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Ask HN: What's going on with the Smarking hiring announcements?
I've been on HN for a few years now and I've seen countless ads for Smarking hiring people. Is this a real company hiring dozens and dozens of people? I can't figure out what's going on but it seems fishy.

I did some digging and they've posted at least once every month or two on HN for 6 years. A few links:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=smarking.org

- https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=smarking.com

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27095279

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26851723

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25081361

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26529774

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23249170

There are many many more links but this is just a few. It's more difficult to find the ones where they link to lever.co instead of their own site.

I have nothing against Smarking in any way. I'm just curious why I keep seeing adds for a company that's 7 years old and has only publicly raised $3M (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/smarking). All I could find on revenue is that they're somewhere between $1.2M and $2M a year (https://getlatka.com/companies/smarking & https://www.zoominfo.com/c/smarking/363422106).

This seems like a pretty tiny and old company to be hiring so much. Maybe I'm totally missing how this is a secret unicorn but it just seems off to me.

Please let me know what's going on. I'm just curious why I've seen their ads all the time for years.
People labeling issues as "drama" way become a convenient way to disengage from important discussions. Unless, of course, it happens to them, then suddenly it's not drama but something the entire world needs to pay attention to.
There is no fitness advantage to being resistant to UV rays. natural selection isn't about you living a long and happy life. It's about you living long enough to breed and rear offspring and whatever happens afterwards doesn't really matter, as it's not selected for. Humans are fertile in 15 years. You can get skin cancer and still make successful progeny.
It's because people's body fat has shifted towards polyunsaturated fats since they were told to avoid saturated fat.

Eating saturated fat and avoiding polyunsaturated fat I don't sunburn anymore. At all.
I get what you're saying, but if you read the replies, that's not what they're saying. Exact quote: "Super Meat Boy is basically that" (meaning, basically a red square).
I wonder how much of the push against Lenna was veiled jealousy.
Take Germany as an example of stagflation. Last year we had to fell a lot of trees because bark beetles. Everyone was dumping their bad lumber. A CDU politician introduced a 85% quota so that the markets can recover but now the situation has reversed and some forest owners are not allowed to harvest their lumber despite high prices. For small businesses losing those last 15% may make it unprofitable to harvest at all. Making it illegal to run businesses serving hot markets is a recipe for cost increases without corresponding wage increases.

However, in the US the investment rate is going up and businesses are expanding production. The biggest factor right now is the semiconductor shortage and there it is just a matter of time before things return to normal.
Truckers WISH they could curse like Avasarala!
I know aloe vera is often said to be useful in clearing benzene and formaldehyde from the air as a houseplant: perhaps this is being picked up from the environment, rather than any production issue per se?
Google Analytics deleted my entire account because I didn't log in for 60 days
Scientists claim to have solved Covid vaccine blood-clot puzzle
The article explains the scientists have formulated a theory about the clots in some patients.

“The delivery mechanism means the vaccines send the spike protein into the cell nucleus rather than the cytosol fluid found inside the cell where the virus normally produces proteins, Marschalek and other scientists said in a preprint paper released on Wednesday.
Once inside the cell nucleus, certain parts of the spike protein splice, or split apart, creating mutant versions, which are unable to bind to the cell membrane where important immunisation takes place. The floating mutant proteins are instead secreted by cells into the body, triggering blood clots in roughly one in 100,000 people, according to Marschalek’s theory.“
KiwiIRC? Even if I were to ignore the association with LTM, why should or would I give a damn about the opinions of the author of a client I have never and will never use?

Also, claiming neutrality (or worse, friendship) with a party that has now hijacked hundreds of channels from FOSS projects is not a good look, to put it very mildly.
I'm using vim happy no plugins no config just edit files do I need neovim?
If you gave every American 30k USD, most people would go out and purchase a 50k automobile.
Review: Limited-tenure concessions for collective goods
Having worked at one point for several years in the "antipiracy industry, it's basically a burlap sac full of rabid ferrets. Te client base is mostly crazed studio execs who want to DDoS the internet, and the DMCA farms that service them ham-fistedly.

A turd tsunami on a good day.
What other reporting should we wait for? Looks pretty damning to me.
Most business can in a convoluted way. But should you they?

Take HN as an example. People can upvote comments. Should you represent the action of upvoting as a resource creation, in a REST way ? Or as an action ?

Take Amazon, how do you represent the action of putting a cart item aside ? The action of paying ? The action of changing which card is the default one ?
There is no mechanism to buy all Doge and the "market cap" of Doge includes lost coins. If you bought all of Doge, its value would be gone since it would be like it didn't exist.

You might as well calculate the market cap of baseball cards.

It's just not the right way to measure the worth of a crypto.

Put another way, if Doge owners decided to collectively sell it would be worth 0.
It doesn't drive inflation, it merely drives inequality and in specific circumstances it can cause needless unemployment or bullshit jobs.
This is very cool! I’d love to know what kind of data inputs you used for the recommendation engine.

More generally, I think it would be really great to have collaborative filtering services for all kinds of interests (music, movies, books, forums, etc) independent of the mega-platforms which have significant biases in what content they peddle (often optimized so keenly to the point of being adversarial to users).
This funding does not appear to be explicitly GPT-3 related (any type of AI is accepted), but the video/application hints very heavily toward favoring applications using it.
Homebrew is very bad, probably one of the worst package managers I've used, and light years worse than Arch Linux pacman or apt, which I'm not a fan of, but better than Brew.

It's certainly one of the better macOS package managers, just because it's the most used — so it has more packages than the competition.
Servers as they should be – shipping early 2022
I recently switched to iPhone from samsung because I was tired of samsung ads and only 2 years of OS updates.

However, Apple really rubs me the wrong way when it comes RTR. Recently, I tried replacing my wifes scratched screen on her iphone. I purchased an OEM refurbished screen. I was able to replace the screen and then was greeted with a message saying, the screen is not original. I would prefer to buy an original screen and replace myself but I cannot. It isn't rocket science, but manufacturers make it seem like it is extremely difficult.

Also, I would never purchase a Tesla. Obtaining parts is extremely difficult or impossible. They blacklist cars from supercharging network etc.

If you want to rebuild a crashed Tesla, you are better off getting a 2nd car for parts.

Every single product should come with a manual with all the part numbers, and manufacturers should be forced to have those parts or produce them for a certain period of time. However, this isn't as profitable as selling something new every few years and servicing it through a manufacturers repair center.

If no action is taken against Tesla and Apple, other companies will follow as they are leaving money on the table.
> The headline confuses me: If that large proportion were 'tightening their belts', economic activity would decline and there would be no inflation.

83% at the bottom could tighten their belts, and the 17% at the top who control far more wealth could loosen theirs and economic activitt would increase.

> and there would be no inflation.

Even if we assume the first incorrect statement were true, this would still be wrong: there wouldn’t be demand-pull inflation, but there still could be supply-push inflation.

> Inflation is an excess of economic activity -
too much money for the available truly valuable investments.

No, inflation is an increase in consumer price levels, and has nothing directly to do with investments, though there are indirect effects in both direction.
Giving everyone $30k would. Just the extra $300 per week that people were getting is causing them to be dissuaded from subjecting themselves to the bottom tier of jobs.

I’ve spoken to a lot of hotel owners and restaurateurs lamenting their inability to hire people for low wages part time work. And there are fast food restaurants around me that are closed at many times because they have no workers, especially for late night hours that they used to. Some hotel owners I know are closing off portions of their inventory because they cannot find housekeeping staff to clean their rooms for the wages/quality of life/stability they want to provide.

That is also the reason for all the PPP nonsense. Rather than simply paying the workers for lost wages and paying the businesses for lost revenue, PPP stipulations make it so the worker stays tied to the business.
Or! We could go one step further, and change the connector to make sure that people use them correctly. Wouldn't that be clever!?
The poster you're replying to stated the negative externalities outweigh its benefits, not that there are any negative externalities at all.
> consistent philosophical logic

Agree on the rest, but not sure about that. Buddhism is well known for inconsistencies.

https://scholarworks.smith.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1...

I feel poetic inconsistencies/contradictions are the ancient world's equivalent of clickbait.
A lot of large businesses had large cash reserves. It's the small ones that needed the support.
Don't confuse the long term memory which is essentially unlimited (chess example) and the working memory (3-4 items random or ~7 with on-the-fly chunking)
It's a variation on the Von Neumann probe. A self replicating spacecraft. Instead of being for exploration or production of a specific widget its purpose is building ftl gates as part of a presumably galactic network.
Scholarship money is tax free, since it goes to tuition, books, etc.

Unless you are referring to money for housing? That is probably far more affordable of a tax bill relative to tuition.
Dahlskjaer not being involved makes Libera more trustworthy, not less. They are the one who precipitated this entire mess.
What, you want people to host services for you for free?
5 out of 6, and the wrong one was 320 kbit, but that one was very close between them.. between wav and 320 mp3, it's difficult enough that I can't put firm words on it.. the wav is "more" or "larger" or "fuller" without there being anything specific I can point at.
Western/secular Buddhism popularized in the west is generally not the same as Buddhism practiced in Buddhist countries. The actual Buddhist religion teachings can include, depending on the branch:

- Hell and heaven realms where you can get reincarnated into if you've lived an especially bad or good life

- Various gods and demons

- A timeline spanning trillions of years and hundreds of Buddhas

- "Celestial Buddhas" that came from space

- Enlightenment is now impossible in this world because it's too corrupt. If you chant enough, this or that Buddha will reincarnate you into their personal realm where you can become enlightened.

The majority of Buddhists in the world believe and teach these things. The modern secular western Buddhist community is sort of like a Theravada-lite in my opinion. Theravada already doesn't have a lot of the above, but they do have reincarnation, different realms, magic powers, etc. In the west the Four Noble Truths and Noble Eightfold Path are emphasized while chanting, ritual, etc. as well as supernatural beliefs are downplayed.

So when you say that Buddhism is rational and consistent, you're referring to a westernized version of it. In my opinion, what Siddhartha Gautama actually taught, or at least what early Buddhism seems to have been, is somewhat close to the pared-down westernized version of Buddhism, just in a Hindu context and belief system due to the time and location of the teachings. But this set of teachings is NOT the same as the religion of Buddhism as practiced by most Buddhists.

All that being said, something real is in the core teachings. You don't have to take anyone's word for it. You don't have to have faith in anything. Just learn to look inside, and see for yourself.
Readlax launches brain training app
What if you are building a data product? I'm not communicating anything on a lot of the things I'm building, because they are simply components of a larger software program. I haven't touched a dashboard in years.
You would get the Eurozone.
Plenty -- most? -- forms of Buddhism also have tons of mysticism, gods, reincarnation, and other stuff that would have to compete with Europe's other religious traditions.

What you're saying is sort of like reducing Christianity to "love thy neighbor" and wondering why that didn't catch on wherever people are nice.

I'm in a Buddhist country right now, and I really dig it, and I'm learning all kinds of awesome things about how people live -- but I'm not sure I'd say the locals are more rational than the Europeans. Nor would I say the Europeans are necessarily more rational than anybody else... maybe "performative rationalism" would be a good term?
Oh, awesome! I’ve got to do some pid tuning this week. I’ll definitely be interested in the raw C code.

I wonder if it could be portable to a microcontroller Are the blas routines expensive or large matrices?
Thank you, this was very helpful. Data.world seems to provide a lot of features (governance, collaboration, data lineage, etc) I found Manta while looking at Data.world which is specific to data lineage and seems to be what I was looking for. I just don't know if it can handle manual rules yet (like rules defined in a Python process using Pandas code) or if it can only show data lineage in databases
Papers like this are part of why I'm very wary of companies mandating things like SonarQube in their CI/CD pipelines. Yes, carefully chosen metrics are great, but a corporate policy of metric goals with quality gates is just there so someone in product or management can check off a box.
I have watched Stargate Atlantis but not SG-1 or SGU. I loved Atlantis and thought it was a very fun show. Looking forward to starting SG-1 when there is time...
My rationale is simply that more dollars to go around means that one dollar is worth less. Simple logic, rather than fancy economics, I guess.
> It's like I said in my OP: The hardest thing for someone with NPD

Is this a diagnosis from a professional that Andrew diagnosed, or are you just levying personal attacks against someone you disagree with?
If not supported yet add support for JSON feeds [0].

[0] https://www.jsonfeed.org/
Yes i agree, some of the subreddits may be old. Last post will be a good metric for this.
Between friends, no. We mostly talk in Discord for random stuff and memes and discussions or text-message groups for people not on discord or when we need more immediate responses. Some friends are still on FB, but that's mostly for large announcements or for friends that particularly need a lot of attention and drama.
> And you also don't have enough gas to go anywhere else.

This is just laughably spun. That airplane was fueled up for a flight To South America. Pretending like somehow it had to go through Germany or else run out of gas is just ridiculous. Turn around, fuel up in Moscow where you took off from, and fly back to the east if you want. It's an airplane. Don't be silly.

And it's a digression anyway. Even if this would have prevented Morales from reaching Bolivia in that jet, it's STILL not the same thing as forcing his plane down with threat of arms, forcing an evacuation, and arresting his passengers.
I may have missed it, but the original commenter stated the negative externalities outweigh its benefits. What are the benefits of cyrptocurrency in it's current state that you feel outweigh the criminal use?
There's an overabundance of useless tools by con-men these days.
Let's say someone submits a malicious keyboard with the bad instructions hidden in a constant pool.

Apple can't just scan for a bad byte sequence in executable pages because it could also represent legitimate constants used by the program. (not sure if this part is correct?)

If so, doesn't that make detection via static analysis infeasible unless LLVM is patched to avoid writing bad byte sequences in constant pools? Otherwise they have to risk rejecting some small number of non-malicious binaries, which might be OK, depending on the likelihood of it happening.
Does anyone know how they texture those monstrous meshes? Available 3D packages certainly couldn't handle it directly.
I've switched to self-hosting my contacts with Radicale[0] (with "backups" to a git repo) synced via DavX5[1], with no problem of them mixing with Google Contacts. It's pretty annoying though that basically no current contacts app recognizes common fields like the nickname for a person.

[0]: https://radicale.org/

[1]: https://www.davx5.com/
Isn’t the windup normally just a min/max type function? Any suggestions for testing an anti-windup code in an implementation?
OpenAI is the corporate equivalent of a social media influencer. Rather than sponsored product promotion alongside a seductive lifestyle, they offer Azure product placement alongside trendy AI research and, now, futuristic startups.
On a related note, let me shill my side-project: https://nikas.praninskas.com/suggest-subreddit/

It suggests subreddits based on what you're already subscribed to.
https://archive.is/wdA8m
Jokes (and especially inside jokes) don't really go over well here on HN.
The cover and intro blurb look like airport fiction. Which ... is a reliably good seller, so if it's well written on top of that, I've got no clue why it's not selling.
The admins knew this was going to happen, people need to stop spreading misinformation pretending that they were caught off guard.
If Bill takes it and buys more farmland, that does cause trickle down inflation (depending on lease rates charges for farming).
As the original commenter stated, the negative externalities outweigh its benefits. You and a few others seem to have taken this to mean that a single negative externality should result in a ban.
From the article:

> The first thing that writers need to understand is that book sales — like advances — are all over the place. This is true even for individual authors. It’s not unheard of for an author to get roughly similar critical acclaim for their first three novels, yet have them sell 10k, 100k, and 10k respectively. Publishing is full of luck, timing, and unpredictable trends.

This is, in my experience, entirely true[1]. If your novel is not selling a hundred thousand copies a year then it doesn't mean it's not a very good book. It just means that the 'word-of-mouth' chatter between readers (which is, in my personal view, by far the biggest driver of book sales) was concentrated around somebody else's novel at the time you were publishing and promoting your novel.

[1] I commented about my own lucky book adventure a couple of years back on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20549429
I think most users would at least appreciate the option. For example, windows has power settings where you can adjust the clock of the CPU to however you like when plugged in or unplugged. Consider also that gaming has never been a silent prospect, on a desktop, or a laptop, and especially a game console. The switch is silent, but gamers know nintendo is compromising on graphics fidelity compared to competitors to make a silent handheld device, and it does get hot during use. I don't think people would mind if their fans spooled up when they are getting good frames at high graphics setting from their games, or at the very least had the option to select a more performant clock speed if fan noise didn't bother them. Fan noise doesn't bother me, I game with headphones like most enthusiast gamers. Apple gives you nothing right now like that, that I know of.
It's unclear to me. The wikipedia article doesn't say, but it seems to refer to it in the present tense as though it is still practiced. I would hope if it died out and was then reconstructed, the entry would mention as much. Here's an article linked to in the entry, which I don't have time to read, but sounds promising:

The Decline of the Sámi People’s Indigenous Religion
http://www.laits.utexas.edu/sami/diehtu/siida/christian/decl...
He didn't hide it under his mattress, he purchased enormous amounts of farmland to rent seek off of your need to eat.

https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-land-portfolio-bi...
Seems like the CEO is a one-trick pony, making everything he touches a startup incubator. How does this fulfill OpenAI's mission of bringing about AGI?
The OpenAI API/GPT-3 is still invite-only.
It's a pretty minor one but I don't know if the company Smarking exists: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27294446
> [...] I don't need it when reviewing PRs, stepping through a debugger, poring through logs, deploying, running ansible or finding what config made that deploy fail. [...]

Interesting how people work different. Would not like to dig through logs without 2 monitors (allows to have 4 different logs open). Same with debugging (having multiple source positions visible). Or deploying (watching logs/deployment progress). Reviewing PR (having spec side-by-side with code).

It could not imagine any task I could do in a park (besides playing with a dog ;) )...
They are factually incorrect about 70% of the Yakuza being Korean.

"While ethnic Koreans make up only 0.5% of the Japanese population, they are a prominent part of Yakuza ... The Japanese National Police Agency suggested Koreans composed 10% of the Yakuza proper"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakuza#:~:text=According%20to%...
Huh. This is interesting, I can empathize with both sides of the argument. Are C text editors not able to take care of syntax highlighting the differences between a typedef'd scalar and a typedef'd struct? Colouring the type one way or another I figure would be sufficient.
Then the solution is simple: tax the rich.
My experience using e-prime with fellow non-experts suggests otherwise. The increased precision bifurcates perspectives, interpretations and nuances. Agreements take longer to reach, but everyone feels smarter during the process.

I think mastery takes ages. I also think all the “beginner” texts, the ones you can find online or in books quickly, overemphasise the precision and analytic benefits. I got much more from it once I started using it in a more poetic mode. It draws “scientific” communication out into myriad detail; it contracts poetry and prose with punch.
Wow, this has been around for awhile. Pretty interesting take on this in the link to Brad Fitzpatrick's article from 2007.

Your statement about companies being unmotivated to support anything like this rings true to me. It is exactly what I would expect. The question is, what might motivate them.
It's not possible to lend digital media out without making a copy(remotely streaming it still copying), which isn't protected by the first sale doctrine. Redbox isn't making a copy. That's the big difference.