skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The bias can be made negligent by mandating a certain format to the report (some Google insider has to provide this detail) and due to the fact that multiple such reports go into the decision-making.

As an example no words which might create a impression but sticking to facts. The inference is left to the second panel. For example instead of saying the candidate thought hard about the given problem say something like the candidate tried out 3 different solutions to the problem over the interview time period. The first panel are merely conveyors of Data; so their reports have to be detailed and to the point.
You should seek professional help.

I’m sorry if this comes off as mean but from what you wrote it doesn’t sound like you’re someone I would actually like to work with in any capacity. You sound like the lead character of Clerks - “I’m not even supposed to be here today”.

Not knowing anymore than you wrote I’m pretty sure with that attitude if you took that other path you would be in exactly the same spot you are today: thinking about that other guy.

I hope you find some inner peace and career fulfillment.
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I think in a management role, you have to think on your feet, even on long term things.

It might be better to transform your role into something that fits what you want while still serving the position/s that you are in.

If you say you want to mentor people, then it is something to develop. I think one key thing in any team is to always be solving problems, whether it be bugs or finding problems to improve. Take a few new or junior people and tackle the bug list together, figure out what can be done better and build on it.

My mistake was not moving to something new (new position, new company, etc.), but it helped to have a manager myself where we can brainstorm on my problem.

[EDIT: Also in my experience, dev teams need voices, whether it be control of the backlog, a way to advocate for the team, etc. I think those who can talk with their team and construct plans when dev teams struggle to find voices. By constantly solving problems with other team members, particularly seeking for them to solve the problems, you are helping them towards giving them a voice.]
Yes, I know the story. But what about Illumos?
Try different angles to see at these cases.

Tax evasion is good if your government happened to be terrorist regiment (maybe not a case for citizen of first-world). Money laundering is not from my list, I don't know is it possible to convert crypto to cash enough safely. Gambling is not any bad, to be honest, and instead of child porn case you may consider something less controversial like buying a vpn if your govt really don't want you to; or buying weed with less contact than using a contactless card in those countries who offers legal way for buying that.

And seems nobody is noticing the most beautiful part of cryptocurrency's nature - storing some bits of data if you really don't want that to be deleted. Any flash card might became unreadable, any manuscript might became destroyed and any judge might commit a wrong decision about your property. But any enough popular blockchain ought run forever with all the data guaranteed to be untouched.
I think there's a good chance that you just hate work. Not that you're lazy, not that you hate working or doing work, because that's different. Corporate "work", the institutional nonsense that people have to do to prevent higher-status people from turning off their income, is an awful waste of time and involves very little actual work. It deserves to be hated.

I understand the unhappiness of being an IC, especially in midlife. You're not respected in that position; software is manage-or-be-managed, and if you're still in a "be managed" position at maturity, it's not a good look. Still, I think you'd also hate being a middle manager, to be honest. I know I did. You're not actually "mentoring" people as a middle manager (or as a PM; PMs exist to give executives a second management structure so "product" and traditional managers can be pitted against each other). Instead, you're a performance cop who works for even bigger assholes than you did as an IC. You'll have to be the face of awful decisions that hurt people's careers, and you'll have to make some really shitty ideas look like they were yours, so the execs (who asked you to push said shitty ideas) can distance themselves and be loved. You're in the position of transmitting orders, and you can't really protect your people.

I also don't think you can assume that you would have made Director just because a less-talented colleague did. Capitalist Party politics is its own game, and the people who are good at it are usually good at literally nothing else.

I don't think you should feel stupid for making a career mistake, though. The game is rigged and the Capitalist Party is hopelessly corrupt. If you weren't born into a hereditary upper class, you probably were never presented with any good options--just bad ones that looked good at the time. Your Director-level colleague might be working 70 hours per week and losing his marriage. He might die at his desk of a heart attack at 47. Anything can happen in the corporate world for all bad values of "anything".

As for what you should do, I'm in no position to give advice. I don't know you or your circumstances. You certainly aren't alone, though. Corporate capitalism has to pay people with constant expansion--not only do they expect their incomes to go up, but they expect the rate of increase to go up--to get them to overlook its awfulness, and the system can no longer support this. I won't tell you that it's going to get better (it's going to get worse first) but you're not a loser for making bad choices when you probably didn't have any good ones. You shouldn't feel bad about yourself. You're surviving. That's all most people can do right now. Some people, usually through no fault of their own, can't even do that.
It's funny how this is meant to be interpreted as a work/life benefit for employees when it is clearly a removal of labor restrictions for the company. If you can hire anyone from anywhere your cost of labor will decrease overall. Yes "you can move anywhere in the country you work in and your compensation won’t change", so future salaries don't have to reflect local expenditures. You can offer flat rates that encourages people to move out of high cost cities and decrease your overall labor costs. The idea that this is a win/win is seductive but it won't be. Increasing the labor pool chips away the leverage an employee has at the negotiation table.
I think one thing that makes many Python programs "fast enough" is that people have already provided a huge pile of native objects in the form of the OS and its trimmings. But this is true for other languages as well. If I were writing in C, I'd never try to rewrite any portion of the OS unless I had some otherwise insurmountable issue to overcome.

Quite a lot of programs are almost entirely bopping along from one OS or numpy call to the next, with a tiny bit of business logic thrown in. You've got a better chance of making your users happy by thinking about that business logic at a high level, than trying to optimize code that's only doing 1% of the actual work.

My use for compiled code is when there's no OS, and every nanosecond matters, e.g., working with microcontrollers.
In case you're looking for an alternative: consider using Perma.cc links, which both serve as a URL shortener and an archive of the current page.

(Plus they're expressly intended to last "forever" and are maintained by one of the few organizations with the multi-century history to credibly make that claim (Havard Law School))

https://perma.cc/about
I am not sure it really is literate programming, in the traditional sense. In literate programming source code and text are intertwined while Crafting Interpreters keeps code aligned to text but they are distinct https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters

EDIT: BTW the book is great, can't recommend it enough! :)
Which major engines or sites allow you to reject ALL cookies? Google is just planning doing that, but pretty much all services require accepting at least essential cookies. You are picking up on them for not being holier than Pope.
Taking references should be prohibited altogether, except for specific jobs (if the job implies interaction with children).

They remind me of house employees' conditions in the "Downtown Abbey" area.

It's just a sign of employees' subjection to the always more extreme capitalism.

If an employee is leaving or has been fired, it means that things were not doing well anymore. How can one tell apart truthful feedbacks from all the biases? Most of our biases are unconscious, so the person you're talking to will be sincere but still unfair.

It's sort of weird to pretend to be able to sort feedbacks on the phone while not being able to judge if a person will fit well despite often numerous interviews by different persons in the company.

What if a woman has been sexually harassed but can't talk about it, for fear of the reach of her harasser, a respected entrepreneur, or even to be sued for false accusations?

Can you a person of color easily denounce racist biases that blocked his/her career? What if the previous boss can't stand a gay person?

Can one say plainly that one has little herd bias so one's point of view make the group uncomfortable? You may need such a person in your organization - or not. That person may not be even capable of such a diagnosis.

A reference won't add more unbiased information than several interviews. A lot of money and time is spent screening because the on-boarding process is costly. That makes sense but we could as well change the on-boarding rather than keep refining the screen.

Talent is important but how the person fits in a team and the company's culture is much more important. So give people a try with a sort of temporary status, limited responsibility and light onboard process. Of course, people may try and fake to fit in, but that can't last very long. The feedbacks of your colleagues are much more reliable because you know them and therefore you can sort them.

And what if that person has great references but for some reason, there is a clash of personality with a major person of the firm? Totally unpredictable but that happens.
Am I reading this wrong? It uses less energy at higher production rates?

This is a verbatim copy of the text at 1:32 in their video:

Seawater >> Drinking Water

~ 20Wh/L
for 0.3L/h of production rate

~ 15Wh/L
for 1.0L/h of production rate

so it uses LESS energy to get MORE drinkable water per hour?

That seems odd.
Huh, someone should make a lookup table of git.io URL to actual URLs, one "someone" I can think of is archive.org, who would again have to clean up after people messing up the Internet by just abandoning shit.

And then someone else can make a browser extension that automatically queries this look-up table when it sees the browser user has clicked a git.io link. It's like DNS, but different!

(Yeah the cleanest option would be for a trusted someone to take over hosting of the git.io service, but hey, welcome to the present...)
Yeah, I believe it's very unlikely that this young guy had this much on his account. You do not get rich in Sweden.
Is everything falling apart?
I'm not a doctor either, but doesn't chemo have similarly high risks of serious side effects? When the odds of death are close to 100% otherwise, a treatment that improves those odds to 50% doesn't sound so bad.
People in Silicon Valley employ hit men to murder people who give bad references? Do you have any stories of that or links? Seems pretty far fetched
Heliostat installations used to be common when panels were so expensive that spacing them out wide enough to keep them from shadowing each other when angled for dusk/dawn made sense. Now heliostats are only done in exceptional situations, for example I've seen some that didn't seem to be particularly old on rugged terrain were the quantity approach would be costly as well and easy foundation opportunities are sufficiently far from each other to prevent peer shadowing anyways.

But I do wonder if heliostats might see quite a revival in agrovoltaics: there, you want a certain distance between panels anyways, and perhaps the plants won't mind if you steal a little more light off-noon in exchange for less shadowing at noon. Electricity supply/demand would certainly applaud this bias, in a market with lots of photovoltaics a Wh at noon is certainly worth less than those closer the the periphery of the daily sun cycle.

And if you do agrovoltaics right, the structure will be expensive anyways (making the markup for heliostat insignificant) because imho it's still just an unfinished prototype if the structures for holding the panels aren't designed to double as an overhead rail system for farming powertools that could become a considerable efficiency gain over the century-old game of tractor vs mud.
> It will only push it to a later stage of the interview process.

Isn't this preferable though, when there's hopefully other, more meaningful, evidence that can potentially mitigate these easy but weaker biases?
Yeah, that makes the iPhone hype much more sensible. I remember it as very much underwhelming, I had a phone like that 2 years before it came out, and it had apps.
Petal pounds sites. Ignores 429, hits the same pages repeatedly
Easy block for us.
Behavior is so similar to bad actors, I was surprised to find that it had documentation.
I just visited it and the front page displays a lot of crappy "news" from different services... How is that good results any way?
I guess you did consider the possibility that by using Airbnb to find accommodation you were nonetheless perpetuating the system by which they have turned cities into "hipster slums"?

The three months doesn't make much difference. I might be a responsible tenant when I use airbnb, whether in lots of short stays or one big one, but that doesn't stop other guests being awful.

Your three months just incentivised the owners to keep it as a short-term let.

Full disclosure: I have used Airbnb in the past.
If you agree, check out the HYTRADBOI (have you tried rubbing a database on it) conference happening later today: https://www.hytradboi.com/

This is a meeting of people who agree or at least are willing to explore that datalog and related systems are the way forward. Lots of interesting programming systems will be presented!
At some point they stop being entertaining and you just want to forget :)
After having thought about this some more: all projects differ, all teams and individuals differ.

I agree, if there's a big "sprint 0" idea push that needs to happen, I'm all for get-togethers. But once that's out of the way, I prefer remote work for various reasons, as the task list is known, and I can crack on without interruptions.

Then there are all sorts of things we can do for the smaller ideation instances that pop over over the product development lifecycle, like setting meeting agendas, having folks send their notes ahead of time, and using the actual meeting to finalise the previously-disseminated information, and have a final round of questions/clarifications.

Not all meetings need to be people sitting in a room doing random talking.

I mostly come up with better ideas asynchronously anyway, after having some time to mull it over.
Utensils and napkins are a rounding error on restaurant costs.
What do you like doing? I went management a few years ago, and while sometimes in the back of my mind I think about doing it again, I'm extremely happy as an IC, especially in the challenges of my current role. For better or for worse, I love observability and automation, much more than 'management'. In objective terms maybe my career has gone backwards, but personally it has not.

On Mentoring People: You don't have to be a manager to mentor people. In fact, an interesting part of being a manager that I discovered is that you often don't have nearly as much time to mentor people as you do if you are a senior/lead IC. Probably (rough numbers) 20% of your time is spent managing up, 40% managing sideways and 40% managing down. And there's a lot of work to do in that 40% that is not "mentoring".

But it's never too late. Every new job I start it seems within a year someone is asking me if I want to be a manager. Good managers are hard to find so if that's really the path for you it is not closed off at all.

Given that this is HackerNews, I assume your 25 years of experience are in software engineering/tech, but is it in something else? Also, you say "I have 25 years of industry experience and I feel I should mentor people...". What does 'should' mean in this case? What is the source of that pressure?
This claim is most likely taken out of context. As I've said, every writer struggles with something from time to time but that's not the same as what you've described in your post. I'm sorry if my reply offended you somehow, that wasn't my intention. My point was just that you're overgeneralizing. Every writer has their own work mode and everyone works differently, e.g. the German author Günter Grass used to write in handwritten calligraphy on special paper. What's easy for one is hard for someone else, and vice versa.
Buying used books is sage advice, but you should also support smaller authors from time to time as well by buying new
Atmospheric water generation (AWG) uses technology to produce potable water from surrounding air.

Here's a cool example of using the sun to do just that...

https://youtu.be/VQRAtwz3Igs

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_water_generator
Unfortunately there's a growing interest in building walled gardens around podcasts. It used to be just RSS and audio.
Do you mind sharing how you got those references? I.e. which search strings/websites you used, or if you had them at hand with f.e. Mendeley or maybe already knew about them?

I wanted to read some papers in the subject a few days ago but couldn't come up with a good search strings nor good initial references. It's not my field of expertise :x
A Shift in Computer Vision Is Coming
I wouldn't put them on a filesystem; do you have any guarantees the secrets are wiped clean after your application is shut down? At least env vars are in memory (...I... think...?), and will be offloaded if the server shuts down.

A secrets manager may be a better option, these days. I don't believe they were a thing in 2011 though.

Also 2011 was 11 years ago, and I still keep this webpage in mind when building server-side software <_<.
What is the worst thing you saw this week?
to me it's the perception of vendor lock-in
This is a really good point. The only explanation I can come up with is that while past purchases are at least visible to those that bought them, it could be that when they try to install it, they'll get an error prompting them to alert the developer that it needs to be updated. This seems like a poor UX, but I can imagine someone inside Apple pointing out the optics of removing folks' past purchases in the context of the current "only one app store" debate, so this might have been a compromise they settled on.

If this is the situation, one way Apple could make it seem less egregious is to space it out over time by performing the culling of apps now, and altering the SDKs in 6-12 months or so, which would then trigger the breakage for past purchases. Folks will feel comfortable defending that because everyone had warning that change was afoot, and they'll likely make the the case that users that lost their old apps can't expect them to work forever. Or, in the words of this post, "old apps sometimes die".
I’m floored at this comment. Maybe I’m just deeply ignorant of what happens around me.

Can you help me understand how common this is?
> There is absolutely zero need for USB-A. None. It does nothing whatsoever that USB-C can't do, and there are ton of things that USB-C can do better.

What's the USB-C story nowadays if you have N USB-C peripherals and M USB-C ports where N > M?

Most USB-C hubs seem to have one USB-C for connecting to the computer, one USB-C for connecting to a peripheral, and then a bunch of USB-A for connecting to more peripherals.

To get something that actually increases the number of USB-C peripherals, especially if more than one of your peripherals needs more than low power, and is reliable it appears that you have to get a Thunderbolt 3 or 4 dock and it is pretty pricey.

Until there are cheap reliable 1 to many USB-C hubs USB-A is not going to go away.
You live in a larger city or near a larger city most likely.
> Most of you should expect to gather in person every quarter for about a week at a time.

No thanks. Couple this with the two or three trips I take per year with my girlfriend, I'm going to be getting on an airplane every other month at a minimum. That is way too much travel for me.
>It'd be the "best option" if not for the asymmetry of effort. It's trivial to make things up. It takes more effort to find and understand sources. It's slower still to do original research.

You made the assertion that the flagged scientific article 'just made things up' that's quite the claim.

This isn't an anonymous claim on twitter. The appropriate effort relative to the source is all that is needed. In the case of anonymous twitter claims, then anyone can easily dismiss or argue with them to their hearts are content. The problem is that we have a religion who wishes to dismiss the heretics.

>You may claim that 'it's worth it' to invest the 5x or 10x the effort to debunk a falsehood than it took to make the falsehood, but whether it's worth it or not "A lie can travel around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots." (Mark Twain)

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02152-y

https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2021/09/right-now-clash-scie...

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/how-talk-science-denier

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/dec-18-holiday-science-book-...

Let's hypothetically say this flagged article is in fact true. Everyone who got vaxxed has weakened their immune system. Personally probably a good thing, autoimmune etc, but what a disaster for public health. Not only that we're dismissing their claims based on... faith?
>> I don't see where the bug is?

That appears to be a willful decision on your part i think :-) A'dieu and all the best
My colleague was doing this to get code and files out from his company via email by appending base64 encoded files to a png.

However Gmail now rebuilds images to protect against malicious code and it completely strips the appended files from the image.

Edit: he told me it was because his boss had journalling turned on and saw every email sent and received in the company and he thought it was funny to bypass the boss for personal stuff.
I finally understand methane lifetimes
It's also frustrating because some of these are a tiny amount of effort (take the stairs) and some are huge daunting changes in your life that will give you nonstop anxiety (what you do on your bad days is more important than what you do on your good days).
I've lived by myself for years now and haven't had a huge problem with the working from home part of things, but I also had a fairly healthy online/non-work social life beforehand.

What full remote has done is made it harder for me to consider moving. Sure, I could move anywhere, but I'll show up there knowing essentially no one and have to just go out and meet people by force of will. There's no group of people at my new office I could connect with and at minimum get some recommendations of places to go. Even if you don't become friends with your coworkers, having some amount of in-person social contact is important for most folks, and knowing you have to build that yourself is daunting.