skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve spent a fair number of years doing corporate cucumber training.

At every client I emphatically insist that if they are not using Gherkin as a “Rosetta stone” for the business folks then they’re wasting their time with cucumber. Don’t go to the trouble of writing gherkin if you’re not using it as living documentation. Save yourself loads of trouble and just use an ordinary test framework.
This hasnt happened to me, but I was countering the original post -- doing strange things (scraping, automated resume submissions) are not things that just jeopardize you from one company -- they could theoretically jeopardize you from all the companies that use a single platform (Taleo, Greenhouse, Lever.co, etc.)
This sounds like a very nice side effect of the Linux kernel lack of stable kernel ABI. It's usually portrayed as a negative, but I'd personally rather my drivers be open source (Free, actually) and maintained.
I regularly take the train. I've had good experiences most of the times, and catastrophic experiences some of the times. It depends on the location, also. Some lines are better served.

This is not something you can rely on however. Take it as a bonus if it works.
This entire thread is about pre-screening job applicants so you know before hiring them that they're working multiple W2 jobs so you don't get "scammed" and accidentally hire somebody who is already working multiple full time jobs. But, it's not a scam unless they're not meeting productivity requirements. How do you know the person you're going to hire is not going to meet those productivity requirements before hiring them?
This used to be somewhat common, before opensource really took off. I worked for 2 different companies in the late 90's early 00's that had everything in escrow as certain customers demanded it.
I've since tried in two versions of Bash (3.2 and 5.1) and in five different varieties of ksh (oksh, mksh, ksh93, pdksh, GNU ksh). It does seem to be a zshism. All the others do the redirect into the destination, but only zsh provides the content of the redirect from source without some other command to read it.

The zsh way seems more properly fitting with the philosophy of the Unix shell to me. It would be an uphill battle getting everyone else to change that behavior, though.
For me personally, a corporation's ethics are huge. I permanently lose all trust and respect for the types of companies that silently and willingly complied with programs demanding blatant betrayal of customer privacy, like PRISM.
That sounds great, I hope you pursue it.

Do you know of any specific risks when flashing devices w/ WebUSB as opposed to the 'normal' way?
The flip side of the fairness argument is that test scores are just one time point (often just a couple of hours, maybe several hours at most, of one day) in one format with no flexibility for unusual circumstances or anything. GPA, in contrast, is reflective of repeated things over a long time period, with lots of variables accounted for.

There's issues with GPAs too, like lack of standardization, but they both have their issues with fairness.
Auto-correction wins again.

Yes, both is easily detected anyway, hence I said "ditching" it would allow to make it a zip file.
I think Apple's perspective is that they do what they want and tell and pay people (i.e., lobbyists, regulators, and politicians) to say that they don't want it regulated. They have unbelievable market power.
Yes, I know. I remember several years ago being super excited about Wayland. But every time I have tried it, it just falls over in so many different ways. I have given up.

About copy/paste in particular, I have solved it for myself because I work almost exclusively in the terminal and the browser, both of which stay running all the time and therefore acts as a clipboard manager for any copy/paste that happens in it. I am just waiting for my terminal of choice to get support for copy/pasting arbitrary mime types, which its maintainer has said he is going to implement.
So you have all the Laplace transforms memorized just in case some internet person asks you how to model a wheel going up a ramp at the origin?

Everyone on my engineering course did this question, but my guess is zero of us could solve it right now from memory. A fair portion would be able to solve it with some references available.

But you're making the other guy's point for him here. It's a waste of your mind to have test-taking skills memorized.
On one hand it is easier to monetize things than it used to be. In the 1990s for instance you didn't have AdSense to make money off a web site. Today somebody can start something and hope to make money with very little effort. It's not hard to make 10 cents but to make real money is often more work than people want to do.

Making money from a creative project can add spice to it the same way that gambling on sports adds to the enjoyment. It also means you can buy whatever equipment you want for your hobby (e.g. think how many $1000s you could spend on photography gear.)

Myself I have an art/crafting/photography project that I'd like to sell some work from because getting other people interested enough in what I make to pay for it would be validation that I'm on the right track.
And what I'm saying is, you have absolutely no evidence or way to prove that. I'm not saying it's not possible, but I am saying it has as much scientific evidence as spontaneous generation did

Of course, articulating what the subjective experience being referred to is another problems on its own. All of your comment can exist independent of that perception that's being described. There's no reason for us to have a centralized feeling of it all happening, and the fact that it can be turned off temporarily while the rest mainly still functions is actually mild evidence against the idea that they're one and the same
I agree it is not a bad idea to confirm previous employment. It still does not prevent the case you mention, but it might help.

I just wanted to add to anyone: make sure you actually understand who was the employer and give an opportunity to address the potential lie.

Sometimes people (in a rush to read the cv) assume that a contract position, for instance, was a permanent role and similar mistakes (even when clearly specified in the cv) and these checks might make people drop out of the process unfairly, without recourse.
It's pretty simple, if you make me upload my resume and then want me to fill out a massive form with information directly from my resume I'm out.
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Curious what people think about this.
Well, I'm not sure I can agree completely because the way I think of consciousness is that it's the body's UI to the world, but it's obvious that memory plays a central role there. Pretty much everything the article proposes has analogies in computer UIs.
I thought http2 made the network requests a non-issue (at least for 100 files or so). The only advantage of the larger bundle is though compression.
> as google knew they were not going to be allowed to get an html version working

Xbox cloud streaming seems to work just fine?
That question is illegal in the US. There is no way to honestly answer it without revealing information that they cannot legally ask, and thus they cannot legally ask it. You should stop the interview right there, if they are willing to violate the law then they are not the type of company you want to work with.

You may want to contact a lawyer about suing them for asking, but I'm not sure how that works.

The above applies to the US. If you are in a different country then you need to check your local laws.
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My self is whatever is making decisions. If some scientist somewhere chops words and slices definitions and does some measurements and declares that my "self" isn't what is "making decisions", then they've been misled by bad philosophy into making stupid statements. And I use the word "stupid" carefully.

I am completely unfazed by the fact that what I intuitively thought the process might have been isn't the real process. The entire history of science from start to finish has been the unrelenting story of taking a closer look at something than we ever have before, and being surprised by what we found. The exceptions to that, such as predicting antimatter or the Higg's boson, are notable stories precisely because they are exceptions. Nevertheless, those surprises never negate our previous experiences. They reveal unexpected sources and surprising nuances, but the fact that we were surprised by where our higher-level concepts came from reveal that our previous understanding was in error, not the higher level concepts. Water has been wet for the whole of human experience, no matter whether it was its own element, or a essence, or a composition of atoms, or a pattern of fluctuations in quantum fields, or whatever the final Grand Unified Theory might declare it "really" is. Our understanding of water has been greatly enhanced by those advances, but it remains wet.

Nevertheless, my self is whatever is making decisions. The only way to break me off that definition would be to remove the entire "making decisions" part, which gets into its own philosophical thicket. Even in a fully deterministic universe I may still be "making decisions", despite popular belief to the contrary; one must simply be more careful about the definition of "making decisions" but meaningful definitions can still be produced.

There's a very long history of this sort of word chopping. Declaring this or that thing an "illusion" simply because it isn't exactly what we thought it was, or because it turns out not to be an atomic object of its own in the universe (hardly surprising since the only atomic things that seem to actually exist in this universe aren't very philosophically exciting, like quarks and electrons) is one very common tell, but it's not the only one. Consciousness gets a lot of stories like this where someone tries to manipulate words to "reveal" conscious experience is some sort of fake or something, but amazingly, not a single one of them has affected my own personal conscious experience. Per Descartes, as the existence of my own conscious experience is arguably the single thing I have the most confidence about, arguably the only thing I am 100% certain of, I find myself rather unimpressed with attempts to deny it. The fact that a certain subset of scientists are perturbed by their inability to wrap numbers around it is their problem, not mine. They are welcome to try to explain it; any attempts they make to explain it away can be discarded without further examination.
> They give a call center average metrics and it's up to the call center to hit them.

Call centres taking contracts with the lowest bid is definitely a part of the overall problem.

> Second tier escalations were handled in house.

We even had a third in-house. Dell had an in-house team handling things like replacing entire systems due to legal requirements (usually due to on-site techs being unable to solve issues despite multiple visits).

> Crus wouldn't get on site service.

One of the chief complaints back in the day. Sure, you and I can replace a faulty stick of RAM, but many customers didn't agree.

> Consumer systems are not as good as business grade.

Earler Inspirons were really good systems. They were pretty much identical to Latitudes and Precisions, but with lower specs. The Build quality was on par with the higer end systems.
Corporate tax accountants should really be walking around in supervillain costumes, while janitors and sewer workers wear red and gold capes.
If you look at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33334043 it turns out rascul was right and it appears to be only zsh that handles the reading of the redirected input without some other command to hand it off to.
Leave it to Apple to make me feel bad about Zuck & Co. Ice cold.
I have the previous gen (T495s) running Debian testing. Don't you have issues with power usage? That's my only gripe with this laptop. Battery lasts maybe 3 hours max while on Windows it should last 8+.
A function in a programming langauge is nothing more then a spec. Programming is writing or translating the specification.
Yes.

(more seriously, they could make it very annoying until you verify, like let you connect for a few minutes only, or at very low speed. Still, yes, and I guess this is a major reason why they don't make people verify their email address)
Is it possible to do so for free?
Identity is a notoriously difficult concept to pin down. While awareness has deep tie ins to our sense of identity, I don't think it is a given that our whole self or identity is comprised solely of our conscious experiences.
I always click these articles hoping for a new trick. I'm almost always disappointed.

Short of getting a newer heat pump, nothing I do will impact my bill in any significant way. I already do most of the smaller stuff.
Great question. For me, to be a great company it must have a combo of traits: a mission I'm bought into, a team that compliment each other, and great work-life balance.
Except for Kava which has recently been legalised. There's even a Kava company listed on the ASX! It just goes to show that when money talks, politicians listen.

https://fijikava.com/
You'll get better service at the Toyota dealer, though. My wife bought a Dell XPS desktop (from the local Microcenter). Was crashy and unreliable from day one. We ran various tests, including the ones supplied by Dell, and couldn't suss out the problem. Two trips to the Microcenter tech counter found nothing. They told us if the automated tests didn't find anything, they couldn't get a warranty replacement from Dell. Our own probing suggested a memory issue, either the SSD or the RAM. We did some part swapping and found that it was indeed bad ram. New ram solved all the issues.

So we did fix it (with no warranty coverage), but it was a painful and unnecessary experience. So count us in the 'Dell is junk' column. We've never had a problem like that with an Apple product (and I've been using Apple products since 1979).
> the RF developers have been uninterested in incorporating this aspect of test

Have they been asked? I had the same problem and had different solutions built in house with different levels of success
All those things sound nice, but ultimately, it's going to be a company that allows me to be in a good situation with my keeping work stress low, work volume reasonable, vacation high, compensation high.

All companies end up being terrible in some way, but the biggest factor will always be what life it allows me to create for myself.
I'm not sure if even that's such a straightforward argument to make. I've recently been looking into buying some reagents for fungal microscopy, and supposedly Melzer's reagent is awkward to get hold of (particularly in the USA?) because chloral hydrate is a "date rape drug".

Another chemical branded as a date rape drug is GHB, but it is also popular as a recreational drug. Again, not something you can say possession of implies some intention to commit rape.
Incremental import of git into darcs and back again
"Before I reply, why don't you tell me why you are (pause) literally (pause) passionate about working here." - maintain eye contact until escorted from building...

Tempting, but no.
You can't. But the op had already hired scammers, and they were not meeting the productivity requirements.

Or, you can try to guesstimate that by checking with previous employers. Which was the OP's point I guess, or alternatively the OP's point was "I give my employees a 40 hours/week contract, so they can't really have another job (and still perform adequately, or simply they can't depending on the law of the country)"
They probably don’t want to pay and you will work in a super toxic environment
There is research on this. I believe it was Thomas Espenshade, social scientist at Princeton, who had data on test prep access, modeled along with SES, etc. Test prep is worth about 40 points on the SAT. Not trivial, but not a game changer.

It's true that people who are otherwise well off are more likely to have test prep, and those people's test scores are often several standard deviations higher than low-income students from bad schools without test prep. But the counterfactual of (same person) +/- test prep = about 40 SAT points.
The way Windows handles drivers is truly boggling. You could get full root just by plugging in a Razer mouse for years.
Stop calling things that are not robots, robots.

Does this framework stream sensor data? No. Does this framework control actuators? No. Does this framework represent an actuated device’s configuration space? No. Does this framework perform collision detection? No. Does this framework keep an obstacle map? No. Does this framework have any planners? No.

Just stop already. Stop calling things a robot when they are not.
or puppeteer
At that point, they had also taken the caution tape off the playground by me. I'm unaware who mandated that. As far as I can tell, many aspects of the disease and vaccines are still quite controversial, though it seems to me that vaccines are helpful.
Fire them with cause then. I fail to see the problem. At some point you have to trust people. No amount of screening will fix this.
I think Apple already does get your share, because almost everything in the Apple Store is more expensive than it is otherwise, because companies pass the tax down onto consumers.
> I will never understand the reason for Cucumber to exist

In a previous company I had one use-case that I thought cucumber helped out a lot at.

We were writing software that would be vigourously tested and approved by a customer who didn't have any technical knowledge. Their initial plan was the "Excel sheet of death" test case management system with really fuzzily named tests.

I convinced them to write Cucumber tests, which turned out to be around 100, using the very explit syntax that then got called stupid by the cucumber devs and moved to the "training-wheels" gem. I never expressed what we were doing as cucumber tests. I just told them "Write them like this and it is easy to understand" and they agreed and did so, then they were signed off by our project team and them.

After that I then automated them our side so that we could run them quickly and easily in our pipeline while the customer could still use the tests for their tedious manual user acceptance testing at the end.

It worked out quite well. The customer never knew we automated the tests our side, they were just thrilled that something like 99% tests passed first-time and the 1% that didn't were down to interpretation differences.
I understand all of this. I'm a software engineer myself, and FLOSS advocate.

The "complaint" is not that I don't understand _why_ this is happening, or even so much that it _is_ happening, but in my experience, this "commercialisation" of F/L/OSS is inevitably (I'd argue) net negative for the community built around it.

Even if the core product doesn't become "paid" and we don't have this issue of whether or not people _should_ have to pay to use it, the quality of the "core" or "community" product will fall, anything new or interesting will get pay-walled and updates/features will be few and far between.

I'd call this more lamentation of a loss than anything, Gitea isn't dead (yet) because of this, but I move forward cautiously to see what comes of it.

What would be really interesting, would be to revisit this discussion in a year, two, maybe more and see what became of it.
> Why?????

I... just explained. You can't control for the variables.

> If it's pointless, why are you even arguing with me?

I'm not arguing with you. I made one comment to explain that the data you're asking for doesn't exist and if it can exist it is extremely expensive to generate. Generating expensive data like that to show something obvious is not something most companies care about.

> We don't have the data, that's all, if you have data then show it to me or you have to agree with me that we don't have any.

Yes, I'm saying that there is no good data.

> I guess you put Linus Torvalds in the group of people who don't know what they are talking about

Yes, I think Linus Torvalds is incompetent. That said, I think you're actually misunderstanding his statement there.
Interesting. Looks like in my haste I may have been comparing Germany's total installed capacity with the US's newly installed capacity.
That's true regardless of how you choose to encode time and is a problem of local time zones not unix time.
Apple's position on this is really untenable as they market the iPhone as a device for work as well as personal communication. In the policy, they are saying that you can only buy ads without IAPs if it's some kind of multimedia campaign management app. Fine, that makes sense if you're running a corporate marketing campaign. How does it make sense if you're a small business running a small-time campaign? This is yet another overreach of the IAP model. It makes some kind of sense to have it for purchases that unlock app features or content, but IAP to buy an ad on Facebook makes no more sense than an IAP to buy a real-life piece of furniture: the terms of the transaction are completely outside the scope of "stuff the app does".
> On Monday, Apple quietly updated its App Store rules to require that iOS developers use in-app purchases — and thereby give Apple 30 percent — on “sales of ‘boosts’ for posts in a social media app.

This was always the end game for any walled garden, a toll booth at every street and intersection. Just desserts for FB for choosing the walled garden over the open web.

BTW, Instagram's TT-aping new design is largely invisible on its mobile web version.
Except you can buy your way into tutoring too, and pay for test accommodations, and so forth and so on. It might not amount to a huge effect, but if you're on the boundary area, it can make the difference. Someone might also argue that although bullshitting with grades makes a difference, it usually isn't going to turn a D into an A either (speaking as a university professor, with many colleagues at different universities, in those situations it's usually a matter of being pressured to turn an F into a D).
But it's not an insult towards actual farmers, it's an insult towards an impostor that pretends they're doing valuable work while all they do is the opposite and they merely throw time at a problem, creating illusion of value.

I'm saying this because I'm raised on a farm, I was always proud of it, I still do it as a hobby (and I love my crops) and I never, ever considered it an insult when I heard a term "farmer" or "peasant".

Nowadays, I read about people being offended in my stead, giving themselves the right to insult other people, like author of microwebsockets.

Is there a world in which haters could hate without using excuses such as "it insults farmers"?

I'm one of the farmers, I am not insulted, I do have the right to say this and point the attention at the *real* problem - and it's fake developers.
Fair, however I'd generally expect that you are more likely to find engineers who care about your product if you give more equity. In times past, great engineers moved to startups to satisfy their ambition. Now big-tech is giving out liquid compensation that is 2-3x more valuable than a startup compensation package at exit. All else being equal, a large well funded corporation is more likely to find product market fit than a small underfunded one.
Some true words.

One should generally prefer criminal gangs elected according to social
contract, since they are basically "our* criminal gang.

As for moral relativism - not so much. There's enough consensus for
judiciaries and criminologists to define objective criminal
behaviours. I think you mean that we exercise more or less tolerance
of the criminal behaviour of certain groups.