skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're overestimating the content of the initial message from the recruiter to the potential candidate.

If someone gets three messages a day, five days a week, and 80% of those messages say "there is a job somewhere, I won't say which country, or what kind of job, but it's a leading-edge company that won awards for excellence in 2015, would you like to jump on a call?", that's not enough information to decide whether to jump on a call.

Let's focus on just that 80%, because that's what's being complained about.

The potential candidate has no idea if the call is worthwhile yet.

But from experience, the potential candidate should estimate: It's probably in a city, state or sometimes even a country, that they aren't going to relocate to. It's probably offering less than half their current salary, or if they are not currently working, it's probably offering at the low end for what they could get. It's probably in an area of technology that has almost no overlap with what they have done before. It's probably not an interesting job even if everything else were great. The recruiter has probably not read your profile at all. Their message is probably somewhat automated, and you might not even get a reply if you say yes to a call.

Given that it's a recruiter who has already shown how little they value your time (by sending a message devoid of useful information, when they could easily say useful things up front), and in some cases they have lied ("I'm a headhunter and my client specifically asked me to write to you" in their mailmerge template...), but they have whetted your appetite enough to reply - it seems only fair to reply with a few easy questions first before a call:

- Which country? Would I have to relocate? Is the salary less than half my current salary? Is it a tech job? Is it a management job? Is it a retail job? Have you looked at my CV/profile at all? Am I writing to a human being?

You're right that a quick call is an efficient way of imparting information. But who's going to agree to a quick call about something extremely vague when the other party has shown so little consideration towards the potential candidate so far, and there's almost certainly nothing in it for the candidate?

It's analogous to agreeing to a sales call which was proposed by an opening message like "I have a household product you will definitely want to buy - tell me your number so I can call you!!" with no clue about what the product is. Of course you're going to be curious enough sometimes ("whetted") to reply with "tell me something useful about the product before I agree to a call?" It's amazing how many of these get a second message that's just as vague as the first one.

Perhaps this strategy works out for those recruiters, as it will filter out candidates who feel comfortable declining low quality approaches, and appeal to the more desparate candidates who will take anything. Recruiters are often looking for candidates that would accept below-average salaries to work for less attractive jobs, after all.

It's still reasonable for a potential candidate to get answers to a few basic questions before proceeding with a call.
So at this point what does Freenode actually have? It seems like no one is left…
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Unix pipes and filters were not presented as "the" solution, but as an example for the properties we want from our glue, i.e. we should be able to glue our pieces together without having to write much additional code.

And yes, in order for this to work, we need lots of different kinds of glue: https://blog.metaobject.com/2019/02/why-architecture-oriente...

However, for most programming tasks, we have one kind of glue (with minor sub-variants): the procedure call. And so instead of having something that snaps together with a bit of glue, we have to write enormous amounts of boiler-plate in order to make the pieces fit. (The analogy only goes so far...)
I have a question for people reading this article. Where did you get ahold of the relevant docs, back in the 80s? I remember being dimly aware that there was something called 'machine code' which was like BASIC but much faster. But that was it.
I’m not sure this article understands how VCs in general often operate. I’ve met many VCs who will invest in a team with barely an idea, or where they have a lot of scepticism about the idea, because they believe the team have a sufficiently high chance of figuring it out, or executing and scaling, and generating the outsized returns they need — whether with the original idea, a heavily evolved or refined version of it, or a complete “pivot”.

The lack of rigour around the specifics of the idea, the tech or maths behind it, etc. is not new or unique to crypto VCs (look at some of the nonsense that gets funded!). What’s more unusual is that anyone can often read the same papers and look at the code and decide the idea is dumb/illegal/won’t work. We can’t usually see what it is that made the VC invest, though.

But sure, if you’re looking for VC funding as a signal of great tech or an obvious market need or problem being solved, you have to at least be really picky about which VCs you follow and how much you read into their pronouncements (some are surely better than others, though).

Also, those projects that do have good tech and a viable product/solution will
almost certainly benefit from the support of top quality VCs.
I see their logic -- that was a famously underpowered computer (but delightfully compact). The same-year MacBook Air[1] blows its specs away, for instance.

[1]: https://support.apple.com/kb/SP714?locale=en_US
Huh - so lets see...
NewEgg accepts(1): Doge, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin cash, etc. Telsa may or may not accept Bitcoin depending on Elon's mood. And El Salvador just made bitcoin legal tender.
Yep - those are all illegal transactions.

Your argument boils down to "Only criminals use Tor"...
Not very useful.

1) https://kb.newegg.com/knowledge-base/using-crypto-on-newegg/
Do you use airpods with it? Curious about how that experience would be
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There's a technique I've experimented with over the past 2 years that seems to cut through some of these cloak-and-dagger games.

State that you want to conduct your own research into the company first, and that by hiding the name they are coming off as unprofessional. To avoid the questions on conflict and timing, add this note: "You can use the this message and its timestamp as a proof of first contact."

Some come back with actual details. Always be kind and courteous with them.

Nonetheless, what I wrote back in 2014 still holds true: https://bostik.iki.fi/aivoituksia/pages/recruiter-anxiety.ht...
"never eat alone" is probably useful advice in the sense of "oh, i always eat alone, but this book says that successful people are doing literally the opposite of what i always do, maybe that means that there is a huge blind spot that i am missing, and that maybe i should try doing something to at least not miss that blind spot, and then i can decide what actions i need to take"
Hmm, my PRS e-reader is still going strong and I remember choosing it over a kindle, specifically because it had fewer restrictions on how I use it. It could read PDFs and ePubs, DRM-free, which I believe kindle couldn't at the time. Not sure how the landscape has changed.
Many teams at Apple are small but mighty and constantly overwhelmed. It speaks to the priorities of management to engender the existence of these situations. Or the sclerosis of the company culture.
> Also, how well does html do multiple columns with text flowing between them nowadays?

With the CSS property `columns`, this is pretty easy to do:

https://jsfiddle.net/52j401rg/

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/columns
I fundamentally distrust these people (on both sides) which will make it hard to not presume there are perverse incentives in these bills, but I’m open to it.

My sense is that antitrust is as wrong a model for correcting this as the prior regime was that led to the creation of antitrust laws.
I always thought part of the reason node took off so quickly is that the intro docs all had a five line complete code example that was an http server. And when I wrote APIs for customers, I felt I could not do a good job in the API design unless I write an example that used the API, and then I had good sample code to share. I find all three things: conceptual framework “how to think about this API”, example code (with important error handling paths, just just postman collection), and thorough documentation on all the technical details are all important. Tho obviously the latter is done automatically now usually. But it is important to get out things like “I will return 429s and your code must have a good exponential back off/retry policies” to developers at the beginning.
MS Paint's convenience and simplicity is underrated. I end up subconsciously using it more often than I think I do. Screenshot pastes, quick edits to blur out stuff before sharing etc.
Odds any of it gets out of committee?

It seems a greater priority of this Congress is social reforms and the President and VP also have other priorities that are keeping Congress’ attention
That's not a good definition of religion. It allows one to sneak in a history-laden term with a relatively innocuous definition, have someone accept the given definition, and the introduce the rest of the history without having to prove it.

For prior art see arguments that "something must be the first mover, and that thing we call God". Curiously, the sudden leap to "therefore the Judeo-Christian deity is proven to exist" keeps getting snuck in there without any extra proof.

In other words, you're attempting to define a term of art using an existing word, and this just obscures the argument because most people will use its common definition, and not the meaning you're defining for it.
I used to do it a lot, it was great. So many people I’ve met IRL just as I had a perfect job where I was always going to random places.

The first time it was weird, I was going to meet this girl on irc about some forum drama, and it felt even more silly telling customs. But we had a fun night and I realised that people have weird fringe interests and that there is literally dozens of us.

It’s never too late
The naive solution I had in mind isn’t a centrally planned economy. It’s some type of addition to the concept of a market to deter volatility in specifically commodities markets where volatility is often disruptive and potentially catastrophic. I don’t trust a gov’t to centrally plan an economy, thats for sure, but I do believe society could iterate and improve on the way it applies markets to solve various problems.
I agree with that, but rarely do I see the nominally “free speech” crowd on HN make that distinction.
I was an android early adopter, had my share of custom roms and their attendant issues with drivers. Enough to me.
I admire those projects, but no, thanks, I have better things to do with my time.
What's your point here in the second paragraph? You say that

1. people use their own "shamanic" medicine based on published scientific papers,

2. people disparage clinical practioners' theories which are based on research and which are later often refuted,

3. you conclude that the "many of those theories" of (2) are "based on lots of research" but often flawed,

4. which "does not bode well for" experiments based on the papers of (1).

What does (2) have to do with (1), unless the content of the papers and "experiments" in each are closely related?

Perhaps you could clarify what you were trying to say here.
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Mathematics is distinguished by at least two characteristics from religion:

1. Precise definitions

2. Not proven inconsistent

(As for 2, we know we can't prove the bulk of mainstream maths consistent. However, since the crisis triggered after Russell's paradox was discovered and set theory was formalised in a better way, nobody has been able to poke a fundamental hole into current mathematics. Moreover, there are certain subsets of mathematics - say, Presburger Arithmetic - that are provably consistent.)

I have never seen a definition of "God" that is both precise and not self-contradictory.

Conflating mathematics and religion is just disingenuous.
The marketing for self help books rarely seems to indicate who the target audience is, other than everyone. I imagine the blurb for your compiler book would not be "The book everyone needs to read to understand how to use a computer better."
There is no reason the purchase of a purple bazooka in a video game needs to be confirmed by thousands of nodes so someone like Epic would keep the crypto centralized and therefore fast. They wouldn't need to "let you redeem the bazooka for dollars" since there will be people who want the bazooka and would be willing to purchase it from you. Epic would then have the power to mint new bazooka's in order to raise funds for their development. The issue at hand is how does Epic do any of this without going to jail for breaking securities regulations.
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i love the typical "we are willing to pay this good candidate 30%" more than our current engineers. Even tho he knows nothing".

And then go on to not raise the experiences engineers salaries so that the new guy has the highest salary.

And then they're surprised when the veterans just leave the company.
The American Dietetic Association explicitly says a vegan diet is safe and appropriate for all stages of life, including pregnancy specifically, so you’re just wrong about that.

Also, cultures change and evolve. It was also a part of past cultures to do all manner of inhumane things, and we are all better off for deciding to stop. Simply saying something is a part of culture doesn’t give it a free pass.

Watch what happens to animals in slaughterhouses, and you’ll see why I don’t think preparing Caldo Verde is really super important in comparison: https://youtu.be/7Y_FHhByhBk
Its GLSL, and yes, you can pretty much copy paste it.
SVG seems really intimidating at first, but for simple (especially non-work) use cases where you only need to do one thing, it's actually really fast and easy to generate minimal SVG directly from data. The learning curve is no steeper than learning a does-everything plotting library, again for simple unchanging usecases.

Prerequisites: knowing how to scale numbers from one range (data range) to another (SVG coordinate range) using multiplication and addition.
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There will still be security releases AFAIK.
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FWIW, I did something foolish that triggered the spambot detection on Libera, and it likewise propagated my ban to DroneBL.

(It all got removed very quickly when someone was contacted about it, and I have no negative opinion about the experience because, in my case, it very much was of my own making, I just mention it so you're aware that sort of blacklisting is not limited to freenode.)
I chuckled at the analogy with sausage-making. Thank you for getting your point across!
I don't understand what the arrows should represent. In fact, I did not understand a single schema. Which is a shame for an article about "visualization".
>>Except those "exotic derivatives, structured products, etc" do have real investments at the heart of them.

Hmm...2008 housing crash and the recession that followed beg to differ.
Conversely, when looking through the Azure documentation last week for much of their Python SDK libraries... it's a joke.

They have _tonnes_ of new-user intro stuff and similar. Super impressive at first look, but once you're past that and need to dig into complicated things it's all undocumented.

Even most of the auto-generated pages in their Python SDK function lists are just "Header -> empty space where content should be -> footer". And nothing else.

... and lets not get started on the docs for Microsoft Graph. :/
Why is this posted here? It has nothing to do with tech or intellectual curiosity.
For the lower-tech people Observable is targeting (who are in the linked thread), I suspect that having to write tons of Javascript/HTML is actually the "unnecessary complexity" they precisely want to avoid entirely. So Observable is not unnecessary complexity: it's actually a solution to the complex problem they already have.

This kind of discussion you're pointing towards isn't actually a discussion about difficult ideas like "unnecessary complexity," or what is and isn't "complex", or "software magic", as if that was a singular ontological property or category, waiting to be applied. The discussion you're trying to have is ultimately about words, even if you don't think so. If you don't agree on the words with someone else, then trying to have a discussion of ideas, ideas like "unnecessary complexity", is less like a discussion and more like two cars flying past each other on a highway. Your point is just falling on deaf ears, except for everyone who was driving to the same destination already.

Rather than having discussions about that stuff, I think the much more obvious answer pointed at elsewhere -- that Observable provides money for the developers, and D3 does not -- is much more useful as a starting point. And frankly, I think much more plausible. It's a significantly more difficult topic to discuss social issues like monetary support for other people in our nerd culture, than it is to discuss "Is this software complex" -- a thing nerds love to opine over endlessly to avoid actual difficult discussions, as if it had any crisp definition. But it's also significantly more honest and a better reflection of the underlying motives, the words behind the discussion, than zooming 60mph past someone on a completely different topic going the other direction.

I suspect Observable does in fact make money, while D3 doesn't, and so it's understandable that things play out this way, if my assumption were correct. It sucks for highly technical people like myself, or you, who also may not want Observable and are perfectly fine on our own. But talking about software complexity is a red herring; it comes across more as an attempt to fit the world in a neat box of rules, rather than handle it as it is. And that will never leave you satisfied, and always leave you feeling alienated.
Purchasing items on NewEgg with USD is simple, easy, and very fast. If you are using a credit card, you get additional benefits and protections. Additionally, per the link you provided, there are a number of restrictions on using crypto on NewEgg. What is the benefit to using crypto vs using a credit card?
I'm not actually super surprised by this. Considering that they didn't really update the system in any way that might push the current performance envelope, who's really surprised? Apple has done this for decades, and when they announce that iOS 16 is getting $KILLER_FEATURE they'll also unveil the heartbreaking announcement that the 6S is being sunsetted.
Financial Times. But I’m sure someone will complain about it’s slant, which I view as reality-biased but which doesn’t give much credit to trendy politics.
So Stellar, Cardano and XRP are all scams?

> Polkadot: They claim everywhere to have 'Parachains'. The reality is that this feature doesn't exist yet.

So it's a scam because it doesn't exist yet and it's planned on the roadmap?

That's like saying Ethereum 2.0 is a scam because it doesn't exist yet.

It's extremely easy to call projects scams when you're not the one doing the work.
If static, greater vertical use is possible. You would have trouble handling planes at 200 miles/hour in any volume. Hoverers are easier, but consume a lot more energy,
The learning curve for d3 is so steep that people are starting to confuse it for observablehq.
That's exactly what people about to commit suicide do.
I would highly recommend "A General Theory of Love" as the antidote to belief in the last example you gave. A poetically beautiful book.
I started my Python journey in Atom with some plugins, mainly using pylama. It was pretty decent and I still use it for ad-how code changes.
When I work on anything more complex, I just switch over to pycharm because it also helps my brain to switch to “Python mode” better :)

Glad you found your happy place, that matters more than the actual feature set provided, IMO.
Our IT department refuses to give an introduction to git. Smart guys.
And Theranos claimed to have working machines...

Risk is risk - in stock, crypto, or life in general.
Yeah that "enjoyable" state is kind of difficult to describe. My experience may be different than yours but for me it's an emptiness of being in tranquility with the chaos of my own thoughts. Only with deliberate practice. To me "work" does not mean suffering but directed concentration and discipline. If I accept my mistakes and imperfectness of that "work" the process to me is "enjoyable". But the "joy" is difficult here because it's not really that exact emotion.
The potential future use cases become clear in some future world where you can pay for real goods & services in said crypto. Then all the DeFi stuff replicating the existing dollar financial services industry in decentralized form makes sense. In the current world, its just circular references with a lot of fraud.
Things have gotten a little better. But, try to do something off the beaten path in Git, and you may ultimately get the joke.

For example: “two weeks ago an intern accidentally committed a file containing IP we’re not allowed to use, we need to erase it from the repository and all developer machines.”

Have fun with that one!

EDIT: I mean, try to figure this out from the official Git documentation (https://git-scm.com/docs). No, Stack Overflow and Github are not the official Git documentation. Believe it or not, the idea that "Git is hard to use" predates Stack Overflow.
Even if it were real, pretty stupefying that nobody considers if it's an outlier or why the study was never repeated at any other college. Provides some insight into the critical analysis vs confirmation bias in these books.
Can’t imagine not having at least partial WFH after this pandemic. If my office doesn’t let me WFH, I will also be leaving. A good portion of my team is similarly minded, but management is insistent on disallowing WFH. I can’t wait to see their faces when the company bleeds massive swaths of engineering talent.

It’s about damn time that companies realized that they ought to treat their employees like the adults that they are. Absolutely sick of this infantilizing, childish requirement to force employees to come into the office.

People are not obligated to come into the office so you have someone to talk to, and the extremely rare spark of whiteboard innovation is not worth the countless hours of employees’ lives wasted in commute.
The EU has a very similar outlook on antitrust and competition policy. Some U.S. states are also pushing for enforcement of antitrust policies wrt. large Internet platforms.