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Ask HN: Rights to receive copies of / delete past job interview data
These are questions for those with a law school background who have some experience with hiring processes in larger tech companies.

1) Do you have the right in California to demand and receive copies of all interviewer notes and other information (e.g. how you have been categorized, flagged, etc) related to your past job interviews at a company?

2) Can you demand that all information related to past job interviews is deleted from their systems?

Thanks
Are Hashtags Anti-Creative?
I too have been having AMD GPU video artifacting lately, but so far that is the only regression I've noticed in 6.10.x. I am still on 6.10.8 so I'm not sure if 6.10.10 will contain a fix for me just yet.
I hope you're right they're simply biding their time.
Go build the timeline you want. As the rather short page this story links to makes clear, this one is meant to be scaled and printed for hanging on walls.
I always felt that there is a hierarchy for working with numbers that goes something like this

Ease of use:

1. Excel

2. SQL

3. Functional programming (e.g. Scala, Python to some measure e.g. Pandas)

4. Imperative programming (C/C++/Java)

But then there another hierarchy that (roughly) goes in the other direction, which is about quality, repeatability, tooling.

If you are at 1 or 2, you responsibility will not be about writing tests and verifying your code using traditional engineering methods.

However! You are responsible for cross checking your results based on the input. This may be a manual process. But actually looking at the numbers from several different angles can give higher quality than writing contrived testcases (in 3 or 4).
A bad dancer finds even his ballsack annoying.
The question that I'm curious about is "why does POSIX require unary negation to have a higher precedence?"

Was it a "this is the way that bc worked in the 70s because it was easier to write a parser for it?" or was there some more underlying reason for the "this problem gets really icky if unary negation has lower precedence than the binary operators and makes for other expressions that become less reasonable?"

It's like the Logical XOR issue ( https://youtu.be/4PaWFYm0kEw?t=2236&si=Wi0gwV-XctLGN98I ) ... and I'm of the opinion that there's a real reason why this design choice was made.

(Aside: Some other historical "why things work that way" touching on dc's place in history: Ken Thompson interviewed by Brian Kernighan at VCF East 2019 https://youtu.be/EY6q5dv_B-o?si=YKr4j_FAEp-OihiX&t=1784 - it goes on to pipes and dc makes an appearance there again)
Many accidents are because humans are in a hurry, something slow self-driving cars won't even know what it is.

Comparing self-driving cars with human car drivers is stupid, a more fair comparison is trains or trams, which also are less prone to accidents and you can't be in a hurry when taking a ride and make them go faster.
LLMs are not an "important advancement of humankind". Might as well add crypto if that's the bar.
No, it's not a human-centric viewpoint. It's a physics centric viewpoint. When one vehicle follows another, the rear vehicle is on a collision course.

Human drivers are required to be aware of vehicles in all directions at all times.
> Still, it is and always has been completely and totally insane to test these heavy fast robots on public streets

Another comment pointed out that Google did roll out in an extremely safe way, but to this point: do you still consider this to be the testing phase? You might call it that but if we're at a point where "they are, as this article points out, already safer than human drivers" (and in particular, nearly 2^3 times better in some cases) that would suggest that the fundamental concept of the vehicles no longer need testing.

It's simply not possible to develop autonomous vehicles completely in simulated environments. There's two kinds of testing:

1. Testing that the car behaves appropriately such that it's suitable for public use. This is the phase where you're not sure that it's safe.

2. Iteratively improving the vehicle after it's been deemed safe. This is where you're rolling out changes that you believe will improve safety and comfort on an existing safe product.

Google already did #1. They did it for over a decade. If you believe that #1 and #2 are not two separate phases, then if #1 can't be evaluated with real human drivers you can't ever get to a place where you deem the vehicles safe. There's no threshold where you can confidently say the cars will behave well because you've never put them in front of real, unpaid humans on real, non-simulated roads. How could you call them safe in good conscience if you've never tested them outside of a test environment? How do you know you've controlled every last variable? You simply don't and can't.
Just try to maintain unity and remember yourself when doing everyday things, for example when driving the car. If you really do it (and not just think about it) and are honest with yourself, you will soon realize that there are long gaps in your experience. You may remember when you started the drive, and you may remember when you arrived, but there will be long gaps between those moments that you just cannot remember. So you can independently verify yourself that unity is an illusion for most of us. You are able to drive the car without thinking "consciously" about it. So is everybody else. But do not despair. Becoming aware of this illusion of unity is actually a step towards the unity.
He's got at least another decade in him
I didn't mention sexual assault. If anything we were the most mild mannered of all the faculties. The more extroverted faculties had more issues along those lines. But there was a lot of drama and resentment that originated from that gender imbalance and the social dynamics that it evoked. And tbh, I find it hard to believe that it would be different anywhere else if you have the same gender imbalance issues.
A few things:

- It seems like Sony chose to showcase "improvements" in games that already look pretty good, but there are other games for whom the improvement will be pretty dramatic (I've heard FFVII Remake cited as one). There may be an element there of Sony not wanting to put the worst offenders on blast by showing side-by-side of how shitty the game currently looks versus how nice it'll look on the Pro, which is interesting.

- Fully agree that unless you own a 4k TV, you probably won't give a damn. I don't and don't.

- I somewhat disagree about graphics plateauing, but I do agree that progression isn't 1:1 with hardware. I recently finished Alien: Isolation, which is an excellent game but showed its age in some areas (crappy smoke effects, uncanny facial movement even in pre-rendered cutscenes, etc). On the other hand, Metal Gear Solid V still looks amazing to me despite being just as old—and both were games that came out simultaneously on PS3 and PS4, so they're equal in that regard too. But PS5 games blow me away in areas that even the best PS4 games didn't: Horizon Forbidden West has mind-blowing water effects, parts of The Quarry (granted, many of them pre-rendered cutscenes) legitimately looked like a real movie, and Returnal is just all-around gorgeous (plus smooth as butter, to boot). Little things like non-shitty textures, objects interacting correctly, and halfway realistic hair really add up.
"Blue Zones" exhibit patterns indicative of pension fraud
I am thrilled that this exists. I've been hoping for this since my near vision started going south twenty years ago. My current options are reading glasses (dollar store ones are as good as prescription) or hope that accommodating intraocular lenses are available when I eventually have to undergo cataract surgery. Bifocals are disorienting, multifocal contacts sort of work but I still need readers. It sucks to be on the fringe of so much medical technology - have to pay for the insurance but get squat in terms of treatment.

Hoping that it or some next-gen product comes to the US double-quick.
Every major release of every major distribution makes choices. These are choices about what software to include in the first place, what versions of that software to pin (especially for LTS releases), what default configuration to provide, recommendations about how to solve certain problems, etc. These choices are made based upon the experience and opinions of the distribution maintainers. However, those maintainers are (usually) not major contributors to the software they're distributing. This means distros can make "bad" choices, choosing for example to focus on software that eventually dies out, or recommending configurations that eventually get deprecated or removed, etc. Sometimes, these choices are even made in a way such that they exclude what will become the winning alternative, leaving no migration path except complete and total overhaul.

If all Linux is to you is a place to run some application software, these choices are mostly irrelevant. As long as the software you care about continues to run, the other things are just picayune details. If this comes off as derisive, I apologize, because I'm actually broadly endorsing that view of things, as much as it is possible to achieve. But if you start really taking advantage of the things which the distribution provides out of the box and recommends, especially around large-scale multi-system operation, you end up buying into the distibution's choices. When a large organization you're a part of does it too, now the sunk costs really start to mount. As the Linux ecosystem continues to evolve, especially in different directions than the distribution chose at the time, the cost of migrating to later releases grows. This is all a good reason to me to not marry oneself so tightly to those particular choices, but that isn't always feasible with deadlines and compliance requirements and so on bearing down on the sysadmin.

There's also an even bigger problem that can arise, the distribution can just end, such as the termination of CentOS, leaving lots of people hanging. In that case, I know some who started to pay Red Hat for RHEL, but most seem to have moved on to other distros, like Ubuntu. That kind of migration has a lot of the same issues, too, once again leaving me to recommend not to lean into the particulars too much.
You just said it: Omnidirectional, meaning in every direction :)
I too am terrible at names and faces which is unfortunate for my job.

The only thing that works for me is using the name an absurd amount of times early on. Then telling myself a silly story about that person in my head afterwards again using the name and location an absurd amount of times.

This works about 90% of the time for me.

‘So I met Dave Jenkins the other day at the park and Dave Jenkins was wearing a coat bought for Dave Jenkins by Dave Jenkins because Dave Jenkins liked the coat when Dave Jenkins saw it on sale’
"Targeting ion channels to normalise membrane potential in cancer cells

Manipulating membrane potential to potentially reverse the cancerous state

Modulating bioelectric signalling to restore normal cell-cell communication"

Why would we want to do these, except of they slow growth? The tumor still has its own DNA that would need to be eliminated.
Sweden to pay immigrants $34,000 for voluntary return home
‘Able to make the same creative mathematical leaps as Terence Tao’ seems like a pretty high bar to be setting for AI.

This is like when you’re being interviewed for a programming job and the interviewer explains some problem to you that it took their team months to figure out, and then they’re disappointed you can’t whiteboard out the solution they came up with in 40 minutes without access to google.
I must be developing paranoia in my middle-age, because the first thing my brain suggested to me on seeing that headline is that this is the first droplet in the deluge of trying to convince people that they must work until they die on the job.

I want to retire from my day job. I have work I'd like to do of my own that isn't lucrative enough (by a very long ways) that I can't spend sufficient time on now. That will be my "retirement job."

I don't want to work at my current job until I keel over.
There is a problem with the organization. At least one of the explanatory paragraphs in "2" of the table of contents should come before "why I find it interesting".

Definitely recommend reading a little of this first:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jensen%27s_inequality

(Could just provide a link to it near the beginning of the article for reference.)
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Or if they have aggressive regenerative braking on their cars.
“I'm still working on it. It's been 25 years. I can do this for another 25. I'll wear them down.” —Linus Torvalds
I grew up non-religious (mostly) but I also was a boy scout, I read Hardy Boys, and I naively thought that we were (again, mostly) working towards building a better world for each other and we all had a responsibility to do our part for each other. When I went camping, or to parks, the mindset was "leave it better than you found it". And I thought most other people generally felt the same. But now I mostly just feel like a big middle-aged dork when I pick up Taki's and Orero wrappers at the playground.

Now it feels much more like "everything is going to shit so grab what you can while you can". I don't know if the world changed, or I was just painfully naive.
Does this mean i can suspend my Linux laptop to ram now?
What GPU?
Literally in my post. He moved to Springfield after living in Portland.
Linus does that on purpose, because he doesn't want people to put undue importance on any particular release.

https://lwn.net/Articles/781206/

> I'd like to point out (yet again) that we don't do feature-based releases, and that "5.0" doesn't mean anything more than that the 4.x numbers started getting big enough that I ran out of fingers and toes.
> I agree with Elon on this. I don't think this is anti-semitic, this is calling out Jewish communities for anti-white racism.

Musk apparently doesn't agree with this tweet anymore, a while after his tweet he apologized and called it his dumbest post ever. Why did he do that, instead of explaining his tweet the way you did?

> It's kind of disgusting that in your haste to demonize Musk you cherry pick your information instead of trying to get to the truth.

I'm only following Elons own words on this topic - he disagrees with the statements he made, and explained that he simply hadn't come into contact with a lot of anti-semitism before. Why did he do all of that, if he doesn't see any anti-semitism in the original post?
Filipinos are embracing electric 3-wheelers faster than officials can regulate
Which was most helpful? Or if you can't pick one then what were the best two?
> A human driver can only see in one direction

And it's usually in the direction of their phone. Even while driving.
Solidworks says noncommercial but then gives you $2000 leeway on commercial use before you need a commercial license. I’m not sure how they square that with later saying the watermarked files you’ve created don’t work in a commercial version.

And it leaves you with an awkward gap where you sell $2000 and need a commercial license, but even ignoring income tax you don’t have enough revenue to afford that license.
How to clone by commit found via commit referencing to different fork on GitHub?
Hi,
I'm sure everyone read an article "Anyone can Access Deleted and Private Repository Data on GitHub" https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/anyone-can-access-deleted-and-private-repo-data-github.

But how to clone the repository with found deleted commit pointing to different fork repository?

Let me explain what I mean:

I found the webpage-gui providing streaming of videos: https://www.vidbinge.com/

which is based on deleted repository: https://github.com/movie-web/movie-web so I couldn't see the source code of this.

But then I remembered this article and followed it's logic I found latest scraped version of that repository on github via archive.org and then navigating to latest commit there:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240225024652/https://github.com/movie-web/movie-web/commit/c6fe62ae8acc9948bbf6c4292ebb555c006931eb

so I have a commit but I can't access it directly using github because it is deleted.

But I could find via archive.org the forks of that repository: https://web.archive.org/web/20240225024652/https://github.com/movie-web/movie-web/forks

and then I went through the list and I've tried to find the fork most recently created. And use latest commit on this repository url, and then I found this commit:

https://github.com/GustavoMelloGit/movie-web/tree/c6fe62ae8acc9948bbf6c4292ebb555c006931eb

it seems to be the latest commit I could find.

So that's cool.

But how to download clone of state of this entire repository after that commit?
Hideous, I hate-love it.

Has anyone made Doom in bash?
That's cool as hell, but also it seems weird that his biggest fear is merely being exposed and not able to do it no more.

You'd think he'd maybe be afraid of a more...extralegal ending giving the wake of wealthy ruthless people he's Richard Overing
> a uniform federal test

Just like the existing uniform state run test that shows how all licensed human drivers are safe? It shouldn't need to be pointed out how any kind of standardized test isn't going to prove or even realistically evaluate the safety of a system like this. We can't even get a standardized test for GPU performance that manufacturers don't cheat on.

> The test would also measure how the computer driven car reacts when one or all of its sensors are damaged.

I do agree with this, though: we already expect cars to behave well in the face of hardware failures. Autonomous or no, cars should have requirements for failure modes.
Yep, it's typical Agile.

Scrum masters are needed to coach a new team with inexperienced project manager only. Established teams don't need them.

Stand-ups can be easily replaced by a team chat, such as Slack, with even better results.

I saw very few retrospective meetings too. If everything goes smoothly, then retrospective meetings are useless.
it's more beneficial than whatever your parents were able to pull off
I'm one of those "I don't want to read the manual" people and have long used git. However, this was very helpful to easily understand some cargo-cult things I was doing. Shame on me! And thank you!
OS/2's Presentation Manager had 0,0 at the bottom-left corner of the monitor.
N.Korea is a Chinese weapon, unfortunately. To do something like cut off their internet would be considered an attack on China. China is their border where do you think they get connected to the internet.
i wear multifocal contact lenses. has been a game changer for me.
Is that just AMD? On my thinkpad X270 playing videos in Firefox is just a mess. All sorts of problems while Chromium is just fine. It's also fine on a copy of my system that I run on a thinkcentre tiny.
Experienced drivers have a mental model of other drivers - when you see someone driving slowly and erratically you know to keep at a distance, that fellow is going to hit the brakes suddenly or make an unexpected turn.

Waymos on the other hand, they are so new that other traffic participants don't know what to make of them. Maybe it improves in the future because people get more experienced, maybe it doesn't because the alien intelligence is not compatible with human intelligence and those things are inherently unpredictable. We'll see.
> (at no risk to Waymo, after all, since the insurance of the car behind them will pay for damage and let's say they do this only when there are no human occupants

That vehicle will still be taken out of rotation for repairs. In situations like that, does the insurance typically cover lost revenue as well? Otherwise there's still a ton of risk for Waymo if it's a typical deductible + repair costs. I genuinely know nothing about insuring a business like Waymo.
My observation is the rate of innovation - acceleration I guess - has just been increasing uncontrollably, driven by technology and capital. Is anyone mindful of the risks? “Technologist” here, not a luddite at all.

Looking back 500 years or so, you can put your finger on some innovations that have changed the world positively - Enlightenment, printing press, steam/coal/etc power, assembly line etc. These have all had some unseen societal cost associated with them, where change propagates and feeds back leading to unknowable outcomes. We’ve gotten through it (well most of us).
Looking back just 50 years, computing, internet, globalization of trade, mass communication and media, social media/peer to peer, decentralization, and now AI; social mores have gone 180 degrees, social groups/religions that have persisted for centuries are falling away, hobbyists from across the globe can converge and share their interests with the rest of the world, and so can anarchists and bad actors. And if AGI happens, given we’ve trained it on 50 years of digitized “two feet on the accelerator pedal” innovating, I am not sure our civilization can take it. Or if anyone cares (besides a few anti accelerationists who are widely derided).
All the Stadia users who I spoke with were generally happy with the service while it lasted. Their main concern - latency - turned out to be a non-issue.

To me there's a great niche for it to be explored: cheat prevention in e-sports. Of course aimhacks will always be a thing, but the top players were always indistinguishable from cheaters in this regard.
I think what may be going unsaid is there are some predatory practices that puff up the idea of a PhD to get people to attend a department that is otherwise struggling. It sounds like what you describe is rarer in better programs. That shouldn’t be taken as personal or an immutable law, just a general observation.
If you know the bias, then you can surely estimate the bit rate. Of course you could get very unlucky and wait a long time for bits, even with an unbiased underlying source. But that's the nature of these methods.
Aside- why is OP heavily flagged and dead for perfectly substantive and even supportive comments.
Show HN: I Made an SMS Checker to Stop Free Trial Spam and Other Fraud Attacks
One of my sites got hit with a card testing attack April 2023. Tried all of Stripe's recommendations, none worked. What stopped the attack and loss of money was just a 1-time SMS verification with a real phone number. This service just makes the process much simpler.
too shy
If by “eventually” you mean in a few decades then maybe I’m with you. The state of internet connections worldwide is still way behind what you need in order to make that kind of streaming an option. And for some players the input lag will always be an issue.

I don’t see hardware to game getting away anytime soon. Especially because with the current setup Sony gets to earn twice so I don’t see why they’d stop doing that.
My experience of working with people like Terence Tao, and being nowhere near their standard, is that they are looking for any kind of creativity. Everything is accepted, and it doesn't have to be "at their level".

Having read what he's saying there, and with my experience, I think your characterisation is inaccurate.

And having been at the talk he gave for the IMO earlier this year he is impressed with some of the interactions, it's just that he feels that any kind of "creative spark" is still missing.
Travel, a lot, when you are young. You're not going to have the energy to do it when you're over 60
At work I always try to do things that I didn't know about and dive as deeply as I can afford to. At my previous job I learned Kubernetes from nothing to the point where I had a nice GitOps based CD pipeline. At my current job, I dived into Bazel (again with no prior experience) and now have four internal rulesets building a multi-language monorepo. It keeps the job entertaining, too.
They work just well enough to fail for me. Still need reading glasses for close-in work.
>then why would you let money stand in your way?

Just because money isn’t a primary motivation doesn’t mean it isn’t a consideration.
Not clear, can you get prescription versions?