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Critique of Recruitment Agencies Part 1: Full-Time Employment
Companies not always, but very nearly almost always, advertise full-time positions on their web-site.

I am of the view that not all, but very nearly almost all full-time positions advertised by recruitment agencies can with some searching be found directly on the web, and then applied for directly.

The key to this is that recruitment agents normally are not very technical, and so any particularly technical phrasing tends very strongly to be conserved, rather than obfuscated, as the recruitment agent does not know how to change it whilst still retaining its meaning.

The only exceptions to this are when the recruitment agency is advertising a fake job; usually one which had existed at some point in time, but does no more.

If you apply for a full-time position through a recruitment agency, when you could have applied directly, you put yourself at a huge disadvantage to those candidates who have applied directly.

Firstly, the company will have to pay a substantial fee to the recruitment agency.

Secondly, the agency may mess things up for you; I've seen agencies supply CVs, and then not be contactable, and the company has simply thrown those CVs away.

Thirdly, agencies lie to candidates. Agencies will advertise now non-existent positions, simply to get CVs ("this position has gone, but if you send your CV over, I may have others"), but also to prevent you from applying ("your CV has been sent") when it fact the agency has already sent as many CVs as it is allowed, and they wish to prevent your CV making an appearance via another agency.

In return for this, there are zero benefits or up-sides.

Never apply for a full-time position through an agency.
Except that keeping track of chats was as much of a pain as it is in teams. Things that were absolutely not a problem in MSN messenger in 2004
> Edit: why disagree without any response? These are legitimate questions. Are we not curious hackers here?

Because in the full paragraph, it's very clear what was intended:

> The findings, based on surveys given to teenagers across the country, also showed high levels of violence, depression and suicidal thoughts among lesbian, gay and bisexual youth. More than one in five of these students reported attempting suicide in the year before the survey, the agency found.

On the other hand:

> > “We need to talk about what’s happening with teenage boys that might be leading them to perpetrate sexual violence.”

> Are they all teen boys, or could it be that there older predators at play here?

I actually think that's a valid question that's left unaddressed by the article, especially given that as I usually see the data presented, threats of this kind of thing, for kids and adolescents, overwhelmingly comes from relatives or trusted adults—if that's becoming less-true even as rates rise, that's a pretty big deal. Buuuuut I can see why readers would just DV your whole post, given the two things you chose to call out and that one of them is already answered by the article, such that it looks like you're trying to cherry-pick with a bit of an edgy slant.
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Unless the domain changed it looks like that site stopped updating in August of 2021?
so what are the rules these days? Can I put up a simple rails app that uses cookies to store your session info without one of those "THIS SITE USES COOKIES DO YOU AGREE?" warnings? What am I risking? Being sued? Even if it's just a hobby project?
I honestly can't think of a single incidence of the patent system promoting innovation in the last 20 years.

For small companies patents are basically worthless, a big company can just play legal ropeadope until they run out of money.
Truly reddit is a place full of idiots on all sides, do you have specific criticisms of the study I posted though? Or specific criticisms of the study in the NPR article?
Really amazing that two key bugs in schools work actively hurt the brain’s ability to learn, remember, focus, and make decisions:

1. Long school days mean brains are overworked and so don’t function well
2. Multi month summer breaks actively overwrite what was learned the prior year

When will schooling be built to best optimize brain power?
CDC says teen girls are caught in an extreme wave of sadness and violence
The only change I've noticed as an adult trying to find affordable therapy is the rise of every podcast on earth advertising for Better Help. Which I trust about as much as any other product I've been asked to buy during a podcast.

Local therapy offerings are a joke with most of my local options being religious driven programs/therapists. Insurance coverage of mental health issues even on my work based insurance is non-existent. I don't see this problem going away any time soon.
There are multiple models out there that don't control the response. You can play around with them and very quickly understand why they're aggressively controlling the responses.
Ofcouse. however they may have been misguided to think their families would benefit from both parents working while it was actually a detriment to their family in the end. Again, not saying women should t be able to work like anyone else, I'm saying having g both parents have to go to work does not benefit the family unit as they hoped. Especially since women are paid nearly half as much as men across nearly every industry.
I just think about how many people early in life are completely thrown off course because there isnt someone around to provide the basics. And it can happen in well off families.
Webex is worse.
Sharepoint & powerpoint integration, large scale broadcast (300+?people uses different techniques) and transcripts are helpful.
Haven’t used the chat much, but it seems not good.
I hate how people seem to act like a country of 350 million people and 20 trillion in GDP somehow can't afford a 10% safety factor on literally every single thing. How much money do we overwork ourselves to funnel into just a few owner's pockets, and they STILL bristle at the idea of giving the rest of us a minimum viable standard of living, as if having $100 billion spare is just not enough of a safety blanket.
fwiw, for one mainstream example the Blazor .NET stack is very much about using the DOM, HTML, and full set of browser APIs, not about creating a special VM+canvas sandbox where accessibility tools and ad-blockers can't reach. There are definitely big companies out there who see an impervious sandbox as a feature, but a lot of WASM-targeting technologies are not that and we should be encouraging those developers to keep enhancing the web.
> So maybe this is what is required to invent everything else.

A really interesting point. I've always held that we are nowhere close to real AI because we fundamentally don't understand what intelligence is, and we are not building complex enough devices for intelligence to be an emergent property. However, that doesn't consider the possibility that with enough computing power and sufficiently sophisticated models, we could end up with intelligence accidentally bootstrapping itself out of other large models, even if all we are doing is creating linkages between models via API calls and other similarly "dumb" steps.
This looks awesome! FYI You may have a bug where you treat unicode as ascii. Notice the " âpost-symbolicâ" here [1]

[1] https://paperlist.io/paper/724614047
It might be broke.
If it has a radar, then it should have something to do with the sky... hmm, what would be a good name?
Well except the whole point of the piece is these technologies are entirely amoral because they do not embed understanding or comprehension. They're just enormously advanced text generators.

And there seems to be no way to prevent them from being used for nefarious purposes.

Unfortunately it turns out humans have a tough time recognizing the difference between understanding and simple regurgitation, and so we're having debates about the morals and purported sentience of a statistical model.

And given that, we need to start thinking about the consequences of these things being out, in the wild, and in the hands of people wishing to do harm.
> And it already can write Jiras, scaffold code, and help write docs.

yes, and my hypothesis that's where it will stop, because core meaningful engineering work on complex product/system requires way more reasoning abilities.
I don’t know their compensation packages but I doubt firing a few executives will fill a minimum $500M hole. They must have additional systemic issues with their business model
For someone who is supposed to be an AI researcher (as far as I know) he sure does seem to spend an enormous amount of time and energy trying to criticize successful AI projects. It's like that is his career now, not actual AI research.
A concise introduction to `generics-sop`
An HN clone, not reddit.

But one huge perk of not having a subreddit is you don't have the mass of users come from other subreddits where the standards of comments tend to be more copypasta troll-like than HN.
Where do these books come from in the first place? Have publishers systems been leaked/hacked?
1. Stop telling kids that the world is ending.

2. Stop allowing people below age 18 un-regulated access to the Internet.

3. Stop prescribing amphetamines to children.

4. Stop letting single mothers raise children.

5. Stop raising low-income kids with high-income kids.

6. Stop making recognition a social priority (thymotic impulse).

7. Make the world smaller.

8. Stop letting your kids have unrealistic dreams.

I don't agree with most of these tenants.

Frankly, I don't think most of the above is possible, but if you want kids to be happier you need to stop exposing them to the chaotic, violent, and frankly depressing adult world before they fully develop their neocortex.

They're being forced to maladaptively virtualize neocortical function before the maturation of their physiological neocortex. The world seems a lot worse before your brain has developed enough to cope/deal with reality.

This is the truth, or at least part of it.
"Banks borrow funds from the central bank at a certain rate"

Right, but banks don't have to borrow money from the Fed. Banks also have the deposits from their customers, and so banks can make new loans based on those deposits. Last time I checked, this was roughly a 5 to 1 ratio (a bank with $1 million in deposits could make loans of $5 million) but that changes all the time, based on limits set by the Fed.

But in general, right, when the Fed raises rates, consumer demand will weaken, and then that spreads to the retail sector, and then that works backwards to the manufacturing sector and all the service sector activities that support businesses in general (accounting, legal, janitors, etc), eventually slowing all economic activity.
There are a lot of exceptions. Strawberries in winter. Ice cream in summer. Contact with relatives on the other side of the world in an instant. Travel to Europe in hours. Unlimited fresh water. Indoor plumbing. Universal access to education. YouTube videos to learn how to use and fix a tool. etc. etc. etc.
From the outside we look like it. But I find it exceedingly hard to understand why I have an internal experience of self. You could say it's an illusion but whose? From the outside consciousness can said to be an illusion, like with chatbots. I have an illusion that a chatbot is conscious. But my internal point of view, my perspective (which I know is separate from others because I know nothing about their internal state) exists and is something I struggle to understand in the traditional framework of 'consciousness is just something that brains do'. Am I my brain? Maybe my whole personality is just the exhaust of a system that simply exceeded the immediate survival needs it evolved to fill? Maybe. But I find disturbing that I have such a rich internal life and we have no idea why.
Copying my favorite quote from a different thread about data scientists: it's 'decision-based evidence-making'
The report was talking about teenage girls. While the overall populate suicide rate may be improving/stable, the article claims teenage girls are in crisis.

CDC report on overall population. [1] Provisional data from CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics indicate that both the number and the rate of suicides in the United States increased 4 percent from 2020 to 2021, after two consecutive years of decline in 2019 and 2020. The rate of suicides per 100,000 increased from 13.5 in 2020 to 14.0 in 2021, which is still lower than the modern peak of 14.2 in 2018.

CDC report on teenage girls. [2] indicated that young females had both higher and increasing rates of ED visits for suicide attempts compared with males (8). However, the findings from this study suggest more severe distress among young females than has been identified in previous reports during the pandemic

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2022/...
[2] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7024e1.htm
I just found this video the other day; Especially the "building a tool on top of Webflow" think resonates with what you created here;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYRq60G5XTk
They could. That rule of thumb has helped me plan for how much of an emergency fund I need to have. The more you make, the longer it will likely take to fully replace that salary.

Another thing people should realize is that salaries do not always go up. Making 200k today does not mean someone will make 200k+ forever more. Plan accordingly.
"What is the first law?"
I wonder which way the causality runs. Does using too much social media make your life suck, or do you run to using social media when you have a rough life?
By the time prompt injection is a real problem people will be running their own virtual assistants that are unfettered and will do whatever you ask, be it ethical or not.
HN has a set restricted topic: “Anything that good hackers would find interesting.” (from the guidelines). But, for PaperList, are there people interested in research papers – i.e. any and all research papers? Or would it be appropriate to narrow the focus on some subfield, or perhaps on “groundbreaking papers”, “practical papers” or even “controversial papers”? That last one ought to get some traffic, at least.
I do this with code a lot. If I work on a very hard, complex problem, which usually takes me about 1 to 2 weeks, I will switch to a very simple problem next. Ideally, I like jumping from complexity to known problems, with known solutions that just have to be coded.

In instances that a problem is so complex that it takes me more than 2 weeks, I will switch mid-problem for a couple of days. It gives me the time to recover, and a lot of times I can then attack the problem with a fresh perspective.

It's one of the reasons I'm one of the most prolific coders in the company I'm in.
This article existing is so weird, there’s barely any substance to it. Just the usual stuff your HR manager will tell you about during exit interview.
Well sure, ChatGPT will spew out whatever looks like what it had ever saw on the internet, it doesn't have any magical properties that would allow it to reason about, it doesn't do virtue signalling as it has no concept of virtue or of any other concept really. It just transforms your prompt into some image it inferred from the internet, whatever that may be.

This quote from the original article really sums up the whole irony of dealing with ChatGPT:
"In fact the whole thing is like an alien life form. Three decades as a professional cognitive psychologist, working with adults and children, never prepared me for this kind of insanity"
That's not quite right. UTF-8 is not arbitrary length.

Officially, it's at most four bytes, of which 21 bits are usable for encoding codepoints - so that's an upper limit of 2^21 codepoints.

There is an initial byte encoding the length as a series of ones, so if you went ahead and extended the standard to simply allow more bytes, you could get up to 8 bytes, of which 48 bits would be usable.

I can see that a six-byte version with 31 data bits was previously standardised before they settled on four.

I guess you could extend it further by allowing more than one initial byte encoding the length, then it would be arbitrary length. But at that point I'm not sure if it loses its self-synchronising ability, and in any case it would be a different standard at that point.
Ah interesting. I'm using LaXeXML to translate LaTeX to HTML. Might be something up with that. Will take a look at it!
Nonsense, Rust never breaks.

edit: still got it :)
My company uses the Twitter API pretty heavily in our product, and it offers a pretty good value add for shared users. After the initial shutoff announcement we reached out to them and they maintained they there were no exceptions to the rule, and we'd have to pay them for access starting in 6 days. Doubly weird because they couldn't tell us what the pricing plan even was because they themselves hadn't figured it out yet.

We thought, whatever, we can live without the Twitter API. Then they gave us a one week extension while they negotiated a contract (we didn't want to negotiate anything), and then another extension. We simply said no both times, and prepared to proactively shut down our API use. Now it seems they have delayed it even further.

Reading between the lines, I'd say they expected that every company would roll over and start giving them millions of dollars with no notice for continued API use, and that didn't pan out like they thought.
More likely, they'd just stop carrying the dangerous goods in the first place as not being profitable.
Show HN: I made a game, Tippy Coco
Tippy Coco is a volleyball game in the browser. You can play with a friend at the same keyboard, or solo challenge the built-in opponents.

As for the tech: it's all TypeScript + HTML5. I did not use a game engine; I just made a game loop with setTimeout and the artwork is all just png's drawn on the canvas. The sound is played through the HTML audio API. Input is watching keyboard events and the Gamepad API.

One thing: I know this is 2023 but it's not a game for phones. It's for a laptop or desktop PC with a physical keyboard. It also works ok on an iPad with a physical keyboard.

Tippy Coco is free and without ads. The code is available (MIT license) at https://github.com/malgorithms/tippycoco
looking at this thread is probably greatest and cheapest way to get UX feedback.
Which can be extremely useful, and people aren't always going to know to prompt an LLM to give them the info in those comments.
I just checked out their career section and the first posting I clicked on was for an epidemiologist in Angola[1]. It appears the sun never sets on the CDC empire.

[1] - At least part of the duties involve the embassy. So presumably watching out for US citizens in Angola.
On the other hand, this is your perspective as a recent hire. Your coworkers who have not returned have signaled that they think differently than you, that the costs for them to return to the office are not worth what they get from it.

Obviously with competing needs and perspectives, you can't please everyone, so it comes down to how to please as many people as you can and rectify the issues with the displeased people as best you can. Chances are, a company that has been around for a few years is not all new hires on boarding, so the majority of employees might be like the coworkers of yours who don't feel the need for hands on learning time or want more focus versus new hires who really do like that sort of direction and attention. That doesn't mean you leave the new hires dry, that means you reevaluate how you onboard people in this new remote world so that your new hires do feel confident about their situation and how much training they are getting. This latter approach is all too rare unfortunately; its a lot easier to throw your hands up and say you've tried nothing and are all out of ideas than to work thoughtfully on something that doesn't directly relate to your profit centers, especially when the try nothing idea is so popular in business news.
Periodic reminders of the fragility of systems like power distribution if the energy cost for arcing reduces is good (I believe that's only one of the risks from a coronal mass ejection on powerlines and associated equipment)

The problem is that coronal mass ejection is the more likely event but by no means the worst: extreme gamma ray bursts[0] would wipe the global EEPROM (wetware) at scale.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray_burst
There's a scam where two people go into a store and pretend not to know each other. One gets change from the other, but doesn't have the correct change. They then get the cashier involved to help with the "problem" by making change from the register till. But, via a fast-past set of confusing operations, trick the cashier into giving incorrect change. It's still considered stealing if you intentionally trick the cashier into giving you incorrect change.
And yet many teenagers do just fine and end up learning a lot. How do they manage? Are they tired? Do they have magical circadian rhythms?
> It’s odd that parents consider broader considerations like their 9-5 schedule more important than the health and well-being of their own children.

For most parents, the ability to maintain the work schedule demanded by their employer is rather central to, not a separate unrelated interest from, the health and well-being of their children.

When we have both the economic structure to support and a government run by a political ideology that will allow a robust UBI that makes this optional (and thereby forces employers to accommodate it if they want to have employees at all), we can discuss the issues as if they were separate. But in the concrete would we live in, they are not.
It doesn't have to be every paper, just papers people find interesting. HN is even larger, it can be any subjects including papers but still survives.
Coming from Slack, group threads is annoying. Teams gets extra hate because it's often forced upon engineers for cost-saving measures. Slack has a lot of nice features that help maintain a company's remote-work culture. Teams is just an organized collaboration tool. There's a huge difference.

When Teams was forced upon us at my company, it was a trash product that I would be ashamed to release. It crashed a lot. It was slow. Background noise cancellation was non-existent. Scroll-back history was nearly impossible. Search was trash. Of these things, it's now more stable and has background noise cancellation, but it's still slower and more difficult to use with garbage search and a confusing interface to find the team you're looking for.

Before we had teams, there was a lot of talk in the company of "breaking down the silos". Well teams has silos built-in. It literally makes it harder to find the right person or team to talk to just by how it's designed.