infected hosts, one of which was a southeast Asian human and two of which are common lab animals and cell cultures known to have been used for published studies of SARS-COV-2. This is of course consistent with a novel virus discovered in humans being tested in animal cell cultures (whether before China had publicly acknowledged COVID-19, or in January when it was publicly disclosed and it's known that SARS-COV-2 being studied in animal cell cultures) as well as the more sensational scenario

https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-1330800/v1
Apple removed the Bluetooth Explorer, can't use high quality headset anymore
Isn’t it a UK vs US thing?
That's only true for free developer accounts. If you pay the $99 dollar fee for a proper developer account, your apps' signatures won't expiry that quickly.
What disposal? Less than 1% of the solar plants have been ever decommissioned. It's hard to set up recycling plants if you have nothing to recycle yet.
I would expect that these used cases are well served by traditional RDMBS replication setups and/or caching.
> Which microprocessor architecture does this?

As far as I know, all of them. It's possible that there are historical systems where DRAM configuration is fixed, but I wouldn't know about it. Any modern system requires rather complicated configuration to get the DRAM going.
> Many Priuses integrate parts of the power train into the radio. I suspect they'd have serious issues too.

Priuses can display powertrain data on the screen (such as which engines are operating, whether regen is happening, etc.) but I have never seen anything in the screen on any Prius that actually sends control data to the powertrain.

> If a Model 3 had an analogous bug, then everything from the windshield washers to the climate control and rear view mirrors would be borked (I'd guess phone-based unlock would be too, at a minimum.)

Actually it's possible to phone-unlock and drive a Model 3 with the screen completely turned off or broken. I've done it.
I just presented my interpretation of events based on a couple Nature articles and some other research/news that surfaced during early days of covid spread

everybody can form their own opinion based on what is in there
I am a strong proponent of Fusion energy and did some work on the subject in undergrad.

This is not a major breakthrough, it's a benchmark.

A major breakthrough would be materials that could withstand the neutron bombardment longer, the ultimate limiting factor for fusion energy plants after we achieve positive net energy.
Despite the fact that Reddit's success comes from the open web, all their focus now is on their app. I think this is a mistake.

Do you think this is a generational or an economic decision? In other words, do the third generation PMs at Reddit simply think the web sucks, or do they prefer the app because it generates more revenue since, among other features, it's harder to block ads? Or something else? Do Reddit users really only prefer the app?
For example,

https://mitili.mit.edu/sites/default/files/project-documents...

https://ideas.repec.org/a/uwp/jhriss/v48y2013i1p236-264.html

(Not the exact studies I remember seeing.)

It's a common finding and one of the rare effects in the social sciences that are very reproducible.
I remember when working for Netflix there were three moments where I realized I joined a different company than I thought. I realized they combined engineer’s misunderstanding of their business and combined it high salaries provided by similarly confused investors to dominate a single vertical with no appetite to ever compete with the actual tech companies.

1) Seeing the Netflix prototype set top box and learning it was spun out into Roku

2) Hearing leadership repeat the mantra “become HBO before HBO becomes us”

3) Management’s about-face during the Flixter debacle turned into an overreaction against pivoting or building additional verticals outside entertainment
So we should just let grandma get her life savings scammed?
> we must stop defining masculinity as necessarily toxic

I know "toxic masculinity" is a dumb academic term that never should have become a slogan, but Andrew, Mr. Yang, that's not what it means.

It's like "async functions". Not all functions are async. It's okay if a function is sync. Adjectives modify nouns to make them refer to a specific subset.

It's fine to be masculine. I don't know what it means to be masculine (are monster trucks masculine? I like them anyway), but if it's safe, sane, and consensual, it's fine to be very very masculine and I support boys being masculine.
But the Higgs boson! Who doesn’t remember the good old Higgs boson?
The obesity problem is overwhelmingly because of the amount of sugar/HFCS pumped into our foods. We are working less today than 50 years ago, yet those times no one was morbidly obese. Obesity is caused by food, not by the amount you exercise or move.
That depends.

I personally believe manager should be hiring their team. If only for the candidate to meet the manager and have a chance to make their decision based on the fit.

But I also was many times asked to stand in for another person. Maybe the manager was very busy and he trusted me I can do good job?

In any case, if you go for a large company and for a long haul it is likely you are going to be changing managers (but still it is good to get to know the first one).
Thank you for the context.

I don’t want to ask you to speculate out of the blue, but if you feel qualified: do you think it’s possible that COVID originated outside of a lab but that China has lied about the timeline to avoid embarrassment? That’s always struck me as a plausible scenario, one that seems to fall by the wayside in these conversations.
If they have an expectation of me spending time to maintain, cleanup, and update their devices, yes I would like to have some say in minimizing the problems they can create.
At home we have Netflix, Disney, and Prime.

Honestly, of all the services we've used Netflix is the one giving us more ROI and the one I'd never cancel.

We don't use Prime Video because there's barely any interesting content. We only have it because it comes included in Prime, but I'd never pay for it.

Disney is great in terms of tech, but I'm seriously considering canceling it because the ROI is so low.

Netflix keeps us interested. There's tons of Atmos 4K HDR content and their app/tech is great. At least once a month or so we binge a show at home. My wife also watches Netflix every day while exercising or when eating alone. I watch true crime documentaries, Nordic noir stuff, and even some Netflix movies from time to time.

We've also tried HBOMax but the app/streaming tech was just terrible. The streaming quality jumped constantly between 720p to 4K. Also, it's quite ridiculous they don't stream content in Atmos 4K HDR that is available in that format like Game of Thrones.

We also had Apple+ for a few months. The app/tech is great but ended up cancelling it because we didn't enjoy any of the stuff there.
As is so often the case, the ultimate hack is not technical, but rather political.
“YouTube doesn't want you to have to see my 'disturbing' disabled body”
If they don't do email .. then no one cares.
>The Hungarian team say that when it first pointed out the discrepancy in the sequencing data, the samples were immediately removed from the genetic database by the Chinese, although have since been restored.

Panic mode activated
The spread between rich and poor was a whole hell of a lot smaller - industrialization broke alot of our carefully evolved social structures.
If you're so smart to observe what the problem your facing is, and have the money to retire tomorrow and be a yoga teacher and find a partner, go do it?