skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That seems like a side effect more than an explicit purpose. Down below is more to the point:

> WHY WE’RE GOING TO THE MOON

> We’re going back to the Moon for scientific discovery, economic benefits, and inspiration for a new generation of explorers: the Artemis Generation. While maintaining American leadership in exploration, we will build a global alliance and explore deep space for the benefit of all.
How AGI-Lite Happens
> If you're too specific about the position, you get too few quality candidates.

What do you mean by too few? I'd say that zero is too few, but one quality candidate might be perfect, because then the hiring process can go very fast. There's no reason why you couldn't or shouldn't hire the first quality person you find.

In my opinion, the biggest problems with job postings are:

1) No salary/compensation listed, which can end up wasting everyone's time when there's a mismatch in expectations. "Competetive salary" is BS and often a lie. (This might also be why you're getting fewer quality applicants than desired.)

2) The posting focuses too much or even exclusively on arbitrary "qualifications" that the employer mistakenly believes are necessary but ends up relaxing anyway in many cases. Instead, the posting should describe in as much detail as possible the actual job, what the employee is to do, and then the qualifications will implicitly follow from that.
My understanding is this is rooted in the perception of hot water as a luxury—it's not like we have any shortage of evidence from chinese texts that people have always drank cold water. The idea that most people even could avoid cold water is an artifact of the last two centuries. Even where boiling water was necessary water was boiled and stored (that's not specific to my knowledge of China, that's just an observation from multiple different places and times).

Of course I'm open to be demonstrated wrong.
Well said, well balanced.
> There is exactly ONE reason why Apollo was manned by people instead of robots: Because computers, electronics and robotics in the 60s were not up to the task. If todays tech existed back then, I would bet the Apollo rocket would have had exactly one passenger, and that would have been the Lunar Roving vehicle.

But a manned outpost beyond earth would make the logistics for large scale space exploration (even with robots) much more feasible, no?
At my company we have no issues hiring 50 remote Indian nationals who all have the exact same Java based resume, but we will spend a full quarter interviewing for a senior web developer (non Indian)
Also, if you want to skip directly to a demo, go here: https://app.welcomecompass.com/?bookingId=XS362E2iXNLZGbOrH1.... We'd love to hear your feedback!
This is sort of like trying to wipe out all the smaller-than-3cm fry, so that you can succeed in catching only the biggest fish in your net. It's so illogical and maliciously counterproductive I fear you may be correct.
Le Corbusier did, Goldfinger did, Neave Brown did. Have you seen the price of flats in the Barbican?

Just because you don't like them aesthetically doesn't mean no-one does.
[dupe]

More discussion on official post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40412903
Paying freelancers in equity and dividends
Looks like either eBay took action or the seller killed their account.
Landing/reusing a rocket isn't new and has been done before.
There is a very large number of employers. If you want to convince me they're all unreasonable, you'll need to show me some pretty compelling evidence.
You don't think everyone saying they don't want kids because "I don't want to bring a child into this world" is making a moral statement?
A big issue is FOMO, and the paradox of choice.

If only few potential partners are available, you will look for the best match and to settle down quickly. They might be average in look and intelligence, but you'll be happy to having found them.

If you have a lot of money, can travel, and have access to a lot of beautiful potential partners, you'll always wonder if the next one could be better looking and more intelligent, and will have a hard time to settle.
I've gotta ask, what happened in the early 2000's to make that your milestone?
High performers job hop when

- They aren't compensated proportionately for their work.

- They aren't recognized proportionately for their work. e.g. I have seen solid engineers leave because management thought they were just doing "maintenance" only to have entire product lines go on fire after they left. Turns out, your remaining high performers can get overloaded too.

- The culture undervalues that individual's ethos. Some high performers prefer collaboration, others prefer competition. If the work environment cannot suit their ethos, they will leave to find another place where they can thrive better.
Yes, exactly. There typically is.
> You clearly didn't understand the statement you are replying to.

You sure about that?

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/af545b90c5657e0e210a...
This is a good summary of why I’m hesitant to put more work into it.

The counter argument I guess is that developing your own data store in-house should be even more of a no-no, and companies do that. (One example is obviously Uber, but my previous employer is another example.)

Do you think the option to self-host the product would help tip the scale?

> What problem does your product solve that customers absolutely 100% need it?

To be blunt there is no such problem: you can always throw more money e.g. at DynamoDB. But if you have a very write intensive workload (such as the use-case described in the OP), then you can save 90% of that money.
I was expecting this to be the typical euphemistic lawyer-speak but I'm positively surprised as much as the news suck

The staff is being reduced by 30 people, not 30%. And they're getting a good severance package.
An alternative route would be to just increase the compensation of juniors to make sure that trying to switch is a less lucrative option, though.
On the other hand, employers will work you to the bone if you let them and fire you at the drop of a hire despite prattling on about respect and loyalty. People briefly realized that better things were possible.
How many of these are applicable to other languages?
Oakdale is more than just a town in Minnesota. It's a first ring suburb of St Paul, the capital of the state. Also, it wasn't limited to Oakdale. It covered a huge swatch of the east metro.

Source: I live about 12 miles west of there.

The people involved in that practice should be jailed for murder.
Great, I’ll eat my cat.
Knowing whether a culture / management team can be influenced is a skill of it's own.

I'd think that high performers would develop that skill fairly quickly. If they're job hoping they'll learn to sniff out the signals.

For example: if they say they encourage change for the better, but continually overload those who may be able to influence the changes with day to day work, then those managers / that culture will be resistant / allergic to influence.

If Sprint X is dedicated to learning and improvement but always seems to be full of last minute bug fixes, testing, overflow work, then even if influence is on their menu, they ain't got the ingredients to cook it up.
The study found that your ability to reflect on "your first impulsive response" in order to refine it or discard it, is closely related to your general intelligence ability and numerical abilities. It refutes the idea that cognitive reflection is a separate skill independent of general intelligence.
In the places I've worked, skill wasn't the primary metric. You had to be good enough but working well in the team was more important. As long as you met the minimum skill requirements for the position, we prefer people who increase overall team efficiency.

We tend to avoid "rockstar developers" in my current company because many wouldn't be happy here.

I happened to be a "rockstar" right now because my skills and culture are an ideal match. My team is small and does a lot, so we really can't afford to hire the wrong person. Better to leave the position open.
I noticed that the only people who say "Hey, money isn't everything!" are people who already have plenty of money. The people who tell you at work "You don't really want to advance in your career and be a [Manager/Director/etc.], it's so much more work and responsibility!" are always themselves Managers and Directors. "Don't worry about work so much, take that vacation!" says the person who's at a point in life where they don't have to worry about work.
We didn’t start the fire, it was always burning, since the world’s been turning.

Doesn’t mean it’s not worth trying to do good. It’s good for you, if nothing else. But you have to let go of the idea that you control more than the tiniest fraction of it.
As an employer you could as a first step even just check if the skill you look for could:

A) be unrealistic. A need for 8 years of experience in a framework that existed for a year is a need zero people can fulfill.

B) if your needs are so special that such an employee doesn't exist. I recall the days when companies would train people to do a job.

C) The job description is realistic but the people who you seek to attract won't do the job for that salary in that location for that company.
Yes, but I mean the non-UI stuff: concurrency, networking, file system, etc...
Ah Jesus, sorry. The Verge just ran a story like this so my brain lazily pattern-matched. Sorry!
Refusing to take a side is not a position of moral strength or authority. You should be a partisan against genocide.
Say you wanted to build an app on a database like LedgerStore but at much smaller scale, what are the best open source options out there right now?
If said bricks are actual construction bricks and not just decorative and that there is no attempt to hide other structural elements I guess it would count.

There is an example of a "brutalist" brick house in the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_G%C3%B6th
True, this might not be the best example, but it shows how much more control and flexibity former approach provides, given rich support fo Result type.
Microplastics found in every human testicle in study
> folks who don't realize they are leaving behind landmines for their colleagues

Yes - people who never live with the outcomes of their own work / decisions are less likely to have learned good longer-term practices.
There is an elephant in the room in my opinion on the matter of a migration to N. America across the atlantic, however I have not read a definitive evaluation of this piece of evidence.

There exists, mostly in the northern tribes (Ojibwa 27%, Sioux 15%) mtDNA of the X type. As I understand it the other highest group in the world is the Druze population in the Levant. (27%) What it all means is above my pay grade.

Background
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_X_(mtDNA)
This is definitely it. The problem is that the job market has positioned it that coming with "gumption" and no real world skills (in past positions) there is a low chance that the company will take a risk on you. So doing these shifts are extremely hard.
Like countless substances both natural and synthetic, they appear safe enough if you don't eat a substantial amount of them. How do the quantities involved in the studies compare to the levels we end up consuming? Nobody ever seems to address that.
Having grown up in New England and moved to Central Texas, I saw two very different opinions on Red Lobster.

It's 100% correct that in NE or anywhere near the coast Red Lobster was always considered inferior. The local competition and the ability of non-chain restaurants to "buy off the dock" meant you could always find better options that maybe even cost less.

When I moved to Central TX, I was stunned by how much everyone loved Red Lobster. It was my MIL's favorite celebration restaurant, and my wife loved it as well. To me having lived on fresh seafood for years, it was OK not great, but you could find decent seafood, slightly overpriced. I did see a rapid decline over the next 10-15 years.

But the problem isn't market share since most of the US doesn't have coastal access to fresh seafood. It's the same thing that happens to every chain restaurant after being bought out by a corporation. The restaurant life cycle as I have come to see it.

Start off being run by an owner who cares and is invested in making good food, grow to a local chain, start franchising, grow and get bought by corporate, focus changes from good food to profit and consistency, food quality craters, customers depart.

There's no magic here besides corporate mismanagement from the unlimited shrimp deal that cost them millions a quarter in loss to moving away from scratch cooked food to microwaved prepackaged food.

It's the same with Applebee's, Chili's etc. at one point all these places were decent to good before corporate greed and mismanagement steps in and starts selling over-priced sugar cocktails and appetizer specials. It's no longer about providing good food and atmosphere to families but about extracting maximum value from a customer engagement.
I agree with you on a personal level, though again I’m sure if I CTRL+F replika subreddit I’d find many people describing their emotions with similar words.

Anyway, let’s say he was negatively affected by that relationship, IIRC.

Reminds me a bit of this: https://www.uniladtech.com/news/ai/man-married-hologram-no-l... , up to you if you find people developing strong feelings to inanimate objects that can’t care less, dystopic or not.
> I don't understand the hiring people industry.

Not many do. Especially those doing the hiring. The thing is, there isn't much business value in making it a core competency, so employers just wing it mostly based on copying what they see someone else do, without any attempt to measure effectiveness, combined with plain old hope and prayer. The result is what you have witnessed.
Structural unemployment is mostly overstated as a phenomenon. It’s really just a matching problem.
The M4 iPad Pros
It's certainly an acquired taste
Given all the horribly edited resumes I have seen, I am sure there is a match to be made somewhere.
> So then bacteria have souls?

Yes.

Plants, fungi, and everything else that's alive also have souls. In fact the term medical "vegetative state" is using Aristotelian vocabulary. Obviously it's not saying the patient has acquired chloroplasts.

> And computers will never have one since they're not biological.

That depends. Can a computing device come alive? Inanimate matter evidently somehow came alive at least once so I don't see how we can rule it out.

> But also there doesn't seem to be a relationship between souls and consciousness, so they are irrelevant.

So far as I know everything that we've verified to have consciousness is alive and thus has a soul. I'm very interested in any counter-examples if you have any to offer though.
Not yet. Is that something you’d find compelling? Anything in particular you’d like to see?
Google interviews always felt like this, even a decade ago.
I can't imagine coding with someone else smartassing over what I do.
Never tried it.
Does anyone actually like pair programming?
Your assumption is that covering up unethical behavior is good for you in the long run. Really it's only good for you in the long run if you manage to be canny enough to sell just before the ****storm hits.
It's not that they don't want customers hanging around inside. It's that these types tend not to be the most respectful about it.

They are often content creators and do all their editing without headphones on so you just have their mediocre content playing in segments over and over and over again for hours. They run a ton of cables tethered to the wall so they can charge their phone, their camera, their laptop, etc. And they kill whatever internet is available at the cafe by saturating the network with uploads.

And that is just the start.

The problem is that these people hog the services available at the cafe and get very hostile if confronted.

If you just go to a cafe to work on your laptop while occasionally ordering a drink or a snack that's fine. It's when you listen to audio without wearing headphones, run multiple power cables when a single would do (i.e. charge phone, etc with laptop or splitter), render the internet unusable for the rest of the customers, and get into shouting matches on the phone at your seat rather than stepping out for the call that it becomes a problem.

TLDR: Be respectful and nobody cares but the digital nomad lifestyle has unfortunately attracted a very problematic group of entitled people who these cafes do not want to serve.
While pdf 0days do exist, they're patched fairly quickly once known and therefore attackers are likely not going to waste them on non-targeted attacks. Assuming you keep your software up to date and aren't a high value target, you probably don't have to worry about pdf 0days. The spam you're getting with pdfs are likely using pdfs because it's easier to evade spam filters, not because there's a pdf 0day embedded inside.
That isn't quite the same. In the job market, leaving the market isn't really an option for the seller (employee), unless you are independently wealthy. So you generally have to settle for a price that is lower than your worth.

There is also insufficient information going the other way. Unlike buying a car, there is more to the buyer's side than just money. There is the work environment, how well employees are treated, the probability of future raises, probability the company will lay you off or cut pay or force you to relocate in the future, etc. And that assymetry impacts the market as well. For example a company might be a really great place to work, and that would compensate for a lower salary, but the prospective employee doesn't know that.
Ah sheesh. I’ve been on that road many times (going from Lancaster county up to northern PA/southern NY) but didn’t realize it was entirely contained within PA. Your point about 95 is well taken. That’s messed up.
[Anakin/Padme meme] For the better, right?
intelligence is overrated
Unfortunately, the skill of being trainable/educable is very unevenly distributed in the population and very hard to assess from afar. Instead, companies hire based on whether you've already been trained/educated in how to do the thing, which amounts to letting someone else take on the risk associated with your failing to learn something.

If I were tasked with solving this, I'd advocate for more frank discussion and use of various pseudo tests, e.g. SAT or GRE scores. This strikes a lot of people as unfair and non-inclusive.
That's genius. Instead of dumping resumes in the trash, dump them into an AI training program (and then dump them in the trash)
Related:

Free Julian Assange

https://freeassange.org/

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40409197)
"Like others, I prefer intuition to epistemology" would be an easier and more accurate though perhaps less satisfying way to express your game style preferences.
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Stone, rubble masonry, brick (both fired and mud), wattle and daub or non-reinforced concrete!

As long as you keep a roof on top of them, you'll have mostly local/superficial degradation, but with reinforced concrete you'll eventually end up with concrete cancer everywhere which is harder and harder to fight. See:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/Qew_brue...
I thin it's the other way around, most western companies, especially older small businesses are actually high-trust environments and treat employees like family, or at least try to.

I'd make the argument that authoritarian civilization work was a low-trust environment.. i.e. most professionals in post-communist countries ended with a very stingy untrustworthy personality due to the constraints and incentives of a highly bureaucratic environment with non-genuine pretentious loyalty.
What data would satisfy you that employers are being unnecessarily picky? Provide the criteria. Their costs are sunk, they can push candidates through as many cycles as they want until they can find the cheapest unicorns pushed through their pipelines. There is also strong evidence that some employers are cutting anyone with a developed world wage and pushing that work to cheap countries (Google, very publicly, but there are others).

My hot take is the labor market was very tight, employers thought they were going to get a deal on folks with the layoffs [1] that took place over the last 2 years, but the labor market still remains tight so they continue to search for "diamonds in the rough" at lower costs (which leads to this mismatch at scale). Offshoring is cost optimization to continue to realize desired profits in a high capital cost macro, and there is probably some knock on effect from software development tax code changes [2].

[1] https://layoffs.fyi/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39133028
It's also not helpful when employers refuse to train and demand folks with the skills they want. If the supply of folks you want doesn't't exist, you need to do your part to grow them.
The best way to get a job _has always been, and will always be_, knowing somebody.

Networking is an essential life-skill, and worth all the discomfort it takes to get better at it. (You don't have to be the top 1% of networkers to be successful).
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> They can sue you into bankruptcy, obviously.

Apologies in advance, my comment does not add to progressing the thread at all.

I was just in the middle of eating a delicious raspberry danish - I read your comment and just about lol'd it all over my keyboard and wall.

The last thing I would do if I had a bunch of equity is screw with a company with some of the most sought after technology in the world. There is a team of lawyers waiting and foaming at the mouth to take everything from you and not bat an eye about it. This seems very obvious.
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Because on the other side, there are too many applicants who can't do the job but apply anyway. So the company needs some way to filter, otherwise they'll waste huge amounts of time and money interviewing people that can't do the job. They have no good way to filter, so they'll left with only bad ways.
Even a single person can be hypocritical or self-sabotaging sometimes. And "an employer" is often not a single person but an organization with a bunch of people pulling in different directions. Some people making hiring decisions or deciding on hiring procedures may not necessarily care about the procedure being "bad". Maybe they e.g. care about maintaining "standards" or whatever justification they came up with.
is it? if you consider the value 20 engineers could drive instead in that time

if you assume they wouldn't have had anything else meaningful to work on during that time to save money, then you have a different problem in the company. $6M seems like the value 1 engineer can drive in a company at the scale of Uber
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>But it seems that the new MS Windows echosystem might be affected.

Why? Does the microsoft pdf viewer use pdf.js internally? Edge at least is based on chromium, and chromium AFAIK uses pdfium rather than pdf.js.
My experience has always been that if you take 6 months to contribute to open source centered around the new thing you want to work on, you'll quickly meet people that will allow you to get a job.
I think a lot of people can tell from the writing when English isn't someone's first language and are willing to give them a little break.

Also I bet there are ESL business owners who have an English-first speaking friend review their job listings, but maybe not their random forum comments.