skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A full video of a talk by Soundararajan in reaction to Google's cancelation was published to YouTube, link below.

A few things that I found poignant in this talk:

One in four people in the world live within a caste system.

Soundararajan's father only admitted his dalit status to her in his late 70s.

The reservation system in India is the earliest civil rights initiative, predating the movement in the U.S.

The reservation system has expanded from its original role in university admissions to encompass reserved seats in parliament and corporate hiring.

The final question in the talk was from a "closeted" dalit worker at Google who was terrified that she would be outed.

As much as we hope that the caste system has no bearing in U.S. hiring, we must acknowledge that its effects are present.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2xykx777qZM
They're offering resume reviews and interview coaching to people who have passed through their entire interview pipeline. I don't see the point.
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You're still maximizing value for shareholders, it's just wrapped in baloney about a Mars mission.
I still believe having a good relationship with your previous employers isn't the worst thing - I have at least a few that have said that if I'm ever in need of a job that they'd be glad to bring me back in. In unstable economic times that kind of relationship puts me at ease. Quitting without notice, which is what you're suggesting, is a great way to screw up that relationship.

Of course, if you're working somewhere that you'd never want to go back to under any circumstances, all bets are off.

This reminds me of something one of my previous employers did. They had hired a ton of new engineers straight out of college and gave them a couple weeks to relocate to the city, get apartments, etc. After about 2 weeks of their training, executives decided it was time for some layoffs. The main targets? Those new employees. Company severance policy was only based on tenure, so these people probably got $20 and were unemployed, with a brand new lease, in a city they didn't know (and frankly, one that isn't at the top of most peoples' lists to live in).
This is unthinkable in any IIT/NIT in India. I think casteism is somewhat worse in the US
Right now it's the other way around. Bitcoin has held its value pretty well while everything around it is crashing.
I'm thinking of so called "disruption" associated with startups. Whose lifestyle is actually disrupted? The have-nots.
To be honest I have not read his books, but I always had the impression from his talks that he was quite narrow minded in that he largely only meant astro/particle physics when talking about theoretical physics, ignoring many areas in the process. Also worth noting that the book came out 10 years after his lecture, so he probably revised his views during that time.
I'm surprised they even announced it publicly, it can do nothing but make them look like a terrible place to go apply for work if they do things like yank offers. Although I guess since they aren't hiring for anything in the near future it doesn't matter but I bet this perception will persist well beyond when they start hiring again.

I wonder if this announcement was pressure from management and the board to make some public announcement for shareholders that Coinbase is doing something, anything, to cut costs and weather the crypto and tech downturn.

And for sure, if you work as a recruiter for Coinbase and still have a job... time to start tapping your network for other opportunities.
Social mobility has been declining in the rich world since the 40s. The USA doesn’t have a formal class system, but it’s increasingly rare for people from poor families to become wealthy in modern day America.

We’re right to celebrate people from humble origins climbing the social ladder. But it doesn’t happen anywhere near as often as it should.
I have tried every monorepo manager and all but one were super annoying and difficult. Lerna was slow and annoying. Turborepo felt immature when I tried it. Yarn workspaces didn’t play nice with windows for some reason.

I swear by pnpm + rush (from Microsoft). Fast installs. Good caching. Keeps every dependency in sync. Handles the local workspace builds well if you buy into their build tool, heft (which I have).
Coinbase doesn't need to care about the value of crypto, it makes money on fees when people buy or sell against USD. All it should care about is the traded volumes, and they don't necessarily have to be a lot lower in a bear market.
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Not as much as it used to it would seem. And that has got to do with some major misalignment in academic institutions. I don’t even want to sound off on all the BS “research” that’s going on in humanities (and which worryingly spills into STEM at an alarming rate).

But even STEM research itself wastes too much time with costly self-serving objectives, rather than shooting for breakthroughs that lead to actual applications. Take CERNs large hadron collider, which has produced preciously few new insights, despite costing a fortune in taxpayer money. The Higgs boson is all well and good, but it’s hardly a new finding.

Or take mathematics’ famous millennium problems, where only a subset (eg. P vs NP) would lead to practically useful new insights. By contrast, solving some obscure numbers theory problem would benefit humanity how exactly?
A lot of the world drinks espresso. Mg of caffeine probably the appropriate measure here?
When it can be used as the reason a company succeeds, it should be used as the reason the company isn't doing well.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/co...
I'm not the person you're looking for, but I don't think the reason is anything nefarious. It's just that the posts have a single point, which is to tell you the company is hiring. If you let people comment, it inevitable devolves into some nitpicking or criticism of the company (or more rarely some kind of shilling) which frustrates the purpose of the post.

If there is a news story, a "my experience at company X" blogpost, any kind of relevant point to be made about that company, someone could submit that as a story.

Letting people comment on job ads would just turn them into lightning rods for whatever bad things people want to say, and then what would be the point?

I'm sure I have seen a moderator reply in one of the who is hiring threads saying something similar that allowing comments just attracts criticism and derails the threads
It's not inflation inflation. It's somewhat due asset class "inflation" (really overvaluation). There's tons of money looking for a productive place to park. With interest rates low and inflation high, stocks are one of the few place to put money that it actually makes something. You also have trillions of various assets being held by the Fed, which includes billions in ETFs. The market is overvalued by most measures right now.
I don't think you'll find many - or possibly any - progressives who say that CNN is progressive.
It's contextual for sure, but one example: it's way easier to see "Harvard" on a resume than to conduct an interview that accurately assesses for skill, which is why you end up with things like resume screens ahead of interviews.
I have and do, otherwise my unemployment insurance rates rise the following year, if that isn't a concern for you then sure. I also only fire for cause.
As an America-born white hippie, though... I have a hard time seeing an argument like that and not equating it with attempts to suppress discussion of racial equality issues here at home[1]. The fact that you don't experience discrimination doesn't mean that no one does. And you should know if people do, and why.

Nothing gets better if the skeletons stay in the closet, basically. It's no different for caste awareness than it is for teaching slavery and segregation.

[1] Edit: and look what I did! "Here at home" clearly comes out making this seem like a "foreign" problem, but as you point out this is your home too! That's why we should all be hearing people speak out about it.
Most of these are bad advice.

First, flying on credit isn't nearly as easy as you make it out to be. Yes, a bunch of companies are buy now, pay later. They fall into two groups. The first does it based on your credit. The second is a layaway plan - by the time you get on the plane you've managed to pay in full. Ex-cons struggling to get a job usually have neither. Nobody wants to give money to a person who looks like they are trying to disappear. (Because you just know your money is going to disappear with them...)

Second, a lot of your plans require going to countries where you need another language. That's going to be a challenge for most ex-cons.

Third, while the French Foreign Legion is romantic and all, they won't take you if they find you have a criminal record. Other foreign legions are similar. They might not find out, but do you want to spend your life savings betting on that?

Fourth, marrying someone from another country is an uphill battle for someone who lacks a job. Particularly when most of the women from those countries looking to marry an American would like to wind up in the USA rather than the reverse.

These are all amazing plans, and I'm sure that some succeed with each. But they're going to work out poorly for most ex-cons who try them.
Notice periods are still a thing. And in many places outside of the US they aren't just a thing you do out of courtesy (sometimes much longer than 2 weeks too). And even notice periods didn't exist, what's stopping the company from laying off new hires anyway?
In many cases, it's OK to negotiate your start date a couple of weeks out from the offer agreement. I've gotten almost a month in both of my last offers.
That's not a caste system. Please read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste
> Yeah, I had job offers rescinded on me. Funny enough these companies still have the audacity to have recruiters message me about new roles. Personally, I also stopped using these companies as a customer.

Rescinded offers are an extremely rare occurrence. If I had not one, but two offers rescinded I'd start wondering if maybe employers were discovering something they didn't like during routine background checks: Unflattering social media posts, something on your record, and so on.

Maybe it's purely coincidence, but if this becomes a pattern I'd start looking more closely for potential issues in your public profile or public records.
> We will rescind a number of accepted offers.

So if you accept an offer at CB, give notice to your current employer, have CB rescind the offer, and now find yourself unemployed? Is that what's happened here?
One approach is to run/work for small companies with adult smart people who trust each other without surveillance.
For some highly regulated industries, it's hard to bring small products to market. In banking, there are tiered regulations based on your size (in the U.S.) so there's more overhead for large companies
Yes, precisely that.
Im always happy when I bump into articles like this one.

In general I think it's ultimately irresponsible to centralize ideation on one stakeholder.

Wrote a piece with a similar opinion here: https://jonathankorn.substack.com/p/your-teams-relationship-...
Good to see they are at least making an effort to move in the right direction. I'm guessing they have a long way to go before they can deliver on the higher level goals here.

I don't think I'll ever be a consumer of television news in my life even if it were to improve. I think they have alienated a large group permanantly but maybe they can make it a better medium for the next generation.
Nah. Having factory staff interact with the CEO would create a lot of stress for said factory staff, plus Musk is known for going into a rage and firing people.
I've never seen that. That's amazing
The last few times I've bought cars I used a cashier's check on a local bank. Car dealers don't like credit cards because they don't want to pay a 3%-5% fee on a $35K purchase.
Wait, are Coinbase employees called "Coinbae"? I can't decide if that's brilliant or awful.
Because if a better police agency with better results comes along, the neighborhood will simply award the police agencies the contract. How is Gilette accountable for making razors worse than other brands? You stop buying them, that's how.
The article in question states this
Sadly most caste accusations come from a place of extreme hatred for Hindus. I have seen this when questioned by people who talk of Caste and the Hindu religion and when I dig deep, they often have a extreme dislike of Hindus more than anything.

Caste comes from the Portuguese word "Castus". There is no literal translation found for this word in ancient Hindu Sanskrit texts. The quoted article comes written from a time under British Raj where peoples backgrounds were used to further divide society so that they would not rise up against the British.
Caste in the same sense of occupational background exists in all cultures but was never used in such a divisive way like the British Raj did. For example people of the "Smith" surname used to be Goldsmiths or Blacksmiths. But the British put a sense of elitism into some communities in India, telling them they are higher than others. There is no Hindu scripture which says who is high or low, but merely responsibilities.

Skilfully sidestepping any explanation of the metric being used to measure “high”, the educated spiritual priests in British Raj times and intellectuals were all banded together into one and labelled "highest caste" because they represented the “highest threat” to Anglican domination and those who represented the “lowest threat” to the Anglican were pushed into the lowest caste.

During the British Raj of the 540 principalities existent at that time, over 400 were ruled by Shudra Kings (Professor Vaidyanathan, IIM Bangalore) which the British denoted as low caste. When the British left, the second largest landowner in India after the Indian Government, was the Church and thus it’s reasonable to note that the largest transfer of assets and land from was in fact from the Shudra groups (Lord Harries’ so called low-castes) to the Church. Further, there is readily available overwhelming historical evidence that the Dalits “the Untouchables” were themselves a creation of the crushing sanctions created and imposed by the Anglican Colonialists of the Church of England as is clarified below. The castes and tribes “notified” under the 1871 Act were labelled as Criminal Tribes for their so-called “criminal tendencies”. As a result, anyone born in these communities across the country was presumed a “born criminal”, irrespective of their criminal precedents.

Mixing castes was normal as it was based on deed back few thousand years ago, only recently caste mixing wasn't allowed. Some further reading:

https://pragyata.com/caste-system-pointers-for-the-social-me...

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/tech-gene-data-reveal...
Yes, but why? How can taxpayer-funded research institutions morally justify doing research that doesn’t increase our collective wealth or at least lead to some useful application in the short term?
It's a good lesson. We spend most of our lives forming real bonds with humans. Corporations are not humans and interactions with them should not be treated as such.
This is like the definition of being scared into obedience.
Male nurses not being as prevalent is definitely cited often as an example of sexism in my circles.
I saw it when Phil Hartman died, where were you?
But they almost always are a lot lower during bear cycles.
That is just utterly outrageous.
I should have worded that better - was trying to think of startups (or companies with startup characteristics (like the high losses and increasing costs coinbase had last q)) coming back after a very large reset.
A friend is working on tiny housing for homeless. There is a premium tier of the tiny houses that I think helps to fundraise for the Calyx pods. https://foragebuilt.com.au/

But I think ultimately you’d be building a trailer park for the more troubled parts of society and that might cause it to be less idyllic than you envisage.

I’ve previously done some marketing work for an apartment building that focuses on mixing previously homeless in with other tenants plus support services on site.
This isn’t poor ethics it’s self care. No one cares if you back out of an offer.

Companies are interviewing multiple candidates for a single spot, it’s insane not to expect reciprocal behavior
> you think silly web designs are a masculine trait

So, this seems to be a simple misunderstanding then. Because that's not what I mean (nor wrote). Anyhow, although we can probably continue to debate the finer points of this, I propose we don't. Have a good evening.
To be fair, calling Snap, TikTok or Slack a startup is pushing the definition of a "start-up" a bit. This article _was_ written in 2018 when these were all smaller, but even back then these weren't too small.

Snapchat has been around since 2011, Slack has been around since 2013, and Musical.ly has been around since 2014. By 2018 they all had significant user bases; Musical.ly had been in acquisition talks with Facebook in 2016 [1], and was acquired for $1 billion by ByteDance in 2017 [5]. Snapchat had famously been offered $3 billion in 2013 by Facebook [2]. Slack was big enough to buy HipChat and Stride from Atlassian [3][4].

By 2018, I'd say these companies were already in a good position to compete with tech giants; but I wonder about the smaller startups. Say companies that have been founded in the past 5 years; have they had an unfairly hard time? Do they see any future where they can actually compete with a tech giant, and not just shoot for a buy-out? I don't have data on this, but I'd be curious to know how the trends have been shifting here.

[1]: https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2019/11/13/facebook-musical...

[2]: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/12/how-mark-zuckerberg-has-used...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HipChat

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stride_(software)

[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical.ly
It's impossible to say Nana shouldn't be in the comments! She is every bit as good as Mom for an HN comment!
Well, there's this and the fact that it is the second most popular language in the european union, which sponsor the project.
That's on employee a bit then.

But we'd get the HR managers complaining if employees accepted offers and then ghosted, so we should complain about employers doing this.

Crazy they can't even afford to give folks a 6 month slot in a "gardening" type position. Be upfront. Hey, we're hurting, we can keep you for 6 months or so, no expectation on work output, but growth trajectory is going to be limited and a RIF is possible so may not be a bad idea to look for next spot.
> You aren't accepting to an industry, you are accepting to a hiring manager.

No, you are accepting to work for a business that is legally bound to prioritize the interests of the shareholders over those of any employee. They will always, always be "rude" to you if that's best for the people whose money they're spending to employ you.
It a problem with corporations too. They’re not bound by the laws of physics to leave you high and dry. Anyway, the point of the GP question was if it was necessary to give notice after you started your new job.

Given that companies are almost always choosing to leave people high and dry, the rational response is to not let yourself get into that situation by not giving your employer advanced notice
AdWords was built with Angular Dart
Don't see why that should be the case. Unless there are massive swings in the number of trades, setting a flat rate for transactions should insulate them from the actual prices of crypto assets.
Agreed, this doesn't pass the sniff test at all. Makes me think of this article[1]:

> Your estimate will be wrong for a silly, almost tautological reason: if you can only detect large effects, then any effect you detect will be large. If you keep looking for an effect, over and over again, until finally one study gets lucky and sees it, that study will almost necessarily give a wild overestimate of the effect size.

[1]: https://jaydaigle.net/blog/replication-crisis-math/, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30181696
Note that there are companies that forbid employees from being on the payroll for another company at the same time. So if a person accepted two offers simultaneously, and both companies found out, this person could end up with zero jobs.

Also, I wonder if this mainly a problem when there is a long gap between accepting the offer and the job start date. I would think a better strategy is to try to start getting paid as soon an offer is extended, by starting sooner.
> ... We have closed all of our physical offices today so that these conversations will be held remotely to protect the privacy of each impacted individual.

Good policy.

(And btw the headline should be 'Gemini lays off 10% of workforce')
How do you feel about Joe “nothing will fundamentally change” Biden?
> Ross Douthat, Bret Stephens, and David Brooks are the NYT's token "palatable to liberals" conservatives, meant to keep their opinion pages from being a complete echo chamber.

What is that based on? Can you provide evidence? The evidence so far says otherwise; dismissing it with a characterization doesn't change the facts.

IMHO, it covers a wide range, from Douthat (certainly not palatable to liberals) to Brooks, more centrist. Bret Stephens was the WSJ editorial page editor before coming to the NYT, and you will see almost zero non-right opinion on the WSJ (seriously, find one opinion piece that supports Democrats and post it here).
Why not? If the content is technical and the concept is near identical then why waste time writing the same thing a different way?
> Historically

It's probably still common in installation scripts, like in Dockerfiles. `apt-get install` has the `-y` option, but it would be useful for all other programs that don't.
But I think the same argument can be applied here in the USA, too.

Your point about "security through obscurity" makes sense; I wouldn't attempt to conceal the history and the current problems.

But the strategy here today seems to be trying to force people to own a given racial identity: at least some people are demanding that white people should stand up to publicly renounce their privilege, etc. And I'm afraid that this strategy of forcing people to self-identify as "white" rather than just "person" plants a seed in some minds that germinates into them sprouting into white nationalists and so forth.
Note that in Europe (e.g. Germany) a typical notice period can be 3 month. So some people don't even have the option to start faster.
This time around was no worse than the ICO craze of 2017, but importantly it wasn't any better either.

Despite tens of billions in investments poured into the space, crypto is fundamentally unable to create lasting value.
I'm a pretty open minded person. I have nothing against what ever life choices consenting adults want to make. I'm just seriously skeptical that many people are able to get a good outcome out of polyamorous relationships. Or especially that it is frequently mutually beneficial to both people in a relationship.

More power to people who can make it work. I'm sure it keeps life interesting.
That is not a caste system.

If you want to talk about social mobility, we can talk about that as a separate topic.

What does ideal social mobility look like to you? Here is a baseline for discussion:

https://www.heritage.org/sites/default/files/~/media/images/...