skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm someone who is likely your target candidate and I just went through the hiring process so here are my thoughts without seeing an example ad post (which you should link to):

- There are a ton of job openings right now in DevOps and similar roles. I spent about 2 days applying to as many as I could and that filled my entire next couple weeks with interviews/tasks. I went through interviews, received offers, and chose one all from those two days of applying, so unless a candidate sees your offer early in their search that could be a source of low application volume.

- Is the fact that it's a fully remote position prominent in your postings? I personally only applied for positions I could tell were fully remote at a glance.

- Put the salary range in the posting. I am way more likely to apply if I know ahead of time that it's going to be worth my time.

- Are you strict on coding languages? I am pretty flexible but still have my favorites. If you're C#, I'm out (no offense to those who like it, I started out my career in the .NET world and ended up feeling trapped there and I'm not going back).

- How quick are your turnarounds from application submission and interviews? Lots of companies are moving quickly to get people through the hiring process and if you're not then you'll be passed up for other companies.
Isn’t this comparing inflation adjusted incomes?
I think I got the author point and agreeing with those premises I could even share the conclusion. However it seems to me that the argument only works in concluding something about existing consciousnesses, it doesn't say anything about "a" consciousness (one that doesn't already exist) and even less about a "possible" consciousness. The conclusion is really dependent on which definition of consciousness we adopt, and even more about life: for it is obvious (to me) that being conscious implies being alive. So first we must understand when an hardware capable of computation can become alive. My answer is: when it reproduces itself. Our consciousness hardware is not the brain, it is the world, and life plus consciousness reproduces on the "hardware" called world. So if a computer hardware can support other programs reproducing themselves and by natural selection generate a self-aware program (whichever this definition may be) you can have a conscious program. On one thing I agree: computation itself isn't sufficient to get consciousness.
> except for my headphones, where I haven't found a good replacement

What issue have you found here? On a weekly basis I use IEMs (Sennheiser IE80) which don't need external power, and Jabra elite active series earbuds which are usb-c. Most options I'm aware of are one of these two categories.
Four Tet wins royalty battle over streaming music
I hear about medical tourism but not so much dental tourism. I wonder why?
Apparently you could set up one or two spaces depending on your preference, however recent versions of Word now mark double spaces as an error by default.
I think he's talking about the second part, which I found linked wayyyyy at the bottom: https://dailyanarchist.com/2012/06/21/the-single-tax-a-refut...

That said I don't find this to be particularly convincing, given that they have mixed up labor and land, as well as failing to remember that Georgists are concerned with the benefit of land ownership (that is, rents) not the thing itself. The remainder is standard anarchist criticism of the state, which is fine I suppose if you are an anarchist but I don't think will convince anyone else (and I am not an anarchist)
In the real world, it is common to see cultural and intellectual discussion degrade to shit talking. In Hacker News, talking about shit evolves to a cultural and intellectual discussion. I love this!
While we are recommending filters, I absolutely love my Mila. Their best filter is about $100 and about once a year. I put the sock on there and clean that regularly and I suspect that makes the filter last a lot longer.
Those pockets should have healed and closed up within a few days after surgery. It sounds like you had dry sockets that weren't properly dealt with.
Would a 3rd party audit work?

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2021/1/20/no-pii-or-privacy-leak...
my dental group actually calls/emails me on a regular basis to get me to come give them that sweet, sweet free insurance money. but note for instance that cavities and fillings are prone to being overdiagnosed for the sake of income, not patient outcome. glasses are regularly overprescribed for the same reason. patients really need to understand the incentives and motivations of medical professionals to make the best decisions for themselves.

dentistry, optometry, therapy, veterinary, and even primary care all are vulnerable to the "recurring revenue" model. it's reasonable to be skeptical of their motivations even as we go to them for help and care. that's why patients should view medical professionals as an informed but biased opinion, not an authority. the patient needs to become knowledgeable about their own malady to make the best medical decisions they can, and it's part of the professional's job to aid that journey, not to make the decisions for the patient. that's also why patients need to see multiple professionals to triangulate their best option, rather than getting locked in to a single care provider. monopoly forces are antithetical to this process.

the shaman strategy is alive and well, and will be for many centuries/millenia to come (in other words, we're not uniquely advanced in the history of humanity).
RiO isn't an NHS product, it's made by Servelec who sell it to some NHS organisations. Yes, it's terrible.

https://www.servelec.co.uk/product-range/rio-epr-system/
I wish I could somehow ship a website as a single wasm file. Currently there's quite a bit of HTML/JS ceremony involved in order to execute a wasm file, but I'd rather be able to serve up an "index.wasm" and be done with it. Is there any movement towards this?
I got into one bagging a few months ago after looking at Pieter Levels blog post about it https://levels.io/carry-on-world-travel/ and have been operating from one since the 15th of April.

Bought a minaal 3.0 Cary On after going through the r/onebag community. Also bought some more equipment like an anker power core. Have to do a wash cycle weekly. A down jacket hangs off the bag. A laptop, kindle and my phone are the only electronics I have.

Works very well but in Europe you have to pay for carry on on a lot of airlines and otherwise you can only have something that fits under the seat in front of you.

The minimalism makes life easier. Only one pair of shoes & a pair of flip flops. Depend on the hostel / airbnb to provide a towel. Like Vitalik I have a weeks worth of clothes in the bag and one me.
I just grind off the bottom plastic tabs from the samsung batteries. Otherwise they really don't fit.
My wife has a similar story. She had a decent dentist for a while but after a botched crown install she was dissatisfied with the response and started looking for a new dentist. Found one that had a nice modern practice. New dentist said she had NINE cavities. She may have had one cavity in the prior 10 years at most.

This immediately caused suspicion. So we started looking for a second opinion. We got a referral from a friend to a dentist that was more conservative. So she made and appointment with him and wouldn't ya know, ZERO cavities. Not even any "watch" areas.

Turns out this conservative dentist used to teach dentistry at the local state university and actually taught the overtreatment dentist. His response when he found out who said she had 9 cavities was "he was a very ambitious student".

We've been going to him for 15 years now and she hasn't had a single cavity, and he fixed her crown perfectly.
Yeah that's some real minimalism. I wonder if he's the only billionaire in the world who lives full-time out of a backpack.
> Twitch is almost a monopoly

Calling it Twitch, rather than Amazon, makes it sound better. But really, it's Amazon that's the monopoly - and they're able to use their bandwidth pricing power to prevent anyone else (aside from other mega-scale cloud providers) from getting anywhere close.
The reason to cut the toothbrush handle is to reduce its length not its mass. It fits in a much smaller stuff sack when it's 10cm long than when it's full length.

Since that stuff sack contains other things of approximately that length or shorter (in my case, stuff like: nail clippers, travel sized toothpaste, floss, extra lighter, a pair of corded earplugs, headlamp, possibly a spoon [0]) it gets awkward to have one pokey-outy thing when you're shoving it in amongst the other gear in your pack.

[0] Yeah, yeah, I know: there's earwax on my spoon and toothbrush. That's never felt that important five days removed from a shower :-)
If it breaks or the battery dies they send you a new handle for free. I may switch to another brand in the future. Not sure.
“Happy families are all the same, unhappy families are each disfunctional in their own way” or something like that by Dostoevsky.
Doesn’t mention the one I use whenever I need a container: systemd-nspawn.
This happened to me after the company I was working for was acquired by a much larger one. The pandemic, working from home, the constant internet feedback loop, coupled with little meaningful or enriching work caused me to resent my job in secret all while being promoted and constantly praised by my superiors as doing a great job. The most depressing days were doing nothing at work only to log off and do the same thing in my personal time - nothing. Benefits and pay (I call the golden handcuffs) persuaded me to stay at least a year later than I should have. Quitting my job for a company that does impactful and meaningful work for less money and benefits has been super freeing and my love for computers and thirst for knowledge returned almost instantly. Sometimes you get so focused on optimizing for the most comfortable job that gives you the best return on your time that you lose site completely on your happiness.
This is why I have been going to the same dentist for 25 years. If I ever move out of state I will fly back for dental visits.
They won't do anything after you've sent a selfie anyway. Same thing happened to me. They'll ignore all of your contact attempts. IG support is pretty much non-existent.
The only important functionality that requires an Apple account is the App Store. For that you can create an account with no/limited identifying information and pay for it via iTunes gift cards if necessary. A ban is trivial to circumvent.
"Take-home technical assignment (~4h)"<-- This right here is why senior people aren't interested.

I've got 20 plus years of tech, I've been out of college since 1997 and you want to give a 4 hour homework assignment. If get you want to get a feel for someone's ability but this is more easily done by stating a problem during one of the interviews and asking the person "How would you approach this?" Listing for how they anticipate problems and tradeoffs.
> I feel lucky if I find any professional reviews written by people who have actually touched the thing they're reviewing

I would say even Wirecutter doesn't always do this. I recall doing research on some products before and encountering a Wirecutter article and the research was essentially just what they themselves pieced together from online sources. They didn't actually try any of the products themselves (they admitted as much in the article). It was very strange and very disappointing.
Not lose the keys just unaware of the vote. There are no push notifications, and every project has a ton of stuff going on.
> "OK. Fine. Did you compensate every part of the chain you used? So weird."

GPL: "Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for them if you wish)"

MIT License: "including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software"

Apache License: " each Contributor hereby grants to You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except as stated in this section) patent license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, and otherwise transfer the Work"

What's weird is giving people permission to do what they want, telling them it's because you value freedom, then when they do something you don't like, complaining.

"Freedom! ... not like that!"
Large swaths of the developer community have long seen commercial-platform-specific certifications as a bad path, and DevOps seems pretty heavy on that. Goes back at least to the days when people were picking up MCSE and Cisco certs and such and trying to base a career on them (sometimes successfully! But a stigma definitely developed around those certs, too)
This is a throwaway because I'm just an engineer on the team wondering if there's something obvious we're doing wrong, and I don't imagine this would be considered desirable attention by management.

Would posting a job ad on AskHN requesting feedback be acceptable? I ask because I'd have expected to see it a bunch if it were. @dang would be very appreciative of your word one way or another. Thanks mattbee.
I'll try on my side below but that goes both ways - where are your figures coming from, and for which country/geography? You also seem to have switched the topic from how much gets recycled to what can be recycled well.

This says that the vast majority of plastic globally is not recycled:
https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollution

Recycling rate for paper is much, much better, granted, in many countries:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/recycling-rates-paper-and...

The recycling of metals depends on which metal, of course.

In general, IMO there is far too much depressing reading like this - 'An estimated 70–80% of the MSW generated in Africa is recyclable, yet only 4% of MSW is currently recycled':
https://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/30975/...

I can't find any figures that say recycling is a success story across the world, or even economically viable and sustainable across most popular types of waste.
I have found that higher level management works in sort of.. higher order derivatives of process. they end up having to use bullshit sounding terms like this as a result. the more you get into management, the more meaningful those sentences become, but I totally understand it absolutely sounds like bullshit.

it also definitely becomes a coping mechanism to management-fuck your sentences in order to counteract your crippling imposter syndrome as you ascend
Yeah, the real answer is "something is less good than you are describing." Ask a senior engineer you've worked with in the past to take a look at your job posting and give you some honest feedback about what the problem is.

There are yellow flags in your post, but it's unclear whether they are problems without details. For example:

> the work requires a reasonably deep understanding of the underlying platforms which a lot of people seem to dislike.

Why?

> I'm wondering if the work being a higher percentage non-code is what's causing us trouble

Probably.

> Benefits and salary are good

Are you sure?

Plus, where are people dropping out of your pipeline? Is it early, suggesting that the job posting isn't great, or is it later, so part of the discussion process could be bad?
Because a lack of participation is common from holders.
for me it was the other way around. i founded a company right after my studies. then again. always up to an average size of 25 or 40 employees.
then i found it simply too exhausting to have to discuss with my co-founders or investors. high school politics sums it up quite well. maybe we were all too young (under 30).

in any case, halfway through my professional life, i was more committed to a freelance career. either leading small teams where you have a direct impact. or just being a mentor, giving tips, and then leaving the responsibility to the others.
everything in between, having responsibility but not being able to do it yourself because the constraints are not in your own area, i realized, i can't handle.

and freelance you have the possibility to do something solo / indie on the side, also build something with recurring revenue.

but very very good question. thanks for the thread. i always and regularly ask myself if i did the right thing. i always flirt with management positions when i think of the prestige. (almost more than the salaries).
but then i remember that it was a conscious decision.

good books i can recommend:

So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World ...
The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living ... (I really learned through this to make values-based decisions)
FWIW these features are not unique to the web. WPF offered a page-centric app navigation model for desktop apps, complete with forward/backward, history etc, since 2006 [1]. I haven't seen it actually used much though. And, to be honest, I don't think I'd want a desktop app to use it, unless it does something that is naturally represented in that paradigm (most use cases are not).

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/desktop/wpf/app-deve...
I use both. TikTok feels more like YouTube, Twitter, and Instagram. It is a social media platform where most users follow a relatively small number of influencers, rather than interfacing with their peers.

Facebook is more of a communication platform between peers. It kind of competes more with email and messaging clients. Facebook losing sight on this and pushing people to larger more impersonal groups and influencers is why I think they are dying, because everyone else already does that better.

For my immediate family, Facebook has largely been supplanted by iMessage and iCloud. We hold conversations and group chats in iMessage, and share photos and videos through iCloud. TikTok fills a different purpose entirely.
The forest for the trees wouldn't begin to cover half these responses.

Let me say it again, 60, 30, even 10GBs, is a lot when there's tooling from the same company, that still make similarly functional binaries, that took 342 MB.

You don't need to keep obsessing over "how dare this person with limited resources use an SSD!", like I said you run into similar issues with just downloading the stuff.

Again, forest for the trees.

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Instead maybe you can sit back and just ask "why the bloat over time"?

And the reality is likely: "because no one optimized for it". Because for them lots of fast storage and internet speed are no problem

That line of reasoning maybe allows you to see things from a different prospective and break some assumptions about end users.

Isn't that more useful than browbeating some random for not having 30GB free on their SSD?
Right, please see: https://www.reddit.com/r/solana/comments/vgnugv/solend_incid...
From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluoride_toxicity

> Referring to a common salt of fluoride, sodium fluoride (NaF), the lethal dose for most adult humans is estimated at 5 to 10 g (which is equivalent to 32 to 64 mg elemental fluoride/kg body weight).

From https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/fluoride/

> Toothpastes containing 1,350 to 1,500ppm fluoride are the most effective. Your dentist may advise you to use higher-strength toothpaste if you or your child is at particular risk of tooth decay.

Let's pick the worst extremes, to eat 5g using a 1,500ppm toothpaste, you must eat 3.3Kg (7.3 pounds) of toothpaste. That's like 15 Big Mac. And assuming you eat the toothpastes instead of spitting it.
As an owner of a couple of Förnuftigs, I have each connected to a smart switch (which I already had) triggered over HomeKit by Eve air quality sensors (which I also had). Had the upgrade, the Starkvind, been on the market, when I got onboard, I would probably have opted for that instead, as it packs both a sensor and the ability to be controlled wirelessly over Trädfri.

I have had other air purifiers before, and have been happy with the Förnuftigs – the air purifying business is, IMHO, to a large degree a racket that was badly in need for disruption. I bought my two Förnuftigs with filters for less that what I would have needed to pay for a single filter change for the air purifier I used before.
Yeah, it's always been my impression that if it were covered by medical, most of us would just have all our teeth pulled.
I have a service tech for appliances. I just ask him what I should buy. He usually has suggestions from all the cost-ranges. Sometimes, I buy used through him (built-in fridge); sometimes I buy new. Since I had the opportunity to buy a bunch of equipment this year (a huge power surge from my HVAC fried appliances, and bad luck):

Built in fridge: GE monogram;

Dish washer: anything that is quiet (below 42 dB);

Dryer: anything with turn-timers; and,

HVAC: American Standard.
Here is the same story again. Sorry to hear about the inevitable ending, but glad they got to experience a good work culture for a time. At some point I hope we can shift the union discussion from just benefits and wages (which are not the biggest problems for SWE), to workers having a say in how a company operates. The idea that investing money garners complete control of a company is not healthy for the company or society at large. Workers risk more for the company and know more about what makes it succeed.
Nitpick but, it's not quite right to say it has "nothing" to do with Solana, since (as you note) it's something that runs solely on Solana, and the decision was made out of a concern for Solana's price and the broader Solana ecosystem.
Read https://www.reddit.com/r/solana/comments/vgnugv/solend_incid... for more insightful conversation.
> Was on a Swiss train that did exactly this yesterday.

Though there's usually replacement trains for those use cases. The main stations have a standby train (Dispozug) ready to immediately replace any train that's cancelled or delayed (and avoid propagating delays).

https://twitter.com/SBBTrainDriver/status/150809526141493657... (is an example, the driver spends 3h+ just waiting in the train in case it needs to replace another train)
Except Amtrak, which on that page is listed at 95%.

Why are the US regional transit ratios so low? They're taking in real money, yet the costs are 4-5x the revenue.
I think we need to ask what part of the tech-growth S curve does modern civilisation sit? After coal, oil, electricity, chemistry, medicine and silicon, is there another big driver out there? Or are we flattening out and need to find ways to sustainably share control and wealth and opportunity?
According to the table it is not H12 but E12 which corresponds to Efficient Particulate Air filters (EPA), I.e. not high-efficiency.
> I would be skeptical of someone describing themselves as senior who falls for this. Pay them properly.

100%. Seniors are likely to have families, kids, etc. I'm not leaving a job for "dream tech, or dream team" if I'm taking a step down, or for a lateral compensation move.

Given the current economic/inflationary environment "slightly underpaying" is massively underpaying them.
I use the IKEA air purifier and love them, but I had a specific use case in mind.

My cat boxes are in an enclosed big box with a single entrance, I wanted to put the filter in front of the opening (kinda creating a walkway) to help eliminate smell and dust. It does these tasks wonderfully.

I don't think I could see myself using them for filtering an entire room, but they do a good job for what they are.
Liquidation could crash Solana's price?
You are free to not work at unionized orgs, and also vote no when a vote is scheduled to unionize.

Unionization is how employees get a seat at the table and a say in the business they contribute their labor to, labor without which the business could not exist. Comp and benefits are only a component why organizing is important, in my opinion.
Well, to hell with the tech owners then, eh? If they are committed to being "Dr. Evil" villains then I don't see why the rest of us should take them seriously?