skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems really out of touch. ICs absolutely despise interviewing. Half of my current team has expressed that they want to quit but isn't going to because they are so afraid of interviewing again. Many are coming up on 1-yr tenure and still want to leave but they'll be there for 2+ years because they hate interviewing that much. They're deathly afraid of it.

The rest who want to stay are only there because they're making incredibly high amounts of money thanks to being at the company just before it went public. (They joined 5+ years after the company was founded - hardly part of the original gang)
Same here. I've been off for about a month now. In twitter detox, mostly feeling a lot better. Now I'm wondering why everyone thinks they need an audience all the time? We didn't feel that way prior to the advent of social media (so what, around 2006 or so?). How did they manage to change our culture so much that now everyone thinks they're entitled to some kind of platform where followers should pay attention to what you have to say everyday? Nobody thought that way in the early 2000s and then all of the sudden they did. It's really kind of bizarre when you get off of social media and think about this. When you leave people are kind of scared for you like "oh, what will you do without social media, you'll become disconnected" but I never expected to be "connected" prior to social media, why should I be afraid of it now?
> These rescinded offer stories are rare.

Used to be rare.

This happened to plenty of people I knew personally during the covid layoffs and I see no reason it won't happen again (in fact we're discussing a pretty well known company doing it right now in these very comments).

> Don't compromise your reputation

Your reputation with who? I've never considered working for a previous employer in my entire career and never, ever known hiring managers at one company to have influence over another.

I used to feel very safe when leaving a role but it's unfortunately just not the way things are these days. Same goes for "ghosting". I used to think it was repulsive for candidates to ghost a potential employer during an interview, however I've been on the receiving end of companies ghosting a shocking number of times.

I wish we lived in the world you are describing, but we don't.
Tesla, at least in seattle, has a few demonstration rooms where you can see the cars and drive them and a human facilitates. Purchases though are done online. Service is done at largish service centers far from the demonstration rooms that are in pretty expensive places, like luxury shopping malls or SLU.

Fixed price means what it says - no negotiation, just a fixed price.

Advertising is probably unnecessary. Word of mouth more than exceeds their production capacities.
Wrong. Germany got hooked on cost-effective energy that just happens to be produced by Russia. There's nothing stopping Germany from using other sources of energy than Russia, except that it won't be as cost-effective.

Germany is huge exporter of finished machinery. That machinery will increase in cost because its inputs are more expensive. That means that more expensive machinery will no longer be competitive on the World's markets. That also means that Germany's exports will fall, and Germany won't be the economic power that it once was.
How does SeatGeek get around not owning the venue?
I think it's that you can be considered effectively guilty (there's grounds to fire you or take disciplinary action against you) for tripping an ML routine without further evidence or proof, and that it seems more important to have "clean" corporate communication rather than actually act in good faith (as long as bad stuff happens on off channels, no one cares).

Hopefully it doesn't make it outside of the corporate world though.
Has this been reported to EFF?
Thanks for your Service, Richard.

I do know that there's a chap from Florida that has done something similar. I can't remember exactly what his HN handle was, but we had a rather prickly exchange, some time back.

If you are interested in providing services like this in the future, he might not be a bad person to team up with.

I wish you (and he) the very best of luck, in your future endeavors. I'm pretty big on that ol' "second chance" thing.

[EDITED TO ADD] This article is interesting. What makes it even more interesting, is the author of the article (It's NYT, so there may be a paywall): https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/04/opinion/clean-slate-incar...

[EDITED TO ADD (2)] The person I mentioned is one of your replies. He runs Underdog Devs: https://www.underdogdevs.org/
Does speculation require a metric?
Oliver Tree told the same thing on a number of podcasts on YouTube

they’re not gonna let him make an album unless he reaches a million followers on instagram and then changed this number to 6 million

he just accidentally made a hit song “Life goes on” and only then was he allowed to make the next album
Has this been reported to EFF? Not seeing anything on their site https://www.eff.org/
Kubirds[0], a Cloud Native Supervision Engine.

In the Cloud, monitoring and supervision is all about metric collection and analysis. The good old days of alerting (with tools like Nagios, Icinga, Zabbix, ...) seems to have been forgotten.

IMHO, numbers (metrics) are good for machines, not humans. Alerts provide a very simple way of detecting what's wrong. This is why CI/CD tools have a "Green/Red" status for their pipelines (hello Jenkins, Github Actions, Gitlab CI, ...) and you could build "weather dashboard"[1] representing the current state of your infrastructure.

I (and many coworkers at the time) found that scaling a Nagios or equivalent is unnecessarily hard/complicated. You basically have to maintain 2 infrastructures, your production and your monitoring. It takes time and energy.

Kubirds is a solution for this. It is a Kubernetes Operator, built upon TektonCD[2], so your monitoring will scale along your Kubernetes Cluster. It provides alerting with 4 states (success, failure, regression, fixed) and notifications in a Plug'N'Play way. You put your supervision workload in Docker images, write some simple Kubernetes resources and voila! Your supervision is up and running.

This implies that supervision can (and is) more than just monitoring. Everything that must be run periodically and whose status is something you care about, is a supervision workload.

We are currently using it to run our monitoring infrastructure, and to build a trading bot (not for crypto) with a partner. And possibly other use cases in the future[3].

[0] - https://kubirds.com

[1] - https://kubirds.com/img/screenshots/dashboard-weather.png

[2] - https://tekton.dev

[3] - https://1-click-notify.carrd.co/
It's obviously impossible to say anything universal here, but in my experience, you could restate that statement as "Some companies haven't had to do this sort of thing yet". When the viability of the company is at stake, or orders are coming from the board, no company is going to make a significant sacrifice to stay true to their word if there's no legal consequences for breaking it.

Edit: to be clear, I don't mean things like knowingly lying beforehand, but if circumstances drastically changed, I would 100% expect companies to rescind outstanding offers, so I similarly wouldn't hold it against a candidate for rescinding their acceptance if their circumstances changed significantly. It's reasonable to expect both companies and candidates to act in good faith, but it's unreasonable for them to face significant hardship just to honour an offer if their situation changes.
And the IRS allows you to contribute as much as you prefer to the treasury. It's voluntary and no one is compelling you.

So that group of billionaires who think the government can use their money more efficiently than they can in order to advance American society are absolutely free to do so! Go them! They don't need the government to compel them. They can form their own Philgubernatorial group -set their own donation rules and taxation (donation) bands and percentages and come tax season give it to the feds.
> Any communication through official channels is the property of the employer anyway.

Why is there always this attitude of "it's a private business, they can do what they want". Why does the fact that they can do something distract from criticism of them doing it? The fact that this tech exists is horrifyingly dystopian on its own merits. But it also has widespread consequences in a country with so many employment monopolies and opportunities for outright wage slavery. Heavy-handed workplace surveillance and heuristics-based crap are becoming increasingly difficult to simply opt-out of.
This whole, complex strategy does not make much sense economically. Let's asume you want to hire someone with an average skillset: If you are trying to hire where the avarage rates are high, you could not compete with other companies. If you are hiring where the avarage rates are low, you are paying more than your competitors without additional benefits. The same line of thought applies for lower than average or higher than average skillsets, respectively. So on average, you have a choice of hiring someone lower than average from a high income region or someone higher than average from a low income region. The latter is always better economically. In the end, (all else being equal) market forces should drive you towards the traditional off-shoring strategy of just hiring as much as possible in the lowest income regions, but with an additional penalty if you dare to hire from a not so low income region.
I recently bought a Prius Prime and the amount of work I had to do to buy it at MSRP was ridiculous. If you have an oversubscribed car the dealer model just doesn’t work.

If car companies are going to compete in the future they will have to either eliminate dealers or at least force some type of structure to the sales process, otherwise people will gravitate to the companies that do (like Tesla).
i got told by a vp at a faang i would never work in the industry again and within 3 years the same faang had hired me back at a higher level. people need talent more than they can afford to hold grudges
Oh, shit, I’m not apologizing for anyone. I agree with you that plenty of tech execs behave in awful ways. There’s no excuse for that, and I provided none.

I’ve never been a cog. I simply refuse to. I take jobs where I’m valued and treated well, and I leave those I don’t. This is entirely possible if you make it a high-order goal. There’s nothing naive about it; I’ve made a good living this way for 30 years.
familiarity is not the same thing as simplicity
"Highest rate since 2020" is a period of only two years.
That's a great point, but I haven't heard when that is going to happen. Until then, IMHO ads shouldn't be discounted by Ford (this of course assumes that Ford actually wants to convert people from ICE to EV).
> The often false assumption that people who are non-white must be being discriminated against and that being colorblind is not enough, etc., is just a new version of the "white man's burden."

I dunno, man. I just think that, y'know, sometimes discrimination really does happen and I'd like to know when it does. That way I can try and fix it. Not everything is a cult. Most of us are trying to help.
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The Lightning seems to be designed to convert F-150 buyers. It looks just like a regular F-150 and comes with features rural customers would love, like powering your house during blackouts and your tools away from an outlet.
> "the unobsessed French, 22.7% of whom are unwilling to live next to non-white neighbors"

Numbers like that tell you little more than how blunt the French are, and what's considered acceptable to tell a pollster over the phone.

The real data is in the ground truth of ethnic divides.

I'm pretty sure the US's "white flight" phenomenon and its self-segregated inner cities are more pronounced than anything happening in France.
Thanks for sharing the links. Is this something you'd be interested in as well?
No? I asked a question.
Having 220v out the rear to say and looking like a normal truck will help a lot. There are a lot of contractors who buy a lot of trucks and not needing fuel or the trucks or generators(no longer needed0 is a huge win. Plus they check off every single checkbox for a truck, minus the perceieved distance anxiety.

They will sell very well
As a product manager at the local transport authority, my parents both know that my job has something to do with public transport, but they don't seem to know what exactly my job entails.

My mum seems to think I'm some sort of programmer. My background is in software engineering, so I can certainly code, but it's not something I regularly do in my day job.

My dad hears the word "manager" in my job title and thinks my job is to give orders to other people. Leaving aside the fact that management in general isn't really about giving orders, it's difficult for me to explain in a way that he'll understand that just because my job title includes the word "manager" doesn't mean I'm the boss. Yes, I collaborate with colleagues, but I'm not involved in hiring and firing.
people said the same about Netflix vs other streaming competitors

you’re the leader and category creator until one day you’re just another player in a sea of competition
He said "may not", which is the same as saying "may".
The first electric fullsize pickup to market is going to be a f-ing goldmine.

There are a lot of people who commute in a sedan and have a Tacoma or Odyssey that gets driven when needed and would replace both with a fullsize crew cab truck if it weren't for a little voice in the back of their head telling them that such a vehicle does not project an image that is appropriate for the kind of person who lives in a million dollar home with solar on the roof in a neighborhood dotted with black lives matter signs.

An EV variant drops that stigma and will attract a bunch moneyed buyers who previously would never have considered a fullsize truck. That's huge.
I find it enjoyable to type for the most part. Explicit type casts aren't a treasure or anything, but then I think about why I am doing it and I can't really complain.

I feel you, but, my experience differs in the end I guess. To be fair turbofishes we're something I discovered by intuition, so maybe I'm a lost soul.
Yeah, I don’t get it either. A recruiter I can see, although not condone: they’re motivated differently. But a manager? As a manager your career and livelihood are literally dependent on the people you hire. Why start that off in such a shitty way?
Keeping the same pay for every region will either:

1) bankrupt any startup hiring in SF and NYC

2) prevent startups from hiring in SF and NYC

You can't have both.
A lot has been said about the dealership model in the last few years, and the almost universal consensus is that it is an unnecessary and predatory industry and all auto makers should just sell cars directly like Tesla does.

That being said, is there any counterpoint to this view? Are there any benefits that dealerships offer today over direct sales? What would we lose if we got rid of every dealership? If there is truly little or no advantage, why has this obvious disruption never come up in the last ~100+ years of car sales in this country and all over the world?
Dumb questions: isn't this just the market at work though? Why is it actually a problem for car makers if the car is sold above MSRP?

Just a worse consumer experience that reflects poorly on the brand? Sony seems to deal with it with sold-out ps5 and resellers gauging.

I mean you're not the only one suggesting this is a problem. Ford clearly seems to have a problem with dealerships and their markup I guess (or I misread the article).
The more companies copy Tesla and outdo them at things Tesla is bad at, the better for all of us. And hopefully force Tesla to get better.
Ask HN: What Do You Want?
I am curious to know how you went about figuring out what you want in life. It may seem like a simple thing, but I find it much more complex when you dig below the surface.
Breaking the law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_dealerships_in_the_United_...

> In the United States, direct manufacturer auto sales are prohibited in almost every state by franchise laws requiring that new cars be sold only by dealers.
Very much so. Also, there is the gain from applying new tools to discover new features of old, "boring" problems.
Does it matter when they’re sold out for two+ years? If you can’t make more why bother trying to get more buyers right now?
Their code, their decisions is why it's bad. If the decide to start tattling to Microsoft too, what are you going to do? If it's open, we can fork it and move on with your lives. Free and open gives you and me the power to control our own communication.
Having used the comm compliance tool in m365 and other similar tech - a lot of the comments here seem to miss the point. "Leaver" IT policies are fairly common security practices to limit the risk that someone takes IP or customer lists with them to another job. The point is not to detect whether someone is going to quit but rather to detect unapproved behaviors by someone as they are on the way out the door. There are various compliance tools in Office 365 designed for data retention, eDiscovery, and investigation and this is an offshoot of that. It is more efficient and less obtrusive to target suspect behaviors than to have an analyst or attorney download and review all of an employee's communication and activity.

As I've seen communication compliance used, the leaver policy is enabled when a person is marked within an HR system as leaving the company, or when their Active Directory account is disabled. If certain sequences of activity occur such as downloading lots of files from SharePoint and they are copied to a USB drive or to an external file share, or if a file previously owned by the leaving employee is accessed after the AD account is disabled by an external user, it fires off an alert.

I'm skeptical about the value of the use of a "classifier" given that there isn't much documentation that explains how it works, how it's trained, and any documented workflow to statistically validate the model. Instead of using "classifiers" you can create custom policies based around keywords, regex patterns, or targeting sequences such as download x # of files then copy then delete. I think it would be interesting if you could build a custom classifier using your own positive and negative examples, define your own score thresholds, train models around specific excerpts rather than on entire emails, and test the classifier using a set of human reviewed data.

Regardless though - I'm far less suspicious of the general idea that companies are focused on "inside threats" than whether they understand how things work. Machine learning algorithms are basically just fancy text searching backed by statistical analysis but there are a lot of input variables and also a few different ways to defensibly measure the performance of the tools. The M365 tool doesn't expose much of that and a lot of compliance teams are probably going to be concerned about wasting time chasing false positives.
Non-negotiable car sales aren't new, Saturn was famous for doing it in the 90s. Their whole deal was to try to target younger buyers that didn't like the typical haggling process. Toyota did the same thing with their Scion sub-brand for the same reasons too.
Lerna is more akin to loop than it is to a glorified wrapper around yarn/npm, so I question whether it is you who have actually used lerna.

All of the "linking between projects" is exactly what lerna does with bootstrapping/hoisting, so I'm not sure where you're coming from when you say this doesn't address OP's problem.
Why would anyone have personal conversations on a platform which is linked to your work?
They could sell used vehicles, hence provide some value
Ok...this isn't that hard. If someone says you may light on fire tomorrow. You're probably going to ask for a little bit of an explanation.
I imagine the +$20k "market adjustment" markups on the F-150 lightning (and other EV's and hybrids) [0] by dealerships probably factored into this decision.

[0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/02/12/ford-gm-d...
She’s staying in the board so unlikely.
Dude. You did a good thing. I hope you get to make the sequel when the time is right.
Exactly. It's the difference between having a manager and having a secretary. When your support staff also has the power to fire you, it's inevitable that the technical staff have to adapt to the support.
Nonsense. This is FUD in my estimation. I've work for remote companies who don't pay regionally since 2010. None of them have gone out of business, none of them have been bankrupted by paying people the market rate.
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We're hiring backend engineers to help us build core banking infrastructure: APIs and Services that support a wide range of financial products. We believe that providing modern and clean APIs alone isn’t good enough. You’ll also help build resources that educate our customers on how to build their products using our APIs and simulate, test, and validate all of their use cases before graduating to deployment.

This is a great opportunity for an engineer who’s looking to build large scale systems from scratch in a “roll up your sleeves environment”.
Counter: Ford dealerships actually give them a big advantage over Tesla. This is because there are close to 3,000 dealerships in the US compared to less than 200 for Tesla.
they say they're going to be transparent about equity stake. does this extend to founders and investors, I wonder? If not, I don't think this is transparency.
Not online though. I don't want to talk to a dealer.
Local profit? That is, in many towns, my understanding is that the local dealerships are relatively well off. Which implies that a bit more of the money is kept local to where the cars are being sold.

I'm guessing this is less true today than in years past.
It’s not a problem now, it will be a problem when you can easily get a Ford direct at MSRP but you have to pay dealer markup for a Chevy.
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I've never understood this either. It's like they only want it to happen if its forced on everyone, which is the opposite of the social altruism that they are claiming to advocate for.
My mom (and most people in my life) usually says something along the lines of "He's a software engineer doing smart stuff I don't really understand". This is despite trying to explain my job (cloud engineering) multiple times.
Honest question, in what situations have you been in where you were aware that someone had a Mayflower ancestor or was eligible for the Daughters of the Revolution?

That has literally never happened to me.