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There seems to be some confusion here over my use of the expression, "The Great Resignation." https://www.investopedia.com/the-great-resignation-5199074
This is a economic/workforce phenomenon that began amidst the pandemic and continues. (The NY Times reported today that there are 11.4 million unfilled jobs. That's historically off the charts.)

My company operates/ed a job board and a staffing business. Both ran like traditional job boards (Indeed, Zip Recruiter, etc) and staffing companies (Kelly, Adecco, etc.), except being focused entirely on the formerly incarcerated. This is how large employers source many, many employees.

The staffing business was much larger. In this model, we serve as the hirer-of-record, and essentially lease out the workers to our client employers, who cover all our costs (wages, unemployment insurance, taxes, etc.) plus our mark-up (profit). It's a high volume, low margin business.

During the Great Resignation, we found it took 10x the time and effort to get someone placed, eroding our already thin margins. Plus, if a worker left (which they began doing at a great rate), we're obligated to replace them. All of this made it pretty much impossible for us to make money. (Again, we're a for-profit business). I hope this clarifies things.
Heck, I already hate having to stare at the car in front of me for the 45 minutes or so it uses to take me to drive home in my US town. At least there's a bus that works well enough, so now I spend most of my commute reading a book out commenting here.

Driving works, but I'd much rather take a train. Too bad they are generally terrible here. I've been to Europe; it can work!
This resonates with me. I appreciate HN enough to at least consider the YC offerings when they appear.

...And one of my worst/most insulting interview experiences was with a YC company.

Tis the reason for the season and all that. :)
So this is just Email and Teams, right? This isn't corroborated with intrusive MITM-extracted browser history from work computers, right? Right !?

Dear company IT spy overlords, my use of LeetCode is exclusively to learn new interviewing techniques to help me bring in only the best of the best to our amazing company! /s
To me, all of these statements 100% confirm caste discrimination exists in America. Whenever I hear confronting history and privilege as "sowing further division" I cringe hard. The parallels in American history are, well... very parallel.
absolutely insane to me somebody knows this AND was able to dive this deep.
Does the price of BTC actually affect their business, though? I'm naive
> it's clear that was genuine.

And yet, barely six months ago…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29579994
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I've had a long time itch to redo HTML. I now have the time and resources to focus exclusively on that and a few other projects that eventually all intertwine.

HTML doesn't let you annotate a file, it requires you to modify it.

I propose instead to put markup in 1 or more layers separate from the underlying text (or video, or audio, etc.). It's a simple matter to split HTML into these layers, each byte inbound is part of an HTML tag, or the underlying source to be marked up.

As each tag comes it, the source byte count is recorded as the start, and length is set to 0
When the tag closes, length = (source byte count - start)

Separating the tags from the source solves a lot of navigation issues. Any modifications to the plaintext could be saved as operational transforms, thus all markup layers could have those same transforms applied in a straightforward manner.

Layers of markup could be turned on and off, or even have an value analogous to Opacity applied to them.

Layers could composed of multiple sources as well, allowing for transclusion and many of the other ideas from Ted Nelson's Xanadu.

My goal in the end is to be able to compose documents which draw from many sources, into a view (or set of views) that helps convey complex ideas with a rich context without the need to create a forest of HTML pages. I want to fulfil the vision of the Memex laid out by Bush in 1945.

After that, then we get to apply this idea to source code, and things get really interesting.

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On the back burner, is MSTOICAL, my fork of STOICAL, which is a fork of STOIC, a forth dialect that supports types and type checking in a manner much unlike Fig-Forth. (I'm not a C programmer, and there's a lot of code to review, I'm thinking the first project will help annotate the second)
yes this is it! Still remember reading about it in Tips & Tricks magazine in the 90s and being amazed by it.
>> Allowing private citizens to do research would put a fire under those old codgers asses.

I have a few published papers in peer-reviewed journals with 30+ citations and I'm a college dropout, but I run a company that can fund/produce this kind of research as part of our mission statement. It's not really restrictions, but rather money/funding, and willingness of private companies to publish publicly (which is a big blocker for most).
I am curious if none of you use an ad blocker, ever.
we need to put climate action on a similarly high pedestal as for-profit-work. So that we get a lot more jobs that have no (direct) monetary value but anti-climate-change-value, e.g. planting trees, conversation of nature, energy savings consultants etc. etc.

First step should be to talk about climate action whenever we talk about GDP and unemployment figures.

Nonetheless, I agree with you in that we shouldn't work if there is no useful/needed/helpful/worthwhile work. We could cut on the average working hours first.
"The payout is exactly the same"

Again I ask, is it really?
To me this is something big, because of it's success on Path-X.

It's a bit surprising that just a longer range transformer architecture enabled by better use of the GPU was the solution though.
What Brock is omitting is that the last hired are very likely to be the first to go in the near future. Anyone who joined Coinbase within the last 24 months should be interviewing.
I implemented a .class disassembler a while back by literally reading the spec. It's surprisingly accessible.
It's good to see even experimental support for lessening the reliance on NgModules (which get in the way of appropriate tree-shaking), but I wish it weren't by doubling down on Angular's usage of non-standard Decorators. Requiring an experimental build flag in Typescript to even use Angular at all still feels like a red flag if not just outright poor taste in the framework architecture.
I am usually very cynical when I hear about companies with good intentions. This however touched every string of my heart. You do not have to be so humble as you've done an amazing and honorable job. You helped people to get out of that death spiral where fucked-up Government on par with some big corporations are trying to keep them in.

To them - rot in hell fucking vultures.

To you - thanks and praise for what you've done and best luck for whatever you do in the future.
what kind of health issues keep people from drinking decaf coffee
Direct Payments was part of the story.

I saw more than a few people that when from 2 income house holds to 1 because of Student Loan payment defers and the increase cost of Child care made is possible for one of the parents to just stay home..

We also sadly lost a lot of people to covid, and many older people have chosen to retire rather than return to the office.

I think these 3 things are more impactful on the employment market than the direct payments
This might really be a stupid question and I can imagine you have other things to do right now, so zero hard feelings if you don’t answer: But regarding this whole Great Resignation thing, not only in this specific context but in general — there is one thing that I just don’t get: What on earth are these Resignators doing? Where do they go? I mean all those people have to end up SOMEWHERE in the job market, don’t they?
Decaf is still acidic. Caffeine is not the only reason some people can’t drink coffee.
> stop ruining the workplace with societal politics

Isn't the failure to do so the subject of the talk?
Sounds great, good luck getting the dealers on board. Why would they want to give up gouging consumers?
I'm talking specifically about electron.
The price of Bitcoin is not supported by the amount of fresh money coming in. It’s based on the lowest price a current Bitcoin holder is willing to sell for.

If all Bitcoin holders decide tomorrow that it’s worth $200k per coin, then that’s the price, even if there are very few buyers at that price.

It’s like the price of a stock: it’s not dependent on trading volume.
You can write stuff about these companies anywhere on HN, you can post stuff about these companies to HN, etc.
I think the argument that "efforts to raise awareness of these issues in the United States would sow further division" isn't totally without merit.

As an America-born Indian-American, I honestly don't know what my caste is beyond knowing I'm not Brahmin (I didn't do the string ceremony some of my childhood family friends did), and have basically zero idea of how I'd identify someone else's caste. I imagine that that's not terribly uncommon among ABCDs.

Educating people like me about that would suddenly create the ability for them to identify a difference that they wouldn't have noticed before. This makes it unlike gender, racial, or age discrimination, where the categories are usually surface level obvious. That in turn could have a star-bellied sneetches effect, where people identify with the new categories that they wouldn't have considered before.
I'm skeptical. I feel like any startup for whom 100k is "huge" is not at a stage where they'd be spending anywhere near that amount on cloud infrastructure.
Wow. They must really be in trouble. Rescinding accepted offers is a super shitty thing to do and I'm sure they know that. I bet layoffs are next.

I'd make a snarky comment about "how's that no politics in the workplace policy working out for you," but real talk, I'm sure it has nothing to do with this, so it'd be a cheap dunk. The underlying problems with crypto are so multitudinous that they easily dwarf any such practice.
Yeah, I had job offers rescinded on me. Funny enough these companies still have the audacity to have recruiters message me about new roles. Personally, I also stopped using these companies as a customer.
“Favourites”
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Price directly probably not so much, but breadth of interest should, and I would expect that those two things are somewhat correlated.
I think perhaps we're finding that the efficiencies we build into a system are vulnerabilities abused by unfriendly actors.

If I'm going to be treated as second class, you had better be, too.
Random BTC fluctuations probably don't make too much of a difference, but as of their Q4 '21 report 86% of their trading volume is actually from outside Bitcoin. Those have all taken a massive hit in recent months, and I can't expect that is good news for Coinbase.
Given the machine as in a brand new Mac?
Yeah I throw up every time I drink coffee. I mean I don’t want to admit it but that’s probably a sign that somethings wrong which is a problem. I saw a doctor today and he said “something something interesting parasympathetic system”.
Aaand I’ve stolen that for my lock screen, thank you very much :)
If you haven't heard of it already check out Truffle/graalvm
The mentioned twitter discussion is also pretty interesting IMHO :-)
Agreed, but apparently not completely impossible, depending on your definition of news. C-SPAN somehow manages to have three channels of content, while mostly avoiding the hype and bias that CNN has.
Show me someone in tech with a strong Brooklyn or Boston accent.
> efforts to raise awareness of these issues in the United States would sow further division.

I think is a real point and is true of many issues - the problem is how do you fix a problem silently in the background? Can it be done with better results than hyperfocusing on it? I would guess and hope there might be a way but don't know how.
I’ve heard that sometimes ordering decaf will get you a caffeinated drink and that a lot of places disregard or don’t pay enough attention to that particular request. I have no source or any numbers though.
Not OP but

If someone were advocating making policy decisions based on astrological charts, I would read and comment in such threads despite not trusting astrology on a fundamental level.

I personally would go quite as far as to say that purely observational studies have as much predictive value as astrology, but "observational studies are as reliable as astrology" is a better first-order approximation of my opinions than "observational studies are as reliable as large-n randomized controlled trials".
N=3 is an absurd sample size to base hiring or investment decisions on, especially considering that each halving will have a smaller effect than the previous.
While I have seen several people accept two offers and then no-show to one in the first day, it’s not the safest thing to do. At the end of the day, the employee controls the capital and most of employment law. That lets any negative sentiment carry a lot of weight. Make sure there’s a clear and understood story; don’t ghost.
No thanks, I'm wasting enough time here already.

When I want to hire a PR firm, I'll hire a real one. Not one that is desperately calling people, only to get rejected every time.
Being a doctor is tough because you constantly have to go to conferences to keep up to date with the latest and greatest techniques and technologies. Doctoring also has agism from patients who don't won't somebody too young and don't want somebody too old. Then there's malpractice insurance premiums.
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In my view, I have two critiques about mainstream-ish progressive liberal politics.

1. Insistence that everything is political and politics is everything. I’m sorry, sometimes folks are just reading into things too hard. From poorly shoehorned diatribes about sexism in second-rate Vox articles, to tirelessly policing vocabulary to avoid impure etymology, progressives outpace conspiracy theorists in their desire to pattern-match everything into their own personal political causes.

2. Intolerance to tolerance of other viewpoints. Again, it feels like a purity thing: “I can’t be friends with someone who is friends with someone who said something problematic once.” I’m not saying cutting people out of your life based on their bad behavior is bad, but the guilt-by-association to judge other people’s friends and acquaintances I find detestable and very cult-like.

I don’t think these are fringe behaviors on the left right now. I think they’re widespread in fairly mainstream, if not quite the most mainstream, of media, and common among heavy social media users. The closest right-leaning analogues very fringe and much less influential.

Of course, there’s another thing that’s tiring, which is having to constantly reassure everyone that I am still very liberal even though I critique left-leaning folks.
Isnt the British method of preparing tea and coffee to load it up with milk and cream immediately? Makes it so you can drink quickly and don’t have to wait for it to cool off.
(Source: am American and have watched one or two YouTube videos of how to prepare tea the British way)
It really is. We've Sun to thank for that I think.
I agree with you there are so many areas still vastly unexplored, fluid dynamics or the whole area of complex systems is definitely a prime example. Stephen Hawkins called his inaugural lecture "Is the End in Sight for Theoretical Physics?" suggesting that we are very close to the end of theoretical discoveries.

Although less famous I would argue that prediction was just as wrong as "640kB should be enough for everyone", lots of extremely fundamental discoveries had been made since then, and we don't seem to significantly closer to a theory of everything.
But very common.

Which goes back to the point, maybe Product aren't master of the universe directing all the teams, but just another group of folks with relevant skills that should advise and advocate, but not direct the others groups, whom are the actual experts of their respective areas.
If you have issues with caffeine, decaffeinated coffee is often off limits as well. Decaffeinated coffee isn't caffeine free coffee. There's a limit to the process.

Also, if you have issues with caffeine and have never drank coffee before, why ever start? It seems like a thing you could just never do and be fine with.

Not to mention, what if the problem isn't with the caffeine, but something else in the coffee. Decaf doesn't fix that.
Well to be fair If in United States, I met/interview someone from India. I would have no idea which caste they are, so I don't see how I can discriminate one caste over another :)
It'd be a shame if full frame consumer cameras were to disappear from the market, the ai enhanced photography from smartphones just always feels fake to me. Yet I wouldn't be surprised if it were to happen, wouldn't be the first time the lowest common denominator becomes the benchmark standard for various reasons (ease of use, low cost access), happened to music with mp3.
Don't forget to drink your verification can!
You also gotta remember that doctors don't really start earning big $$$ until much later in their career. Maybe not until they are late 20s.
As terrible as rescinding offers is, offering severance and job placement assistance is a very interesting approach to minimizing how terrible.
How about letting men takeover woman's sports?
Forcing people to pretend that men are woman or one of 86 other things.
Reparations is now a thing?
Forcing people promote things they don't believe in.
Grooming 5 year olds with deep sexual content.
Schools taking away basic rights of parents.
Or the last few years where random government agencies can just make up whatever rules they want to fully control peoples lives.
Constantly attacking anyone that disagrees on any topic.
I think GP is conflating Maths with Pure Maths. While I’m sure there is new ground to break in Pure Maths, I would agree that it’s getting harder and harder.

However, as you note, in Applied Maths there are more unsolved problems than you could address with a million researchers.

A physicist or pure Mather social looks at Navier-Stokes and says, “Oh, we know how that works, nothing to do there I guess”, whereas the applied mathematician looks at it and goes, “holy cow, this could keep my entire department busy for the rest of our natural lives”.
I'm having PTSD thinking back on doing this with WSDL files back in the day.

Thinking on it, not much different than having a protobuf layer generate data objects across apps. Combined with any client generation logic, we are basically there.

Just, realize that these being separated in repo is also a benefit, since that mirrors how they are separated by deployment.
Yeah my impression is they're all marketing and care relatively little about privacy. How you can claim to care about privacy but still require an email is beyond me.
I just installed the extension on Fenix Nightly and indeed, it does not work.
> You can write stuff about these companies anywhere on HN

False, you cannot comment on a YC hiring post.

Either all posts are treated the same, or they're not. All we are discussing here is the ability to comment, I'm not saying I need a filter toggle, though I'd happily use one.
Oh please, lithium "mining" might sound great, but there's a lot more to car batteries than lithium. Cobalt, which is essential for the longevity of a battery, is mostly mined by "artisinal miners" (2/3 of world's production). You know, poor people handling toxic substances to separate ores, and probably being paid less than this post cost to make. Not only that, most deposits are in geopolitically unstable regions / being explored by authoritarian regimes.
I assume poor country refers to Ukraine. We have designers connected to the app from almost all continents though, including Canada, Germany, Portugal.
"All my projects have been terminated after Google falsely flagged FairEmail as spyware without a reasonable opportunity to appeal."

Would anyone classify Google's projects as "spyware". It is, after all, their "business model" to conduct surveillance. Whereas I doubt this author is making Google-sized profits, or even a modest livelihood, from his PlayStore apps, even if the apps were "spyware". Google is the undisputed king of spyware unless the user believes that her interests are always 100% aligned with Google's interests and nothing Google does can ever harm them. In order to hold such beliefs one would also have to ignore the millions in fines Google continues to pay for privacy incursions.

I have been using one of this author's other programs, NetGuard, from FDroid, in lockdown mode, for computer running non-rooted Android. I have not seen anything like it, i.e., a user-controlled application firewall as a standalone app, for iOS. I am not aware of any competing apps for Android either. It appears to be a one-of-a-kind app, AFAICT. If someone knows of better option for selectively blocking traffic from apps, let's hear about it and the reasons why it is better.

The assumption that Google is more trustworthy than any single app author is questionionable. It is that dogma upon which the "app store" concept depends.

For example, can Google really compete with this author with respect to protection from spyware. Let's consider some facts.

The author offers user-controlled protection from spying in NetGuard. Google offers Google-controlled protection from spying in the form of app store vetting. The former is open source, users can compile it themselves, and it does not report back to a mothership. The later is not something any user compiles themselves, it not controlled by the user, it is controlled by Google, it does report back a mothership, and the motherwhip's "business model" depends on that surveillance. The later, namely Android, Google apps and Google "services", are, by definition, spyware. Google collects data about pocket computer owners and uses it in undisclosed ways.

There is simply no way for a pocket computer user to know the many things that Google does with the data it collects from spying. The only instances where she may learn about what Google does with her data are when facts are disclosed in response to discovery requests in litigation and those facts are made public. Even if she becomes aware of such facts, there is generally no way for her to limit what Google does with her data according to her own preferences. NetGuard allows users to selectively block or allow traffic to selected domains on a per app basis.
> words like this only anger those still under the spell.

And those that are under said spell are certain that the other side has a strangle hold over social media and everyone else (obviously not them) is under a spell that keeps them hooked.
Eh, some software engineers are good at product. Some are even good at charming clients. You got to understand the people you work with and adjust the processes and roles to match that, not the other way around.
Not any more but thanks :)
Employers have in fact lobbied hard for laws that make this possible in the first place. They want all the benefits of at will employment, so there's no reason why they shouldn't also be on the receiving end of it.
> AFAICT even people who are extremely careful and specific about criticizing the state of Israel - even more specifically the IDF or a political party within Israel responsible for a particular act - still get tarred with the "anti-Semitic" brush.

Ironically, that often results in Jewish people being disproportionately tarred as anti-Semites, because they have specific and knowledgeable criticisms that they're not willing to just let go of.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-labour-antisemitism-ac...

> Jewish Voice for Labour tells EHRC that Jews almost five times more likely to face antisemitism charges than non-Jewish members
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