skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not uncommon amongst executives. It’s often described as “failing forward”.
Story from a local school:

Parents of the more advanced math students in the grade requested some sort of more advanced math opportunities for their kids. School didn't provide any. When several of the kids used a more advanced math concept they had learned outside of school to solve a problem, the teacher told them to not do it that way because they hadn't learned it yet.

The school does provide extra classes for kids who they think are behind in one area or another. And if a kid has a lot of issues, a class will even get an extra teacher that just focuses on that kid.

Children who perform below grade level or have issues are getting extra attention from the school (great), but children who already know what's being taught are expected to just sit there quietly and waste their time (not so great).
Wow. This is creepy. Props to the interviewer for allowing the real Connor to stay on the interview and observe.

This is one of my big problems with LinkedIn. We put so much information out there in public, it’s really easy for people do do this. That information can also be used for things worse than applying for jobs.

I think small companies hiring freelancers are most vulnerable to this. In the UK at least companies have to carry out very strict right to work checks, including passports, National Insurance numbers, etc.
> I have absolutely zero sympathy for any big company that does the above and suddenly ends up at the receiving end of it.

That seems like a sentiment better expressed in an instance where it actually happens then? I don't have much sympathy for burglars who fall through glass windows, but it doesn't have anything to do with OP's situation.
> People here are delusional when they go oh, Apple can make a better Carplay integration and easily outsell Ford and Tesla

OTOH, why do most people buy a Tesla right now? "How good the speedometer looks" is a pretty good description. Performance is good, reliability awful, UI usability awful unless you like fancy computer graphics. As a car, a Model 3/Y has a lot of compromises and lacks many features other cars have. But that computer screen...

To be fair, "image seekers" (traditional automotive terminology) most likely comprise the vast majority of Model 3/Y buyers at this stage. This is an area where Apple has a strong history of success.

But I don't think it's a good fit, making cars is expensive and completely different from everything else they do.
The display of outside temperature is a curious oversight. That's the one thing I find myself regularly toggling back to the native console for.

iOS plasters that information all over the place when running on the device itself, so it is not like it is out of character.
That never stopped John C. Davorak.

JLG is known and was at Apple. That makes him incredibly qualified. Somehow.

I don’t know. He doesn’t seem worse than many other random columnists.
It absolutely shows commitment to me getting a job, sure, but it shows that the company fundamentally doesn't trust remote workers. I would assume that I'd be spending a lot of time being asked to fly out as time went on.
Lisps. Fennel on lua.
It took Tesla a decade to learn this. And they’re just getting around to the ideas that the industry had 100 years to develop and refine.
How is 1 light year = 1 petameter?
We had a Tandy 1000RLX growing up. The X meant it had a 40 mb hard drive. Loved that thing.
I like the homelessness analogy. If a town of 3,000 people had 1 homeless person, there is a high likelihood that said person would ultimately encounter an altruistic person and get some assistance towards ceasing being homeless, yet, in a densely populated area with the same ratio of homed to homeless most of the homeless people will either receive no assistance or very little, right?

At a certain scale the issue requires a altruistic leader to marshal the forces to combat the societal problem, and while there are many qualified people for just such a task, the task of finding such a person, appointing them with the appropriate authority, and then giving them the the tools and resources they need to succeed are themselves tasks that require long unbroken chains of altruism to succeed, even though on a 1:1 ratio the problem is the exact same proportion.
"Those who act virtuously in every way, necessarily come to grief by those less virtuous." - Machiavelli

The problem with the FCPA is that it inherently provides an unfair advantage to countries where foreign brides are not criminal or never prosecuted. Moreover, it's created a cottage industry of foreign 'consultants' and foreign attorneys, providing plausible deniability for outsourced bribery.

This would be fine if Treasury, Commerce & DOJ put the screws to foreign countries & companies who engage in this misconduct, but the hard reality is they lack the resources to do so, and are far more concerned with politically charged priorities accruing more public & Congressional attention.

Like environmental/climate policy and many other issues... the US is quite happy to disadvantage US businesses in global competition without any substantive effort to level the playing field through extra-territorial enforcement or policy reform.

For example, we should permit statutory safe harbor for foreign bribery if US companies become confidential informants to DOJ, Treasury or Commerce, enabled via a clear and accessible platform for reporting.

Instead, we live in a magical, feel-good, fantasy land in the US, with very little awareness of how the rest of the world really does business.
Couldn't you have, like, multiple tunable rubber bands at different lengths? Giving you whatever resistance curve you want? I feel like this is something that should have a mechanical solution.
if a community is well-run and offering specific benefits, I'm open to paying. I used to subscribe to Everything Marketplaces because it was really well-run, had great speaker chats and I got great advice from other marketplace founders.
That's not hard.

I once saw a professor emeritus from a major CS/EE university who had founded their CS program and semiconductor program, had a bazillion highly ranked papers in those fields, a ton of patents including several that laid the foundations for modern integrated circuits, was an IEEE Fellow, a National Academy of Engineering member, and more I don't remember, testifying that the term RAM as commonly used in CS and EE includes hard disks, CD-ROM, and floppies.

I was doing some work for the opposing side and asked their lawyers how that expert could possibly say that. Surely if his friends or colleagues found out it would tarnish his reputation I though.

What they told me was that STEM communities, both academic and industrial, are well aware of how expert witness gigs work. Lawyers tell you what they need to do, and you find some argument for their position that isn't definitely a lie (in this case RAM stands for "Random Access Memory", and hard disk, CD-ROM, and floppy are indeed memory and have random access so of course are RAM), write up a report stating that, show up at the trial, have your impressive credentials read, and spend maybe an hour being examined and cross examined. In exchange for this you get enough money for a big fancy RV or a nice boat.

So when his colleagues learn that he said it is normal in CS to include floppies and disks and CD-ROM when talking about a computer's RAM they don't think he'd gone nuts or senile. They just think he must have wanted an RV or boat or to remodel his house and took an expert witness gig.

Our expert, who had a similar list of credentials, was using the gig to pay for a $100k car.
> Maybe I'm missing something basic, but why is this a remote issue?

Far easier to blend in as a remote employee.

Usually when this happens, the fake employee will come up with excuses to leave video off: They'll say their camera isn't working today or that their internet connection isn't good enough to turn the camera on right now. If they do turn it on, it will be massively backlit so you can't see their face.

Many companies don't even expect people to have video at all. The identity-swapping fraudsters are hoping that their companies fall into this category.
UK 30-Year Bond Yield Surges Above 5% for First Time Since 2002
Uber uses an in-house db called Schemaless which is built on top of MySQL for many of their largest datasets (many petabytes each).

https://www.uber.com/blog/schemaless-part-one-mysql-datastor...
You are not alone. I like the idea that gauges are connected directly to the thing they are measuring. However, I may be disconnected from modern reality in that what might look like a "traditional" gauge might already be connected to the car's computer rather than direct measuring. I'm just not a grease monkey to know the inner workings.
The audiophile community is an interesting one. It is often incredibly easy to empirically demonstrate that most of the snake oil they dump thousands of dollars in does nothing of value. But they spend that money anyways. They are like more boring versions of flat earthers.

My favorite recent discovery was a device that shaves a bit of plastic off the edge of your CDs to improve the sound quality. The manufacturer makes lots of claims about it improving how the light interacts with the polycarbonate, none of which makes any sense. But we don't need a materials scientist or a physicist to explain why their science is bunk, we can just make a hash of the CD before and after "shaving" it to see that the data is still identical.
FWIW, American cultural attitudes about this seem to vary widely (as far as I have a basis to compare), and many who do self-promote reserve that only for professional contexts.

Coming from an American environment in which "boasting" was discouraged, the seemingly necessary self-promotion around some universities was unfamiliar.

I still naturally prefer to say "we" when speaking of business successes, though all the coaching for resumes and interviews advises the opposite.

Possible tip for people programmed against boastfulness: Consider the scenario of being interviewed, when you keep naturally saying "we", praising colleagues, etc. Imagine that the interviewer is not understanding, due to culture gap, and is underestimating you in a way that threatens your survival. You might find yourself naturally making arguments for your value, which is closer to what that interviewer expects. Remember those arguments, and reuse them in similar contexts, with less of an insecure tone. :)
> Yup. Generally speaking, people value content like this as pretty much having, well, no value at all. They don't want to pay for it, and they'll go out of there way to make sure they pay as little as possible for it.

A lot of the blame goes to the content creators, though.

They were the ones who set the expectations for "free content" by giving their creation away for "free". And in that context, making $5k a month is pretty good. If I have a garage sale, put $0 price tags on everything, and end up with $5k afterwards, then that's amazing.

> In fact, I would even go further and suggest that many people feel that all jobs, except for whatever job/industry they are in, as having little to no value and should be done for nothing.

That seems a little far fetched.
Was it these guys[0]?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYnrtjO-Ne0
The disposability allegation was always bullcrap. iPhones have lead in terms of service lifetime, second hand value retention, and manufacturer software support for so long now and by such a huge margin I wonder at the motives of anyone still saying this.
I remember asking a question[0] on Webmasters Stack Exchange. They nuked it, and told me to ask it on regular StackOverflow.

Apparently, you are not supposed to ask non-SEO questions on Webmasters SE.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52060900/strange-behavio...
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It's going to be burned into CO2 anyway. If anything, methane is a bit better than CO2 in the long run.
Some people are claiming somebody could have dived to it. I don't know if that is the case, but I would assume Ukraine would be capable of sending a couple people who know how to dive a few countries over. They also likely have plenty of explosives.
DOOM emacs lately... Emacs with Evil mode. Decent Vim keybindings.
It is explained fairly early in the article.

This used to be done quite a lot in the early JS days when scope was kind of thrown out the window (no pun) and you just did whatever dirty thing you needed to in order to make a page work.
I don't see how it's relevant.

If you want a company to provide services without outsourcing to a third party, you can make it a requirement in the contract. But most likely you don't need this assurance, just that they maintain a certain level of quality. If a company misrepresents the quality of their goods/services it is essentially a breach of contract and it's not "fine". If they never made the promise in the first place and you're just bitter that some companies cut costs to achieve the bare minimum level of service, well that's capitalism for you. But irrelevant. Those companies could have hired dodgy people in-house and they'll still have shitty service.

Finding somebody to interview then having another person show up at work is straight out fraud. That's also not OK.
Do you have any sources on the development process of the Radiant AI that I could read up on?

I’ve only heard the marketing speak (“amazing!!!!”) followed by the actual product (“get X for Y at Z, 5 times”). I’ve never seen anything that explained the disconnect, aside from Todd just being a sheister.
Why does everyone assume the need for submersibles? Why not a small patrol boat dropping some depth charges on a time delay in the middle of the night?
You may be interested in Andrej Karpathy's experiment with OpenAI's latest STT Whisper model. Relevant tweet here: https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1574474950416617472

By the way, if you are looking for a clean podcast consumption experience, do give a try to https://jkstream.com. Easy way to subscribe to your favorite podcast interviewers and guests.
I made a comment [1] in a similar thread a month ago. Even thought there were people not happy with some of my words, I'll copy it here verbatim (Mostly because the comments inferred opinions that I was not making):

Some time ago (~6 months) my company was looking to hire a programmer.

We don't have a established process for this as it was some years since we hired a coder, but then we are in the industry (hiring) so published a couple of adverts here and there and we got the thing rolling.

Most of the applicants were seriously under qualified, and my colleagues had to go through a lot of rubbish in the form of CVs in order to find suitable candidates.

But a few of them were good enough to at least make it to the interview step, and off the invitations went.

One of'em candidates - Let's call him "Rajeed" - promptly accepted the meeting, and due to the small amount of people that made it that far - let me remind you, first interview - my colleagues were slightly excited, but at the same time also weary as our experience with coders from India is far from stellar.

You can imagine my colleagues surprise when they opened the Zoom session and Rajeed was nowhere to be found. Instead, there were two person of whom we knew nothing about - apparently they were running some sort of coding shop - and when my colleagues asked for Rajeed they just said "Oh, it's OK, it's OK. You can talk to us."

For obvious reasons the meeting didn't last long.

We ended up hiring a coder from Poland that, even thought he was decent, was miles ahead of the rest of the candidates.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32669193
I didn't mean to imply there was a golden era for laptop audio, as far as I'm concerned there never was one.

However, early on (pre 2000), the components in laptops were often better built. From my experience, two brands come to mind - IBM Thinkpads and some of the Toshiba ones, especially the old 'luggables'. They also had more substantial frames/chassis which provided better baffling for the speakers.

Moreover, my early Toshiba laptops had genuine volume potentiometers with a knurled knob that protruded slightly from the side of the case (like those in old style transistor radios). This made adjusting the audio volume dead easy.

I'm sure that when this last bastion from the analog era was removed the 'digital brigade' cheered enthusiastically—but I certainly didn't, in fact I was damn annoyed.

That's the trouble: digital ideologues who'd better be seen dead than found with analog technology in hand together with those who don't know what the word 'ergonomics' means run the electronics design business these days. Combine that mentality with accountants who'd feint at the thought of the additional cost of an analog potentiometer over a couple of membrane switches and we've a recipe for a generation of products that are essentially unusable (or so annoy users to such an extent that they ditch them at the earliest opportunity).

What truly dumfounds me is that it's not that non technical users haven't complained about this shitty design but rather techies—those who ought to know better (such as HN readers)—have not done so.

Much of this bad design wouldn't have happened if they'd whinged at appropriate times.
Love how he mooches California's resources when he isn't a tax payer, but once he gets money off to the tax haven if Nevada! What a scumbag
That's not magic, it's just how property getter and setters work on the global:

<script>
var _value = "test value";
Object.defineProperty(window, "testName", {
get: () => _value,
set: (value) => { _value = String(value) },
});
</script>
<script>
var testName = {};
// prints [object Object] string
console.log(testName, typeof testName);
var name = {};
// prints [object Object] string
console.log(name, typeof name);
</script>

the `var` doesn't create a new property since the getter and setter already exist.

Other properties have the same behavior, for example `status`.

Note: there's also LegacyUnforgeable which has similar behavior: https://webidl.spec.whatwg.org/#LegacyUnforgeable

Even if you're not using modules, using an IIFE avoids all this by making your variables local instead of having them define/update properties on the global.
More than ever if I go by how often I see their cars on the road. Three yesterday.
Which is why I'm torn. I love all of the safety features, quiet interiors, etc that modern cars have, but I really like the simplicity of older cars (especially their lack of privacy invading add-ons).
1) two wrongs don't make a right

2) There are legal/tax ramifications to identity fraud.

3) There is nothing inherently illegal or amoral about businesses outsourcing.
Margins in the auto industry are tight and manufacturers are seeing software as their saviour. Hence we see software features allowing you to 'subscribe' to e.g. heated seats. There's hope in auto manufacturers for the "Smart TV play" where owner/driver analytics (anonymous and otherwise) can be sold on. Then there are hoped-for kickbacks from in-car infomercials advising drivers to replace consumables like tyres via a manufacturer-linked outlet. This is why car manufacturers fixate on their own software and yet car software will become more and more dysfunctional for the end user as they're the 'mark' not the customer. It could be hugely profitable for Apple to take over the space, but that would be at the expense of the car manufacturers' dreams of software-driven increase in margins, so I wouldn't bet on them signing up soon.
> You say this but yet car manufacturers continue refusing to do so. It's been years already and sluggish screens are still normal, a bunch of weirdly placed knobs that offer no substantial tactile feedback, wheels that are horrible to hold, here are 3 different screens for some ungodly reason, and list goes on.

The laziness of auto manufacturers is so apparent these days, seeing reports of auto features being turned into subscription-based offerings. I just bought a brand new car that has a fair amount of sensor tech, which makes it difficult to mount 3rd party devices to the windshield because they obstruct the optical sensors. A service I would absolutely (and begrudgingly) pay for would be a built-in dash cam with a cloud integration. They already have all of the tech and expertise in-house. They would make a killing and I'm sure insurance companies would get on board too. But no, let's attach a monthly fee to heated seats instead.
> Outsourcing specific operations is done with carefully limited access to only the data necessary.

So carefully limited that insiders from said sweatshops end up taking (laughably low) bribes to perform things like fraudulent SIM swaps, access customer accounts, etc?

In theory it must be all well and controlled and in a proper world nobody would be doing fraud, whether for themselves or a third-party. In reality there's very little oversight over it on the companies' side (and a slap on the wrist if by some miracle regulators actually get involved) so seeing them complain about being on the receiving end of this is some sweet schadenfreude.
Q2 was 300m hmm? Ok, do the rest of the math at 5% likely-actual or 7% industry average on sales.
This looks really neat. But there's a wrong conjugation in the tag-line:

"talk you(sic) way to fluency" (should be "talk your way to... ").
It's more than dumb. Russia's current actions are actually only now making NATO presence in the region tangibly stronger (see: Sweden, Finland). This wouldn't happen without Putin invading Ukraine.
But you can "Fight fire with fire"
Did you even read the article? It says the point of these techniques is to help reduce the usage of AC, not reduce it. If you can lower the amount of heat entering a building (which this lattice technique helps with), then you need to use your AC less.
If you have access to `let`, you can just put `let` declarations into a block. No need for a function to establish scope.
Have some empathy, man. If you owned a company and hired someone, but the person who showed up isn't the same person, the word "fraud" is wholly appropriate and I feel bad for Op. When you are trying to hire the very best, and you do but someone else shows up in their place..? Not cool.

There's no reason to have a comparison with companies outsourcing. Companies outsource to lower cost with, ideally, a balance between decreased customer service and standards. The alternative is to raise prices on consumers. Profit motivation is real and not immoral -- companies which outsource and lower their standard of service should get beaten up by the market and competition. That being said, when a company has a monopoly or some other anti-competitive practices there is no way to balance this.
Which one of those is comparable to removing an app from an app store?
It's a reaction to the sentiment - typically from rightists - that things like crime and fraud are good so long as it's the "correct" people (corporations) perpetrating it.