skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This happened to me. The interview process went well but the company's closest office was 15 miles from me, which in Atlanta traffic is over an hour. I said I would need to be remote, they wanted me in the office full time. We were using an external recruiter, which I had never done before. Eventually the recruiter negotiated that I'd be onsite for the first month for onboarding and then remote after that.

My first week I mentioned something to my boss about being remote after the first month and he had no idea. The recruiter had simply lied about "negotiating" so that I'd accept the offer.

Luckily it all worked out. Although company policy was officially no work from home, my directly manager didn't care at all. And shortly after corona hit and they company ended up going 100% remote anyway.
The only exception I've seen is commodity RFPs. I.e. 100 model aasi392-g widgets. Those are won or lost on price and availability and most companies doing those purchases use reverse auction models anyway...
I agree. But wait until you have rational thoughts that get you banned and deplatformed for “misinformation”. I didn’t think it would ever happen to me until it did… there is definitely a balance between keeping toxic crap off a forum and labeling everything the admins happen to disagree with as “misinformation”
> The point of hobbies is not "getting good at them". It's enjoying them for their own sake

I think his point is that being really bad at something is no fun. If my goal is to have fun I would rather do something I will enjoy right away.
I don't understand this reply at all. Xt has no support whatsoever for touch devices or gestures. GTK3/4 actually has proper support for most of the XInput2 features.
It's a problem in that those keywords are some of the places where you are at least likely to be generating counterfactual conversions: most of that traffic was probably coming to anyway.
I don't think I'd mind. Then again, Ohio isn't really a state I have to worry about being attractive to anybody whose never lived here. In my experience, most people who land here do so by accident.

It's the PHP of states. Most people hate it because it's popular to hate, but once you get here, you find that there are some pretty nice things about it.
I think it's kind of a reach to say that nuclear weapons saving lives through the deterrence of MAD can also be included in nuclear power saving lives. I think they can be relatively distinct.

For example there have been many instances where countries have specifically stopped at nuclear power, but not begin research or further refinement into creating nuclear weapons (because of possible sanctions, international backlash, etc). IIRC there are roughly 20ish countries that have nuclear power, but no nuclear weapons.
That's a developers dream come true there, super happy for you!
> you should be able to track whether a customer originated from an ad click vs. SEO

That's easy to track, but answers the wrong question. It answers whether the person clicked on the ad or the organic link. What we actually want to know is whether this person would convert even without seeing an ad. The only way to answer whether a person would still convert without seeing an ad is to make sure that they don't see an ad.
What about integration or end to end tests?
It's surprising, at least to me, how un-built-up the Eastern short of Tahoe is. We briefly entertained the fantasy of moving to Tahoe when the pandemic hit. For obvious tax reasons, you would think everyone would be living on the NV side, but when you actually go there, or just putz around on Zillow, almost all of the actual homes and activity is on the (more expensive COL) California side. Why is that?

We still love the area and would entertain the idea of moving there now that remote work is happening in more places, but housing prices went from outrageous pre-pandemic to oh-my-fucking-god post-pandemic so sadly it will probably remain a tourist destination for my family.
From the readme:

> Org grammar for tree-sitter. It is not meant to implement emacs' orgmode parser, but to implement a grammar that can usefully parse org files to be used in neovim and any library that uses tree-sitter parsers.

This grammar is in active development and is being used by nvim-orgmode/orgmode [1], a org-mode neovim plugin.

Some additional resources some might find useful:

* Org Syntax - https://orgmode.org/worg/dev/org-syntax.html

* EBNF grammar - https://github.com/200ok-ch/org-parser/blob/master/resources...

* Tree-sitter - https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/

[1] https://github.com/nvim-orgmode/orgmode
Isn't that media just a laundering machine for foreign intelligence reports? Its founder Edwy Plenel has had access to state-level scandals out of nowhere for more than 30 years now, first and foremost the Rainbow Warrior case.

He was also Le Monde's director for 10 years, so...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior
You can't skip to wisdom.
Apple AirTag stalking is worse than anyone realized
Orthodox Church serves the Kremlin (2018)
So, you're saying that because inflation is bad we should just start printing money, handing it out and making inflation worse?

I guess a $50 loaf of bread is helpful to everyone, eh?
I'm close to Rochester! I'd love to visit. I've only heard lovely things. And I think the town is gearing up for a revival :D
I don't really feel like solving a riddle.
But most companies' dream is to reach that ""inevitable"" point where the cloud saves it; it becomes a bet where they either reach that level of scale, or die trying.
The opposite for me. I would drink the paper milk, but....

Dixie was a beer sold and made in Louisiana. Part of the process had them storing the beer in fresh barrels. It made the canned beer taste like it had been in milk cartons. Very unpleasant.
> I agree that only conversions matter, but you should be able to track whether a customer originated from an ad click vs. SEO, whether they clicked one ad and had 4 sessions since, etc.

An ad-click could have been an organic click if the ad wasn't there though, which is where the complexity is.

The ad might have great conversion, but if the customer would have clicked an organic link that navigated to your site anyway then the ad is taking credit for an organic sale.
Spray and pray works until your reputation takes a hit. Recruiters definitely have incentive for quantity over quality and are basically the sales branch of HR. They're your friend just as much as the croupier is. Just business.

Not sure what the solution for us is. Having someone promise you something that is totally disconnected from what you later receive in writing reeks of exploitation of your sunk cost. Not accepting it is the first necessary step.
It'd be really valuable for me, personally. I suspect I know the company (Google) as I'd seen a Glassdoor review mentioning the same thing. It'd be really nice to know if the sample size is > 1 as I'm considering going through the application process myself and this would suck.
This is like the paid search results that come up when you search for a specific company name. The company's site is just below those paid results, but often the same site is in the paid results but they are further up so are more likely to be clicked.
Why do you think the conflicts in Asia, the middle-east etc. happened? Because the nuclear superpowers are fighting their wars there. One could very well argue that nuclear powers have created such an imbalance that the nuclear powers could act towards other powers like they did, because they knew the others would never directly intervene because of the danger of a nuclear war.
> What is this proper advertising campaign

Well, for our business, proper advertising campaigns have opened new channels for growth, allowing us to reach new people, and build our email list significantly, with a predictable ROI. It's pretty easy to tell if an ad is working when you turn it on, and your email list growth rate instantly doubles -- and all the traffic is coming from a new traffic source. (Obviously, if we were to run Google ads on search traffic, we would check whether our organic search traffic dropped when we turned the ads on, but that's a different point.)
Short-term, yes. Long-term, I think no? Tobacco advertising typically focused on making smoking cigarettes seem cool and glamorous, and banning the ads may well have been a large component of why it no longer seems so.
Stephen Woflram have been pushing his cellular automata for 20 years now (A New Kind of Science came out in 2002). Can you point me to a single useful result that came out of it?
TFA did not mention anything about "so many people".

Besides,

"Growth is not a goal for most Californians: Asked to look ahead 10 years, 35 percent of respondents believe it would be better if the population decreases significantly and 46 percent want it to stay about the same. Only 19 percent of those surveyed said that the state would be better if its population increases."

"By nearly a 2-to-1 margin, Californians respond that they still believe in the “California Dream” (that it’s a great place to live and raise a family) but belief in that dream depends on demographics, economic status and partisan affiliation. Spanish speakers, Latinos, African Americans, Asian Americans and younger Californians are more optimistic, while middle-class Californians, white respondents, older residents and Republicans are more pessimistic."

source: https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/uc-studies...
You can post them in fights, like reaction gifs/memes on Twitter.
If they are Uk. citizens, they HAVE to join! Ukraine is multi-ethnic society!
It's pretty obvious why this site didn't need advertising. It had good SEO, and SEO is what matters for this kind of website. Someone in the UK who wants to check a car will Google it and they will find this website.

Other channels are probably much less impactful. I care about checking a car when I want to check a car, and at that time I will search for that service. I don't care about checking a car when ad guys want me to care about checking a car. I'm not going to subliminally remember to use TotalCarCheck when I buy a car because I saw an ad weeks ago. I'm going to Google it and I'm going to go to the top result.

And yet the ad people in these comments are getting all their hackles up that anyone would dare question the value of advertising in each and every and all possible situations. Obviously if it's not working for you, you just aren't doing it right and you need to pay top dollar for some Ad Professionals to get in there and fix it for you.

Seems a little insecure to me. Is it so hard to admit that some businesses just don't benefit that much from certain kinds of advertising?

Or maybe because the ad industry is a Paperclip Maximizer, and admitting something like that might fail to maximize the paperclips, it cannot be admitted?
I use EasyCron (https://www.easycron.com) for some simple scheduled tasks. Basically just hit a URL on a set schedule. I include a specific API key in there and the URL is not discoverable, so it works well for me.

It's a nice way to do cron/scheduled tasks without any extra work. Just deploy another serverless endpoint and have something else hit that on a schedule. If anything goes wrong, EasyCron notifies me and I just hit the URL directly to re-run the task. Simple and crude, but highly effective and near zero effort.
Can you just name companies? You haven't given any personally identifiable information and you're not the only person given an offer from a FAANG recently. It's also not unique to say you'd never work at Amazon/Netflix/Apple/FB (like me). I'd only work for google if it were fully remote, and it would be super helpful to know if your experience was with google
Have you ever read the book of Ecclesiastes?
>I'm not sure what the compensation model for recruiters is, but it seems to encourage bringing in as many candidates as possible over treating them with honesty and respect.

There is no downside to them for getting you to interview. The best case is you decide non-remote isn't a deal breaker after all and they get the commission; the worst case is you decline the job and the recruiter finds another candidate.
Sorry for you to be in that situation. Unsolicited advice for next time: interview with several companies and get multiple offers. The additional leverage would have definitely strengthened your position in this and also would have given you more options in case things turned out equally disappointing with employer A.
Flutter!
This is normal, except when we get into a real war.
How I’d Change GitHub
At least it is quite windy in Europe at the moment so offshore wind should be doing ok
You need to name and shame. "FAANG" isn't a company.
Demeter's Hymn to Cybersecurity: Consequences of Cyberattacks on Scale-Ups
Mutually assured destruction is analogue to the martingale betting strategy. You can raise your chances of winning a small amount as close to 100% as you can afford by just risking everything if you lose.
Property based tests have caught 10-100x the number of buggy edge-cases than the handwritten unit tests I could have come up with. The material gains of getting a combinatorial explosion of test cases from property composition is extremely underrated.

However, there seems to be a general skepticism around property based tests in my experience. Any idea where it stems from?
Terminal is not for Windows, at least for now. Please don't bring the Linux usage mindset to use Windows. Accept it and make it useful for you.
> Windows is such a mess! It’s sort of shocking how much of a mess it is. Desktop Linux is often criticized for this, but Windows is much worse, somehow! It’s really inconsistent. Half of it is “new” UI and half of it is old Win32/GDI type UI

I've been daily driving Linux (at least on my machine, work is unfortunately MacOS) for a year after 20+ years on Windows. Almost entirely GNOME, I recently switched to KDE for variable refresh rate support (it's easy enough to make KDE behave like GNOME). I had to boot into Windows 11 this weekend, after not using it for a few months, and it was a very jarring and unpleasant experience.

But it's not because of inconsistent UI which, to be fair, has seen some rapid progress. Before switching to Linux I very rarely had to visit the old control panel. I can't actually put my finger on why, maybe it feels half-baked compared to GNOME/KDE? It just feels awful to use, within the first 10 seconds. Printers are significantly more reliable with Linux. WSL is fucking fantastic.

I feel as though year of the Linux desktop is on the horizon, it's definitely a possibility.
I've worked for multiple companies as a remote employee for many years. I've had this concern in the past. Now I look for others at the company who work remote while applying (this helps work as a check) and I make sure there is something in writing.
> to run Emacs on a machine in a remote data center that has a mountain of CPUs, GPUs, memory, and disk

But then why not run the daemon on that server and the GUI locally?
Facebook cracks down on Russian influence networks targeting Ukraine
I don't think this holds true as generally as might seem obvious. Personally I become much more productive and much more creative when I have serious pressure on me. I think art history also speaks to this if you think about all the artists who did their best work (or all their work) under very difficult conditions such as poverty, abuse or simply having been pressed for time.
A friend of mine went to an interview after a recruiter called him and said it was hybrid (up to one day at the office every two weeks and rest remote) but at the interview when it was done, they said that he needed to be at the office a minimum of four days a week. I feel like this is sort of common these days.
Great to have a generalised parser to help Org-up (org
as a more widespread markup language) to florish. I'd
really like to see Gemini adopt instead/(alongside) its
markup.
that's state funded (EU) propaganda on par with RT

you are better off with The Local or even Spiegel than DW

https://www.thelocal.de
https://www.spiegel.de/international/
https://twitter.com/laydgeur/status/1433463215321669633?lang...

This red cube is the entire amount of nuclear waste produced by France. And you'll never get in contact with any of it. On the other hand do you know what's filtering coal and gas particulates out of the air ? Your lungs every single day of your life

ah, and coal emits more dangerous radioactive waste than nuclear power plants, and again, your lungs are getting their fare share of it: https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/...
76N6 Clam Shell Low Altitude Acquisition Radar
> [1] We do not love that phrasing. The Cold War is over. Just say which continent you mean specifically.

I wonder how many people are thinking of a particular place when they say 'third world country.' In my experience they're just using it as a slightly less offensive way to mean 'shithole'. Which of course we also see when Europeans want to talk shit about America, so they call it a third world country.
git bash is definitely one of the first things I install on any Microsoft Windows build -- gives me a half-way decent terminal, vim, and of course a complete and modern git.
Good Idea Bad Implementation Crosstalk (2020)
Review the three design principles modern application architecture and learn how the Maven Principle influences it and helped to evolve devops practices.
If I could do it again, I'd probably still go through the interviews but I'd have spent little if any time on prep. If they asked the knapsack problem and I couldn't code up a solution in 40 minutes, oh well - I tried.
> the agreement they signed didn't say remote

Just read stuff you sign, don't sign unless you agree, and ask to modify if needed. Incredibly easy way to avoid problems like this.
Making teaching a "lucrative opportunity" by paying a decent wage has absolutely no downsides.

What exactly are the downsides of an increase in intelligent people competing for teaching positions?
It's the same in the US, if only for tax reasons you need to specify in your offer letter where you'll be working from.

The author's friends were a bit careless.
If the way to make Windows better is to install things that make it more like Linux, then I have to ask, why not just use Linux instead?
I wonder, if you lived in the UK before Brexit and owned a .EU domain, once brexit happened, what happens to the domain?
Python Firebird-driver 1.4.3 released
Those inexpensive places to live are inexpensive for a very good reason. They are often very unsafe and undesirable.

Everywhere good in California has been claimed :-(
I work for a startup that's full-remote (been that way since before COVID) and we are hiring. If you'd like to work in golang, come apply!

who is hiring link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30878768
"When they pointed out they had been hired as remotes they were met with a collective shrug"

If it's not in the contract, it doesn't exist.
People in the 80s were specifically told that animal fats were bad, and so everyone got fatter as the adjunct for fats in foods was sugar. All those years of having to put up with oat bran muffins because it was "heart healthy"... yuck.

Don't get me wrong, I love bran flakes as a cereal. But that's where they belong.
> I'm not sure what the compensation model for recruiters is, but it seems to encourage bringing in as many candidates as possible over treating them with honesty and respect.

This is exactly how it works, recruiters don't get paid unless they get a candidate hired. Despite all the words they write and say to you, they only care about getting you and the hiring manager to say yes and _everything_ else doesn't matter or is immaterial to them.

Unfortunately it's nothing new to see recruiters being less than honest. In their defense, right now is a weird time with many companies who were firmly in the remote only culture now backtracking and reopening again. It could be the case when this position opened things were much different with its requirements.

But ultimately never trust a thing a recruiter says unless it is signed in writing from your hiring manager/HR of the company. Never believe anything they say about compensation, the future of the company or your position, etc. Never.
Exactly, it's simply the difference between having a texteditor with plugins vs. having a "vm" that is mainly a text editor.
I’ve heard similar things happening in my network recently. On the other hand, it seems to be much easier than earlier to get FAANG offers in the first place.
>They are democratically elected.

No they're not. The only person in the Executive branch (which includes all cabinet positions) who is elected is the President, with whoever their VP is riding along on the ticket..
librespot is a great project, but I haven’t used it to resurrect the native Spotify client I had been working on because it’s technically reverse engineered, which means users of my client risk having their accounts banned (however unlikely that may be).
In Europe, the threat of the USSR did bring the West together but quite apart from that the big powers, especially France and Germany decided very consciously that they could not go on having more and more destructive wars every generation or so (remember that for France and Germany WWII is actually no. 3 since the first was the Franco-Prussian War of 1870).

So this is a specific context in Europe and specific "paradigm shift" born from that specific context. Indeed, Europe 'learned' that they could not continue to slaughter each others and that led to the EU today (so not just fear of nuclear weapons but decision to bury the hatchet and cooperate on friendly terms instead).

I don't think that there is a similar history anywhere else in the world.
Yes, I’m well aware of France situation, and yes your health minister was a joke with her posters in airports. Same for the Élysée spokeswoman who lied about not being able to use her mask. That was at the very beginning and was a complete disaster everywhere in Europe.

Over time communication has been improved, governments have been quite transparent at communicating their decisions (relatively speaking).

I don’t think it’s fair to pain the past ~2years as “governments lying” because of a few mistakes in time of high uncertainty.
> this person genuinely thinks that there is no way to measure an ad's performance while

This is the case in many situations. The time between initial visit to site to conversion can be weeks, months, or years. Meanwhile, customers will visit site from various platforms. There is no way of attributing value to a single click, it needs to be approximated as an aggregate.
The way to fix this is that corporate IT needs to have more authority with the rest of the company.

It’s easy to blame the user when they get a phone call from IT that says their account has been hacked and they need to reset their password. Except it’s not IT and the password reset tool is not the companies.

The reason this happens is that the business side of the company always hampers security. You could have the best IT security training in the world that says not to share your password and do not click external links in an email. But that means nothing when you have Susan, the admin of your department manager, send out an email with a link to a survey outside your corporate domain with instructions, bright red in comic sans, we are using a new survey tool, all employees are required to complete the survey.

So some things that should be red flags look acceptable. The people in charge consistently break their own rules that they impose on others. Companies set up conditions where the only thing preventing a breach is their employees ability to guess what feels like a phishing scheme, and what doesn’t.

IT security needs to identify and sanction activities in the business that trains users to produce bad outcomes.