skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought your original post made it seem like only CC users get the extra 3~6% for the ability to dispute. My point in the thread was everyone pays it and it ends up being cheaper for the CC holder due to cashback.
Employer problems: evergreen postings not tied to real jobs, high standards while simultaneously not willing to train and retain, poor interview practices.

Employee problems: misrepresenting self/skills, job hopping (mostly due to failure to promote/retain by employers)
Structural unemployment happens when the perceived skills of the workforce don't match the perceived needs of employers, so there is both unemployment and difficulty hiring.

A lot of engineers will tell you that companies are often expecting both too much (precise types of experience) and the wrong things (leetcode-type challenges, unnecessarily specific knowledge...), which leads them to pass over perfectly qualified candidates.
I love how humanity is like “should we dim the sky, or give up trucks?” and we’re going to pick dimming the sky.

On the one hand we’re an awesome species; we’re also totally ridiculous. It’s tough to wrap your head around the duality.
Do you honestly think this north Korean real estate is actually attainable for normal people? It's a communist country. I'd washer that you either have to wait for
20-30 years in queue to get a single room (not single bedroom, single room) apartment for the whole family, or pay a hefty bribe.
Replit had 186 employees[1], so 30 people and 30% (56 people) is not that big of a difference, comparing to some larger companies.

[1]: https://growjo.com/company/Replit
If the janitor knew, but withheld the publically valuable information out of fear, they should still get some amount of punishment.

Making bad decisions under duress is understandable but it’s still a serious issue to withhold this information.

The execs need no less than life in prison.
As a job hopper that's done well for myself; Realistically, I don't want a job with that much stress. If timelines are tight, it's usually management's fault (and I can say this... I've been in management in many positions). In my experience, they don't compensate you for it at all, and you can easily (at least for me) find a job that pays more with less stress. Take that as you will.

I've also been in the hiring manager role and have no problem with job hoppers. I find them to generally be more ambitious.
It’s not paradoxical if you account for the normal distribution in employee talents, and companies are unrealistic about expectations. Big companies still have the mentality of startups, thinking that they can fill their ranks with top 10% people who are super self motivated and able to handle complex tasks with minimal management and training. Maybe that’s possible when you’re hiring three people at a startup, but it’s not possible when you’re hiring 300 people.

Tech is now like the car industry. Google and Microsoft and Apple are like GM and Ford and Chrysler. And most of the startups are parts suppliers feeding into that ecosystem. They’re going to have to learn how to execute their core functions by appropriately training and supervising line workers.
People have done this, eg https://www.reddit.com/r/GrowthHacking/comments/k20g42/ai_to...

However that appears to be defunct now
I remember back in the IRC days many people wrote all lowercase. Seems like smartphone keyboards, which autocapitalize, have changed that trend.
Yes. But how many of those were “conforming loans” that were officially backed by Fannie Mae
Ok look sorry to mess with you, but the irony may be informative.

You’re complaining about someone’s “typography” on a forum that doesn’t really allow a lot of font and layout flexibility.

Or did you mean typographical?
Toxic Gaslighting of 3M Employee: "Forever Chemicals are Safe"

Better?
Completely agree here. My company interviews for and hires based on soft skills.

Yeah, certain hard skills help. I don't want to teach you excel or basic computer skills.

But we work in data analytics/marketing and my coworkers consist of people like a theater major, an anthropologist, someone that previously negotiated govt contracts for Lockheed, a sommelier, and more. Yeah, we hire mostly at entry level, but our team is highly capable because they were hired based on curiosity, critical thinking skills, etc and taught by the people who possess hard skills
You don’t seem to have a point. Thick accents are unintelligible regardless of source.

The UK has more distinct accents than the US. However RP English, which was popular in an American form as “mid Atlantic” last century, is almost impossible for any English speaker to misconstrue thanks to its emphasis on clear diction. British actors have been proving that in the US for over a century. No one needs subtitles to understand Hugh Grant. Standard US accents frequently fail the merry, marry, Mary test and are worse overall.

Even us Americans know this. The classic, original, beloved voice of the NY subway was a British guy faking a “flat” American accent.
> The reasoning stands entirely on its own. There's nothing you need to "believe". That you don't have a way to disprove it is close enough to proof.

Not so, for it is like the liar's paradox, except with high probabilities rather than Boolean logic.

If you assume it is true, it follows that you can't trust your own state of mind, and that all statements including "I am just a thought" become suspect, as there is nothing leading up to them to give them justification.
Our workforce is more educated now than at any point in history. This means we'll have more and more people competing for jobs they are overqualified for. From a job seeker perspective, it will only get harder as the traditional credentials have lost their value.

I've also been on the hiring perspective and I can tell you there is no shortage of candidates, nor do companies have a hard time finding employees. The problem is that they either:

A: Want top talent without paying the premium
B: Want top talent for a role that doesn't require it

If you ask any hiring manager, they'll always prefer the senior talent over the junior one, even if the role doesn't require it. But once they see the rates that senior talent commands, they might adjust their expectations.

I don't think there is any dream solution given that the problem is more cultural than anything. If anything, the market will loosen up in favor of the hiring managers in the long run, but continue to squeeze workers given our current trajectory.
As in you managed to find the hire you were looking for after looking at 100 candidates, or all of the 100 seemed unsuitable, and you decided not to even look at the other 1700 ?
At some point, your employees don't just magically work harder. And then you fail to meet customer demand resulting in lost potential revenue. By the time this happens you're so far in the hole it's challenging to climb out.
>With the exception of LTS releases, if you haven't got firefox 126 yet because you're on a "stable" package manager, I'd encourage you to promptly download firefox from mozilla.org (which will come with auto-updates) and uninstall your package managers insecure version.

Which distros have this problem? AFAIK debian-based distros (eg. debian, ubuntu) package firefox ESR which is kept up to date with security patches.
They're saying they're one of those employers who would balk at a 10% raise. So they don't take a chance on employees that will have standards.... They'll all leave the business in the lurch when they realize nothing is going to improve.

Instead, they recruit wet blankets that will take one for the team with 3-4% raises, for 3 to 4 years or more. If indentured servitude contracts were still legal, they would be a fan.
Not to mention the overuse of the term "gaslighting". What used to mean a serious systematic method of making someone question reality is now simply "lied", apparently.
Honestly, build it.

The same thing which makes Tinder a blight on human happiness would make the format an excellent way to pair jobs with job seekers.
Yes and no.

My sources are telling me they get a few hundred applications per day for just one role. Beating those odds will be a lot easier if you know the hiring manager.
Possibly, but I suspect it wont be that simple, and that the challenge will be finding something that not only interacts with the containment in a useful way, but does not further interact with the human body in a toxic or disruptive way.

Because most of the harmful effects of PFOAs seem to be due to it being an endocrine disruptor, which means it messes with any hormonal system. I'm wondering if there would be a higher probability for chemicals we identify to bind to it to also be some kind of endocrine disruptor or have a hormonal interaction due to the close chemical relationships... then again, if it's similarly disruptive but at least reduces the half life and allows the body to release it, then perhaps that doesn't matter long term. i.e a little bit more poison to allow your body to release all of the poison.

I'm totally unqualified to answer this question, biochemistry is extremely complex, just pointing out it's probably not that simple.

[edit]

Sorry I misread your comment as applying to the body. For the environment it's a different type of problem, the only known way to remove them is expensive indiscriminate filtering of water (i.e not specific to PFOA), reverse osmosis (basically using a huge amount of pressure). To actually destroy them is particularly difficult, short of shooting it into the Sun, but there has been progress there too:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/18/pfas-for...
"You have to be lucky (including knowing someone, ie networking), not necessarily good."

Yes, and the network effects are largely detrimental to minority groups since networks tend to be biased toward similar people.
> Cognitive Reflection (CR) refers to the individual ability or disposition to stop the first impulsive response that our mind offers and to activate the reflective mechanisms that allow us to find an answer, make a decision, or carry out a specific behavior in a more thoughtful way.

Basically the idea that you think before you act. Makes sense that this would enhance all other skills. Is this junk science? I’d rather see actual test plus data with control variables. Meta analysis seems to have the conclusion already in the introduction. We think this matters here’s a bunch of evidence we found, therefore it matters.
> People with machine learning experience are getting 7-figure offers

I’m paid fairly well, but not this much, so I think the threshold is a bit higher than this.
Why do you feel they should drop the charges?

Edit: I get that people feel strongly about this, but I am genuinely curious :)
That's a very good point. Over the course of my career, the best people I've seen are those that are really good at educating themselves and keep constantly learning new things. They were a small minority though of the coworkers I've worked with and an even smaller minority of people I've interviewed (the problem is that when trying to hire people who have those qualities, it's hard to avoid false positives).
Assuming there are a minimum of two teams a total of 20 maintaining this in-house software, I gave 250k as cost per engineer (salary plus health and other benefit costs to the company). Thats $5 million right there. I am estimating lowest range. Thats why Amazon calls these efforts undifferentiated heavy lifting. is there a slight premium to pay than rolling your own and maintaining yes. Its worth all the trouble and security and management overhead into rolling your own.
Runtime code generation and execution in Go: Part 1
> Regardless of the sophistication of the deepfake, surely this rings huge alarm bells, right?

Its a company with revenues of a couple of billion and that probably sub contracts thousands of other companies on projects around the world. The finance department is probably sending similar payments regularly.

Most payments will be "secret" in that the amounts won't be made public to employees that don't need to know. The company maybe, for example, be repeating work that has been already been done in house so doesn't want it known inhouse what companies are being paid.
One issue is that not everyone loves learning stuff. And since there is no simple way to test for that many instead test for what is simple to test for: trivia. A common issue, people measure what is easy to measure instead of what is actually important.

There are plenty of applicants which are simply awful and you do not have time to interview all of them.

I am not impressed by the people hiring but I also understand why their task is hard.
I do understand the privacy-defending angle here, but since the numbers are one-time-only and can not be used later on, then, this looks like it is more useful for hacking/spoofing/scamming. I was hoping this would be the same as simplelogin.io, only for SMS, but it's not.

What happens when the service needs to re-authenticate and you don't have access to the original number anymore?
Pretty rare to get an honest feel for upper management when interviewing or assessing a potential employer. It's only once you're inside, and usually after a few months (sometimes longer) that you get a true feel.
I’m with you. It’s hilarious to think back on, but I got a “no” from my present employer after the first technical interview because I didn’t remember the options to one particular tool.

Thankfully a somewhat distant inside connection was achieved, who managed to suggest “maybe that wasn’t actually the correct decision” and I got the chance to continue with the process. It’s all been good since then.

I sure do have an internal chuckle every time I have to use that particular tool… and still have to look up the options. :-)
You brought up Christians, not me. Was it meant as a serious claim, or just casual bigotry?
This is my post from 2018 (I didn't submit it to HN), and it could definitely use a "here's what practical systems do" update! I'll put it on the TODO list...

Your point about systems dealing with a relatively small number of large objects vs. small objects also makes sense: this is essentially the "cost" of an overflow (4kb spills once in a blue moon? Oh well, handle that as a special case. 4TB spills once in a blue moon? The system might crash). This is more obvious, as you also point out, in load balancing.

One aspect I found very counter-intuitive: before this investigation, I would've guessed that having a large number of large bins makes overflow increasingly unlikely. This is only partially true: more bins is obviously good, but larger bins are actually more sensitive to changes in load factor!

Overall, I think you are right that this is not really a concern in modern systems today. Compared to Dynamo, I still think Vimeo's solution (linked at the bottom of the post) is both intuitive and low-complexity. But regardless, more of an interesting mathematical diversion than a practical systems concern these days.
We have a pretty minimal setup at formancehq/ledger[1] that uses pg as a storage backend, and comes with a programmability layer to model complex transactions (e.g. sourcing $100 from three accounts in cascade).

[1] https://github.com/formancehq/ledger
The stock market represents a tiny and shrinking sliver of the overall economy. https://businessreview.studentorg.berkeley.edu/why-your-favo.... In many cases there is no distributed class of shareholders, just a concentrated set of owners, so both this and the argument it was responding to about wiping out shareholders are irrelevant.

For companies that are publicly traded, if you were to wipe out the shareholders, that would disproportionately hurt financial institutions that pick and choose stocks and concentrate their holdings and exert influence on the corporate policy over passive investments from the average Joe's retirement fund. To the extent that it's "just a tax", it's a tax that's progressively higher on the people more likely to be at fault.
The jobs that I both want and can do are all in places where I both don't want to live and can't afford, either. If I and my cohort could buy a decent home in Boston or New York or California, the equation would be very different.
There's some truth to the "structural unemployment" comment, but I'll note that in my recent experience, companies that pay well aren't having trouble hiring.
Cryptographically sign all the things!!!!! A L L T H E T H I N G S !!!!
Well, it’s pretty simple: HaystackDB is designed from the ground up for write intensive workloads, so it’s much more economical than existing off-shelf-solutions for that type of workload. Is that not clear from the landing page?

From pricing: “$0.2 per million writes, $20 per million reads”. The typical cost profile is $2 per million read/writes, or even more for writes.
Still on Ublck Origin and I don't see any ads and all the videos.
> After decades as a General Mills subsidiary, Red Lobster was purchased by a private equity firm in 2014

There it is.

Reflexive distaste for PE aside, Red Lobster somehow became a prominent part of my childhood's core memories. Must have met the criteria of affordable, family-friendly, and enough menu variety for everyone. I remember seeing strange adult drinks in salt-rimmed glasses called "margaritas" for the first time, how my mom would always point out how cold and dark it was inside, learning words like "booth" and "platter", and of course watching the lobsters awaiting their fate.

I haven't been to a Red Lobster in about 20 years. The one in my hometown is still open. Maybe I can swing by a location before they all close and see if the biscuits bring back memories of good times with family who aren't around anymore.
Congress Has Made Obscuring Aircraft Ownership Information a Reality
> The moon is not so far away in terms of distance but it is very far away in terms of Δv because, not least, you have to land propulsively because there is no atmosphere to slow you down.

Not least, but certainly the requirement to brake before you land must be on the small order compared to achieving escape velocity from the much bigger rock I'm on?
That's probably because you are running software that is meant to hide content on a page.
Cynicism is a great way to ensure that nothing ever happens.
In the Shadow of Silicon Valley – Rebecca Solnit
They're almost all cargo culting the same whiteboard algorithm hiring criteria for otherwise humdrum jobs so yeah, they're all kind of unreasonable. An HR fad can cause structural employment just as easily as bona fide requirements not being met.
I feel like you should put the shortcuts in the sidebar instead of having a link to a page with the shortcuts.

I quickly get into a state (hah) where shortcuts stop working or error out with "multiple nodes selected".
Netflix already solved the on demand streaming at scale though, for them it is harder to do live events given the fact they are new to it
> the enormous amount of international credibility and resulting soft power

You know what is giving China soft power? Funding projects around all of Africa.

You know what is not giving western countries soft power? Burning Billions on Space Programs that serve zero purpose and could achieve more with much less investments, if we just continued sending robots.

Again, I know where I would allocate my resources if I had a hand in this game.
I’m not imposing anything, I’m suggesting you’re (probably) suffering from a specific shitty healthcare system rather than your implied conclusion that universal health care systems are inherently shitty.

In fact I immigrated to Germany from a country with shittier (underfunded) health care system myself so I can very much relate.
I don’t care and will pick “let’s all go to war” long before I pick “I got to enjoy it all but my kids should live in communal hovels to save power”.

The USA has what, 12 super carriers? They’re not for show - I guarantee we’ll run out of oil last.
> For this particular question we have a great answer in the form of homotopy type theory. It handles all the complications that the author mentions. This is one of the reasons type theorists were excited about HoTT in the first place.

Arguably, Homotopy type theory still doesn't solve the problem, because while it strengthens the consequences of isomorphism it doesn't distinguish between "isomorphism" and "canonical isomorphism", whereas (some?) mathematicians informally seem to think that there's a meaningful difference.

> The only problem is that the author is working in Lean and apparently* dismissive of non-classical type theory. So now we're back to lamenting that equality in type theory is broken...

In my opinion, Lean made a number pragmatic choices (impredicative Prop, non-classical logic including the axiom of global choice, uniqueness of identity proofs, etc.) that enable the practical formalization of mathematics as actually done by the vast majority of mathematicians who don't research logic, type theory, or category theory.

It's far from established that this is possible at all with homotopy type theory, yet alone whether it would actually be easier or more economical to do so. And even if this state of affairs is permanent, homotopy type theory itself would still be an interesting topic of study like any other field of mathematics.
> $20 per million reads

Quite frankly, this is not gonna work. I manage a system with a very write-heavy workload (lots of small writes) and even though our writes far outpace our reads, this pricing makes your system about ten times more expensive than an RDS cluster.

There's no data about performance. There's no information on how or whether data is persisted to durable storage before a write is acknowledged. There's not even any information on how big keys or values can be. There's no public information on support.

When choosing a system like yours, my priorities are:

1. Data safety

2. Performance

3. Cost

... In that order. You've done nothing to educate me on 1 and 2 and your pricing isn't better than what you're seeking to displace.

When your product is a tool for developers, show up with hard facts about your product. Zero people (as you've seen) are even remotely interested in building a product on top of a system without knowing whether the system will hold up to their use case. And other than a very anemic FAQ section, you have no documentation at all, whatsoever.
I was referring to the default being a sexy female. Maybe it makes sense because the majority of users are male but I guess that's what I'd like to see change.
It certainly feels that way. I used to talk to professional / capable recruiters occasionally.

I don't hear from those kind of recruiters anymore. I just get recruiting spam. Come to think of it talking to recruiters now seems about as honest, opaque, and enjoyable as going into my email spam folder...
Those languages are already well supported on Apple platforms from the language makers themselves, there is not much Apple can do to "support them" better.

Opposite is not true though, there are lots of troubles you have to go through to have Swift on Android/Windows.

Very often, especially in startups, when the new app is created, it is first created for iOS and then for Android. Having proper Swift support would reduce effort for bringing apps to Android/Windows.
This line of argument indicates a basic refusal to take the threat model seriously, I think.

Should Google worry about Chinese state-backed attackers using attacking its systems to target dissidents or for corporate or military espionage? "Why, when they're using machines or VMs, and you can just shut those off?"

At a sophisticated-human level of capability, there are many established techniques to circumvent people trying to shut off your access to compute in general, or even to specific systems. It's certainly possible that AI will never reach a sophisticated-human level of capability at this task—it hasn't yet—but the fact that computers have off switches gives no information about the likelihood or proximity of reaching that threshold.