skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it strange, as software developers, that we discuss the effects on automation all the time, but no one seems to understand that automation has made searching for new employees incredibly inexpensive and efficient compared to the past.

So in technical roles there are a lot of companies that are always hiring. Recruiters work for free until they find you someone and placing job listings online is so inexpensive it barely registers as a cost.

On top of that, most states are "at will" employment, so even if a company does not have any openings, if they find someone better, and cheaper, than another employee that is currently working at the company, they can hire them and then eventually let that other employee go.

For example, I'm not in the market for a new laptop, but if a brand new, top of the line laptop came up for sale at half price, I'd probably buy it.

Its so cheap to look for new talent due to automation, so most companies will shop around in case they get lucky and land a fantastic bargain. Many are not seriously looking to fill an immediate need.

With that said, there are still plenty of companies out there with an immediate need, so please do not get discouraged by that group of companies that are "always hiring".
That is only a small part of the data, just 25 years worth of satellite data. There are ground measurements going back almost 150 years. Using all the data shows a clear acceleration:

https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/sea-level/

The comment about coming out of an ice age is also not relevant - sea levels have indeed been rising since then, but nowhere near the current rate, so the current increase is mostly unrelated to that. For example:

https://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/gornitz_09/

Twentieth century sea level trends, however, are substantially higher that those of the last few thousand years.
The silver lining of this cloud is that it acts as a selection force on institutions, too: If people are harder to pacify, institutions have to step up their game and deliver, or failing that, market themselves better. And that parallels a broad trend that's been in place since antiquity: building sustainable institutions instead of succumbing to warlords and despots. Legal codes, religious orders, and so forth have built up a vast underlying structure to face the ordinary challenges of humanity at its worst. There's nothing to suggest that that trend ends because we have some new gadgets.

But it takes place as a reaction, a series of rapid cultural changes. I would say that we had such a shift take place post-2008: besides the economy, the smartphone era took off and everyone since then has contended with a new status quo of limited privacy, temporary status, broad-not-deep social networks, and a constant background noise of gossip and scandal. Have we gotten better at navigating this world since 2008? Absolutely, I would say. In the first four-to-five years we had a whole bunch of theories about a massively connected world get tested in reality, culminating in stories such as Anonymous, Wikileaks, Arab Spring, Occupy, Black Lives Matter, and Gamergate. The years since then have seen various reactions to those stories play out as one major figure after another gets embroiled in scandal.

Even if this is fostered by state actors, the overall effect is one of "boiling down" institutions to their basic premise, where they are easier to challenge, as the arrangements that locked them in before get severed.

And I think the public recognizes that to some degree - the low empathy comes in combination with a renewed interest in a private approach to philosophy, rather than a collective one - a sense that existing institutions fundamentally don't have the right answers and something has to be done. We're merely acting in accordance with the times.
This answer makes no sense. Why does an IRC bot have to update the database? What does geolocation have to do with choosing database replication over AXFR?

With every answer you raise more questions than you answer.
Analyzing Google Trends with the Matrix Profile
You're ignoring by the far biggest downside to state-sponsored healthcare: society now has a strong incentive to ban risky behaviors. If I'm paying for Joe Schmoe's healthcare, why should he be able to give himself liver disease by drinking alcohol or tear his ACL skiing? I don't ski or drink alcohol, so it's no skin off my bone if we ban alcohol and skiing.

If you're a minority in a society with universal healthcare, you will have to constantly fight for your rights. The second the rest of society decides your diet or your hobbies are too dangerous, they'll be pushing to ban you from partaking in them.

Also for #2, most democrats seem to support giving healthcare to illegals so I don't know why you act like that's a myth. And for #1, it's true for tens of millions of people that they will pay more in universal healthcare than they do currently. This is inherently true of all socialism (make no mistake, universal healthcare is socialist healthcare). If somebody is getting something for free, the money to pay for it is coming out of somebody's else pocket.
> Evidence?

None, other than asking my hygienist which setting I should personally use, and she told me don't go above 5. I trust her judgment so I left it at that.

Also one of the waterpik tips (mine came with like 6 different tips) literally has a warning label that says "CAUTITION: Only use this tip on the lowest setting". It's a much sharper tip and for fun I put the waterpik on 10 with that tip and aimed it at my sink. The stream looked so powerful I'm surprised it didn't cut the Earth in half. I can't say for sure what would happen if I aimed that at my gums but I'm not trying.

> Also, are there incorrect ways of using string floss that can cause dental problems?

Yes absolutely. If you jam the floss into your gums as hard as you can sure I'm sure you'll be able to do damage.

> "May" is not good enough. What is the evidence? There are plenty of people who use it at the full setting.

I think it's because everyone is different. I know people who are 70+ and brush their teeth once a day, never floss, haven't visited a dentist in 20+ years and have little to no cavities and very little plaque build up. That's with smoking too.

> If I do this, can you explain why I still need to use string floss?

From personal experience the waterpik I have on setting 5 with the standard tip has a much different feel to it than string floss. String floss feels like it cleans the side edges of my teeth better where as the waterpik seems better for dislodging things that I have trouble getting out even with string floss.

> Do you have any studies showing that string floss is more effective than Waterpik when a Waterpik is used properly?

No, I'm not a medical doctor or dentist. I'm just a dude who brushes their teeth.
No. They are on Amazon and also I believe available direct from the publisher.
What do you mean start over? Why would the startup suddenly collapse if you took another job for a few months? Does it rely on you working on it 24/7?
I'm creating an in-browser design tool that's using canvas. TBH I kind of hate the API, but that's because it's geared more towards drawing.
> think they're worth more than they are.

> Maybe smaller companies are failing at capitalism by not competing?

Pretty much. It makes sense for employees to land where they can create the most value. If FAANG can get 4x the value out of a junior engineer than your small company can, of course they are going to outcompete you in hiring top junior engineers.

Figure out how to extract more value or set your sights lower (and regardless probably want to keep your contempt to yourself).
Could have middle class owner occupiers rather than ultra wealthy owner-unoccupiers?
Israeli scientists create world's first 3D-printed heart using human cells
It's used for rendering graphics of any kind that don't lend themselves well to the DOM. I worked on a project where we used the canvas element as a video player, rendering one frame at a time on it.
If people aren't aware, Joe's blog is full of interesting tidbits: https://joearms.github.io/#Index. I remember reading this one in particular: https://joearms.github.io/#2015-03-12%20The%20web%20of%20nam...
I don't understand what's the point of DNSSEC. Literally the only attack scenario that DNSSEC protects from is when someone is MITMing your ISP, which, I believe, is something that practically never happens.

It doesn't do anything about the most common attack scenarios, such as MITM between the client and the last mile DNS server or hackers stealing your domain registrar credentials.

To be honest, it seems to me that the real purpose of this protocol is to make people/enterprises feel safer without actually doing anything useful.
Ok, thanks; not as many barriers to entry I suppose compared with larger health institutions.
"For cyanide to kill you" is constructed from the sentence "cyanide kills you", and obeys exactly the same rules. It predicates an action (killing) of a particular agent (cyanide), though it is not bound to any particular time. If "kills you" is a "predicate" in the finite clause, then "to kill you" is also a predicate in the nonfinite clause. Can you make the argument that it isn't without special pleading?
So to try to distill what this is -- I guess it's just a post to vent about some frustrating anecdotes?

I don't see any larger conclusion here. Let's assume HR talent falls on a normal distribution: just like you'll meet some absurd engineering candidates you'll also meet some absurd HR people.

I imagine companies that make really bad hiring decisions are put under selection pressure and are less likely to continue to exist. It's a problem that I think can be fixed by the marketplace, but I don't know if a post makes any tangible impact.
Should note: there is quite a schism in 'market value' - it's a hard one to nail down. It's a range and it depends on a lot of factors.

There are people who just want a decent job with decent pay and a decent place to work. They will do consistently decent work for stability, neat stuff to work on. They are not heavy negotiators, and maybe don't realize they could make '40% more elsewhere' - or frankly are not willing to move their wife/husband and 3 kids.

Real 'market value' is what you are being offered, or rather, what people are accepting. So if people are accepting those supposedly low-ball numbers, well, that is 'market value'.
Personally, no, for a variety of reasons. A founder who is a control freak is a massive red flag on it's own. Profit sharing is also easy to game either for or against someone as the movie industry proves constantly. So I don't personally feel like playing under-handed games constantly (and if I don't, other will so we're back to square one) to maximize how much revenue is attributed to me. If I wanted to play politics I'd have joined a larger company and gotten paid a lot more than any startup.

edit: Also, incentives people to think short term and pump us revenue at all costs (then find another job when it comes crashing down) which is not a great environment to work in.
Not really valid. In JS if a function blocks for 1 sec, the scheduler executes another function. The whole thread blocks for 1 sec only when all its async based functions block.

The concurrency model is based on the event loop: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Even...
That is interesting, thanks!
The plastic that humans create will disintegrate and crumble into dust, but over very long time scales.

When we pull crude petroleum from the earth, it's mostly fossilized plants from the carboniferous period. It's a deposit of stabilized mixtures, sealed in a natural chamber, air-tight and pressurized deep underground.

Humans take the stable mixture out of its pressurized environment, bleed off volatile compounds, distill and crack with heat, separate groups of solvents from precipitates, and sort out chemicals according to classification.

Plastics sourced from tar and oil are only a portion of the volume of crude resources mined from the ground. Also, synthetic plastics are created from chemical processes that result in plastic from reacting feedstock.

So, no, it's one way. Fossil fuels are the fossils of plants from a period long before animal life was even a kingdom that emerged from the sea. It's not going back into the ground to become that stuff. And plastics are an incomplete fraction of what the crude mixture was. It's the solid components robbed of all the volatile solvents, and cured into hard or rubbery chunks. Ultraviolet sunlight, heat without pressure, and kinetic impact damage will degrade and reduce objects to dried out, brittle ash over thousands of years.

But those thousands of years are nothing, next to the many millions of years of metamorphic, subterranian tectonic action needed to create them within a mixture of sister compounds.
Well, I believe there is a surplus of companies who think they are doing something important. Can you imagine answering "Why do you want to work here" if you apply to a company like Marlboro? Sometimes requiring people to believe in what your company is doing is not that important because the majority of startups just aren't that interesting.

Accept that people work for money, not because they believe in your company.
Again, I think this author is equivocating on the word homeless. Most homeless are not the people yelling incoherent obscenities on the sidewalk.

Additionally, with something like schizophrenia, a person can have the disease and under medical care be able to function at a high level. If, for some reason, they fall out of medical care and stop taking their medication, their symptoms can rapidly spiral out of control and lead to the sort of paranoid, potentially violent, homeless person described in the librarian article. This doesn't mean their mental illness was caused by homelessness, it just means homelessness enabled it to fully manifest itself.
That's good old negotiation and group purchasing there. No fancy tech required, just a relatively performant CRUD app and integration into travel GDS (reservation) systems.
Love the specific examples in this article.
One of the best interview experiences I had was with a firm where nearly everyone participates in the hiring process. I don’t know any details beyond what I experienced as a candidate, but they interview tons of people, and everyone who makes it all the way through ends up interacting with at least a handful of would-be peers, managers, and a C-level officer.

I imagine that everyone is expected to dedicate a significant chunk of their time to the recruiting process. I don’t see how else they could pull it off. I suspect the arrangement is something like “everyone must dedicate one day every (other?) week to recruitment efforts.”

Moreover, they had a fixed set of well-thought-out questions and exercises. For programmers, you write code in an actual IDE with one of their programmers sitting beside you. You can bounce ideas off them, you can consult the interwebs (as you might in real life), etc. The questions and programming challenges were relevant, and reasonable.

It was an extremely well oiled machine, and it showed.
I feel like people shouldn't be waiting until there's more bad news before they consider changing their passwords - as soon as you hear that a password breach was likely, go and change your password.
If you are buying a domain through Route 53, there is a good chance the purchase is actually being handled by Gandi[0]. Gandi supports DNSSEC[1] (it's literally a check box in the options, very simple) so you may as well skip buying the domain through Route 53 and get it directly from Gandi.

No affiliation with either company, just a happy customer of both.

[0]https://aws.amazon.com/route53/domain-registration-agreement/
[1]https://docs.gandi.net/en/domain_names/advanced_users/dnssec.html
TVs and other gadgets that have no microphones or video cameras embedded in them should have a certification like "organic". "NoSpy Certified" or a similar trademark would be appropriate right next to the UL and CE marks.
Equity and control are two different things. Board seats, voting rights, stock classes etc are all tools at your disposal to create the corporate structure. Furthermore, with control you can allocate yourself options as part of your compensation, which undo some of the dilution.

You certainly don't want to retain 100% ownership. You need partners who treat this business as their own and share your burden. I think cofounders are vastly overrated, while hiring key personnel and granting them significant options is not emphasised enough.
I've been playing Go since I was a young teenager (in the 80s). I don't play more than once or twice a year now. Just online "play one turn a day" go server games. I am telling you this because you can really enjoy Go like this (asynchronous play, long interval between plays) without needing to obsess over it or devote hours to play. I have way too much going on to get away with that so this is how I play now.
The WHO and OECD did exactly that and disagree.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization_rank...

[2] https://www.oecd.org/unitedstates/Health-at-a-Glance-2017-Ke...
Pro Monthly and Pro Annually might make more sense or Pro Yearly or whatever.
Pretend there's a talent shortage, tell government they need more visa, hire cheap foreign labor, win.
Announcing Extended Security Maintenance for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS – “Trusty Tahr”
The other possibility is that they are going to hire internally, but for some legal reasons they have to make a public job post. Requiring some super specific thing like "Home Depot sales portal" sounds like a tipoff that this is going to be an internal hire. The place I currently work is like that. The decision makers already know who they want to give the job to before it's even posted, but they still make three other poor bastards come in and go through the interview process even though they have no chance. The interviewees will no doubt end up second guessing every answer, handshake, etc. when really it was just never going to happen. To be extra obnoxious the job listing is left up for months after it's filled.
This model does not account for the fact that landlords are assholes, and you well likely become an asshole too. Rent seeking behaviors are anti-social, and asshole landlords should face societal shame.
I've done that, and during peak hiring periods it does get a bit intense, but I think it's essential it's done by a coder, not an HR person. It's also something to give your day a bit of variety. And the big plus is you get to decide who you want to work with.
I'm desperate for a Gmail replacement that uses the Gmail API. I'll give this a try because I didn't find any other one and the canonical Gmail web client is utterly broken, too heavy, too slow.

I don't want any enhancements, just basic email threads. Does anyone have a recommendation?
I imagine the people that would accept that are 'lifers'.

Where they get comfy, rationalize that they know their job, and the company never has to spend more than 98k on this person for the next 35 years.

Weirdly enough, it seems like Fortune 500 pays best for the brightest and they have them working on high level concepts and paying suppliers to perform the nitty gritty engineering.

I don't quite understand the rationale behind this hiring phenomenon.
> If it's not important why are you saying anything?

If I can take the 5 seconds to type up something I've seen, you can take the 5 seconds to fix it. We're not trying to ship perfect code, but we are trying to ship good code - so we might as well take advantage of any easy wins like fixing spotted issues.

Sometimes my "nitpicks" turn out to fix/catch serious bugs that I didn't realize were bugs. Sometimes they're unimportant and ignored. I don't always know which way it's turning out ahead of time.

Sometimes they're important, ignored, and then things break when it's checked in. Whoops. Easily fixed though.

> If it's code style, well if it's code style I'm going to ignore you. And if pressed I'm going to tell you to fix the linters because I ain't got time for this shit.

If it's exact whitespace rules, sure, I probably don't care either. I might mention it in passing so you can fix your autoformatter rules so the people who do care get off your back.

If you're making me spend my time adding CI steps/rules, and build server time executing them, because you can't be bothered to match basic function casing rules? I'm going to be annoyed. Especially for more important code style issues that are hard to teach the linter about, like "dnt abbrv evrythg its unrdble", and "don't name your indicies ijIl in the same scope."
Does seem to be getting warmer.

And I'm happy to see that NOAA is still telling it like it is.
Very few businesses actually matter, despite your opinion of the business. If your argument is you only want to work with other suckers (who “care” about the business over comp and tangible compensation), I suppose that’s an opinion that could be held. Is that a rational opinion to hold?

I don’t come to work because I care about your business, I care because you pay me. I’d like to work with others who have the same rational outlook, not with a cult.
I know they are focused on markers of industrial civilizations, but the prevalence of purpose built stone tools millions of years ago still blows my mind a little.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldowan
> In public choice theory and in economics, rent-seeking involves seeking to increase one's share of existing wealth without creating new wealth [1]

> The classic example of rent-seeking, according to Robert Shiller, is that of a feudal lord who installs a chain across a river that flows through his land and then hires a collector to charge passing boats a fee (or rent of the section of the river for a few minutes) to lower the chain. [1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
My privacy is important, that's why I'm not using Gmail. Great that you take privacy serious, but building a service that only works with Gmail doesn't really help with privacy.
In reality, if you're spending ANY money on healthcare in the US you're getting scammed. The healthcare you'll find in Israel and Europe is the modern standard of care and the US is on the opposite side of the spectrum with our corrupt for-profit "healthcare" industry. We pay more for generic crap (generic only has to be 80% as effective as brand) than modern countries pay for 'Made in USA' brand names.
> it would be very hard to ethically approve a randomised trial of teeth brushing over a long period.

The ethics aren't too difficult because we don't have strong evidence one way or the other. I think a bigger issue would be blinding the study participants. The groups assigned to the higher frequency brushing may change other routines (e.g. diet).

> The problem is that the profit margins on carbonated flavored water

It could also be the strong acidity of a lot of drinks in general, even if we replace the carbonation/sugar with something else.