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I had 7 jobs in the last 9 years. I've quit all of them. I interviewed at probably 50-60 places during this time and I'm currently moving to my next role, so I'll begin the 8th job in 9 years.

To practice interviewing you need to firat get details about the job and company and develop a list of questions. If I really wanted a job I'd get 30-40 questions prepared, from job specific to behavioral ("tell me of a time you had to deal with a difficult stakeholder"). Then add variations of the question so you get used to being asked the same thing different ways.

Then always use STAR (situation/task/action/result) to answer the question. This will help the interviewer remember you a lot better and it will also highlight what YOU did.

Practice going through your CV/resume back to front and front to back. Be prepared to highlight what you learned at each role and why you left from it/got made redundant.

With sufficient grind you will become proficient at this and it will make a world of a difference. I can now confidently say "I wont get this role because I messed up X, so if they were paying attention they will reduce my score for this". You will still get rejected (sometimes there is just someone better than you) but the goal is to improve your odds at being the one that gets the job.

Hope this helps!
Sure—I'm not totally convinced by the class analysis but the big menu is definitely a reason to go. In a lot of cities, diners, especially Greek-owned diners, traditionally filled this role of restaurant with a menu the proverbial size of a phone book, but they're fewer in number and their menus have often shrank.

The "high-low" aesthetic the article mentions is important, too, I think. You can go there in a lot of contexts and it doesn't feel weird, because it isn't any normal genre of restaurant you have associations with, nor does it have a hokey theme. Teenagers can go, families can go, couples can go, coworkers can go. People go for dessert, people go for takeout, people go for drinks and appetizers.
That's victim blaming.
> It sounds like your recruiter is purposely ignoring any resume that is not explicitly sent to her personally.

Curious, how does one ignore something that is never actually sent to them, explicitly or not?
Yep, I also noticed those fake positions usually promise a very high wage, higher than similar positions.
That's not evidence for your worlds or answer for my question.
Hey would be happy to look more into it -- my email is in my HN profile, would appreciate if you sent me your resume there.
>What we can do?
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>In this situation, the responsibility to combat deepfakes largely lies with the government and big tech companies.

What you should also do, dear, is assume your government is corrupted and that big tech companies are soulless Leviathans motivated only by extracting some easily quantifiable monetary profit from you, abusing you as much as it can within its accounting. At worst, you were wrong and actually your local government is only steered by competent benevolent people that will understand that trust doesn’t come without checks, and big tech organizations are actually all non-profit in disguise which are striving to make the world a better place for every single living being.

Also, the key issue here, as it at always been, is how people behave with each other, not which tools they use to actually implement these interactions.

The real challenge is not that much "how do you regulate tools", but "how do you make people act with mutual respect at societal level".
It shows that, however improbable, people do win the lottery.

It's good to be reminded of that, if you've been trained for years, not to play the lottery because you personally won't ever win.

In this case, the Cloud vendor is the lottery organizer and they indeed need to plan for people winning.
> If everybody considers P=NP a crackpot territory, then it will never happen, by definition.

Oh, sorry, that's not what I meant to say. To be less vague, 'Practical P=NP is a very real possibility' is fine. 'Practical P=NP is a very real possibility (I am just testing a new algorithm)' is crackpot territory.

> But regardless, it's important to realize that modern cryptography relies on a hypothesis. It might be effectively true for now, but it might not in the future.

Different parts of modern cryptography rely on different sets of hypotheses. Eg the discrete logarithm problem being hard for some specific groups is one popular hypothesis.

> In theory, yes, in practice, there is a pretty big difference [...]

That's a valid point, but to make that point the approach you defend has to be more mathematically rigorous.

Basically, if you say '(I am just testing a new algorithm)', then that algorithm better be fast in order to convince anyone. Otherwise, you say something like 'I'm working on a proof for my new approach.' or 'I'm working proving sub-exponential runtime for a new algorithm'.

Ideally, if you don't want to be a crackpot, it helps to be well versed with the literature, and what has been done before and why it does or doesn't work.

(The former is especially important, if you want to claim you have a new proof for P != NP, because researchers have already formally ruled out lots of different approaches; so you better be able to explain why your approach does not fall under any of the ones that have already been proven not to work.)
I mean this isn't new, photographs can be doctored and have been for... as long as photos have been around pretty much.

It doesn't matter if they're fake or not for the purposes of blackmail though.
Good advice about attending conferences. At the last Java conference I went to, most large and good employers had booths trying to catch people. It’s a perfect “demand meets supply” situation
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> do you use it as a major factor when choosing candidates? If you do, why?

I do, yes. IME, candidates that take the time to learn the skill will take the time to learn other skills required for the job. If a candidate can't be bothered to learn a skill to get a job, why should I hire them for a senior position? If it's entry-level, that's a different story.
Hey, sorry to hear it's not working for you -- would be happy to look more into the problem! Could you shoot me an email with your resume attached? My email is in my HN profile.
Indeed, it seems to be a large corporations thing.
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It has become a dating site! How awful...
There ARE laws against this kind of thing, defamation and whatnot. It's the same as editing a face onto someone else's (naked) body. No new laws are needed; the method has changed, not the intent nor the crime / violation.
On the record: Apple bags patent for iDevice to play LPs
Also a font shaping engine: https://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=project...
Exactly this. Most consoles of the era were set up fundamentally to work with tightly defined graphical regimes. For the NES as an example, has almost zero ability to work with pixels or bits. It fundamentally at a hardware level deals with tiles. Sprite tiles are 8 by 8, or doublewide 8x16 if you put in some effort. You can build larger sprites by combining sprite tiles, but be careful because the hardware that processes this can only handle 8 sprites per scanline.

PC's have typically had a much more bitmapped graphical regime, where individual pixels are addressable and drawable, which better suits a general purpose computer but means you have to do some trickery if you want to get some of the polish that consoles had, and was typically slower since you didn't have dedicated hardware that spoke in those terms. on the flip side though setting up a windowing system on an NES with its hardware speaking in sprites and tiles would be a nightmare.
Quite apart from any moral considerations that other commenters have addressed, in cold business terms such deep fakes directly compete with the works of these models and therefore it’s not in their interest to permit their circulation.
Often, if its purpose is to work around a performance issue in a continually updated program (i.e. Windows, here).
But deepfakes are only one means to an end; edited videos / photos and fake news / misinformation have been around for forever.

Although deepfakes, especially video + audio, can be more convincing than the older techniques.
> Technically Newfoundland is an island

For anyone who says this I wonder if they are consistent with how they discuss continents:

- They take care to talk about the Caribbean as something in the waters near North America but not in North America itself

- They talk about Indonesia as something that is in the waters close to Asia and Australia—no need for “Oceania” obviously

- Madagascar as an island next to Africa

And so on and so on.
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Well "pedant" means "talking to young learners", and we are here to learn (and exchange),

but I do not think it is appropriate to call this public «pedantic» there where it strongly seems that "pedant" is used to mean "focused on the trifle". This public includes esteemed prestigious professionals. And people with achievements - who must have had some good focus to get there.
Is Pizza Hutt a knock off of Pizza Hut, like the fake apple stores?
>> A platform team might have a very unevenly distributed workload.

But When would this hypothetical occur? If the platform is new-ish, there’s always going to be more work to be done than there are people to do it so there’s no variation in workload - there’s just lots to be done.

When the platform is established and operating in self-service mode, so think Amazon S3, were in a mode where we’re really not expecting features to be added, more about bugfixes and operational capacity at that point.

>> the team that needs the feature, pays for it in man-hours

there’s no free lunch. These developers don’t really care about the platform, they have bigger fish to fry. You need to ensure that infra doesn’t become a tragedy of the commons.
Isn't this essentially how the Dropbox API already works (for apps that support using it)? I've used many apps over the years that offer this option alongside some alternatives.
> "Can't Be Evil" platform like a crypto network

lol. Come over here and stand on this crypto rug for me.
It means properties of teams that are preserved under continuous deformations?

Or does it just mean 'some structure over a set'? That could really cover anything ...

While it is certainly useful to consider how you structure your teams, using the term 'topology' seems like marketing gloss. Also alliteration, of course.
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Why is the skill required for the job? Or is it required mostly to stroke your ego about them having to crawl over some arbitrary glass to please you?
I don't think it's 48h from scratch. Making the prototype for scrolling a tile map, a tile editor, etc might have taken more time. 48h sounds more like the time to capture sprites and slap them using already made tools/code.
Tesla's Autopilot boasts, safety probed by California AG
When you say "recruiters," do you mean in-house recruiters or third party recruiters? Getting an in-house person on your side certainly is a great way to speed along the hiring process, but I've literally never had a third party recruiter send anything my way that ever came close to working out. It's gotten to the point where if I get an email from a 3rd party recruiter, I just don't look at it -- although I'm not sure if taking a chance on one of them at this point is a higher percentage play than 100 cold applications, TBH.

I suspect a lot of it has to do with the type of companies that tend to hire 3rd party recruiters. Namely, startups, and typically early stage startups who don't have any in-house recruiting staff. There's nothing at all wrong with early stage startup companies, except that my experience seems to indicate they don't actually know what they're even looking for. That's in addition to the likelihood that they just haven't been around long enough to develop a structured hiring process.

I don't know. What I will say is that your incentives and a 3rd party recruiter's are not the same. They want to place you quickly and get the commission, regardless if it's the best company or the most competitive offer. You're right that they do want to keep you at least somewhat happy, because if they get a reputation for treating candidates badly, that can be fatal in their profession. But, the people they really want to keep happy are the ones writing the checks. And, in this situation, that ain't you. You are quite literally the product here.
Absolutely not. Victim blaming is about making victim responsible for the victimization happening. What I'm saying is that in modern attention economy becoming a victim sometimes has a positive economic value for people, especially already popular people, like streamers. So they have monetary incentive to publicly feel more harmed.
I think the market is perhaps a little worse for developers, compared to other positions. It might also be localized to certain areas. I'm in Denmark and there is certainly no shortage of SRE/operations types of jobs. So if you know Windows or networking then finding work is really easy, but overall there's a shortage of pretty much everything.

Just the past two months I've gotten four offers (granted two was from the same company), but they are straight up job offers, not asking me to do interviews and I'm an average SRE/operations person.

So I think it depends on the area and whether or not you're want to work for small to midsize companies outside the bigger metro areas. Some of the jobs also isn't that exciting, but it beat doing nothing.
Amazingly the article title itself says “May Be Oldest European Artifacts” but then the body of the article says “among the oldest European-made”!

Flagged for that reason.
How do stealth layoffs function and how did the Dutch government make it possible (as I'm understanding your comment saying)?
I've supported EFF (with money and praise to acquaintances) for years and somehow never came across these awards, cool
As someone in this area: we very much want to make your EiB of data to feel local. It's hard and I'm sorry we only have 3.5 9's of read availability.
Pages can rewrite themselves at any time.
I disagree with this, and I do feel like a lot of the dislike for The Cheesecake Factory is just snobbery, having been guilty of it myself in the past (e.g. the sibling comment "This restaurant and the Elephant bar will forever remind me of her: aggressively middle class with aspirations of upper class experience without really knowing what that is.") That said, I certainly can understand why it's not everyone's cup of tea and why they wouldn't like it.

The one thing I can't understand is the "overpriced" comment. Recently went with a fairly large group and was pretty shocked how low the total price per person was. Granted, a lot of that was because with the famously large portions a few folks shared, but it was still a better value than the vast majority of other places.
When will AI be able to infer the ending of the book “I Want My Hat Back”?
Ask HN: Is there a tool to automate front end testing?
I want to automate test cases on web application. Basically a tool that records my actions and then replays them whenever i want it to.
I have checked Selenium webdriver but it requires coding and is very difficult to implement(or am I not implementing it properly)? Please suggest.
> We need publishers to be able to make money from content

Do we? For some types of content maybe but for others it will only attract people who are only there to make money and won't care about quality if they can use tricks to get content in front of viewers instead of better content that was made available for free by people actually interested in the topic.

I some way, being able to monetize websites is THE cause for the drop of quality in the web. Maybe other forms of monetizaition might provide slightly better incentives than ads but the core problem remains - when there's money to be made, the will be people trying to make it without regards to anything else.
> What we're striving towards instead is an "inner source" model, where a platform is collaboratively developped and maintained by multiple product teams. Each product team is then empowered to build new features as needed into the platform, and others can reuse them.

I have seen this fail (once myself and once through coworker experiences) as well, IMO the best approach is to have as little shared infrastructure between teams as possible even if it means more work in the end
By my reading: ignore careers@acme.com, read ojford@acme.com (mail from the recruiter I hired, who has my email address, while direct applicants don't).
I'm not sure what that is about the second question. But there are always skills specific to any job. We have a profession that spans across infinite industries so there is always something new even though we're 'just writing software.'

For example, I went from web-hosting software to fitness industry software. There is very little overlap in skills beyond 'writing software'. At hosting job, scale was the biggest issue (dealing with hundreds of millions of events per second) where now, legal/insurance type issues are the biggest hurdles. It requires a totally different way of thinking and knowledge set to be effective at a senior level. If you're just focused on 'writing software' then you're not senior material, you're just a programmer ... not an engineer.
The disease affects 3000 people worldwide, but the treatment "could help millions"?

The title seems like poor editing.
> As evident from the comparison, the above Deepfake image is virtually indistinguishable from the original

It seems the meaning of "indistinguishable" is being deeply deepfaked, given the deepfake image shows naked v. the original clothed.
I'm still sore about the two times I was asked to do free work:

Create a custom datepicker following a strict design (that is the best part of a week minimum to make it polished perfect)

The other one wanted me to learn a complex product on my own, with no knowledge base and demo their own platform to them. All this while they knew I was working a full-time demanding engineering manager job.
Same. Sooo many Norwegian companies for some reason use UK recruiters. I'm boycotting each and every company doing that.

They're nothing but noise. Shotgunning messages to everyone. Calling me out of the blue while I'm at work. Just straight up spam and annoyances. We don't get much robo-calls here, so UK recruiters is the sole reason why I no longer pick up the phone from unknown numbers. It can sometimes be multiple a day. And blocking UK numbers doesn't work. If you don't answer, they call you a minute later routed through a Norwegian number.

F*ck every Norwegian company outsourcing their recruiting to these agencies. I don't think they understand how poorly it reflects on them..
I like metaprogramming for gems, libs, DSLs, etc. stuff that rarely changes, where the maintainers knows where all the bodies are buried. I rarely use it for business logic for the reason above.
> As evident from the comparison, the above Deepfake image is virtually indistinguishable from the original

We have here a case of the meaning of "indistinguishable" being deeply deepfaked, given the deepfake image shows naked v. the original clothed.
>> you need to

You don’t NEED to do anything, it’s all choices.

If product A is my breadwinner, i might not even need product B to estimate workload impacts for their feature request because my business strategy might be such that i’ll be allocating the resources based on business priority of product A.

Trying to second guess this by making tech a black hole with no levers to pull by the business is fundamentally unsound.

>> where more adept business leaders can always push through their … Or at least, it will always seem this way

I mean i think you’re calling out the solution with the problem. Just strive to be a better operator, level up to their ability. Exceedingly hard to do but overall win for everyone.
I once took 3 years off to play an MMO game (not joking). After that had to restart from the bottom of the salary ladder, but climbed back pretty quickly. This is a universal secret weapon - drop your salary requirements, like, a lot, to get hired. You can usually climb back.
In 320x200 or 320x240 VGA, you could had essentially the same trick for scrolling window over the VRAM, checkout Mode X VGA. The Allegro library had baked-in support for that, at least in the early 2000's.
Half the comments in this thread are you systematically writing essay replies to every single person that has raised doubts about this bill. Whats more, you spend significant time blowing smoke up the ass of someone who willingly self identified themselves in here about co-writing the bill themselves, who also replied to other comments in this thread. So we can tell off the bat that there is a vested, devoted, interest in shaping the perception of this bill by the literal people who wrote it here.

You then have the gall to call the EFF complaints 'specious FUD'. You can't even construct alegitimate counterargument. Just straight up dismissing them and saying they're fearmongering. You deflect this by claiming the bill will 'stick it to the man' that is Meta.

Finally, you pathetically try to appeal to authority with the claim that the bill has forty two co-sponsors. This literally means fucking nothing. Absolutely nothing. Entire DUMBER bills are written and supported by more congressmen. It's honestly embarrassing that you think this is a strong point of why your bill should be passed through.

So please, tell me how this isn't the genuine definition of astroturfing?
I have had some good experiences with 3rd party recruiters. You obviously need to keep the fact that they will say whatever to get you to take the job they find. But equally they will push the company to hire you.
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> Oh, that's not what I meant to say at all.

I see. I didn't really wanted to claim anything (or much) in this respect. I am working on a "candidate algorithm", that I believe could be in P with low degree (o(n^8)). (And if it's not in P, I think it will be very useful to understand WHY it is not; that's one of several reasons why I am testing it.) The reasons why I believe it's in P are complicated (I would have to describe the method), and I didn't wanted to go into that. Still, that's why people should take P=NP as a real possibility.

AFAICT my approach is novel, but if some expert genuinely wants to help me understand where it is not novel, I will gladly explain how it works.
Bold of you to think everybody is using Siri/Alexa/other conversational crapola. So many questions: in which language is this one set right now? Is my accent in that language "native" enough? Is yelling around the house an option at this hour? Do I want the passersby listening in? Do I want my conversations being sent to their tech overlords? So many "no" answers that the average techie wouldn't seemingly understand...
Whereas here in Ireland, Pizza Hut has joined forces with Supermac's, an Irish chain which is in the McDonald's/Burger King kind of space. Most (maybe all) are Supermac's/Pizza Hut combined.