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That's really cool.

A fire sale.

Or a lumberjack. In the forests of British Columbia.

> I hope more editors ask the question: based on article text, what photos would a reader likely want to see?

I often have this same thought. "Where's the pictures."

Especially maddening when the headline implies (to me) that there will be pictures that I'll want to see.

I've been a very enthusiastic fastmail customer for N years. (I don't remember timelines very well, but N is large.)

I'm a semi truck driver and I have a god's eye view over all of you people.

And I will tell you, anecdotally, that large pickup drivers are the most aggressive and intimidating. I thought that's the whole point of those things, with their big boy yellow clearance lights, giant mirror arms (I actually have to watch out for those) and fat ass dually wheel wells.

Sometimes they'll even tailgate me, trying to intimidate me into doing ... something? Which is so cute.

Then they'll finally zoom by me, roaring the engine to let me know how annoyed they are, as I trundle my 15 liters along at 1500 rpm.

I have worked retail, and almost been physically pushed out the door at the point that my manager was risking a subordinate going over X hours. They are held accountable for it.

Well, the story has appeared on HN recently, so ...

It's an inside HN joke, to point out that the less exposed something "bad" is, the more likely it is to continue, and if it becomes widely known (not merely publicly available), then there is often visible backpedaling.

Not great. It's been much worse.

I notice that when I'm feeling noticeably bad, it correlates (no cause implied!) with my having angry made up mental dialogs. I guess that's a kind of monitoring.

Any health solution, mental or otherwise, should be personalized to the extent necessary for effectiveness.

Does that help your startup research? :-)

Anecdata: Driving through Florence SC a couple weeks ago, a McDonalds was advertising $500 hiring bonus.

A few days later in either Arkansas or Missouri I was inside a McDonalds offering $200 signing bonus, $100 after 30 days, $100 after another 30 days.

Yesterday I was at the Walmart distribution center in Houston (I'm a truck driver) and they had a banner stretched across a street-visible building for starting warehouse wages of $17.50/hour.

No idea whether any of those jobs get you more than 29 hours/week.

Help wanted signs are everywhere. Metal working. "Labor." Truck stop cashiers. There are signs as well as audio in the truck stops, and they brag about "flexible scheduling." Maybe that means you can schedule around school, or maybe that means "it's slow today, go home."

The big three truck stop chains (TA/Petro, Pilot/FlyingJ, Loves/Speedco) used to always be clean and serviced. Recently that's become spotty, all over the country.

The manager gets a stern talking to. Really.

Shot and killed. https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=covid+mask+security+guard+sho...

So DoJ is like Google or Facebook: They silently do whatever they want until it appears on HN, then they fix it.

> Try less specific keywords.

Checks out.

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Vehicle+being&qs=n&form...

It's a fair question. One difference is that electricity is not making decisions or suggestions on the fly.

Another example is roads, where the design of the road allows one to turn into an opposing vehicle. The road itself is not deciding to turn your car into a semi trailer because it looks like sky, but an ML driven car has, multiple times.

I don't even own a Tesla, and I resent having to participate in its beta program. ML in a car is quite different from a brake recall, or even a stuck accelerator software recall.

The sun, through various derivative channels.

When is it appropriate? Whenever it's relevant in some way, or if you'd like to talk about it in the interview.

Most of your time in any company will be working on WIP. So wouldn't it be great to talk about where you are, how you got there, how you're planning, milestones, etc.

Ah. Sounds great. But unfortunately I live in the US, the consumer's paradise.

Question on your snippet though. It says "subject to a decision based solely on automated processing ..."

Since I do live in the consumer's paradise I'm naturally suspicious. I wonder if people will sometimes be subject to decisions based solely on automated processing, and if they don't bother to ask for a human in the loop after the automated decision, then that's that.

And how would you even know, one way or the other?

That is effing hilarious.

Except we're trusting ML to perform surgery, choose conviction sentencing, evaluate job CVs, determine acceptable marriage partners (why not?), determine who can have kids (why not?), determine who gets into college (why not?), determine who gets a loan (why not?), determine who gets to work on ML (why not?). And drive cars.

No, the issue is that Tesla doesn't use dealerships at all, they sell direct to consumers.

It's illegal in many states for a car manufacturer to sell direct, because they have a supposed unfair advantage over dealerships.

The dealerships bribe their legislators -- oh, did I say that out loud? I meant donate to campaigns -- and the legislatures pass laws like this.

> But then, no one has discovered a sure-fire policy to increase fertility, either. We may just have to figure out how to make a modern economy work without the population growth that economies have historically depended on.

Replace existential dread with optimism and economic security, and you might increase the birth rate.

1. thehill.com, to see if anything stupid has happened in the US.

2. HN

3. NYT.com, to see if anything stupid of world wide importance has happened, and to see clips of late night comedy.

4. Random, but at this point I've usually had enough.

NPR used to be in there, but as a liberal I've grown tired of their liberal bias and leading question that's really a statement or accusation style of interview.

Texas is a pretty big state. If you live somewhere in the middle, it's gonna be a drive with a friend (to drive car 1 back), a hotel stay, and a drive back, across an area that may not have much charging facilities, across a state that is legislatively hostile to non-oil energy.

Or you could contract with a car carrier to bring your car back.

Ah, a new line of business for hotshot truckers: carry it out of state, wait a decent interval, and carry it back in to where it's going.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trucking_industry_in_the_Uni...

Smoove move.

Their story at the moment is that the blog was a side piece. They're supposedly building an actual social network.

I suppose Mike Lindell can help with that. He has recent relevant experience.

I'm not saying it's justified. It's not. But low likelihood of opting in would be a reason why they'd make it out out. See, for example, UMN vs Linux.

I wonder if "ransomware" is merely a cover, and some of this is Russia beta testing economic and infrastructure warfare.

When I worked in offices (sw dev and qa, especially executives), or at survival jobs that mixed with lots of people (security guard, shelf stocking, etc), I was very often surprised at how many people I could smell alcohol on.

We're all drunks.

I don't drink much anymore. I never went to work drunk, but I used to drink a fair amount. Now that I'm a truck driver, it's too inconvenient for me personally to manage drinking, so I just don't drink. Others' mileage definitely varies.

But not many people would bother to opt in, even if they knew about it, so ...

It seems like just in time to replenish a consciously sized inventory, rather than just in time to get a bolt on to the assembly line, would be a sensible arrangement.

Sizing of the inventory would be based on how long you've decided you need to operate if all inputs stop. So maybe they "just" need to increase that sizing, rather than effectively relying on the delivering semi trucks for inventory storage.

I drive a semi truck, and sometimes a trip will be designated JIT, with a note that being late may halt production. Quite often these trips are to deliver tires to a distributor, and not, say, to a car builder. And I often think "Really?" Followed by "OK, whatever."