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What? This has nothing to do with unions. If enough engineers don't want to work on $x, Netflix won't be able to work on $x. If there are enough, they'll find replacements for ones that leave and they'll be able to work on it.

The situation would be identical with unions, unless you think engineers who would be fine working on $x would be OK with their union deciding for them that they shouldn't. More likely they just wouldn't be members of that union.

I never understand why people want to inject an often corrupt, additional layer of insane bureaucracy into a work environment where they already have a lot of leverage. Techies don't unionise for very good reasons!
Not specific to w11, more like anything after w7, but I like this menu replacement and you might too https://www.stardock.com/products/start10/
If your Interested in switch jobs, just try :).

Are you interested working in a particular domain? If you have experience , that will be helpful.

Also, you’re generally hired to provide value. If you’re able to enable your team to solve challenges the company is interested in, you’ll be fine.
> Also, technically the value of UST was fully backed by LUNA

And what was LUNA backed by? Unless somebody gives a better definition I'll say it was backed by two things. One was UST successfully working as a stablecoin. The other was the vague promises made by the charismatic founder that they were enabling a whole ecosystem with hundreds of developers, creating blah blah. In other words, people bought into the hype that Terra was to become the next big blockchain startup and holding LUNA was as good as owning early stock.

So that goes back to the first point, and as soon as Terra wasn't able to run an effective stablecoin what was left? "We're still here making noise" says Do Kwon. Face palm.
Voby: A performant front-end framework with fine-grained reactivity
Work has a bunch of metrics and only 1 of them is _directly_ about code so if you do a good job clarifying the problem and coming up with a pseudocode solution I'd still give you a positive rating but not one of the highest ones. And to clarify, I just write a report about the interview. Other people make a hire/reject decision based on all the reports and I'd imagine if you did poorly in the code metric in all of them it'd become a reject but I don't keep that statistic. I have a feeling (but no proof) that the other people care more about what I wrote in my notes than my actual score.

A candidate that is able to quickly produce a correct compilable solution is more impressive than one that doesn't come up with a solution but there are a lot of shades of gray here. Often a candidate rushes to code a solution without checking (either with me or just with an example) that the solution even works. That is not more impressive to me than a candidate who "spends too long" clarifying the problem and coming up with a solid algorithm and runs out of time to code it.

You don't need a perfect score to get hired. Honestly coming up with the "most efficient" algorithm but having no clue about its performance characteristics (i.e. big-o) is going to get you a lower score than a slower algorithm but really understanding it. I do the same for correctness, if you know a part of your algorithm is "wrong" I won't dock as much because IMO you'd run that part through some test cases cause you're suspicious (i.e. should a `<` be a `<=` or even more complex logic). w.r.t. big-o, I've yet to find a candidate that coded a workable algorithm and doesn't know what it is and also couldn't deduce it when given examples (i.e. say you have 6 elements in the array, how many times do you look at their value? 36. say you have 8 elements? 64. say you have n elements? n^2).

That said, I've worked at several places and this is the first one to have a rubric for interviews. Definitely "Write down what success looks like for the exercise" is the part of the article I liked the most. And to that I look for (1) did they clarify the problem (2) can they come up with an algorithm / break the problem up into something workable (3) is what they coded what they designed (4) do they know it's runtime. (4) is pretty much directly one of the metrics so if I don't ask it I don't feel that I can justify the highest rating and from the rest I figure out what I think the other metrics should score.
> minting $1 worth of Luna

One thing I’m not clear on: what oracle is deciding how much Luna is worth $1? How do you calculate a market price in a manner that the chain itself can rely on to function? I assume there is a smart contract doing this minting, but if that smart contract depends on an oracle…how smart is it, really?
I think it's reasonable to wonder if the interview process is actually "indifferent", or whether it's designed to screen out older people in favor of younger people. How exactly could you or would you "test" for the value of experience, or do you believe that experience never has any value?
The point is bitcoin supply is limited. Fiat is not.
> A car uses roughly 40 kWh to go 100 miles.

>Bitcoin transactions uses 1,719 kWh every 10 minutes.

1. you're comparing the energy use of a single vehicle against the energy use of a global network. if you were at least somewhat honest you'd try to compare like with like.

2. You seem to be missing the point. The quoted paragraph seems to be upset that the trillions of other hashes are being "thrown away entirely", implying that if they weren't thrown away it would somehow be less bad. That's the point I'm disputing. If you think bitcoin isn't a worthwhile use of energy, that argument doesn't need to depend on whether you're "throwing away" hashes or not, so I'm presuming OP is actually concerned about something being "throwing away".

>any unused rocks that are "thrown away" are easily repurposed if desired

in theory yes, but in practice they're not.
Unity lost $110m due to bad data corrupting ML-based user acquisition system
Yeah that was the best. I usually found a tree that was bent over dead and laid fallen branches across each side to form the shelter and then cover in leaves.
Once you're past the interview Leetcode rituals gatekeeping, and the undisguised ageism many places, remember that there's no substitute for experience.

An entire product or company can hinge to a large degree on an engineering team doing wise things, to avert problems, and occasionally to solve them.

Experience helps you be much more wise than when you had no experience -- and were just going on what you heard from professors, read in blog posts, or imagined with the confidence that comes from not yet knowing any better. :)

Just stay enthusiastic and curious, keep learning, and get past the interviews.
> i know this will get downvoted but I'd rather take an occassional 25% loss with the knowledge that I'll regain it in the future, rather than a guaranteed loss of 6%+ per year for the next 20 years that I will never regain.

You're making the claim that you have the "knowledge" that you'll regain any losses with crypto. I'm not sure what the basis for that is.

The comparison is flawed anyway, the point of cash isn't supposed to be an investment with returns, it's currency you buy stuff with! Even with inflation running at over 8%, the dollar is still good as currency, you don't need to convert it to get paid in it and buy things with it.

Crypto can be either a currency or a volatile investment, not both. The gold standard famously linked the price of gold with our currency, and it forms part of the reason the Federal Reserve didn't act to stop the Great Depression - they couldn't just print more gold to increase the money supply (to grossly oversimplify)!

If inflation is your problem, then the solution is to make central banks' inflation mandates stronger, not to pick the next commodity-like thing to link our currency to, completely ignoring lessons learnt from Depression-era monetary policy. This problem doesn't have to involve crypto as a solution, even wacky stuff like the balanced budget amendment is closer to a solution to inflation than crypto.

If you're advocating crypto as a high yield investment, then that's something different and you shouldn't compare it to the dollar.
The Dumbest Buyout (April 2022, Concerning Twitter)
It sounds pedantic, but it very much depends on how you define 'government'.
Experienced basically this while working for a startup. Equity turned into shares, which turned into "incentive points" that could be revoked at any moment and for any reason and were otherwise worthless. Same deal, 15k "incentive points" out of some unknown number. We pressured them on that for a while, because it was completely unacceptable for the amount of work we'd done for them, but then the entire dev team left.
> where I'd like a uniform way of handling playback and live

Seems to me that WebRTC and HLS solve two different problems though. WebRTC largely prefers dropping packets to stay real-time while HLS buffers and preserves every frame by default rather than drop frames to stay real-time. One is designed for calls (real-time) and one is not (streaming).

That’s why HLS seems over-complicated. It’s not designed around real-time signalling, instead it’s designed around making requests for frames/bytes effectively sequentially.

Now, if you’re not distributing requests at scale, HLS is indeed overkill. But if you might have latency and want to stream uninterrupted video footage, it’s a necessary evil. If you pick WebRTC, you’ve no easy way to ask to pick up where you left off, because the default is just a stream of “real-time now” packets and dropped packets are lost forever.

MSE would be a way of capturing packets, but if the protocol doesn’t let you sequentially access bytes starting from a timestamp, you’re stuck when trying to resume a stream, no?

I might have misunderstood something, but they do seem like they serve different purposes. :)
I got tired of waiting and started using Deploy to Heroku GitHub action instead
still not easy to vertically center shit, especially variable sized shit. don't forget <marquee> and finding ways to make text blink. and gaudy section separators. AND MUSIC. when you went to my geocities app you got the 'low ride er' mariachi theme. that was sweet. pissed off all of the kids in my class while i was developing it though because it would only get through the first few seconds before i was making changes.

> thinking people will go back to a world

it's not even going back. the main portal to the web is now apps on phones. the web will continue to evolve, but i can't imagine a scenario where it forks.

the anarcho liberal wild west days of the web are behind it, unfortunately. i lament its passing along with a whole host of others who grew up in the land of bbs, usenet, and the like.
Since the state has like 350 billion in deficit, they should consider that first.
It was just something exacerbated the feeling I had at the time that the market was turning downwards. Not anything to do with Netflix necessarily, there were other tech stocks turning downwards at the same time. But that first big Netflix drop had a different feeling to it.

Not to mention, the insane stock price gains in tech in general had all but stopped, NFT scams were at there height, and it just looked like things were going south to me. Turned out my feeling was right.
That's not really the case here either. The headline is very misleading.
Yes, confirmed in the source code[0].

[0]: https://github.com/blinry/sliderland
I wasn't talking about car salesman that work in SF proper. Yes, 1 hour from there is basically still pretty expensive. But if you can work anywhere 30 minutes outside SF, and then live another 45 further, you own a home.
And yes any decent car salesperson is making $100k. I made on average $250k but I was a bit better than top 1%, and I know a few that made more. I suppose you could say I only socialize with high performers. Sure every car dealer also has a few people that struggle to pay their apartment rent.
The industry is setup for an good salesperson to support a family. If you can outperform average by 2x, which is possible if you're really on it, you can make 2x+ that amount.
Same applies to mechanics that are good at their craft.
I've learnt to enjoy them and trying to connect with people.
Especially after the pandemic, I think everyone is currently struggling or did struggle with life stuff so in some ways we can all relate more easily to each other.

Some companies culture just suck and you can tell it really quickly, trying to pursue those positions is a waste of valuable energy.

I think the worst interviewers are developers that are not senior yet and will try to favor cleverness over what's actually valuable. They tend to ask the questions you can easily google.
>The gas used by armored cars to move cash around is a good example of similar economic cost.

No, both you and the OP seem to have pattern-matched my comment to "bitcoin's energy consumption is similar to [something else]" argument, which is not what I'm talking about.
I test for competency not experience. If your experience makes you competent then great, if it doesn't make you competent then so be it, I don't care one way or another because I'm not looking to hire experienced people but rather competent people.
What the actual fuck? Other than the recent Github debacle, Heroku has been one of my favorite and most consistently used services for over a decade. The notion that it failed is ridiculous.
> A company that just promotes anyone to EM that just puts their hand up, despite demonstrating their not suitable, has other problems.

This is a straw man. It doesn't happen, and nobody believes that it happens.

What does happen is that people who are good at engineering get promoted to engineering management, but writing code and managing humans are two entirely different skills.

In fact it's especially true in companies with "rigorous" entrance exams that engineers employed by the company have focused on the coding aspect heavily in the past, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to pass the exams. So their people skills would have tended to be neglected or ignored entirely.
I'm not quite sure where you got the impression that fizz buzz is the only interview question that got asked. I'm fairly process oriented so I find a lot of value in observing how someone works. But at some point it's just not worth it to proceed further.

I like fizz buzz because it's both a good low pass filter and a good jumping off point for further discussion. If you can't read the Wiki entry and wrap your head around fizz buzz, you're probably not a good fit. If you can then there's the opportunity to ask all sorts of questions (e.g. why did you choose this language, how would you test this, what would you do differently) and maybe even move on to a more complex program.

For the one candidate who struggled with bash, we started offering input around the ten minute mark. Stuff like "is there something else you could use instead of the modulo operator", leading questions to encourage them to check the man page (or google it), inquiring maybe a different language would be a better fit. That this person could wrap their head around fizz buzz was only a minor detail. That they were fixated on making a specific implementation work was a big miss. At this job specifically the tech stack was fairly diverse so there was a lot of value in being able to suss out the right tools for the job and less value in being able to bang out a more complex algorithm in clojurescript or whatever.
And just to make the connection explicit: if lots of buyers are making competitive offers because rates are low and money is cheap, then that's going to encourage the people who can afford to pay cash to make an all-cash offer where otherwise they might not have.
The fact that your factual, noninflammatory comment is being downvoted reflects very poorly on the state of intellectualism on HN. Every time crypto drops 30% you see the same tired arguments and cringeworthy jealousy / schadenfreude. I'm not even pro-crypto and it's painful to watch.

Luna never had a limited supply. That was its achilles heel. Bitcoin is inherently supply-limited. Whether Bitcoin will suffer a similar fate remains to be seen, but it certainly won't happen on the same timeframe (99.9% drop in a matter of days) without SHA-256 breaking or some other double spend vulnerability being successfully realized.
Okay. How many other things do you have to break down though?
FizzBuzz isn't leetcode. It's a filter for bare minimum programming and reasoning skills. It's purposely simple to avoid tripping people up with a seemingly hard problem that depends on insight you might miss while under the pressure of an interview. If you're so innumerate you can't check for integer divisibility you might not be a good fit for some programming tasks.

I've seen candidates fumble when given the problem of adding a node to the end of a linked list. Everybody is pampered now with swiss army knife languages that do everything for you that they don't know how anything basic works. Many of the HN crowd will sneer at the idea of this sort of low level coding but it is still important in many domains.
> I have some friends who lost everything in this, and it sucks. I did my best to explain this exact scenario to people who would listen, and ended up getting some pretty high praise this week from people I saved, but you can't save everyone.

Same here.

I was asked about crypto many times since it became legal tender in my country.

The country definitely went through an 'investment' craze for some months. Maybe in a similar way to what Robin Hood / GME was in the US in late 2020/early 2021.

For some people the damage was limited to the $30 they received from the government in their wallets, as a consequence of buying high and selling low.

For others who went all in and bought crypto with credit cards, is a different story.

Like for many people here the best investment they can make is paying up their up to 49.99% APR credit cards, but that doesn't seem exciting enough for many.

I remember having conversations with friends and acquaintances about investment options. Researching which bank offered the highest APR for term deposits, (they can sometimes be up to 5.5% for USD time deposits here), which investment options were available, or how usually investing in yourself (education) or paying debts is a much better investment.

At least one of them decided to go full on crypto "deposits" with higher APR, I haven't asked if they are underwater after the recent news.

Another thing that surprised me is that the ones that spent the most weren't IT people. Since originally here, Bitcoin was mostly an IT niche topic. A few lucky people that mined when it was possible to do it with GPUs or bought when it was bought about a $100.

With all this, most of my friends in IT were like "oh, I've known about this for a long time, I wish I had bought them years ago" but didn't take major actions. On my case I remember the first Slashdot post about Bitcoin and even downloading one of the early Bitcoin Windows wallet but I never mined.

Others were mostly bit annoyed for having to work after hours to update their companies' payment systems to handle crypto in a short notice.

But non-IT people where like very excited about it. It was surprisingly popular with 60+ and older acquaintances. I'm sure it was heavily promoted on local TV and probably by social media posts targeting their demographics.

I've met some 75+ retirees that even wanted to buy ant miners and others that bought crypto with their pensions. Like their first online purchase with card was for buying coins really. And I'm talking about the demographics that actually goes every month to the bank to update their bank booklet after their pension is deposited.

Very weird days.
I don't mind selling myself if the person on the other end is worth it, this is almost never the case though in both dating and business.
Like Youtube, that struggling video streaming platform?
>how big a movement would be required to break the $1 peg

This is the sort of question that's important if you are managing capital for the long term and need to ensure that you remain in the black rather than being grounded on the shoals of fate.
Didn't he end up not helping at all after previously committing billions to it?

I feel like he's not obligated to do anything, but ignoring his commitment makes him a worse person, and there are probably amounts greater than zero which do not encounter the issue you describe
Aluminum forms a passivating oxide layer, but generally this layer is conductive enough that you can still use aluminum as an electrode, except in conditions with extreme pH.
If you feel a degree is that important to your confidence level, you could go get one.

I will say that when we interview people, for senior positions, we hardly look at their education. You have 10 years of experience, so your interview would most likely depend on that.
Do you mean debt? Or are you referring to some sort of projected, aggregate deficit?
I seem to recall learning that the famous 300 Spartans also had another ~3000 Greeks in with them. Is the poplular tale of "only" 300 Spartans not a popular myth perpetuated because it sounds cooler?
For some reason I thought they weren't but that's good to know.
Dear Down-voter

Congress has the power to monitor and "regulate" The Fed. That is, The Fed is not - or isn't supposed to be - completely autonomous. It has oversight, or should.

The reality is, it does not. Congress lets The Fed run wild. That might be the status quo, but it's not how it legally needs to be.

So yes, Congress isn't doing their job. And no one (read: the media) is questioning that negligence.

Again, only in America. << That's not editorial. It's a statement of fact.
You say this, and I hate suburbs too, but this story takes place in Queens. It's a bigger issue with the culture.
WTF is he talking about? They were acquired for $212 million. One of the most popular services like it ever. I am going to flag this post.
I was just talking about this with a colleague. We really want to join the beta at my company. Would be happy to sign up for the pro plan!

One note though, I want to point out, that I am able to "break" some of the demo components, like changing type="number" doesn't seem to error the form when I input text over it.

In case one of the other maintainers sees this, I have one other question:

Does this in any way use `eval`? I know a lot of JSON schema validators do, and that is a pain when it comes to CSP. If Formkit doesn't use eval (and maybe we can get a commitment on that...) its a no brainer
Thank you for clarification, but I still don't get this part:

> and from interest on loans people took out against the collateral they deposited

To be able to pay out 20% interest rate on deposits you need to issue loans at higher rate. But who would take such a loan when they can go to a traditional bank? Furthermore, the borrower needs to provide a collateral.

Money cannot appear out of nowhere. There should be somebody buying something, like products or services (not just cryptotokens). Or at least a reasonable expectation of someone buying them.
It sounds like my Cousin Sarah would fail most of your tests.

That, to me, means you have set the bar too high.

If your test excludes actual humans, don't you think it's possible your test is too difficult?