Now https://voluntold.fyi exists, and I never need to remember to manually move my single $100/year "ad free signup" off an event that has already happened to one that is coming next week.

This asymmetry is well understood by marketing and PR professionals, and actively exploited.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_Me,_I%27m_Lying

Hi there! At Veho, we don't sell software. We ship packages. Lots of them. We have all of the interesting problems that crop up when running twinned distributed systems in AWS and the real world. It's pretty great.

We're hiring staff-level folks (L4+) in NYC and Boston: Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Mobile Engineers, and Backend Engineers (typescript).

Personally, I'm hiring a Staff Data Engineer with the depth of experience to be a technical lead and mentor for the Data Platform team, while also shipping code. You will need to understand distributed data systems both intellectually and at an instinctive, emotional level. You should have Opinions about the wild boar book. You should probably also be comfortable writing and debugging English, SQL, and Python.

If that sounds like you, I really want you to apply for the Staff Data Engineer role on our career page. Our inbound applications are reviewed by humans.

With apologies that our first interaction requires this silliness: including one of the 7-digit numbers from the "ROS Calculator" on Veho's website in the appropriate box will heavily bias me towards believing you are a human being. That's more of an advantage than it may seem! It's worth the thirty seconds. It would also speed things along if you populate the "Location" field to confirm you are aware this is an in-office role.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCWtkvDQ2ZI

https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193447.html

Interestingly, whistleblowers can recoup a big chunk of the recovered funds in a False Claims Act suit when medical providers do this to defraud Medicaid / Medicare [1]. Could be a lucrative long-term play if you get employed at a company whose sole purpose is helping hospital chains bill for care that an AI thinks may have been provided.

[0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10759668/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_Claims_Act_of_1863

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law

Historically, you open a window.

* There's an animation hiding it.

* If you disable javascript, the content doesn't load.

* Copying is disabled.

* There's some kind of javascript function constantly toggling state so that if you right-click inspect, the content div collapses before you can further unroll it.

Someone really wanted users to see the article, then watch it disappear, and make them feel a sense of loss.

Why send it over the wire, then try to hide it?

Not sure if that fits the bill for you, but I like it.

How much closer does this work bring us to the Quantum Crypto Apocalypse? How much time do I have left before I need to start budgeting it into my quarterly engineering plan?

It doesn't actually stop people from DMing me, but it does soften the blow a bit when I immediately move technical/product conversations out of DMs. (Obviously anything personal or sensitive stays private)

https://www.newsweek.com/male-and-female-coworkers-switched-...