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hanging commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2021) · Posted by u/whoishiring

platzhirsch · 4 years ago

Reddit | Backend, Frontend, iOS, Android, Machine Learning, Managers, Product, Video | SF, NYC, Los Angeles, Austin, Chicago, Ottawa, Seattle & Remote, Dublin (Ireland), Australia, Berlin (Germany), Amsterdam (Netherlands) | Full-time

Reddit is growing fast. We have raised $410m in our Series F funding to make strategic investments in the platform including video, advertising, consumer products, and expanding into international markets. We are hiring across the board, I want to specifically stress out the jobs for video product which is currently a really exciting area to work and innovate in.

For any Golang enthusiasts out there: we are writing more and more of our services in Go. We have interesting challenges in scaling, data pipelines and building the foundation for a series of new products.

Reddit does not have geographic compensation adjustments: you can work from anywhere and receive compensation tied to pay ranges of high-cost areas such as the Bay Area (https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Reddit-permanent-work...)

If you are interested apply here: https://boards.greenhouse.io/reddit?gh_src=3c9ba6c41us

hanging · 4 years ago

There are 257 open positions with titles that lead with "Senior" {Scientist|Engineer|Manager}. That seems extreme. Does no element of the organization develop from within?

hanging commented on We Must Save San Francisco palladiummag.com/2021/05/... · Posted by u/wyclif

swiley · 5 years ago

The main group that will suffer here will likely be property owners. From what I understand they tend to be the ones that worked against construction of dense housing and public transit which would have solved a lot of these problems.

Hopefully the rest of the country will take note and avoid these mistakes.

hanging · 5 years ago

  the ones that worked against construction of dense housing and public transit

I can't think of any public transit construction that has been denied, period, no matter how badly envisioned or constructed.

hanging commented on Have US Gun Buyback Programs Misfired? [pdf] nber.org/system/files/wor... · Posted by u/sparrish

hanging · 5 years ago

"We conclude that GBPs are an ineffective policy strategy to reduce gun violence, a finding consistent with descriptive evidence that (i) firearm sales prices are set too low by cities to appreciably reduce the local supply of firearms, (ii) most GBP participants are drawn from populations with low crime risk, and (iii) firearms sold in GBPs tend to be older and less well functioning than the average firearm.

hanging commented on Twitter engineers replacing racially loaded tech terms like 'master,' 'slave' cnet.com/news/twitter-eng... · Posted by u/martinlaz

Yetanfou · 6 years ago

Please don't capitalise the term 'black' here, leave that to political pamphlets like the New York Times (who seem to be the ones who started this). The more people start identifying themselves with their inalienable characteristics like skin colour, hair colour or eye colour , the further we'll get away from the ideal of a colour-blind society.

Yes, that is the ideal, that the colour of your skin does not matter. If you don't want to take my word on it, maybe Martin Luther King can convince you:

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today!

[1] https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm

hanging · 6 years ago

  Please don't capitalise the term 'black' here

The San Jose Mercury has just changed their style guide to do exactly this (capitalize Black when used in a racial identity context)[0]. When using "white" in the same context, it remains uncapitalized.

[0] example: https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/07/03/protesters-march-to-s...

hanging commented on U.S. Must Release Children from Family Detention Centers, Judge Rules nytimes.com/2020/06/26/us... · Posted by u/jbegley

hanging · 6 years ago

This particular judge is an Obama nominee with an activist track record[0]. I expect this will be stopped by a higher court before it takes effect.

[0] https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/02/justice-still-denie...

hanging commented on A pizzeria owner made money buying his own $24 pizzas from DoorDash for $16 theverge.com/2020/5/18/21... · Posted by u/kkotak

hanging · 6 years ago

  GrubHub... lost $33.4 million over the last 3 months. (In fairness: COVID-19.)

I don't understand the qualifier. Hasn't Covid-19 been a boon to delivery services? If they can't profit during these artificially beneficial market conditions (boosted demand and endless supply of minions to do delivery), how can they ever profit?

hanging commented on Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down stay-at-home order that closed businesses jsonline.com/story/news/p... · Posted by u/hanging

bosswipe · 6 years ago

Wisconsin Statue 252.02 does exist.

hanging · 6 years ago

The Court didn't support it.

Check out the summary [0] elsewhere in these comments (not mine, but I found it helpful).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23173858

hanging commented on Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down stay-at-home order that closed businesses jsonline.com/story/news/p... · Posted by u/hanging

light_hue_1 · 6 years ago

Everything about the comment above is totally incorrect when it comes to the law in the US. Just to give you a taste of how wrong this is: the case isn't even about an executive order by a governor! It's about the rulemaking of the Secretary of the Department of Health Services. Not only is the parent wrong, the opinion actually goes out of it's way in the first paragraph to say this! "This case is not about Governor Tony Evers' Emergency Order or the powers of the Governor."

> In the U.S. executive orders simply don't and can't have the force of law without the support of statutory law, not relative to civilians[0]. If you want a law, it needs to be passed as a statute by the appropriate legislature and must become law via all the usual mechanisms.

This isn't true for many reasons including: the federal government controls a lot of what happens in the country indirectly and executive orders can decide what the law means (even if that meaning goes against what the law intended). Executive orders can for example suspend immigration. That absolutely affects civilians in an extremely practical way. More fundamentally, this kind of statement totally ignores how the legal system in the US works practically. Yes, there are laws, but laws are vague and must be interpreted. The federal government makes rules that interpret laws. These rules are what the law "is" practically. There is wide disagreement about what rules a particular law allows or doesn't allow. Executive orders can and do change these rules.

> That has nothing to do with corruption or taxes, and everything to do with long-established, well-thought-out, constitutional law. Yes, we're talking about constitutional law based on past skepticism of government

This is completely and utterly false! You shouldn't say these things without reading the opinion. Neither side made this argument at all and the court narrowly ruled that the rulemaking process had not been followed correctly.

> Also, the U.S. Constitution's requirement that State governments be (small-r) republican

There is no such requirement. This was also not about federal constitutional law, it was about the constitution of Wisconsin.

> extends the constraints on the President's EO power to the States' Governors.

Absolutely not. Each state has its own constitution, the federal constitution says no such thing at all. Also this case was not about an executive order!

> the Court might well rule that the clause does mean that Governors cannot impose emergency rules without statutory support

Again, please read the opinion before you say such things. The main argument was that some details of the law had not been followed.

> This was a decision by a court, not a question of whether the people support their governments

Only in the narrowest sense. It was a decision by a party, not a court. Republicans put their judges in power and the Republican judges made a decision. In that sense the US is absolutely unlike any other democracy in the world.

hanging · 6 years ago

  executive orders can decide what the law means

You should tell the SCOTUS that. They overturned 55% of Obama executive directives that reached them, and his administration had the most overturned unanimously (yes, even Ginsberg and Sotomayor) of any Presidency.

>>Also, the U.S. Constitution's requirement that State governments be (small-r) republican

  There is no such requirement

Dude. This is literally in Article IV:

"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, ..."