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I was ghosted by a recruiter at Stripe. As in, they didn't show up to a call they scheduled with me.

I emailed patio11 about it. He brought their head of recruiting into the conversation to remedy the situation. Their head of recruitment suggested we hop on a call to discuss.

I can't make this shit up, but guess what the head of recruitment did? Didn't show up to the call.

It's hard to imagine why recruiters get a bad shake /s
Advent of Ruby 3.0
Writing Without Hedging
I just finished wasting 2 hours of my life trying to get femtolisp to build on Windows10. It built on Ubuntu20 just fine. It was missing a bunch of stuff that should have never been missing. Oh well, it was just a curiosity.
You are correct. I own my domain, so will be able to move my email to another provider (or self host) if I ever require it.

I also keep a local backup of my email so if the day ever comes I am ready.
I’ve heard this one many times, but I just don’t get it. Are there good examples where apps built on any kind of blockchain had massive success BECAUSE they are using blockchain?
I sympathize with the recruiter in this situation, enough to understand why ghosting seems to be the rule rather than the exception. "You didn't make the cut" is a difficult conversation to have, and explaining why is worse.

I feel that the healthier response is to have mercy on us both, and just move on. Same as with dating.
> ... and trying to guess which will hit first.

Or more accurately, and the market has already priced in the capital weighted average sentiment of which will hit first.
I would say some boards on 4chan, some forums and some discord servers, and some subreddits can be good for meaningful discussion- if you have niche tastes and don't mind putting up with a handful of stupid people. For example, I enjoy painting and weightlifting as well as programming, and can list several places I enjoy going to discuss and share stuff related to those topics.

In my eyes, the issue with modern internet communities is that there are too many people there "just for the sake of it". I find that communities focused on a specific thing don't suffer from the repetitive and bland drivel that fills the front pages of most discussion websites.

Due to the nature of this advice, I won't just list a bunch of forums and discussion boards I look at and post on. I'd recommend you search for places based on your interests.
some people spout answers when they should be asking questions
It's a bit misleading though. QUOTE is a special operator, which prevents data from being evaluated. But: special operators are in general not about quoting. They provide various built-in evaluation rules.

Quoting means that a thing is returned as itself and not evaluated. Thus it is not interpreted in any other way.

Take IF, it does not quote its arguments, it just conditionally evaluates them based on the result of the test form. It implements control flow. Thus IF evaluates things - it does not quote them - they are not returned as they were in the source code.

(if
test-form ; evaluated first
then-form ; evaluated when test-form is true
else-form) ; evaluated when test-form is false

Thus each of the above three argument forms might be evaluated, but only one of the last two, depending on the evaluation of the first form. In a compiled Lisp, the then-form and else-form will not be stored as quoted forms in the code, they will be compiled to some other language (often machine language, C, or similar), just as the rest of the source code. Thus after compilation all these source forms will disappear and only executable code will be left. Thus there is nothing to quote by the IF operator.

Special operators usually the core of needed built-in control flow and scoping operators. Typically in Lisp, they are also not user extensible in the standard language: the user can't write new special operators.

Many other additional operators are derived from those via macros, which transform source code to new source code which eventually only contains function calls and special forms.
The last thing police need are more tools that don't work and they don't understand how to use. That they still use polygraphs should make everyone's hair stand on end.
No disagreement on the skewed stats. And I won't dispute the need for a minimum standard of efficacy.

However, if anything, the problem that we've had over the last 60 years is setting the standard of efficacy too high. This caused the Better than the Beatles problem, and placed Pharma companies in an impossible situation where they have to run faster and faster just to stay in the same place.

Moving forward, if we're not going to lower the efficacy standard, then the questions that Scannell raises about model validity and the search problem writ large become even more pressing and important.

On the other hand, if we're not going to solve the search problem, then the pragmatic solution would be to lower the efficacy bar somewhat so Pharma companies can at least create slightly less effective but way cheaper drugs.

In theory, we should be able to do both. In practice, we're likely to get one way before the other. The current path we're on of fewer drugs and higher prices is simply unsustainable.
No, I did not read the footnotes in the longer 49 page pdf in your link, I only scanned the 2 page summary. In the Pre and Postexposure Prophylaxis (The I-MASK+ protocol) section, page 11:

> Melatonin (slow release): Begin with 0.3 mg and increase as tolerated to 2 mg at night. [1,7,69-75]. Melatonin has anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, immunomodulating and metabolic effects that are likely important in the mitigation of COVID-19 disease. It is intriguing to recognize that bats, the natural reservoir of coronavirus, have exceptionally high levels of melatonin, which may protect these animals from developing symptomatic disease. [76]

For the more serious stages:

> Melatonin 10 mg at night (the optimal dose is unknown) [75]

From my quick scan of the papers in the related footnotes, melatonin is a good antioxidant and may be anti-inflammatory, in addition to the well known association with sleep regulation.
Rent control is popular with renters because the rent is too damn high. You can figure that one out without assigning motives to people you've never met.
This is exactly what I try to do. I'm sure I might have left one or two hanging accidentally at some point. OTOH, those 1 or 2 certainly never contacted me again, so I don't feel terrible about being imperfect here, as long as I don't ghost 99% of the time. I figure that probably makes me better than most candidates and most recruiters in that respect, anyway.
What It Takes to Thin Deeply About Complex Problems
"show that its better"

I've being thinking a lot about this, and I think this is better addressed by using the same standards as in other fields. Namely, a scientific study. I imagine an environment like repl.it, with just a simple text editor, and some problem description and a set of compressive tests that serve as a spec. Then we measure time to produce a solution and number times the solution makes the tests fail (bugs). With enough people doing this, and in enough languages, we might be able to reach some conclusions. Until then, we will be stuck in the dark.
Steel structures actually are much shorter lived. Without active maintenance, odds are neither tower would last a century. Generally the more advanced a technology is, the more fragile it is, and the more reliant on other advanced technology to maintain it. If you want something that lasts a long time, you're best bet is to stick to something simple like solid granite, though even if your artifact remains mostly intact, it's useless if it gets buried under sediment or weathered to the point that it's unrecognizable as an artificial construct.
Why not? Humans are easily replaced. Pandas, not so much.

I’m being somewhat facetious here.
>another pernicious example of how lockdowns and disrupting a population’s routines

There is not even a hint in the comment that there is another cause to this disruptions besides lockdowns.
> There's no way the final rendering is realtime though, right?

No I think they literally do photograph the LED screen on the stage with the actors and that is the final composite. Just like with traditional back- and front-projection.

I guess it’s graded etc, but so is a completely natural scene.
Oh sure of course there are local or specific exceptions, I'm just talking about global trends, but then I was responding to a comment about the world as a whole.
Peter Hintjens' Psychopath Code fits the bill perfectly. Available for free online. http://hintjens.com/blog:_psychopaths
> Amazon said it is using Thunderbolt to connect its Nitro controller to the Mac Mini and provide its basic suite of EBS storage, networking, and security/ management features.

That's pretty cool; they bridge ethernet/IP (I assume) to SATA or NVMe on Thunderbolt.
For comparison I was paying €330 for a brand new 35 sqft apartment with 2 separate rooms, a small balcony, amazing heat and noise insulation, 5 minutes from a bus stop and ample parking, all in a nice area without very dense buildings. And this was considered expensive. The reduced price here is still x10...
Hardware doesn't work without at least some sort of software.

I really wish they (or any one with modern fast CPU and motherboard designs) would sell hardware only bare-bones with no OS or even bootloader, but history shows a mass market won't support that.
Are you implying you see individual recruiters or hiring managers called out by name on Blind? I've never seen that even once.

Personally I don't think anyone is tangibly harmed by someone posting "Google ghosted me" on Blind.
2036, Apple Mill
What's in the box? I cannot open it
Hey, please don't cross into personal attack. It's much more interesting that you have firsthand knowledge—if you want to share some of what you know, so we can all learn, that would be great, and much more in the intended spirit of the site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
It's illegal. Prior authorization _should_ be required using someone's copyrighted work . In this case, the AI firm that compiled the profile of this poor soul probably had not reached out and asked for authorization for use of his image in a vast database which is then productized and sold to law enforcement agencies.

Now, things get complicated when you involve firms which, in the process of signing up a user, might force an agreement to sell/market the data in a non-exclusive manner to "trusted partners". Sooooo...is it illegal? Depends on on the lawyer and how long you can fund a lawsuit for, I suppose.
I've seen this done with managers at my company, not specifically recruiters.
Follow up: https://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/comments/kjpm6b/whats_in_the...
How common is being ghosted by a recruiter? Is it an american thing? It never happened to me here in Europe.
I can not help but detect a condescending tone in your comments (if such is not the case, my apologies – Poe's Law and all) and find it interesting that you have not provided sources to the "research" which your claims are based on.

I think it would benefit everybody if you could share a couple of links to some "research".
Similar to Altivec from the PowerPC days?
Is your argument then that rust is less fit for high level programming tasks? Because I disagree with that assessment.
I'm not OP but I have only a basic knowledge of Haskell, and after giving it my best effort, I wrote my own parser rather than modifying Pandoc. If Pandoc didn't sell me (user of many languages over many years, a true believer in functional programming, and someone that writes solo projects for personal use) on Haskell, I don't think it can be done. The Pandoc source is literally just a big blob of uncommented gibberish to someone that's not already a dedicated Haskell programmer.
> Well, every room tends to have walls and floors.

And every room would be equally judged against its economic value. It could very well be that having an maintaining your TV room is more expensive than going to the movie theatre as well. If you were designing a domicile based purely on optimizing cost, as posed earlier, it is very likely that it wouldn't be anything more than a small bedroom, with everything else more cost effectively provided by outside third-parties at scale.

But there is, of course, more to life than numbers. A small bedroom and nothing more does not seem like an overly desirable place to live. Being able to watch TV at home is nice. Being able to cook at home is enjoyable. However, the topic is what it is and as a result those factors don't matter for the purposes of this particular discussion.
This would be a more persuasive comment if you could be specific about what "she's not allowed to do", rather than just sort of implying that all the stuff your daughter wants to do is un-doable.

I don't really understand the logic behind not being worried about your daughter being infected, because the odds of that are not in fact all that low. Do you mean the odds of her ending up with serious symptoms? Part of the point of articles like this is that we don't really yet know the prevalence of serious symptoms that don't involve acute respiratory failure.\

In a similar vein: I sort of understand the logic behind letting grandparents see their grandkids, because time is limited for them either way. But it's probably not a win if your kid visits your mom and she dies as a result, even if it was the last opportunity your mom would ever have to see your kid; it would be a scarring, debilitating thing to live with for your kid.
Aren't HackerNews mods shadowbanning users without notice? ProTip : they do.
I think it's mainly because of how we feel about losing human lives vs animal lives. So it's emotion based. I think all other reasoning/justification comes after our emotions. Anyone can think of reasons that differentiate humans from animals, but ultimately it is just how we feel about it. And for emotions, yes this is for evolutionary reasons.

If we were to consider human lives equal with animal life we would have to change so much it would not be practical so at current state it is not even something ww would consider so many of us simply try to ignore the issue.
The stance from Clearview AI (henceforth known as "privacy rapists") is that anything put publicly is 'fair game' for their use - I don't think that stance has been fully challenged yet.

What I'd be interested to know is if they have pictures of minors in their database, which could theoretically require some sort of release for them to collect/use (which I'm quite sure they wouldn't have).
If you don’t like how much they pay, maybe don’t brand yourself a “security researcher” and then try to earn the equivalent of full-time pay by finding bugs in other peoples products and blogging about it?
During the suburban expansion of the last century many southern CT towns allowed in businesses but declined to expand housing and transit availability. This combined with strong NIMBYism drove up housing prices in southern CT.

A good modern analogue of southern CT from the 70s-90s would be the valley in the bay area e.g. Palo Alto, Mountain View etc.
Are you sure? I was under the impression that, for instance, diamond's value is mostly manufactured, but gold is actually useful for various electronic and chemical properties.
1. Dunning-Kruger effect is typically defined as X.
2. Here, we define it as Y.
3. We show that Y is false.
4. Therefore X is false.

Uh, no.
On my last job hunt the vast majority of recruiters ghosted me. Even those promising a call back ... that day.

Often I've heard time cited as a factor, but these same recruiters sometimes spoke to me for an hour. Yet even a semi impersonal email was too much to hope for I guess.

I just assume at any moment any recruiter / company HR contact may be my last.

Sadly it is a vicious cycle now as recruiter spam is so prevalent that now I don't have time to bother with with them or respond to them as soon as I think they're not really paying attention / holding up their end of the conversation / the job sound bad, and so forth.

It's all just noise.
would a tool that helps you automatically send a "sorry you have not been considered for the job" email after X (~2-3) weeks, or even settable by client be helpful for you?
I don’t think recruiters are oblivious to their bad behaviour. Like someone else said, it’s a numbers game, and candidates are widgets.

I choose not to deal with recruiters. Ever. I’m pretty blunt to them about it, without being rude.
If garbage collection is a plus and not a drawback on the project then I would prefer Go. In neither case would Haskell top the list of options for me.
Always wondered how people get to those jobs, though. They pay well because they're niche jobs that most people don't have the qualifications for, but how do the people who do have those qualifications get there in the first place? You can say "I'm gonna be a car mechanic" and go out and learn to do that, but if you say "I'm gonna be a diesel electric mechanic"... where do you even start? I guess you still start as the broader job (a car mechanic), and hope that you eventually get a good opportunity to specialize further?
But the wobbly chair was thrown out in 2010, yet is still referenced by name in the premises migration checklist.

In other words if it's so insignificant as not to be discussed it shouldn't be included at all. Any processes should have been written at a high level with a call out to the specific specialist organisations who implement them.
Contrary to random pieces falling onto earth they are from a specific astroid and not impacted by earth atmosphere (which burns those stones quite a bit)

Thus they potentially reveal more details and allow comparison with planets and other objects, which might help to identify the origin of the astroid and in turn be a piece in the big story how our solar system came together.
> Yes, $100k is not a lot of money for an issue like this.

Requiring rare user action and document URL? Sure. Live in your bounty bubble.

> If I had a vuln like that and knew they were only paying $100k, I would probably seek to monetize it elsewhere.

But you don't. The person exploiting it knows how much it is worth.

> $3k is almost insulting for something like this

Not for you to decide. He accepted it, meaning it's not insulting.
> Thin seats

The Tesla seats are awful compared to pretty much every other car at the same price point, so I'm not sure this is a good point. The Bolt seats aren't great either, but they're not significantly worse.

> Smaller car

Yep, more nimble. Not as powerful, for sure. But more tossable. Much tighter turning radius.

> No charging network

Except it can use standard non-Tesla DC fast-chargers, and those networks are collectively growing much faster than Tesla is growing the Supercharger network.

> Does GM even know how to make a car these days?

Uh, yes? They've always had the engineering chops, even when they cut corners and made duds. My last car before the Tesla was a Camaro SS 1LE, and it's so far on a different planet from anything by Tesla that it's unfair to consider Tesla a car manufacturer at that point. Yeah, GM knows what they are doing, what a silly thing to say!

> We should be talking about BMW.

No, we should not. They make exactly two cool cars now. The rest are just as cookie cutter boring as everything else.

> Who cares about GM?

Anyone who likes cars? I get that this generally rules out Tesla owners, I accept that. But GM makes the mid-engine Corvette - at a price point normal people can even afford! And Camaros, and many other cars. Hate on them all you want, but they're a very legitimate car manufacturer.

> If, one day, the Mach-E ships

It is...

The Mach-E has a nicer interior than a Model 3, and even has an actual dashboard screen in addition to the big center one. Not to mention an analog-ish volume knob. I bet it uses actual rain sensors, too ;). Maybe even a manual glovebox release.

Tesla is good at being different, and their drivetrain technology is excellent. The rest of the car is just barely acceptable, and only if you squint, and only if you've never ridden in anything with Recaros, etc. I like my P3D but only because there isn't yet anything equivalent, aside from the just now shipping Mach-E.
I use an iPad and like the web version, but would love to have the new one...
Or maybe different people have different needs and don’t care if every device is “open”.

The vast majority of people are not enamored with technology for technologies sake. These are tools. Does the tool do what I want with the least amount of friction? That’s what they care about.

Also how does Apples stance on one product in any way change the device you are using to post in any way? Are Apple thugs coming to your house destroying non-Apple tech? Of course not!

It always amuses me how Apple can simultaneously be irrelevant due to their market share and also be the greatest threat to open computing by their temerity at daring to have different computing models.

If you don’t like their computing model then don’t use it. Railing that they aren’t supporting your vision lockstep is pretty freaking arrogant.

Their market position is strong because they provide value that people desire. The market is not a zero sum game. Apples mere existence does diminish your computing experience. Indeed Apples existence and continually pushing computing in new areas has benefited everyone in the last 40 years - whether you use Apple or not. Just think where computing would be of the attitude that you were only a real computer user if you assembled it - at the component to board level, not just bolting pre-mad parts to a pre-made case - persisted? People criticized Apple for selling complete computers with the Apple II.

Your complaint isn’t that different.
Are we looking at the same photos? They look uncannily alike to me, to the point where I'm left wondering if the forged license actually reuses a photo from Parks. (As a double convict in NJ, I suspect his earlier mugshots would not be hard for the forger to get. Certainly no harder than forging a license.)
Pugilism on the Plains
This is not apocalypse for highly populated countries like China and India. They have enough people who can replace current workers. They won't have a shortage in food production because the land exists and can be consolidated to fewer farmers. There is a surplus of hands still out there who can take up manufacturing. By the time China really faces mass declines like Japan, they will already have a significant portion of their economy transformed into a knowledge/information economy.

In fact, a lowering population but increasing gdp will actually increase gdp per capita. The living people there will become richer per capita.

For developed countries with already low populations, the story is different. Fewer hands means lesser manufacturing which means lower gdp and thus, lesser power in the global stage.
We used this for the first time recently and it was delightful. Took 2 minutes to go from nothing to deploying our develop and master branches.

It was a bit confusing getting all the per branch/commit deployments behind a password so that added another 10 minutes...

Very pleased with it.
> There's no need to engage in hypotheticals here

Yet here we are, hypothesising.

Also, statistically speaking dogs are less likely to come up with new methods of improving life on earth or even simply helping out other creatures in need.
Ethereum has the developer mindshare and tooling today, no doubt. But ETH also has fundamental scalability problems which are pushing out smaller value transactions. The team behind CryptoKitties for example left to develop their own chain that scales better. My belief is that UTXOs and the Bitcoin model are going to be simpler and more efficient at representing state and state transitions because it can be done locally and on one chain, rather than globally and sharded across multiple.