skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My father is from a generation where, from the day he got hired to the day he retired, 45 years later, he worked for the same employer. That changed in the 1990s.

That changed in the 1990s because companies no longer valued long term commitments. The famous example is IBM laying off, in bulk, countless long-term employees in the interest of increasing their bottom line.

The only way I was able to get a pay raise in the tech industry was by changing jobs. Once I figured that out, I changed jobs about once a year to triple my salary. On the way of doing this to climb the corporate ladder, I saw a lot of unethical behavior:

I saw countless dot-com startups dissolve after all of the executives gave themselves as big of a golden parachute as possible; I had consultants tell me to put experience I never did on my resume; I saw a company closing shop without paying their employees their final paycheck; I saw (and still sometimes see) hucksters promising good work and “exposure” but saying they could not pay you “for the time being”; I see companies demanding extensive experience (the infamous “ten years of React” job posting -- keep in mind React has been around for under seven years) but never offering on-the-job training; I have seen people who have developed injury or disabilities interfering with their work being “laid off” without warning; I have seen big tech companies refusing to hire anyone outright and cut off contracts short in the interest of maximizing CEO pay and shareholder value.

In short, I have become cynical about the tech industry and how it treats employees. Sure, it’s a living wage, but they won’t hire you if you mention “work life balance” during the interview; they expect long hours from their employees and expect the company to become their passion or life. No wonder why fewer people in America decide to give birth to and raise kids; it’s just not possible with the insane hours tech companies expect from their employees.

Yes, I’ve become quite cynical about the tech industry. It chews up workers and spit them out. The happiest memories of my life are not being in some cubicle in some office making too much money, but the times in my life when I took a break from tech and supported myself as an English teacher in another country, and had time to actually make real world friends and be able to date normally. Those are the times I cherish; that and the time I spend with my beautiful daughter.
Well at least a typo sould give a compile time error for some subset of typos.

But in the trade-off in code readability was probably the cause of many other mistakes, so probably ended up further behind.
This whole thread by Dr. Sarah Taber is quite interesting on how it's all about the context when it comes to growing meat vs. growing crops.

https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/100636377572388864...

She summarises it in a single tweet at the end:

In places where there's limited land and a surplus of water,
it makes a lot of sense to optimize for land. So there, grow & eat crops.

And in places where there's a lot of land and limited water,
it makes sense to optimize for water. So there, grow & eat ruminants.

P.S.: There are also other things to take into account, but think that already shows how we should balance our view and not advocate for a single form of subsistence everywhere.
Agreed. Maybe errors should get displayed in reverse order so you can work your way up through the console window.
I checked that and I don't see that requirement for Goldman Sachs or any other partnership set up - the potential for corruption and nepotism is huge if its pay to play.

Some form of coops Mondragon for example do but that is a very different type of employment.
I'll pull the plug; any suggestions for further reading?

> Our problem is to penetrate the communication system that is not visually based,and is purely acoustical.

Given our depth in knowledge in acoustics, I'm hoping you can expand a little on this
If I don't have to talk about servers, there's no difference in optics to saying serverless.

When I go to a Jimmy John's, I'm never served by Jimmy John. So what?

It's great marketing, albeit not what every person imagines, when encountering the term.
This is utter BS. Shows what bold liars the 181 ceos are who had the audacity to sign it
...and this is my hope for Africa. As new ideas, unique to different regions are allowed to fight their way to market share...this, hopefully, will improve their quality of life in the ways they desire. This is closer to freedom, in my opinion, than having a government, technology, and a way of life designed on another continent then dropped in.
https://freedom.to/
If I'm China, wouldn't I be concerned if the opposite were true? That my military capabilities didn't allow me the ability to at least defend my continent/sphere of influence from my greatest enemy?

It's one thing to go on the offensive to attack another country like the US at their home, but it's another to have the capabilities to defend areas of interest that are relatively close to home.
I had an overly long conversation where someone was hand wringing about how and when we pull data to populate the list of states and territories of the US (the fact that the address had to be inside the US had legal standing).

I insisted, and probably still do, that since this list hasn’t changed since World War II, odds were really good that the server would reboot before the next change was made, and so looking it up at startup should be just fine.
The US really has China in a bind here, and few will admit it. China needs to weaken its currency to offset tariffs by making their exports cheaper...but China is very very short on dollars, and each devaluation makes their onshore debt much harder to maintain. I'm sure China is waiting out the 2020 election, hoping the next President will be more dovish on China...but I think everyone (except Biden) is pretty hawkish on China within that Democratic field.
Cascais is a coastal area. It enjoys some cooling and microclimate for the Atlantic Ocean influence. A lot of sea breeze is also expected
I've tried all the methods discussed, and my point-of-view is based on my personal experience and years of involvement with formal methods. You've tried none, and your point-of-view is based on... a couple of blog posts you've read?
A lot of things pointed out in the article shouldn't prevent anybody from starting a project in modern C++. First of all, usage of raw arrays is discouraged, if you use std::array or std::vector, there are way less ways to shoot yourself. Same goes for manually managing memory, you shouldn't ever have to call delete on your own nowadays. Most other problems mentioned in the article are ABI compatibility and dynamic library loading problems that are super specific to Windows and that very few people should ever have to deal with. This is going to painful no matter what language you are using. Win32 API is no fun, hardly C++s fault.
So if Netflix were sitting on the end of a lowly T1, Comcast should provide Netflix with a more appropriate connection that can fulfill the demands of Comcast customers?
Possibly but that grade inflation boat has sailed a long time ago.
Ironically the US has recently been courting Vietnam as a potential local ally to counterbalance China.
>The US and China have far too much common economic interest to go to war short of China doing something so absurdly aggressive that you can't not go to war (e.g. invading Japan) I don't see that happening.

Have you forgotten about the incompetent fool that the US elected to be in control of the nuclear arsenal?
According to the story, they don't spread it "freely". They paid for the ads.

As for the real answer, so that Twitter and co can give a resemblance of being neutral international internet service, as opposed to being "Western media" company tied to regional interests.
The cruise missiles go both ways.

The US loses some military bases. China loses their economic infrastructure and their own internal military bases.

The US would have tens of thousands of casualties. China would have a couple orders of magnitude more casualties.

The US would lose one trading partner. China would lose almost all of their trading partners.

The article seems like a sensationalist attempt to justify increasing the US military budget.
No PR firm. Had we hired anyone, it would have been to stop us. Too late now.
As a reminder, you don't need to use async/await to implement socket servers in Rust. You can use threads, and they scale quite well. M:N scheduling was found to be slower than 1:1 scheduling on Linux, which is why Rust doesn't use that solution.

Async/await is a great feature for those who require performance beyond what threads (backed by either 1:1 or M:N implementations) can provide. One of the major reasons behind the superior performance of async/await futures relative to threads/goroutines/etc. is that async/await compiles to a state machine in the manner described in this post, so a stack is not needed.
Legal obligations are worth the paper they're written on, when it comes to war between two major world powers. Any decision to retaliate would end up being based on what's best geopolitically for the USA.

Giving up Taiwan, of course, would announce to the world that allies of the US should look for other world power sponsors, because our support is paper thin.

That kind of choice is very costly, and it would take a very unique type of President willing to piss away a century of alliance building.
I've driven nothing but BMW for the last decade and several of my friends now drive Teslas. I can't think of a single aspect other than subjective preference for rear-wheel drive bias where the BMW is any better than the Tesla. And it is objectively worse on a number of easily measurable factors. Anyone who thinks these cars are not fantastic is in denial. Are they perfect? Of course not. But on virtually any measurable scale they absolutely blow their competition out of the water at their price-point.
Almost 1 MB of JavaScript transferred to render a single chart? I am afraid that is not acceptable. I mean no disrespect whatsoever to the author of the library, but sending that amount of JS for a single component is just outside of any reasonable performance budget.

That being said, a server-side or build-step tool that generates lean SVG code? Yes, please.
Parental support startup Circle In raises $1.5M
That is why there are anti-trust laws, and we should apply them much more rigorously against companies like Uber.
LOL. hi downvoting google employees.
It's better than absolutely no preventative measures at all
That usually only happens to kids with too much melanin, though.
That and the fact that Legos have become absurdly expensive.
What makes police officer unions so different from the others?
On-Device, Real-Time Hand Tracking with MediaPipe
Now we need some tooling where you put in a maximum error bound, and it automatically finds the lowest resolution you can get away with. I wonder if one of those video-codec-based image formats (WebP, HEIC, AVIF) would already do something pretty similar if you just set a quality factor?
Wow ! 56 (!) times more core than the biggest Nvidia Volta core, a single 46 square millimeters chip (no chiplets like recent AMD chips), and an incredible wooping 18 GB of SRAM (that’s like 18GB of CPU cache basically) !

I don’t know if you guys are used to that scale but I find it monstruous !
Somewhat related, an article from Raymond Chen: "What kind of uncle am I?" https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20090427-01/?p=18...
PaaSes typically run persistent processes like big monolithic apps. "Serverless" is more like auto-scaled CGI-as-a-service.
In some cases, Yes. There are several registered and solved cases of fires by revenge on natural parks
That article was nice to the moderators but not so nice to HN.
I think a more likely reason is so that they can charge $150-200 for an internal storage upgrade of 200-250GB and push their iCloud service. This wouldn’t work so well for a manufacturer like Samsung who is not as differentiated from it’s competitors.
This is a completely different scenario from the op, but I don't think anyone projects Taiwan lasting more than a couple of hours if China decides to invade.

Their only hope is that there would be a multinational response. The US certainly wouldn't go it alone against China on their own doorstep.
> Corporations these days are simply “financial paperclip maximizers”: amoral entities that do whatever is profitable, consequences beyond the bottom line be damned.

I don't think "whatever is profitable" pins it down enough. They do what is profitable on a short time scale. They don't do what is profitable over long time scales like 30 or 50 or 100 years. If they did, they would not be able to get away with, for example, privatizing profits and socializing costs, because what enables them to do that is that the profits show up in the short term but the costs only show up in the long term.

Back when corporate governance worked, shareholders were mostly individuals and they typically held shares on a long time horizon. That created obvious incentives to judge corporations by profits on a long time horizon. But now, most shareholders are mutual funds who judge individual corporations on a short time horizon--if the corporations don't make their numbers, the mutual fund trades their stock away. That means corporations have no incentive now to look at profits on a long time horizon--even though their shareholders do.
Just ran it and I'm getting 44 Mbps. AFAIK, that's plenty of bandwidth from Netflix's perspective, so would complaining to my ISP make any sense? Should I be getting 300 Mbps with Netflix?
The five great reasons to attend TechCrunch’s Enterprise show Sept. 5 in SF
What would you suggest for Mac and Linux? I lot of enterprise contracts and security certifications require "anti-virus installed and up-to-date".

What's the best way of meeting that checkbox for Mac and Linux laptops?
AFAIK, the Seattle / King County survey did not ask which neighborhood or zip code they lived in. The questions are listed on the survey PDF I linked earlier.

Do you have a source? Closest I can find is from 2016, and it's 25% of in-county zip codes equalling Pioneer Square, not 80% of all:

"The records show that more than 8,000 clients [of any homeless/housing services tracked by All Home] listed their last ZIP code as 98104, which covers Pioneer Square and downtown. That’s about 25 percent of all clients who gave King County ZIP codes. Putnam says clients sometimes list ZIP codes for the shelters where they last stayed or the neighborhood where they’d been seeking services."

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/king-coun...
Way back when, I used to do some volunteer work for the Better Business Bureau, which put out similar messaging in regard to everyday consumer complaints. It also was a business-funded group that, in hindsight, tried to accomplish three things:

1. Letting companies feel good about themselves

2. Providing something worthy sounding in the public eye that might defuse "bad publicity."

3. Doing a bit of investigation and complaint resolution in connection with the scummiest 5% of businesses, which often weren't members. Moral outrage? A desire to kneecap the most difficult competitors? Probably a bit of both.

I'll agree with earlier posters who are a bit cynical about all the factors listed in Reasons 1 and 2. But Reason 3 shouldn't be overlooked. I don't think the Business Roundtable will suddenly be concerned about how Exxon, Walmart, etc. make their money or deal with customers, employees, suppliers, etc. On the other hand, odds are good that they will take a stand against small-time chicken processors, toxic-waste dumpers, etc.

Back in my BBB days, we did some real work to crack down on fraudulent apartment-referral outfits, which not only ripped off newcomers to New York City, but also made life ugly for the mainstream realtors, building owners, etc. that were BBB members.

Even if such battles may seem like grandstanding, they can be of some use.
Patagonia is also a B Corp [1], and it has a legal obligation to the mission statement that you've mentioned, not just maximizing shareholder value. I think the parent comment is just snidely remarking that the C Corps that have signed the letter are still required to maximize shareholder value, or they will face legal action.

I am uncertain how this letter changes the established case law regarding C Corps.

[1] https://www.patagonia.com/b-lab.html
> Just read the spec and write your software to support it

I wish PC hardware manufacturers would do that. You don’t even need too old hardware or software to find compatibility bugs, here’s an example: https://superuser.com/q/807871/31483
Killer robot development: Amazon and Microsoft have 'highest risk' involvement
The US has a base on Okinawa which is less than 800km away: https://www.distancefromto.net/between/Taiwan/Okinawa+Prefec...

Your point about the political system is valid, but if the USA was behind the invasion of Iraq, I imagine watching another great power chew up an ally would unite the country as well. Times do change, though, and I could be wrong.
>How well situated is the US to do a cross-Pacific amphibious invasion of Taiwan?

Parking an invasion+battle fleet off of Taiwan's coast would probably lead to huge US ship losses to Chinese missiles.

However, island hopping campaign is a thing. Islands make for good unsinkable carriers.

Assuming war isn't concluded permanently in a couple months[1], the real advantage is self-sufficiency in regards to raw materials (especially oil[2]) and ability to ramp up and then build out military production. High tech is secondary issue, and would be only slightly on the US' side. Probably the most important advantage would be in submarines and to extent in carriers, again as it was historically. Lastly, the presumable advantage in comms crypto protection, and codebreaking/backdooring could make or break any long term war, by repeatedly giving better starting positions before each battle or campaign; again to historical precedent.

All in all, US would do just fine, however the local allies would suffer a lot.

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[1] i.e. excluding an overwhelmingly effective ABC attack on mainland China or US

[2] both previous and current administration helped ramp it up
Tesla isn't the only one making poor tire choices, the BMW G12 came with awful noisy all season run-flats. At least they were rated for appropriate speeds though.

Given that Tesla isn't even trying to make nice cars the bad tires seem far less surprising.
No, China has a no first use policy on nuclear weapons and their relatively modest nuclear arsenal matches their rhetoric. China might be willing to risk war over Taiwan or something similar but that isn't the sort of existential stakes you start a nuclear exchange over.
I would hope that unmounting invalidates the cache, because the kernel can't know that the device wasn't modified between mounts. I like the sibling's idea of using two separate computers though.
I took a look at the signatories. Surprisingly, Amazon and Apple are on there. Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Intel, Nvidia, AMD, and IBM are not.

https://www.businessroundtable.org/business-roundtable-redef...

(edit: removed text accidentally pasted in)
"Software Is about Developing Knowledge More than Writing Code"

This is also the real problem with vendor lock-in.

You are more often locked in by the knowledge of your employees than by your tech stack.
Tourism in the Caribbean isn't like tourism in first-world countries. Relatively few tourists wander the streets by themselves where the local crime (and law enforcement killing) rates would be relevant but stay in resort areas heavily protected by resort staff and local police who fear the loss of the tourism economy. When a tourist goes missing or is murdered in the Caribbean, it makes world news.
I used this to quit Facebook. It's an almost Pavlovian trick. You start to associate your habit with a negative connotation because you know that a short workout will follow.
I'm working on a VR game that let's you feel like you have telekinetic powers. You can manipulate the objects in distance. You have to activate as many objects as possible in scene to progress.
> The US and China have far too much common economic interest to go to war short of China doing ....

That's probably what people said in, oh, 1910 about Germany, Britain, and France.
Right. Tawain is not Crimea.
Awww, I love feel good stories like this! Reminds me a lot of the town of Geel in Belgum: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/07/01/4840833...

For me I think this at-the-source / small town / intimate one-on-one solution is great in so many ways.
> considering the dystopian state of Chinese government (compared to Western governments, at least)

Would you trust a sheep in wolf's clothing or a wolf in wolf's clothing more?

Western culture and ideals are nothing more than a facade.
They didn't used to, because it slowed down rendering. Then they started blurring stuff which worked well most of the time but not e.g. for retro artists who wanted the pixely look. So eventually they added some CSS properties to control it. https://builtvisible.com/image-scaling-in-css/ https://caniuse.com/#search=image%20rendering
Wasn't FastCGI actually running a persistent connection, just like an HTTP connection but with a custom protocol for no good reason?

"Auto-scaled-CGI-as-a-service"
Microsoft has acquired JClarity
That's not a fair analogy. Netflix had the bandwidth available and wanted to connect it, Comcast just refused.
epoll io loop performs better for most network io though and is simplier to manage when you have to start dealing with out of band issues (like efficient hearbeats - every time I've had a conversation without how to move some of the heartbeat code over to async it comes down to just accepting it isn't going to be as efficient as my c++ implementation and either strain heavily of accept over publication).

Last time I saw there was still a couple extra allocations going on too in the compiler (I was told they were being worked on) and basically the default executor, tokio, wasn't very efficient at changing events in the queue (requiring a an extra self signal to get the job done).

I'd be interesting to see how little cost these are, because there is defintely a cost to the generator implementation. Yes, if I wrong a generator to do this, I couldn't write it better, but I wouldn't write a generator (and that would be a very odd definition of zero-cost there anything can be called zero cost even GC as long as it is implemented well - well, that depends on if rustc saves unnecessary state).

> Additionally, it should allow miri to validate the unsafe code inside our generators, checking for uses of unsafe that result in undefined behavior.

This is really useful as a lot of the buffer handing code needs to use unsafe for efficienty issues. And the enums sharing values is nice too - hopefully the extra pointer derferences can be optimized out.

I do worry though about all this state sitting on the head and ruining cache locality on function calls though.
I can't think of an interesting and important question one could ask a non-human, except (if it's an alien) "how to do cold fusion" or "how to live forever", ie specific technological stuff.

Really, what do we expect to hear from monkeys and dolphins deciphering their language? Give them a small talk on the current Bitcoin prices or ask what they think about the next elections? I suspect in the end it'll lead to something like "How are you? I'm fine!"

Maybe it's just me though.
They had sufficient bandwidth. Netflix paid their ISP for sufficient bandwidth. Comcast just refused to connect to it, to the detriment of Comcast's customers.
WeWhat?
How can we look at the error rates of current AI (especially the ones dealing with human aspects) and subsequently think that this is the right time to make an AI-controlled weapon?

Absolutely stunning. I guess it doesn't matter what the error rate is when you think everyone else on the planet is your enemy.