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Ask HN: Any companies doing contract to hire?
I’m in my first major job search in 15 years and it’s become exhausting. Doing essentially similar exercises and answering the same endless questions is really grinding me down. Is anyone out there doing contract-to-hire in lieu of the full interview battery? Or some other way? I can’t be the only one experiencing this.
Does cancer ever start in adipose tissue?
TIMI isn't exactly like Oberon, because with Oberon you could chose, either fully native code, or in this source coded form, that is JITed at load time.

So you can have modules fully native without any kind of intermediate representation, for IBM i you would need the cleverly named Metal C compiler for proper native code.

Actually there are plenty of systems that offer AOT/JIT workloads, Android, Java, .NET, Common Lisp, Visual Basic (classical)....

WebAssembly is also adopting both approaches.
One of the thing that isn't obvious to me that seems to be for many people is the decision to maximize expected value instead of best worst case scenario. In this situation, given how exceptional the 100%1M vs. 50%50M situation is and how the 1M will definitely kill your financial problems, it really does seem like you'd like to pick the strategy that maximizes your worst case scenario (if choice=red, worst-case=1M; if choice=green, worst-case=0). I understand the reasoning behind expected values, I guess, it's just that it's not clear to me it is of any use here.

To me, the choice looks like "solve your financial issues with the red button; 100% chance" vs. "solve your financial issues and get extra money you won't really need, but with 50% chance through the green button".

I'd have a hard time choosing the green button.

It's curious because I'm a mathematician. I feel like I should know this better, but I've never really studied probability, much less statistics or economics.

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Another issue is what would it mean, in practice, that "50%" statement? I guess it means that if you'd play the game long enough, 50M would come out roughly half the times (by counting). This could mean a system in which the first 10 always fails, the second 10 always succeed, and the ones after that have their results based on a fair dice (1,2,3->50M; 4,5,6->0). This would certainly fit the frequency "definition". In practice, these probabilities don't mean a clean neat thing very often. Another issue is that the definition of that 50% means if you played that game long enough, you'd observe the half-half split, but you'll play it only once. Again, there is a statement about a limit (a statement about a_n, for n large), but you're only looking at a_1 (it often seems to me that people believe that information about EV transfers to information about a_1 -- it really does not). Even though I can mostly think of artificial examples (stuff like the one above), I'm not sure it'd be clear [in an actual situation] what is the meaning of that '50%'.
"we don't have 20 years to continue extraction."

Define.

There have been way too many climate-induced doomsday predictions with such imminence as to force hysteria to take you at face value. There were also about 145 billion predictions that the world would be out of oil by now.

Both are dubious claims to start with, and totally neglected how the technologies changed over time to reduce emissions, which is just good for everyone regardless of whether it is contributing to climate change.

I'm counting down the seconds until someone writes back "climate denier!!" despite the fact that I'm not.
Its interesting how you can see how the large storms that came thru Arizona and Texas between the 16th and the 30th reduced drought over so much of that area.
While this is true in some sort of physical sense, it's not really useful for home heating. The problem is that while burning stuff makes heat, that heat probably isn't where you wanted it, and you need to capture the heat and move it to where it's useful. Unfortunately burning stuff produces exhaust gases, and those too are hot, that is they contain some of the valuable heat, but the gases themselves are dangerous and unwanted.

Modern boilers achieve about 94% efficiency. That is, if we make 1MJ of heat energy by setting stuff on fire, the boiler transfers 940 kJ of heat energy into hot water. The remaining 60 kJ is warm exhaust. You've probably seen the exhaust from people's homes if you live somewhere with such boilers.
> has only one dependency - jQuery
As a cancer survivor and former alcoholic, I am one example of a person who has found healthy coping mechanisms.

Instead of coping with alcohol, I read math textbooks and do problems.

This has improved my life dramatically. I feel good. I feel proud. And despite optimizing for happiness as opposed to wealth, this coping strategy has made me loads of money.

I should mention my cancer occurred in my childhood, so it's not as though my drinking was a cause.
It depends on the bicycle. Some of them, at the right assistance level, the rider still pedals enough to be in light cardio range, which provides huge health benefits. Other ebikes, not so much.
>Because whilst those companies are slower to respond (due to the volume of content their users generate) they are quite active at removing hateful and harassing content.

This is goalpost-shifting. Kiwifarms does moderate threats and such. It does not moderate mere "hateful and harassing content" (whatever that means, I assume a lot of "harassing" content does overlap with illegality), but if the clear no-no actions are swatting and such then clearly KF actively tries to prevent that.

I fear that the implicit argument here is that in order for these efforts to be treated as "good faith", then forum owners need to not only remove clear legal threats but all sorts of speech (particularly "hate speech") that can be stochastically linked with the generation of those threats. That having sufficient moderation entails that moderators address not only actual threats but in removing a wide range of speech.
The information that’s needed for you to make an informed decision between alternatives on the products you buy. You don’t need to know that Apple is thinking about acquiring Netflix to determine if the rules on the App Store are more agreebable than the play store
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson. Love the massive epic fantasy with focus on cool hard magic and character growth, mental health, and clash of different philosophies.
Feels like the Lord of the Rings of my generation!
I asked two questions the last time I interviewed which are wholly unrelated to anything on this list, and they found me a place I was happy enough with that I haven't looked again in 5+ years.

To engineers - how do you feel about management / the practice of management at this company, especially compared to other places you've worked? I was looking for an answer that indicated that management wasn't just where they put engineers who wanted a promotion, and also that the company's processes realized that management was a skill you could be good or bad at just like engineering.

To managers - how is diversity on your team? The answer was universally some variant of "it could be better," but I got a lot of mileage from seeing whether it was a thing they were defensive about and whether they thought they actually could concretely make progress.

All the technical stuff follows from whether the company has reliably competent managers who believe both that they ought to make things better and that they are realistically able to. There are other specific questions you can ask to answer it; I just happened to use these two (and I certainly have no idea if they're the best, but they did work). Every bad technical answer can be fixed by people who want to fix it; at the same time, every good technical answer can go bad without people who care to keep things fixed.
You seem to be (intentionally?) missing the point, which is that a known-dangerous bug was not promptly fixed.

The mental gymnastics required to turn this into something other than criminal negligence are ... olympic.
A comparison between the British East India Co. and any major international drug cartel might be more illustrative (note the common factor of having a private army, and the difference of not having any obvious state support).
I am not sure that is true. From what he has mentioned before he is an American of Bangladeshi origin.
Literally every issue listed seems like a software issue to me.
Where is it hosted? Isn’t the primary issue being blocked by the major providers due to spam filters?
How do you make sure your emails don't end up in spam?
British Columbia is introducing a "beneficial ownership registry" as part of the foreign buyer tax stuff that would identify who actually owns what regardless of the numbered company that techncially owns it. Canada is bringing in one too.

"B.C.’s beneficial ownership registry being used in tax cases, visa applications"

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/arti...

BC is certainly the first place in Canada to do this and they haven't even finished the registry yet. Seems like it's quite tricky to sort out.

"B.C.’s land registry aimed at finding hidden owners bogged down by concerns over clarity, confidentiality"
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/arti...

Even though the thing isn't fully up and running yet, the government has been so clear years ago that they will do this that it probably would have had a chilling effect on future purchases.
Gutenberg died in 1468, Martin Luther was born in 1483.

Gutenberg was a Catholic who sold Bibles to the gentry.
Are you aware that some people with Down Syndrome go to college? The effects of the genetic defect vary widely amongst the population of affected. If we take your argument of suffering then what about people born into poverty? Do they not deserve to live either?

The point you are missing is that people with disabilities are people. They deserve to live same as you, despite the challenges. Have some empathy.
See https://archive.ph/0VB0K for a readable article

As well as a related HN post earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32713713
Chrome Ext for Organizing Bookmarks?
There are so many links that I'd like to save, but built-in bookmarking features from browsers like Chrome are bare and not easy to use do to the nested structure. What I usually do is save links in the Notes app but does not scale well. What I'm looking for is a chrome extension that allows saving the current webpage with a click of a button, grouping hyperlinks by subject and also provides an intuitive GUI for access. Does such a service exist?
I can't send mail to mit.edu addresses. It gets rejected with a message that says I should talk to Microsoft.

I frequently end up in GMail's spam folders. No idea why.

I see no more than one piece of 'spam' a week; everything else is caught by a combination of a 15 minute greylist, the zen spamhaus BL, and SpamAssassin evaluating things. There are a bunch of spammers who send from accounts with valid SPF and DKIM, by the way.

Spam is a reasonably solved problem, but SPF and DKIM aren't much help.

(I get lots and lots of business spam, where the sender clearly believes that they have a right to try to sell me crap. The difference is that if I respond to business spam, someone will answer, trying to sell me crap.)
The idea here is that if everyone is just holding index funds that follow the market, no one is responding to external signals to drive prices to any particular value. Index funds follow the market, but what does the market follow if all the equities are held by index funds?

It’s a great metaphor for what could happen if there’s no new art coming from outside the model; everything get stuck (though I’m not sure I agree, tbh, humans are just pattern-matching robots too and it seems to have worked ok)
I think they are using 2007 expenses to give a ballpark estimate for what "running basic Wikipedia" costs? That's back before the foundation dramatically expanded their activities.
OP wrote: "Not trying to defend Kiwifarms here"

Whether or not you're trying to, you are.
You need a significant base level of fitness and a long enough run at a good pace to feel a runners high. However, it’s not limited to running cycling, swimming, and rowing can provide the same rush.

Anyway if your feeling exhausted after a daily run then slow down, it takes more than one day to recover from heavy exercise so daily runs should stay casual.
Yeah, and 100% of automobile deaths are preventable too (by not driving, which is the same logic applied in the study).
A big problem with the way the big companies fight spam is that sometimes it is a bit too aggressive. Happened a couple of times where legitimate government-agency emails had trouble getting through.

Personally, I prefer defining my own spam list rather having an algo decide what pops into my inbox.
(Virtually) no-one dies of lifestyle-related cancers at 35. I still wouldn't want to die of cancer or heart disease at 60-80 (my grandmother was very unhealthy, had her first heart attack before 65, and died at 72), but I think dementia is a scarier prospect (my great grandmother died at 96 but had dementia for at least a decade before that).
It only supports ‘Chrome Manifest v3’-style ‘simple’ blocking lists, not ‘true’ adblockers. These mostly work fine but are clearly less powerful.

They also don’t work with non-Safari browsers (e.g. Firefox).
> more than one option and path forward to a moon mission

Then SLS is the exact opposite. Building around existing commercial crew and commerical rockets would be that.

SLS/Orion is the actual both 'single point of failure'.

So really SLS/Orion is the opposite of what you suggest.

> keep the US' aerospace building capabilities fresh and available

And by that you mean removing money from the actual productive aerospace industry and instead keeping age old infrastructure in place and rebuilding production lines for old outdated technology.

Had this money actually been invested in the advanced aerospace industry, the US would have more and better aerospace capability.

So again, SLS/Orion is literally the opposite of what you suggest.

> provide some of the usual pork barrel giveaways to the usual folks

That's its real and only goal.

But again, there would have been other ways to do this.

> US put all their bets on SpaceX that could now not deliver for some reason.

That was never the alternative. That's just a strawman.

> But hindsight is 20/20.

Its not hindsight. Its actually mostly known at the time. If you look at the internal NASA studies, they all indicated that many other paths including using commercial rocket and building a Saturn style rocket would have been far, far better.

See: https://old.reddit.com/r/SpaceLaunchSystem/comments/kt1vlf/r...
It's not silly. Look at how the mammogram guidelines are set. If the scans are too frequent, the harm done from false positives (unnecessary surgeries and risks from those surgeries) can become too great. The standards were relaxed to include fewer scans in the last few years because of this.

Apply this to more invasive exploratory surgeries, and you see people dying from internal surgery complications for benign cysts and lumps.
Or, y'know, we could have 10x more MRI machines, thus incentivizing them to be cost-optimized in ways they absolutely aren't today.
I'm not going to pull up statistics based on arbitrary consumption thresholds, but I would reason there are way more consumers of alcohol around me than smokers. Yet the number of times I've had to bear nuisance from smokers vs from drunkards is higher.

Generally speaking, (here) smoking is forbidden in most indoor-ish spaces - which is the only reason smoking is anywhere close to the same level of nuisance as drunk people. Note that the same people that would enforce "no smoking" can also do something about the "practically unbearable" drunk person. And in outdoor-ish spaces, you can often avoid being affected - except in e.g. restaurants, where someone chain-smoking on the neighbor table can ruin the evening.
It was fake? They clarified. Also like 2 years old
This is very interesting. I need to try your ideas. Thanks!
>There are units which exchange heat with water, but typically they won't reach more than 40-45 C°, maybe 50, I doubt 55, so radiators

That's what two heating "experts" told me in Spring 2021 when my gas furnace for central heating needed to be replaced and I asked them wether it would be possible to just replace it with an electric heat pump. "Impossible", they said, your house is not insulated strongly enough and you don't have floor heating, so the outgoing temp will not suffice".
It's not true. There are many heat pumps on the market now, and have been since 2020, which manage to deliver 55°C without problem, amongst them, self-contained "monobloc" devices[1] - a box mounted at the outside of the house, which only needs cables and two pipes for connecting to the central heating circulation. With COP values of 3-4 depending on outside temp and outgoing heating water temp. Look at your actual outgoing temp settings (or "heating curve") on the gas furnace. If you never need >55°C, or only need such a temperature on three extremely cold days each year, then a heat pump might be a good idea. Except you can't buy them right now, at least in parts of Europe, for reasons that need not be repeated here.

[1] e.g. this one, which even delivers 60°C: https://www.daikin.eu/en_us/product-group/air-to-water-heat-...
And those humongous SCSI ports... https://anydifferencebetween.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/...
Understanding that you don't really need to understand it all and you need to understand only part of them. If you do try otherwise, you run into overhours :-)

Most popular technique to 'just do the thing' is using 'if my case do #1, else do #2'. Mostly because nobody really understand the business logic. Many reasons, no real one single document with spec, only wikipedia called confluence where you have half truths, barely truths and contradicting each other statements.

In such situation you almost never will understand the logic because there are even no use cases and thus all you can get are regression tests (because there are no use cases list). It gets accumulated over years, many externals / consultants with half-life time 1 year and so continues - chaos in specs (sometimes even transfering from one tool to another one with losing info) and big rotation in companies too dependent on externals.

So instead doing simple if-else, it's better to use wrapper / decorator or even better proxy of chain if more complicated.

It all depends and this textbox is too short to explain the fun facts :-)
Google Pay doesn’t respect your privacy anyway, as the terms state that Google can use your transaction data to profile you.
Not necessarily, we just need cheaper ones. I interviewed at Hyperfine last year and they seemed to have a promising product

https://hyperfine.io/
It can be hard to predict how aggressive a tumor will be. It isn't uncommon for people to obtain cancers that they "die with" instead of "die of". In those cases, treatment can be worse for the patient than the cancer. But since you don't know which it'll be, people get the treatment and sometimes wind up worse off than they otherwise would have.

And as the GP post cites, the scans themselves can cause health problems down the road. Performing them on massive scale will increase the occurrences of those side effects.
>Free speech purists think that bullying people into suicide is categorically different to direct incitement to violence, despite that both of these cause the same outcome

Are you sure that you actually want a world where mens rea plays no role in criminal determination? You're not just making a free speech critique here.
That's because single datapoints are used to trigger intervention. We should be intervening based on growth trends from time-series data. Time-series data which can only be collected by... frequent scans.
It's frankly appalling that the agriculture lobby has made people believe that California is anywhere near needing desalination or even frankly grey water for urban use.

California residents use a very small amount of California's water, most is Ag, which is exported to the rest of the world. [0]

So the idea that California is somehow shooting themselves in the foot (rather than refusing to further subsidize the Ag. industry which has done insane damage to the state's ecology) is severely misinformed.

[0]https://cwc.ca.gov/-/media/CWC-Website/Files/Documents/2019/...
Some of those devices are not decades old either, regardless of the other problems with the thesis.
I have read the handsfreecoding post now. It sounds like Talon is a really great tool for the people who need it and it is much closer to open source than ~any other proprietary software I am aware of. If anyone deserves criticism for releasing software that does not respect its users, you're far from front of the queue. It's still true that Talon is not open source, and there are some people who will reject it on those grounds (I am one of them). But that's OK, you don't owe us anything.

Sorry for the misunderstandings I posted in my first comment, they came from a quick reading of the EULA - unfortunately I can't edit that comment now.
Please consider the following questions.

1. How could a climatologist be an outsider? Climatologists are by definition not outsiders when criticizing climatology.

2. Why is working for a conservative think tank a conflict of interest? There are no such conflicts. If you think there are then, well, academia is well known to be dominated by people on the left, is that also a conflict of interest? If so then you have to write off most of climatology.

3. The whole problem climategate exposed is that "actual experts" are manipulating the scientific process to ensure that anyone who disagrees with their claims can't get published, and therefore gets labelled as "not an expert" and kicked out of the institutions. That's why the only people who can properly actually openly criticize that edifice are those entirely outside the sphere of government run science - but that fact is then used to write off anything they have to say. Do you therefore recognize that the argument you're making here is a circular one?

4. Given that, do you agree that climatologists are by definition conflicted - if they were to admit they had been manipulating the scientific process as was shown by the climategate emails, they would lose status, power, influence and quite possibly open themselves up to prosecution. They will obviously never do that.
Completely agree this is anticompetitive and worthly of examination under the light of antitrust laws. Of course the defense that will be offered and one which is partially true will be one of providing safety from spam, phishing, and other evils prevalent in the email system today. Maybe texting is the new email after all...
What does a strong rule of law have to do with it? The issue is that index funds depend on there being a price discovery mechanism on the underlying equities. If no one were buying and selling individual equities there would be no price discovery.
A previous thread (5m old) here showed it is not that cut and dry, a good read: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30788681
When I worked at a company called Infowave Software, someone was struggling with an apparent bug: the aplication on a PocketPC device was crashing during transmission of packets out thew wireless modem.

So of course, the intuition was that there is some crash somewhere, maybe in the wireless stack that was being worked on.

Turned out, the application's disappearance wasn't a crash but an exit. The pointer happened to be hovering over the [X] window close button, and the RF interference from the wireless transmission was triggering a phantom tap on the screen.
As a photographer who has always lusted over Pakons and will eventually own one, I truly appreciate the effort here.
I think the point is that the UK only needed rebuilding, not fundamentally restructuring.