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It seems like a large leap from “voles develop social bonding problems when their sleep is disrupted in early life” to “making babies sleep on their backs increases the rate of autism”. Is there any other data that would indicate a correlation between back sleeping in infants and autism rates?

There are so many programming languages out there, as a hiring manager it’s not uncommon for me to see resumes with languages I’ve never heard of and probably don’t care much about. The cheat code just depends on how it has been inserted into the resume.

If I threw out every resume with some weird quirk, spelling or grammar issue, layout problem, etc. I’d probably never hire anyone

Consider how many people would need to be incarcerated against their will to make this work. Disarming the American populace would be nearly impossible by far more effective means. Taking this approach would be incredibly ineffective.

I tried to load this site and so much of the viewport is covered instantly by interstitial/modal/garbage it barely displays the entire title. It’s like opening a door to find a pile of rocks blocking the entrance behind. Does that type of design actually create desirable outcomes? I have to imagine the bounce rate is through the roof.

> the strange "dropbox" app window that opens instead of a file explorer.

Every time I encounter this I reconsider my Dropbox subscription.

I don’t know that it’s accidental. iRobot really promotes hacking their devices even going to the extent of making non-vacuum devices similar to their base units that are designed to be modded. https://store.irobot.com/default/create-programmable-program...

The problem is with identifying which items are priced representative of their quality, and which are overpriced. Everyone advertises quality, reviews are faked, forums are astroturfed. I’d gladly pay for quality if there was some way to know what I was getting.

> location logging continues to work with the phone off

I’m very skeptical about this. I’d be interested to know how a phone could track location info while powered off.

Yes. In the US, cellular calls are charged by air time so you pay for incoming calls as well. I think all plans are unlimited these days though.

Why not place an arch before the bridge that will impact but not damage vehicles going through? This exists in the entrance to most parking garages.

Edit: like this https://www.jpsiteexperts.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/cle...

Looking at you, Alamo Drafthouse

Wouldn’t wearing something like this just make you much more of a target? Maybe I don’t understand these things well, but it seems if I were trying to track people I’d make the very small minority wearing something like this a target group.

Another way of thinking about it, if I’m the only person in my community wearing these weird patterns, aren’t I even more identifiable than I would be otherwise?

> in order for the company to be sold at a higher price than it was bought, it still has to be good/better at what it is supposed to be doing

As someone who has worked for PE owned companies I can confidently say that unless you consider the thing they’re “supposed to be doing” to be reflecting profit on the books, you’re wrong.

The PE owners of companies I worked for pushed EBITDA over anything else and as a result our product became a leaning Jenga tower of half finished functionality combined with unfulfilled promises to customers. Foundational systems were completely neglected in favor of whatever kept costs low and increased closed ARR focused deals. We sold for many times our previous valuation and not one person I spoke to in the company itself or our customer base felt the product was better, all agreed it was worse.

Smartwyre | Denver, CO | Full-time, ONSITE

Smartwyre is a startup working in the Agritech space. We aim to network together the businesses who supply the world’s farmers with the goods and services they use to grow crops. We do this by assisting our customers with inventory, transaction, and rebate management.

We're seeking developers with strong .NET and React skillsets to work on our .NET Core based REST API and our React app. Experience with one or the other is necessary as is a willingness to work across both technologies. We're building a newish team so this role has a lot of opportunity to influence the processes, culture, and practices of a new and quickly growing team.

Email at hiring@smartwyre.com. See a current set of our job listings here: https://www.builtincolorado.com/company/smartwyre/jobs

Hiring manager in Denver here. I see an increasing number of people with repeated jobs where they only work 9mo-1year. Talking to peers I’m definitely not the only person skipping over those candidates. It takes months to get a dev up to full productivity, I don’t want to hire someone who will likely only put a few useful months in before leaving.

I don't understand the point of electron for applications whose functionality is entirely dependent on being online anyway. At that point, just use a browser as it's one fewer item to install. Is the Electron version of Slack capable of anything beyond the browser version?

I personally loved Firewatch. What did you dislike about it? What are you comparing it to?

AI is theoretically applicable to every facet of human interaction. I would expect it to diminish the value of almost every skill set over time. AI generates code, art, entertainment, news, etc. If anything I would expect a hard Computer Science degree founded in theory to be one of the last impacted by the growth of AI.

What is going on with all the air pollution articles hitting HN this week? This is the 4th(?) I’ve seen in about 3 days. Any tech topic and I might not think about it, but air purification doesn’t really seem to be the kind of topic I’d expect to see so much here.

In the US there’s an excess of teachers (unsure about caregivers) and it seems the market forces are expectedly causing low salaries.

I believe as an American I’m missing some important context to understand this comment.

In the US we take it to the next level by mixing in imperial measurements. I don’t know about most people but I’m using my phone for conversations between ounces, pounds, then some SI measurements, etc.

After my most recent (second) home purchase I vowed never to pay for an inspector again. They assume no liability for the things they miss making them effectively useless if you have even the most basic knowledge of home issues. In both cases major issues were missed, most recently the complete absence of any air return ducts, and an illegally installed furnace. I had to find these issues myself later when constant HVAC problems finally drove me to take some time and climb into the attic/basement to investigate. Upon confronting the inspector, I was shown the portion of the contract indicating they had no liability and told even experts miss things. Luckily I knew the right people to put some pressure on and got my ~$500 back, but ultimately lost thousands to have appropriate repairs done for the work they missed.

> the results are tremendous

What results are you seeing?

I'd never heard of JetSmarter so I went to their site to learn more. The website is a scroll hijacking mess that's really unpleasant to use. I didn't make it past the landing page.

Seeing it here too. Curious that I haven't heard anything from Google about this. Usually whenever there's any kind of temporary outage with a Google service we get spammed with tens of emails letting us know.

edit: It appears it just came back for us. Still no word from Google though.