skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No it's not. When i do interviews in-person (even if virtual) , I get the benefit of meeting my future colleagues and learning more about the company. It's much more a two-way benefit, versus an assignment where only one party (the company) gets any information from the other (me).

> When I worked for a technology analyst company, we would ask for writing samples--which most potential hires would already have. But, if someone didn't, they'd have to create one. It was very reasonably a non-negotiable requirement given that's what they'd be doing day to day.

The equivalent in tech is asking for a portfolio, which I have an ample amount of on github. I'm more than happy to hand this over to potential employers for them to gauge my work. But, the idea that I could complete a 4hour assignment within a week is ridiculous. My portfolio comes through constant, marginal improvements that make up a working system in sum. I've collectively spent more than 4 hours on most projects on GitHub, but they're done at my leisure, in my miniscule amounts of spare time, just spread over many years. But again, the idea of spending a solid four hours on any of them is just laughable. I have no time to do that.

Also, when you get to full day interviews, it's typically a sign the company wants you. Having been in both the hiring manager position and the candidate position, I've only once seen a full day interview end in a "No" and it was for particular circumstance.
Wouldn't such a scheme violate the Privileges and Immunities Clause of the US Constitution? See e.g., Crandall v. Nevada, where the Supreme Court explicitly held that an egress tax was unconstitutional.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crandall_v._Nevada
I do believe I managed to disable those in preferences or similar
In my career so far I've found the money to be better. However the pressure can be immense and I often find myself debating if it's worth it or not. I've been leaning towards the latter for some time, yet I stick it out.
Not having bias doesn't mean not having an opinion on things. It's a review channel, it doesn't work unless he "likes" some things and "hates" others, as long as he elaborates on the /reasons/ for those opinions.
Trauma and PTSD is very real, but yeah, a lot of people are discovering it and thinking their little minor quirks are “a little PTSD”. (I actually heard someone say that.) It’s similar to how depression is very real and serious, but the term became diluted by people using “depressed” as a synonym for “sad”.
Improving "breathability" for my feet would be one of my goals. The example with your socks sounds good, for the moment I've started with one of those "endless scarfs" made out of Merino wool, because I can't stand all the synthetic fibers in those things.
you're letting perfect be the enemy of the good. you can get extensive biking infrastructure nearly immediately by doing a conversion of street parking. creating a separate, dedicated network is much slower and more expensive, if even possible. i've lived in SF and there is no way that the wealthy folks there, just like LA, will allow anything more than a few token bike lanes just to appease the peons and appear magnanimous.

i agree about gas prices needing to be higher though. i've long advocated for raising gas taxes (and removing indirect subsidies) to price in externalities and reconfigure markets (not just transportation, but housing, grocery, and everything else too) to be more efficient as a result. you could even fund bikes lanes with those taxes.
fire sprinklers are the hill you're going to die on here?
this isn’t a secret it’s section 8 and not the problem. new construction doesn’t need to be cost effective affordable housing. new construction can and should be luxury. affordable housing can be older buildings. it’s not a secret because the market is already priced this way
> automotive is not ... part of a conspiracy

A group of people secretly breaking the law is exactly a conspiracy, by definition: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conspire

> A lot of regulated industries self-regulate

Not so easy. Traffic engineers, meteorologists, environmental agencies and other [EU-funded] organizations monitor the air quality constantly and have detailed statistics on how many cars of each model are on the road.

You can easily do the math and see that the numbers do not match expectations.

You cannot tell which brand is cheating but you can tell that the pollution is much, much higher than expected.
https://twitter.com/cmuratori/status/1387126330961981441?lan...

"Running a browser to connect to the cloud to run a browser to connect to the cloud to retrieve the contents of a single 2D page to recompress and send back to the original browser is now "the future of computing"."

"Perhaps we need a new "test", like the "Turing Test", but this time for when humans can no longer tell the difference between new technology and old technology. "Mighty", for example, is just a "dumb terminal" - technology we had in the 1970s. Yet it is called "the future"."
Lived all my life in America and never made that connection. Whaddya know!
CO2 can be a little expensive, AirThings sell one but $200(!).
That's a pretty new development, and not necessarily true. Screen writing is pretty obviously creative, collaborative work, and they've been represented by a professional guild since 1933.

I think it is more common for the umbrella union orgs to focus on industries either with high barriers to entry (like nursing) or huge employers, because they are going company-by-company & it's just more efficient. On the opposite end of the spectrum, trade unions are more likely to serve people who change jobs ever couple of years and where most of the learning happens on the job. They tend to be run by & for people actually in the profession and can cross company boundaries.

Trade guilds will do things like specify minimum wages, but most of their members end up paid more than that. They'll specify minimum safety standards, but also support people on specific job sites that want or need additional protection to make that particular job safe. It isn't the same kind of one-size-fits-all approach you may be used to from Detroit auto plants.

There are advantages for employers too: they know that people in the guild are held to certain professional standards, for example. When retirement programs or health care are managed through the guild, workers can take the benefits with them to their next job, and small employers don't get taken for a ride. And employers can benefit from the steady influx of newly-trained workers who have been taught up to the standards the trade feels are important to meet.

Just look at the people in this thread who think it is "drastic" to have a lawyer look at our employment contracts: we may have individual leverage, but we aren't necessarily able to use it to make our working conditions better, or even to ensure the software we build is reliable and safe.
Limited housing supply must necessarily be unaffordable to someone. The only question is where we strike the balance between scarcity and abundance, and correspondingly at what income percentile it will be unaffordable.

We could also use non market allocation schemes, which would displace the problem of “can’t afford housing” to “stuck on the waiting list” or “my lottery number never comes up.” Same thing in the end.
Germanic (Dutch, German, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian) languages just say "10 october", they'd never say "October 10th". Before we get our 'english is so stupid!!!' hat on, in many of these (e.g. Dutch and German), the number '87' is pronounced 'seven-and-eighty' ('zevenentachtig' - 'zeven en tachtig' - seven and eighty), which is stupid. Languages are weird).

Same for the romance ones: It's just "Quatorze juillet" - 14th of July (Bastille day).

English is the weird one, but not that weird, "7th of october" is not much more complicated to say than "October 7th".
It’s an interesting idea, but I think you’d ultimately have to leave the union to implement it because you can’t restrict freedom of movement within the US.

I think there are other potential solutions, however. Finding ways to create incentives for not speculating on property, huge taxes for vacation homes, etc. may work. Though it’s dangerous because you might get something that sounded good at the time but turned out to be a disaster like Prop 13.
a lot of LMG employees have personal social media and either YouTube or Twitch streams, often getting viewers from fans of their persona on LMG videos. I think the issue is only with competing content and/or leveraging the LMG platform. For example, if an employee started a GPU review channel and called it out in an LMG video, like ok yeah probably not. More like non-compete than some draconian restrictions
> How about when every single company rewrote their frontend stack in React

God I wish that were the case. My company is still rocking Angular unfortunately :(

> Or when everyone moved to k8s within 2 years around 2017-2019

That did not happen. k8s got a good share of the market, but it's far from "everyone moved".

> What I am trying to show by these examples is that things can move fast, very fast, and that in our industry there are no such thing as well-entrenched tools.

The tools you are listing are all dev tools picked, used, and curated by development. Jira isn't a dev tool, it's a product management tool. There's a major difference between tools that devs can pick and choose and tools that an organization gets to pick and choose.

Even with your "yarn" example, while it took over it didn't replace "npmjs" as the centralized repository server. Just like gradle still gets it's artifacts primarily from maven central.

I'll go back to something I said elsewhere. If it's so easy to move and change why is C++ still being written? Why does it remain one of the most popular programming languages even though most people are VERY quick to point out it's major flaws. Even though other better alternatives exist (Rust, Nim, D, etc).

> losing issue history is far less damaging than it was losing "commit" history when everyone was moving to git back in the days.

Assuming you like everyone else went from svn->git I don't see how you'd have lost commit history. I personally converted a BUNCH of repos to git and didn't see any cases of lost history.
It's not for free if you're being sold a political ad. No such thing as a free political lunch for developers.
> Tools are just slaves to reality, not the other way around. If a legacy top-down organisation wants you do to a certain thing a certain way, and you have no recourse but to do as you're told, that's your organisation's fault and nothing else. You can either gain a position where you can make changes, or leave the company.

That's naive; tools influence the way they're used. When a tool defaults to having manager accounts that can change how things get done and developer accounts that can't, it nudges the organisation in that direction.
Most ppl prefer real life to escapism.

I dunno, escapist industries are pretty big, and occupy quite a big of most people's non-work waking life. Film, tv, video games, books, comics, social media, etc..
What does craiyon/DALL·E mini ‘think’ mathematics and mathematicians look like?
> Benefits and salary are good (though salary isn't posted in the ad)

if the salary is actually good, then you should be showing that off in your job listing in the same way you show off your other benefits.
Clearly California should form a committee to require developments containing affordable housing to submit construction cost impact reports, subject to public review and committee approval.
There is no foolproof way to know if a screenshot is taken

There are many alternative ways other than the standard phone shortcut
> You're willing to fire people on the spot for badly delivered book recommendations?

Actually, I said I would likely choose to not renew the contract because it was an arrogant dick move (and was intentionally made as a dick move) and I find in my experience those people are a bad fit for most teams.

I’d fire someone on the spot if it was apparent they were poisoning the environment. I have never let anyone go for constructive criticism.
I worked at a company once (not programming, more like an online shop) which did everything via email. And I mean everything. Tickets, issues, orders, repair requsts, refunds, you name it.

It worked flawlessly — in fact I haven't been at a place that was as well organized since. And it all came down to one thing: everybody understood that there is only email and that if it isn't an email it will be forgotten and fall in some crack, so you better make it an email, that has a propper subject, is searchable, etc. That meant everybody was writing emails with nearly military rigour, while the asynchronous nature of the electronic letter always reminded you, that you just needed your emails done and then you were fine. Depending on your position you had multiple (shared) inboxes that corresponded to the tasks. Of course there were some old emails, that were more of a "if anybody finds the time and will" type and sometimes emails from the guy from the day before had to be done etc. But all in all it was surprisingly pleasant to work just with email.

The point of the story is: You can turn any tool to shit if people use it in a bad way. And you can make anything work if people use it in the right way. Most problems with communications are people-problems, not tool-problems. Sure certain tools may lend themselves to certain behavior more than to others but ultimately a team can decide how they wanna communicate effectively and which behavior produces chaos and problems.
Microsoft in abysmal naming shock: Surprise as company notorious for giving products useless or misleading names gives its variant of the C++ standard library a bad name.

We're talking here about the company that has two very well known products "Active Directory" and "Visual Studio" but decided there was no reason it couldn't call unrelated products "Azure Active Directory" and "Visual Studio Code".

Here's how Sony named their video game consoles: PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation 4. Makes sense. Microsoft decided to make video game consoles too. It named them (I am not kidding for anyone who doesn't play video games, this is real): Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox Series. Why ?
- All the kids like <random viral NFT> we'll get publicity if we implement it.

- Our game is inspired by <Genre defining game> we will pay homage to this game by including <Genre defining game NFT> in our game.

- Our game supports modding and enough people care about <NFT> that someone is willing to implement that NFT in the game via mods.

There's an order of operations here. These examples rely on the NFT already being meaningful in some community before it gets added in. Anything that a random person creates that nobody cares about would never be ported in.
Let me summarize and repeat the argument to see if I'm getting it right. Because jokes were used to test boundaries in the past, there is no boundary that should not be tested today?
If you know how to run that kind of infrastructure, sure.

The rest of the world has to wait for other means of decentralization.
If the chemical contamination hypothesis were true, one would expect obesity to correlate with/lag industrial activity/contamination. I'm not sure that this is true. Obesity in Europe didn't start going up until the early 2000s, when Europe was transitioning to a more service-based economy. In Korea it has become a problem in the last 5 years (again, as the country deindustrializes), and in China it seems to be mostly a problem of the wealthy rather than a problem of the poor factory worker (and the factory worker is presumably exposed to more industrial contaminants).

That said, I have not yet read the SMTM piece, or looked at SMTM's data.
Even without getting into the magnitude of the difference, and just talking about the direction, I think a lot of folks at private startups expect external candidates to value $1 of their stock (based on their last 409a) more than $1 of stock in a public company. I don't have a strong opinion on how big the liquidity premium for equity in a private tech startup should be, but I feel pretty strongly that it shouldn't be negative.
I'm sure VR will grow and have its place, it just won't be a game changing revolution like smartphones were.
In a proper free society, you can also criticize anything. Including humor.

Cancel culture isn't new, it only seems different now because the internet has created one giant market where there used to be many independent ones. When a comedian made an ethnic joke on TV, most people never heard the criticisms from the people being made fun of, their criticism stayed within their community. Now everyone can see everything. It was never the case that everyone laughed at all the jokes. The difference now is that we can actually see the people who aren't laughing, and that feels like a downer. You can tell any joke you like, but you aren't guaranteed that everyone will find it funny. Welcome to worldwide two-way communication.
Upvote for any mention of Dorothy Sayers. Amazing author and theologian.
Read this book and find out why: https://www.amazon.com/Trick-Treatment-Undeniable-Alternativ...

One of their examples was homeopaths telling patients not to get vaccinated.
Even in the "old" days when Snapchat was supposed to block screenshots, and delete posts after some time, people bstill managed to do it
I did a poor job of being explicit in my first reply to etchalon.
what isn’t “flawed?”

in the least it’d be inaccurate to say that web3 has not provided something of a paradigm-shifting mechanism for artists to get paid

web3 is also kinda new & if not web3 then what evolve / direction / next level for the www ?
>Especially considering the box fan uses a ton of power, costing money.

box fan: $40
ikea: $70

box fan electricity: 73W x 24 x 365 x $0.11kWh = $70/year
ikea electricity: 14W x 24 x 365 x $0.11kWh = $13/year

Assuming 24/7 usage, in the first year you'd save $27, and in subsequent years, $57.

But this isn't counting filters. You can get a much higher range of standard filters for a box fan, meaning you can run it much less and filter more. And when IKEA discontinues the product, you're SOL finding filters, so you have to buy something new, whereas you'll never have that problem with a box fan. All things considered, I think box fan would win on cost.
They can but they haven’t. That difference means there’s more unavoidable demand for USD than for BTC/ETH/DOGE/Other.
Sounds like a strong argument for using a tool that doesn't have custom mandatory fields. They do exist.
> for websites with infinite scrolling like Tumblr and Twitter, it becomes unbearably slow after the first hundred or so posts

Strange. This is exactly how I use Twitter on my i-devices, and it's perfectly smooth.
If you're scared of posting the salary range after a dozen people have asked..there's your issue. Fin.
I think a 30-60 min assessment should be enough, and maybe you can also list the salary?
Meh, I'll walk happily to the bank with my $400k compensation, while some company pats itself on the back over avoiding someone who spends time with their children LOL.
"You" can do it, yes.

Most people can't.
In a distributed system it may not be appropriate to rely on a timestamp like this without accounting for the possibility of clock skew (unless the system provides a guarantee that timestamps are monotonically increasing.)

SQL databases have had auto increment columns for ages, and they can be used to help with this problem.

For a “guide” I wish it would discuss some of the pitfalls of the presented approach along with alternatives.
I'm not a comedian. I cannot tell a joke. I would bet most comedians 10, 5 years ago would have said definitely yes. They probably would still say so today -but given the coals they have to walk on, you may find some trepidation amongst some.
This is something browsers should solve. If the thing you clicked on wasn't there 0.2s ago then you didn't intend to click on it, so just ignore the click. And add an API for twitch games to turn this off.
Employees should never feel like the company is theirs. Unless you have a real seat at the table, you should assume you have no influence over the business. That's what being an employee is (with no actual shares). You give up the risk by being an employee, and your only negotiating power is leaving.
In such a case I think it wouldn’t be possible to have those two buildings be taxed exactly the same per-person because by virtue of 10,000 people living in an equivalent lot you’re demonstrating that the land value is quite high and so the 1,000 person lot would have to be adjusted significantly. You’d have to actually cram that many people onto a lot too, which means you are looking at a location like Manhattan level density in which case it’s very unlikely that a 1,000 person property isn’t paying significant land value taxes.

I’m sure we can come up with contrived examples of things, but be open-minded to how things could work.
Pay more, and disclose it. Unless there's something that stands out about your company, no one is interested in going through the process to be offered mediocre pay. Or find something else to offer (say $5000 personal equipment + guaranteed attendance at AWS Reinvent or something similar)

Are you paying candidates for the take-home?
Is web4 any better? How is web5 toxic when it barely was announced?

Web2 is VCs funding closed silos and all our interactions and public forums on privately owned platforms. How is that better? In only one way: it scales!
Sounds like you've played next to nothing on it. Try "I Expect You to Die" or "Beat Saber" or even "Halflife Alyx" if you have the PC for it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31805086
and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31810723 where another user asked for clarifiation hours ago
Even if the "smart" features of a TV are rendered nonfunctional by not giving it a network connection, you're still stuck with a TV that takes a while to boot up (yes, really), and which may be built around a UI designed to navigate its smart features (like booting to a home screen instead of passing through HDMI input).
But that's just it, to say this just demonstrates you don't understand the systemd service model.

There is no "system default" in the loop here at all. The service told systemd that it cannot operate without netdev, and systemd behaved accordingly. If the config was written more appropriately, it would have behaved accordingly. The "default" is what you had written in the unit file.
I've had companies get around this with gift cards. I did a application-project and got a $300 amazon card (I think). This can come out of someone's general budget and doesn't need accounting to be involved, and can also (plausibly) treated as a "thank you" by the applicant, not income.
> I started out my career in the .NET world and ended up feeling trapped there and I'm not going back

Can you expound on why you felt that way?