skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Listing multiple possible openings for a limited headcount is common, but not necessarily nefarious. A company may be open to a junior, mid, or senior developer but have different expectations, compensation, and requirements for each of those titles. Posting different job listings allows you to cast a wider net without having to dilute the job descriptions too much.

> do you invest 10+ hours in a process where a job may not exist in the first place

The company isn’t going to spend the time walking someone through the hiring process if they don’t have any intention of hiring someone.

10 hours of interviewing is barely more than a single workday. It wasn’t long ago that interview processes required several rounds of phone screenings, interviews, and maybe testing before you were expected to come on-site for an entire day of in-person interviews - or more! I don’t think it’s unreasonable for a company to expect candidates to invest some time into going through an interview process. The phenomenon of hiring people into high paying jobs after a couple hours of casual interviews was largely an artifact of the recent tech bubble. It’s also part of the reason we’re seeing mass layoffs, IMO, as a lot of these companies hired so fast that they couldn’t reasonable screen everyone. It turned it “hire now, fire later if it doesn’t work out” when cash was plentiful.
I like SPAs when they're actually used for applications.

I hate SPAs when they're used for crippled website functionality and slower load times than a normal server round trip.
Email are retained for more than a year. Only instant chats are retained for 24h or 30d.
Would love to see this developed further. Had our Atlantis (owned by another team) run out of disk space and cause issues the other week. Seems like this may reduce a set of failure modes once it is as mature as Atlantis.
While I think it’s wholly in America’s best interest to keep most if not all of these people in our economy… This might be amazing for the countries they came from.

Getting an unexpected repatriation of a bunch of previously drained brains and some capital is a nice prospect for countries that have (hopefully) matured and improved in the interim
Signal CEO: We “1k% won’t participate” in UK law to weaken encryption
Can you explain more? I would have guessed any great collection of people is bound to slowly unravel for all kinds of reasons. Why would you place so much of the blame on money people?
My (very limited) understanding is that donations of this nature aren’t about maximizing utility.

Kind of like how fasting isn’t about saving food.
Mortality consequences of overweight and obesity have likely been underestimated
Nice article - but given the title I wonder what "Community Champions" are? Sounds like free Labour?
It also creates debt. And debt is a commitment to destroy that money that was created.
"it's amazing what they were able to do with that old pentium linux server that someone forgot in the server room, so much damage! rust is truly the future"
> Those seemed like significant numbers. I thought I might stop at one hundred and one, since that seemed definitive. So when I say the house won it’s because I’m still at the table, and my question has changed from, When will I meet someone? to When will I stop?

The Secretary Problem [0], or "optimal stopping" problem indicates that given the perception of an infinite field of options, the author will not be able to determine an optimal stopping point. It's not very good news.

When our perception of our options outpaces our actual ones, that's going to create a cycle of addicted behaviour. Dating apps are literally slot machines for people, and that is a terrible evolutionary strategy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem
> Doesn't the supply of stuff also matter?

It matters.

> How about people's expectations of future prices?

These also matter.

Now ask yourself how they matter. Any fall in the value of money must come from an increase in supply or a decrease in demand. If we expect future prices to be much higher than they are now, we will seek to hold less money (because its value in the future is lower) and this drop in the demand for money in the present will drive down the value of money in the present.
But record profits is non-sense. Profit goes up with inflation in nominal terms, so you need to compare real terms. From the article you pointed to:

'Mr Kierath said it was important to note the companies' profits fell in the last six months of 2021, so these results were rebounding off an unusually low base.'

Ergo, they look good because they were depressed in the prior reporting season. Ergo, it's just corporations bashing, because people are mad inflation is going up.

If you look at Woolworth's profits over time, it would look to be going back to normal levels[1] after a dip due to COVID.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1116200/australia-net-pr...
I've never had durian, but I liked the rest of that stuff right off the bat. Really I get pickier over time. I'd probably dump out the thin black coffee I used to buy at high school football games if I had it now.
Can’t decide what I think about this account. It definitely describes a common trope. But I also can’t shake the feeling that she wants a relationship, but not enough to make sacrifices/change for. Which is fine, but it is a high, high barrier to starting a new relationship.
> Sources and severity of bias in estimates of the BMI–mortality association

> Estimates of mortality differences by body mass index (BMI) are likely biased by: (1) confounding bias from heterogeneity in body shape; (2) positive survival bias in high-BMI samples due to recent weight gain; and (3) negative survival bias in low-BMI samples due to recent weight loss. I investigate these sources of bias in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 1988–94 and 1999–2006 linked to mortality up to 2015 (17,784 cases; 4,468 deaths). I use Cox survival models to estimate BMI differences in all-cause mortality risks among adults aged [45–85) in the United States. I test for age-based differences in BMI–mortality associations and estimate functional forms of the association using nine BMI levels. Estimates of the BMI–mortality association in NHANES data are significantly affected by all three biases, and obesity–mortality associations adjusted for bias are substantively strong at all ages. The mortality consequences of overweight and obesity have likely been underestimated, especially at older ages.
I looked I the AIP diet on your suggestion. It looks very difficult. Good luck to you.
> can be about something harmless but blown so out of proportion in court.

That's the entire point of a court, to find correct context and proportion.

Judges are not idiots and they don't like being mislead. If you blow things out of proportion, and your opponents can put up a counterargument, it will cost you.
Immigration is keeping wages down, and continues to do so. It is also putting immense pressure on the rental market.

Want to improve the lives of ordinary Australians? Reduce immigration levels.
My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account in Azure
Somewhere in the mix are intelligence agencies.
It works much the same in the US, both related to secret control of major industry (see FAA702 etc) and "various coercive systems" enabled by the IC's surveillance and offensive tools.
Articles like this make me incredibly depressed. It seems common place now to see blog posts written by women saying “woe is me, I’ve dated a crapton of men and get so much attention, but I can’t find the one”. If women become this entitled and vain from online dating, the dating pool is only going to stagnate more. If the author could practice some tolerance, empathy, gratitude, and non-judgement, I’m sure many of those 100+ men could have been great partners. As it is, I have no sympathy for her. Her stories make me nauseous.

What’s even worse is she’s been twice divorced and already has kids, but expects a perfect man in return. It’s hard to have empathy when she’s rejecting people based on Marvel movies and Starbucks.
I went on over 100 dates using online dating apps. Eventually, I found a partner in the "real world." The problem was that going on yet another date was too easy for me. With my current partner, it took a long time to build up trust and attraction. At first, it wasn't even romantic. Maybe for her too, online dating is too fast to build a real connection. The first time you see the other person, you feel pressured to know if you are attracted to them or not. Don't even get me started on evaluating an online dating profile.

She talked about how drinking Starbucks was a deal breaker for her. My current partner has multiple qualities that would have been deal breakers if I had evaluated them in the online dating context, and yet I am very happy in this relationship.
Well email moves slowly for one, and adding another protocol is usually baked into a client and servers approach (imap, pop, smtp, etc) so its not impossible
George Kennan's “Long Telegram”
The very first thing I do anytime I set up a new email client is switch off threaded view so I can see the individual messages. I find it more hassle than it's worth. I prefer to keep specific messages in my inbox related to what I need to do (as my inbox is essentially my to do list) and just archive all other messages especially the meaningless replies which only add noise to the conversation. I shudder when I see other people's inboxes with threads of 100+ messages where they have to scroll and scroll to find the specific message they need. While I already have that specific message stored in my inbox for quick reference.
It remains a world in which anyone can compete, regardless your dystopian, Hollywood writeresque style prose. It's a world I and most people prefer to one run by the mafia: https://www.justice.gov/criminal-ocgs/infiltrated-labor-unio....
too many sappy "romantic" movies they believe reflect real life. Is it really different than hearing fake news or conspiracy theories and believing them? Some people lack good filters to discern good information from bad. The idea of rejecting someone over going to Starbucks is unbelievable to me. If you are that passionate about "good" coffee and they clearly like coffee also, why not try introducing them to something new? Maybe on a date? You may expand their horizon. Does she believe people "grow up" and stop growing after that? Relationships should be about growing together.
Get an airscape.

https://planetarydesign.com/product/airscape-classic-coffee-...
" It would be pretty disadvantageous for animals to have no regulation on their fat growth in times of abundance. Something more has to go wrong to cross the line from "saving for a rainy day" to "killing you". ""

I really can't blame you for assuming this, but it actually turns out that food was scarce enough in human history that humans never actually evolved a limit on how much fat we will store. If we keep consuming a caloric surplus the body will keep creating fat to store it. This is the body working as intended. Things would be different if humans had a more reasonable max body fat percentage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heaviest_people
WebGPU Error Handling best practices
Maybe change happens for a good reason sometimes? Engineers no longer have secretaries, file cabinets, etc. We have all this technology to help us organize things, is an individual office still the right thing?

I get the value of quiet time, I just don't feel like it's lost. Still plenty of places to hide. Maybe I'm an outlier.
That's a good point. I was just kind of randomly plowing through so i didn't pick any dialogue scene specifically. Don't think it'll fail there though.
It's only a long article if you do more than skim it.
For most people noted enough sun falls on their car to handle their normal driving. Between bad angles, shade and other stuff cars will never be close to the ideal for charging.
This sounds false to me. I suppose for someone used to eating 10 to 20 thousand calories per day suddenly going to 1500 would be stressful but if gently tapered no one should have any issues.
As a man, it's hard to imagine the kind of bubble that some women must exist in for those combined preferences to seem completely reasonable. Men have their own idiotic preferences, but they're usually self-contained whilst many women have an all-encompassing "he's gotta have this, he's gotta have that, he's gotta have this, he's gotta have that, he's gotta have this, he's gotta have that..." attitude. People should feel ashamed for being so openly misanthropic, but to some extent it's considered acceptable.

Though I mentioned some things that I think will help society move past this phase of "modern dating", I forgot to mention specifically that if anything's going to change, it may only happen if women collectively start rejecting hookup apps. All of the women I know seem to realize they hate something about apps like Tinder, yet continue relying on them, but maybe enough of them will eventually put two and two together. It's not just the men whom are failing them, but the technology itself.
For those using DuckDuckGo, the bang !noaa <ZIP_CODE> will give you your local forecast.

I've got a set of scripts that scrape that to a text-friendly page, though NOAA also has an API I should probably look at to replace those.

Scripts FWIW: <https://pastebin.com/e82TkqEY>
The social media app Blind, which is probably 50% Indian users now, is touting the “join a consulting company” route to staying in the U.S. i don’t know how viable it is.
Her case is really clear cut, dry and simple. Aging single mother of 3, yet with very high expectations that don't match her fading looks, nor personality.

The vast amount of choices and nearly unlimited supply that hookup apps have on offer messes with her head

This is a common recurring theme with single aging middle aged woman with kids types.
It's not like it falls off that quickly after that point either. It might not be ideal, but it's still more than adequate for a good while after that.

Though that's me preparing drip coffee. I'm not trying to get the perfect crema on a shot of espresso or something.
Scammy would be pretending to be the other brand.

It's the difference between bidding on the keyword BrandX when my company is ABCBrand with an ad that says:

"Come shop at BrandX" .. when it's going to my ABCBrand, and possibly even having a landing page pretending to be BrandX

vs.

"Come shop at ABCBrand" ... and going to my ABCBrand, as it should.
Come to Australia please!
Yes, but a lot of these layoffs are happening at the unicorn startups / Googles of the world, and these people generally map more closely to your former case.

So this is just lowering the scale of the pool, but the ratio is probably unchanged - completely agreed on the need for reform.
This is the problem with words like "best". I dislike the design of both of them. Fortunately we can both think different apps have the best design.
Seems like a missed opportunity to make an NFT that resembles the Snow Crash data stream that makes hackers go brain dead, or a Nam Shub of Enkidu NFT.
This isn't convincing, why should company profits be immune from inflation but wages stagnate and fall below the rate of inflation as has happened this year?
Corporations bashing is definitely warranted in this case.
Either you’re growing or finding efficiencies.
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/blog/2018/02/story-angus-barbieri...
This doesn't belong on HN, because its garbage analysis.

From their 'analysis':

"Record profits on petroleum and mining activities (reinforced by a spike in global oil and gas prices following the invasion of Ukraine) led this surge, but the overall corporate sector experienced the most rapid growth in profits of any comparable period in 35 years."

So because of global shortages, commodity prices reached record highs, and companies <b>which are price takers<b> benefited from that, is now suddenly corporate greed? BHP doesn't set the price for Iron Ore, the market does. BP doesn't set the price for Oil or Natural Gas, the market does. When you cut off Russia who are a key supplier of those goods, that creates shortages and causes prices to spike. This means companies which extract those goods will make more money as long as costs remain the same.
I wonder if it could be used in the other direction: use a layoff to clear out old, expensive local citizen talent and fill the gaps with cheaper h1b or offshored labor?
Amazing project. Scrolled to see if they had the Olivetti M24 machine in there. Would have been the ultimate nostalgia.
I absolutely had lower productivity sharing a desk last time I was required to. The chair was always adjusted wrong. May as well just stay home. I'm not OCD but I've been seeing doctors for my back problems since I was 18 so frankly you're an ableist. Enjoy your health while you can.
> arstechnica is a garbage publication.

100% this.

I think they were good about 10 years ago. Now they are just garbage
Quote: I have been on first dates with 107 people in the past five years, without securing a long-term love relationship with anyone

That's a "first date" every two weeks or so.
They also don't have access to spy satellite tech though.
No connection to Google, but I'd be cautious about ageism in this type of thinking. Been at places before where young guys mostly burn themselves into the ground "working hard" coding all sorts of stuff that really didn't matter, or sacrificing their personal time and life for code. The older guys were considered "unmotivated" because they didn't overwork when they knew it wouldn't matter.
The hilarious contradiction:

Companies: please come back to the office

Employees: why? Why have them at all? I don't have an "office" I have a small section of table. At home I have an office.

Companies: we invested money in these work spaces and want them to be used

Employees: you mean the shitty open space you moved to in order to save money rather than real "offices"? the ones that make us provably/demonstrably less productive than being at our home offices? If its about money, get rid of them entirely.

Companies: Um, yes. It helps build interaction and community

Employees: No, being shoved together like cattle breeds resentment and irritation and distraction and a feeling of no privacy or ability to think.

Companies: Just come back to the office. It's about buy-in

Employees: You mean the buy-in you refuse to provide for reasonable work spaces?
For <8 weeks, yes. But year-round general supplementation for no indicated reason can be harmful. TUDCA is known to lower HDL cholesterol (good cholesterol).[0]

NAC would be a more appropriate year-round liver support for general supplementation.

0: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8674405/
Pick a tool and learn it well. Doesn’t matter which one, really, so long as you’re productive with it.
>i dont think it would be unprecedented if some companies said "hey we are making a healthy profit already, so in order to not harm our customers we'd like to keep prices as they are or reduce them if possible"...

It won't be unprecedented that a few companies (especially founder/family controlled) showed alturism like this, but I'd be very surprised if a publicly held company straight up told its shareholders that it was going to kick back and relax this quarter because things are already pretty good.
Thanks for sharing this, just downloaded it. It's good to know it may take weeks until I receive my first call because there are so many volunteers!
She does say that she has an avoidant attachment style. When someone gets close they pull away. I did notice they didn't really follow up on that thread, working to become a more secure person. Maybe one day.
Yes. If I outwit octopus 1:1 that would be OK.
I read the whole stupid thing, because there had to be character development, right? An epiphany? Something?

No, she's still insufferable at the end.
>Wow, did you actually watch the video, and understand what was accomplished?

Yes. He's not the first one to make a 3D game on an ESP32, nor is he the first to communicate with a VRChat world using a video stream and shader, nor is he the first to read data back from VRChat via reading pixels that are set by a shader. These are all existing things that are well established and are put together to make a cool app for the badge and it looked like the attendees got joy from it so I would call it a success.

I am not saying that building this was trivial especially since he went the route of building most of this from scratch, but it just wasn't what I was hoping to see when watching the video. As a fan of VR I was interested it seeing problems related to the hardware being too weak and seeing just what was possible on such limited hardware.
Ah, fair enough. Your opinion is still relevant. I would still like to hear from those that never exceeded 80 because there is a bit more of a chance they could have pulled it off.
Absolutely. Ignorance of the law is not a defense, nor is “whoops!”
For those interested in learning more about the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), check out this podcast series.

https://aei.ag/corn-saves-america/

Cliffs:

- Farmers were over producing corn and needed new markets.
- Americans, sick of importing oil from conflict zones, desired a US produced fuel
- Americans desired a renewable fuel source.
- Brewers grain, a by-product of ethanol process could be marketed to dairy & beef producers as a less expensive feed source.
GDP will plummet.
I similarly have mostly not learned vim, but every now (usually on fridays) I spend a bit of time seeing if there's an easier way to do something. My recent learning was :quickfix.

I normally build in a terminal anyways so this was a pretty nice little speedup for iterating on static analysis results or a build problem.
SF Chronicle has a collection of photos:

<https://www.sfchronicle.com/weather/article/photos-show-hist...>
> Switching jobs suck, increase their pay by $n/yr to where they dont consider moving.

The employer that doesn't incur the large cost can afford to pay the employee much more and still come out ahead versus hiring an employee who still needs the rating. The Nash eq outcome is that no one pays for type ratings and externalizes the cost completely to prospective employees.

> They need to put in some up front effort or collateral to prove there's loyalty there and behavior like, I will invest in a skill that takes time for you as an employee to learn, and is only worth it to you because it will let you command a higher salary

This doesn't work for the business jet case. If you have a Gulfstream V that you want to fly, you need to either hire someone with a GV type rating or immediately get the new guy the GV rating. Hence, you tend to put in the offer letter a requirement to repay.
Here's a really cool interactive visualization of the Hamiltonian Monte Carlo algorithm, where you can choose different target distributions and play around with the algorithm parameters: https://chi-feng.github.io/mcmc-demo/app.html?algorithm=Hami...

Source code: https://github.com/chi-feng/mcmc-demo/blob/master/algorithms...

It also has visualizations for other flavors of Hamiltonian Monte Carlo, including the No-U-Turn Sampler (NUTS) used by Stan.
> harmless written word is notoriously easy to quote out of context and otherwise use "against you" in court.

Do you believe lawyers and judges are unfamiliar with this issue?

Like their entire lives are spent reviewing documents, letters and email. They invented the concept of Disclosure before computers existed, so that Defence can rebut or put proper context to any argument that will be made by prosecution.