skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a candidate, I wondered why I didn't get detailed feedback on why I didn't get a role - now I'm on the other side, it often comes down to:

- Time and volume: think of how many applicants they've been through and the time it would take to write this feedback for each of them

- A good chance that people will dispute the reasons, leading to more time, more effort and more chance of a lawsuit

If it's at the final or penultimate stage, I've known this to happen. I also find it more common coming through a recruiter (as the company will be speaking to the recruiter anyway and knows that they will shut down any disputes you have).

As long as there's a concrete rejection email rather than never hearing back, that's all you should expect.
Experience has taught me they have no such qualms when keeping advertiser money whether or not they revoke publisher earnings.

As a teen (back in '09), I ran a domain parking network that was used by a modest number of users (about 50 users with ~300 domains total). At the time the Google AdSense TOS allowed any site that had "content" (there was no stipulation about it being original), so my network worked by displaying random wikipedia articles that are relevant (using a very simple algorithm) to the domain in question, along with several adsense blocks and a few other features. Each domain was also a fully functional wikipedia mirror, and content was properly attributed etc.. Anyway, most months I would get a payout of around $800 that I would then distribute to my users (I took a 20% cut). At 11:30 PM the night of payouts one month, they decided to change the TOS, revoke all of my earnings, and suspend my AdSense account. I sent an email to my users explaining the situation and I actually paid them all out-of-pocket for the missed earnings because I had the money to do so from doing random web design for local businesses and I felt quite bad -- some of my users were in dire rent situations, etc., and I was in regular contact with them so I wanted to make them whole even if it meant I would lose a good bit of money since I was a teenager without these sorts of problems.

Anyway, one of my friends ran his own online service (a network of web proxies) and he actually specifically advertised on my network because for some reason the traffic converted well for his particular service. I had him check his AdWords spend several weeks later and we discovered that he was never refunded for the ads that ran on my network, even though those earnings were taken away from me. In other words, at least back then Google probably didn't refund advertisers in cases of clickfraud, etc., unless the advertister specifically knew they were being defrauded. At least that's what appeared to happen based on the info I had access to haha. They are super shady.
Your example is pretty illuminating. AAA games are one-and-done: you ship, and then the codebase is basically frozen, and you make money off expansions. The other area where team sizes top out at 50-100 people is desktop software, where (barring future versions) it's also one-and-done. You sell a software package, money comes in, that's it.

The way the calculus works for Internet-based SaaS is: say you have revenues of $4B (like Shopify), and an engineer costs $400K. If the engineer works on a project that improves sales by 0.01%, it's profitable. If a team of 10 engineers works on a project that improves sales by 0.1%, or 100 engineers improving sales by 1%, it's profitable. How many 0.1% opportunities do you see in the product? How many 1% opportunities? What if you add risk? An engineer might fail to see any effect on 4 of their projects, but if they improve sales by 0.1% on the 5th, they've still made the company twice as much as they cost.

It's hill-climbing. There are usually lots of 0.1% opportunities available with a big worldwide SaaS. Things like localization and entering new markets will generate way more than that; even things like moving around CTAs and changing colors will usually generate more in profit than the engineer costs.

Also add to that diminishing marginal productivity of each engineer. In a team of 5 moving a button around takes an afternoon. In a team of 1000 it often takes a couple quarters, because you need to get sign-offs from all the teams that the code touches, run it through QA, and gather metrics to show you didn't regress anything. The engineer is still profitable, because the effect of their change multiplied across millions of users is way more than their salary costs. But they're not as profitable, because they work so slowly.
Yeah, it’s identical to the “Jewish question”. I argue that whoever has any “question” like this at all should be stopped by all means.
Ask them for feedback on why your application wasn't successful this time and what they think you do to improve your chances of employment with them in the future. They still might not give you any, but in my experience most places will.

Then you can take their feedback into consideration for your next application. Sometimes it'll be something you can't do much about quickly (e.g. if there was a candidate with more experience than you). Other times though you'll discover a quick win (e.g. your application didn't clearly state your relative skills or experience).
I don't associate fried rice with a lot of oil. Maybe the hot wok. Woks can be problematic on electric ranges. Cooks Illustrated actually recommends using a skillet instead.
This is the one I have and I love it!

https://shopamandarachlee.com/collections/planners-1
Weave Your Own Apollo-Era Memory
We should thank widespread technical illiteracy for this: "Devices are from different vendors? Of course they can't share the same services or charger!" Marketers just love this, for enabling them to sell multiple times the same thing. What if basic technology familiarity (which has absolutely nothing to do with knowing how to use the latest gadget) and resistance to manipulative advertising was taught in school? That would be quite a change, but I guess it's going to remain a dream.
could you use charcoal instead of coal? That seems as green if you farmed the trees and use heat waste to make charcoal.
Rust and WebAssembly – building full-stack WASM plugins
we already had hands-on experience with wasm at Fiberplane when we faced a challenge: we needed full-stack WASM plugins because we needed them to run both in the browser and server. so, we build our own solution: fp-bindgen. And we gave a talk about it.
HN is pretty explicitly about commerce and specifically tech related to commerce. It's one of the few places I frequent where self-promotion is encouraged.

This is part of what makes HN unique and great in terms of tech news sites.

I don't use a VPN, but am glad to know of product offerings like this. If this is an "ad" then bring it on, I say.
Your ip address is hidden. For the case of my ISP (which I trust as far as I can throw them), my traffic is end to end encrypted. This also applies if you're using someone else's internet connection and do not trust them not to snoop on you (such as your employer's BYOD wifi, or a starbucks wifi, etc)
> "One of the things that’s going to be examined is whether or not Tether was fully secured. Did Tether properly perfect its security in its collateral?,” said Tad Davidson, co-head of the bankruptcy practice at Hunton Andrews Kurth

This is interesting! Overcollateralised loans with automatic liquidation are neat. It's draconian. And there's the oracle problem. But that creditor friendliness should translate into lower swap-adjusted rates. (Should. Eventually. Imagine borrowing in a country with a volatile currency and the death penalty for defaulting. Also it's Argentina?)

But just because the blockchain says you control someone's collateral doesn't mean you own it. Control is a physical concept. Ownership is legal. And the law says you have to perfect [1] for collateral claims to survive bankruptcy. (Which has public disclosure and orderly-unwinding benefits.) Blockchains can ignore courts. But people aren't on blockchains.

Sympathetic to both sides. The spirit of the agreement was clear ex ante to Celsius and Tether. But it may not have been to Celsius's customers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfection_(law)
If I go to McDonalds, I can get a hamburger for a dollar. At the grocery store I can't get the meat for a hamburger for a dollar.
The EU just mandated chats to be scanned for content. Of course just for CSAM just as the meta data collection is only used for terrorism. Problem is that the latter is also used for parking tickets. They really try to hit the definition of a totalitarian state by the letter.
Yes, that's exactly what I did. And as for virtue signalling, (see sibling comment) I really don't care what you or others think about that.
+1 for LiveOverflow and IppSec. They are great for people interested in cybersecurity.

Along those lines, I would also add John Hammond:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVeW9qkBjo3zosnqUbG7CFw
US cities try luring remote tech workers with cash
Totally I have a big reel of embarassing moments that gets replayed. Its great to figure out later that either people didn't remember, didn't care, or still laugh along with the situation rather than at me.
Firefox 103.0 – Release: (July 26, 2022)
There is some chance you are on the wrong website.
Sure, yet I'm quite happy to see some jailed spammers :)

The point is, we are not hopeless. Actually, the e-mail thing was and is quite more problematic with accusations of gatekeepers(domain blacklists) asking for money but at least you know what's happening an how to solve it.
Reading all these journaling posts on HN with interest but struggle to get into it myself. I find it just ends up my going around in circles or getting frustrated, but I think that's just me, whenever i sit down to think about anything and try and make sense of anything in my life, I really struggle, sometimes if i'm able to think clearly I feel good about half way through but when I try and bring it all together i'm just overwhelmed.

Not being able to see the direct benefit, i'm not sure if there is any overall law or else it's just a big time wasting exercise. It's also hard to do at the end of the day due to low energy.

The trouble is there are so many things I can do for my mental health and improve myself, perhaps all help, but there is just no time. Meditation can be great, but it's a huge time suck, taking a walk out in nature, nice but takes more time, exercise has the biggest benefit for me but takes a lot of time and energy, but when am i meant to get anything done after i finish work if I do all of these? Then to fit journaling in, I have to stop working earlier to sit down and just write my thoughts?
It sounds like they didn't make those charges and someone else is pretending to be Zipcar, charging your card.
That would be the first time I've ever heard anyone say that about that phrase.

Please consider not correcting everyone with your wokeness; it is equally if not more intolerant than the people you lord it over.

Is the phrase "giving someone a dutch oven" rascist? What about jerry-rigging? What about a Mexican standoff?

If you guys are going to indiscriminantly purge "rascist" language, then be thorough about it. And don't weep when there's nothing left but some of the most bland, boring-ass speech available.

Come on.
‘We show hotshots who’s boss’: how China disciplines its tech barons
So in a thermal event, where integrity of the coolant is compromised, you want to dump more heat into the system?

Its not just the electrical issues at play, its the fact that hot battery fluid burns spontaneously with exposure to air (I suspect also water, but I'm less sure about that)
> As a result of the fire, the electric bus fleet was pulled from service as a precaution, Rickman said.

> “The importance of rider safety is demonstrated by taking these buses out of service and ensuring a thorough investigation is completed prior to any redeployment of the fleet,” Rickman said.
Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
... and that's why I'm not even considering paying google $2/month for drive. Or whatever the cheapest tier costs now.
Google Ads is a separate division with separate policies, separate payment infrastructure, and separate fraud detection systems. Don't try and make sense of it; it's inscrutable on purpose.
Safe? Probably anything supporting an industry that isn't affected as heavily by the downturn. There's no shortage of work in Industrial Controls. Most work isn't glamorous cutting edge tech, but there's sectors to work in that are engaging.
No doubt. But in the context of this discussion, it sounds like, for even that size package, the target audience could make room in the freezer they already have by consuming and not replacing their existing stock of frozen tacos, waffles and corn dogs.
Banned from Minecraft, NFTworlds says it’ll just make a better game
Got it, thanks for the reply!
You can be a winner if you're selling pickaxes during a gold rush, but less so if you're building a pickaxe factory. Shopify's NFT stuff was closer to the latter.
I don't know what mental gymnastics you're talking about? I thought I was literally answering your question... I didn't know that rich metadata analytics for mysql existed in an easy to use GUI from this or any vendor. That's valuable knowledge I just learned from the post. My Cloudflare and Vercel examples were similar.

Now, if your issue was with the article title, I fully agree. I wish the titles here were clearer.
Cerner’s VA rollout offers a rare look into the hidden harms of health records
Not the Terms of Service guys!
This reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirby_64:_The_Crystal_Shards#G... :

> Kirby 64 introduces Power Combos, the option to combine Kirby's copy abilities. Power Combos can be created by inhaling two enemies at once, by throwing one ability at another, or by spitting an enemy at another. The latter two methods create a colored star that can be collected to obtain the Power Combo. There are 28 possible combinations, which are stronger than normal copy abilities or have added effects. For instance, by combining the "Burn" and "Needle" abilities, Kirby can shoot fire arrows. Players can also mix two of the same abilities, which will increase their power.
The original blog post is an advertisement, they are advertising a new payment method. Whether or not this specific post on HN linking to the advertisement is also "just an ad" is what's up for debate.
Non-lawyer here: one reason corporations won't give you info about exactly what they think you did wrong is it gives you no grounds to sue them for slander.

Similarly, no HR department will inform another HR department if you were fired or why, they'll only confirm dates of employment.
Power Plant Emission Trends
This clicks for me. I have numerous barely started journals, along with varying levels of guilt about not writing every day, and a lack of feeling anything is coming out of the process.

I am now inspired to open one back up...
Very simple - it all too often invites you to dispute the reasons. At the end of the day it's not productive for the employer to give you this because you will likely not accept it. As with many things in life the unfortunate reality is this is on you to figure out...
I did a couple of 5x5 to warm up and learn the strategies, but then went off the deep end. The middle was rough, but the ending part got me into the same meditative state that regular Net does, so I'd call that a win!
> sitting atop of a napalm bomb while zipping around town.

you do know what napalm is made of right?

petrol is really really nasty flammable shit. crashed cars catch fire, a lot.
So that some employees at Google can have easier time managing an issue(not disclosing the reason for account restrictions probably makes the scammers life harder too

Yet, while this is often the cited reason, it is simply not true.

There is no way on Earth, that scammers don't find out about such restrictions trivially, easily. So all this really does, is inconvenience the honest, and do zip, zero, nada to hassle the miscreants.

edit: more thought here, likely this is just an excuse, to not properly train reps, or to not deal with the issue at all.

It is the equiv of "think of the children!", but corp speak instead of politi speak. "Sorry for the bad service, security issue!"
> like the current permission systems on smartphones

Ugh, except that one goes overboard in the completely opposite direction, and often doesn't let me properly share data between apps even when I want to.
Sometimes sacrificing queen and bishops for a promoted pawn is the way to go ;)
ah, we don't care when it runs as much as when it doesn't run, so we slack on failure
This is a weird comment.

> This agreement consisted of a package of measures, including a ceasefire, withdrawal of heavy weapons from the front line, release of prisoners of war, constitutional reform in Ukraine granting self-government to certain areas of Donbas and restoring control of the state border to the Ukrainian government. While fighting subsided following the agreement's signing, it never ended completely, and the agreement's provisions were never fully implemented.

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

Nobody argues that Ukraine followed the Minsk agreements, the negotiated peace by France and Germany to the 2014 conflict, where Ukraine was supposed to give special, semi-autonomous status to those ethnic Russian regions.

Nor do they argue that Ukraine did not do the opposite: banning Russian language, cracking down on Russians in politics, shelling those regions, etc.

Perhaps you’re making unreasonable demands for specifics of an agreement Ukraine clearly broke because you find it uncomfortable that Ukraine’s refusal to abide by the resolution to the previous conflict is what led to this conflict, a decade later.
Yes, I'm sure it was the Swedish alphabet purists who downvoted.
How do you benefit financially by refusing to take people’s money?
I would imagine that Amazon either won't let you refund this (since it's basically a gift card), or if you try to refund it and return an opened package your refund will get denied.

No need to specifically invalidate the code inside to stop you from doing refund fraud.
Kind of surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet, but it's pretty commonplace to buy gift cards with cryptocurrencies. So there's yet another layer of anonymity if you buy an Amazon gift card from a stranger/service then use it for a physical Mullvad activation code.
I’m quite certain a very similar article could be written about, say, UK and Ireland with quotes from famous authors. It’s not that the English lack an imperialist past and feelings of superiority.
I see that you are doubling down on the “don’t know what you’re talking about” aspect of this debate. My local transit agency is AC Transit. It serves millions of people in several large cities. Last year it ordered fifty more fuel cell vehicles from its suppliers.

https://www.actransit.org/zeb
Logistics, How Did They Do It, Part I: The Problem
This recipe helped me succeed finally, although I've still failed a few times https://www.seriouseats.com/easy-vegetable-fried-rice-recipe
Feels like movie generation isn't too far away. It's all just pixels after all. Just need a script, audio, and pixels.
The odds of that happening is negligible.

I suppose ISPs could try to make an example of a few customers. But I think that would be horrible PR as well as very difficult to prove.

How would they distinguish traffic that’s authorized and unauthorized? As their customer, how much do you think I can authorize? Can I grant my guests access? Can my smart lightbulbs access?
It looks like a scratch-off code like on Netflix gift cards. Once you scratched it off there won't be a refund available would be my guess just like any other gift card and many digital purchases.
On top of which, we now live in a society where insulting, ridiculing, and just generally harassing or terrorizing anyone "different" (but especially those with depression or other "mental issues") is the normal behavior of most humans, making any attempts to live a "normal" life pretty much an impossible to tolerate waking nightmare hell-scape for many who suffer with "major depressive disorder" (or whatever it's being called this week.)
On the one hand, I sympathize with your sentiment. However, I feel it can be overstated. Applying your reasoning, we might conclude that formulating and publishing an argument of any kind at all is futile because, as your logic states, "the people who already think this, don't need it. And the people who oppose it, aren't listening." I think this is a simplistic way of looking at it. On all issues, there are people at the margins (or perhaps, in the "center"). Perhaps they have some visceral feeling that they ought to look at Russian literature, at this moment, with some disdain. Or they feel some vague sense of shame in indulging in or enjoying Russian literature. As an audience, people like this are quite able to be convinced that their feelings are misplaced and this post lays out exactly why.
Yep, it's not the phone it's the apps on the phone that are addicting. Delete them and you'll live in peace and tranquility.
Micron’s 232 Layer NAND: 1Tbit, 6-Plane Dies With 50% More I/O Bandwidth
> What are the safest industries in tech right now?

Military industrial complex, as usual.
After all of this work you will run into a deeper, more disappointing aspect of paying for google search ads:

There is a relatively high floor to the number of clicks your ads generate - if they don’t meet this, they will be disabled for being “low quality”.

We ran into this in the pre-Adblock era when we thought targeted search ads were a good fit for rsync.net. Google would rather show no ads at all for a search term than show a rarely clicked ad.

Frustrating for us, but on a deeper level a betrayal of the entire promise of search advertising: the idea that there is one magic search out there for your truly unique product and the search engine brings them together.

That was all bullshit because niche searches were not allowed (unless we were willing to pay 50x for them).
Investing in ponzi schemes early is better than later, yeah.
Attackers use exposed Prometheus server to exploit Kubernetes clusters
Yes, quite trivially? Compute power is more a function of dollars than population. Don't they already surveil most Tor exit nodes?
As my friends from college (sample set of 10) got older I noticed where people split conservative or liberal (US centric sorry). My liberal friends are generally concerned for everyone in society and how they'll get screwed over or not.

My conservative friends are very concerned about anyone they know, and very worried about how they can't backstop them because of supporting the whole of society. 2 of them would fly / drive across the country at a moments notice to help me out for weeks. But they aren't concerned with people outside that circle. Of the 2 I had deep conversations with, they both were more focused on setting up social circles to support everyone else such as churches, local community, family, which to them is the fallback, not the government.

That's about as far as I got.
Good point bringing up up audio plugins. I wish many things worked like them. Everything visible/not too much hidden unless it's really complex, available/usually discoverable, and responsive in real time.
Non-sequitur, but no worries.

To a prosecutor, that means they have a conspiracy or even RICO case on their hands.
It looks like it provides out of the box support for Overleaf! (Collaborative LaTeX editor) https://www.overleaf.com/blog/635-languagetool-a-free-browse...

This is not true of Grammarly last I checked, you have to hack something together... (e.g. https://medium.com/@tardijkhof/how-i-made-grammarly-seamless... )