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Show HN: I wrote a review of my last job review
Greetings,

Please withdraw my application for UnnamedCompany Software Developer position. Soon after my interview on Friday, I received a written offer for another position that I accepted.

I must admit that my technical interview was incredibly troubling, so much so that I believe it is essential to share my concerns and hopefully with HR.

Normally in a Zoom call, only video and sound are transferred via the Internet, however, Interviewer 1 was successful in transferring his apathy as well, if that wasn’t enough Interviewer 2 was late.

As I mentioned my frontend skills were moderate at best and absolutely everything on my resume is truthful. However, I was asked very detailed questions about the front end, far beyond my knowledge, which I openly declared I didn’t have an answer. The next question was about “ES6”, which I said that I had no knowledge of and I responded by asking if he was even looking at that correct resume? Interviewer 1 didn’t respond but appeared that he need to recalibrate his computer desktop.

Interviewer 2 asked me a question or two about AWS load balancing. I have never been in a position where I had to work with that type of AWS, typically that would be either Dev Ops or a programmer that was assigned a secondary task of managing AWS. (There is no discussion on my resume about advanced AWS load balancing.) In my experience, I can’t imagine a front-end developer also going all the way back in the stack to deal with load-balancing issues? I have never been in any team where this would happen and by the size of the teams that you have at UnnamedCompany I can’t imagine that would be the case.

Never once was I asked a question in Laravel, Codeigniter or PHP. Interviewer 1 and Interviewer 2 conducted a traditional coder interview, where they can feel good about themselves by asking hard and ridiculous questions so they can play a game of “gotcha”. It also allows the coder to feel important about themselves as they regurgitate the correct answer to a captive audience.

Make no mistake, I’m sure my feedback will be negative from two inexperienced coders forced to make interact with something other than a chat room. If your organization is really looking for quality people that add value to the team and not just write code, you might want to hide these stereotypical coders in the basement, out of the light of human contact. After dealing with these two, if they are the slights indication of what a team looks like at UnnamedCompany, I am really dodging a bullet and for that I’m thankful.

Cheers,

interviewee, 10 years experience PHP
For my side projects, copilot easily generates 80% of the code. It snoops around the local filesystem and picks up my naming schemes and style to help recommend better. It makes me so much more productive.

For work projects, I tried it on some throwaway work because we're still not allowed to use it for IP reasons, but it is very good at finding small utility functions to help with DRY, and can help with step by step work, but can't generate helpful code quite as easily since some of our API and codebase just doesn't follow its own norms or conventions, and it seems to me that copilot makes a lot of guesses based on its detected conventions.
And I suspect that the majority of people looking for sub-$1,000 computers are buying iPads, not crappy plastic HP's.
It would be worthy sacrifice to get rid of miles.

Now let's talk about wheel size. mm/percentage/inches all in one unit...
it mirrors a bit the experience I had in university with foreign students/phd students. Some immigrants are only friends with immigrants from the same country and it was surprising to hear that after spending years (sometimes BSc/Msc/Phd or Work) they are completely unable to say a single word in german, have no german friends etc. Usually very unapproachable und uncomfortable to talk to.

Others with mixed groups of friends were way more approachable, I was surprised by some how well they are able to speak the language after just a few years.
Race to Zero Campaign
Hey, I had bookmarked this and finally just took a look... and now realizing it's Mac-only, but nice work regardless. I think you are really on to something here... perhaps even more so if you could also include others internal to your company (where you can see availability) and then craft a similar copy/paste block of your broader team's availability (I must do this 10+ times/week!). Do you have any plans to port over to Windows?? :)
Thanks for the feedback. I had a similar bug to what you describe on older versions of Safari. I'll test on Firefox to see what might be going on with the backface visibility.

Once again, thanks a lot
Amusingly I got it to accept the ABA routing but then they recognize the ABA and force me to login.

I just don't want to type in my other bank's credentials into Wealthfront. I'm sure they know I don't but won't let me avoid it. So I'll continue to avoid them.
>> indistinguishable, but unsupported

> Ah, hardware vendors. Never change.

Hardware vendors, please never change; it makes our lives harder when you do;)
Don’t Live in ‘Pity City,’ Office Chair Magnate Tells Employees Who Want Money
I never said anything about politics though? You brought them up.

A makeshift culture built mainly around documents pilfered from dumosters and why not? Doesnt really sound like living off the fat of the mil-industry complex when that same institution was arresting and booking the protohackers without serious reason or cause.
Iff you assume the use of symbolic links. A tagging system needs the ability to have arbitrary tags and the same item referenced by multiple tags.
I’ve never understood the purpose of high beds on a pickup truck. Maybe for carrying ATVs on bad roads?

If I were regularly carrying large or heavy loads in a pickup truck, I think I’d much prefer a low bed for ease or loading and unloading and for a lower center of mass.
Maybe not but it might be able to tell you when to stop trading, which can be very useful.
I still miss my Nokia N900.

Being able to feel a text or other message come in, pulling it out and popping the keyboard to activate the screen, reading the message, and then being able to type my response with two thumbs without looking at the screen was a delight.

Plus the one window per conversation thing across all protocols (it was IIRC libpurple backed) worked -really- well due to the extremely good window switching system.

Oh, and a resistive touch screen which meant (a) tactile feedback (b) it actually worked in mild rain.

Ok, it was significantly pants at pretty much everything else, but as an upgraded pure communications device I don't think I've ever liked anything better (remove 'upgraded' and it and my beloved series of 6310i dumbphones are neck and neck).
Thank _you_ for striking up a spirited discussion! :)
The Lua embedded in Redis doesn't have JIT. It's just the vanilla PUC-Rio Lua 5.1. Not LuaJIT
(...) Gödel-unprovable results are provable by humans.

Are they? Certainly humans can recognise the undedicability of a "barber's paradox", like "this sentence is false", but that doesn't mean we can actually decide its truth value. We can spot undecidability, but not resolve it.

Right? So what do you mean?
heh no, America was taught by Hollywood to be afraid of Baltimore (The Wire)
I think World wars won't be easily forgotten because they have amazing branding through the use of the word "world" that is timeless. Unless we seriously screw up something about naming World War III I think we can keep the franchise fresh for ages.

> Will Hitler continue to be the go-to example of prime evil in people's minds then?

I think so, as long as people believe in holocaust and no one else tops him.

> And eventually, will they even stop learning about it?

We do still learn about pharaohs ... and cowboys for some reason. Some history just gets immortalized in tropes.
Why not simply tax the gains (income) from using this AI. That is what we already do.
OP handwaves away issue of nuclear safety, incorrectly labelling it a straw man, and with it, the very real possibility of nuclear accidents. If there was a Chernobyl-scale nuclear accident in Germany, it would drastically shorten the lives of tens of millions of people, and it would make half the country uninhabitable. But all this is academic, because nuclear power can not economically compete with renewables.

> Nuclear is probably the most expensive energy source for powering a grid at present

No, not probably and not at present. Since the first experimental reactor went online, nuclear power has always been the most expensive way to generate electricity.
As others have mentioned, this is a kind of sharding strategy. It doesn't get rid of the need for load balancing, and it's really going the opposite direction of what we know to be reliable.

> Manual/statistical load balancing --- assign users to a specific server based on their login credentials.

What happens when that specific server goes down? Needs an upgrade/deployment? You'll have to failover to a different server, which brings you back to an automatic load balancing strategy.

> Latency can be reduced to zero by simply forwarding the connection to the proper server once the login is complete.

Modern load balancers add a meaningless amount of latency per request. If you're truly forwarding it in the networking sense, then a load balancer/reverse proxy is still involved.

If you mean something like redirecting them to an endpoint that points directly at an individual server, you get back to the first problem. What happens when that server goes down?

> A statistical model of server utilization can be maintained and users assigned or re-assigned as needed.

This is one of those things that sounds _very simple_, but in practice is incredibly complicated.
What's wrong with the Golang-based operators? Why do you prefer Rust to be used in the operator?
I have a legitimate question here. Isn't 40 years quite literally nothing in terms of human life on Earth, let alone climate on Earth? Shouldn't we discussing a graph/timeline of at least 100k years? Is it because we don't have any data going back? Weren't there periods with much more variability, such as ice ages and the little ice age during the last millennium?

Reminds me of people discussing astronomic events. It could be any day now. "Any day" being today or 10 million years from now.
Good for like 10-15 days then I crash for like 2-5 days. The worst crash lasted almost two months.

Not sure what to do different.

The crashes are the worst because I get nothing done. Work/exercise/chores/etc. I just have zero motivation. I don’t even go outside.

Somehow that goes away and then for the next 10-15 days it’s crunch mode making up the lost time and then putting out like 5x the work I normally do. I’ll be more social my apartment will be super clean and organized. I’ll cook at home and dance even to music lmao. But then it all halts and it’s over and I’m just feeling like an earthworm who wants to burrow.
Even if it was hydrazine or UDMH, the half-life of molecules in the upper stratosphere is months/years, anything in the mesosphere isn't coming back down before photolysis breaks it down into NO2, CO2 and H2O. NO2 isn't great for ozone, so hydrazine usage in the mesosphere should be minimized, but not many platforms are using hydrazine still. Oxykero is totally fine.
Agreed 1,000%. I recently re-watched the next generation with my wife, since I was a teenager and could not believe what an excellent leader Picard was. I am a Director at a big fork, consulting company, and I found myself using techniques that I saw in the show with my team to great effect.
If you don't know what you are building, any action is premature.
Especially if it stops being updated. This was an intentional stopping point for the author, so it should remain as such.

Lots of artwork or literature exists in unfinished form. They should remain as such for historical posterity.
It seems like the discussion of carbon capture at the source of emission has gone down and discussion of this has gone up. Why is that?
Land ownership is not free money. It usually involves taking on debt for purchase, then trying to recoup that money through rental. They take risk from the possibility that the land value will go down, they won't be able to service the debt, and they may have to sell at a loss. The service it provides is that it allows businesses to do business in a particular area without having to take out loans to buy land or buildings and incur those risks themselves. Businesses find that valuable.
I'm not aware of any bootloaders that support encrypted /boot with LUKS2 aside from GRUB. GRUB itself didn't support LUKS2 until 2021, I believe; I imagine there are many people using versions older than that.
It shows only the data its users have gathered. Here in Finland there seem to be many actice users who confirm tower locations. E.g. in the US there are many calculated, unconfirmed tower locations. Obviously not as many technically inclined volunteers.
Intelligence is the capacity to direct our behavior in the face of external circumstances and events. The more it integrates rational thinking, emotions, intuitions and acquired knowledge, the more we are intelligent. This is all contained into the workings of the brain. Even the "extended" cognition is only using previously created artifacts to enhance our memory, the same as we use books.
As for identity, it is perceived from inside as we build a model of ourselves. We test our thoughts with feedback we gather. Our identity evolves with experience and incidents. The systemic identity of an individual is its uniqueness in the collective, and is observed from the behavior of the individual in selective circumstances. Nobody ever discovers the entirety of the identity, which only exists at the boundary between inside and outside, that is not observable from either points of view.
The number is 40%, and it's 40% of code written by Copilot users. It's also just for Python:

> In files where it’s enabled, nearly 40% of code is being written by GitHub Copilot in popular coding languages, like Python—and we expect that to increase.

https://github.blog/2022-06-21-github-copilot-is-generally-a...
That makes sense. But at night that makes it point topside at moon? Which is basically "constantly tilted" of the moon is low?
(I read the article, but admittedly quickly, should probably read again)
Clear sign your not intellectual "enough" :)
I used a digital ocean ubuntu droplet with haproxy and certbot back when I first started off. Used their Postgres service for the database and only opened port 443 and 80 to public traffic. Droplet backups for backups if the vm needed and deployments were a manual git pull.

Sure a little complicated but there are plenty of good tutorials out there.

I would say Heroku for a new dev is not actually ideal. It hides way too much of the inner workings and makes it harder to learn about web development. I think it's more appropriate for a startup which just wants a ci/cd pipeline and some redundancy without investing that much time into it.
What is wrong about it? Here is what Snopes, a site who does fact checking found about it. Please talk specifics instead of making generic judgement statements.

- "...Another area of controversy concerns the appearance and nature of the physics degree, specifically. Certificates of both a Penn economics degree and an alleged physics degree are included in documents filed as part of the O'Reilly and Eberhard lawsuits. While the economics diploma filed as evidence specifically indicates the academic discipline, name, and other details involved in the degree, the physics diploma appears to be a largely blank diploma and indicates no specific concentration..."

- "...The University of Pennsylvania Department of Physics and Astronomy does describe Musk as an alumnus. In 2009 — the same year the dispute with Eberhard was litigated — Musk gave Penn's Center for Particle Cosmology a "generous endowment" allowing for an annual "Elon Musk Public Lecture"..."

- " Musk's past statements about his educational background, however, have been, at best, imprecise. He has claimed on several occasions to have received a physics degree in 1995 — a claim that was never fully true but which may have aided Musk's early business career..."
They are continuous black body spectrum which we got used to
One of my problems is that I think I have a friend. We have great fun together and seem to match, but eventually I realize I'm initiating all contact.

So I stop initiating and wait for the signal that they want to hang out.

Crickets.

I do plan to join a photography club although most everyone is older married couples. Still, nice folk, and a hobby I find joy in.
There was some discussion by the copilot team that x% of new code in enabled IDEs was generated by copilot.

It varies, but here's one post with x=46 from last month. So, very close to half.

https://github.blog/2023-02-14-github-copilot-for-business-i...
How about we stop burning coal first. That’s not unproven and is much effective.

This is just silliness.
Finding LED that have light that doesn't look bad is unnecessarily complicated sadly
The Myth of the Broke Millennial
> machine code

i386

x86_64

arm64

https://www.google.com/search?q=x86_64+to+wasm some interesting stuff like https://github.com/michaelmelanson/wasm-kernel
Their output is low due to a strike.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/strikes-hit-french-n...
Don't most municipalities charge lower / no-sales tax on essentials such as groceries, and higher sales tax on retail, alcohol sales, and restaurants, presumably things lower income people wouldn't be spending much on anyways? I know my state does not charge sales tax on groceries, and limits local municipalities to a maximum of 2%, but I admittedly don't know what the norm is in most states.
I wouldn't even try to go deep into the logic of climate deniers. They are either bots or real humans paid a lot of money to spread misinformation for someone's benefit.
That’s what i said, but better emphasis on the weird taxation rule allowing choice of point of online sale.
I don't think your question is legitimate, given that your only other post here is conspiratory. And what do you suggest we do? Nothing, and hope for the best? I'd rather we try, based on our best knowledge so far.
Your sources are absolutely irrelevant when your argument has a vast hole that is evident to anyone who has even a little bit of actual understanding about the issue. You can cargo-cult as many sources you like, they do nothing to save a fundamentally broken argument.
> And we’ll wonder why the people in that cute little European town we visited that one time seemed so much happier.

except they don't think that

the Americans nod politely and whisper to each other "can you imagine living that close to your neighbors? nooooo thank you!"

HN needs to just drop this notion that anyone opposed to density is a caveman. I love the fact that my neighbors can't see me and I can't see them. Everyone is one an acre minimum. We like it like that and we're not even Literal Nazis!
No space force? Here you go: https://www.bundeswehr.de/de/organisation/luftwaffe/organisa...
I recently moved from a crowded suburb to a rural 2.5 acre lot up in Alaska. If I'm going to be isolated regardless, might as well have some space :)
Great post! I would have loved to see P2C (Power of 2 Choices) in there as well, which is typically a better alternative to Round Robin and Least Connections.
And consumption in the form of sales tax.
In theory you could store it both offsite (using a hidden Micro SD card) and on your phone simultaneously, with a special key combination, e.g. pressing Vol Up + Vol Down + Power causing the phone to be rebooted, and the key erased from RAM... So in that case you would need to get the offsite copy, from GPS coordinates you have memorized, using a GPS receiver that is known not to leave any location information in it's EEPROM / Flash.

Of course all this info has to be double checked to see if it actually works, and forensic tools run against the phone to be really really sure the key's not being written to Flash in any way, or remains in RAM after a reboot.
Intuitive JavaScript: Functional programming lessons and exercises (2021)
That was in context of a how much RAM would be needed for software of that era, not the entire future of computing.
I surely hope they use my copyrighted code and make millions out of it. Ideal case for me to sue them for lots of money.
What was your experience? Genuinely curious. I've definitely experienced the "economic" prejudice since college was when I found out the hard way that my family was poor. I had a friend who had to deal with insecure butthurt white folks being mad that the kid from China swept them in exams. I was not at his level but we bonded because I was the only girl in class. Dude is legit gonna be one of those mathematicians where every other theorem is named after him. Oh god and the computer science shit. Fuck that "make me a sandwich" nonsense. That was the subject where I had the upper hand but you'd never know come project time when nobody wanted to work with me because they thought I wouldn't pull my weight.
Seems like we agree in everything except you seem to think that the management's judgement about value is a priori correct and final.

What I am saying is that value in a product can be "discovered" along the way. An engineer that demonstrates how to add value through individual efforts will probably experience burnout if management chooses to ignore their efforts. But more mature managers will figure out how to work with it.
I wonder why despite all of this, nearly all active money management funds perform below S&P.
Very well done! On mobile now but will check out the site once home.

Do you happen to have a writeup somewhere of your tech stack?
I couldn't quite tell if you found a beautiful way to insult me, but it is fascinating indeed. I am hand wavey and I understand its failure modes quite well, unfortunately. It's cool to talk about it at this level of abstraction.
Show HN: Agrippa – build, share, and visualize ML models using XML
The website and app (judging from screenshots) look great and intuitive. Until I click to “get the app” and I’m immediately turned off.

First is that clicking the link on a desktop does not provide a link, but an opaque QR code to scan. Not good but all right, I’ll just go to it on the phone. In-App Purchases. Which almost universally means a subscription or other method of trying to extract recurring revenue. On a mobile game. Huge red flag, but again I give it the benefit of the doubt and tap to see what those are.

Chips. You have to pay real money to get fake chips to play against fake opponents. That’s not “casual poker”, it’s real poker made less fun.

Were this a one-off purchase to play a few hands against friends, it would have been an insta-buy of multiple copies. As it is, I’ll never look at it again.

Plus, for something which looks so limited it does not bode well that you have large Terms & Conditions, Privacy Policy, and EULA. Why do you collect data at all?

Kudos on the design and presentation, but I wish just about everything else were different.
I believe the keyboard support in iOS is thorough due to the iPad Pro and its related keyboard accessory.
I'm feeling more crunchy today, I will try crisp coding tomorrow
Vantage.sh has SSO tax, et tu brute?
If everyone uses ChatGPT, it might be able to influence world events enough to be right.