skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think the advantage is supposed to be that you won't come in one day and hear your boss say "Guess what? We're broke."

Sure... but you may still come in and find "this project has been nixed". Upside is that you may still have a 'job' in the bigger company, but everything you worked on may be thrown away, you may lose whatever political power your project had, etc. Certainly there's an 'immediate safety net' issue of "you may have a paycheck next week", but doesn't address any of the emotional stuff that goes along with "we'll have a scrappy startup mentality!"

I had been in something similar - not quite a 'startup in a large company' situation, but similar. And... we hit a "hey, this project is being shut down, and there's no other budget in the company for this team". So.. the company itself was still going OK - everyone else kept rolling along - but a handful of us were effectively cut adrift for a bit. Some were able to be assigned to other internal teams, some weren't.
Yeah I agree. It's just meant to distinguish from legacy C++, basically the era before unique pointers (and thus move semantics etc.).
Pretty much everyone tech component is manufactured in china... Also "CCP" gives you away. Should be more sneaky about it rather than being so up front.
As someone who came from academia, now runs a commercial company, and having participated in several large consortia projects (including Horizon 2020), I find your perspective… charming.

I hope you never get to experience how the sausage is made. And where you taxes really go.
That's just fraud though, if they are representing themselves as Moms and Pops
Yah, catch-up work often feels punitive but it appears to be universally expected by instructors. I'm a MS teacher, and I don't really care (though it does complicate my assessments), but my kids' teachers do really care about every piece of work being turned in.

Sometimes it's ridiculous-- my then-4th grader was taking Algebra I on the side, and had shown mastery on the 4th grade fraction curriculum on a test, but getting the large packet of fraction work that he missed during an absence was considered critically important. :P

> reveals that schools are talking bollocks when they suggest that taking a few days off to go on holiday during termtime

I do think that the kind of attitude that lets you ignore a bit of schooling here and there for a convenient vacation schedule does affect outcomes, though. I teach at a private school, but I think we're both aware of incentives for attendance, the reasons for them, and the areas in which they cause perverse outcomes.
FWIW I've found WASM to be 2-4x slower than native-compiled binaries (especially with large memory copy ops, like with image codecs).

(don't get me wrong: this is a wonderful technical feat, but it still is a substantial tradeoff from a native binary).
I thought this was a proposal to give convicted criminals the choice between prison or school.
I dont quite remember the meeting room names in Mathilda 3 over at the Apple on Mathilda Ave, but if the MA03 (in the screenshot) refers to "Mathilda 3", then this story is totally believable.

I worked at Apple and it was absolutely horrible. I remember sitting on the train and actually thinking about killing myself. Reasons were many, but mostly I just didn't fit in there, I think.

I felt like people there were also a bunch of whiny little bitches to be honest. Always having some problem with a hand or a back or some family problem or whatever which demanded that they take days off. There were a few people whom I felt were probably talking some shit behind my back, but I couldn't really believe it until I read this story. It was just a horrible horrible place and I can also recognize that thing about having a predecessor, who was apparently a "bad person" and thus had to be terminated.

Every other day I would have people telling me how great a place it was and how lucky we were to be working in a place so big while still having that startup feeling. I have worked at startups and I always just imagined to myself that 40 year old "dude" who refuses to grow up. That is Apple..

Never again.

I got dragged through the whole white boarding experience also for the first time and it was fun enough, but in hindsight, they should just have asked me if I would suck Steve Jobs dick, if he came in that door. The answer to that question alone would have provided them with enough information about whether I would have been a good hire or not.

I am 45 and have never every experienced a work place like that. Always had positive feedback and never had any problems with colleagues.
Most of those industries have board certifications. An EE or architect may take months studying for a board certification exam.

Physicians are similar in that you have board certification and residency which provides a baseline level of implied compatency. As I understand it, your residency can essentially set your career. You won't be able to change speciality, and moving up in terms of institution is difficult.

In practice this might be "you can only get hired at faang with faang on your resume", so your options if you don't get it right out of college are to do masters or hope to get a job at Amazon and possibly pivot that into a position at a different firm.
I meant the copy semantics of the ref itself. The copy operation on a refcounted ref increments the refcount at the object it's referring to. The references themselves are values. Another way of looking at this--in C++ the copy constructor of std::shared_ptr. Move semantics as generally applied across values, when applied to such references, is what gives rise to the refcount elison stuff (the move constructor of std::shared_ptr does no increment).
Ianal. I think Apple broke a bunch of laws in your case you should be compensated for your overtime or at least the promised vacation, plus legal cost and a compensation for the abuse.
It's similar situation to removal of slave/master terminology from IT. Without context such accusations are pointless. "I don't like the word you use so you are not allowed to use it." We're seeing the same thing. Apple doesn't like you using the word that's also name of a drug, so you're gone. No context needed.
Speaking from my own experience, I've seen plenty of ".json" in the wild, but have never seen ".jsn".
> Sometimes it happens with other languages, like the use of Hebrew plural rules for cherub/cherubim

For what it's worth, the few times I've seen the plural of cherub in the English language (mostly in song lyrics), it was always "cherubs", not "cherubim". Not saying the latter wouldn't be acceptable: Wiktionary lists both.
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Right. So if the Nvidia deal succeeds ARM will be US American.

I have no idea whether any of the relevant antitrust official could still stop it.
For me the sufficient reason is in the second paragraph

You will have little to no meaningful autonomy, impact, or influence.

This is pretty much by definition true if the place you work at hits a certain size, you become an ant in an anthill, hyper-specialized with no meaningful holistic task.

Life is too short to move things in and out of protobufs for a living, I'd rather live in a garage like a broke college student and have some agency in a five person company and see an entire project through and do interesting work rather than fixing the pipes on some gigantic monolith.

I read that Airbnb blogpost recently about moving to react native and back and I can only imagine the amount of hours of human life that were wasted in meetings alone makes Kafka's novels look harmless, why do people do this to themselves.
I agree with you.

Here is an interesting question: how long will it take China to catch up? I predict 10 years! The Chinese government sees a leading position in semi manufacture as being of extreme strategic importance. There are several reasons why I think China will succeed other than government strategy: the size of the Chinese market (already the biggest processor market in the world), the ease with which Taiwanese semi expertise can be brought to China (legally, salaries are just higher in Shanghai than in Taipei).
It's almost as if a lot of HN readers are interested in Ruby, Rust, and WebAssembly...
>and almost certainly backdoored by the CCP. No thank you.

Not that I disagree with you, but to be fair, there's no way to tell any modern CPU that's in your computer hasn't been backdoored.

Intel CPU's most certainly do not have a glowing reputation in that department.
Cheating on the take-home assignment is easy to fix: have an interview after the assignment is turned in, and ask the candidate to walk through their code, explain their choices and design decisions. (The task should have a few places where making a decision is necessary, eg. whether to use a relational or a NoSQL database.) This can expose cheaters that have no idea about their choices, and help the interviewer understand or accept some decisions they might dislike or disagree with.
> Apple was my first job. A dream that came true after many years of hard work...

I might be reading into this, but "dream jobs" are likely to disappoint. I've seen it happen a few times.
See also my note on reddit refering to the generalization: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/hm25mv/com...
I hate this pervasive notion that leadership is unquestionably a good thing. Leadership is bullshit. It's implicitly a dependency on getting other people to do things for you.
Instead, we should value the abilities to work independently and in mutual cooperation.
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The range is from 0.4 to 0.7

The research found a spread, not a new stable level. The average was towards the lower end than the higher.
They should collaborate with Simone Giertz and re-brand it the "Wake Up Machine"!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh2-iJj3dI0&ab_channel=Simon...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61FaYVGVY_I&ab_channel=Simon...
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Not just where you work but the work you do.
Good lawyers won't take cases that don't appear winnable from the start.

Very false. Generally, the difference between a good lawyer and a bad lawyer is that the good lawyer will counsel the client about the chances of not winning the case, especially after discovery has concluded, while a bad lawyer won't.

If the the winnability of a case was apparent at the start, there wouldn't be a case as the parties would settle before a formal lawsuit was filed. This happens very frequently, especially for labor cases where the employee has documented instances of harassment.

A lot of cases that appear to be "winnable" at the beginning turn out not to be winnable based on evidence that becomes available during discovery, and a lot of cases that didn't appear to be winnable turn out to be slam dunks after discovery. Most of the landmark cases today were cases that didn't appear "winnable" at the start (see, e.g., the DuPont and Erin Brokovich cases).

Moreover, for most cases of this type (and generally for almost all civil cases involving individual torts), lawyers work on a contingency basis for plaintiffs, so they only get paid if they win. The only lawyers that won't handle civil torts for individual clients on a contingency basis are the bad ones who don't expect to win, or the truly amazing ones that charge fixed or hourly fees because they're so good that they can resolve the case without doing the amount of work that would justify a 30% or 40% fee.
> long litany of real or perceived psychological abuse. Maybe I too missed a smoking gun.

Its staring you in the face. How can anyone be allowed to pull off half of that shit? I mean if you are _knowingly_ causing someone to take beta blockers, you've got to have a long hard look at yourself.

I have made mistakes, fortunately early in my career. I made a colleague cry, I thought it was a "bit of fun" but I was being a horrid shit. I don't shout at work anymore. Its a sign that I've lost the argument, failed to see reason, or more often just plain wrong.

To allow others to cause people to cry or shout is frankly unforgivable. Especially if they are senior and its aimed at a young'un. Yes, they might be annoying, or a dipshit. but its up to you to guide them or move them on. Not play with like a cat with a half dead bird.

in short: enigneers don't let other people be abusive dicks.
I concur with OP. Rebrand ASAP. Apple is looking for an excuse to shut your app down so that they can replace it with an in-house version. This is on purpose, they want you to feel outraged. If you take the bait and start a legal battle, you’ll play right into their hands. They will drag it out for years or until your money runs out.

Far better to keep the money you have earned, recognizing that even the rebrand won’t save your app in the long run. It’s done.
Cellular infrastructure.

Just some napkin math:

$20 * 12mo * 200,000,000 Users = $48 Billion.

Divide that by 3.8 Million square miles give you $128k per year per mile, even in the boonies. You could pay a decent salary for each tower at that level of income.
When it comes to governments, how they act impacts my voting preferences. When it comes to companies, how they act impacts who I choose to purchase from and work for. There are certainly wide swaths of information that aren’t relevant to my decision making process, but some things are hard to personally find out but worth knowing.
I have just seen a lot of posts about this on Blind. Try searching Apple + toxic.

https://www.teamblind.com/post/Miserable-and-depressed-at-Ap...
https://www.teamblind.com/post/I-am-full-of-Hate-vOCmEpjn

Many bad posts about IS&T as well. I swear I've seen at least two very similar posts to the OP about Apple (maybe even written by the same person) although I'm having trouble finding it.
I don't understand, this is one of the main jobs of the U.S. Army's Special Forces (also known as Green Berets). Their whole thing is learning how to train and fight alongside indigenous forces.
The 2001 invasion of Afghanistan was just that, where literally a handful of SF operators joined the Northern Alliance and helped them capture several cities from the Taliban (in the process becoming the first US soldiers to do battle on horseback since 1942)
I am.

And it was dropped because when McDonalds stopped using styrofoam they couldn't make it work any more.

There is an irony in that. We went from a society that uses styrofoam to paper cups. Never mind that styrofoam is one of the most easily recycled substances we have, while the wax on paper cups makes them destined for the landfill.
Autodidacts who thought school got in the way of their learning and never really got on with most of the other kids their age are overrepresented on HN, and a lot of people not in that category don't have particularly strong opinions about schools...
Consumers don't give a scheise about developers either.
One way it's different from driving a car is that you can own a car without having a license -- car possession is not regulated -- whereas the possession of controlled substances is what's regulated.
Ok. To be more blunt I think many of the things you have written are simply not true, or are at least not broadly applicable.
Interesting, your suggestion is that the first thing to do is to learn how to make functions and variable names within excel?
Sounds like the optimum size was a little bit off what was previously thought, but not by much.

28mm is still a very narrow tire, by any other standard than racing bikes. It's narrower than any utility bike and about half than you would run on a mountain bike, and describing the difference as radical seems a bit excessive to an outsider. Those tire pressures also probably excludes anything close to a flat tire.

It's not like anyone thought harder tires were always better. Otherwise they would all be running metal or wooden tires. After all, that was what everyone did before rubber tires were invented, which they were because they were more efficient than bumping around on wood. If someone had guesstimated the optimum at 23mm and 120psi and it was measured at 28mm, was it really that bad?
Downvote me if you want, but I have had offers and accepted jobs at 2 companies, which first week was a joke, I left (Blue Jeans and Twilio). I didn't care and continue interviewing, I just don't take people BS and unprofessionalism, some have VISA or other needs that need to put up with this non-sense. Just tell people to go hell.
> meeting some mental quota the teacher has for the appropriate # of people that should have to use the toilet during a given period of time.

In grade school, every time someone asks permission to use the bathroom they stop the flow of the lesson and valuable time is lost. In college the idea is that most of the students are responsible enough to handle the bathroom and food.
The ghost of Steve Jobs is everywhere there. The stories and myths mutate and multiply. That virus finds host in the dark corners of suffering that most people have and their only expiation is to inflict it.
That's the way warranties work. Warranty providers are not offering them at a loss.

If you buy a home warranty, or an extended warranty for your car, you are (on average) going to be out of pocket more than you would be without it. You are buying it for the peace of mind that comes from not having to deal with an unlikely but major repair expense.
> I don't know what exists in the US, but in France, you can sue your employer for free (You don't even need a lawyer)...

In the U.S. there are many employment lawyers who will represent harmed employees on contingency, meaning that they will only be paid if the case results in a judgment or settlement for the employee. An individual can technically sue without a lawyer but that is usually a terrible idea.
People have been pointing out the media lying before trump got in office. He definitely pushed that in a big way to the mainstream, and is lying about a lot of things himself, but the media couldnt have gotten away with creating narratives scot free forever.
Silicon Valley captured this perfectly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdXKdRoB9Wk&t=1m10s
I think it was tried at some point.

I was under the impression that with FB discontinuing flash, all FV variants would be out from the platform. Although the FV2 may be available on mobile, for a person of said age, navigating the UX would make the game more of a grind than it already is.

I'd also like to take the opportunity to shift gears into paid games that do not use dark patterns , if possible
Nothing! Just that they're over represented in listings and publishers/authors will game their way to the top of search and best seller results on book apps. It makes it more difficult to find content I would like to read.
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seeing how the sex offender registry in the us has created a legal sub-caste with no functional distinction between violent rapists and a 19 year old who sexted their 17 year old gf, while doing seemingly nothing to curb the actual abuse and trafficking of minors, it is hard to say the carceral approach has really been more effective or beneficial than what foucault advocated.
>People began to appreciate teachers during the pandemic’s home schooling period

People began to appreciate them for the daycare aspect and not really teaching. The statement might be reductive, but it's also the experience that many kids have with teachers and school.
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Technological panopiticons now, most doors are locked or alarmed and the remaining entrances have video surveillance. Windows even on the first floor are often limited from opening very wide. Many American schools also have a police officer on site and it’s not unusual for police to stop children outside of school grounds for truancy.
> So it's in my experience totally untrue to suggest that any child would have to "catch up" any learning missed due to sickness (and also reveals that schools are talking bollocks when they suggest that taking a few days off to go on holiday during termtime will have any noticeable adverse effect, but shhhh)

But it does seem true, from the point of view of parents and children. It doesn't matter that the curriculum is helical and revisits the same topics multiple times. It doesn't revisit the same topics multiple time in a single semester, which means the kid doesn't get a second chance to learn a topic within the grading scope, which means they have to catch up or risk a lower grade. As much as we say that it's the education that matters, as much as it should matter - it doesn't. What matters are the grades. At the very least, in my experience, most parents have grade expectations, and the kid will suffer negative consequences this semester if they fall back, even though they may recover by the end of the education level (where again, the final grades are all that matters).

(Even though the immediate pressure may come from the parents, it's in a control loop with the grades, so the school can't pretend this is not happening.)
These days, they're sometimes rebranded as the "People Team"!

Sounds like it might be a minor improvement, but I'm not hopeful.

I detest the phrase "human resources." I am not a resource. I am not a box of pencils, a copy machine, or a long ton of bituminous coal to be consumed by the company. I am a human being.

"Personnel" wasn't so bad. I'm OK with that because I am a person. But that was before Human Resources departments became warehouses for the legions of yoga moms who think they're being rewarded for being slightly above average, when the reality is it's another industrial make-work program to keep the drones from revolting.
Are you unable to recognize that you're a fish telling the birds that there's no such thing as the ocean? You have a biased perspective.
I don't see how that's possible. I could just quit if I felt I was doing something unethical. It is easy to get hired as a software engineer, though if you are on a restrictive work visa "just quitting" becomes a much harder decision.
Yeah. Clearly one team at Apple feels (or felt) that the name was no impediment to them marketing it. Like all corporations, Apple is just a congregation of human beings, rather than a synchronized hive mind. But it's problematic if app authors can't trust in consistency as a result.

FWIW, it's a net downside for me that my professional workstation has an app named "Amphetamine", so I'm quietly in favor of a rename. But it's obviously the author's prerogative to choose its branding, so long as it falls within (consistently) applied policies of those who they rely on to distribute it.
1. there's lots of competition. restaurants are an extremely common business in existence and to start.

2. product market fit. you think your cooking is good. Do other people think your cooking is good? Do other people think your cooking is worth coming back for in a week, a month, or a year? You can try and do trendy things in food but these trends come and go quickly.

3. Rent and capital costs. It is expensive to fit a space for a kitchen, so you probably took a loan for that. Landlords are trying to squeeze every dollar they can out of you. There may be cheaper options than a leased space like a food truck or a sidewalk stand, but if they're even legal where you are the permits aren't cheap and there's usually a long waitlist. And better locations with more foot traffic cost more money.

4. Labor & management. Most people do not have experience running a restaurant's operations, which have to be tightly managed to both keep expenses down and keep service at decent levels. Bad service will turn customers away for good and bad word of mouth can snowball.

5. Margin. The tendency for new restauranteurs is that they underestimate their expenses and how much margin they need to be making. Prices need to be right for the market you're trying to serve, but you also need to not scare away too many customers. What pencils out in a home kitchen is not necessarily what pencils out in a restaurant.