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I don't have an engineering degree and let me tell you, if you asked me to answer these questions about my high school experience at this point in my now 23 year long career, I would not take you seriously.

Never mind people who didn't graduate high school or got a GED, at which point you've just excluded a different class of people for an even more irrelevant-to-their-work set of questions.
Newark to Mumbai, for those that don't memorise airport codes.
Isn't this a terrible choice of websites if you are upset by discussion that calls out a genuinely new technological feat in the computer industry?
> This is career suicide

Unlikely.

> undermines the ecosystem due to the loss of trust.

Good, that trust was always misplaced. At least it’s only Russia and Belarus getting screwed instead of everybody getting hit by ransomware.
Sure, but really the reason we should invest like the rich isn’t that it’s sound for rational economic reasons, but that the rich will use their influence on politics to ensure their investments do not decline as much as they would without interventions.
Previous discussion from a few days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30717382
"signed off on that post" - sorry.
Has that ever happened before? Belarus, sure, it did happen, but what about Russia?
It isn't. You might be thinking of titillation, which is much more common. And I guess that's because if you're going for viewcounts, the lowest common denominator will get you the most.
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Some of these questions are reasonable (if asked in a more targeted way),but IMO there's some red flags. Asking grown adults about their high school classes seems like it would actually be a really effective way to introduce new biases without explicitly taking into account an applicant's race/national origin/socioeconomic status.
But what happens when the latest version fixes a zero-day? Stay vulnerable for a week?
Until you see a labrador pup makes big sad eyes because you puting him back in the car because he was jumping around too much.
Nope, intelligence matters at the end if that person works hard too, there is no ceiling unlike the opposite. Intelligence or/and hard work alone can only carry you so far, there are so many other factors that lead to success (ex: luck)

As a business, you bet your risks against the person who has been vetted vs. the unproven one.
Costs me zero, hopefully for a while.
https://hirakosan.surge.sh/what-am-i-up-to

I still have to implement a few tricks to go over 2 GB per file and add support for streaming. But I'm getting there.
I think first thing would be to remove wildcards from version specs and lock them to your known, tested versions. Then only do upgrades after some time of stability in the ecosystem (i'd wait months, not days, for that)
I’m unaware of a specific carbon budget that I am supposed to be following.
Strikes me as very anomalous. 5% attendance? Anyway, bad idea to draw conclusions from one university…
> 1) big capitalists within Germany and abroad funded and supported Hitler

of course, big capitals funded the leader of Germany that by creating a giant war machine, was filling their pockets with bags of money.

> 2) capitalist countries rejected repeated requests from the USSR to form an anti-fascist alliance before WWII

But also Stalin provided substantial support to the nazis, until 1941...

I'm not saying you are wrong, but cherry picking facts doesn't magically become history.
> That's... a lot of handwaving. Going through this:

Yes. This an HN comment, not an anthropological/sociological/historical analytical paper.

Weber, Tuff, Heinrich have written books on this, Needham has written volumes. The rest of us are just hand waving here.
There's one called DEC Terminal Modern that may work better with cool-retro-term. It's a vector font that doesn't have the scanlines in the font, so won't clash with the scanline effects the terminal emulator provides.
I always assumed it was because of Christianity making sex taboo above almost all else.
Anything else would be highly unlikely.
No inflation - strictly unchanging amount of money in circulation - means your income would be going up and down depending to economical situation. Would you accept that?
There is no "balance", this is purely a question of ownership. If I can't inspect or modify the traffic, it's not mine, I'm just "renting" perpetually.
I'm far from an expert, but my understanding was that Weimar Germany did cause hyperinflation by printing Deutschmarks. But there's a really interesting point here:

They printed Marks to buy foreign currency with which to pay off war debt.

So, yeah, if you just run the printing presses on the Mark to buy, say, GBP, then the Mark will indeed lose value vs the Pound.

Critically, this scenario can't happen if all your debt obligations are denominated in your own currency, as in the US. The scenario where the USD experiences hyperinflation because the Fed has to crank out ever more money to pay off Treasury obligations simply cannot happen, but it's a fairy tale used, as best as I can tell, to scare gullible daytime TV viewers into buying American Liberty Coins.
Waiting months means you don't get security fixes for months.
"Stop socialism"? Crony capitalism is just socialism that happens to benefit a corrupt elite. (Most real-world socialism, historically, was not very different. Even "socialism with Scandinavian characteristics" - quite popular among some in the present-day U.S. - owes much of its success to the way it enables a smoothly functioning market to provide consistently good outcomes.)
Another alternative is to have code freezes, though that comes with its own sets of cons. But you just need them to be long enough to do the last rebase and merge, so in theory can be relatively short.
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If the AI and the Human both try to correct each other's mistakes wouldn't that make a significantly better system?
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Exactly. It’s how any corrupt system is maintained. A dictator puts some inner circle of favored people under him, and then a larger layer but still small as a percentage beneath that, and so on all the way down, so that every layer has an incentive to support him and suppress the layers beneath. Add to that disproportionate influence through control of the military, police, and or media and even a 1/5 or less population can suppress the rest. Obviously our economy isn’t run that way but the same principle applies. We align the incentives of each person to act or vote in ways that benefit the already rich.
Wasn't SolarWinds compromised for 6+ months? 7 days doesn't sound like enough time. Although maybe that's not a good comparison as this was open source and SolarWinds is closed source.

I remember watching a Walmart talk on Node.js and how they vet every single update to every single module before they pull it into their internal repository for internal distribution. Perhaps the answer is to stop blinding pulling down dependancies from the internet?
I assume he means client certificates for HTTPS mutual auth.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/iis-support-blog/clie...
But the police in NYC used lots of spotsearches to boost both the crime rate (they discovered and so "solved" the crime at the same time) AND their crimes solved rate simultaneously. (Until the courts stopped them.) Only if both those stats go up together are the police incentivized to boost the crime rate.
I've seen the application, and there are questions about maths and grades. I know a lot of people with great grades and this doesn't translate into programming or innate understanding of CS in general. Similarly I've seen people with mediocre grades and great academic careers.

Also, writing down all the questions will generate a sizeable document. That should be done orally, and even if it's done orally, there is some strong emphasis on the wrong points.
Is it a “form of the Just World Hypothesis” to say that say Google did things that are responsible for its success that other companies could study and copy?

> The nations that found themselves on top of oil or coal or the fertile crescent at just the right time in history did not plan that.

Doesn’t that undermine your point? Because Bangladesh doesn’t exactly look to Iraq, West Virginia, or Libya as the symbols of affluence and development. Conversely, the UK, Sweden, the Netherlands, etc., aren’t replete with oil and minerals.
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You could go inground rather than just up, repurpose old mines, and maybe use a very heavy fluid.
It's known knowns vs unknown unknowns. I'd much rather have the former.
Anticipating a counter-argument: wouldn't individuals become the arbiters of the software functionality that is developed, if all open source software was based on a sponsor model? Isn't that more democratic?

Perhaps; some financial statistics that I'd suggest to consider would be:

- As of June 2018, U.S. households in the 0-40% income-level group had $0 median savings[1]

- From the same source: the median savings for a household in the U.S. is approximately $11k. There are approximately 120m households in the U.S. according to the U.S. Government census[2].

- As of 2022, thirteen firms from within the S&P 500 hold a combined $1 trillion in cash-on-reserve[3]

And yep, it'd be sensible to debate whether individuals or companies would be more likely to influence the direction of software; it's a disingenuous comparison to draw in that regard.

But even if we consider only individual citizens, there would still be significant disenfranchisement in dollar-voting ability.

[1] - https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/27/heres-how-much-money-america...

[2] - https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/HSD410219

[3] - https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-compa...
By not looking at them :)

Seriously tho, HN ads aren't intrusive or distracting (usually).
A) Have you really been everywhere to check?

B) There are regulations almost everywhere (especially, almost everywhere that has a profitable market to sell into), so it's probably easiest to just sell regulation-compliant equipment in the rest of them, too.

So it's not at all "preposterous" that the regulations actually work even in most places where they're not legally in force, and that you've just not noticed the few where they don't.
> If they made college free in America it would be severely underfunded and suffer all the same problems as American high school.

You would only get those same problems if you made college mandatory, as well as free.

A real commitment to a policy of free tertiary education would also expand the availability of trade schools not just universities.
You are conflating the alignment based on a subset of shared goals with shared origins. Capitalists supported "some" of the things early Nazi Germany was doing, that doesn't mean the Nazi purpose was to combat socialism (although, if combatting socialism furthered their other goals, then they wasted no time in doing that)
AFIACT, it's a "no but yes" sort of answer. Linux games are free to build binaries for any architecture they wish, but any game relying on Proton because it's a Windows binary will require x86.

Good news is, any of us in here are going to buy whatever we want and aren't limited to Chromebooks. Its everyone else that is screwed by the virtual duopoly of Windows and !Windows.
Mostly paying for some expensive software which says it protects us from this sort of crap but all it does is allow us to tick the compliance box while the engineers on the project flip between bouts of paranoia and insomnia.

I wish I was even joking.

At this point I tend to avoid importing anything if I can. I’ve written lots of stuff recently using Go and no imported packages because I trust the vendor more than I trust an open source package repo with 10,000 unknown contributors and dependencies.
And exclusive of people who dropped out of (or barely made it through) high school -- which as a category includes some of the most responsible and accomplished people I know.
The theory at least:

> If wages increase with inflation, and if the borrower already owed money before the inflation occurred, the inflation benefits the borrower. This is because the borrower still owes the same amount of money, but now they more money in their paycheck to pay off the debt. This results in less interest for the lender if the borrower uses the extra money to pay off their debt early.

* https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/111414/does-inflati...

(The article mentions some benefits to lenders too.)
I am appalled. Not very surprised, but still appalled.
It's basically a fact that she's underpaying for what she's using. That she gets no value out of the service isn't the fault of the service, she's just literally not using the service. Since that's the case she shouldn't use the service and use a different service that actually does what she wants and has the correct value proposition for her. It sounds like that's exactly what's happening and there's no problem anywhere. There's lots of comments here pitying vimeo for losing "customers" like her but err, vimeo's the one kicking her out. She gets on a service that's more appropriate for her, vimeo gets rid of a money losing customer. Everyone wins.
I reckon these questions started as "in college", then someone in meeting #8533 rightly said "but what about people who did not go to college?" and so it was turned into high-school.

I suspect what this tells us about Canonical is that they have too many HR folks running riot.
I feel like if you're a maintainer that does, or has done, this sort of thing you should not be maintaining software in FOSS. The FOSS ecosystem is built on a lot of trust and actions like this violate that foundation.

On the other hand, the people that sent SWAT teams to his door and sent death threats are equally threatening the trust foundations of FOSS.

Link to the vice article talking about SWATing: https://www.vice.com/en/article/dypeek/open-source-sabotage-...
Honestly, as someone who's done a lot of hiring and interviewing over the years I don't hate this concept (specifically the open questions), but oh god this is such a bad implementation of it. A handful of open-ended questions would be fine, allowing for a wide variance in detail and depth. And even time boxing it, in terms of telling the candidate not to spend too much time on it unless they really feel like they have a lot to say.

I would much rather ask these sorts of questions this way than in a live interview, where only a very narrow set of personality types are able to come up with good answers and you pretty much have to accept that good candidates will sometimes answer poorly.

And then I think the actual interviews can start off on a more informed footing, with some things to talk about. A lot of time in short interviews is wasted just getting on the same page, especially about softer questions like this.

I agree with some sibling commentary that it's good that people are experimenting in general, because tech hiring process right now is abysmal. It's rarely anything but an excuse to hire people like the people you've already hired, and so inevitably fails to ever really grow a team beyond its initial limitations.
Please go ahead. A cousin comment says the economic is against you, and I heartedly agree with that.
There are ads?
There is nothing wrong with having principles like "Deliver Results" or "Learn and Be Curious".

What's weird is making interview candidates memorize these and come up with a canned performative story for each one.
Once compiled to assembly, every data is accessed via pointers. Every data structure is represented with pointers. Almost everything is a pointer.

According to you, all softwares are broken and harmful?

Programming languages can provide a safe interface to pointers (just like Rust do with `Box<>`, `Rc<>`, `Arc<>`, or C++ in some ways with `shared_ptr<>` and `unique_ptr<>`).

Also, "Why not?" here clearly means "I did it for fun" / "Because I can".
It is huge by drones standards. It shows that it is easy to miss a missile or a plane in the air there. Russia attacked targets 20 km from Poland border. It is just a bit more than a minute of flying of a transonic plane and even less for a high-speed missile. 60-80 km is inside a normal combat range for S-300 air-defense system. The point is that 45 miles from the border you can still easily happen to step into a combat zone and get into a path of a plane running and maneuvering away from a missile or a missile chasing or even lost/reacquired target. The next link illustrates dangers of flying even 300 kilometers away from firing air-defense systems even during the peace time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberia_Airlines_Flight_1812
They’re called “no asset chapter 7” filings.

The TL;DR is that the law allows you to “exempt” certain assets, mostly, basic necessities that people need to live a basic productive life. The point of bankruptcy is to make people pay what they can reasonably afford, not to make them pay every penny possible. The types of assets that chapter 7 does take away are things that poor people often don’t have anyway.

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/what-is-chapter-7-no...

I think TV and movies have led people to believe that people “lose everything” when they file bankruptcy and end up on the streets. That’s just not reality, at least in the US.
you don't. unless your lib has an advisory, why would you upgrade? if it works it works. this whole movement of "move fast and break things" is braindamaged and it's about time it comes crashing unto itself.
We really need them if we want to farm in sustainable and moral ways, as we have done by thousands of years.

But point maken
> Honest question, what can be done to address this type of issue?

Limit your number of (transitive) dependencies, to lower the risk. Yes, this often needs more work on your side.

Use a curated package repository such as Debian/Ubuntu or Fedora (or a repository your company maintains), and only use dependencies from there. Yes, this is very painful for ecosystems that are still moving fast such as JS/Go/Rust, because many packages are not available yet, and non-security updates are less frequent.
in emacs org-mode you can archive some tasks, text - it will move it to another text file ex. archive.txt with the timestamp or archiving it. Beside this keep your file in git. so you delete text & make explicit commit message that something was removed.
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Well, if you compare Bangladesh to Pakistan it's easy to see where secularism has helped Bangladesh quite a bit. Much of Bangladesh's growth potential seems intact while it's hard to make the same case re: Pakistan.
Same. I don't know why but there's something so intuitive and easy to use and yet so powerful about Sublime Merge's merge tool that it quickly became my favorite after having used a lot of different other tools in the past (TortoiseGit, Meld, etc.)
I find the SerenityOS userland code base quite approachable. It's all written in C++.
- "I expect it won't be long before storefronts sprout rollup steel shields that extend from the pavement up and cover the complete storefront. That's what businesses do in Brazil."

Afghanistan too. It's a jarring contrast to see heavy steel walls installed on mud (?) brick; those must have been carefully thought-out expenses.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/03/15/world/asia/af... (on pages 15 and 21; not linkable)
For diffing yes but for merging... I have never gotten myself to use anything but DiffMerge. And now with their rewrite and price tag... Never ever.
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Just like how "security" is often used in the same manner, but I agree that CP is a much more persuasive and emotional argument.
I disagree. Suspicion is not the same as prosecuted, and every time someone "beats off" to an image of child sexual abuse, that child is re-victimised; every time.

You'd rather 10 children be victimised than 1 person falls under suspicion? Ok...
Only problem is - the Amazon process doesn't filter for your belief in, or ability to, you know, actually abide by those principles.

But simply your willingness to memorize and recite them.
A lesson to learn from this story: don’t use Vimeo if video is your business.
But if solving this problem takes a huge amount of money, and the problem is going to keep coming, then actually solving it takes more than money. It takes changing things so that the problem quits showing up.

You might get everyone to pony up the money to bail everyone out who is currently mired in college debt. It's a much tougher sell to get us to pony up the money forever.
If they ask about "industry leadership experience" and "high school achievements" in the same form there is a lot wrong.

This is not a form for a junior hire as I understand.

Industry leadership experience should not be in the form aimed at junior staff and high school achievements should not be on the form for hiring "industry leaders".

Unless you really are hiring whizz kids it is total waste of time to ask both questions on the same form.

If someone has industry leadership experience you compare candidates based on that and if one of them had some high school achievements it might be a plus, but it would not have much weight on comparison. Because if two candidates would have industry leadership experience if one is better than the other it would show there.
Words and usage change (although I just read of literally being used in the late 18th century to mean figuratively). According to Marriam-Webster, one definition of literally is:

": in effect : VIRTUALLY —used in an exaggerated way to emphasize a statement or description that is not literally true or possible"
I second that. DiffMerge every day for almost 10y
In fairness, American TV also does not (frequently) show (real) gore as is often the case in other countries.
No question, just a thanks. First used mitmproxy to build a demo CDN to show off for a customer that hadn't signed yet, so they wouldn't give me certs (reasonable). It was so simple to use, it scares people. I had to explain how CA trusts worked before the company would consider using it to show off.
Notice the number of commentors defending it, even praising it. This is why no one really treats software engineers with respect or has sane hiring practices. They love to be subservient and jump through hoops for any sort of praise.
No offense intended, but yes, you definitely don’t know about this.

Most cities with high demand allow nothing more dense than houses on 2/3 or more of their land. It is easy to falsify your argument about personal preference because people are willing to pay much more per sqft for condos in the center than houses at the edge.
I find it weird that "Silicon Valley" is to blame here. This is the result of DC's actions - not SV. Which is mostly coming from the religious right who are big funders/power-holders and dislike sexual imagery and non-fundamental norms in the public eye.

SV is just going with where the $$$ are at and complying with the law. They don't give a shit about anything else as long as stonkz go up.
How profitable do you think it is to make special non-regulatory-compliant faucets and light switches just for the Alabama market? Probably not very, so manufacturers just sell the same regulations-proof equipment there that they sell to the rest of the US. In effect, you're freeloading on the regulatory work of non-Alabamians.

Enjoy your working non-lethal infrastructure, parasite.
We run Flink for stream processing and Spark for batch processing, both of which are backed by Akka (and therefore the actor model).
Sounds like you’re a programmer to me!
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