skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably the opposite actually. The first victims of a recession will be consultants. The agency in question is probably used to much bigger clients, but was willing to do something much smaller because the sales pipeline dried up. And then they brought a heavyweight approach to a tiny project and failed.

The heavyweight approach is absolutely mandatory when dealing with larger corporate clients or when you're trying to really bring something unique. You may be surprised who hires agencies for this kind of stuff, because past agencies had keystone accounts worth millions per year from giant tech companies like Microsoft, Apple and Google. They don't ask to put a template on WooCommerce, they ask how to find, engage and retain new customers and differentiate themselves from everyone else.
I actually did just that. Although I have never really had much luck getting bluetooth to work
iPhone 14 – new report is good news for release date
Newer refrigerant and designs for air source heat pumps are a lot more cold weather capable than many people think. Quite a few installations are more efficient than resistive heating down to around -13 F / -25 C and don't need a defrost cycle.

Plenty of places get or stay colder than -25C, but that is often short stretches or overnight. There are a lot of places that would do better with a little resistive heat backup compared to the huge installation costs for ground source.

New neighbourhoods in cold climates should be required to install community ground source heat pumps. Since all that dirt is moving anyway the cost of trenching is negligible and any drilling is amortized over many properties.
> Meaning, if you are looking for a place you will enjoy working, do not start with salary.

Assuming you're discussing engineering roles, this is a dangerous attitude.

Engineering is an economic force multiplier; meaning, the monetary value of the results is worth many multiples of the monetary value of the engineering labor put in.

Seeking a fair salary upfront ensures a few things. One of the most important is the value of the result of the labor. As a top software engineer; I only want to work on products that are significantly valuable. (And then I want my fair share of the profits, too.)
Good. That’s what it should do.
My heat pump has what they call "Emergency Heat" which is basically just some heating coils they add in like a traditional electric furnace. So on days when the heat pump can't do it's thing, it works just like the old furnace that I replaced. Emergency heat also kicks on when the differential between the current temp and desired temp is large. 99% of the time, the heat pump seems to do just fine on it's own.
That’s basically the same process that Capital One has had for hiring for years. It doesn’t seem like that was tweaked because of the pandemic and remote work.
Building my own thermostat so I have total control was a fun project, I learned a lot about electrical engineering and built a circuit with some TRIACs to control the HVAC lines. Though I still need to give it an interface so I can program it some way other than uploading the program as a JSON blob to my raspberry pi!
> Soft skills I don’t mind; grown up interviews I don’t mind.

BINGO.

I'm good at the job and good at normal interviews. I more-or-less enjoy both, even. I like talking to clients, and I'm good at it. I can sell myself. And I can do the work.

Specifically software developer interviews practically make me hyperventilate and break out in hives. Fuck that. A pop quiz over a huge potential space, probably over something I will never in my life actually use on the job, to be solved live while people watch and judge me? Oh my god, no. No. Why the shit that's considered acceptable in a world where we're so touchy-feely that projects are supposed to have Codes of Conduct is beyond me. It's straight-up abuse.
isn't it same any way you look at it?
> If your primary reason for responding to an ad is based upon salary you are not going to be happy where you work. I promise.

This is true, but at the same time, if you're trying to hire people for $X, and I currently make $3X or more, it is probably not worthwhile for us to spend much time exploring working together.

For the most part, I can tell whether you're likely to be vaguely close based on discussing the role with you. It's a bit of a signaling game, but I can usually tell if we're at least kinda-sorta close -- but at the same time I've definitely gotten well into the process with folks only to discover that we're so far apart that it doesn't matter what the role or company is like.
I think that the main issue is less the technique (although… yes, please use RL if you can) and more the lack of data. Browsing gives very little insight: dwell-time is a poor proxy for interest, and mixes horrid ideas that are so bad they are worth sharing with friends and confusing photos where you need to squint to figure out if it’s what you are looking for.

Both e-commerce and social media are really not good at gathering express feedback for what people want and valuing that expressly. Please, let me tell you that I did spend time looking at this thread about the latest reality TV scandal but I don‘t want to hear about it ever again! Please, let me tag options as “maybe” or let me tell you what you’d need to change for me to buy that shirt. Public, performative Likes and Favourite lists that are instantly reactivation spam-fodder… Come on, you know better.

I used to work for a big e-commerce site (the leading site for 18-25 y.o. females). We had millions of references (really) and it was a problem. The search team had layers upon layers of ranking algos, incredible papers at conference… but still, low impact on conversion. It was more than anything else that we could do, but nowhere as transformative as it could be. Instead, I suggested copying the Tinder interaction in a companion app:

* left, never see that item again;

* right, add it to a long list of stuff you might want to revisit. We probably would have to separate that from the Favourite list to avoid clutter, but maybe not, to make that selection worthwhile.

The learning you could get from that dataset, even with a basic RL algo to queue suggestions… People thought it was “too much” which I’m still bitter about.
Same story. We moved into a house that had a Nest preinstalled. Got everything set up, and noticed after a couple of days we would always wake up freezing in the early morning. Nest was all over the place and I just turned off the automation.
Exactly. I don't have the patience or juggling skills to apply to too many companies at the same time.

Whenever I've been looking for work I'll google, search linkedin, etc, and pick the top three/four companies that seem interesting. I exclude any that don't include a salary range, and any which have "common knowledge" shared locally about them being bad companies.

For the past few years that's been sufficient, sometimes I get an offer and accept, sometimes I have to choose between two offers. I've not even always taken the higher offers, because money is important, but it's not the only thing that matters when picking a job.
That seems pretty disingenuous to me, TBH. Article to your linked article it's not an issue of the refinery's owner wanted to increase capacity and the White House said no. It's an issue of a refinery already experiencing environmental issues wanted to expand and weren't addressing the existing outstanding issues. Also, I find it curious the refinery in question is located in the U.S. Virgin Islands. I could be completely wrong but I would guess that refinery is producing refined products for export and not serving the U.S. domestic market.

In another vein, it's interesting too that U.S. gasoline exports to Mexico and Latin America have risen to record levels. It's almost as if we're not a Socialist country and we can't tell those companies to supply that gas to the domestic market to help drive prices down.
> Japan has always been a tech labor-shortage economy

The meagre salaries tell a different story.
(2010)

Some discussion from back then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1600211
Your mileage will vary there.

I've worked for two consulting companies, enjoyed both but one company had me on 3 projects within 8 months while the other had me on the same project for a year and a half and only moved me when I told them I needed a change (to their credit they accommodated me, but I bring this up because every consulting company will be different).

A lot of the reasons why this variability exists has to do with the types of projects that the company takes on. In the second case, being on a project long-term, the client hired us because they wanted to outsource their software development in general and had created long term relationship with the agency. In other cases the client will just want a proof of concept developed, or a bit of additional help on a project that it is in the weeds etc.
These comments are absurd considering farmhands get paid minimum wage to shovel huge pieces of manure
I'm pretty pro-military, but "70 years of peace" is ridiculously inaccurate. We had the Korean War running until 1953 (which involved the following: USA, USSA, PRC, AU, Canada, the list goes on).

Shortly after, the US begins covert assistance and operations in Vietnam (which ended up involving the USA, USSR, PRC etc etc.)This continued until 1975.

The US had a brief break from overt warfare until Grenada in the 80s, followed quickly by Desert Shield/Desert Storm. Since then it's been pretty much continuous warfare by US troops to this day.

Just because we don't see it on the news every night, US servicemen are fighting in Africa, in the Middle East, and obviously the Navy is present in almost all the oceans in significant levels.

Sure the USN enables free trade. And I have no issue with a well-funded navy, with clear goals and objectives. But the rest of the military is bloated beyond reasonable belief, committed to tasks that are undemocratic, and as others have pointed out, when you have a large, expensive military, the temptation to use it irresponsibly is high.
> Position pays 80-130k+ depending on experience but no one actually makes under 100k and 80 is only here to make you feel better

Solved.
It is a statement of an obvious truth. It does not need to be "brave". If you find the point true but irrelevant then you would be better off not acknowledging it in the first place.
> Restructuring the Democratic Party around graduate-school level race theory was an excellent way to destroy its ability to advocate for the working class. At best, working class white people don't get the rhetoric.

> At worst, they correctly perceive that it's not in their interest to support Democratic policies that redistribute opportunities along racial lines

This is only a correct perception if they decide to make it a fight. There is nothing that implicitly prevents a big tent dem party from both advocating for working class and minority beneficial policies. It's only zero sum because people like you claim it's zero sum and create the perception that it is so. Don't do that, and push back against others that do that, and the problem goes away.

>Such policies deliberately avoid redistribution across class lines.

No they don't (I mean even ignoring the extent that redistribution along racial lines usually correlates with class lines pretty well), there isn't anything that prevents you from doing both. It only costs political capital when you make it a fight. If everyone in the dem party were like me, doing both wouldn't cost any political capital!

If you believe that such policies are bad, say that. If you think such policies are good, support them! Don't do this half-hearted thing where you just claim the policies are electorally untenable. That's self-fulfilling because saying it's zero sum drives the perception that it is so.
A good hunk of them are just lazy.

Just yesterday I had a lackluster job description sent to me by someone I've talked to before, and my rejection was just a boring. He had a small amount of motivation to ask what was wrong and I told him there's nothing in this JD that is interesting at all.

His response: "Well, that's what the client sent to me."

What the fuck value are you adding to this transaction at all, then?
I feel this way about baseball card shops! I loved going to those as a kid
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Uniswap doesn't allow people to buy crypto currency with fiat. It only exchanges between various crypto currencies. There will always be a need for fiat-crypto exchanges like Coinbase, that are centralized by necessity.
> Back in December I wrote about the myth that ancient Greek texts only survived by being preserved in the mediaeval Islamic world. ... But first, I’d better repeat that it is a myth. ... Only in a tiny number of cases do we rely on translations for ancient Greek texts

But the second statement of the myth they are trying to deflate doesn't contradict the first statement at all. Ancient Greek texts could have survived by being preserved in the medieval Islamic world in Greek (not in translation). I'm not saying they were (I don't know) but it's a bit of a bait-and-switch argument.

> Greek texts were primarily preserved and transmitted in Greek-speaking regions of the empire, that is (initially) in Greece, Anatolia, greater Syria, and Egypt.

Okay, but Greater Syria and Egypt were lost to the Byzantine Empire during the Islamic expansion of the 7th century, And the whole "Muslim scholars preserved the ancient greek tradition" narrative is obviously about that later time period, so those don't seem relevant.
> By definition, a shortage of labor sellers means labor sellers have an advantage in negotiations.

This is untrue. 1) Employers have more information about the current situation than applicants, and 2) employers collude, applicants don't.
> It's no longer easy to find an open time slot, I had to schedule my last physical a month and a half in advance.

My experience is similar, but I don't think this is a problem. A physical is not remotely urgent and can wait.

What I do care about is that I can get next-day appointments for more urgent things like non-emergency injuries that I want to get checked out, and that's always been possible. The one disappointing bit is that I can never get these short-notice appointments with my primary physician, but in general that's ok; I'm fine seeing someone else for stuff like that.

I think the thing that I've enjoyed the most, aside from app-based appointment booking, is that I can send a message to my doctor for some kinds of referrals and avoid an office visit or phone call entirely. For example, I wanted an appointment with an allergist. I just messaged my primary physician, and the next day he faxed a referral to our local university hospital.
Let's be honest about salary ranges, though - posting two different numbers is a meaningless nod to convention. Everybody who applies ignores the low number and expects the high number (maybe a little more, because they're "that good").
He could've taken out cash from his local bank account, turned off his phone, driven to San Ysidro and walked through the public turnstile into Tijuana. And then tried to get a flight from Mexico City to somewhere in south asia.

Would have been much better than going through the US/Canada border which has a full data sharing agreement between CBSA and US CBP/ICE.

(note: this is a stupid, humorous theoretical, not real advice on how to flee to avoid prosecution)

also, a note, any airline flight that crosses US airspace submits its passenger manifest to US CBP/ICE/DHS electronically as a database transfer, this has been a thing for 20+ years as a result of 9/11 and the PATRIOT act.
I have salary requirements that have to be met, full stop, or I cannot waste my time talking to you. There is nothing you can do to convince me to go below my bottom line. I have bills to pay and my family is used to a particular lifestyle. "Hey kids, you're going to public school next year so daddy can chase a dream he had in his early 20s!" ain't gonna fly.
NEVER mention your minimum. If anything you should highball.
Doesn't Google do this?
Okay here's the thing: Let me add some details to dispell that "part-myth".

Salarymen do have long working hours & have to go along with those office drinking parties etc. But at the same time, they are treated more personally than an American enterprise employee would. Parents sick in old age? Many companies would give cash incentives to support. Buying a house? CEO might extend you a personal credit line or speak to his banker buddy to give you extremely favorable terms. Got married or had a child? Employers (not coworkers) would give you off-days & some cash/gifts to newborn. Did extremely well a financial quarter? You get a bonus "red letter" (typically a cheque or cash of good amount) or a paid short vacation. If you have passed your probation, Japanese companies will bend over their back to retain you (retrain, reassign under different manager etc.) rather than outright fire you (although thats slowly changing with the economy shrink)

Traditional Japanese companies treat their employees as half families. Managers tend to be more hands-on as a patriarch for the good or the bad. So while we concentrate mostly on the bad parts, we often overlook the good parts too.

I am in no way advocating their culture. Many things desperately need change. But if salaryman situation was so miserable, it would have changed a lot of things long time ago. No matter where we're born - freedom & comfort are valuable for everyone.
The key factor for me is the change in the substrate of production. Rather than a military strength being in many ways bottle-necked by the rate and lag of human creation, it can be rebased on the manufacture rate and costs of robotic sentries. Even if they don't have parity with human soldiers, a dramatic shift in costs and manufacturing logistics may still tip the balance on the calculus.
Andrew Wakefield and Jenny McCarthy would like to have a word about that "new category of social identification that has been naturalized by COVID-19 propaganda and did not exist in the popular imagination prior to the year 2021".
There is an old documentary out there that basically sums this strategy as:

"Your movement dies in Target. Yes, Target. Corporate America will defang your movement, put it on a t-shirt, acid wash it and sell it to mindless, edgy teenagers who want to feel like they're doing something with their lives "by supporting" it."
According to the [indictment][1], they violated [18 USC § 1343][2], when they:

participated in a scheme to deprive
Coinbase of its exclusive use of
confidential business information
related to Coinbase's plans to list
certain crypto assets on its exchanges

[1]: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/1521186...
[2]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1343
Netflix makes a far more obvious sin: not having “who is watching” as boolean choices. If I am watching with my partner, I want both of our accounts to mark that series as viewed. And I really want Netflix to tell me what I’m watching with her so that I don’t continue watching it without her because I will be single if that happens (again).
Should I give a link to the other one even though it's currently listed right under this story? Heck why not... occasionally the crypto discussions are intelligent...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32180428
how does one measure how much work can employer extract from employee if position is 'filling a role' as opposed to having an agreement for amount of hours per day?
>"including design, custom illustrations, and 3D imaging"

Ha. No wonder my daughter is making a killing. She is freelancer, does all of the above and at way more reasonable rates.

BTW the product is amazing and I am definitely buying one as soon as I am back from my vacation.
These issues only apply to in game economies like Minecoin and Minecraft Marketplace, and any game or game engine that aspires for similar UGC marketplaces. The parts of a game that have no economy, like an open source modder community, does not need to adopt any changes to payment processing or asset ownership because there is no payments and assets to begin with.
How long does it take to get competent at that?

If it's not a very long time, then why shouldn't everyone get a somewhat similar pay range? Unless the plan is the hire that person out of high school and then rapidly ramp up their pay as they get good.

> can mean everything and can mean nothing, depending on many factors (eg: company size, number of customers)

If the position might not be full time, then that's an important consideration. But if it is full time it shouldn't matter how big the company is or how many customers there are or how much "nothing" there is.
So you acknowledge the strawman argument of valuation, used to discredit the initial point about how marketcaps change when crypto is involved, and then we both agree that the strawman argument cant even be reliably used to discredit the initial point, but then you double down on the only times it can anyway? Just for the sake of a reply?

Well good chat. I hope it is insightful to someone that passes by.
Kind of a straw man though. Any real-world simulator is going to need perception and then decision systems. They are mostly two separate problems. Certainly, the decision system will need to be adapted to deal with momentarily incorrect or absent data, but for the most part will remain unchanged. Perception (telemetry really) on a closed-circuit race track is far more achievable than on city streets. So hats off to Sony for working on the decision system aspect. Would love to see it paired with perception system and put on the track.

Ultimately it has no impact on professional sport at all. I watch motor racing entirely because of the humans. It is triumph and tragedy.

But as a nerd, I love seeing "AI" beat us humans. It is supposed to.
Again, disagree. This has it backwards. Microsoft isn't making it hard for you to opt-out because of the auto-hiding scrollbar. They're just taking advantage of it to make it harder in a new way. Before the scroll bar it was nesting it deep within menus.
Maybe there's something I missed in the article, but to me, it read like a case of sunk cost fallacy.

> Within six weeks, we narrowed in on a concept we all liked.

> By December, we were three months into the project. WebAgency was 95% done with TinyPilot’s new logo. All I wanted was to change some rounding on the corners and eliminate the border. I expected it to be a couple of hours of work.

> All I needed was a couple more hours of work. But I didn’t get them.

One of the biggest challenges with creative work is to have a concrete idea of the direction you want to take. It seems as though by the time he was given the rebranding drafts, OP already had that vision . His only issue was that they were only 95% done. But designers work with existing brands all the time. Why couldn't the rebranding be completed by another designer with OP's express guidance?

He had already observed and acknowledged patterns of misbehavior from "WebAgency" that one must watch out for when working with contractors. What justified giving them a little more money to complete the work (multiple times), rather than paying for a new designer, if not sunk costs?
Like any head of state of similar countries, they have access to the best medical care possible. I assume that such people want to stay on top, so what they do out of sight can/will be more sensible than what they go on about.
>One of the most common complaints about heat pumps, experts said, was that they would stop providing heat on very cold days.

Heat pumps have "emergency" electrical resistance heaters for this. Source: owned homes with heat pumps for the past 20 years.
>Vast sums provide power to ‘buy every politician’ and delay action on climate crisis, says expert

That explains why this industry gets USD 6 trillion of publicly paid subsidies from governments.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/06/fossil-f...