arandr0x

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by arandr0x 11mo ago
I think it's worth mentioning that while biometrics for identification have flaws (as mentioned in this thread, they're not 100% collision free, are not necessarily secret, and are non-trivial to collect), DNA has a different risk
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by arandr0x 11mo ago
It's encouraging to see browsers actually deprecate APIs, when I think a lot of problems with the Web and Web security in particular is people start using new technologies too fast but don't stop using old ones fast enough. That s
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by arandr0x 11mo ago
Is there not a confounding factor at play that a more functional government would facilitate both more democracy and more legislation on newer technology? Is this notion that "it might be nice to help your target market have a generall
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by arandr0x 11mo ago
His parents might but I don't think they're accepting bribes from Stanford profs. Maybe CZ can advocate for him to have a rival again.
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by arandr0x 11mo ago
I'm finding it interesting (after spending time in the EU where ChatControl is front and center in the news) that there's been this resurgence of interest in electronic surveillance and information warfare suddenly in countries th
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by arandr0x 11mo ago
This is a Canadian bill and the party in power are (relatively) progressive and (definitely) democratic, though they are to the right of the American progressives and to the left of the American Democratic Party. More to the point, they do
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by arandr0x 11mo ago
This is extremely common throughout the world for businesses that sell alcohol or variations on gambling - and while I don't necessarily think the advertising should be _illegal_ (in those cases with non-controlled substances at least)
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by arandr0x 11mo ago
I'm unfamiliar with the business of finding illegal immigrants. Isn't the idea of detaining them that you're worried they might flee if they know they're going to be deported? If so isn't it counterproductive for IC
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by arandr0x 1y ago
I think the issue you're having is that taking it way too seriously is exactly what creates the feeling of belonging. There's a number of forums or clubs where one might discuss morality, myth, creation stories etc more like wrest
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by arandr0x 1y ago
Honest question: for women, are there any churches or other religious or spiritual traditions that do not limit them or afford them a second-class status relative to other members? (This can be in terms of church elders/leadership posi
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by arandr0x 1y ago
It would be interesting then for similar studies to add a dimension in addition to self-reported loneliness on self-reported time spent outside the home. While it's likely that sedentary elders are lonelier, it's not a 100% overla
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by arandr0x 1y ago
I found the take a little too much on the doomer side for someone who presumably has several years of management experience. Yeah there's been a lot of social media posts and talking about the efficiency era, AI slop etc but over there
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by arandr0x 1y ago
It is possible to do leetcode without practicing, even before AI. That said the structure of the Big Tech process is also quite long/multi-step with many opportunities to give up during, which helps select for drive. It's hard to
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by arandr0x 1y ago
There is a reason religions tend to agree on 1) the worth of your life is not your own to judge and 2) what makes humans moral is they have free will - good or evil is found in the places you can control, even and maybe especially when it&#
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by arandr0x 1y ago
Does EU-friendly mean timezones (GMT-4 to +3 I suppose), citizenship, or current residence? With this including contract roles it's a bit hard to infer. Asking because I really like the tech stack and there aren't a lot of point c
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by arandr0x 1y ago
I think the post is getting at the idea that pedigree is not a reliable predictor of talent, but because it's a convenient and standard one, everyone uses it (which in turns reduces its usefulness). It's harder for a recruiter to
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by arandr0x 1y ago
That's definitely a valuable take, but it's worth noting that not everyone will make better decisions just by sitting through enough fires, and it's also possible that your good enough person will fail to notice some larger r
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by arandr0x 1y ago
A more generalizable approach might be to consider - what are you looking for that most other companies either are actively putting off or passively neglecting, and what's the best way to identify the best engineers in that group. To u
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by arandr0x 3y ago
I have thought about this because I've wanted such a platform as a candidate, and I think an interesting angle would be having the jobseeker's loved ones buy it for them as a gift. Many times, I've been sad that I wanted to &
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by arandr0x 3y ago
If you're good at 3d graphics or game programming I have a lead on a contract that could work (it's too much work to do by myself, client wants people in Canada, my network won't do it for less than 5 figures). If not your sk
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by arandr0x 3y ago
I would imagine shaming doesn't work because I think residential GCs have higher demand for workers than there is supply, but the cameras still solve the problems of making it easier for the GC to react when it happens (and the reactio
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by arandr0x 3y ago
> we're heavily subsidized by huge grants and funding this is how it is in Canada too! My city has a huge manufacturing sector so a lot of these little startups with super niche products that take lots of R&D are found there. Bu
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by arandr0x 3y ago
Software engineers have full-time managers (which are a lot more overhead to pay for but kinda serve that purpose from the client perspective) and are paid well enough and consistently enough to usually only work one job on a given day. Sub
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by arandr0x 3y ago
There are also "legitimate" reasons to fail first round interviews, such as the recruiter picking your resume for a role that you are not actually qualified for (which the hiring manager notices after the interview), your salary e
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by arandr0x 3y ago
I'm a manager whose definition of conflict mostly matches yours, so here's how I handle it (as an interviewee) and how to translate the "default behavioral interview question" to something you can answer: - the scope of
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by arandr0x 3y ago
In a reverse Turing moment, I actually submitted this joke to a chatbot, and it got it.
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by arandr0x 3y ago
I've worked on the reliability team at a place that made what they call an "edgy app" (long before fly, so we made our own stuff on baremetal) and to be fair, reliability is the actual challenge when you're talking multi
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by arandr0x 3y ago
I'm not seeing how your example includes an "obvious improvement" that "only the best engineers would do". I would use arrays over lists but I have a ton of low-level experience so I tend to care about performance,
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by arandr0x 3y ago
Woah, I've been a hiring manager long enough that it's been a while since I've done a take-home code exam myself but I don't even think I would grade a LLM that way (because I moved to AI now). Unless your code exam is s
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by arandr0x 4y ago
I'm coming from a different place than most other HN commenters - I now work for a tech startup, but have a graduate degree in biochem where I worked in drug discovery. As a result, and before I decided I was not ethically congruent wi

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