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  >> Bringing Tesla’s manufacturing up to Apple’s quality might just be more work than getting a chinese contractor to round up another million Uyghurs.
Not OP, but NASA is very old school and the tech stack is old, not to mention that things move slower than a turtle (so much bureaucracy) and the fear of losing funding. It's just not a great place to work for anecdotally speaking. At best, it's an ok place to work for. Oh and I forgot to mention the crazy low salaries across the board, and yearly raises that are below inflation rate.
Re:Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course on Monday December 14, 2020 @06:19PM (#25424754)
This is amazing. Thank you for sharing.
Re:More Americans are shoplifting food on Monday December 14, 2020 @04:53PM (#25423885)
Someone said that "winners write the history books," but how true is that today given that most developed countries are connected through the internet and information spreads as fast as the speed of light (literally).

Anything to backup your claims about Eastern Europeans living in the 80s? Anything I can read? Not trying to refute your argument, but I'm just curious to see things from their perspective.

Re:More Americans are shoplifting food on Monday December 14, 2020 @04:47PM (#25423812)
You're right. I agree with you. Thanks for clarifying.
Re:More Americans are shoplifting food on Thursday December 10, 2020 @07:19PM (#25380691)
It's sad to see HN users just downvote something they don't agree with instead of responding to the arguments made berg.

berg, what other options do we have besides capitalism? We saw how millions of people died of starvation with communist/socialists societies.

Re:More Americans are shoplifting food on Thursday December 10, 2020 @06:14PM (#25380098)
>“People will say, ‘I was just hungry.’ And then what do you do?”

People stealing food to survive while the super wealthy and rich becoming richer and richer[1]. What a great time to be alive.

[1](https://www.forbes.com/sites/sergeiklebnikov/2020/11/18/elon...)

EDIT: I don't particularly dislike Elon (the man has done alot of good), but he was the easiest example I could think of. Stock market is a better indicator of rich people's wealth.

Re:Major Reddit Outage on Thursday December 10, 2020 @06:07PM (#25380024)
Ah an excuse for me to work.
Re:Ask HN: Things that are high quality yet cheap? on Thursday December 10, 2020 @06:06PM (#25380015)
It's very hard finding high quality things that are cheap, and it's very easy finding low quality things that are expensive.

Rule of thumb is to read the 3-start (and below) reviews for anything that you're planning on buying. 4 and 5 stars are generally customers who had been paid to write those reviews.

Re:GitHub Gets Dark Mode on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @12:39PM (#25348638)
You can choose light/dark/auto mode in your GH settings https://github.com/settings/appearance
Re:GitHub Dark Mode on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @12:39PM (#25348630)
Is it just me or is the dark mode too dark? My eyes are having a hard time finding things.
Summary: California, working with Apple and Google released an app called "CA Notify" to contact trace COVID-19 spread. The app uses "Bluetooth to determine when two devices have been near one another for more than 15 minutes." iPhone users can activate the app by enabling "Exposure Notifications" under settings.
Re:Why Senior Engineers Hate Coding Interviews on Monday December 07, 2020 @08:31PM (#25340463)
Then you keep interviewing until you get the ones you know. There's luck involved with everything. Luck in the sense of the right time at the right place.
Re:Why Senior Engineers Hate Coding Interviews on Monday December 07, 2020 @05:00PM (#25338215)
A lot of down votes, but I have yet to see a response to the valid question of "what other scalable solution do we".

Don't attack the person. Attack the argument.

Re:Why Senior Engineers Hate Coding Interviews on Monday December 07, 2020 @04:48PM (#25338064)
When you say "someone who can't code", what exactly do you mean by that? Does it mean that they have no idea what a for-loop is? Or that they have basic understanding of a programming language, but lack the fundamentals? And how do you define fundamentals?

The phrases "can't code" and can't pass "fizz-buzz" are loosely used. What exactly is fizz-buzz? To me, it's writing a for loop to reverse a string, but to someone else, it's implementing Dijkstra's algorithm in a 40 minute period to solve some made up problem.

Re:Why Senior Engineers Hate Coding Interviews on Monday December 07, 2020 @03:53PM (#25337358)
Agree that the system is broken.

Not to defend the current interview system, but what other scalable solution do we have other than LeetCode type of questions? How would we be able to show that someone knows how to write code without testing them on the fundamentals of CS?

Genuinely curious.

Re:Controversial Programming Opinions (2012) on Friday December 04, 2020 @11:20AM (#25304034)
Or at least they should be able to understand the project from a technical point of view.

One of the most frustrating things working with non-technical managers is their lack of understanding of the effort needed to accomplish a task. Oh you need to re-write an entire library from scratch, work with Joe and have it done by Wednesday (today is Monday).

Now good luck explaining and convincing them that two days is not enough.

Re:Virtual Cybersecurity Escape Room on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @11:57AM (#25278359)
I got frustrated trying out different passwords, so I looked at the source code.

The username is "anne.kingston". I found the password hash, but not sure how to go back to get the password itself.

Password hash: (hashy == "3880" && saltedhashy == "2425")

The hash is computed in a loop as: `prehash += (s[i].charCodeAt() * (i+1));`

I'm not sure how to go reverse this. Maybe someone can help?

Here's a tuple of passwords tried and their hash and salthash:

(Password, Hash, Salthash)

(daniel, 8221, 2197)

(hello, 7004, 3970)

(password, 3970, 1268)

(123, 302, 4415)

(something, 4814, 2749)

Re:I Made a Self-Quoting Tweet on Monday November 30, 2020 @06:04PM (#25260166)
Looks like someone is working really hard.

/s

Re:Ask HN: Best place to live for climbing, skiing and surfing? on Thursday November 19, 2020 @06:02PM (#25155398)
Los Angeles, California.
Re:Tesla Tequila on Thursday November 05, 2020 @07:02PM (#25003467)
Is Tesla running out of cash?

Last time they pulled such a stun was with the flame-thrower and that was a huge success.

Re:A nameless hiker and the case the internet can’t crack on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @04:50PM (#24984415)
What's wrong with Java?
Re:'Person in jetpack' spotted flying again near LA airport on Thursday October 15, 2020 @05:00PM (#24793861)
Obligatory share: [0] An interesting story onboard an SR-71 Blackbird

[0](https://theaviationgeekclub.com/sr-71-blackbird-pilot-tells-...)

Hi Nikita, this is a fantastic idea. I've have been working with low level programming for a long time and would love to contribute new lessons. How can I do that?
Exactly! We can help out. Please let use know if you need any contributions from the community. Myself and (I'm sure) others are willing to help with this.

I am sick and tired of wasting money on buying products that last a year or two. It's also very bad for the environment. It increases the pill of trash that we're going to have to deal with someday.

The headline is misleading (click-bait). Reading the headline, I imagined they have simulated the entire economy of the world and have used reinforcement learning to find optimal policies, but they only simulated 4 workers and are making generalization to the entire economy.
Re:Red flags I saw while doing technical interviews on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @08:33PM (#24488339)
+1 Very well said. I've actually experience this first hand while interviewing for one of the FAANGs. I have a background with embedded software engineering, working with C/C++, and working with low level I/O and bare-metal + using RTOS, and also Unix/Linux, and the position I was being interviewed for was for an "Embedded Developer." The job description described the role working on their RTOS. During the phone interview, the interviewer asked a question that (later I found out) can only be solved optimally using splay trees or red-black trees.

I have worked in the embedded industry for 6 years, and have worked on a wide variety of projects (from WiFi to drones/airplanes to medical devices), and have never needed to use this, yet the interviewer expected me to know this.

Anecdotally speaking, when recruiters throw this kind of curve balls, it's because they already have someone in mind for that position and are interviewing candidates just to fill paperwork.

Re:Ask HN: Why is Tesla worth $420B? on Friday August 28, 2020 @11:59AM (#24306446)
Since the FED lowered interest rates to zero and started buying corporate bonds [0], I predicated dollar inflation would rise. How should someone like me (a blue collar working lower class) prepare for the storm? Should I invest in stocks? Buy property? Buy things like cars? How should I prepare for what's about to come?

It might seem speculative, but OP's comment is based on how economics works, so the storm is about to hit. The big question is when? And how should we prepare?

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/29/the-fed-is-buying-some-of-th...

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