skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no workforce. It's not a matter of paying more, it's a lack of workers aka families. The average age of someone living on Cape Cod has increased every year for decades. The cost of housing after COVID went from "unreasonable" to "insane".

Local businesses and towns are throwing money at the few young people still here in an attempt to recruit workers but there just isn't enough to handle the scale up for summer volume. The band-aid for years was J1 workers but it's no longer enough.

The wealthy don't think about Cape Cod for 1 second once they cross the canal, or leave the runway in Hyannis/MV/Nantucket. They seemingly don't realize that their "tax dollars" which they claim are a gift to the local region, aren't helping or solving any of these problems.

What we're seeing now is consolidation of businesses, and the construction of worker "dormitory" housing. That's the future for our region. Multi-million dollar trophy homes, and worker dormitories.
I agree the site needs to be refined but I am doing everything myself so time is limited to do so. In essence, what I am trying to build is messaging with a discovery element that is either location bound or global. Because you use whatsapp mostly with friends and family, nextdoor for your neighbours, and twitter is about following people in most cases.

This is focused on the quick discovery and exchange of thoughts with people who are, for example, in your city, at a local festival, campus, etc. In those cases I do not think you like to first browse through FB groups or discover whatsapp/discord/etc. links just to connect with people and actually exchange thoughts if it's a relatively basic topic. Time will tell if my hypotheses are right.
There are two kinds of regulations: "don't hurt other people for your own benefit", and "do something that is theoretically helpful ignoring the cost/benefit to the people it helps" like adding safety features.
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Some of are perfectly capable of being dumbasses in public perfectly sober and still would prefer it not be documented for internet stranger ridicule if it is not harming anyone.
Is there supposed to be a link?
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Not going to happen, though. Instead what will happen is that this will get censored and everyone involved in producing it unpersoned.
Yeah. I don't get why bother at all with the blockchain when a simple dB would be even superior, then they can prototype away and migrate to decentralized later, if anyone even wants that. Decentralization shares the "weakest link" property with cyber security: you don't get the benefits of you only do half of it.
Despite ranking most men at 2/5, women message those men at the same rate that men message women ranked 4/5.

No, they don't, or at least it isn't shown in that data. Those graphs refer to the proportions of messages for each gender, not raw numbers. Each male user sends 3.5 times as many "first contact" messages as each female user, according to their 2016 data.

average-looking women are disadvantaged because men appear to be far more selective than women are:

Absolutely agree. But they're disadvantaged against other women, not against men, if you're measuring by, as you specified, "the odds of getting messages". An average man will receive fewer messages than an average woman.
> If you try and tell inexperienced employees this in an interview for a job when you have well over a decade or more of experience—you’re not getting the job.

Good. An interview is as much you assessing your potential employer as your potential employer assessing you.
Nudes are prevented, at least on my account.

Art galleries and museums around the world are amused.
With the rise of wireless headphones, the "sound card" is actually within the headphones now, so the sound card in your machine is irrelevant.
Tezos week-over-week usage trends
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Guys, multiple things can be true at the same time.

1. Webapps are largely overloaded and dont need to be as huge/complicated as they are.

2. Webapps are an objective computing miracle that brings full app functionality to tech illiterate people that is platform agnostic, everywhere on the planet, and thus most of their complexity is justified.

3. Performance for performance sake is never a hill to die on as it always leads to increasing complexity.

4. Performance when performance matters, is invaluable, and you should be prepared to make dramatic concessions for it.

5. Chasing metrics where the value is not something you easily understand, is usually never worth it.

6. Chasing metrics whose value is obvious (for example, PageSpeed) is worth it.

When websites should be static, they should be static.
When webapps should be webapps, they should be webapps.

Software is a tool. A means to an end. Getting hung up on things like this isnt worth it. Just focus on delivering value to your users, and making it a good experience. Sometimes thats best achieved through a static website, sometimes its through a webapp.
SSR is a hack, not an architecture.
Good point, I will need to rewrite those! Thanks for sharing your thoughts I appreciate it.
I wholly agree with your point 3. Mobile isn't a "classic" gaming experience imho because the games are designed to be played as distractions for a few minutes, then put away. Its the same experience on tablets too, really any app store games are just not an in-depth fun experience.
Inflation in Portugal is 9%, Euribor interest rate used to calculate mortgage is 1.483%. Housing is where you park money.
The biggest problem when running restaurants is staffing. The biggest. When owner fixes that (you have good chefs, waiters, bartenders, etc.) quality improves and customers just come back.

I know a few friends running and owning restaurants. Nobody would have time to work with anything related to sms marketing.

But let’s see if this will work: I saw a couple companies come and go doing this.
Nope, cause + used to mean space. So plus symbol has sometimes to be left alone, some times replaced - due to still supporting legacy stuff and the newer RFC that makes + go away.
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I surveyed the headless cms market a couple of years ago and I found some good platforms but the pricing just didn't work. I would much rather run our own like this. Good move, and goodluck
Well the problem is (1) jobs and (2) many people simply don't want to live in a town with 1000 people and nothing to do.

(1) Bar agriculture and remote work, there are very few jobs in the interior of the country. I think in this forum we may have a skewed perspective since our sector is by far the one where remote work is most common. But most people simply don't have the option to earn 10x minimum wage from their computer while sitting in an idyllic mountainside village.

(2) Many people like living in rural areas. That's great! But many people also do not. I like nature walks and mountain biking and clean air as much as the other guy, but I also like restaurants and classical music concerts and nights out. I sort of have that right now by living in a rural area 10m away from a mid-sized (150k pop) town, but I don't think I would like very much to live in the middle of Trás-os-Montes for more than a few months.
Consider this:

No consumer wants these messages. I understand why restaurants need them and why they are profitable, but actually recipients will be irritated (even though they "opted in").

My concern is that these will turn SMS, one of the last (mostly) clean communication channels, into another cesspit like email and the web have become.

I'm not asking what you're doing to prevent that because you can't build this into a successful company without moving the needle in that direction.

I just want you to question why you're doing this and whether your business is creating a world you actually want to live in. To me and everyone who isn't profiting from it, it's pollution of our personal lives.

(Unrelated: I started a company years ago with restaurants as customers. They are by far the worst people I've ever had as clients, if you could even sell to them. It's basically impossible to build a profitable software business with restaurants as customers -- even "Big Delivery" is unprofitable).
US officials have told Nvidia to stop selling to Chinese companies two of its chips designed for artificial intelligence work, the company said in a filing on Wednesday. The government is imposing a licence requirement on any products containing its A100 and forthcoming H100 integrated circuits used in the machine learning processes that enhance AI systems.
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> Among ivermectin users, 33,971 (29.8% of users) used irregularly (up to 60mg) and 8,325 (7.3%) used regularly (more than 180mg). The remaining 71,548 participants (62.9%) used intermediate dioses (between 60mg and 180mg) and were not included for analysis.

Anyone see a good reason why the excluded the majority of the people who actually used ivermectin from the study? Excluding a big chunk like that from middle of the dose range seems suspicious unless I’m missing something.
I had a similar experience with Arista Networks in Bangalore. Only I managed to get an offer and I've been with the company for a little over 2.5 years. And it's not just the interviews, we're a no-BS company in general.

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Well unless it was a hostile takeover or something, I think the original company shares the blame for not taking care of their customers.
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We've only recently started putting them on our monthly "Who's Hiring" post on the suggestion of some Engineering colleagues.
> If you only know java are you even a real (professional) dev?

Hum... Do you write programs in exchange for money?
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Because the cat is already out of the bag(China is full steam ahead to cut dependence) the US may as well use the card while they are still effective
> Edit / possible U-turn: There's a post from Symbiote below that suggests maybe they do let organizers pay to get more data.

But still not email or full name, just stuff like attendance record.
Or maybe because it is fun in the moment 9/10 times but that 1/10 it is not makes you want the ability to forget by default and compartmentalize that part of your life.
Is "we" anything deeper than "a few folks who do stuff together sometimes"?

If you're (say) the Cleveland Kiwanis Club, and Meetup tries to keep using that name after you've moved on, then Meetup is probably on the wrong end of a legal and PR situation.
I'd put it this way.

Most people interview below their level because they make avoidable mistakes. If you can avoid those mistakes you can interview above your level compared to your peers.

One reason why stack ranking (fire the bottom 10% every year) is such a dangerous policy is that self-promotion plays a big role in how you get ranked. One thing that is certain is that the narcissists will always hang on because they are well-equipped to win games of musical chairs.

I think there is nothing dishonest about leaving things out. For instance in that job application where I left out the fact that I had a PhD I still had a resume that proved I was completely qualified for the job. Similarly self-promotion can be perfectly honest. Most of us are modest sometimes when we don't need to be. For instance I am working on a report for a standards committee and I felt the introduction of the report I wrote didn't really justify why we'd written the report and the other people on the committee told me that actually I'd written a very good introduction.

This book explores the ethical terrain you're navigating

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_48_Laws_of_Power

and with some hesitation I'd also recommend the next book that author wrote.
The question in my mind is how can a country like Portugal grow something home grown, industry/economy wise to ameliorate this situation?

Ukraine had traditional industries but it seems like the IT/knowledge worker base they built up over the past 5-10 years seems to be softening some of the economic blows of the war for them, but I can't imaging IT is the answer to every country...
What about non-react apps? Just use React?
Does anyone actually use ROCm? It seems barely supported by AMD, with minimal development, and difficult to run in nearly any scenario. It's been a massive disappointment for someone who generally prefers AMD gpus.
I don't think the US is doing a good job of this at all. There's a huge amount of policy-driven gate-keeping that's both ejecting lower income residents from tier 1 & 2 cities [due mostly to cost pressures], and preventing significant infrastructure projects that would ameliorate some of the increasingly pressurized (and politicized) demand signals (better public transport, more lower income housing, improvements in public education - infrastructure & programs).
Sure that is a headwind, but it's certainly not impossible to get your government to work for you instead of against you. While there are many examples of hopelessly corrupt, democracy-in-name-only governments, there are also governments that respond to the needs of the majority to keep from getting thrown out in the next elections.

Generally, having all these big money foreigners trying to come to your country is a good thing. It sure beats having no industry and you can crank up the tax heat on them as high as you want since nonresident-noncitizens don't vote. The real problem is that the Portuguese government is not being made to share the bounty of a few winners with the rest of the population, who are instead left to just deal with the externalities.

There is another path that does not involve locking the doors and hanging up a "closed for business" sign.
Hence the value of one’s network in introducing potential suitors. Someone’s mom or cousin or friend or uncle vetting potential (life) partners is a very valuable part of the process that saves everyone time.

Of course, this requires having and maintaining the type of relationship with family and friends where this is possible.

This type of “screening” value provided by brokers is not limited to dating, but also any low frequency, high cost transaction such as real estate, businesses, hiring workers, etc. This is the less cynical side of “it is not what you know, it is who you know”, meaning that the cost of evaluating certain risks can be so high that it is worth offloading that onto one’s network.
Backsliding on free expression around the world needs to end
Of course! Nobody can deny the panacea that is exercise. But it's still a widely misunderstood concept. Throughout many of these comments, people are claiming that the remedy to obesity is more exercise, but I hold that indeed a much larger component of combatting obesity is diet, not exercise.
A startup. Got a phone call asking if I was coming in. I forgot about the interview and apologized (I'm extremely disorganized). They asked would i like to come in the next day. I went for it making sure not to forget this time. The interview was a walk to the coffeeshop and a talk about tech which is something I can talk about endlessly. They were very small and didn't have enough senior expertise. One of the topics was the resources they were using for how many clients they had. It didn't make sense and I diagnosed that they probably didn't have the indexes setup for their db use cases correctly (they didn't even know what a db index was and had very basic sql knowledge). I started the job there and then and I was right about the lack of db indexes.

They say startups should hire those with flaws who can otherwise do the job since startups can't compete with big tech on pay. Between the mobile device apps I made for them, the database optimizations which saved them a fortune in aws rds fees, moving them off a $100k/year image/video processing service to an aws scaled jobs service that cost a fraction of that I think I did a pretty good job.

The lesson here is probably one for the interviewers. You may be looking for red flags that allow you to rule someone right out. You might want someone that's followed the same path you did and has the same bubble of knowledge. But you're going to miss a chance at a new perspective. That's also the risk with a formal interview process in general. All those who pass will have a similar set of traits. Maybe that's desired but maybe it's also a negative.

Having said all of that shortly after that startup job I moved into big tech where I've been ever since (albeit in different big tech roles - I have a personal goal to work at all the FAANG for at least a few years). I have no trouble with the big tech interviews, yes they take at least a week of solid study beforehand which is a pain but there's no issue getting through them if you're willing to do that. I still think the informal coffee chat interview allows for more diverse hiring though.
I could see that happening. My experience is mostly with the awful ones for big companies. The kind that are basically like a 1990's era text adventure game where there's only like 6 things you can possibly do, but instead of listing them out they make you guess the exact right phrasing. It's like they figured out the only possible way to make a phone tree even worse than it already was.
> But… the interior of the country is still facing depopulation, and property prices and rents here (between Bragança and Miranda) are still low. A five bedroom house in a town in decent condition can be had for €100k. There’s a beautiful 16th c. T8 palazzo needing modernisation in our nearest town for €80k.

That's exactly what I saw when I was looking at properties there. And honestly the towns where some of the cheap properties were, were not half bad. They looked like they had all necessary amenities. I can't speak for their job markets though, which could be the main reason for the issue.
I have recently found that video codecs (and other forms of modern compression) are indeed difficult to casually pick up in one's spare time, but if a company is willing to dedicate even a modest amount of an existing team member's time to training new hires I would expect this to go fine.

The weird thing is that almost no company does this (or, within each company, almost no team does this, and individual team leads or engineers may rebel by doing this and then be punished when perf comes around)