skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kinda depends on who it is and how it goes.

Provided I'm a significant way through the hiring process spending a day in person with people who seem relevant to he job would be fine provided I liked the company / had confidence in the process / liked the job.

A family member recently applied for a job and got invites for 12 hours of meetings over 2.5 weeks. No sense of where they were in the hiring process. No significant questions had been answered about the job. At least half the people in the invite were not directly involved with the job / HR types ....

I think what people get upset about is how seemingly meandering these interviews are now / interviewing with people who don't know jack squat and so on.
Arutz Sheva/Israel National News is an extremist right-wing rag. A more extreme version of Daily Mail or Fox News. While the claims it makes may be true, they may as well be completely false or severely distorted. If the story hasn't been reported in reliable Israeli press (Haaretz, Times of Israel, ynetnews) INN may be misrepresenting it.
I have background here and can take a pretty good guess at what happened. You used a Brex card, which Google sees as a “privacy card.” These are often used by scammers trying to circumvent Google blocking their credit card account numbers.

The solution here is to never use a hidden or “privacy” card number with Google, although of course Google will never tell you that or confirm or deny this. I only know this due to working with clients in this area.

You can try removing that card and adding a regular hard card number and asking for a reinstatement again, but it may be too late for this account.

Hopefully this helps folks reading this to not make the same mistake (although it’s incredibly frustrating that stuff like this has to be learned by trial and error or knowledge from those of us who have dealt with this previously.)
IIRC the Treadmill has always had appalling constant factors; its appeal is that, unlike any simpler or earlier GC algorithm, it has a worst-case execution time.
My career at one point was a 5 year job, then 3 years, then 1 year, then 3 years, then 2 years, and finally 2 years.

The first time I interviewed (and failed) with Microsoft, the final stage of the interview was with a guy who had been with Microsoft for 20+ years. He looked at my resume and grilled me about job hopping (even asking me about individual positions and why I left).

Ironically, I didn't even job hop just for salary, I did it because of layoffs or really toxic environments. However, all that job hopping was also crucial to gain different experiences I have today in different technologies, patterns, and sets of scale I would have never gotten in my original company.

While explaining this to the interviewer, he started talking about how he started in the operating systems division, then moved to security, then moved to office, now works in an Azure area. He failed to really understand that he was doing the equivalent of job hopping in order to facilitate his own technical growth, and the majority of us do not work in companies where we are able to side-load into vastly different domains without changing high level companies or losing RSUs.

I don't think this was the reason I failed the interview (I didn't interview well that time), but I do think about that.
Mastadon. The Fediverse.
For me it is a balance. I had opportunities to earn significantly more (~3x) but it was work I despised and I'm not sure I would be happy right now if I was retired but my life's work felt like a net negative. On the flip side, I had opportunities to work in organizations doing fascinating and world-changing work for low salary (~1/4x) and I've learned that I am not happy when money is a constant source of stress.

Maximizing happiness for me means finding the right balance between having a positive impact and making enough money. (I'm not sure I've struck the right balance, but that is my mental model.)
Yes, politics is the arena now. The science is done, and I can personally attest to the hollowness of working to refine the precision of our understanding at this late stage in the fight. There are tech jobs in offset accounting, but that field is generally doing math on scams that justify continued emissions.

Politics and propaganda are the buttons to push right now. Hopefully those will unlock other meaningful fields soon enough.
I don't see retirement as not doing anything. I see it a synonym to being financially secure. It's being able to choose to do whatever you want.
They clearly made a bet to try and become Amazon-esque that hasn't paid off and has been costly.

To blame 'unforeseen' waning pandemic growth seems like a copout by management (not surprising)
3 people now saying the same thing. const is not required to be interpreted at compile time, these are choices made by language designers. and read the code with ‘let’ in it like it’s english, does let actually describe constnenss using its english definition? no. i’d argue that any language using ‘let’ for const values is borderline too theoretical. hell, even “define” is better than “let”
Agree, people have much more control over their emotional responses than they believe. One may not be able to turn off emotion in particular situations or exactly when they want to, but it's possible to tone down (or up) the response to similar situations over time through practice. In time, it becomes much more voluntary than we'd think.

This is the point of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Stoicism, and Mindfulness.
No, there is a pretty strict policy where boomerangs within a year return to the comp they were at. Any unvested RSUs are re-distributed over 4 years.
I would suggest ImageJ, which is a Java-based image processing program developed at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It has a very low memory footprint, built-in support for most DICOM file formats, a ton of extensions, and (of course) cross-platform support.

As an added bonus, you can run it as a portable app.
I like how it starts out forcing you to advertise in mobile. Google wants to EOL the web!
The question is how much they can scale it. There are a lot of things that the first iteration of was completely unworkable, but refinements mean we use them all over now. If you have ever see a car from the 1890s you would conclude cars will never work (the car might be gas or electric powered!), but over time we fixed the problems to the point anyone can drive them.
The false dilemma in this post is this postulate: people who do bad things, must necessarily do those things so we can get valuable things they do.

This is what those people sell as their image though: and they have to sell it, because otherwise they'd have to stop doing those things - or risk it being discovered that they're just not that valuable and likely replaceable.
Yep it affecting us as well
I often wonder if too much introspection via therapy or yourself is a bad thing. When you are young you are filled with ideas and drive and confidence. After introspection you realize you aren't special, you aren't as good as you think you are and most people are indifferent to you or often dont really like you.
It is an excellent question. Having an answer to it would be very valuable and I spent a lot of time thinking about it but found no conclusive answer. Sadly.

First of all, I do not condemn people trying to do their best to legally provide for themselves even if it means trying to get the job that they are not qualified for (as long as it is legal). Just look at our politicians. I might take an issue if you are straight lying about facts and your abilities.

But at the same time I think I am fully justified to politely refuse to be the sucker that hires them.

One reason you may want to know if you are qualified for the job is if you want to stay there for longer. Sometimes for some people stability over long term pays more than constantly getting jobs that are just above your level.
ROM disassembly books existed for a reason.
Seriously, though. There are Thai, Chinese, Mexican, indian, moroccan, Italian etc restaurants all within a few minutes from me. I've never seen a British restaurant. The closest you get is a UK themed pub, which just serves American bar food plus Guinness.
An alternative to the clamps! I think the glue will dry without issues, though it can make a mess if there's too much.
Dunno if it's my ADHD or what, but I've been using subtitles ever since streaming became a thing. And even more so after I had a kid. I basically cannot hear without subtitles.
So I tried the example and changed this line:

call paint->forward(100)

to:

call paint->forward(100+i)

But all I got was an error message, with no obvious way to proceed.
Easy Anti-Cheat, https://www.easy.ac
More moving parts on Wall St.

More competition.

Wall St "smart money" is still, comparatively speaking, clueless in cryptocurrency world.
For me, it is definitely audio mixing when it comes to subtitles with English language content. Accents are a close second. Sometimes the person is just unintelligible or the audio is mixed with quiet dialogue and loud sound effects.

I kind of dislike it though, I've grown to use it as a crutch and would prefer to not need to use it.
Doing business with Google is a liability. Even more so when you depend on their services for anything. It only takes a single bot on their end misclassifying your account or your actions and, boom, you're banned, without being told why you were banned, and without any possibility of appeal. If Google's services were an essential part of your business, well, have fun going bankrupt I guess?
Think about users with a million toolbars and Bonzi Buddy installed.

I say let them be. As long as they also have the freedom to remove or not install such software, it's a good thing. Instead we have locked-down devices with the functional equivalent of such unwanted software, protected so that you cannot remove it without somehow getting root.

"Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither."
Yeah, I think people try to optimize their budget a little too much. I doubt everybody is barely making the cut to get any food. A lot are just lazy. Me included sometimes. Spend a few extra bucks, and get something that's less likely to give you cancer. The end result can be very satisfying when you're finished making it, and you don't feel like a pig afterwards.
You are missing the central point of the Walkie-Talkie and Disney-Concert-Hall controversies. These are Frank-Gehry(-style) buildings, and in those roughly half of all surfaces is a concave and half is a convex mirror. THIS concentration to one point is what turns the summer sun into death rays.

Reflected sun, by definition, has a little less energy than direct sun. So, given the mirror walls are straight, as the designs show, you get (at maximum) 200% of normal desert sun energy, which isn't comfortable, but not a Gehry-style death ray.
A new AI era emerges
Every once in a while a revolutionary technology comes along that changes everything. While entrepreneurs are focused on Deep Learning applications, futurists are focused on artificial general intelligence (AGI). But literally, no one is talking about the era that’s sandwiched between them with incredible potential. A new era is rising with the AI-job suite.
I guess, the way Compaq was able to take advantage from IBM.
Whoa this is crazy, I have the same exact story, except I think I know what happened.

Google auto switched my language to Japanese (I happen to live in Tokyo — every other Google property is English, my account is set to English), and the first payment happened with an American credit card. I thought it was weird that it said Yen when I was setting up the account but now I’m convinced that’s what got me banned.

At this point, I just happily fork over money to all the other ads providers and learn how to navigate the market there. There is so much to learn in the space that I am enjoying using various systems and figuring out the core skillset.

Microsoft ads, twitter, reddit ads —- they have their idiosyncrasies and they don’t see the same traffic but it’s fine. Google will just be the only one I do well in with purely good content.

Being able to build businesses and things without Google is a skill I didn’t think I’d be happy I learned but I guess playing the game on hard mode is good for something.
Yes, the linked paper describes it in detail. They also avoid going through an electrolysis-of-water step to generate the H2, it all happens in situ (from the linked paper). The use of the ceria catalyst to generate the CO from CO2 has been known for a while but this looks like a notable advance:

> "An additional advantage of the solar redox cycle compared with other solar approaches is its ability to co-split H2O and CO2 simultaneously or separately and therefore control the quality (both purity and stoichiometry) of the syngas in situ, consequently obtaining a tailored mixture of H2 and CO suitable for FT synthesis."

> "This direct approach eliminates the energy penalty associated with additional refinement steps for adjusting the syngas mixture. In contrast, the electrolytic pathway (also called “power-to-X”) requires the production of substantial excess H2 by water electrolysis using solar electricity... "

https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(22)00286-0
Really sad how Putin is ruining an entire country.
Question for OP: did you attend an interview? In my experience, companies will usually provide a rejection reason if an interview has taken place, especially if you have been through multiple rounds.
Everything legacy. Defense, pharma, banking, insurance, manufacturing, energy etc.
It made sense to me. I was and their reply was talking about engineering jobs.

I said that all these layoffs are not firing many, if any, software engineers. They replied that, while that’s true, tech companies are not firing software engineers, they are on a hiring freeze and canceled offers that were out. So not firing, but not hiring any either.
Welcome to the fruits of a computing industry that hasn't focused on making computing more accessible cognitive load wise in decades.

Specs locked behind paywalls/licensewalls. Closed source API:s, lock in via cryptography... It all comes together to create just what large software platforms want, but what people like Engelbart were trying to avoid.

A technically ignorant/illeterate user populace.
Thinking like this would drive you off many many games.
They're speculative assets bubbles (hence the enormous price swings). People refer to them as Ponzi schemes because a speculative asset bubble is similar, though the two aren't technically the same thing. But neither are good for the economy, with everyone making money by leaving someone worse off.

If you invest in a company you can be investing in a productive asset that will produce more than you put in. You get a cut, but society does as well, and everyone is better off. With crypto, you're getting your money from the person you offload the crypto to. You're richer, they're poorer. They can try to offload it to someone else, but eventually someone will be left holding the bag. Things that can't go on forever, won't.

Even in the highly unlikely best case scenario where these assets stabilize at high prices, you're expanding the monetary base and getting your money by inflicting price inflation on the rest of society (the amount of products isn't increased, but the amount of currency trying to get those products will be).
This was a great read. Some commenters discussed the nature of the interview, and compared it to today. But personally I get this feeling that this was still in a time when software was developed mostly in bubbles. Knowing how to code was far less obvious back then than it is today, and knowing the right stack meant you could get hired on the spot. Also, I don't know of it's nostalgia, the way it's written or something else, but it feels like a lot of engineering stories from that period have a certain sense of pioneering or discovery, while it's definitely far reduced today.
On ‘Being You’
Irritating to me that we live in a system that rewards irresponsible spending and debt accumulation - both on the individual level and on the corporate level.
Classic understatement: "This is of course bad."
We do cook at home a lot, but genuinely, if I have a lot of work of just have activities with kids outside of home, it adds overhead I don't want to deal with. I am not even sure it is more of mental overhead or time overhead, but the more I am stressed at given period the less I want to deal with counting and "being smart" about buying perishables.
Shopify laying off ~10% of staff
> Also, the employer might have just offered you the match to buy themselves time to look for someone cheaper.

This is "common knowledge" but I've never seen it in real life before.

I've accepted counter offers, as has my wife and quite a few former colleagues. And none of these people were ever let go from that position.

The logic doesn't even makes sense. In large companies, the hiring manager doesn't care about salaries beyond if it fits in the budget. And firing people is a huge pain in the ass. If the company wanted to replace a person with someone cheaper, letting them go would be the best strategy. That would give the company two weeks to get documentation of the job function in place and start interviewing.

I can see this kind of vindictive behavior a very small company, where decisions are made on the whims of a mercurial owner. But you're equally as likely to get fired from a place like this for any number of mundane offenses which the owner finds insulting.
Cory Doctorow – Fighting Back in the War on General Purpose Computers (2015)
Not only job security. I live just a few miles from the campus of the company I work for. I could walk to work if I really needed to. The benefits are fantastic. It is a fortune 100 company that will be around for the long term. It has amazing work life balance. I like all of my coworkers and have never had a bad, or even mediocre boss. Etc.
Sounds to me more like your problem is a bad manager than an entire country.
There’s more information available in the full email by Tobi (the CEO): https://news.shopify.com/changes-to-shopifys-team
Check your surroundings; You seem to have no tech-passionate people around — if this is true for you, that is.
No, that's still not allowed. And, of course, perfect rational agents would never cheat.
A classic correlation/causation confusion. Yes, Greenpeace complained about fission. No, that doesn't mean they caused fission's failure.

If there's many billions of dollars in value to be created, that will trump anything a NGO can whine about. That's why we're still burning so much fossil fuel. Nuclear was vulnerable because it wasn't creating value.
> (US) government doesn't necessarily incentivize self employment

Can you explain here? I've found the US govt to be very incentivizing to "small businesses", which includes self employment. I'm thinking of tax breaks, cheap/free loans, and other financial items. I will say the amount of red tape & paper work is ridiculous, especially if you plan to move or do business in more than one state.

> Buying a house is a pain. I make more than I ever made working for the man but few want to give me a loan.

Once you run a business for 2 years, this goes away. It is an incredible eye roll though when you first run into it if you're running a successful business.

> You get to do the fun stuff... But also the other stuff (payroll, marketing, ...)

You may be well aware of this, but for anyone else, hire this out as much as possible. That's one of the most important things I would tell anyone. Know what you enjoy & are good at. Hire everything else out. That can even be management/ceo/etc.. You don't need to run the business if you don't want to. "The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It" is a great book on this topic.

> Unless you have a saas, income can be variable.

This one is tough. It can be easy to increase business volume but then you need to hire more help often which brings it's own challenges & may require more business volume. Finding a good balance here is tricky for sure.
Going back to where you lived before is the best (if not the only) way to cure yourself of nostalgia. (You may or may not want to do that.)
These stories are a major factor in why I very recently moved away from Google Workspace. There are so many random termination stories that it's just not worth the risk: what would I lose if the Google Workspace chaos monkey hit my account?
These industries all have layoffs too.
You needed to bring a free DICOM viewer and have her install it ;-)
That having a low level of shame means you can show incomplete work while you’re still learning, so you can get feedback, without feeling ashamed of it.
My first manager told me: Grunt work is also work. Someone needs to do it. He was spot on.

What I observe with many founders I interact with is that they want to focus on the exciting stuff. Building the product etc. Most of them don’t want to be bothered with boring stuff like financial planning, which sometimes breaks their necks.
Possibly, but then 1) it won't require much in the way of maintenance or replacement parts, being a really low end EV, and 2) I suspect everything but the chassis is bog standard stuff you can get anywhere. This isn't going to be like a car with its hundreds (thousands?) of molded ABS parts everywhere.
Google's lack of human support actually is starting to sound like a business opportunity. Search sucks, we all know it (buying search from kagi.com myself), Byzantine mechanisms and Kafkaesque review processes. I would think if anyone offered a decent signup mechanism with the option to get real human help would win over a lot of business that could be mostly automated thereafter.
This is accurate in my experience, coming from an unloving household where shame was the name of the game.

My coping mechanism became to ignore shame and shaming attempts, first in defiance, later "on principle", at any cost (so what if I don't get that toy I always wanted, I won't be manipulated in this way). Obviously this has caused some social problems in adulthood, as I struggle to be critical to myself and others without invoking feelings of shame. Or give a friendly advice without thinking I will hurt someones feelings (because they are doing it "wrong").

That said, I'm not sure whether the distinction matters in practice. It's certainly frustrating for my friends who can't playfully shame me into action, without me becoming all fight/flight, pretending to be oblivious, or outright ignoring them for months after...

I'm lucky enough to have found friends and (other) family that taught me positive reinforcement and nonviolent communication, as I'm seemingly incapable of handling negative feedback (at least openly).
They reported a loss on an investment in Affirm iirc. They're actually cash flow positive as a company, the loss is mostly just an accounting quirk.
Just give the rugrats nano and call it a day.
Yep that’s why we should ban passwords.

/s
Imagine the chutzpah that it takes for the US to cry afoul about China repo'ing Taiwan, meanwhile bombing and invading numerous countries halfway around the world in just the last few decades.
It seems like the way to win an appeal with Google is to somehow get in the internal escalation queue, usually by knowing an engineer or getting lucky on HN or similar.
I disagree - I think fintech start ups are about to get squeezed hard. As capital gets more expensive their lack of growth will be hard to justify and they can no longer subsidize their subscriptions with low cost capital so will have to force users to pay for services that aren't very necessary. That and most of the financial services at the end of the day don't really provide a lot of real value that people are willing to pay for.

Fin processing should be OK but if volume of processing drops significantly (main revenue driver) then they will have to look at ways to protect their margin.

Crypto is already in a bad spot with low growth options.