skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HR people don’t like changing their procedures.

I’ve done numerous interviews large corporations where the first part of the interview process involved copying my printed resume by hand onto sheets of paper so that someone could then type in what I had written into a web browser. Why they couldn’t just copy from my printed resume or accept soft copy in word or ascii I have no answers for.

When I joined at Chase Manhattan it was very obvious that their onboarding process is designed for large groups - many dozens of people at a time - but the day I joined I was the only one being hired. I spent a couple hours with just myself and a single HR rep going through a half dozen rooms, in each room I had to sit as far back and to the left as possible whereas she sat at the front right of the room. She could not pass out forms until I was seated, at which point I would have to come get the form from her and return to the far side of the room to fill it out, then bring it back to her, return to my seat, then she would announce we were moving to the next room, and it would begin again. When I tried to sit at the front of the room she became extremely agitated and refused to continue until I returned to the back of the room, when I tried to get a form from her without first sitting in the back of the room same result. The rest of the company is pretty much the same, it never got better.
Definitely plausible if the eruption were in Iceland or Alaska, but Tonga? Seems a bit of a stretch.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8WGjCeFyr1g

Louis Rossman has a lot of videos on this in New York, essentially 50,000$ a year for tiny little slumlord hovels run by people with connections. More money isn't what's needed, it's for people who actually care to be spending it instead of politicians.
And Home Assistant itself is python so it may be a better fit than the often used NodeRed which is JS based.
The measurement biases shift with the political winds.
Because individuality is as valuable a commodity in the workplace as elsewhere.
Didn't even see GP comment, but I can tell you many medallion holders have "agreed" under duress, one way or another.
How is that different from general AI though?
Sleep needs was worded poorly.

I really just tried to describe a hyperthymiac in detail (they need less sleep). They have a lot of traits that help to compete. Some I’ve known worked for decades under enormous amounts stress that would probably kill most, but without any visible impact on the hyperthymiac in question. And it was all on 5 hours of sleep per days. For 20 years straight.

The larger point that everyone missed is none of these attributes are under your control. In this case, its just blessed genetics. Not sure if that’s what they tell you in books: “make sure to win at genetics” lol.

Luck factor is huge. Genetics. Early life events. Family environment. country you live in. Family connections. After that - your ability to execute on the hand the fate dealt to you.

But even that, the ability to execute, isn’t entirely under your control. Some will be untouchable simply because genetics.

This doesn’t meant one should never try, quite the opposite.
> You can bet your bottom dollar that Commonwealth nations (at least a couple of whom are nuclear enabled, and some of whom have their own defence industries including ship and fighter jet production) would become involved.

I can't tell if you're serious or not.
> If every job available to you is minimum wage

Which isn't the case for anyone in this labor shortage. There's plenty of employers willing to pay more than double that who still can't find unskilled workers.
Perhaps someone has been reading Anders Sandberg[1]?

1. https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/brain-emulation-roadmap-report.pdf
My manager called me in to his office. I had to sign an NDA before he would even tell me what it was about. I was getting assigned to a secret, hush hush, project. Something exciting and new. I was to work on... The Fire Phone.

Later, when my manager joined the program too I got to demo the Fire Phone for him. I could see disappointment in his face as he asked me - "Will you use this phone when it comes out?" I told him no. And he said "Maybe if they give it to you for free?" I turned the question back to him and he thought for a moment and said "No." I agreed.

There was a meeting where the business people told us how good we were doing, what the schedule was, how our partners at the carrier loved the phone and how the users they surveyed loved it too. Someone asked

"What build were they using?" And a lot of people laughed like it was a joke. But I detected the hint of earnestness in the asker. He, like me, was just kind of confused at what he was hearing and trying to figure it out.

Every project I worked at Amazon was like this and I worked on quite a few. Crushing, depressing failures that everyone I worked with saw coming. But also, it didn't effect our careers negatively at all.

There's a disconnect between your output and your career. You can deliver features on some program that never sees the light of day or is simply an embarrassing failure for your entire career. And, it doesn't matter because somewhere in the company is an effectively infinite money generator which will keep you and your colleagues well compensated even though, realistically, there would be no difference between you working hard and you doing nothing at all.

By the time I quit Amazon I was so deadened by the feeling of contributing nothing and meaning nothing despite working quite hard I just started to let things go. I refused to read my email as a general principle. I'd sometimes respond on Chime. I'd go out on day trips and just check my phone once or twice all day. My productivity dropped off to zero as I just didn't care any more.

Internally, I felt this conflict between being a brazen parasite - intentionally not working but still getting paid, and feeling like I had always been a parasite - working on stupid projects and getting paid because of the lucrative ones I had no part in. After a couple months it got to be too much and I just told my boss I was quitting. He actually persuaded me to stay on a couple more months to help with the transition and to wrap up some of my tasks. Well, I was more persuaded by the chance to let a little more stock vest, but still...

It's not all bad. I found the experience quite lucrative and I don't need to work for the foreseeable future. I did find it kind of soul deadening though.
What I "accept" is that getting an email I'd rather not have gotten is not a day-ruining event worth rudely snarking at strangers on the internet for, and the level of entitled rage and piling on generated in response to a calmly stated ask (let's save 'spam' for things that actually meet an objective, commonly-accepted standard used by most groups that actually try to stop it) is ridiculous.
Is the universe infinite?

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about th’universe!"

-- Maybe Einstein. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/04/universe-einstein/

Prime numbers look a lot like stars (e.g. Converse, Heineken use 5-pointed stars). I'm particularly interested in Mersenne Primes, which are of the form 2^n - 1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_prime#:~:text=In%20ma....

Some of these prime numbers are even illegal when translated to other forms (e.g. DeCSS).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number#Illegal_primes
Someone inevitably becomes responsible for making that judgement call, and a record is thereby built up of the "State's interpretation of your religion"

Ergo, you have freedom of whatever the State decides your religion is... which is not compatible with Separation of Church and State.

These constitutional matters are so much thornier than they appear at first glance. I tell people this often.
Where do you think the term "riding shotgun" comes from?

I think it comes from a stagecoach having a driver and a shotgun guard. That has nothing to do with retail theft; the stagecoach wasn't a store.
There is a lot of proof to this. I am an zealous hockey fan, and a lot of the best players in the NHL still use many of the drills they learned as kids. It's not that they mastered the fundamentals, it's that they never stopped practicing them, and never will stop practicing them. Of course, they also use more complex practice routines, but they build on the fundamentals not FIFO them.
I was impressed at how easy it is to work with the matrix protocol. While playing around I was doing it all interactively in bash using curl. Want to read the latest messages? Curl the sync url. Want to send a new message? Post a small json object.

It’s actually easier to use by hand than IRC which requires holding an open connection and quickly responding to pings.

It becomes a little harder when end to end encryption is on but you just import the library they supply for almost every language and then e2e becomes transparent.
I have great hopes for gcc-rs, they've made great strides implementing the language.
Ironically I think ETC is the only network here that proves your point, and I think most people would agree that the reasoning for moving to ETH was fair.

BCH and BSV are scam attempts, and I wouldn't say they've been successful.
Way better gfx and sound than the Atari ST;)
Yes, it's about Charles Domery. I find his wikipedia article rather unbelievable. The mostly likely explanation by a mile seems that it's a joke or a hoax. It seems everything "known" about him comes from this[0] letter to a journal in 1799, purporting to quote another letter. The Tarrare story, likewise, seems to spring from a single article, in that case 1804 - those dates seem strangely close, if they're the two purported weirdest eaters in history—and both supposedly fought on the French side in the War of the First Coalition! I find it strange that the veracity of those reports isn't questioned or mentioned on those wikipedia pages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Domery

[0] https://books.google.com.au/books?id=An-we0KnG78C&pg=PA209&r...
If you really want a job at my company, and the level at which you decide "this isn't worth my time" is 2 minutes to enter your details then you weren't a good fit in the first place. There are genuine reasons to turn down stupid requests in interview (ridiculous coding tests) but "Re-enter all your details into this form" isn't that hard, and if you really think you want the job then it's a very small price to pay. What is does is force unqualified candidates to distill their lack of qualifications. So for the hiring company it let's them cut out that bottom 50% of applications (not candidates, applications) that are just absurd. If you standardize it all you're doing is giving the mass-application candidates a cheat sheet.
The phone number requirement?
Yes, and mom-and-pops commit wage theft, too. Shoplifting should be a civil matter.

> Those packages on the trains belonged to individuals btw.

And?
Visa issued on false information. This is found out so it's cancelled. Not sure how this makes the cancellers assholes.
Yes. You should have an opinion on an organisation's probity based on what you know about it. If you don't have data on a specfic organsiation's track record you default to the reference class. If you see something like SF, where records suggest crime in all areas bar murder is falling, but retailers are shutting stores, boarding up windows and putting razor blades behind the counter you just don't trust the figures.

When you know the data is bullshit and lies you say so.
The indie world is full of great games with no paid content and if there are expansions, they are worth the money. I'm a gamer and I play on average one AAA every few years, rest of the time is indie only. I agree AAA is not sustainable, especially because the stuff delivered on average has a way worse gameplay than good indie games.

And by the way, Hollow Knight, Ori and the Blind forest (and the will of the wisps) is a slap in the faces of AAA games. Beautiful, amazing to play and in the case of hollow knight, really intriguing story.
Some of us are. I spent 8 years on a small 3 acre homestead learning the ropes, and we moved to a 40 acre property last spring. Now that we are settled in, I'm planning out the vision for the next 3-5 years to build up everything we want to do here.

But that also answers your question of why not - who in their right mind wants to spend all their free time and energy for years just to learn skills and build out your vision? Even I, while actively doing it, do it because my wife likes it. If not for that, I would not be doing this either.

At the same time, the more we expand broadband internet to all rural areas, the more there can be a partnership between one person who does the tech work to pay the bills, while the other person does the physical work around the home. Not all couples are going to be interested, but such a setup at least helps ease the financial burden of such hobbies. After all, home-grown veggies from your homestead are both free and at the same time the most expensive produce you'll ever buy.
I use node-red for the same kind of things, with subflows. At some point it makes a lot more sense to write a function node (javascript) than to use node-red as intended. Avoids a lot of the spaghetti.
Closer Scrutiny Reveals How Close to State Power Sacha Baron Cohen Is
You need a valid phone number to create a gmail account, and you can only have a few accounts attached to the same number. Google is "trusted" because they actively try to prevent spammers from joining their platform. Disposable email platforms don't, they let you create as many as you like.
I'm no lawyer but wouldn't the Federal District Attorney need to charge them, not the City District Attorney? In other words, I don't think the City DA has the power to charge people under federal statutes, I imagine only federal DA's do.
It's slashdotted.
Well, ideally without the centralized server in between.
So then you can't for example use defer with a pointer that may get realloc'd in a loop? Or pointer to the root node of tree-to-be-built? What a half-assed defer, in my opinion.
This is obviously distinguishable but you can use the "+" aliases. For example, if you are bob@gmail.com, you can use bob+blah@gmail.com and use that to filter email.

The problem is that even though "+" is a perfectly valid character, a lot of services don't accept it.
Unless you’re the employer being deluged
There is some neat application for example many tickets/hotel reservation/restaurant do include them and this allow to make some email clients displays these tickets in a standard way.

KDE Itinerary and Apple Wallet make use of this. For the KDE Itinerary part, you can read more on this here: https://volkerkrause.eu/ (look at the KDE Itinerary posts)
I'm surprised nobody mentioned Europass. Personally, I'm not a fan precisely because it only shows raw info and doesn't leave anything for interpretation - it's cold and bureaucratic. But I understand why people love to us it. Around half of the CVs I see (in Europe) are in this format.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europass
> Most people, regardless of race, find suburban living more pleasant and more convenient.

This is very easy to disprove: houses and apartments in urban areas cost more than in the suburbs.

Most people are not able to afford a large enough apartment downtown because there is not enough supply, and so they prefer to pay the same for a larger place in the suburbs, but this is not the same as preferring the suburbs.
I think the confusion here is in part because success is so nebulous a term.

Consider success in the stock market, that’d be getting significantly better returns than the vast majority of people. Success in general is the same thing. If you don’t “beat the market” ie the average by a significant margin, you don’t really standout from the crowd as a success. Like the stock market: there is not general recipe that when followed will make you successful. That doesn’t mean there aren’t general things you can do to improve your odds of success, a simple proof of this is considering the negative: if you killed yourself youd lower your chances of finding success, so not killing yourself helps. Same with not getting locked up in jail, not murdering people, etc

Another fact is: success is not entirely luck else rich people (if that’s what we’re calling success) wouldn’t have so much in common. That doesn’t mean rich people and poor people are two different species, but clearly there are traits and behaviors that tend to increase your success odds.

If it’s a recipe you’re looking for, not that I’m all that successful, I’d say: know what you want to achieve, and devote significant time, effort, and thought towards achieving it, taking advantage of every opportunity you can, learning as much as possible, deliberate seek out luck filled situations like meeting new people, and be adaptable. If you do that for long enough and you aren’t successful, then a revolution is called for.
There is maybe 1 in 50 jobs that I'd actually want, so I imagine bulk applying to would guarantee I land something awful.
Dangerous people should be jailed and flight risks should be jailed. Everything else is just a bail bond racket and power play by prosecutors. If the "charged" commits another crime or breaks the limits of his "freedom" they should go right back to the slammer until their court date.
> If that isn’t meant to imply there wasn’t any looting, then why did you add it?

Because there's a falsehood in the original post: that protestors were somehow responsible for the riotous behavior. The original post then goes on to use that falsehood to justify a different instance of riotous behavior, except that the specifics are inverted: the protestors and rioters during J6 were in the same crowd.

The labeling means a lot in terms of the legitimacy and legacy of the single largest American civil rights protests in the last 50 years. I'm proud of the ways that hundreds of thousands of New Yorks peacefully and righteously comported themselves during the protests, and I do not want their legacy unduly influenced by opportunists. We should judge them not by others' actions.
> If you signup for Netflix using the feature, you can't cancel your account and then signup with a new Apple email, it will only allow you to login with your original one.

You absolutely can. You can generate as many as you want, whenever you want
It’s because the function of a resume is largely social signaling, not a matter-of-fact reporting of career history. You can’t make a data format to encode that information, which is why a lot of job platforms require a resume and a list of your past jobs in a form.

Any solution for resumes is going to fall into the much harder category of social change, rather than technical solutions.
Interesting project. I was recently inundated with abusive account signups, and it seemed like the "fast path" for attackers was to register an outlook.com domain, and use that to create a Github account. I guess Microsoft does no validation on these signups. It was especially painful since legit users used outlook.com and Github, so I couldn't just block them. (Fastmail is in second place here, but had no legitimate use, unfortunately.)

For emails that I don't want an ongoing obligation to read... I used to have a custom alias for mailinator (nospam.jrock.us MX <them>). At some point I guess I got rid of it, perhaps because mailinator stopped offering that service. Unsurprisingly, nobody ever looks up the MX record to implement the denylist. Worked perfectly every time.
Does 'capitalism' even mean anything any more? No self-respecting capitalist would allow theft in broad daylight.
The point is to provide legal something to refer back to in case a manager gets swapped out and becomes frustrated when the employee says no to doing something they have an exemption for.

Organizations aren't static and change over time, necessitating persistent state.
Websites that block Firefox Relay email addresses to be added to my list of services I won't sign up for.

Also, what a big surprise that one of the two creators of this repo works in Google's "open source security" team.
I just did a gh code search (__finally lang:c++), a hundred-ish instances shows up in ~12 repos mainly related to MS / .Net:

‎ sleuthkit/scalpel‎

‎‎ microsoft/service-fabric‎

‎ ‎dotnet/runtime‎

‎ ‎microsoft/Detours‎

‎ ‎dotnet/wpf‎

‎ ‎Chuyu-Team/VC-LTL‎

‎ ‎apache/logging-log4net‎

‎ ‎microsoft/Windows-classic-samples‎

‎ ‎microsoft/winfile‎

‎ ‎dotnet/llilc‎

‎‎ microsoft/DirectXShaderCompiler‎

‎ ‎dotnet/diagnostics‎

‎‎ SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN‎

‎ ‎microsoft/PTVS‎

‎ ‎aybe/Windows-API-Code-Pack-1.1‎

I don't think that it's in any way meaningful, it's literally unused given that it's been there for likely 20+ years.
I remember corel draw had a primitive 3d effect similar to that. So, I'd bet in a combination of corel draw + (corel photopaint | paint shop pro | photoshop).
I think that would be very cool. Coupled with a universal data-format for jobs, one could imagine a much better job match engine that doesn't rely on the right person finding the right job!

Like a job market that matches employees to employers but in an open database. I can't think of an easy way to monetize it in an open data sense, sadly, but it seems like everyone would benefit from it and so you could charge a small fee and kill recruiters if your job match engine was good.

The market being so lucrative, I imagine that someone has already tried it and the devil is in the details. Perhaps if I cared more about this and didn't have a great network, I might give it a shot. Could bootstrap off Github profiles or something, and be tech focused to start with.
I noticed no impact from LensCrafters which had this coating. Not did I see any evidence that the coating was there (I expected some evidence). YMMV but we did not get it again…
You can only create a small number of gmail accounts, since ever account needs to be linked to a valid phone number. Google actively work to prevent using their platform in this way.
Do you mean there is some conspiracy that made people believe that not sharing walls and ceilings with others is somehow better than being always up to date on your neighbors business including their music preferences and substances they like to consume?

I find this very implausible. I grew up in Soviet block and all my friends and relatives grew in very dense small apartments yet all of them who could afford moved to houses as soon as they could.
Same setup and same reasons. Other advantages are that tactile buttons feel great and the games are designed to be a complete experience i.e. no in app purchases.
Worse, they purposely come from the same email address. So if you want meetup alerts for upcoming meetings, too bad, because now you will get all these marketing materials from the same email, which is now subscribed to various promotional lists. I already told google to put that email straight into my inbox and now I get all that junk too. This is 100% intentional because most people aren't going to click unsub per domain or start writing rules analyzing the ever changing subject line.

You can tell which companies have especially corrupt and greedy corporate cultures by how they treat your email address. Whenever I find myself witnessing behaviors like this I do my best to move off the platform and bad mouth them whenever I can.
e.g. Johannesburg commuter rail in SA