skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If you're multitasking doing something that requires anything beyond mechanical tasks then you're not really listening."

I often listen to podcasts and videos on 2x or even 3x speed because the speaker talks so slow.

When they talk slow and the amount of information they're relaying is relatively low or mostly familiar, my mind tends to drift and I can actually multitask relatively well.

It's when I speed up the rate at which they're speaking that it becomes more difficult to multitask, until at last I really need to concentrate in order to follow what they're saying and then my focus remains glued to the speaker.

That said, I do think it's rude to focus on anything else when one is interviewing someone. They should have your full attention, or you shouldn't be there.
The challenge with code review/debug/refactor interviews is that they rely on the candidate being familiar with the "this". The original intention of LC interviews was to remove domain specificity from the "this". Prior to LC interviews, candidates would get asked about their familiarity with things like ISO standards, random libraries, or other weird behaviors best learned through memorization. This can be mitigated with candidate prep and/or problem selection, but it's worth keeping an eye on.

For take-homes, I don't think the candidate spending 12 hours on something that should take 2 is necessarily a negative signal - but it's also something that should be considered. If the candidate spent 12 hours ensuring the solution was perfect, then it's probable that they are just thorough - which is a good thing more often than not. You do end up in a quirky situation of judging candidates by how much time they are willing to dedicate to your take-home interview though.

Anecdotally, for the few take-homes that I've done - I've always gone a bit overboard out of pride. Granted, this is also how I approach a lot of coding tasks.. so I guess you get what you test for?
We might even be able to use SCTP or TCP Fast Open in the real world once those boxes start becoming obsolete.
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We can choose to have a civil debate, and perhaps, one of us might even change their mind. And if we cannot agree, we can choose for ourselves. If we must agree, then we abide by the law, whether or not we think it is wise, and the loser can (and should) attempt to change the law.
Again, if you want to resort to whataboutism that’s ok but I just want to point out that it’s hypocritical to then go around the world exporting “freedom” and “values” from an alleged high ground.
I had a similar experience when being interviewed by a director at Uber. (I really wish I remembered his name. He worked for Microsoft for about 10 years before coming to Uber.)

I know how I wish I handled it, but I just sat there because I was honestly confused by him.

When asked if I had questions, I should have asked the shadower if he thought Uber encouraged a culture of mutual respect. Then as a follow up, if that culture was demonstrated here. When he’d inevitably say, “Yes?”, I would have simply said, “I don’t.”
Understood. I read your comment as "I can not tolerate" or "we should not tolerate" when you meant more that society doesn't seem capable of tolerating it, when it should, which I strongly agree with.
From one of the other submissions:

"Morgan had never flown this model Cessna. He pulled up a picture of the instrument panel's layout and started guiding his new student step-by-step."

Morgan was the ATC.
If they walked out, I would have ended the interview right there.

Respect yourself first and others will follow suit.
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I don't see any posts by him in this thread with showdead on that I can't see with it off, so I don't buy your complaint. As it is it, looks like what you think is "a bit rude" amounts to some guy facing criticism and working himself up into a lather about how that's everyone saying "shut up white man".

But at any rate, your argument amounts to, "But he has to be disingenuous and chickenshit, because Hacker News is run by the SJWs!", which I find laughable.
I've lived in places where you have a zero chance of getting permanent residency, let alone citizenship. Even if you marry a citizen.

Could your share the places?
This guy misses the point - classic pro Oil & Gas rant on how they are the boogie man.

The point is that we don't want to be beholden to oil and gas going forward. Look at all the campaigns to put out misinformation about oil and gas by the Oil Majors (since the 1980s). Yes Oil and Gas is part of the economy and all of its various products, but let's not make it the lynchpin and let's decarbonize our energy systems.

Every time these guys (oil executives or proxies) open their mouths you really see how much they don't understand the landscape outside of oil and gas industry.

Also remember this a polished message, I'd be curious to see their backroom conversations...
>Two senators from Oregon turned a combined profit of $122,000 on iShares Russell 2000 Index Fund between January and March.

This particular trade is not worth worrying about. Wow, some senators traded on an index fund. Must've been some real insider stuff, to know enough material non-public information about a collection of 2000 companies to be able to wring all that profit out of it.
I don't know.

But even if that was the case is it cynical or just the right thing to do if you've got fewer resources?
I was a bit confused, this article provided some more details

https://www.outsidebusinessjournal.com/issues/what-happens-w...

From July 2021 FYI
Yet every major tech company has large presence overseas already. There is no language barrier when your entire team that’s working on a product speaks the same language.

Also it’s not like tech today is mostly people whose first language is English - no judgements
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I guess I'm somewhat lucky that I was able to double my compensation over 5 years within the same company, but at this point I've hit the ceiling for rapid compensation growth for the most part.

Maybe I should just grind leetcode for a few months (my dynamic-programming algo skills are a bit rusty) and switch jobs. I would miss the 30 days of PTO though.
Yes it's probably going to round trip back to $300B given AirBNB and DoorDash have taken their hits as of late. That said - I do think since the lock-up periods have probably expired on the big ones - the pre-IPO investors like YC/founders/VC probably made it out just fine already.

It's really a message to those of us retail investors buying the IPO or post IPO shares of YC companies that need to be aware of the track record w.r.t. an investment. Most of the gains have been extracted already and future post IPO growth has already been priced in.

It also does suggests that YC was perhaps a beneficiary of easy monetary conditions that lifted valuation.
Ok, now that you've re-worded your comment entirely, I get what you were trying to say. I still don't get how anyone could say that. Understanding who said what is very important and official positions do matter. I would consider myself conservative, but I am not a registered Republican, so they don't represent me. There's lots of Qanon people inside the GOP, but there's also people not associated with Qanon in the GOP, because that's not their official position.

Do you also think the NAACP speaks for every African American full stop? Or that every local Antifa chapter gets to decide what the movement means?

EDIT: To summarize and get back on topic, @libsoftiktok is a sub movement within new conservatism. By the definition of sub-movement, they do not represent all conservative opinions. And they are not part of some "larger strategy" to attack liberals, or at least, there is no evidence that is true.
Can't explain that...
Sure, luck inherent to the nature and reality. We cannot get rid of it and cerate totally deterministic system. But that does not mean that we cannot minimalize it and that somehow it has inherently good value. I could argue that almost all our civilization exists because we eliminated randomness from our primal lifes.
- End the interview early and call them out on being rude.

- Drag their company they work for on Blind and Glassdoor.

This is the best thing you can do not just for yourself, but for other engineers as well.
Classic VB comes from an entirely different era. It's hard to express how bad programming languages/environments were in general at that time. From that perspective VB is pretty decent. But we're sorta blessed these days that there really aren't any terrible programming languages anymore. Although we're also cursed that an environment like VB for building applications isn't really possible anymore.

One thing I would correct is that VB does not have extremely loose typing. VB is strongly typed with one exception: the variant type that could hold any other type (kinda like "object" in Java/C# but implemented like a union).
>Hehe, that's such a macho way of thinking. I have a little tingling sensation that we could use more women in positions of power in tech.

If you look up the origin of the phrase "shit test", you will find a lot of irony in this statement :)
Games are just rich interactive models of some synthetic, emulated, or simulated system. They can be perfect for building intuition about complex systems that are difficult to represent linearly as in text or video. Games could be a very promising future for education & training but they still carry an old stigma with them & the f2p ad driven game wasteland of the app store only helps reinforce that stigma.

https://xkcd.com/1356/
Every single user account is an IOU.

There is - as some people seem likely to discover - a difference.
I’ve seen it used as a gender neutral pronoun and some people prefer it to his/her but most people now just use “their” when they don’t know don’t know the gender of the person they are talking about.
> "contributing to" standards

ftfy

The gp post did say "good standards," so I'm assuming that means open, unbiased ones.
Yes, I think it's hard for normal people to use those networks because at this point they are unable to replicate the network effects of centralized media, as in there is no simple way of going from 1to1 communication and build from there to many-to-many.

But I think we people who are into tech should have coordinated more among ourselves that at least we used and helped to grow until they are mature enough for regular people.
Like it or not, you are beholden to what your group says and does in public. The group name you identify with strongly biases anybody meeting you into modeling you as the most visible people of your group.

> transgender people aren't a movement. We're people.

Every movement is ultimately a group of people with a purpose.
I'm not sure what I am supposed to be concluding from this map.

Is the claimed correlation between Parliamentarian or Royalist support and Leave/Remain?

As an example: two Remain areas - Oxford and Brighton - one consistently royalist, the other consistently parliamentarian. Cornwall - supporting leave - consistently royalist, Kent - also supporting leave - consistently parliamentarian.
A lot of FAANG people want to get paid FAANG levels of money but also work on exciting and meaningful projects, we can't have it all.
That’s neat and it does make it a bit more impressive. But an instructor who thought you had a 90% chance of landing without dying wouldn’t accept 10% risk and sign off, so it doesn’t say much about the overall odds.

But I didn’t realize he was flying a turboprop in crosswinds though!
That's great for you. Not really feasible for the likes of me, who have a girlfriend and 3 animals to support. To say nothing of those with actual, human kids.
Update headline to include (2021)

Also, a couple things:

1.) North Face really really cares about image and marketing. In my opinion, there's nothing special to their product- it's all image. So, blocking O&G companies from branding their gear is somewhat understandable.

2.) They do use some eco-friendly material, and (supposedly, maybe) will have more responsibly sourced material coming by 2025 (not sure if they committed to this before, or after this debacle).

3.) It's funny to me that his best defense of oil and gas is "you live in an oil and gas society, so, gotcha!"
Ok straw man.
It shows you’re woke.
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*I don't want to work with rude, unprofessional snobs*

Then, whether planned or not, the rudeness was an effective and important part of the interview process...there was no cultural fit.

I mean maybe the rudeness was performative. Particularly given how utterly useless the question is and how there's no answer where someone couldn't plausibly respond rudely...PHP is obvious, but "Rust? Oh you're one of those people?"

How people respond to rudeness can be an effective gauge of personality.

Some people will laugh it off. Some assume the source was having a bad day. Some will actually say the "what the fuck?" they're thinking.

And some people will go ballistic.

Not reacting as part of your professional self-image says a something about your personality. Terminating the interview on the spot wouldn't be part of that...because it would be unprofessional.

Which is particularly true for people who work directly with clients where the way to deal with rudeness is rates that make experiencing rudeness worthwhile.

By which I mean not accepting rudeness is a privilege. The McDonald's cashier and the hotel maid don't get that option.

Good luck.
There are projects with smaller communities than React that do pretty well.
It appears to be a frequent occurrence for proclamations based on strongly held beliefs to be made that something is impossible, until it isn't. The balance of labor and capital is inevitably in tension perpetually, and I am simply arguing for more balance. Success is not assured, by any means, but that is no reason to accept the status quo in silence. There is always nuance, and I think it's unhelpful in the discussion to say "it won't work because of x." But that's not a conversation. The conversation is, "here are challenges with the current economic configuration, and here are some levers that could be pulled to make changes where there is a more equitable outcome for those who are getting the short end of the stick."

There is a wide gap between capital sucking up all of the productivity with workers being slave labor and Marxists seizing the means of production and burning it all down; neither is being argued for, but somewhere solidly in the middle of those extremes. Capital makes some sort of return, value is created, workers are treated fairly, receive reasonable compensation for the value they're creating, and have a seat at the table of the org, and everyone goes home happy. If someone is more of an Ayn Rand/Libertarian/individual exceptionalism sort of a person, this view is likely unpalatable, and there is no common ground to meet at.
The CNN article has audio. I can't believe how calm the passenger is.

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/florida-passenger-lan...
But max likelihood of what physical property?
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What makes skin color marker of diversity ? This is world we live in.

India can have diversity claims if they let individual states in India their passports, languages, flags and so on. It's on them to show diversity before expecting others to appreciate it.
yeah correct haven't added it. Just a static page on github atm

Is this something you want?
Everyone is scared, even the other side. They are just different fears. That's why its so vital to talk to your neighbors and to those who are different. To listen and to try to change hearts. Especially important is to see why people order their beliefs the way they do. They also think that values cannot be put on the same line ("I think babies should have the right to life" and "republicans stole the election from Gore" are not equal and opposite positions).

The hierarchy of needs is different on both sides; they are mostly incompatible and each side not only will, but _must_ violate the other's definition of justice (abortion is a perfect example of this, defined not by the act itself, but by the conflicting definitions/hierarchy of life and of rights).

I think social media is the problem. You used to have to get along with those around you. Now you can just bubble yourself on the internet, no matter how niche your position is. I am glad to have friendships all across the political spectrum -- we can always bond over being screwed by the system at large instead of the nebulous "other side".
Who is that?

In my experience, Twitter is indiscriminately bad at being consistent with bans.
I prefer to make the world better through actions.

Not pointlessly redefining words that have no ill intent in the first place and harassing people that don't use the words you decided were proper.
Yes this is due to the way Linkedin embeds, let me update with full links too.
> Minority activists don't actually have any political power.

As Malcolm X explained, minorities are routinely used as a political cudgel in feuds between parties — and the promotion of extremist voices is part of that today.

> political forces ensure that even if this was happening you wouldn't know about it

…which is why it’s important to occasionally share those thoughts in your personal life, to help unwind that narrative for people around you.
IME: these things usually creep up on you in new and terrible ways. Everything can be fine and then it just sort of all hits you.
Tech work doesn’t feel like something you can have a life long career in. It’s stressful and there’s ageism. Tech workers are mentally amortizing their productive tech life-span over their whole life and then comp doesn’t look as high.
What powers the API docs ?
A while back Facebook was accused of requiring users to give them copyright “ownership.”

They said they wanted to be able to sue someone who scraped it. And that required ownership.

Suing people for violating the copyright goes well beyond simple cloud operations.

It means they can reach settlements, etc.

It was less clear whether they could sue the author.
I'm not sure that's a fair comparison - the rant about managers is concerning their special status in the highest priority EB1 category for Employment Based Green Cards, not L1 work visas. Or are you referring to L1 managers eventually working their way to EB1 Managers?
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This is a side of Florida Man we rarely hear about.
> There are more openings than qualified people

I don't believe this.

The only way this is true is if there are a lot of openings at companies that are going to pay significantly under market and can't figure out why nobody is accepting their offers, even when candidates tell them.

Based on another comment [0], maybe this is actually the case.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31341966
Interviewers tend to have one of two different mentalities...

Some are trying to see you fail. They're looking for a reason to say "no". They tend to not be of any help on a problem, will often try to find ways to trick you. They also tend to have an ego problem -- you need to prove to them that you're worthy of joining the team.

The other class of interviewers are those that want you to succeed. They will answer questions, and help clarify things. Even if you are unqualified for the role, and they know it, they still want to help you along so they can see your best work. People that shut down when they get nervous tend to open up to these interviewers. They also tend to be the people that are more pleasant to work with.
Xooglers aren't just handed jobs. They still have to pass interviews, and have to live up to a higher expectation because of their background. Stress and medical issues still affect them too.
You think women don't do shit tests?
I don't have a whole lot to say on this right now (very WIP), but I have a strong belief that git is a core tool we should be using for data.

Most data-formats are thick-formats, pack data into a single file. Part of the effort in switching to git would be a shift to trying to unpack our data, to really make use of the file system to store fine grained pieces of data.

It's been around for a while, but Irmin[1] (written in Ocaml) is a decent-enough almost-example of these kinds of practices. It lacks the version control aspect, but 9p is certainly another inspiration, as it encouraged state of all things to be held & stored in fine-grained files. Git I think is a superpower, but just as much: having data which can be scripted, which speaks the lingua-franca of computing- that too is a superpower.

[1] https://irmin.org/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8053687 (147 points, 8 years ago, 25 comments)
Fair point, but... Is there any significant politician on the left, other than Bernie Sanders, who is actually pro-working-class at the moment?

If so, I haven't paid enough attention to politics to keep track of what's going on. But if not, then I think it's fair to say that the left as a whole abandoned the working class, with Bernie being the exception.
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It's more accurate to say that job-hopping has diminishing returns.

Get a single +39% increase is one thing.

Getting a +39% increase every single time you change jobs isn't going to happen. If that was possible, you could change jobs every year for a decade and be earning 27X what you started with. If you started at $100K, that would put you at $2.7 million year after 10 iterations.

That's why whenever someone insists that job hopping is an easy way to get huge pay increases, it's probably more a sign that they're early in their career and/or that they haven't been keeping up with compensation negotiations. For people at the sharp end of the compensation scale, job-hopping stops becoming an easy option for compensation increases.
I’m far more familiar with operation under Part 107 (sUAS, i.e., drones <50#), but this seems consistent with how the FAA has it structured.

I let kids fly my quadcopters regularly. Legally, I’m the “RPIC” - “remote pilot in command”. The fact that someone else is physical operating the controls is irrelevant. I’m responsible for the safe operation of the aircraft. Because it’s remote, there is a requirement that I be able to take immediate control of the aircraft if necessary; standing next to the person with the controller is sufficient to meet that requirement.
I 100% agree with your last generalization.
> I bet this was a guy raised on video games. I was about to make a joke about it but I'm actually serious.

That was a major plot point in the movie, Snakes on a Plane.
One thing that's become very interesting to me is whether there's a way to formalize the presence of these kinds of path dependencies in models (sociological, psychological, epidemiological, system, whatever) so they don't become these kind of implicit ghost (butterfly?) effects that are mismodeled and misinterpreted. How do we avoid overlooking them? Seems like it's something that happens a lot.
The braking distance at 70mph is a huge 75m, which is about 9 London buses. Add your reaction time, and do you aee why distances of over 100m between cars are slightly unrealistic?
Probably look into calisthenics stretches.
On the contrary the CNN story [0] said the controller was NOT familiar with this specific plane so he got a print out of the dashboard of that model so that he can guide the "pilot" properly. There was also a picture.

[0] https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/florida-passenger-lan...