skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my position, I review many resumes a week and the main argument that "one should personalize correspondence when possible is very sound". However, rejecting based on salutation is literally judging a book by its cover and if I did so, I would never know if there was the kind of personalization actually being advocated for.

"To Whom It May Concern", (note that it is always used with initcaps) IS the formal, traditional way to open business correspondence when the writer does not know the name and/or title of the recipient. As you recommend, an applicant should take some effort to try to identify who is the appropriate recipient and what their title is but that is likely not as easy as imagined.

For example, here is a job posting for a position at Gearbox (chosen only because I happen to like their games):

https://gearboxsoftware.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=219

There is an online form to fill out, but even if you do, you are never given the name or title of a person who might be interested in getting your resume outside of their electronic system. How would you recommend that someone interested in submitting their hardcopy resume to Gearbox proceed with their cover letter?

You might ask why would someone send a paper application when there is an online form? The answer is that the online system is for HR only and designed to weed out crap based on simple filters. Non-standard candidates with interesting backgrounds and high motivation will almost certainly be rejected at the HR level.

Two of the best people I have ever hired and had the pleasure to work with were a high school kid from Eastern Europe who spoke almost no English and a lumberjack (well technically a US Forest Ranger). If I had not been directly handed their hardcopy cover letters, neither would have made it past the HR system.

Just a heads up. "Dear" anything when you don't have a personal relationship with me makes my skin crawl. I'll still read your cover letter, but ugg. I guess we each have a "pet peeve" with respect to salutations :-)
But if the called function takes more than 200ns to execute, the overhead is less than 50%. Which probably is true for most relevant functions in an API
If everyone announces their proxies the Iranian government will be monitoring those announcements and will be able to block traffic to them. It may be better for those with friends and family in Iran to run proxies and quietly inform only people they trust.
source code is excrement. an unfortunate side effect necessitated by the immaturity of our tools. someday we'll make software without it and life will be much better for the poo tenders.
I have not made any effort to get them to do that. Most of my experience with them has been really routine stuff -- "visit copay", "get a blood sample taken", or the like -- but this also happened for a stomach biopsy involving cramming a huge device down my throat, and for which they wanted to have me sedated, which seems like a pretty close analogy to a childbirth with no complications. :/
Purely devil's advocate would be someone along the lines of -- just because it isn't for sale now doesn't mean it might never be. Pirating it now deprives the owner of some amount of ability to make money from it in the future.

Pretty flimsy, imo.
> You can share your proxy with friends and family using this URL format: https://signal.tube/#<your_domain_name> […] The latest beta release of the Android app is registered to handle links from signal.tube.

This scheme is convenient for those with correctly configured devices, but comes at the cost to everyone else of increased risk of inadvertent leaks of the fact that they're attempting to circumvent the block. I'd be interested to hear more about what factored into the decision to make this trade-off.
Depends on your country's laws. If I go in a bus with a sign saying "everyone entering this bus owes me $500" it doesn't make it the law
Every time I hear about McKinsey in a headline it's for doing something reprehensible.
I think the thing it's talking about is building wealth, which is easiest to do passively. But if you want to get rich, I feel like now days you either have to play the stock market or start a successful business. You can work your whole life and get enough to maybe retire comfortably, but if you ever want to be actually rich, I don't think you can just passively invest anymore.
ZeniMax Media cofounder Robert Altman dies
my current job is 3*10. That won't be allowed in germany ?
Visual Studio Code January 2021
I'll add one more point to this. Some business executives bring in consultants as a CYA for their boards, employees, etc.
Yes.
They have a choice, they are privileged enough to be able to choose where they work.
If they choose to prefer more money over not making more teens depressed. (If that's a thing, I have no idea), then they are responsible.

Generally, most of us in software can choose where to work. If we don't make this choice according to morals (whatever they may be) then we are less moral than ppl who don't have a choice, and those who have a choice and do consider it.

Is that a bad thing? Depending on which morality you subscribe to I guess....
Given the many replications of variations of Milgram's experiments, any flaws in his original experiment don't detract from the overall result.

See https://behavioralscientist.org/how-would-people-behave-in-m... for some of that replication data.
Agreed, worthless might have been a bit exaggerated.
There are lots of problems in matrix that hinder its adoption, federation is likely not the biggest of them.
My friends pour concrete & frame homes. In an hour they generate more for the world the you will in your entire empty life but huge congrats on your degrees and wealth
What the favourite stocks of r/wallstreetbets have in common
For a few glorious weeks in a past job I managed to work 2x16 1x8, yeah those days really sucked but you get a 4 day vacation every single week.i don't think any employer would want to offer such a schedule but I would probably be willing to take a paycut to get it back.
I’m glad they’re including VS Code

The problem is not including VS Code in their distros repo. The problem is adding a third party repo to their distro.
Dependence on something that isn't there is disadvantageous by the definition of "dependence". I don't see the point you're trying to make.
Why do some professions get the benefit of cartel protection? Note that pharmacists don't have such restrictions and have similar training.

For the data, I had done a quick search and found this (which only goes to 2010):

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Trends-in-the-Number-of-...

However, digging more, even the AAMC is saying you need residency slots:

https://www.medicaleconomics.com/view/enrollment-rates-rise-...

Increasing first-year enrollment is a good first step, but doesn't move the needle on the number of doctors who can actually practice because the number of residencies is still limited.
TechCrunch story about this posted yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26017592
Not to mention you can get into significant legal trouble helping people sanctioned by the US.
> People in general are supporting the farm laws and it’s not surprising why

Which people? Those who've never entered a agricultural land and will never do so. If there are so supportive - will they pickup agriculture as their fulltime profession?
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I was reminded of Being There by Jerzy Kosiński:

> In a garden, things grow... but first, they must wither; trees have to lose their leaves in order to put forth new leaves, and to grow thicker and stronger and taller. Some trees die, but fresh saplings replace them. Gardens need a lot of care. But if you love your garden, you don’t mind working in it, and waiting. Then in the proper season you will surely see it flourish.

> A gardener! Isn’t that the perfect description of what a real businessman is?
Yes, which is why Signal is doing a disservice by telling people to announce their proxies on Twitter. The expats should just tell their friends and family, and tell them to pass the word on only to people they trust.
It can be contractually set to exceed 8h if the average of 8h is maintained (I think over 4 months for daytime work and 1 month for night work).
Sure, a 4x10 would be workable if the hours fit roughly into a traditional household schedule.

But 4x 1:20a-11:50a shifts per week would make it impossible to get your kids ready for school. And you'd be sleeping when it's time for dinner, or homework. Not to mention having time for a relationship with your spouse. Etc, etc.

The shift they outline in the article sounds miserable.
It is very often a developer perspective that the source code and the software product is the core delivery. Interestingly that is often not true. Customer care, project management, sales, marketing and so many roles contribute so much more to the value creation than often visible to a developer.
std::variant is implemented with variadic templates; but C++ doesn't have a "variadic switch" statement.
So std::visit cannot directly use a switch statement. Instead it's usually implemented as a recursive function with the hope that the compiler will unroll the recursion and optimize it into a switch.
This hope usually doesn't work out in practice.
Large Learning Gains in Pockets of Extreme Poverty: Evidence from Guinea Bissau
Robert A. Altman, co-founder and CEO of ZeniMax, has died
What determines if a company is respected or not? Is Uber a respected company?
Not yet. https://code.briarproject.org/briar/briar/-/issues/445
Yes, it is too much to ask a corporation to sacrifice it's own self-interest to be nice. That is why every nation in the world has thousands of laws regulating economic activity.
Two more reasons Google doesn't touch others code:

1. They have monorepo with custom build infra, which makes integrating any third_party code pretty hard.

2. In google career culture, one gets promoted for development of something new, not integrating existing proved solutions.
This is not about which software Raspbian includes in their distro. It is about that they have added a third party repo to their distro. So even people who do not use the software are affected.
Yes indeed, there are examples of dependencies that have been removed by evolution.

For example cobalt and nickel were both essential for the first living beings. However, on the continents they are much less accessible than in the oceans.

Because of that, most terrestrial plants have lost the dependency on cobalt (which is why they cannot provide vitamin B12 to those who eat them) and most have also lost the dependency on nickel (except that for many terrestrial plants nickel, while no longer strictly required, can still be useful by enabling them to use urea as a source of nitrogen, when other sources of nitrogen are scarce).
When I used to contract I used to work for a firm that would waste their time panicking about this but the reality was that their code was so bad that if it was released and their competitors could read it then that would probably help us because they'd be wasting their time. Much of it was _very_ hard to read, work with and needed serious improvements.

We don't sell the source code, we sell the ability to update, maintain, test and build that code and that's institutional and staff knowledge.
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New Malware Hijacks Kubernetes Clusters to Mine Monero
ColdMac – a 2009 iMac self-serving graphs of it’s temps in a cold outdoor shed
I looked at Merriam-Webster online, the snippet Google pulls from the OED and the Mac dictionary app which uses the New American Oxford.

"Locate" would lead to less confusion among readers. It unanimously has the right definition, and is a simpler word.
Anyone else annoyed with how buggy the HBO Max apple tv software is?

vs binging on Netflix, the experience has way more weird UI bugs and hangs.

Finding we're constantly restarting the app/apple tv because it keeps hanging or erroring out.
Part of the purpose of a burn test is to see how it handles temperature under load. We didn't have the option of adding cooling, many of the product installations took place in a hot climate, and nobody wanted to pay for a hardened part...

Anyway, my point is that SSD drive reliability varies wildly
Having worked at a large management consulting company, the harm isn’t direct but it’s still there. These companies have incredible leverage, but it’s from credentials not competence. Economic harm isn’t as obvious as say water pollution, but diffuse harm is still harm.

Anyway, the average company does all the stuff you don’t really think about like making pots, windows, staplers, hearing aids etc. It’s the extreme outliers that people talk about not the dozen small factories making decorative concrete flagstones, etc.
I was arguing that making money for investors is not a good criterion without more info. So doge having utility doesn’t deflate, but reinforces my argument.
Cello added support for the img tag in 1993, before Netscape was ever released. At that point in time, I recall it was the second most popular GUI browser, behind NCSA Mosaic.
Amazon’s Next CEO Says He’s Committed to Making Video Games
Why I think GCP is better than AWS (2020)
My memory of ACA may be hazy but I do remember talks of having that as part of the ACA law. Not sure if it made it in (probably not due to lobbyists).

I think if insurance carriers had the ability to verify the charges before paying we would see naturalized reform from sheer market power. No one will pay for a $5k thing if the site says it's $350.
> is it not possible for india or iran in this case to check your phone number and see if it is active on signal?

WTF, why does signal require PII to use? Shouldn't it give you a public/private key pair on signup?
> Also, what’s the ethical issue with pirating content that is not for sale?... (Offline-only distribution would count as “abandoned” in this regime.)

Let's say I author a book and sell it as a paperback, but decide for whatever reason that I don't want to sell an e-book. Would you apply the same reasoning there? Is it ethical for you to torrent an unpaid for e-book copy because you've decided that's more convenient for you?

I'd personally argue that it's not. However if you previously paid for the book and you want to read it on your kindle and i don't offer an ebook, that would be different in my mind. Same thing if you purchased the Tom and Jerry's DVDs and decided you prefer to stream.
Robin DiAngelo is bad, but she's not "overthrow the government" bad. I know it's a message board and you can axiomatically six-degrees your way into saying anyone is as bad as anyone else (try it: Paul Graham vs. Slavoj Zizek, bonus points for connecting through Short Round). But DiAngelo is simply a grifter, not a menace.
Dangerous click of the day...?
If you include their costs and fees, that is not the case though is it? Or at least the data I've been able to find doesn't support that.

You're also talking about rearward looking data, not forward looking predictability, often only including hedge funds for instance that still exist today. For any given hedgefund who outperformed in the past, how likely is it that, if you made a judgement today on their ability to perform, and then waited 1, 5, 10 years in the future, it would match that judgement? What are the odds they'll exist then, or be merged or renamed or whatever?

If you today made a bet for 10 years from now as to Steph Curry's 3 point average then, how likely would it be to win?

There is a reason anything to do with the markets is almost always followed with 'past performance is no guarantee of future results'.

There are also confounding effects like the Bernie Madoff's and Enron's of the world, and major issues with visibility into most hedge funds that make it difficult to actually compared performance on a level playing field. If someone is 'loading the die' using insider trading, tips from the CIA or whatever, it would be really difficult to call them anything but incredibly skilled/lucky - and you couldn't tell the difference unless it blew up publicly.
No good; people working for the Iranian state will DM. Signal didn't think this through. No one should announce proxies via social media. Tell people how to set one up for friends and family.
I must admit his current tweets about Dogecoin seem weird. He's literally shitposting, and some people will take it seriously and buy Dogecoins with real money instead of mining them.
Here's a non-contradictory summarisation:

1. McKinseys advice is for the most part useless , often their advice is just politically motivated within the clients offices
2. They have zero morals, they will advice how to optimize the gas chambers (probably not too off the mark, they probably are advising something related to uighurs somewhere, maybe how apple can hide traces of genocide fueled chips from their product lineup) if they can make a couple mills.
3. The despots/murderers recruiting them are still going to go ahead with their addiction rings/gas chambers irrespective of what McKinsey tells them. The argument isn't that McKinsey made the opioid problem worse. Maybe they did but they probably will conveniently agree with us that they were not really consequential. Still doesn't mean everyone from McKinsey shouldn't be considered a dick though.
Do it, please, post your sign and we can all print one out.
The prospects of low-skill American workers have been devastated by globalization, mass immigration from countries with lower standards of living, the destruction of unions, and the centralization of business into huge corporations.

They have extremely low bargaining power against their bosses when ten people are scrambling to happily take their job after they're fired. Most other jobs are equally bad, so while they can leave it's often trading one bad job for another.
Source code of a large monolithic projects(Products) lacks value due not being adaptable or modular, but it has worth that can be decomposed and refactored into other software(libraries/packages/headers/functions).
Management consulting is a really different thing to consulting as a developer or specialist..
You can't fix racism by making everyone obsessed about race.
This seems like a much healthier approach:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/can-chloe-...
> "Bringing in consultants is, among other ways, a way to bring in people who can get shit done, moving bricks at lower levels of the org with the political mandate of the top."

Or, to put it another way: You hire a consultant so you can avoid responsibility for your decisions.

"I didn't just fire thousands of people, possibly putting some out on the streets. Nope. We're just right-sizing the company based on the advice of this well-respected consultant with a nice haircut."

Hire a consultant and get a fall guy and the ability to shirk responsibility for the detrimental impact your decisions have on your workforce.
You just need great archeologists to dig some worth out of source code whose authors have long past. At least, that's the premise behind Vernor Vinge's programmer archaeologists as portrayed in the fiction A Deepness in the Sky. Dystopian views of how code will evolve in the future are useful to informing on these kinds of things.
I completely agree, that's why I wrote in a footnote:

> However, I believe this statement is only true for software companies where the core technology is the main asset. For many software companies, the main value might not lie in their technology, but in other things, such as the network effects, relationships to customers, etc.
Is Google also out of engineers or something? I would imagine that the important thing about building a competing service isn't understanding the specific implementation, but seeing the value in what the service provides.
Found the PM
According to the linked article an Officer was attacked with a sword and seriously injured. These officers on their own accord came up with the armor and weapons, and it was later confiscated from them.
The point about theory-building requiring (or at least being accelerated by) interpersonal communication / teaching rings very true.

In the middle of last year, my team went through a major re-org, and I'm now working with a whole bunch of new teammates. My project didn't get cancelled in the reorg; in fact, it's actually come to more prominence due to synergy in the projects we work on. Essentially my new teammates are working on applications which have 2-4 years of catching up to reach the same level of maturity as my existing work.

It's taken me the better part of a year to communicate the whys, whats, and hows of the systems we've built. I've given multiple talks, explained in 1:1s, written docs, and it's just taken a really long time to get across these ideas. All-remote work has definitely made a big (negative) impact in the velocity that ideas can be communicated.
You guys can both be right (and I believe you are). Instead of attacking the GP, why not find middle ground?

Population growth could be changing the ability to easily get a low skilled job, but I personally believe offshoring is the biggest issue. There's simply less places to go.

Anecdotally it used to be super common to walk out of a job on Friday and find another by Monday. We need that back for the sake of worker's rights.
We are to the left of Germany, France, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. I stopped looking after that, so I don't know if there's a country we're to the right of.

(Rayiner is wrong about the "right up to birth thing"; as many have pointed out, even in Europe, where there are often bright-line cutoffs on abortion by pregnancy week, there's still medical abortion after that. So the answer to his "name another" question is "most European countries".)
Wow. My oldest link is 2006. Was a bit of an accurate diary of that time for me. Cool.
Thanks for the tldr, I knew it was all fluff!

Of course what we appreciate in the human faces (and bodies) vs. what we appreciate in art are very different things. Visual arts in this sense can be closer to say music or literature more than human appearance.

Art definitely requires context and prior experience. Seeing the most abstract art of the 20th century for example, means very different things to people who have little experience with it vs. those who have seen a lot of it. Same for music. You can't appreciate Miles Davis unless you train your ear to understand avant-garde jazz in general. Then you listen to Miles or you see Rothko (Klee, Picasso, etc etc) and you feel the kind of joy that can be felt only with a certain prior experience. This beauty is relative.

By contrast, appreciation of human beauty in my view is totally different because it's natural, given to everyone and doesn't require prior experience. Our animal brain seems to be at play here, but I'm not very knowledgeable on how these mechanisms are triggered.
There was some trouble getting a release out the door some time back, due to lack of maintainers available to do it apparently:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25076197

Though they did manage in the end - latest one was Nov. 2020 - the person who did it said it would be his last
https://www.cairographics.org/news
Program teaches prisoners coding so they can land tech jobs once released