skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The truth is that nobody likes being interviewed. Getting tested and judged by strangers isn’t fun.

I sort of do. It's fun problem solving, at least sometimes.
nobody even sued them or the city for damages?
Modern versions don't. There was an LTS version for XP that was updated up until relatively recently that still works, but I wouldn't recommend using that for a daily driver anymore.

In theory someone could take modern Firefox, figure out what essential APIs are missing, and contribute a set of fixes to get the latest LTS version of Firefox working again, but that's quite a complicated process.
Users of public transportation likely don't realize just how much their usage of public transportation is subsidized, either. Most public transportation networks in American cities get funding from a mix of city, county, state and federal taxes. A $2.50 subway ride costs a lot more than $2.50.
Symmetry appears in creatures that spawn out sperm into the sea and let it land where it may, and many other very simple life forms with non-sexual reproduction, or reproduction where attraction isn't a factor, as in most plants. I'm sure symmetry may also add attractiveness as a kind of fitness display, but it's a much more fundamental thing since it's also present in life forms like plants which do evolve through sexual selection but without animalian fitness displays, and in non-sexually reproducing life forms.
This, really, after growing up in NYC, then suburban Florida and then living abroad in Cities such as Tokyo, Manila and Jakarta, owning a car in those places, motorcycle and just walking around is really night and day in terms of disconnect and comfort.

Cars are a comfortable bubble and 100% in many high dense cities, useless or worthless, but necessary to get out of the cities sometimes (Tokyo is a large exception of course, but a car is def a nice option to experience while in Japan)

The thing is, outside of USA, zoning and such do not exist to the same extent so you do have much more owner consideration w/ whatever they want with their land which is good and bad, cheap housing across asia, but parking or getting around even outside your place to the main road is def tricky, open sewers, poorly closed sewers, no car parking (which is acceptable) no/minor motorcycle parking, no bike parking, the right of way of the road and the property ingress can be really close, and it's pretty amazing.

I agree 100% with your post, I just think many Americans do not know how things used to be, and never had the experience of going to places abroad which do not have many american problems. .
TBH, that is not terribly hard to replicate, and certainly not worth it risking accidentally sending auth tokens to some third party.
I've worked with psychiatrists who were so bad that they made me suicidal.

medical professionals aren't interested in helping people. They are slaves to liability and insurance and place profits above the well being of their patients.
It is very much untrue that the rent is just as bad in Europe. In reality, it’s much, much worse in Europe than in US. In terms of income-to-housing costs ratio, most expensive US cities like NYC or Bay Area are below average of biggest 100 European metros, and more typical places like Boise or Las Vegas are an outright steal, compared to what Europeans pay.
What happens if Russia turns off gas to Germany?
Crowdsourced worldwide map of public pinball machines
What I have been doing recently is taking advantage of a cryptocurrency created by an MIT professor that has very low fees and facilitates micro transactions. I won't mention it by name because that is as far as I can tell an instant comment bury on HN.

But the point being is that I have taken my recent consulting projects and turned them into automated services (i.e. web applications and APIs) that multiple people in the ecosystem can use. Cryptocurrency has helped make it simple to monetize these services.

So the particular project I am hired for becomes the seed money for another app. And actually I took very little money for a few projects and have been working on an API that both will plug into for a few months while splitting my time with other subprojects.

But if everything works out then I will have more income based on each each smart contract call to generate an NFT.
Yeah, from the Twitter feed:

> You'll meet some racist neighbors

I'm onboard with the notion that a significant amount of opposition to low-income housing in many areas stems both from racism and fear of racist stereotypes. That said, I think a lot of home owners are very defensive regarding their illiquid assets and generally just don't like things that affect their property values. Low-income housing is one of those things. Less wealthy folks moving in nearby is one of those things.

Put simply, I don't think you have to be a racist to be a classist. Whether that is any better, well, probably not, but call it what it is.
You can say no to the people who have normalised this, and still be highly successful in this industry.
You don't need a view into someone's soul to call them a racist. Racism in this context isn't necessarily about individual interpersonal malice.

If a development would greatly help members of a historically oppressed group and somewhat hinder members of a historically powerful group, and you knowingly argue against the development on those grounds, you're supporting a policy that has unjust racial consequences.

"A racist" is a useful shorthand for a person taking those actions in that context. It's not a permanent immutable judgement about the inner workings of their mind or motivations. Just an assessment of some of their actions.
> It is the most economically viable product, which is why they dominate.

It's the only legal product.

Very different.

If you ban shoes that aren't made of gold, everyone is going to have terrible, expensive shoes. This would not be evidence that gold shoes were economically viable. Especially if every locale that adopted this rule was deeply in debt.
This thread is so deep in recursively calling groups racist I'm not sure who we are talking about anymore.

Recursion depth met >_<
While I see where you are coming from but respectfully disagree with your conclusions.

> My point is that there's less need to test people during their interviews for occupations with licensing, because they've already been tested before they even showed up for the interview.

I mean past job experience and education are pretty good indicators? Is there some facet to the accounting certification process I am unaware of that filters out under performers? If my past few accountants are any indication, then no. :)

All of that aside, I've not seen any data that suggests the hiring practices common in our field produce better outcomes than that which I am evangelizing for. Furthermore, those practices are common FAANG type companies which can offer much higher compensation packages than a typical startup. I assert that it's not only the right thing to do, it is also a _competitive advantage_ to have a streamlined, humane, hiring process.
How exactly do you go about asking your doctor to try meth?

Even asking for D-amphetamine (superior to Adderall imo, because Adderall contains L-amphetamine which has unpleasant physical effects) is already a tall order. I've read of doctors getting "flagged" for prescribing it.
>9% credits. If it scores well, but not top 10% well, then the non-competitive 4% credit is the path.

>Because you are pursuing 4% credits, you will also want to pair that with tax-exempt bond financing

>it's a rough ride that will take 9-12 months if you're hustling.

What is this BS. You have to be an idiot to burn 12months for 4%.

>A problem you will likely face, is that 4% credits, bonds, and traditional bank debt aren’t enough to close the funding gap.

What funding gap? How about you build what you can afford instead of burning time for some magical 4%?

>You need more subsidy to make this project viable.

Ah. So this isnt a story about bureaucratic hurdles when trying to build affordable housing. This is a story about people trying to milk subsidies/tax credits an complaining about the approval process.
> At least in the US, the government is paying vast and unsustainable sums of money to prop up a failing and inefficient form of transportation.

Even though that is clearly an opinion-based statement, it's objectively wrong. The vast majority (3/4) of highway/road spending is done by state and local governments, not Federal. For the states/local governments, the amount is usually about 6% of all spending. About double that of police, and 2/3rds of hospitals and higher ed.

It's not like roads don't also serve commerce. Even with robust rail infrastructure, that last-mile would require roads. 6% of the budget for something that benefits every single member of society in immeasurable ways seems like a pretty good deal to me.

https://www.urban.org/policy-centers/cross-center-initiative...
You can follow any Minecraft server guide to make your web server accessible to other users; enter 80 where the guides enter 25565 and it should work relatively flawlessly.

If you're thinking of diving deeper into development, I'd recommend you take the time to learn about computer networking. It's not a necessity if your end goal is to stuff HTML/CSS/JS files into a server somewhere, but it'd make your life a lot easier down the line.
In the middle.
No kidding! The best people already have jobs and you want to steal them away from somewhere else. 5+ interviews? giant take-home projects or multiple coding assessments? Pass, they're not going to put up with it. "Our 7-interview process ensures we only hire the best" ... of the 10% willing to go through this nonsense.
The thread talks about hypothetical, rather than specific people who oppose development in bad faith using other reasons to hide their true, often racially- or class- tinged reasons. You decided to call the author of this thread (a real person) a racist because they mention imaginary racists.
do you want to hear about my successes?

they're not going to be about shoe-horning a JSON file or a SQLite database file into my enterprise product.
> If you can find a startup that succeeded by hiring new grads and junior engineering first, I'd love to read about it.

Mentoring is not something that's only done for new grads and juniors.

Wherever there are skilled people in the company interested in learning more about the systems around them and how to work with them well, it's generally a good idea to figure out some way to mentor/grow them. Whether officially, nor unofficially.

For non-technical roles it's likely a good idea to do the same in ways that suit there as well.
Where does it say that? I only saw this:

> Encryption needs to be done using a protocol called ECIES which combines an elliptic curve key exchange with a symmetric encryption algorithm.

kex+symmetric encryption is not the same as actually encrypting the symmetric key for transport. In situations where you need the recipient to decrypt it with only their private key and the symmetric key must be anything other than (EC)DH derived key, this does not work
Ah, you've got a gotcha bullet point question that you think is a killer technical ability question. But you're asking it in a completely abnormal situation, an interview. All you're testing for is the candidate's ability to answer your clever question in a scenario where their ability and personal value is actively being judged; which is wholly unlike any day-to-day challenge they are to encounter.
Federal contribution to the things you mentioned is rather low in NIMBY areas, so NIMBYs will be more than happy to pay it. Seriously, do the math. The federal funds do not magically appear out of nowhere, they are collected from the very same NIMBYs, and it’s only a small fraction of their total federal tax bill.
Or not. Just use all-in-one managed services like serverless or PaaS.

In the past, I used to spend so much time on infrastructure, like setting up databases, HTTPS/SSL, network ports and security rules. Didn't understand back then that solutions I can buy with money are the cheapest solutions, because I should be focusing on problems I cannot solve with money (but rather with my time and skills).
Otter tabletop game server 1.0.0 released
Unsolicited commentary: I think my commitment to a thorough reading was limited by my interest in the performance of bubble sort. On the other hand, the code for sort.Search also fits in a blog post, and it's a function I have called inside a loop.
I love tmux for this application, and typically I tend to prefer alternate solutions to using parallel.. but to be fair there are many more usecases for parallel than the one you describe here.
"Put simply, I don't think you have to be a racist to be a classist. Whether that is any better, well, probably not, but call it what it is."

That is pretty much my thought. I do feel that the bulk is classist and not racist though.
Company culture helps a lot. I'm lucky to work at a company with a culture where, if you're a good IC and you want to manage, you can, and if it isn't your thing, you can go back to being an IC. I've done it myself.
On a somewhat related note, this reminds me of all the botched hair analysis done in the 1970s and 80s that ended up imprisoning a lot of innocent people, including a man who was falsely accused of raping Alice Sebold and set free these past few months after decades in prison.

So I hope forensic science continues to improve and done so under rigorous standards.

https://www.retroreport.org/articles/an-overturned-convictio....
There is no such thing as non-imaginary dollars.
I’m impressed so many Wi-Fi 6 devices were picked up despite it having the worst range of the Wi-Fi standards.
In one recent year, gambling took in $72 billion in the United States; movie tickets, $9.5 billion; theme parks, $10.3 billion, cable TV, $51 billion. Gambling is bigger than any other form of recreation and entertainment in the country.

Revenue might be a misleading measure for a casino industry. If I bring $10 to the casino, win $100 in slots and proceed to lose it all, that will look like $110 in revenue.
Thank goodness ICs never see the top-level calibration with the executives. It's the most insane, ill-informed drive-by management I've ever experienced.
Samsung will now let Galaxy users repair their own devices
You can also have public IPv6 address on all your LAN computers, and just open the firewall when needed. :D Even simpler.

Or even assign random unique public IPv6 address to your computer per individual customer, and listen on that address. That way, other customers will not accidentally hit the endpoints you don't want them to when demoing an app.

The same can be done for any other exposure of services on your LAN.
Aleph: Open-source data analysis for cross-border investigations
When I arrived in the valley in the 90s it was already common. I'm not sure I ever had 7, but multiple interviews over most of a day, with a break to chat over lunch, was the usual thing there. Couldn't say how much further it goes back.
I don't know if I get it, the light switch turns nightmode on/off on the side for everyone there?
Or use https://theboroer.github.io/localtunnel-www/
"If a development would greatly help members of a historically oppressed group and somewhat hinder members of a historically powerful group, and you knowingly argue against the development on those grounds, you're supporting a policy that has unjust racial consequences."

Are they arguing against it on those grounds? The tweets don't go any further than calling people racists that bring up traffic or environmental issues.
I personally suck at pairing interviews but I still think they're some of the most relevant & illuminating- if the problem is easy and you're looking for how the candidate works and communicates.
Please explain your logic. Are you saying that someone’s contribution to the company is: A.) mathematically exact (lol) B.) not dependent on their team dynamics?
https://towardsdatascience.com/an-artificial-intelligence-le...

There save also been a fair number of papers on the topic. It’s mostly focused on reinforcement earning which has been interesting for games if less so elsewhere.
Curious what you're referring to? My knowledge of this area is not that broad or deep at all.
Ever check prices for thirty year old BMW or Lexus or Acura? Those are old luxury cars, but they aren’t priced like luxury. In part because what was luxury then isn’t luxury today.
What’s the science behind Xanax being more potent than the other drugs you listed? How about compared to fentanyl or morphine?
Outside the US (and FAANG specifically), many interviews is perhaps unusual. I haven't had more than two interviews (in four countries, DE/US/GB/CH) in any job in two decades, ever.
Then let’s hear some hard logic. You’ve presented literally nothing.

If the best response you have is handwaving team dynamics as a buzzword, and pretending its not a real and tangible thing, go to work and start abusing all of your coworkers and see if their performance remains consistent.
> and I still think you need to be able to build the software and review diffs and write serious ones now and again.

I've had some good managers that could do that. But the people management skill set is so much more important to their job. And it's a very different skill set to being an IC.

I wouldn't argue in favour of engineering managers with no technical skills at all, but I also don't think it's fair to demand they be masters of both the IC skills and the people management skills too. It's very difficult to be good at both.
To qualify, I know ngrok and lightweight set up can be super useful. When I was in college, ngrok was so awesome for doing small ad hoc fun things.

But as soon as someone needs to set up even the simplest SSL set up (which may take an inexperienced dev anywhere from 1 hour to multiple hours), I'd say that's not the problem to focus on.
> Why do you need those reasons?

I don't. You asked why would anyone. I just presented some reasons that I know my lady friends have stated.

I do, in fact, think that you don't "need" any reason whatsoever. I think a woman has every right to choose whether or not to have a baby including to abort a baby for any reason or even for no reason.
one fundamental problem is that this many hoops for these small projects just don't make much economical sense. (that's why there's only so few of "free money" projects.)

basically this is the curse of the low density again. in denser cities where building a ~500 unit apartment complex takes the same approval more affordable units are going to enter the market.
Deploying a production app on serverless or a PaaS isn’t a substitute for making a local development app available on the wider internet.
First thought: sensor and emitter are also symmetrical.
The default option is simple: did the hire add meaningful value to the team? Very few people fail that simple test, in my experience; and folks who would have failed technical screenings would have excelled in subsequent performance-enhancing evaluations. Someone who can't balance a binary tree might be the single best technical coordinator you're going to hire, after all.

I've worked at many companies, and those that hire fast, and fire fast, tend to be those that _fire least_. They have _lower expectations_ for performance, and so are more likely to be receptive to _training new hires_, rather than expecting them to hit the ground running as equally effective as their new team mates.
I would think the opposite is more likely.If you are employed, there is no pressure. You may go through 12 interviews for a 12 different jobs and be only so slightly offended.
For the unemployed, time is most likely ticking, if not financially, at least emotionally. A relative slowness at any step of the process affects the unemployed mindset. Stress alone lowers interview performance, especially on the soft skills side.
I would guess that more people in the employed pool make it through.
Or extra words and fancy words are just a waste of everyone's time.

What are some big words? I'm not a native speaker
You're most definitely American. It's not like that where I live.

I don't know how to drive a car. I have lived in Canada, India, and now The Netherlands.

Structures giving preference to personal automobiles are a civic failure, pure and simple.
Hmmmm, wonder how well it works with recent VMware Workstation/Player?

From memory, that has fairly decent DirectX and OpenGL support in its drivers too, probably more optimised than the VirtualBox stuff.
Concourse CI defaulted to BTRFS for storage for a while (actually, maybe twice), and there was always a long tail of nonsense and weirdness.
that at any point it has ALL of the radio waves,

Which is where the Software-Defined Radio comes into its own.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software-defined_radio
there's an argument that prices are higher than they would be because of the spillover from the East coast (https://fullstackeconomics.com/the-2000s-housing-bubble-was-...)
It is sad justice will never be served for this.
New Srebrenica
When cities are designed around cars, you must have a car to participate in society. As a result, it's a significant tax on the poor. The recent oil price spike has caused many people to worry about being able to afford to work.
Payouts are an expense.
Firefox Extension Helps Bring Movie Magic to Theaters Near You
> One activity question for HN: why do you think Dropbox continues to exist today while copycats like Barracuda Copy have failed?

FWIW, i've been using Dropbox since practically the day they went online, and have been a subscriber for all but the first few months of that time. They've never once failed me, never been offline when i needed them, never lost anything, they created a Linux sync client out of the box (whereas Google first claimed the would make GDrive for Linux but never did), and it's easy to manage via multiple interfaces (mainly their own web UI and https://rclone.org, which can proxy your dropbox behind an add-hoc FTP server running in your LAN).

They're extremely pricey compared to the same storage in GDrive, but Dropbox has never let me down so i'm in no hurry to drop them.
People management gets such a bad rep for good reason. It's usually a combination of the worst performers with the 10x performers following the Dilbert & Peter principle respectfully.

But people management is one of the most noble careers you can have if it’s practiced well. No other occupation offers as many ways to help others learn and grow, take responsibility and be recognized for achievement, and contribute to the success of a team. Too bad it's filled with MBAs & low performing ex-ICs.

Great people managers like the article mentions are worth their weight in gold. They are usually the great individual contributors who never wanted to be a manager, but decide they have to be a manager to get the job done.
I guess they would soon adapt to fit in in the new place, and change their status games.

But just for a short while, maybe they'd give an unusual impression?
Now someone just needs to do an open source acoustic coupler and we can stage 80s phreaker re-enactments like European medieval societies.
To your later point: automobile availability could certainly have benefits. Park 8 pick-up cars and 2 pick-up minivans in a neighbourhood of 100 households and nobody needs to own a car.

Need to travel further? Public transit or your country is embarassing.
Do you know that? In typical broker-dealer tax reporting, gross sales would be reported as $10 billion dollars if you made 1000 low margin transactions with $10 million dollars. OP's point certainly isn't dumb and I'm now curious about how it's actually measured.
I don't get this argument. You can solve all problems with money.
Dependency graph visualization for Go:

godepgraph -s package | dot -T png -o depgraph.png

With: https://github.com/kisielk/godepgraph