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Ask HN: How to find companies with hard-working colleagues?
# Background

Majority of us try to optimise for compensation in the initial years of the professional experience. I am lucky debt-free and no longer have that as the primary motivation.

# Problem

I hate the culture inside Meta right now, where majority of the colleges don't know much and are not inspirational. While I love my compensation, I was looking out for companies which can have better people (in average).

Do you have any suggestion on how to filter out such roles or companies? Primary with least number of colleagues who are just there for free money and highest number of inspirational ones.

# Current approach

I am looking Series A startups, and going through the team and few last hires (to know how desperate are they, have they reduced hiring bar, etc). But this has been quite slow and unfruitful.
It makes sense if you separate the indexing process from the result ranking/retrieval process. Building up the index it has encountered the word “dog” millions (billions?) of times, but the Google search API’s job is NOT to operate as a catalogue that will list every single web page on the internet with the word “dog”. Instead its job is to show you what it thinks are the most relevant dog results.

That said I think this could be communicated more clearly when you get to the end of the results. The fact that the results number _changes_ is an own goal that makes it seem like they have something to hide. Instead it should just say “Google Search shows a selection of the most relevant occurrences of your search term. If you didn’t find what you need, try XYZ.”
Neal Stephenson is co-creating a blockchain-based open metaverse
I schedule almost everything (eg taking out the trash, commutes, workouts)

Maybe start scheduling more of your commitments and obligations in your calendar?

Or alternatively,

Start by keeping a time diary of how you spend your days and how long tasks take you, then use that to inform your time blocks
The bloat and overhead is necessary to ensure that poor people suffer sufficiently and prove that they deserve to eat.
I think the notable difference is that ebook alterations most often occur without user input (buying a new version, downloading a new version) and without notifying the user (no alerts, no version increments, or release dates).

As for the "tailored for each user", we do have proof that some personalization can and is made for ebooks (DRM, buyer's name). Is the content itself being tailored? I believe it is (with the caveat of I have no evidence). I think some censorship for sales to Russia, China, et.al. is being done transparently.
I have built a social advertising marketplace in another life. It is RIPE with fraud that can be quite difficult to slow or truly stop.
Reminder when comparing with other nations that as this study states: "Pregnancy-related deaths occurred during pregnancy, delivery, and up to a year postpartum."

The measure can be very different elsewhere. The WHO defines a maternal death as "the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and the site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management, but not from accidental or incidental causes."

you'll notice in this study that 30.0% of deaths occurred 43–365 days postpartum, so you will have to adjust numbers accordingly if you are comparing the USA to what most other countries measure. (and not all use the WHO definition!) The reason they use the 42 day cutoff is I assume to aid with other-country comparison. Still lots of websites that compare maternal mortality across the world get this wrong, and compare USA deaths for a full year vs other country deaths for 30-60 days postpartum.
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I've done a couple of the premium subscriptions just to see if they're worth it. My experience was that you got to see people who had liked you but that the app just hadn't shown you yet, but other than that it didn't lead to any increase in dates. It doesn't show you any more often to people so although it allows you to swipe an unlimited amount of times, you might as well be screaming into a void. Just building up a larger list of people you've said "yes" to who will never see your profile. The "boost" functionality might get you an extra match or two, but with most conversations going nowhere the ROI is terrible.
The bottleneck is not TSMC, but Zeiss which makes the mirrors "more perfect than that of space telescopes"

The yield on those mirrors is very small. They throw away 19 out of 20 mirrors.
The actual title: "$60 Million or $60 Billion, the Ad Fraud Question"
Google has very direct control over Google Play internal services which are effectively system-level services on android, and collects at least as much data on those users as Apple does on theirs.

The 1% of users running some custom Android build aren't really relevant here, Google scrapes up plenty.
Most problems in this space have reasonable-time approximations that get you close to the right answer for far less computational complexity. Even without ever having looked at Steiner trees before, I guess that there were reasonable approximations, and confirmed that was true without looking too hard. Letting Patterson know about the problem mapping ("your problem is an instance of <X>") is typically enough for a person of his calibre to research approximate solutions good enough for him to run some experiments.

(many people say the protein folding problem is NP-complete, but the community generally believes you can predict the folding pathways of all proteins without explicitly running such calculations).
...so ?

https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/tesla-wall-connector...
I have family that specializes in high-risk pregnancy care -- much of the problems they deal with are rooted in drug addiction. That really needs to be fixed before you can have a successful pregnancy even with the best care.
This article is disturbing on many levels. The sound bite that the US has a problem with maternity healthcare is ingrained, but this makes me take a second look.

First is that we report maternal mortality even when not directly associated with birth -- "Among pregnancy-related deaths with information on timing, 53% occurred 7–365 days postpartum." Is that standard for reporting countries? Is our problem with maternity healthcare really a problem of better reporting?

Secondly is that 22.7% of the deaths are related to "mental health conditions". From the footnote, "Mental health conditions include deaths of suicide, overdose/poisoning related to substance use disorder, and other deaths determined by the MMRC to be related to a mental health condition, including substance use disorder." This is extraordinarily disturbing!
But it uses a Crysis-style wheel UI where you only get one of those things at a time.
It's not the biggest OEM marketplace by a longshot (more of a boutique marketplace), but there are a few modules for modular synthesizers that use RPi's inside. The two I can think off off the top of my head: Sleepy Circuits Hypno and Erogenous Tones Structure, both video synthesis modules.
Stadia did two things for me that were invaluable:

* It was my primary console for about 18 months until I finally got a new xbox. worked almost flawlessly until the last few months, when Google's divestment in the platform began to show up in its performance.

* It eliminated cheaters, which were a huge problem in the PC version of the game I play the most (Destiny 2).

I'm bummed they're shutting down Stadia though its not world-ending for me. But I'm really not sure GFN or similar is going to work well for me on that second point, and I don't even own a PC to play those games natively. I do have an xbox now to play on, but I still do log into Stadia when i'm traveling or in another room and don't feel like coaxing my wife off the tv in the living room.
Other day I started using a remote machine and after some months a git command behaved unexpectedly. I checked git version and it was a very old one. I realized that I'm not using any new feature of git.

What am I missing? Which somewhat newer Git feature or configuration are you using that is useful?
Are you saying the solution to maternity related deaths is abortion here? Eliminating maternal death by eliminating maternity? I don't understand.
I guess that's for web stuff? You wouldn't distribute 'cloc' and similar in a docker image.

One hopes.
Before ATT happened, FB has a tool that would run experiments to assess incrementality of your advertising. It's possible, but there are a bunch of privacy trade-offs..
I'm not a grandma, but wanted a linux that would just work pretty well with minimal effort. Pop!OS (despite the strange name) comes pretty close. I did have some trouble upgrading one version of the OS, but did get it with some help from support (I installed a 'non typical' library). Despite me messing about while trying to upgrade the OS never got into an unusable state which is impressive.

Generally a pretty good experience. I thought initially why bother with another distro, but it seems to be a good experience for me.

The Clevo machines are decent. I appreciate the matt screen and easy open/ replaceable parts (my fan succumbed to dog fur....)
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Ahh, yes. Sorry. It seems I misread the original post. Thank you for the clarification. I am in agreement with what you wrote immediately above.
The URL should also be updated to the official one: https://www.mql.fm/002-60-million-60-billion-ad-fraud-questi...
> This exploit and its capabilities have a lot of limitations, and as such, it's mostly intended for developers to play with to reverse engineer some parts of the system.

Baby steps
Suborbital.dev: Let Your Users Code
30mb wouldn't be that bad if the browser was caching WASM dependencies.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly/Caching...
Someday someone will make a hyper-package-managers to be able to manage their packages installed via the thousands of package-managers out there today. Then, several other hyper-package-managers will be developed to cover the cases the first didn't cover. Then comes the hyper-hyper-package-managers...
This reminds me of a fairly insightful meme: Tired of looking at Bad screen, can't wait to get home to look at Good screen
> …So, it's virtually any celebrity. The negotiations part is on us.

I hope the legal defense is on you as well
If you use IDEA you can right-click modified .java file and click 'Compile and Reload File'
https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/altering-the-program-s-e...
Their servers still get your IP tho and by default nothing in USA is GDPR compatible because US government can enforce leaking any info they want from company
There are so many products because people are ignorant and just want an easy fix. It's pure laziness and has nothing to do with having a healthy lawn. There's a lot of money in laziness :)

A healthy lawn really doesn't require that much from a chemical standpoint, but it take effort to figure out what it needs and you have to do things at the right time. In fact, the healthier the lawn the less weed killers you need because a thick lawn is a poor environment for weeds.

Lots of people blanket apply fertilizers too. But in reality a quick test of the soil can tell you exactly what is out of balance and if you need that fertilizer application at all.
Lethe: A Basic Log-Structured Flash Datastore in Rust
Having shopped in some pretty impoverished area (and worked as a grocery store cashier for more than 1 year), WIC and EBT for people who were going to use the value for bad/other purposes is just giving cash with extra steps. What they end up doing is hawking the goods (or vouchers) on the street for diapers, the rent, crack, gas, whatever it may be they need the money for.

Just cut out the bloat and give the cash, IMO.
I get apalled at a lot of things, random blog posts where someone is complaining about a situation at work isn't generally one of them.
Relevant article from the CBC about maternal deaths in Canada: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-maternal-deaths-underc...
Does anyone know which companies media methane was partnering with?

The following article explains the mechanics:

https://www.anura.io/blog/king-of-ad-fraud-sentenced

But who were these partners who were paying media methane for (fraudulent) clicks?
Analog Devices uses it to build osciloscopes or clock generators.
You’re absolutely right, I’ve fucked up plenty. That’s why I believe so strongly in making the right thing the easy thing. I think I’m doomed if it’s critical for tags to be perfect because they always drift, doomed if IAM policies must be least-privilege because sometimes that’s impossible, and doomed if I can’t adapt what I built yesterday to what my business needs today.

PS good job partitioning your EKS clusters, even within one account. That’ll save you some sleep one day, I’m sure.
It's a theoretical claim (unproved, as acting on a system changes the system)

Also, it's missing the crucial implication: at what price?

With infinite amount of money, there are many things we could do. We don't have infinite money.

Consider how the richest EU state in adjusted PPP per capita (so price levels can't be blamed) is just now barely richer than the poorest US state, in both the median and average

Do we really want to become that poor? Is equality (in everyone being poor) a social goal?
Do you agree that torture is wrong regardless of its effectiveness? Should people not object to things that they see as wrong?
Other people have pointed out in this thread that the language of the acceptable use policy is so broad that it arguably violates it to sell a Basic Instinct DVD over the Internet. Given this, PayPal obviously won't actually be pursuing every violation, but rather wants to create as many violators as possible, giving them unlimited power to close the accounts and claim damages against nearly everyone.

The people it actually takes this steps against will be those who violate some secret internal policy, presumably. They don't enforce it against every violator because the number of violators means it would destroy their business.
For astrophotography ZWO has a custom distro for pi and extra hardware for custom, wireless control of an astrophotography setup, telescope, tripod, camera and all.

https://astronomy-imaging-camera.com/product/asiair-plus
I will refer you to the first tool I thought to Google with "docker image for X":

https://hub.docker.com/r/stedolan/jq

Yes, it's despicable.
This one blows my mind. I wasn't the brightest student in college but knew enough to show up everyday. I still remember walking into Calc II on 9/11/2001. The professor (a Jesuit priest) was leading the class in prayer. At least 80% of the kids in that class showed up.
Back when I worked my last job. I’d find that when work was scarce (pretty common mostly thanks to an impenetrable bureaucracy) My brain would wake up and I would suddenly feel motivated to think about and work on new projects, then I’d get home and for some reason not have the energy and just pass out instead.
> The self righteousness of Google, I thought nothing could be worse than Google's hypocrisy.

I wasn't very suspicious at the time, but learned to be. My take on this is different though. I don't think it was a case of self-righteousness as much as extreme naivete of some postdocs that were just entering the business world. naivete in thinking a statement such as that couldn't be twisted to the point it meant less that it already does ("evil" is not well defined), and naivete to think they wouldn't be the ones twisting it, whether on purpose or subconsciously, as business needs slowly changed and they had to justify keeping their business afloat and profitable, and people in jobs, and shareholders happy.

You either set up your business such that it's incentivized to align with your morals, or your business (the market) will incentivize you to change your morals to align with it.

If nothing else, we've learned that practices that seem mostly benign one decade at low scale can become very troubling the next decade when done at a much larger scale and/or when additional consequences of the practice become known. Choices made that align with your morals at one time may have consequences that mean you were wrong, even if you couldn't really have known it, but now your business relies on this prior decision.

Running a business is hard, making overreaching statements you can't live up to later is easy.
Long ago my GF bought a linux laptop. She asked me install something, it was just an "apt-get install" away. I told her I had to type a few commands. She said she was busy now. Ok, ssh'ed into it and installed what she needed.
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I sometimes miss my old job hauling around boxes. It’s great exercise and you never have to take stress home with you. Good coworkers often times too

It just doesn’t pay enough to retire off of. Can’t easily build savings. Can’t easily pay for the dentist or other emergencies

Being a lead programmer pays a ton better. I just wish I wasn’t as stressful as it is
The thing is, they don't have to live up to your expectations of what a valuable company should be because they are a valuable company. It's also the case with many "successful" startups that if they decided to stop expanding and make profitability their sole prerogative, it may be in reach. We don't know because they never tried, and they have no incentive to try. Their incentives are all geared towards continued massive growth.
Linear makes perfect sense in the very long term when yearly supply will just about balance the yearly coin loss.
Haven't seen that, I'll have to check it out! I've got an orange pi zero and zero2. The zero fits great in an Altoids tin, with a bit of extra space for the power cord.
Understanding Optimus; Revolution or Revulsion?
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Meta settles lawsuit for ‘significant’ sum against businesses scraping FB data
He also used a compiler, and a standard library, and a computer.
Axeptable. FTFY
Really? Thanks. I sometimes get downvoted for it, and I'm not really sure why.
Honestly, as terrible as these features are for these male users, I feel that they are barely scratching the surface of what can be profitably done to monetize the thirst/desperation of lonely, unattractive men. I don't know what these new terrible features could be, but it really feels like very little has been tried. There are probably much, much darker patterns that these dating sites can use. I mean, we're talking about one of the most powerful bodily urges that exists, plus an increasingly desperate customer base with seemingly no way to satisfy it. Surely this path goes deeper into the woods.
No, they are referring to the fact that the events that lead to permanent changes in the genome are extremely rare- the vast majority of mutations are not fixed.
Sure. My point is that Toyota has hedged this bet fairly aggressively and is well equipped to transition to "full EVs" if that turns out to be the right call in the long run.
It is certainly one alternative here. Not the only.

There's no reason abortion should be safe, legal and rare. And there's no reason we should be having such a high rate of preventable maternity related deaths.
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No need to apologize! All good, I got the feeling we were in agreement and I was just explaining my point poorly.
I think Linus is pragmatic enough to yank Rust from the tree if the experiment doesn't pan out. In the meantime, you can see some of the code samples at https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/tree/rust/samples/ru...
There is another category. Once I took a job in a new stack and was explicitly a junior dev in senior's clothing (no lying involved; the employer knew what they were getting). I thought it would be fun, but it was a deeply unpleasant experience. I realized then that you either stick with your basic stack or endure at intense ego pain with a half-life of ~4 years. It is NOT enough to have all the fundamentals down to instantly learn a new stack, the differences between languages is NOT just syntax, or a new build tool. It's an entire world in which you must learn to live. You can apply a lot of what you learned in the other world, but that will only help you make good decisions, and will NOT help you produce great code in the new world.