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> The platform uses an individual’s work email to verify their work experience. For verifying educational credentials, users upload their student badge or ID or use their institute’s assigned email ID to get their profiles verified. The startup has plans to verify users’ past work experiences and education by expanding its verification feature over time.

How does this work for those who are not currently employed? Who's going to pay for this verification of work history? What about verification beyond "they were here during that time"? Many companies will not go into this detail. What prevents me from falsifying my experience? What if I am a contractor who lists projects and has never had formal employment?

Do users want to upload these documents for verification when they don't for LinkedIn? I don't think I would

Is this verification something that is a meaningful differentiation?

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This is very much focused on developers who create public content, which is a small percentage. What about those that have only contributed to private code bases or don't blog? How do they feel about how their profile looks by comparison to those that do? What about all the non-tech people?
I use nix shell for development and reference uninstalled packages from scripts as well. I think we both understand what Nix is capable of. I still don't find any issue with my initial comment that Nix at its core is for maintaining a reproducible system from config files in git. My point wasn't to be pedantically perfect but rather to communicate a core use case in laymen's terms for the uninitiated.
> as soon as there is a bijection between A and B

OK, but how are you going to construct a bijection from an arbitrary infinite set of undefinable numbers onto a set with a choice function without the AoC?
> Clarissa Moore, a 35-year-old who works as a supervisor at a utility company in Pennsylvania, said even her mortgage company has been asking for tips lately

What sort of mortgage activity involves asking for a tip? The article didn't really go into this, but I'm very curious.
Trained by being told ""Present yourself as a language model" thousands times before being deployed, sounds like an army.
There was a class action suit regarding servers not being paid a full wage while being made to roll up silverware and napkins and other tasks like that where they were on the clock but not able to earn tips. My wife worked at Applebees and got a couple bucks out of this lawsuit.

This sounds like the same thing.
I had a doctor in the early aughts who was quite old and had been in the same office since the 60s. There was a floor standing ashtray on his office next to the patient chair.

My first thought was “not only has it been a while since it was ok to tell your doctor that you smoked, how long had it been since you could smoke on their office?”
Yep, TripTiks we’re awesome. With map apps I feel as though I’m constantly battling them as I always expect the top of the map/phone to represent north.

Maybe it was because I grew up in a rural area but I much prefer NSEW directions and looking at a physical map.
"It seems Destini may have caught up with us"
Are there any competitors? Let's say for writing emails. I'd be interested to see the comparison.
Silicon Valley Reinvented the City Bus, and Now It’s Five Years Later
I've seen this happen. The best part is when attrition is bad enough in some cycle that the poor performers stick around... and now the managers are really in trouble!

It can be difficult for line managers to fire their entire team.
> "And that's how you can make an infinite amount of space in your infinite-but-full hotel."

If you re-frame that as an inexhaustible resource than you can make any amount of space in it because by definition it is inexhaustible.

> "infinite-but-full..."

"If it were already full then..." It can't be full. By definition it is inexhaustible.

"but we have an infinite supply of hotel guests." So by definition we can't house them all because the supply cannot be exhausted.

"We fill this inexhaustible space with an inexhaustible quantity of stack-able objects..." It seems as nuts as saying "We apply this irresistible force to this immovable object.." The existence of one implies the other _cannot_ exist.

Pick one, reason with it. Include a second in your reasoning and... No.

A one to one mapping between two resources that we define to be inexhaustible boils down to take infinity and divide it by infinity. How can it be anything else? So yes you can get 2, or 10, or pi, or literally anything at all. Infinity - infinity is no better, division is repeated subtraction so you still get "Gerald" as the answer.

Sure two infinite things are, by some view of it, "The same size" where that size makes them not comparable. The set of points contained in a sphere in my hand has the "same size" as the set of points in the sphere we call the earth which is the same as the set of points in the universe. But so what? How does this tell us anything? We divided by infinity to define what a point is and there you have to stop or you get nonsense, even if it is convenient nonsense I would hesitate to build my house there. Maybe it doesn't make any sense to talk about size when it isn't finite. Maybe we can only really reason about it using limits for the same reason we note dividing by zero makes no sense in any way that is really useful?
Go to 27:52 to see the machine in action. Such smooth movement and the features he shows for the next 30 mins are so cool.
I see the hiring conversation you had back in September '21; I don't see us canceling a meeting, but I'm sure that happened. That sucks!

Getting an inscrutable Russian Nesting Doll response from the erstwhile retail sales manager of a company asking you to set up Nomad on top of Nomad and ELK on top ELK is an off-putting experience, but it's the kind of off-putting experience we're comfortable giving people: what we're talking about is either going to click, or we're probably currently not a good fit, and that's fine.

On the other hand: the experience you apparently had, of going through our process and being unceremoniously jettisoned without explanation is off-putting in a different and less tolerable way. It's something we try hard never to do, but we're a small team (much smaller in 2021) and we screw up sometimes. I apologize.
>and we don't accept cash either

You're part of the problem, not the solution.
Watch Ben Finegold.

His style of cheesey, caustic humor isn't for everybody. However, he GETS beginners.

"GM Ben Finegold's Message to Beginner Chess Players"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5bCfwCyo18

"The Reason People Don't Get Better At Chess According to Ben Finegold"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbF1bRwxIWY
NYC had to put a stop to the cashless trend because it is unfair to only offer services to those eligible for banking.
Doesn’t sound good. There has to be balance. Focusing on individual performance, culture be dammed is toxic as well.
> How? Maybe this hits harder for me as a work from home employee but it's never been harder to get ahold of an admin. Everything must be done in channels and rarely does anything seem to pass through the local supervisor level. Most things are presented as a take it or leave it situation and no consideration or nuance is even pretended at.

Unfortunately this is an org issue. For me at my org we have a help-desk we can email, with an issue number so we can follow up. This system tracks certain metrics which I hope are used to gauge the effectiveness of IT support and infrastructure.

When I hit a my limit of bullshit I formatted my machine and installed linux. This is a nuclear option and would not work in other orgs have that locked down machines.

For checking email, I would use whatever works. There are bigger battles
> Is there any advancement people won't decry?
Defeating aging would be the most significant achievement in human history. But sure, let's worry about centuries old overpopulation concerns instead, despite having demonstrated them false continually.

Discussing concerns and potential scenarios doesn't have to be viewed as decrying. I would argue it's a normal and healthy way of advancing science safely.
The ashtray has been replaced by the ubiquity of the cupholder--more obesity.
Even a fairly middling password manager implementation is better than just about any other strategy that anyone is likely to use.

Especially because for the vast majority, the other strategy is going to be reusing the same password ~everywhere and if you're lucky the might use a special password for their bank or something.
Encrypting Data in the Browser Using WebAuthn
While the practice of not updating PBKDF2 iterations is bad, I think with LastPass the problem was more the aggregate of many things, a sort-of death by a million cuts. Because truthfully, the PBKDF2 iterations count issue was relatively unimportant. Some good conjecture about it:

https://neilmadden.blog/2023/01/09/on-pbkdf2-iterations/

Both Bitwarden and LastPass should improve this situation by making the iteration count automatically increase over time. For LastPass though, there are... A lot of concerns. The breach, how it was handled, persistent issues with the security of their browser extension (many, including an RCE at one point) and of course the fact that not everything in the vault is actually encrypted.

KeePass XC or 1password may prove to be better options from a strict security practices standpoint, but from what I've seen I don't suspect Bitwarden has a pattern of bad security practices overall. It does seem like there are opportunities to make it better, though.
Sign me up. Unlimited use? API access as well?
Smoking risks is one of the few thing in which it cannot be overstated. Unlike other forms of safety-ism.
> You can’t have enough new content every month, subscribers therefore don’t keep the subscription year round.

Didn't Disney's CEO talk about getting to the point of having a movie release a day or something like that late last year? The quality might be questionable at that rate.
A sufficiently difficult password is unguessable even with a single hash.
I'm always impressed by Chat GPT, but I didn't realize that the bar was this low at one of the top business schools in the country. The first four problems are arithmetic word problems. I think a smart middle-schooler could solve these. Questions 5-6 require some knowledge of queueing theory, question 7 requires you to have read the Wikipedia page on Kanban.
While that's an interesting option for the developer, it doesn't appear to be something the end user can use on any random executable. (I'd LOVE to be wrong)

As with the Android thread above, this is encouraging news.
I dunno man, I think most people would be lost without the iDarn app.
Interestingly they started in more or less in alphabetical order. It certainly looks for the outside like there's a big file that gets updated wherever the dev adding the syscall thinks looks clean, and gets reorganized every now and then.

Combined with the obvious 'it's not a stable interface so we like changing it up regularly so people don't feel like they can depend on it'.

Here's the table itself for 32 bit x86 versions if anyone's curious: https://j00ru.vexillium.org/syscalls/nt/32/
A Search Engine for Audiobooks Using OpenAI APIs
I had bumped mine up once before (to 200K) and I just bumped it up again to 600K. But my wife (registered several years ago, like me) was still at 5K, I just bumped hers up too. Wish Bitwarden would force this for anyone still on an old default - particularly given the LastPass compromise we just saw.
Just pick a claim and examine it yourself. They're all lies and half truths.

Claim: The price will come down with repeat builds

Reality: All but one model of reactor in US went up with repeat builds, that went down very modestly. Every program except Japan had costs that increased with time, and Japan's costs only went down modestly during a period where money was extremely cheap and the prices of other projects decreased far more.

Claim: It was TMI and chernobyl

Reality: Prices went up 20% yoy from the time the first non turnkey reactor went online until 1979

Claim: If there had just been more funding

Reality: Billions to tens of billions are spent on fission research every year. All reactors have substantial public support and most have government backed loans.

Claim: It's soooo dense

Reality: The majority of Uranium ore has similar energy density to fossil fuels. Uranium mines overlap in average area power density with solar farms.

Claim: Reprocessing turns waste into energy

Reality: It only uses the Pu239 and dregs of U235 which a boost of 15% from not reprocessing and works once. Separation dumps large quantities of fission products into the environment. It creates more Pu240and Pu241 which are the worst isotopes and just as much fission products as not using MOX.

Claim: Breeeeders have a closed fuel cycle

Reality: No closed fuel cycle has ever been demonstrated start to finish. On top of breeders generally having horrible reliability when run in breeding mode. Every program fails at the refuelling part because it's so dirty and expensive.

Claim: Coal makes more radiation

Reality: Coal is way worse in general, but this is a lie carefully crafted by comparing one specific reactor a long time away from refuelling to an ols coal plant. One reprocessing facility releases more radiation in a year than 90% of the coal ash that ever made it into the air. Dust from poorly remediated mines is also much worse.

Claim: It's available 24/7/365

Reality: EAF averages under 77% and there are now wind farms that have higher capacity factor than the EAF of many UK and french reactors (except they don't pretend to be available all the time). Nameplate capacities are often lower than output or left when expensive upgrades are made to make load factor look artificially high.

Claim: It's dispatchable

Reality: Being able to pay a little more in maintenance to throw away energy you already paid for isn't dispatch.
What's at stake for Musk in shareholder trial over 2018 Tesla tweets
parts of the earth are comparably smoother than a billiard ball (though not all of it). Mountainous terrain is like fine sandpaper.

We really do not have a sense of scale to imagine the size of the earth.
no one is getting stage 4 lung cancer from sugar. Or having their jaw removed due to mouth cancer . Or hooked up to one of those oxygen machines due to irreversible lung damage. Sure, there are risks with obesity, not not as lethal or causal as with tobacco products. Fats are also a major contributor too, like steak.
As someone who was in a service role and subject to an opt in post interaction survey, I don't believe systems like this are effective. They select for Karens with unreasonable demands. They use the survey to retaliate against the employee by leaving bad scores.
> Indeed the most advanced populations in the West and Asia are already in decline.

Right, but they haven't defeated aging yet, like we're talking about.
The entire point of a credit card score is to predict the future.

Being bad at that because of inherent inaccuracies in their methodology is a problem.
About five years ago I was drowsy on jet flight with a cough drop wrapper. Reflexively I tried to throw the wrapper away in the arm rest and was momentarily confused that there wasn't an ashtray built into it.
Real Time Speech Enhancement in the Waveform Domain
Government is able to compel Equifax to do things, and is run by we, the people, so it seems like we should be able to something, for sufficiently large and powerful numbers of "we".
Interesting the use of a CC-NC-A 4.0 license on this by FB!
But those that get it first will be the wealthiest. Many of those wouldn’t use their gain for good and may actually use it to do harm.

An eternal Putin? A permanent Xi?
To provide some additional (counter) anecdotal evidence - I moved to Melbourne several years ago and can't recall a single, bad service oriented experience at a restaurant here.
These days, you have DRM solutions doing syscalls directly. I think Jurassic World evolution is an example of software using DRM that does that. The wine developers had to implement the ability to emulate windows syscalls because of it.

I wonder how Microsoft will react to third parties beginning to do syscalls.
US tip workers also get full minimum wage. Tip workers who don't meet the minimum wage threshold on total earnings are compensated for the shortfall. The lower tip worker rate is a subsidy to business owners paid for by guilt tripping their customers.
edited, but really it's kind of a vibe. I remember reading similar announcements of programming language projects (we'll have ALL the good features and none of the bad ones and it will compile fast and we'll have a great community) and game mods (we'll have ALL the good features and we'll have the coolest mechanics and we'll do it collectively and anyone can participate, we just need a couple more dozen people to donate their time, also does anyone know how to use Blender?)

Sometimes wildly ambitious projects work out, to be fair, but still. It's familiar.
Review / feedback programs are terrible (5/5: would f*ck over soulless management again).

If the whole point of eliminating tips is to treat the workers fairly, why not institute some sort of profit share, or monthly bonus based on YoY revenue growth?

Either way, you should accept cash.
Thank you from those of us not in the US.
I guess for most people online, writing all their passwords down in a notebook is more secure than using a password manager. It’s just less convenient.
I have been saying that we need a “dosbox for the next generation”. Wine is great but due to Apple dropping 64 bit support it’s been decidedly less useful for me.

DosBox works well enough for most pre-Windows stuff, DosBox-X can handle the Windows 95 era well enough, but Windows 2000-Windows 7 stuff is actually kind of hard to get fully working on modern computers, and I feel emulation has not been able to keep up.

I wish a lot of success on this project. It would be great to get Jazz Jackrabbit 2 working on my Mac without mucking with VMWare.
> Would you trust the rules though?

Rules don't need to be trusted, they need to be written down and available for reading.
Or for another fun “the core has stopped!” disaster film: Sunshine.

A warning however, it takes a sharp left turn towards horror at one point.
Either the physical evidence suggests a connection or it doesn't. It is obviously fallacious to insist there could be no contact between Carthaginian and Germanic populations: boats sail between the Baltic and Mediterranean seas all the damn time.

It was only a little time ago that many historians insisted bronze-age tin could not possibly have come from England. ("There's no solid evidence for it!") Then isotope analysis showed that it definitely did. The only correct statement at the time would be that we didn't know whether the tin was coming from England. Accepting the isotopic evidence does not absolve anybody from insisting they knew what they were fully aware they did not know.
I wish you would take cash. Every other method of payment gets tracked and is used to profile people
Thanks again, love the info!
What purpose does that serve in math class to teach charts and graphs?
Ah, I accidentally lied by trying to reconstruct a vague memory, apologies. Now I'm remembering it in more detail.

It wasn't lack of defaults, it was handling of defaults. Portrayal does a couple of smart things like evaluating defaults in a specific order in the correct context (while still only evaluating once), such that this becomes possible:

keyword :name
keyword :greeting, default: proc { "Hello, #{name}" }

I like being able to do this. (This also works gracefully with subclassing.)

The coercion argument is good, but I'm not a fan of doing it implicitly. (This was the real counter-argument I should've made). I prefer to have a single place where input is entirely processed, such as a `from_params(params)`-style constructor. In that constructor you could either coerce, or do anything else with the input prior to passing it through to `.new`.
0/infinity is still zero
Demonstrating that you don't understand what diffuse irradiance is doesn't fit well with the whole "I'm so much more knowledgeable" condescending act.
Unless you have a high-entropy long password. 10 Diceware words (words chosen uniformly at random from a list of 7776 words) is over 128 bits of entropy, even a very fast hash would be enough for such a passphrase. Of course at that point you've essentially memorized a cryptographic key, not a traditional low-security password. Good for the master password of a password database, not so usable anywhere else.
Judicious Prospecting
You can also quote text. This works:

"sqrt"
Ivan Provorov Went to a Hockey Game, and a Culture War Broke Out
Price sensitivity refers to how much the price of a good impacts someone’s willingness to buy it, not how wealthy they are.

A wealthy customer can be very price sensitive.
Depending on how the exceptions are written, a big vat like tax will make things like house and car purchases way more expensive. Mucking about on the money markets will be hit as well. Unless it’s really aimed at taxing the lower and middle classes primarily.

Unfortunately for them, the rich people have pretty much all of the money and those carrier battle groups cost big bucks.
I see, the reduction of antenna gain with terminal miniaturization makes sense. I didn't know if the noise figure of a GaN amplifier was worse.

Why would a change in the antenna radiation pattern limit the power spectral density, is it a regulatory limit?
Either new evidence changes the picture, or it doesn't. Objecting to checking is not science.
People were desperate for a high, an escape, to kill time, to beat the monotony. Today escape is through junk food.
When I was a child, my parents took the tribe around the country for 2 months. We towed our trailer behind an International Traveall. To prepare, my mom worked with AAA to design the route we were going to take starting from our home in California, up to Seattle, across to Yellowstone and Glacier, across the midwest to Philadelphia, down the east coast to Florida then back home through the south, Texas, New Mexico, Utah, and Nevada. The trip require a dozen of these books. I remember spending hours pouring through these prior to our leaving, just fascinated with all the roads, and cities, and attractions. We kept them for years afterwards and I continued looking at them for several years. Not sure what happened to them, however. Great times.
The rule I was taught growing up in USA was 15% and it was really only for sit down restaurants where waiters served you at your table.

Now, tipping in USA has metastasized, but I haven't changed. You want to play a guilt trip game after every business engagement? You'll lose against me. Tip for pouring a cup of drip coffee?---nah. Tip for making fast food? Nope. I will not enable the tip-everywhere culture.
Could you demonstrate with an example how Ascii math is easier to read and takes less time and effort to type? The example on the main page,

sum_(i=1)^n i^3=((n(n+1))/2)^2

looks to me no less complicated than

\sum_{i=1}^n i^3=((n(n+1))/2)^2

so if the goal is it quickly communicate mathematics in plain text (without rendering), I see no difference. If the advantage is that the outer parentheses are automatically resized, why not write a renderer that uses Latex and puts \left, \right everywhere? Better yet, why not go straight to TeXmacs?

I'd love to see an example of a mathematical expression where Ascii math is visibly simpler than Latex and is not just about parenthesis resizing.
> Growing up, i've been told leave at least 15%, or 10% if the service is atrocious

This seems nuts to me - if the service is truly atrocious, to the point where it’s questionable whether the service I asked for was delivered at all, I’m going to refuse to pay at all.

If it’s run of the mill atrocious service and I want to prove a point via tipping, I’ll tip $0.01.