skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But then why are you here in this thread?

Because presumably most of the people who might look at the site, or read this thread, do so because they want to get a job and have run into ghosting. If they want to "do something about it," great, I think they will waste their time and energy getting distracted from finding a job.

Instead of getting hurt and angry about companies ghosting candidates, or posting jobs they don't intend to fill -- unfortunate realities that almost certainly won't change because of yet another web site calling them out -- I propose a different path. Stop taking these irritations personally. Adopt a better strategy for job hunting than sending in piles of applications and waiting to hear back. Applying to lots of jobs online like everyone else turns the process into a lazy, passive, and ultimately frustrating exercise. A numbers game where both sides race to the bottom with automation, while unreasonably expecting human interaction, or at least a simulation of it. Until you get an interview and an offer you didn't get the job, no reason to sit around fuming because you didn't get an email telling you that.

I'll point out that corporate bureaucracy means a company doesn't do anything. Maybe one person or a department failed to reply, in an organization that might otherwise offer great opportunities and work environment. Job hunters need to get past and around the HR/recruitment bureaucracy and automation, not tilt and windmills trying to change it.

Who do you think will find a job first? The person who concentrates on identifying possible employers, cultivating contacts and referrals, and getting their CV in front of the hiring manager? Or the person scrolling through LinkedIn, waiting, then angrily posting their "I got ghosted" story? Which kind of personality of those two do you think makes for a more appealing candidate?

> ... encouraging everyone to join in your apathy.

Apathy means a lack of concern or interest. Apathy describes the HN readers who didn't click through on this thread, or look at the site, or bother to comment. I have no interest in which companies ghosted some candidates for whatever unknowable reason. I have more interest in people finding jobs, and have posted quite a bit about that already. We all have to choose what we devote our time and energy to. I suggest focusing on the positive goal of finding a job rather than on the negative (and almost certainly futile) goal of shaming companies that I know currently get swamped with thousands of applications for every job posting.

None of us can control what employers post, or how they screen, interview, and maintain their job postings, or whether they reply or ghost candidates. We can control our own reactions and our approach to finding a job.
Indeed. I am only using Cursor for some hobby projects.

While we're on this subject, is there a simple way to ensure that VS Code extensions do not contact external servers?
Yes, extending the idea more broadly to society, health, politics, etc. sounds pretty much was Taleb has been doing.
Easy:

NHibernate :)
Same happened with Walkmans or desktop computer, or mobile phones etc.

It's pretty normal that people want less of stuff when it's expensive, and more when it's cheap.
I mean... There was a behind the bastards series on the Iceman: https://open.spotify.com/episode/46v0Yz2qu603DLnX8RVcfS

And even among subjects of that show I'd give him a "top 5 worst fathers", which really is an achievement in poor parenting
Exactly! I read that riddle and thought "a couple islands over the international date line" solely because of the last line, but still had no idea what the name of these islands thousands of miles away from me were named. Might as well make the riddle who their little brother is, and make the answer "Fairway Rock", if niche knowledge is your goal. Which, completely to GPT-o1's credit, it did solve in a single prompt when I asked!

https://chatgpt.com/share/66f9371a-d6a0-8003-b2b5-4af3b10e8a...
Russia sent a tugboat to Cuba. They can easily rescue the ship if they wanted.
No, not 80's games; they pale gainst the SNES' top notch pixel art on JRPG's and the fighting games from NeoGeo.

Late 80's games, maybe; but even late PSX games look good enough, just check Ridge Racer 4.
if the olympics was any indication, then Russia will not be invited, it will feature a massive trans pride exhibit, masonic NWO symbolism, mask required
And people fall for these con men every time. His first wife died by suicide by the way. Was it from him abusing her as well?
No fan of Wim Hof, but this might be yet another case of someone getting convicted in the court of public opinion. Trial-by-(social)media. Hof appeared on Dutch TV yesterday, and made a case for himself just as plausible as the Volkskrant piece. Claimed they were out for his money and revenge. Not sure what is true, but I'd say let a true legal court decide that.
Fortune tellers tell you what you want to hear; Musk tells you what he wants to hear, then pays people to make it happen.

The results may be a day late and a dollar short (adjusting for inflation since 1939 or whenever), but Musk did actually get people to build spaceships, and his worldwide competitors there are floundering.
20k hacker news karma says quite a lot more free time than a couple hundred though
Can someone clean up the title? "'The Iceman' Wim Hof's family suffered domestic voilence."

I noticed that first Vice video Wim had a strange interaction with his son, normalising strange interactions, jokingly calling his son the biggest bastard he'd known. Seemed odd to me.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VaMjhwFE1Zw&t=21m15s
All these people hype up one specific part that people should improve, typically by doubling down and doing solely that. A balanced lifestyle doesn’t land you interviews with Oprah.

So that typically implies these people already know that what they’re doing and teaching is extreme and should not be general advice, yet they’re ignoring it. It takes a certain type of personality that is willing to become famous selling people inaccurate / wrong health advice for the sake of becoming famous.

The liver king is another “celebrity” that was recently outed and gave outrageous advice. In theory, there is some truth in what he says (livers do contain a lot of nutrients as it’s where your body stores a lot of vitamins necessary for metabolism), but then he took he 100 steps further with the lifestyle, and also denied using steroids, which he obviously did.

All these people are weird and unhinged.
On this side track to the discussion, I think that a major factor there was the location of decision making vs. where the action took place. Too much control was taken away from the location where it was needed.

Centralization does that, in general, not just in those countries.

There is a reason octopuses have sub-brains in their arms, and that some of our reflexes are controlled from neurons in the spine and not from all the way up in the brain, and why small army units have some autonomy.
Surely it is appropriate for you to speculate about that.
two similar questions:

a) why is there no cancel-button (for wrong selection) on ANY elevator i have seen so far?

b) when does Outlook parse automatically the proposed time from an email if i click "make an event out of this mail"-icon

any ideas? :-))))
> According to Hof, he was not delusional, ‘if you see wat the Wim Hof Method has accomplished in the world.’ ‘That’s bigger than de Volkskrant and the Netherlands.’

There’s no better way to undermine your own point.
I think that’s the point. I’m old enough to remember Bush and Blair wanting UN support for Iraq but ditched the idea when they wouldn’t get it. And young enough that my parent’s generation have never seen a war and so don’t remember why the UN was created in the first place. We live in dangerous times with very poor leaders and politics
That's something artificial intelligence is really good at: fitting data into a formalized format. I'm working on something similar[0], here the goal is not CAD design but charts. This is also something that has only become possible with later versions of AI, such as GPT-4.

[0]: https://www.datavisualizer.ai/
Same.

Maybe he's a bad person, but I would prefer if police and justice would handle this in private. If justice is not good enough, then make noise about laws and justice itself so it's changed, but I really dislike this private type of justice. Morally, I see no difference between this and hiring someone to sabotage him financially or physically.

If the problem is here about the PTSD, then I feel like dissociating themselves from the person and getting therapy should be the correct avenues to seek. This feels like the Nirvana baby from the Nevermind cover that had tattoos about the album cover, but was alleging trauma after 30+ years.

And I say this as someone who actually has trauma caused by family members, but in no way I seek public revenge. Sure in private I am the fucking devil, but people have also asked me to participate in dragging their name through the mud and just considering it already makes me feel like shit.
What is FWA?
When I first started at my current job some twelve years ago we would git pull from each other's machines directly. Everyone working on master, no pull requests, no definite HEAD. Real Wild West. Worked ok with a small tightly knit team.

That didn't last long though, we migrated to a central server with a bare git repo over SSH, and from there to a self hosted internally developed system, to self hosted Gitlab, eventually landing on just standard GitHub. It's been a ride.

The dream of truly decentralized VC is nice, and it's actually somewhat workable, but the downsides are many.
It’s truly amazing how your reading comprehension and information processing skills seem to change in the face of evidence that doesn’t support your argument.

You know full well Apple is in the same surveillance capitalism business and instead you want to talk about 3 digit precision numbers or what percentage of their current revenue is makes up as though it was somehow relevant.

How exactly does that help users privacy knowing that the company also happens to have other revenue streams? It’s not even remotely relevant you either engage in the practice or you don’t.
Yes, another major problem is that lots of apps just ignore termcap/terminfo these days and just blab xterm-256color directly to the terminal. I've heard people say that running it through tmux fixes that (tmux seems to be smart that way) but I have yet to try it. My 520 is currently in a box.

I didn't have those issues you mention but I run FreeBSD where serial and getty is still a first-class citizen. Though I don't blame Apple for deprecating it.
It may not make WW status and they might not be directly involved in fighting it
The main reason people don’t want to call it a rescue is because they dislike Musk. If there were no politics involved people wouldn’t be handwringing themselves so much over the word rescue.

If the spaceship that took you somewhere wasn’t able to get you back as planned and cannot get you back as planned and someone else has to go get those people, that’s a rescue.
Very interesting article. I don't get though for hotspot partitions they didn't use a cache like Redis.
I seriously do not believe you can separate the two with Hof. It is one thing to have an idea, but a con man will convince people his idea is right regardless of the evidence. Con men are usually abusers because they cannot keep up the con in their private life and con men want control over everything else.

And it is possible the Hof is suffering from a mood disorder as well: "Wim Hof’s first relevant experiences with the cold goes back to when he was 17: he felt a sudden urge to jump into the freezing cold water of the Beatrixpark canal."

All he is talking about is self flagellation to get over emotional pain, which is disturbing to me at least.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY58hSc_OJI
Isn't there any fix for this? https://github.com/fzyzcjy/dart_interactive?tab=readme-ov-fi...
If you actually read the article, the legal courts already decided he was guilty of domestic abuse quite a few years ago.
Bad weather is a reason to avoid bad weather. On the scale of a long voyage, weather is "local" and can be avoided either by picking a different route, or a different time (potentially hiding in a man-made or natural harbor where the ship is less exposed to the waves and weather due to the surrounding terrain).
You're right. I forgot about that.

I also forgot all those people who came from the TeamSpeak servers.
True. I think extreme circumstances might also lead to extreme motivation (obsession) and possibly achievements, skill or knowledge. Whether self-inflicted or caused by surroundings.

This case clearly the iceman is at the center of it all and the article was a tough read to me. With the grinding downwards spiral so clearly summed up in all the events I'm sure the interviewed people are now seeing all the red flags in hindsight.
Isn't the general rule on HN to use the original title unless there's a very good reason not to?
It's possible but the problem is I'm on the 1st floor of a 5 story building in a dense European city center, and all the buildings around me are of similar height. Meaning that the signal will basically be absorbed by the buildings around me (best case) and/or the neighbours' electronic equipment (worst case :) ). There's just no way to get a decent signal out from here. The distance to the next buildings is also way shorter than 1 wavelength on HF, the street out front is only 1 lane wide with a tiny footpath (European city...). So the gap isn't even wide enough. It just won't get out and will probably cause a hell of a lot of interference problems.

Since I don't have any HF equipment I didn't deem it wise investing in some for this reason. I do have a receiver but the inbound signal is also really meh.

With 2m/70cm I have better luck because the repeater is nearby on a tall mountain and the wavelength is short enough to be able to bounce around and get out.
Sorry to put it so bluntly, but you're basically saying:

"I don't care it the climate's fucked, I want to live away from civilization and drive 100 miles a day everywhere"

Of course we shouldn't hyper-optimize everything, but sooner people realize our environment depends on not everyone getting exactly what they want whenever they want the better. Living in a (walkable) city is just one such concession towards the environment we ought to make, even if we don't "want" to.
More annoying macOS 15 Sequoia prompts: Bluetooth
I belive this problem is irrelevant. 32bit platforms are mostly unsupported, with Gentoo doing eforts to keep them working and mostly failing. Until 2038, 32bit systems will be as rare as an i286 today.
Tier 1 also means all security/safety features. Windows is not used in mission-critical systems like cars or plans, so we do not need to add those to Windows.

We aim to support Windows so iceoryx2 can be used safely and securely in a desktop environment.
Fixed Wireless Access. Just a Google search away:

https://www.verizon.com/about/blog/fixed-wireless-access
I loved writing straight Ruby. It is by far my favorite scripting language. It makes me sad that Ruby on rails was the one big thing done in Ruby and that that gave it somewhat of a bad rap.
So the TL;DR is: Cassandra and ScyllaDB have bad performance when reading. So they put a cache in front.
What about Eastern Europe, some ammo depo sabotaged by Ruzzians? Sabotaging GPS that affected air traffice ?
Giving priority to performance may have made sense in a world of abundant resources, but we are now facing a very different period where instability is the norm.

Why do you think this?
If you sell yourself as a public character, then I think it’s fair to put that image on trial
C'mon, really? If you knew this guy was abusing his kids you would not tell other people to stay away from him and his cult (he literally talks about becoming super human so I call it a cult)?

I knew people who were in cults (EST, Life Spring), and while they were being abused they would say "well some of the teaching really helped me."
I'm not so sure if nicotine is the most addictive, but if it is, certainly not by a long shot. I would say sugar is equally addictive.
> ‘In every relationship people use terms of abuse for each other,’ says Hof in an email. ‘I don’t remember this one.’

Besides the rightly pointed out conviction and numerous third party sources quoted by the article, this quote by the man himself

> ‘In every relationship people use terms of abuse for each other,’ says Hof in an email. ‘I don’t remember this one.’

Tells it all.
Stealth is hard in space. Not actually impossible when the opponent is a colony with the population of approximately Luxembourg, especially for a mostly-unpowered payload that doesn't need to be kept at 20 C the whole time, but it is hard.

Nukes can fly, but for that transit you get far more opportunity to shoot them down. Bigger issues are "why are they bothering to target Mars, there's not much there" and "oh wait, that was a great place to stick a second-strike capability, Outer Space Treaty LOL, so of course it's being targeted".
They were closing because their major contract had been with Apple for FaceID components
https://www.euronews.com/business/2024/05/27/apple-changes-l...
I've always wanted to know this. The local provider keeps selling nominal 1GBit/s (to the DSLAM) but does the uplink hold up to this if every endpoint is saturating its connection?
Winamp Desktop: GitHub Issues
How DWARF Works
Interesting.

It would generate a PAL-clocked black-and-white signal (with what would be NTSC artifact colors, except in PAL they don't artifact), and then a separate circuit would read that and generate the colors based on the pattern.

There also seemed to be "International NTSC" models that would output NTSC color at 50 Hz and only worked with Apple's own displays...

https://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2021/10/apple-ii-compos...

> The PAL Color Encoder Card would tap into the video signal, convert every pixel into a 4-bit value, assign the correct color and generate a PAL-compatible 4.43MHz color signal running at 50Hz with colors assigned according to the pixel patterns
Thanks - understood.
What is roughly the gc algorithm?
To me, the mobile app is the only point that makes sense.
It's not the original title
You chose to link to that source to back up your arguments. I just read the content. Was I not supposed to?

I'm genuinely confused about what point you're trying to make here.
Nukes aren't a perfect model for a ship full of explosive fertilizer, but a reasonable enough approximation/upper bound for which we can easily find formulas/calculators online. A 15 kiloton nuke has a 1 psi radius of about 3 km according to https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/#

So a possible solution would indeed be stopping it by any means necessary somewhere between the 22 km mark (where it enters territorial waters) and the 3 km mark where it becomes a serious hazard.
This fertilizer is very difficult to detonate accidentally. Quite a few things need to go wrong. It's also used in huge quantities.
Methane would be extremeley high. The core of the pile might be frozen, but the unfrozen region would be anoxic and decomposing.
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Pomodoro timer
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Note-taking
Ambient sound player
Dynamic background changer
Music player

What sets Focusify apart is its Windows-like interface, allowing you to drag and position widgets freely on your new tab page.
This is currently a beta release. I'd appreciate any feedback from the HN community on features, usability, or potential improvements.
Try it out: Chrome Web Store Link (https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/focusify-your-produ...)
I'd be happy to provide more details or answer any questions about the development process, challenges faced, or future plans for Focusify.
Would you like me to expand on any part of this post or make any adjustments?
Makes me think of: some of Taleb's ideas about just-in-time manufacturing (no slack eg covid supply shocks)

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yLLkWMDbC9ZNKbjDG/slack

Also, can't recall it but a long time ago I read a piece about how scheduling a system to 60% of its max capacity is generally about right, to allow for expected but unexpected variations (also makes me think of the concept of stochastic process control and how we can figure out the level of expected unexpected variations, which could give us an even better sense of what %-of-capacity to run a system at)
It has caused nothing but problems wherever I've seen it being used.
Yes, really.

If he's doing anything inappropriate currently, he deserves scrutiny, regardless of past behavior. I don't care if he was Jesus or the devil. Rules should be the same for everyone.

If he did anything to his family he deserves to be brought to justice and pay for any crimes if decided so.

We should aim to be better than rationalizing mob-justice.
The US federal government doesn't do anything for its citizens. They are more interested in initiating WWIII and terrorizing the middle east.
Is there some plugin I'm missing for the LaTeX to render, or did they miss a step when publishing?
Debates about artificial intelligence are often semantic debates. Artificial intelligence is not "far from existing," but artificial general intelligence (AGI) is far from being achieved (large language models still do not imitate human reasoning well enough and lack generalization). An artificial intelligence that functions like human intelligence, instead of merely imitating it, is far from existing.

However, several forms of artificial intelligence already exist. For example, large language models (LLMs) can now perform tasks that, until recently, required human intelligence (such as writing an essay to defend a thesis, summarizing content, critiquing, advising…).
There was a whole Byte magazine dedicated to it back in the day. It was thought (at the time) that the only way we'd ever break the 1 GHz barrier was to use GaAs, which obviously turned out to be wrong.
Does this article imply that don't use Cassandra. Use ScyllaDB when you think you want Cassandra
Hmmm, have any cults in the past turned people to suicide? As someone with schizoaffective disorder and attempted suicide twice, it is. People with mental illness are often the abused partners. He was already charged with child abuse so why should I not speculate he also abused his first wife?

And we already know he does not care about people's lives since as of March 2024 there are 32 reports of people allegedly dying in relation to the Wim Hof Method

It is Hof's story that she had Schizophrenia anyway. I have yet to hear anyone else but him say she was mentally ill.
A sampler on a stick is used, which can be poked down to the bottom to get a sample from the bottom - useful for contaminants which are heavy or liquids.
Thank you for that description. It brought back very fond memories of my teenage years.

I had friends with TRS-80s and visited Radio Shack monthly for their free batteries. I had a VIC-20 though, and a few years later the Apple //e. The Apple docs, including the internals of their disk drive and its encoding/alignment scheme, were fascinating to me as a 16yo just getting started in electronics and microprocessors.
Fully agree that’s kind of my point though. It’s a very tall order for some people. Like the OP
I mean, you're still bitching strictly because you didn't win.