unknownsky (u/unknownsky)

unknownsky commented on A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work mertbulan.com/2025/01/26/... · Posted by u/mertbio

moomin · 7 months ago

I've been laid off a few times. I'd add one more "danger sign": you're not busy. If the firm/department doesn't seem to be achieving very much, it's a good sign that no-one's asking much of them. Which means the entire area is possibly for the chop.

But the line in the Excel sheet thing rings _incredibly_ true. It's actually surprisingly rare to be laid off by someone who knows you. Decision is nearly always made by people who've never met you and only have a cursory understanding of what your entire team does.

unknownsky · 7 months ago

I've been laid off twice, and both times we were very busy. There were deadlines we were told were absolutely crucial to meet and we were burning ourselves out trying to meet them. The product we were making never saw the light of day and to this day we don't even know why.

unknownsky commented on TikTok goes dark in the US techcrunch.com/2025/01/18... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

necovek · 7 months ago

One is a "bastion of democracy", and another is the "center of human rights violation".

Would you not expect the rules to be different?

If it's only about reciprocity and global hegemony, well then...

unknownsky · 7 months ago

Are you saying the United States is a bastion of democracy? It's not even classified as a full democracy. The list of full democracies are Canada, Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Costa Rica, Uruguay, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, Taiwan, and Mauritius.

United States is classified as a flawed democracy. Partly because sweeping decisions like this one are made by Supreme Court Justices who nobody voted for and who hold their position for life.

Or maybe that's what you meant and you were being sarcastic with the quotation marks around "bastion of democracy"?

unknownsky commented on Nobody cares grantslatton.com/nobody-c... · Posted by u/fzliu

readthenotes1 · 8 months ago

I used to rank the McDonald's in Toppongi hills Tokyo as having the best employees anywhere after I saw one run from one side of the little shop to the other when the French fry buzzer went off.

However, it got beat out by the McDonald's in Arkadelphia Arkansas, where the employee fast walked as quickly as hen could to take the order to the car waiting in the Drive-Thru, and then also fast walked back. Running of course would have been against OSHA and gotten hen in trouble so hen did the best hen could.

unknownsky · 8 months ago

Are you Swedish? Just wondering because I've never seen the gender neutral pronoun "hen" in English.

unknownsky commented on Nobody cares grantslatton.com/nobody-c... · Posted by u/fzliu

liontwist · 8 months ago

Why doesn’t Japan have this problem?

unknownsky · 8 months ago

I hear that in Japanese schools, the kids do most of the cleaning, like sweeping, cleaning the boards, taking out trash, and cleaning windows. Janitors mostly do building maintenance or major jobs.

That must instill the sense that environments that are shared collectively are everyone's responsibility. When janitors clean up after us, it instills the sense that we can do what we want and it's the problem of some lowly person to deal with it.

unknownsky commented on What we know about CEO shooting suspect bbc.com/news/articles/cp9... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7

IncreasePosts · 9 months ago

How does a rich person existing affect me? Is it just because I'm jealous that I don't have a yacht and so I should try to overthrow the system that doesn't let me have a yacht? Even though I'll never get a yacht in any system?

Can we look at the graph of wealth disparity of America versus other nations?

unknownsky · 9 months ago

Extremely rich people control every aspect of your life, how your city is planned, the state of the job market, the state of the economy, the laws, the state of the planet itself. One way that got a lot of attention lately is that extremely rich people prevent access to health care for everyone else.

unknownsky commented on What we know about CEO shooting suspect bbc.com/news/articles/cp9... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7

unknownsky · 9 months ago

I strongly disagree. A huge power gap is a huge problem.

A tiny group of people have an enormous amount of power over the rest of us. I still call that a big problem even if we have food and material goods.

>and the majority that do suffer addiction or mental illness.

This is also a problem, and a great example of something we could easily fix if power was not concentrated in the hands of a tiny few.

unknownsky commented on Online Dating geohot.github.io//blog/je... · Posted by u/dangtony98

aurareturn · a year ago

Online dating is just manifest of what happens in real life.

The top 20% most attractive men get 80% of the likes. Men of average attractiveness is out of luck on dating apps and they should not use dating apps.

Average men will swipe right on below average women (and above) - because it's easy and free to shoot your shot.

Therefore, even below average women will get seemingly unlimited likes.

These below average women will then pick and choose likes from the top 20%. These women will also wonder why they can't get these top 20% guys to commit to them or ask them out on a date. It's because these men have many options. These above average men will often only want something casual with below average women.

This is why women will say there are no "good" men on dating apps despite having thousands of likes. Eventually, these women will "settle" for someone less than what they hoped. In reality, these women are just settling for men of equal attractiveness to themselves.

>Imagine a CRM-like interface overlayed on Hinge, Tinder, and Bumble

This is "ideal" but in reality, women have no trouble getting likes on dating apps. Therefore, they won't put much effort into a dating app that creates too much friction. If you make your dating app use a CRM-like interface, you'll have a sausage fest. Hell, most women barely fill out their Hinge, Tinder, Bumble profiles. They do the absolute minimum and they still get thousands of likes. My female friend once experimented by putting up a picture of a shoe as her only dating profile. She still received many likes - some of them paid Super Likes.

unknownsky · a year ago

Lots of men seem to be in denial about what makes those 20% of men more attractive. It's mostly that they put in some amount of effort. Most women are only giving likes to men who write interesting things in their profiles and have put effort into grooming themselves and presenting themselves well in their photographs - ie men who seem likely to reciprocate when a woman invests effort into a relationship.

Since likes are virtually limitless, it allows the possibility to deceive. Most women on these apps have experienced matching with someone and then realizing he hasn't even read her profile. Many men don't even seem ashamed of deceiving women like this. Women don't want to be used or cheated on, and so many men are signaling that they will do so by starting off with lying to multiple women that they are interested. So of course women know that most likes are actually lies, and so women are very carefully looking for signs that a man isn't playing the field. The men who succeed are those who have profiles that manage to convince women that they will only express interest when it is honest and genuine.

unknownsky commented on Google’s Plan to DRM the Web Goes Against Everything Google Once Stood For techdirt.com/2023/08/02/g... · Posted by u/g0xA52A2A

TheCleric · 2 years ago

I've been wary of Google for a while now, and this is further proof my wariness is justified. However, one thing I can't seem to kick is using Google search as a fallback.

I use DuckDuckGo or Brave search for most of my searches, but half the time I have to add "!g" to the search to switch to Google to get actually useful results. Does anyone have any tips or tricks (or search engines I'm unfamiliar with) so I can break free? I know Bing is technically an option, but I'm under the impression it's not much better than Google (privacy wise) and their AI integration is off-putting.

unknownsky · 2 years ago

I use Kagi and I only find myself switching to Google if I'm looking for local, up-to-the-minute information. Kagi maps is barely useful at all compared to Google Maps, at least at time of writing.

unknownsky commented on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2023) · Posted by u/whoishiring

unknownsky · 2 years ago

Location: Malmö, Sweden

Remote: Preferably hybrid, but I have a network of full stack developers in the Malmö area who I could work with. If you would be willing to hire a handful of us, then we could work together here, but still remote for you.

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C# .NET, JavaScript/TypeScript, Vue, React

Résumé/CV: 10 years of experience with software engineering. Full CV available on request.

Language: English or Swedish

Email: hackernews_hiringmalmo@fastmail.com

I specialize in mentoring juniors so that they can become productive quickly. I am looking for a company that would be willing to hire more juniors if they had a senior to work with them, guide them, and ensure they deliver.

unknownsky commented on Software Complexity Is Why AI Won't Replace Software Engineers softwarecomplexity.com/wh... · Posted by u/greybeard228

purple_basilisk · 2 years ago

Good point about hallucinations - low accuracy, high confidence. I wonder if AI will develop the ability to nuance its own confidence. It would be a more useful tool if it could provide a reasonable confidence level along with its output. Much like a human would say, "not sure about this, but..."

unknownsky · 2 years ago

I'm not an AI expert so I could be wrong, but it's my understanding that there is a confidence score behind the scenes. It's just not shown in the current UI.

An automated AI system should be able to ask a human for help whenever the confidence score is below a certain threshold or even spit out a backlog of all the tasks it can't confidently handle itself.