skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is sad. It was the real UN to me. Now it's just US propaganda.
> it may not be possible for the talent acquisition team to provide detailed decline feedback

That sounds like the exception, but ok, what happens when it is not possible?

Like you know, send a message "Dear candidate, unfortunately the talent acquisiton team did not manage to provide decline feedback because of xxxxxxx[0] , sorry."

Or "nothing"?

And in how many cases does this happen?

Like 1%, 5%, 35% or 99%?

IMHO it would be much simpler to directly write in your handbook something like:

"No decline feedback will be provided. No exceptions."

This way the candidate won't be expecting it.

[0] Examples:

my dog ate the feedback

the feedback was stored in a cabinet that got flooded

the hard disk where the feedback was stored failed before a backup was made
The make of the bus doesn't seem to have been reported, but maybe one of the New Flyers they purchased?

https://portal.ct.gov/DOT/Publictrans/Bureau-of-Public-Trans...
I think people just want phones that are just less addicting. Tech companies have made so much money getting people hooked on their products; digital addiction is real.

If anyone wants a de-googled privacy focused phone and has a pixel phone you can make a degoogled phone for free by installing GrapheneOS.

If want, to just buy a degoogle phone. I’ve created a company that sells refurbished pixel 5a with GrapheneOS installed https://www.ShellphoneX.com
TL;DR: It's another "sacrifice the oldies for the sake of the economy" piece.

(My mom is in the high-risk group for Covid, so as you can imagine, I'm just a bit bias against this sort of thing.)

- - - -

It started out pretty good. I especially liked that he was open and frank about:

> in-person school provides invaluable daycare.

> convenience is one of the most important things in the world.

But then we get to a piece of all-too-common bad reasoning:

> the value of life-years saved by COVID prevention is small compared to the value of reduced quality of life-years caused by this prevention. Normal life plus COVID is better than lockdown life without COVID.

What this fails to account for is that it is right and proper to make sacrifices to prevent suffering in others. (One could say that "quality of life-years" is not fungible.)

The trade-off here is something like: Mrs. X dies in agony drowning in her own dissolving lung tissue- vs. -Young child misses two years of convenient daycare.
Desert sand doesn't contain enough silica. It's mostly gypsum.
No code changes should be merged purely because the author got less code merged than someone else on their team. This sounds harsh maybe, but by your reasoning, your feelings could end up being the cause for bugs, poor quality code and/or bad design ending up in a release.

Of course, you and your team should work together to _avoid_ having to reject work! But it can and will happen, it's perfectly normal for mistakes to be made, it's how all humans learn.

Trying to deny that people sometimes fail is foolish. Punishing yourself for making a mistake is on you.

The only unfair thing here is taking others in the team hostage with the idea that you are entitled to getting your work merged regardless of its quality, purely because it would make you peeved, cranky, annoyed! That constitutes toxic behavior. If this is a pattern for you, people will avoid working with you.

Instead: embrace the opportunity to learn. Get feedback, reflect with the team, do better next time. Maybe pair up to refactor your work. Take the positive approach!
I really enjoyed this read. The author printing out his source code so he could have a physical artifact signifying the end of the journey for that game really resonated with me for some reason.
I always use subtitles even though my hearing is, as far as I'm aware, perfectly fine. But I'll often notice the subtitles show off-screen dialog or [off-screen sound] that I am completely unable to hear. Without the subtitles I would have no idea it even happened.

I'm sure I've said it here before but I would love, love, love if movies/TV allowed sound control similar to video games: a dialog slider, a background music slider, a sound effects slider, etc. I don't understand why Netflix (or any other streaming platform, really) doesn't make this a priority for their original programming.
If you're paranoid about privacy, why would you trust Amazon of all retailers?
What else are we going to congratulate them for, not requiring licensing to open a new TCP socket?
> which is interesting for DRM purposes.

You're thinking of SGX enclaves not TPM.

> TPM also creates unique hashes of your system

It doesn't. Your system creates hashes and appends to lists signed by TPM. And the point of those hashes is to be not unique, but verifiability matching known values.
Please don’t leave us in suspense: what are these tools and agents? Got a link?
What is the best least addictive phone?
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I’m honestly still in disbelief at how many very smart people fell for the NFT trap. If you’ve spent even a single bull cycle in the crypto community you could tell right away NFTs we’re ICO level scams. The mental gymnastics very smart and technical people performed to rationalize paying for a jpeg still makes me question reality. I participate in crypto because I take a calculated risk, and I’m comfortable gambling. People who actually think something like an NFT has any real value still messes with my head. I really can’t grasp how they actually believe this. And yes, I understand technically how NFTs work.
a few hundreds of hours of programming without any validation whatsoever

The function returning the right response is its own reward!
I am kind of amused that the combination of Moon and Robot is so weak that the robot is shrugging its shoulders as if to say, "It is what it is.":

https://emoji.supply/kitchen/?+=rt
I have always avoided OsiriX, but at my new job it's used a lot in the image processing lab (that I help support). I want to build/provide some simple QA utilities for the people who do use OsiriX, but I'm a physicist and I can't justify buying that MD license to tinker with and that damn timeout nag bullshit is not something I will waste my time on. I can't even tell how compatible Horos is with OsiriX or if it's maintained anymore. If I knew that plugins developed for Horos would work on OsiriX I might consider that "ecosystem" but as is it's not worth the effort to me. I barely tolerate OS X.
Deregulation is like flat power structures. Ultimately it just means that you don't know who the new regulators are. I can't help but wonder the difference between valuing the ideas of unfettered capitalism and the realities.
What is the actual gain of splitting dep management and build / link into separate tools? All I see is added complexity and ecosystem fragmentation.
Before 2019, they were hesitant to do so over uncertainty as to whether it would be a violation of common carrier laws to do so. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-robocalls/fcc-set-to-...
Absolutely agree. I always saw textbooks as a thing I had to read or a place to find the homework problems, not a place to learn.

Then I had a professor who had an accent I struggled to understand. Thankfully, she picked a fantastic Linear Algebra textbook. That's when I realized that the textbook is debatably the most important part of a class (at least for math and science).
The best de-Googled phone is, sadly, an iPhone. I came to this conclusion after sticking with Android for over a decade and hating iPhones, but switching to iOS has been one of the better decisions I made in my life.
Almost every site I've seen blocked on Mullvad seems to show a Cloudflare 'access denied' page. Since most sites using Cloudflare still work, I assume there's an option for site owners to block known VPN addresses.
This might be difficult to communicate, but I feel like XCode has me spending way more time and clicks on window/pane management than other IDEs. Apple's design philosophy is to keep things minimalist and hide controls which are not in active use. This means I find myself going back to click on small buttons in order to bring up a pane that will finally allow me to just to click on one icon I need to perform some task. Whereas in other IDEs can I force an icon to stay visible and spend much less time traversing the application's UI.

For an analogy, imagine using a workbench and being forced to put each tool back into it's respective drawer once I am done using it - even though I will certainly need to use the tool again very soon. Whereas other IDEs let my workbench be as customized and cluttered as I want it to be.
That's fine, then the offenders would be the robocallers and the issue can be solved by targeting the robocallers. If it isn't being solved it's probably because they don't want to solve it.

E-mail spammers went to jail, I don't see why robocallers don't go to jail. It's way easier to locate them anyway. If we can fight spam mail, spam calls can be dealt with too.
Every CDROM I've received after an MRI comes with a windows viewer on it. IN 2010 it was E Film Light, then DCSView, then DrayViewer, and today it is Radiant.
Hi HN! Since I posted the Chrome version last week I got some good feedback both here and on the discord https://discord.gg/YmVzHUNfYd.

Most feedback was wanting to have more control over the content sources and also a firefox version.
- Now you can add sources of your own by domain (e.g. goodreads.com or news.ycombinator.com)
- Turn off the habit tracking at will (while keeping the extension)
- And there's a Firefox Verison

Here's the Github: https://github.com/jawerty/myalgorithm
It’s a very strange emotional appeal. Yes, you can ban first-hand imports of Russian culture, or any other nation. But what about all the ways in which your culture has already been affected by decades and decades of integrating these works because they stand on their own, aesthetically speaking, regardless of their origin?

I’m reminded of an equally strange move, in an equally strange vein: “Freedom Fries.”
Yeah, looks like it would work out fine. Since synchronous communication breaks down pretty quickly even on merely interplanetary levels, the remaining use for calendars and timekeeping is basically event planning. For that difference in reference points and interval duration is not that important, as long as you can compensate for that, making events happen at a time you expect in a place you expect. We're doing that fine already, communicating with our deep space probes.
Amazon won't have a clue what the code you got was. Only you do.

They'll know you bought a code, but won't have any way to connect your purchase to a VPN user. You might not even be redeeming the code yourself.
I'm on a similar journey as the author — quit my job at FAANG and started a solo software consulting business — and as others have mentioned in this post, this path of contention creation is non-linear and no "formula" exists — and will never exist.

A friend of mind, guitar instructor, went from being teaching synchronously in-person for 15+ years to building out his audience. Only after 2 years did he start becoming profitable.

It's a grind.
What are DMPs?

What would you recommend as a good alternative to Google Ads?
Doesn't this allow Amazon to know who is paying for Mullvad?

Obviously correlating a purchase to a specific account is much harder, but it still seems like a compromise on privacy.
"Insist on buying organic" is a big qualifier. That food truck isn't cooking organic.

I purchase meat in Chinatown on the regular for remarkably good prices.
Large healthcare. Always.
> Even the biggest software teams I have seen were rarely larger than 50-80 people. And they were working on large complex codebase for AAA games. […] How can they manage to productively use the time of 10000+ people?

I work for a 100k-employees company. According to the internet, a third of it are engineers.[1] I think I can explain.

First of all, I think the AAA game example is bad. Most of my acquaintances working in the gaming industry work long hours for a crappy salary compared to their skill, because most of them are passionate.

Most business software is written by overpaid engineers who see the whole thing as a 9to5 job. So you can already divide the amount of hour worked per employees by at least 1.5 if not 2.

Even then, if you take something which seems as simple as Shopify the system can be made complex for managers and directors to justify headcount.

It's an e-commerce website, right? So you can split 100 engineers over 5 teams. 10 "production engineers" (or SRE/DevOps/SysAdmins) and 10 software engineers for each team: - Product search team; - Payment team; - Authentication team; - Admin UI team; - CRM team.

Once you have 100 engineers, you can multiply your headcount by 10 by just splitting each of these teams into five more. If you take the Payment team, you can create a credit card team, a paypal team, an alipay team, … For product search, you can create a team to manage just the suggestions of the search bar, another team which optimizes term matching with products, another team which does the list of related products on the side bar, …

I just found jobs for 1,000 engineers, right at the top of my head! Now you have so many engineers and so many customers, you also need internal tools. You need an internal tool to manage customer refunds, customer support, etc… You need HR tools for vacations, performance review, …

Of course all of this comes with waste, but who cares as long as you're offsetting it with your revenue? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Anyway, this is why I will never be a business person :) .

[1] https://earthweb.com/how-many-software-engineers-does-google...
> Had I brought the viewer, she would have probably launched the .exe with equally no hesitation. At least in these parts of the woods, this once again confirmed to me that medicine and IT usually exist at opposite ends of a spectrum.

Well, on the other hand she'd be able to do what she needed without any other distractions - and in case you happened to break the machine, you'd be around to slap or pay up for the fixes :-P.

At the end of the day for most people computers are there to help their jobs.
Some localizations are more complicated.

The Emmaus center for Versailles and other cosy cities around is located in Trappes. Trappes is one of the most "difficult" cities in France.

I give to Emmaus quite often and see very diverse population and donated objects. So what you get there is really random, and usually falls into the category of "great" or "mediocre", with not too much in between.
Government scale funds are about 1,000x this amount. For example the US "defense" spending for 2022 is 778 Billion - billion with a B.

And defense spending is less than 10% of overall government spending in the US when you include state and local spending.
>The design of the activation code removes the possibility for third parties to link a payment to a Mullvad account, for privacy.

Considering that a primary use-case for a VPN is as one of the tools to help shield your data from the rampant data thieves, of which Amazon is a particularly powerful adversary, I would need a much clearer explanation of how this is a privacy enhancer.

Mullvad having a business relationship with Amazon is inherently troubling.
Sun was the big gorilla in the marketplace and CDE was based on non-Sun technology.

CDE rose out of HP Vue window manager.

Motif was considered to be a good choice; some say it is easy to program.
It's been located: https://www.reddit.com/r/discworld/comments/w8lfuo/to_galact...?
One of the best interview questions I ever had started with the interviewer asking me a fairly routine technical question, to which I gave a standard and acceptable answer. He then said, "Okay but what if I took away your ability to do X, Y, and Z - how would that change things?" He did that a few more times in different variations to really see how my answers would change especially as the tools/processes I would be forced to use started to stray from what I knew well.
It's certainly a nice severance package for this day and age. That said, hiring is pretty broadly more selective right now and may well become more so.

During dot-bomb, I got lucky and landed another (lower paying) job with someone I knew at a small company. But there were a lot of people who were out of work or underemployed for a long time. And some I knew on the older side never really recovered I think.
I am currently homeless and I wish I could switch to a dumb phone. I still do not know what is stopping me. Man this tech has me by the shorts and I hate it.

It is always just something that is there, needed me, either for alerts, or charging, or FOMI (That is fear of missing information, You are welcome).
Sure, but we were talking about this being an excellent choice given what it offers at its operational price tag of $7000, having conveniences no UTV has in that bracket.

All of the ones you listed are fine UTVs, but they also cost literally twice as much =)
Uh... If that was intentional, then great joke!

If not, "keep it simplE, Stupid!". The original is an exhortation to keep things simple, calling the recipient "Stupid" as a somewhat derogatory nickname (implying they would be, if they don't follow this advice).

With the -y turning the adjective "simple" into an adverb, this becomes an attribute of the only available adjective (well, only available word left in the sentence), "stupid", specifying in which manner said adjective is to be applied: simply stupid. (Like, plainly moronic.)

No, please don't keep things simply stupid. Keep them simple, Stupid!
Part of the reason I got out of recruiting is that recruiting is always part of the first to go. Then a few months from now when Shopify decides it needs to hire again? Recruiting job posts go up like crazy.
> is the gov giving enough resources/training to local emergency services providers to deal with these sorts of fires and the disposal of the EV materials after a fire.

The main immediate threat is not disposal or even fire itself but the release of hydrogen fluoride _during_ a fire. You have to avoid airway and eye exposure at all cost with HF. This is probably the main difference in an EV emergency response as opposed to other chemical fires.

The second main issue is securing an electrically safe chasis during crash and vehicle extraction (if you need to start chopping the car up to extract someone), you need to know what to cut and when.

This unfortunately varies wildly, model to model, with manufacturers adding battery packs in multiple locations for space and weight management. I know there has been a lot of effort in standardizing charging systems, perhaps we also need some form of emergency service kill switch, but this being HN that could also introduce a massive potential for abuse.
It's pretty cool jvns took the location of purchaser into account. Don't see that happening often.
and yet it's extremely commonplace to represent sex or drugs using existing emojies
Did they fall for it or did they think they were in on it and applying greater fool theory?
That I know of, making it hard to give money to Google has been a core value there for 15+ years. $FormerCoworker was a something of a SEO big-shot ~5 to ~15 years ago, with a 7+ -figure annual budget for Google AdWords. The fights with Google - to keep ads for boring commercial products up, to provide an AdWords interface that was not built in UI Hell (the daily hours of not-quite-scriptable mindless clicking were by far the biggest barrier to spending far more on AdWords), etc., etc. - it was just endless.

I dunno if $FormerCoworker is doing anything with AdWords these days, or not - but we still get occasional phone calls from Google AdWord, and pass on the messages. The need to get in touch appears to be 100% on Google's side.

So maybe things have improved a little there, if you're a big-enough spender. Maybe.
> since Mullvad provides unparalleled respect of privacy

This is both their selling point and their main problem; privacy means criminal abuse. This is true for all kinds of anonymity, hiding your tracks, hiding your payments, etc; TOR, cryptocurrencies, encrypted chat, they all suffer reputation damage due to criminal abuse.

And there is no obvious solution that does not impede users' privacy, as far as I know.
Russia to pull out of International Space Station
As someone who just completed my third and fourth courses in fine leather binding, I can say with authority that this is a very quick and sensible method of making a durable binding for this level of value. As Falcolas noted, this is partway to doing a double fan method, which specifically allows for the glue penetration the author is looking for.

What the author could also do is get some board (like, say, the cardboard on the back of legal pads), clamp all that together prior to gluing, extend the spine an inch off a countertop with heavy books on the rest of the book block to hold it still, and then use a hacksaw to saw into the spine at intervals, about 1/32nd of an inch deep, crosswise to the spine. Take a piece of thread, dental floss, or fine string, and after gluing, press it into the first channel, loop back into the second, then the third, etc. Wipe excess glue and then put the duct tape over the spine, pressing it down evenly--THEN you fold the tape over the front and back at the same time, taping down the thread loops to the front and back of the board. Now you have a semi-hardcover, depending on the thickness of the boards.

Note that the duct tape adds little to the structure. You could also use a piece of cotton or linen in its place, you just have to glue it down to the front and back. This would be stronger, longer term, because PVA will hold better than duct tape adhesive over the years. If you do, cut the cloth "on the bias" meaning at 45 degrees to the weave. This prevents fraying and increases overall strength, for the forces it will encounter. If you do this, you can add another layer of PVA to the spine on top of the cloth, which increases strength.

My wife is a teacher and we created something like this as an exercise for all of her art students to make their own journals, with the final step being covering it with kraft paper. They loved it, used it for their art journals all semester, and asked to do it again at the end so they could have another.

If you get the basic assembly and gluing right, you'll be very surprised at the durability of something like this, including a lot of punishment like opening the book flat and using your hand to "break" the spine. It'll hold together.
Animal Farm spoilers: https://emoji.supply/kitchen/?%F0%9F%90%A7+%F0%9F%90%B7=8kr
You might enjoy an existing app called Infinity Loop. It's a similar puzzle game using the traditional square puzzle-piece shape.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56966/speech-all-the-...