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If it wasn't upvoted it wouldn't make it to the front page.
> If you're firing over 10% of your workforce annually for performance, you have fucked up expectations.

Or a seriously broken hiring process.
> The "I worked the assembly line and now I'm the CEO" is Hollywood fiction or outright lies in 99% of the cases.

Do you have a citation for 99% or are you... bullshitting?
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> there's no evidence hinting at what the "harm" actually was.

The article says it started from a "discussion" in a classroom settings

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First, the complaint of a handful of students concerning the events of a single class in which we discussed racism at Duke

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I guess it could have a been a visual display, a movie, soundbite? "Hearing" might not have been precise but not sure if splitting hairs helps the topic here. "Exposed to" maybe would be more general...

Also note that the harm was also "alleged" harm. They don't actually assert the student was harmed:

> Professor Charney’s tendency to provoke negative reactions, and perhaps harm, among some

But maybe that's enough. Overall I think it's a private school so they can have a lot of leeway in who they hire and fire. So barring some negative PR, which they can probably get around, they are free to fire him. Speaking of PR though, they probably learned a valuable lesson of not including the real reason for firing in any written form in the future. It should be something like "cultural incompatibility" or "restructuring".
I have a hard time following. I don't feel well read on the topic, but your argument seems to boil down to "our thinking is so awesome, it must be magical". This strongly reminds me of creation myths where humans desperately tried to separate themselves from all other nature. But in case I'm missing something, I'd be thankful for you answering the following few questions to get me back on track:

- Do you believe that there are laws of physics we can not perceive and understand?

- If no: Why? How does it interact with usual matter and physics? Is this the unexplainable magic?

- If we can perceive and thus hopefully one day understand all laws of physics, can we simulate them?

- If, in the future, we are able to simulate all physics, what stops us from simulating the life of a human? (though likely significantly slower)

- This simulated human should react undistinguishable form a real human. Would you call this simulated human conscious?

- If yes, then where does this consciousness come from except the simulation state?

- If no, how do we know if some other being except ourself is conscious?

- Can there be two similar beings demonstrating the same behavior, but with only one of them being conscious?
Just about anything with 'Rust' in the title makes it to the front page.
But this isn't a framework alone. It's a framework (flutter) and a language (dart). And at this point both are entirely dependent on each other, if I'm not mistaken.
I keep expecting a housing crash here in a flyover, but it's been going strong. Know a guy who invests in houses, he is selling houses he bought for 15k for 170k, but it's a function of nice neighborhoods closing the "ghetto" pockets around the city. A ton of new construction. But I am also in the city which has the most Fortune 500 companies / pop and a cost of living nowhere near the coasts.
Hey, Aline here. Unlike Triplebyte, we offer people free, anonymous mock interviews with engineers from companies like Google, Facebook, etc. Basically, you get on the platform, practice, and then if you do well in practice (again real interviews not coding challenges), you can book real interviews top companies. Those interviews are also anonymous, which means that if you do poorly, you don't have to unmask.
I'd personally consider the whole concept of a vitality curve to be rather fucked up.

It's been all but abandoned by the biggest names behind it (GE, MS).
Too bad there is nothing like that built into browsers directly. I guess not only security related webapps could take advantage of it.
As a software engineer with a degree in non-CS STEM, I constantly ask myself if I am just a bullshitter. I can pass technical interviews for the most part and I code for fun, but I can't help but think "the people who work at Google are probably better than me".
Thank you for saying that! It was great to meet with you and the rest of the team =)
Indeed he must be
What was made around them was only ever the gorilla with jungle thing. Fine for small programs, or larger ones within walled gardens. But not fine for infrastructure work.
Bullet journaled for a week, saw myself in another perspective
Just to play devils advocate. What if you spent 10 years breeding an onion that always grows to 10lbs. You breed them over and over, using science and hard work and suddenly you have this superior thing that wouldn't exist without your work. Is it ok if someone were to take your onions and begin growing them without discourse?

I'm not relating this in any way to this lawsuit, just your general idea that intellectual property should not apply to a living thing.
Shameful to see a Douglas Murray article posted on Hacker News...

This guy's whole MO is saying racist/xenophobic things and then complaining about PC "mob mentality" when people say he's a racist or a xenophobe.
QML is in the category of "learning a new language", although last I tried it it was very much a work in progress. Can't speak to how good it is today.
> Work is ongoing to extend Flutter to support desktop as a target environment, allowing developers to create macOS, Windows, and Linux applications with Flutter.

OMG I wait for this so much... Finally a modern, high-level, really cross-platform JavaScript-free GUI framework...
The argument is flawed because the system doesn't ask for the majority's opinion. I consider minor releases just noise personally.
I find it impressive when I see applicants that have completed online courses. It takes a lot of discipline to self study.
>> A good 80% of those listening

those listening probably comprise only 25% of the people in the meeting, 5% if it is a standup.
Going to be a very dark decade.
Why do all Ted Talks and KickStarter Promos sound the same to me? Do I have Bullshit Agnosia?

It's like there's this certain style of Archetypal Motivational Making The World A Better Place Inspiration Porn Bullshit that they're all striving for, and they all use the exact same music and slogans and rhythm and inflection.
Every big company that went bankrupt made it for years without going bankrupt.
An absolutely terrific book about (among other things) this is The Discoverers by Daniel J. Boorstin. He goes into a lot of detail on how map making in Europe for the longest time was driven, as you say, more by religious importance than anything else. Interestingly when Europeans did get more serious about accurate maps this was for a large part driven by the search for the fabled Prester John, a Christian king thought to be ruling in India or Africa.
They reference Chris Mellon, who is a part of Tom Delonge's To the Stars organization. I am not an expert here but he has this public benefit corporation that always struck me as weird. It's like a charity, but Tom Delonge gets interest and royalties from it. Also: in 2017 they recognized 25M in stock comp expense... Like WTF. That is not possible for a company that is basically worthless.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1710274/000114420419...
> It might be painful to admit, but the practical value of that rather specialized knowledge that took me several years of hard work to obtain is pretty much zero now.

It's sad that your professors didn't tell you beforehand that you were going to learn how to learn during that time, not just study a particular technology stack.
Depends on your metrics. If they're reasonable, cool. If they're abusive and unattainable, you're putting everyone to work in an environment where they are setup to fail. Not cool. I assume that's why "productivity" is in quotes in the headline, due to the common perception (which evidence leads us to believe is accurate) their success metrics in warehouses are unreasonable and borderline abusive.

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/3/11/18260472/amazon-ware... (Suicide attempts and mental breakdowns: 911 calls from Amazon warehouses reveal that some workers are struggling)

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/11/20/18103516/black-frid... (The human costs of Black Friday, explained by a former Amazon warehouse manager)

https://www.npr.org/2018/12/22/679546929/working-the-holiday... (Working The Holidays As An Amazon Worker)

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/16/17243026/amazon-warehouse... (Amazon warehouse workers skip bathroom breaks to keep their jobs, says report)
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> really money is made convincing very rich people to deploy their capital

The industry could use more literature on the "court politics" of this process, including what happens socially if you lose the capital of those rich people, have a disagreement on strategic direction, or partner with rich people who themselves disagree on direction.
Can't you use duckduckgo with the !g toggle for Google results?
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> Also, more text is more "content" to mix adverts into.

Ah, yes. Of course. This is the most plausible explanation IMO.
Did he ever release the alloy of thin metals that he thinks was created in space? That was the thing I heard that caused me to think, "well, hey, if he's got this hunk of space metals, i should probably tune in again."
I bet Fedex and UPS have a higher churn rate. I quit after the second day working in the hub.
Got me there. Hopefully "soon".
AWS Console Down?
me: 'it's a really bad idea to be developing new functionality on Flash in 2018'

management: 'that's not a helpful attitude right now'
>I'm sorry, did you just say C doesn't have a comprehensive library?!

Data structures? Lists, Hashtables, Maps, Strings, Refcounted pointers, Weak pointers, Ephemerons, iterators for mentioned? C library is a joke even by 1970 standards.

>Most of the shortfall can be covered by tooling, linting and standards.

The amounts of CVEs prove you wrong. Besides, a typical C-coder considers himself smarter than type checker, otherwise he would be using another language (ML, Rust, Ada, C++).
I usually take the "I don't know, but I would like to take a stab at it anyways" approach to interviews.

I make my competence on a subject clear. Ie. Did an assignment using this tool or read a few blogs so am aware of it and that's it.
But a surprising number of times the problem isn't thay difficult despite my ignorance about it. You can often find a very close analogue to the unknown thing and then take it from there or let the tool itself function as a black box and design the requested system around it.

The plain "I don't know" - er while noble, can often be mistaken for incompetent when every other bulshitter claims to know it all.
You know how when you buy a car, you start to see it everywhere? This sounds similar, and I feel ya. Yes, there are plenty of Bootstrap themes out there, but there are also lots for Foundation and any of the other frameworks out there. Some good, some bad. But Bootstrap does indeed have the Lion's Share of searches, it seems.

Like some of the other folks above mentioned, Bootstrap really was one of the first to gain in popularity (thanks, Twitter) and to that end it's no wonder. For the most part it's fairly simple to get started with, there's plenty of pretty decent documentation, and a bajillion examples to gain inspiration (or insight) from.

Personally, I like it. It's not perfect and can be bloaty (that's a technical term, naturally) but in many/most cases it works just fine if you've had some experience with it and know how to tweak things.
No it's the standard solution for quickly establishing some reputation, prove that you have something to lose.
How did carriers incentivise customisation for manufacturers? Did Apple essentially turn down "easy money" to maintain product integrity?
async/await still scares me a little since I would prefer that the language core stay small and universal.
What if you spent 9 months making a baby, and then 20 years nurturing and feeding that baby. Suddenly you have this superior thing that wouldn't exist without your work. Clearly that result should be your intellectual property.
Neat output, the project is very similar compared to the Google Doodle a few weeks back, where they generated music based off of user-submitted notes. https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-johann-sebastian-...

Since this is OpenAI, is MuseNet open source?
I would say that a realistic target for being able to use async/await in general projects using the stable compiler is the end of the year. Any earlier than that you will be able to use it, but you'll be in the same situation as today: fragmented ecosystem (0.1/0.3/std futures split), incomplete or missing features, missing syntax (await/async for loops/etc.) and subpar diagnostics. Things are slowly but surely coalescing into a nice story, but right now the people that are excited are going off potential more than what is already there, as interesting as many of the individual pieces are.
Do you write every single test for your codebase? Do you have control over every line of code that gets deployed? The purpose of monitoring is to detect issues, because preventing them entirely is next to impossible.

By your logic if you can write perfect integration tests, can't you write perfect application code that doesn't need to be tested?
Smart for the individual. Bad for the whole.

IMO people should think more of the whole, more often.
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Comprehensive and up to date overview on the access information.

Github is in charge of a tech team lead, Slack is someone else. Once an employee leaves, I want to make sure access is limited accordingly. Sending a bunch of emails and coordinating, then double-checking is the worst nightmare. If the # of services you use is 5 it's all good. If you use >5 you have to check each individually every employee sign-off.

We once had an ex-employee receiving Github updates two years after he left us.
I'm a Rust fan, and I'd say that Rust announcements are so often upvoted because they contain interesting developments, but in this case it looks as though this patch release only contains minor bugfixes. When I saw it pop up on HN's front page I sort of thought we were going to get something juicy like a security advisory... the only interesting news here is apparently that the Rust developers also issue patch releases for relatively mundane reasons. :P
The form factor in which this is delivered in doesn't matter.
The heart of the article: "PepsiCo has invoked Section 64 of the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights (PPV&FR) Act, 2001 to claim infringement of its rights. However, farmers groups cite Section 39 of the same Act, which specifically says that a farmer is allowed “to save, use, sow, resow, exchange, share or sell his farm produce including seed of a variety protected under this Act” so long as he does not sell “branded seed”.
How do you make the backwards d in your username???

Long live usenet!
I wonder what the rate is at places which skew towards similar entry-level positions; for example, what % of people get fired annually in the fast-casual restaurant industry, or in retail? I don't know.

I do think that in these sorts of industries, it's important to be able to hire people with a "probationary" mindset, because if firing weren't possible an employer would become a lot more risk-adverse. It's actually really important to people with no credentials or who might have a risky profile (a criminal conviction, for example) that they be allowed to prove themselves and start building a resume, so we should be careful about incentives in these cases.
>> likely there is a selection mechanism in these organizations

There is definitely such a thing as a "selection mechanism" and it lives within every organisation.

In the best of worlds people would be selected for X. X is not:

- feeding the "growth economy"
- attribute to "the growth of the market"
- "become a unicorn"
- destroying wealth, and by wealth I mean "nature"
- delegating responsibility not to yourself and your peers but to your offspring

I have no idea what X is and you know what, who cares? Who are we to strive for being the "best of worlds"? We haven't even gotten past the notion of being the "best of nations".
The point is to write bug-free code. Dynamic typing makes that harder (makes proving that harder). If you just focus on off-by-one array reads then you're focusing on something that is already solved either by languages themselves, or tools around it that prove that the access is always ok. And there are also libraries that do bounds checking for you. But you still maintain memory access should you need it. (And, depending on the operating system, you can't actually read and write any memory - you get a segfault instead, which is perhaps the js explosion equivalent, no?)

On the point about inconsistent state: if your JavaScript program is doing something important but then dies because of a bug then maybe the interpreter was left in a consistent state, yes, but what it was doing was not. This is safe how?
> Not sure if this will use AOT or JIT though.

You can do either. You can compile a snapshot and run that on the JIT VM. This basically gives you faster startup because it doesn't have to do all the source parsing, resolution, type-checking, etc. but gives you the general runtime performance of a JIT VM (think V8 or the JVM).

Or you can AoT compile your app all the way to native code. It's similar to how a shipped Go or OCaml works where it compiles your code and the language's runtime together into a single executable.
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The JVM doesn´t run in a browser or on iOS. Both of these are targets for Flutter.
Let's be clear. Being the world's military titan is not a desirable job. Someone has to fend off the Somali pirates, but it's not glamorous and everyone benefits equally from it (as in not just the US).
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Dart VM is written primarily in C++.

There is bytecode, but the story here is kinda complicated - there are actually 2 different versions: one is called DBC and is used during development of Flutter applications on iOS, there is another called KBC - that one is more like a classical bytecode, it is currently in development.

> And is there a place where more details are available?

You can get some high level information at https://mrale.ph/dartvm

Let me know if you want to know something special.
Does anyone really believe that a rape/death threat is a credible, honest threat, when it comes in response to a commercial for a Marvel movie or a video game?

I mean, I get that there was that whole massive rape and slaughter epidemic after the female Ghostbusters reboot, where hundreds of thousands of souls lost their lives and/or virginity, but come on.

Also, those rape and death threats from the Mexican drug cartels. Now THAT is what a fictitious threat looks like. Am I right?

I mean, when's the last time anyone got raped or murdered over drugs in Mexico?
How do I properly filter applicants for low-skill jobs? If I'm hiring for an Amazon warehouse, I'm not going to ask for a resume, and background checks only catch certain things. How else am I going to know you'll be a good worker in the warehouse other than hiring and seeing how it goes?
Out of curiosity, why is android struggling? What aspect of it needs improvement?
There are other options. Two I've used a little:

https://github.com/vurtun/nuklear

https://github.com/raysan5/raylib
We should match our military spending with China's, that should do it.

EDIT: I hope everyone realizes this is sarcastic. We already spend more than China and then some.
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I thought that was fairly common knowledge about a great deal of university education.
It's a raytheon ATFLIR[0]. The rotation precisely matches the point at which the 'up-down' tracking reaches it's upper stop and the body of the pod has to rotate. The concensus was that it's some internal reflection within the pod window.

[0] https://www.raytheon.com/capabilities/products/atflir
More abhorrent and parasitic behavior from companies and their lawyers, targeting the poor.
I unfortunately implemented and maintained several cryptographic algorithms (block ciphers, UMACs, key exchanges, whatnot, a bunch of it proprietary for extra awfulness) and compression algorithms in JavaScript as part of a previous job. It was awful, and I broke the JIT more times than I could count. JS is not well-suited for this.

I still find the argument to be wrong, in the sense that picking Ed25519 is an entirely correct decision to make. Picking that library is not a correct decision, and that might lead to needing a different algo (I'd argue that WebCrypto needs to pick up its pace for common algorithms, rather than picking picking up whatever dropped fruit is available).

We shouldn't slander them for Ed25519 (although you are right that such claim about timing safety is borked—maybe that got lost in marketing). We should only target the library choice.

Plus, with WASM widely available, we should be able to port a constant-time of Ed25519 with good performance without much work. WebCrypto is just a cherry on top.
Ask HN: What impact are you creating? And how do you track it
Would love to know all the impact different people are creating and the ways they are tracking it.
I worked plenty of jobs like that until I got my degree. My experience lines up with yours. It's unsurprising that enough people screw up enough that a few hundred per year get fired.

Edit: Don't get me wrong, the tracking system makes this sound like a particularly shitty job as far as shitty jobs go but most people should be able to hack it.
I did the SDC nanodegree and I'm currently doing the deep learning nanodegree. Not sure if it helped me to get the interview but it helped me during the interview. But I mainly rely on my college degree (MSc in MechE) when I'm applying. However, I had no luck getting an interview for any SWE roles.
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Safe self driving cars without some kind of outside coordination with either the road or other vehicles is an impossibility. It's impossible to do this safely on a mass scale without the road infrastructure made for it.
Apodicticly... harsh bro!
Note that HN's ranking algorithm also rapidly sinks things off the front page whose titles contain common keywords like "Rust", "Go", "Apple", etc.
Which starting assumptions are wrong? Which fundamental, universal principles were ignored?
You'll probably receive a biased sample from the HN crowd
Remember, this isn't the churn rate we're talking about. It's involuntary separation. I'd imagine the annual churn rate is way above 10%. I don't doubt FedEx and UPS have high churn rates, but I also suspect they don't fire 10% of their package handlers annually.
I wonder if you meant 'right' like 'appropriate'? Clearly you could not have meant 'righteous' since it does mean something else in English.
async/await is sooo much easier to use than combinators though. I struggle in remembering when I should be using and_then/or_else/map/then, and then juggling all the references as things pass into and out of closures.

I wrote a small redis clone with async/await and it was a joy to write. It was fast and so easy to reason about. It's so worth it to add it to the core language.
I have a 4 year old s85d. A year ago I got an offer to trade in for 50k from tesla. I bet the value went way down because My ~260 range is so much less than 370.
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To be fair, most data stores have an SQL layer available, even if it's not optimal