skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same. I left one company due to multiple standups a day once WFH started.
Software Developer

Web Developer

Software Engineer
Isn't quantitative tightening doing just that? It's removing money supply
> cultural oppression - that might have been a valid reason many decades ago but not these days.
Most of the men on H1B visa get married and their spouses arrive on dependent H4 visa.

So why aren’t the women arriving on H1B visas and their spouses on dependent H4s?
> Nobody treats corporations this way...

Oh yes they do. "All corporations are evil exploitive money-grubbing polluting anti-democratic anti-worker..." I've seen it, here on HN, on the regular. I don't recall if I've seen it today, but I see it a lot.

> ... even though (if you look at interlocking BoD membership) there's a more reasonable case to be made for collusion in some industries...

The AFL-CIO looks (or at least looked) like the same thing, but for unions.
Yeah, that has always weirded me out, too, but I have assumed that because Angular is one of TypeScript's largest and most significant customers, that the flag is highly unlikely to actually be removed.

(?) I'm just guessing though.
> This isn't because no one cares, but because Rusts async implementation (which is very cool due to it's low overhead) and it's interactions with the other language features require complicated extensions to the type system. It does seem to me like there might be a lack of resources/coordination/vision ever since the Mozilla layoffs, but that's a different topic.

I wonder how much technical debt is slowing things down. It seems like we keep hitting a breaking point where we'll finally be forced onto polonius and chalk but people keep finding ways to extend the existing implementation to make things work, kicking the can down the road.
> Gender/racial/age discrimination are not surface-level obvious in America these days

We literally had a mass shooting within the last month that specifically targeted black people.
Sugared, Artificially Sweetened, & Unsweetened Coffee Consumption and Mortality
That’s easy for me, they do the same job at the same company I used to work at.
How are you blocking those sites? Like you, I keep overriding every local “strategy” I try. I've blocked _some_ websites through the hosts file, but I sometimes need Twitter for non time wasting reasons.
Yeah, this is kind of how we got to the point where Microsoft tattles on you to your employer. Small concessions.
Extending a job offer to someone means you met with them on multiple occasions, remotely and in person. I know I am not going to forget their face in 10 years. Would I feel a bit less wronged about them after 10 years? Of course. Would I lie in a backchannel reference? No.
Nah. People like to talk and not get fires for saying the wrong keyword.
Yeah we had to create a java compiler and java interpreter in the compiler class I took(of course it was just a small subset of the runtime)

pretty fun project for school but tedious.
I’ve heard this floated for a decade. The current product of that line of thinking is mastodon. It’s a profile you can host on your own server (or someone else’s) that has sharing functions.
It’s a pattern detected in the UK Biobank dataset. I assume by a study you mean an experiment – it wasn’t one. The dataset is longitudinal, which helps a little, but there’s still a big jump from associations to causal links.
To be fair, Coinbase has never made a secret of the fact that they have a meatgrinder culture. "Unremarkable performance gets a generous severance package", in their CEO's words.
I can't decide whether Teller's head is stuck up the rafters of the ivory tower he lives in or whether it is held up where the sun does not shine. There are so many students in academia searching for the magic path through graduate school where you can get a permanent role either in teaching or tenureship (research) that it is becoming a crisis for both STEM fields and otherwise. It is easy for him to preach when he is one of the few that have "made it" through a combination of intellectual pedigree, geopolitical necessity, and the plucking of low hanging fruits in an emerging field.
Klein Katapult wire strippers are the GOAT strippers for anybody with hobbies that use 8-32 AWG wiring. Especially silicone insulated wiring.
MS Office Home > Admin > Exchange Admin Center > Mail Flow > Rules > Click the plus sign for New Rule > Create New Rule > Apply this rule if > Subject or Body includes > Specify a word or phrase

How good the AI is, depends on the flood of false positives the current system generates. If MS is true to form getting anything useful comes at great expense.

The #1 thing they search for is notably missing from the list.
Right, I'm tired of this.

E2EE doesn't mean anything if you have the same entity controlling the server as is controlling the endpoints.

If you control both ends of an E2EE communication and they are closed then you gain nothing over normal TLS encryption, you still trust the authority. (Whatsapp is obviously closed and yes, signal can be considered effectively closed as their client is not reliably or reproducably built from public sources and has hidden their agendas before[0]; and even depends on binary blobs from Google..)

I know your favourite closed/walled messenger platform is basically religion at this point: but for heavens sake; please understand that unless you're auditing your clients or you can run trustable third-party clients; then end-to-end doesn't mean anything at all.

It's just marketing buzzwords.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJoO2uWrX1M&t=880s
This is the Infosys model for hiring. I don't know if they publicized it or not, but it's the same thing. Everyone gets paid the same no matter what. You live in Mumbai? $36,000/year. New York? $36,000/year. Paris? $36,000/year. They did this intentionally to facilitate the easy acquisition of visas sponsored by the companies getting these cheap tech workers. It's a total scam and completely destructive to the local tech worker economy/market.
Ford CEO says EVs will be sold 100% online with nonnegotiable price
Thanks for sharing your expertise!

As Bayesians, shouldn't this effect size cause us to update in the direction that coffee is good for health, even if we think confounding contributed to the large effect size?

Seems to me that a likely reason for a large effect size is both a causal effect of drinking coffee and confounding, added together.

As an analogy, suppose you and I are talking about a Hollywood star who has made a lot of money. I say: "The star is probably a good actor." You say: "I would just encourage people to think about this wealth level and ask whether it's plausible. The star is probably just physically attractive." Of course, the wealthiest Hollywood stars tend to be both good actors and physically attractive.

Why is a large effect size more plausible for some unspecified confounder than it is for coffee? I think some research suggests coffee induces benefits akin to caloric restriction (autophagy) among other good things: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4111762/ Should we really have a prior that an unspecified confounder can have such a large effect size? How common is that?

BTW, this appears to be the money quote from the paper https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/epdf/10.7326/M21-2977

>Compared with nonconsumers, consumers of various amounts of unsweetened coffee (>0 to 1.5, >1.5 to 2.5, >2.5 to 3.5, >3.5 to 4.5, and >4.5 drinks/d) had lower risks for all-cause mortality after adjustment for lifestyle, sociodemographic, and clinical factors, with respective hazard ratios of 0.79 (95% CI, 0.70 to 0.90), 0.84 (CI, 0.74 to 0.95), 0.71 (CI, 0.62 to 0.82), 0.71 (CI, 0.60 to 0.84), and 0.77 (CI, 0.65 to 0.91); the respective estimates for consumption of sugar-sweetened coffee were 0.91 (CI, 0.78 to 1.07), 0.69 (CI, 0.57 to 0.84), 0.72 (CI, 0.57 to 0.91), 0.79 (CI, 0.60 to 1.06), and 1.05 (CI, 0.82 to 1.36). The association between artificially sweetened coffee and mortality was less consistent. The association of coffee drinking with mortality from cancer and CVD was largely consistent with that with all-cause mortality. U-shaped associations were also observed for instant, ground, and decaffeinated coffee.

Positive health effects from drinking sugar-sweetened coffee make me think it's not just confounding, since I wouldn't expect health-conscious people to drink sugar-sweetened coffee. But I'm suspicious regarding the "less consistent" association for artificially sweetened coffee. That makes me think that there is just too much noise in the data to know for sure, or perhaps artificial sweeteners are actually bad for you?

Edit: I wrote some more skeptical thoughts here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31602472
Ask HN: Larger but overlooked companies that have a great training culture?
I'm searching for any job opportunities at larger companies that can "get you back up to speed" on required peripheral knowledge with some on-site training/mentoring, provided that you can take care of most of the core knowledge yourself. I want to look beyond FAANG, for other places that have a lower barrier of entry, but still provide a good training regimen.

I'm a software programmer who's been out of work since late 2019 and have roughly 10 YOE (though I fall usually in junior or mid-level rank).

What are some larger companies that can provide adequate training for people lagging behind? Perhaps consultancies and body shops are for me... if so, which in particular would you recommend?

I know the core knowledge of my job to be:

- Algorithms and data structures
- Imperative and OO programming
- Control flow
- Design patterns

And peripheral knowledge:

- Front-end frameworks
- Back-end frameworks
- Cloud services
- Testing
- Automation and Deployment

I'm fairly good with a lot of the core knowledge, although with data structures and algorithms, my ability to solve problems using them are mostly limited to Leetcode easy problems. My peripheral knowledge needs a lot more work- many companies I've interviewed have rejected me for it. I know very little about most of them and rather out of date with frameworks. I need to get hired to begin with a training period on such knowledge before they expect me to be productive.

Also, I'm interested in startup or freelance opportunities. I have already been freelancing since 2011, and for smaller companies. Trying to pivot to a steady route that is also "low pressure" with the interviews.
I remember the ol' "LTE is short for Long Term Employment" joke.

It took me several months of strictly non-4G-related work to recognize vanity license plates again.
It's not a very well-implemented ad block modal. You can just delete the overlay element and continue browsing.
A lot of people will quote John Steinbeck [1]:

> “John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”

There's plenty of circumstantial evidence to back this up. The 2000 election is a good example although I can't find a good quote for this. Gore famously daemonized the "top 1%". An illuminating poll in 2000 revealed that 19% of Americans thought they were the "top 1%" and another 20% thought they would be someday. So 39% of the population thought of themselves as the "top 1%".

Americans also love the slippery slope fallacy. The idea, that you allude to, is that people will defend Jeff Bezos's taxes being raised because the next step is apparently them coming for the working class.

This too is propaganda. B does not necessarily follow from A. But political leaders and plutocrats are happy to use this argument to their own benefit. It's the sort of argument people make when they have no argument.

It's a byproduct of American exceptionalism [2].

[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/328134-john-steinbeck-once-...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism
There’s a Japan-only game for the Sega Game Gear called Kinetic Connection that plays similarly but involves rearranging a scrambled picture rather than moving colored blocks into a pattern.

https://segaretro.org/Kinetic_Connection

“Game 3” is the mode that rotates rows and columns like a Rubik’s Cube.

There are probably earlier examples, but that’s the one that I’m familiar with. I imagine a clever person could adapt it into a simple word game as well. Old computer and console games are a gold mine for ideas for simple puzzle games.
The value of crypto drives interest and thus trading volumes.
paying people out of market rates is a bad idea

- some people will be vastly better compensated than others in terms of cost of living

- attrition for these employees drops to near zero because it’s better pay than they can get anywhere

- these employees will have motivation to keep their job at all costs, so when they are disengaged doing the absolute minimum to ensure they won’t get managed out

- when you’re making 3x the salary comparatively what additional motivation would a promotion get you to make 3.15x?

- incentive for local teams and managers to hire their friends to extremely cushy jobs and perpetuate

i think this is backwards. remote work has shown us most people are generally equal in output. overpaying won’t bring you additional output, but will bring other challenges
Ask HN: Coding Test for Management Roles?
Recently came across a posting for a Director level technical role where the initial remote interview involves a coding test. Personally I consider coding tests not very useful, as I can learn more about a candidate in interactive discussions about problems and solutions, where I can see what their thought process is instead of what test questions they can answer from memory.

While I believe that the best management is capable of understanding the work their team does, coding tests for director level positions is a red flag, because it brings up a question of what they really want to hire for.

Does the audience here agree, or is it possible my distaste for coding tests is coloring my perspective?
I might be (probably am) missing something, but for the use case described, it seemed odd to me to have borrowing come into play at all. I would think that rather than a borrowed reference with a lifetime, the dispatcher could just consume the object coming in. The term “moving” is a bit misleading in that it carries with it an implied heavyweight operation that likely doesn't come into play at all.
Did you get the total deaths (not excess) from the links you posted?

Edit - your numbers are seem correct but the question is, do consider them statistically significant? For me a jump from 2.6 million to 3.2 million is still tiny.

Source: https://deadorkicking.com/death-statistics/us/per-year/
Signal is open source. What's not trust worthy exactly?
That syntax seems to be implying that the next step is to integrate this into the compiler, so you can write inline Asm in Java.
You are assuming that all people with exceptional talent value money over being near friends and family.
Cocaine is quite a drug.
The Thin Company Line
There is definitely demand and folks are willing to pay:

https://www.duckbillgroup.com/

https://www.vantage.sh/
I doubt your memory and vengeance is nearly as crazy a decade since any event (however wronged by it you may perceive yourself to be) -- let alone something as incredibly benign as someone rescinding an offer.

In short, while you say that now, I highly doubt it actually would be the case were this hypothetical a reality. You'd have to be incredibly thin-skinned and vengeful to carry this much weight to something so minor.
Small companies can try lots of interesting things, and they may or may not work out for them. Gravity Payments famously has their $70k minimum salary[0]. Duolingo insisted on gender parity in CS hires[1]. But if Amazon or Microsoft tried the same thing, it might not work. I’m more interested in what geopay is going to look like industry-wide than what one small company is doing, but they might make an interesting data point.

[0]: https://gravitypayments.com/thegravityof70k/

[1]: https://blog.duolingo.com/how-duolingo-achieved-a-5050-gende...
I agree that I am definitely on one side of the fence regarding cryptocurrency. And perhaps my comment was a little too inflammatory.

However, how do you approach a nuanced debate on this issue when one side has a financial incentive to promote their views and is liable to act in bad faith because of it?

Not to mention the proliferation of bots online making it extremely hard to trust that any online discourse is genuine anymore.

Not suggesting that half
of hacker news is bots, but it only takes a few to seed an idea in a community.
In your experience what languages would you say handle async well? Genuinely curious. I’ve only ever done JS professionally for a decade but started branching out into python, rust, and kotlin due to personal projects.
Anecdotally, this is the pain felt most across the entire rust language. There are more ways not to do something than to do something. This makes it hard for beginners to pickup, and difficult for projects to scale on.
England has had a de facto republic for about 350 years - since the end of the English Civil War.
I started picking up Rust a bit over two years ago, and it was HARD. I didn't have teammates who knew it to help me out, so I used community resources (/r/rust, exercism.io, etc.) I'm still not great with the language, but I'd say I'm about as proficient in it as anything else. The progress is slow enough that you find many more opportunities to quit, but once you do become productive, I think the hard work really pays off.

I've written before about some of my woes in taking a service to prod with mostly Python code. It was easy to write and get running, but then it had all sorts of errors that were basically impossible to detect until runtime. Kind of a nightmare to maintain. Transitioning it to Rust was a lot of work, but I've literally only had one error that I had to fix, which was caused by my faulty assumption about incoming data that I simply `.unwrap()`ped.

I initially was interested in Rust for the promises of higher-performance, lower memory footprint compute, and that is a great aspect of it. But the correctness guarantees that I've experienced make all the hard work I went through absolutely worth it.

Sure, it would be great if the learning curve was less steep. But that doesn't mean the hard work isn't worth it.
Does it matter? He served his time and/or paid a fine. If he didn't meet the random friend in HS it would be ridiculous hard to get a job.
And we have cross platform signal style E2EE now in the form of OMEMO for XMPP. It's just that no one wants to use it.
> Gender/racial/age discrimination are not surface-level obvious in America these days

Yeah yea, tell that to the people who "ching chong" me whenever I leave the liberal coasts.

Incredible how you people paint one of America's greatest strengths, one that few other countries possess - the willingness to speak about racial problems and create a real _home_ for talented immigrants - as a bad thing. There's a reason people like Jenson Huang and Satya Nadella are not in France, for example.

The "American obsession with racial and gender identity" is a symptom of our desire for a better society and country, unlike the unobsessed French, 22.7% of whom are unwilling to live next to non-white neighbors[1].

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/05/15...
This is no way to defend against inside threats. Any real threats will use other means of communication. Meanwhile this is just treating everybody as if they can't be trusted.
In a way, Zuckerberg predicted your take years ago. He saw the writing on the wall regarding the many issues of having an enormous public town square and the "share everything" mindset, and opted for more pocketed communities.

If we're being honest here, the center of gravity regarding dopamine is Twitter. I spotted a fascinating effect regarding people "threatening" to leave Twitter as they're tired of all the rage. Most of course never even attempt to leave, but those that do may give Mastodon a try.

At Mastodon, they create a fresh little sub community and move over their Twitter bubble the best they can.

Now things get interesting. Crickets. As it turns out, the only thing that held the bubble together is a common enemy. There is no enemy in the new bubble that only has friends. Worse, not even the friends turn out to be friends. None give a single fuck about the other, and would be absolutely fine not ever hearing a single word from you ever again. They were just liking your opinion against another opinion to which they also disagreed. That was all.

For the true hardcore Twitter addict, their entire existence and identity is effectively wiped out when you take away the rage. Hates gave them status, and being happy is the worst thing that can happen to them.
This is awesome. Equal pay for equal work is fair and just. An effective interview process and leveling system will be extremely important. If an engineer from SF really is so much better than one from Cleveland or Bangalore, the hiring manager needs to be able to assess them accurately and start them at the right levels for their abilities.
Oh my god we’ve strayed so far from the light T_T

Once upon a time, the whole promise of Rust was “fearless concurrency”.
Emails aren’t thoughtcrimes. This is nonsense.

Everything in corporate email has always been subject to read by others, there is no expectation of privacy.

As we’ve seen from countless court cases, they range from boring nothingburgers, to evidence of actual crimes.
I saw a video about this on Youtube just a few days ago: "We tracked what happens after TikTok songs go viral", by Vox.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1m-KgEpoow
I'm not sure why you think I attribute that to genetics? I was kind of making the same argument you were. It's just the obvious way to do it.
Then the question becomes whether Instagram would’ve become Facebook if they kept going. I believe they would have once they hit Facebook’s scale.

Ironically, I believe you could take that Jobs quote, swap Apple for Microsoft, and you’d be talking about the mobile industry. I doubt I’m even the first person to observe that. You really do become the villain if you gain enough market dominance.
Article said they are paying severances.
We need a Hackernews for moms. I'm kidding, that's a Yoga class.
Please abstain from ad-hominem.
How does a founder with twenty years of experience bear such grudges against a single errant hire that got away? Either this whole hypothetical is talking about an employee number one type situation, or you must have been blessed with having never met anyone underhanded in all of your business dealings.

"Feeling a bit less wronged" is one thing, "making sure that everyone knows how I feel about you" is quite another.
As someone that has only dabbled in Rust, the post reminds me of C++ and its mind-boggling templating system. Rust even seems to provide you with the multi-page compile errors.

Is it really as bad, or does the post only highlight the misery you get when you're working on the fringes of what the language is capable of doing?
> It's a bad look for a country claiming to be democratic.

Perhaps, but rather bad looking than bad functioning; I'm not intimate with how the Stuart Restoration worked, but the monarchy in Norway was introduced in 1905 by vote and has been widely popular since. If the monarchy and its role in the constitution and the sosicety have continuous support by a majority of the population, then it is a good look for a country claiming to be democratic?
For new traders, trading seems like rocket science! It shouldn’t be!