skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The talk at rubyconf mentioned that `string.scan` was 100% faster due to specialized string implementations in the Rust backend. I wonder if there are any performance gains from the actual runtime rather than from std optimizations?
I’ve heard this often repeated claim about ASML owning the core tech behind TSMC’s 5nm process. However if it was just a question of buying N 200 million dollar machines to launch a 5nm foundry wouldn’t we see dozens of 5nm competitors? Why hasn’t intel , apple, Samsung, or AMD shelled out for 10?

Given the size of this commitment it seems clear that there is a lot more to 5nm than the lithography machine.
This is from September 2019. They haven't really bothered with updating the topic since then: https://www.adaptivemobile.com/search/3a08888ea06c35015d1248...
“ most left-leaning Senator in American history.”

That’s just propaganda nonsense. It seems everybody who is only slightly left to the current administration is labeled as “RINO” or “far left” who wants to create a second Venezuela or Cuba.
Highest authority means actual physical control. When your money is in a bank, the highest authority is the bank. Not you. This is the literal definition of sovereignty, and it's used in many digital contexts, not just crypto. E.g. 'self-sovereign identity'. This isn't a word usage made up by crypto, it's quite common, and this is its meaning.
Hundreds of dead birds cover Rome street
First-mover advantage has slowly evolved from being a social and economic head-start to being a declaration of candidacy for the patronage of regulatory capture.
I’ve been full time remote since 2011 across multiple employers and I’ve always received the exact same benefits as office workers. Sure their might be other problems with remote work but having a separate benefits tier for remote workers is something I’ve never seen.

Now, for permanent work vs contractor work, there can be separate tiers but... that’s not what we’re talking about here.
Politician's Syllogism
Henry Ford, Innovation, and That “Faster Horse” Quote (2011)
> There have definitely been cases of astroturfing and vote bombing in the west, but it seems to be much less common these days because it almost always seems to get found out.

Or, it seems less common because those doing it have improved over time so that it almost never gets found out when done by the real pros, only when done by relative incompetents whose visible failures shield the competent astroturfers from suspicion. The only thing that would make it seem common is getting found out frequently, after all.
I got inspired by Spotify Wrapped to put together this - an iMessage Wrapped with data and visualizations on who/where/what/how/when people texted in 2020.

Stack is Flask, Jinja, chart.js, leaflet.js and bootstrap. The app runs locally, and accesses the chat and contact SQLite DBs on OS machines. I've been programming for about 18 months, but this was is the first side project I've released into the wild, so it's been an awesome learning experience.

Link to the repo is here

https://github.com/michael-danello/iMessageWrapped
I don't know about that. The transition TO Intel was pretty abrupt, with machines bought 18 months earlier not able to get the new OS, which was tied to things like iTunes and iLife file versions. So a degraded experience of ownership happens very quickly.
> Does Apple not have manager feedback mechanisms?

My manager left me out of the first review cycle, but at the end of the second review cycle I did leave a review of the manager. By this time he had left our team though. I don't think it did anything as he continued to rise through the ranks.
I strongly recommend down and out in London and Paris as well. He decides to live as realistically similar to a poor person for a while in a gonzo-like journalism experiment with a lot of interesting scenes and observations
Point was that despite repeated successes with this style of investment the libhurdurians still insist it’s a bad idea, totally blind to the fact that lassaiz affaire is just as prone to degeneration. It’s ideology as much as any other approach and when you find people insisting on it without any concrete examples it’s just plain ideology you’re dealing with and there’s just no point wasting your time.
Your story sounds believable (and sadly common). The posted story sounds incredible, ie it strains credibility.
The use of traits here is really cool. It looks like the entire language implementation is defined as a trait, which allows for language backends to be swapped out while maintaining the same outward API.
My favorite story: growing up, I was really good friends with this girl who's Mom was an Everquest dev (like, the first one.)

Post-launch, she became so addicted to her own game, she had to quit her job and lived in a small apt, forgoing clothes and only eaing the easiest of food.

At the time it was funny...
And science would likely devolve into patent trolling system.
That can be also done. The pins are there (as you can see on the board design). I just wanted to separate the threads. It was easier to control the steppers with the M5Stack.
So which company, working for which government, and how to stop it? The article is just a talk-to-our-salesman piece?
I don't think so. I've worked at other FAANG companies which had these sorts of posts written about them, and I've witnessed plenty of situations that I would call "abusive".

But what I read in this article was beyond the pale. I never felt like anybody adjacent to any of my roles might have cause to fear for their physical safety. Reviews were used as political tools and occasional sources of psychological abuse, sure, but people still got marched out quickly if they stopped acting like empathetic human beings towards their peers.
My biggest transformative learning experience regarding this has been how much of even technical (in particular CS, AI, ML) research is about recombination of existing ideas and that the most successful researchers aren't doing strictly technical contributions and "breaking ground", "discovering new terrain", but of selling new stories and narratives involving known concepts and shifting the emphasis from known aspect to another known aspect.

Relatedly, in this lecture [0] he expresses it by contrasting the "positivist" model where knowledge is piled on, linearly expanding vs the model of discourse, where research is a conversation, where participants must know what the others take for granted, assume, doubt etc and new contributions argue that there are better ways to do or conceptualize things. Works are forgotten, left behind, ignored etc. A work can be valuable in one context at one stage in the discourse, while worthless at another time. It's not like a neutral map of some terrain that we can just file and store forever.

He's in the social sciences, where this may be more obvious, but it's also true of sufficiently developed technical sciences too. When the low hanging fruit has been picked, the game becomes closer to zero sum. I mean new value can still be created, but not mainly through bringing in "new characters into the story" but by letting the story unfold using the same characters (main ideas). Only a true paradigm shift may break this equilibrium.

[0] https://youtu.be/vtIzMaLkCaM
Second only to quid pro quote
You could buy either a stablecoin or ETH (it tends to have more liquidity) and uniswap to a stablecoin like USDC (Owned by Circle and Coinbase, not sketchy, decent liquidity) or USDT (kinda sketchy, insane liquidity). Then you are only really exposed to the volitility for the time it takes to swap, with uniswap that can be literally seconds.
Even if the rest was vague enough (and it only would be if this was a very common set of experiences), there was a screenshot of a 1-on-1 meeting time and room, so the anonymity ship has sailed.
> remote working also benefits the environment, something that became abundantly clear early in the global lockdown. NASA satellite images revealed an initial decline in pollution in China, but as the country gradually resumed normal operations, pollution levels increased accordingly

This may have been the case in China, where many factories were idled, but there was no sizable benefit here in the US.

> Air pollution levels in the U.S. have not decreased significantly during the pandemic, despite the concurrent increase in remote work and decrease in travel.

https://news.gsu.edu/2020/10/01/current-air-pollution-tied-t...
When you are young and inexperienced, you don't know the difficulty of a subject. So as long as each step you take to advance your skill is achievable, and the feedback loop is good enough, you'll keep going. But as soon as you realize that you've only scratched maybe 1% of what is needed for mastery (when prior to that realization you felt like you were 90% there), it can be difficult to keep going.

As you get older and more experienced you get exposed to many things that appear to be "easy" but you then find out how much work it is (after you've sunk a bunch of time and effort into it). After enough of this exposure you realize that any skill that isn't realized by a majority of the population takes an immense amount of dedication and opportunity cost. So after a while you tend to stick with what you already know (sunk cost).

Of course your life satisfaction can improve with more skills you have, especially if they are skills that don't become too obsolete. For example being able to do some maintenance on your car (brake job, oil change, tire rotations, radiator flush...) can save money at a mechanic. And being able to take apart a sewer trap under a sink to clean out the hair clog is better than pouring a strong alkaline solution down the drain and hoping it works.

So it is really important to learn enough life skills while you are young to help build up a health and satisfying life later.
absolutely; but they can't pretend to be X at all
https://schema.org is a good starting point for finding common models.

Also might be worth reading https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/intro-to-linked-...
> But someone just listening to a tune on the radio, humming along to it, I don't think they're going to go "yep, that's the good ol' DX7 electric piano patch" or "yep that's a classic Strat sound".

At least in the U.S., lay people are notoriously bad at even knowing the names of instruments, much less pinpointing them in the overall musical texture.

About the only test you could do would be to, say, replace the Theremin in Good Vibrations with a string synth from the DX7. Most people have never heard of either instrument, but many would instantly recognize that something is off in that example. Probably the same if you replace a stratacaster, vocoder, etc., in a track they're familiar with, especially if you substitute it with something from a different historical period.

Other than that, I'm afraid all that's being measured is the effect of lack of funding on basic music education in the U.S. :)
From this and a few other random posts I've seen on Blind and Hacker News, the closed/secretive nature of Apple seems to allow it to happen more frequently than at other companies.
> Anchored, yeah sure. So you're listing something that isn't in the EU, which is revealing

It is surrounded by EU
countries, in a country that is a pseudo-EU member. You're reaching.

> ITER is entirely irrelevant. It's a pork project that won't result in much.

Unless you have a seer's eye, these kinds of claims are baseless.

> The next 20-30 years of energy generation is wind, natural gas, oil, solar, some hydrogen and nuclear (and primarily only China is brave enough to build that)

Agreed and a sad state of affairs

> Moderna was just as well positioned as BioNtech

Which makes Moderna a leader too? It doesn't diminish BioNtech's work.

> That's true in the sense that the EU never had leadership in most fields to begin with.

You literally had to ignore multiple points in my parent comment to even be able to make this claim. Revealing..

Edit: not to mention we are commenting under an article that partly concerns ASML..
Some companies have a more open and transparent review process. I'm not sure if it would help with a clique, but at least people have to put information in writing which when push comes to shove can be verified. And, reports can review their managers. If your management chain doesn't care then yes, senior people walk.
Maybe because after every paragraph you ask yourself, why didn’t they just fire them? They could have done it at any point.
This is a case where a good journalist could do wonders - to synthesize this beyond the extensive length and to force Apple to investigate and respond. IANAL but it sounds like some of this could get near a workplace harassment suit too and publicity could attract pro-bono representation, especially in the current anti-tech political climate. It'd also validate some of this, as this thread is already littered with doubters of the story. While I generally believe most of this, I think a full picture adds a lot more teeth to some of the crucial parts here.

Any journalist reading this - please engage with this person and help them.
same here it was a 486 and linux kernel was 0.9 (it was buggy)
San Francisco Area Bay?

EDIT: less cynical, i guess my point is that your comment is so full of jargon that it's near impossible to follow for me, and likely many other readers. In fact I googled SFAB but the wikipedia article doesn't really tell me what it is either (other than "a group of soldiers doing soldiery stuff")
Me too, my friend! Part of me wishes I got into it earlier. But another part of me wouldn't change a thing for fear of messing it up.
My wife -- not a current or ex-Apple employee -- had a very similar experience as this, at a different company and in a different geographical location than Apple.

It's unfortunate that workplace abuse is so easy to do and hard to fix. She called their bluff when they told her they could easily replace her, after she spoke up about the treatment. They were shocked that she would actually leave. I was so proud of her.
It’s less about disbelief than it being unacceptable.

If the company can be the biggest and most profitable, and build the best products, it sure as hell can figure out how it expects people to be treated, since there is already such a culture of controlling what information is leaked to the public.

Edit: I hold Apple to a special standard because it creates some of the best products that I pay a premium for. I expect the people and culture to be no less and unimaginable best of breed like the M1 chip and the A14 chip.
The KLF music catalog officially unavailable since 1992 now streaming 8 tracks
Right, ガイジン thx for correction.
One of my favorite things in life is to get into a rabbit hole of a new hobby. This usually comes with lots of energy from the excitement and learning something new.

I also love listening to friends and others talk about whatever hobby they are deep into. It's fascinating how almost anything can become someone's main hobby and passion.
Why didn’t the manager just fire this person, they could have at any time?
> When Microsoft closed their cloud-based ebook business in 2019, they refunded 100% of the money to the people who lost access to the books they bought.

They probably had different terms of sale; buying books contingent on an external service is less attractive than buying in-game items contingent on the game.

> This was the correct response to shutting down servers.

Depending on the terms of sale, it may have been the minimum legally required response.
Hybrid approach worked great at Anthem. 2 or 3 days a week in office on days that the team chose together, and the rest of the week at home. Some heavy coding weeks, you could skip the in office if the team agreed. But Friday's usually included lunch and learn's and were a pretty light day for the team as we spend a lot of time in meetings and talking about what we accomplished and intended to accomplish.

Those kinds of days were a great part of the week and boosted productivity as well as enhanced our cohesion.
What org was that in? IS&T? I am thinking that this story by OP was in IS&T because that is known to be the worst org in Apple
Is this very impressive? SF to LA, unless you're traveling on local roads, is essentially all freeway. And pretty much one long road at that. Hop on I-5 or 101 or even the 1 and, in the words of The Simpsons, "sit back and feel your ass grow" for five hours. Self driving folks have been saying that highways driving has always been pretty straightforward for essentially a decade now. Perhaps I'm being cynical, but "completing an extremely well-traveled, uncomplicated route without error" doesn't seem like much of an accomplishment in the year 2021.
well, it certainly doesn't hurt to have more to choose from. It's been a popular subject, so people are coming up with their own approaches. Time will filter out those worth the attention.
My heart goes out to any immigrant forced to stay in a abusive environment like this just to not get kicked out of the country.
A quantitative analysis of Calvin and Hobbes
Maybe you can try writing something this long, in detail and see if it turns out the same? Assuming you don’t work at Apple.

Edit: This post seems plausible once you start hearing multiple accounts.
Wallpaper Group
Great summary of all the things websites do wrong, which break accessibility and your general ability to build upon them with other tools:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23324718

And a related, more recent comment from 2020 that identified a key failure mode:

> We need to actually coin a word to describe "company solved their use-case wonderfully and can't resist fiddling around with it for reasons that don't align with their user-base”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25489203
If you like the sound of the Juno and don’t want to pay vintage synth prices for one, I highly recommend the Behringer DeepMind.

It is clearly modeled after the Juno, and adds a lot of nice features (2 DCOs per voice, 2 more-capable LFOs, an arpeggiator, full FX suite...) and you can get the 12-voice keyboard model for about half of what you’d pay for a Juno 106.

It’s got a big screen in the middle, but the front panel is designed so that you almost never have to use it, even when building patches. They have a great shortcut system for assigning modulation that’s easy to pick up and very fast to use. It’s just a great synth all around.
there was no sizable benefit here in the US.

There was a huge benefit where I have been waiting out the pandemic. I hiked a peak in April, and because almost nobody was driving and work was significantly reduced, visibility was the best it has ever been in my lifetime. I saw very distant mountain ranges I didn't even know would be visible from that peak. The views of the intervening valleys were absolutely stunning, once in a lifetime clarity.
Would it not be appropriate to contact said managers (new) manager directly in this case?
Conflict Resolution Matrix
There actually was a short period where Windows 95 was new and had just introduced long filenames with long extensions to former DOS users. Then, for a short time, stuff like .SomeSoftwaresDocument was actually popular.
Right, but arbitrarily declaring that a specific wage level is the true one does not make something a cost to the business. We, collectively, decide that people should not make less than X. That does not make each person's labor worth X in a free market, and it does not make X the 'true' cost of paying a person. If we, as a society, decide that people should make at least X, then we, as a society, should subsidize wages below X until it is X.

The gap between the free market value of someone's labor and a 'living wage' is not an externality. It is not a secret cost that businesses are shirking. It is a social obligation that we made up because we want our citizens to have a certain standard of living, and that's fine, but we should all pay that together.

Companies should pay people what their labor is worth, and we should all make up the difference together, if that's what we believe is right.
So use lower volume across more pipes in parallel? Seems like something to engineer around.
> It's pretty hard to complain as I watch working class people around me struggle to get by, or get sick working in "essential" industries.

Now think about the places in the world where a developer gets paid 40k/y or 20, or 10.
I’m actually doing the opposite - I’m dropping everything JavaScript related and focusing whole-heartedly on .Net and Blazor. I have no beef with js, but the mental load keeping two ecosystems, communities, tool chains and concepts is too much for me. Maybe it’s age, maybe it’s something else, but I can tell there’s limited space in my head and JavaScript doesn’t spark enough joy to stay.
Well the counter-argument to that is: why do you need to achieve mastery? You can be happy with the slow progress you make along the way. You don't need to be Picasso to enjoy painting.
In my mind the reputation of Facebook is that it's more employee friendly and customer hostile, but Apple is more employee hostile (thinking about Steve Jobs stories) and customer friendly.
The meeting was deleted afterwards. It’s mentioned right there in the post.
Tangentially related: these worms are also the source of the name of the IPv6 transition technology, Teredo. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teredo_tunneling#Choice_of_t...
What kind of smoking gun are you looking for? Given that Steve Jobs was partly famous for his capriciousness in how he treated people I imagine his example set a baseline of acceptable toxic behavior in the company so it’s not unreasonable for me to imagine that a team like this could emerge given the apparent lack of oversight by HR and upper management and all the secrecy and isolation between teams that Apple is famous for.
You can put just about any company in the "Apple" role here. A bad manager anywhere can cause a workgroup to turn toxic. I've seen it happen literally everywhere I've ever worked, though luckily only 1st hand at one location. (Actually there was one exception: working at a Barnes & Noble during college. I'd heard horror stories about other locations while I was there, but the store I worked at was run by an extremely good manager who cared for her employees and fostered that attitude in her assistant managers as well. It was also the most profitable store in the region, probably not a coincidence)
> I take everything with a grain of salt.

"Trust but verify" --Ronald Reagan

There used to be a saying, "Don't believe everything you read on the internet." Somehow it's been forgotten.

Not saying the article is false or contrived. I'm saying we just don't know since it's anonymous, and therefore I take it with a grain of salt.
In n Out has been a notable hold out from delivery apps for this reason.
The first hunter gatherers didn't have those resources either. They didn't even have wikipedia. If you're motivated, you can figure it out.
I believe it’s context specific. Both are in common use in acoustics or bacterial cultures, but it’s electronic media and spirit mediums.
> I would love a source on this.

https://thegolfnewsnet.com/golfnewsnetteam/2020/12/29/how-ma...

This article supports the numbers for Trump and adds additional information.

https://www.golfchannel.com/article/golf-central-blog/obamas...

The above article gives numbers for Obama.

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-defends-golf-trips-fal...

This article compares them both as of the summer of their 4th year in office. Short summary, Trump played at about 2x the pace of Obama.
At most big companies firing people is a lengthy process. Also firing someone under 12 months into their first "real" job after graduating looks very bad.
This article says breathing the air in Beijing on one day is 15 micromorts. Beijing seems to have a P2.5 AQI of 50-100. You can use that to compare to the hazard of your choice.

https://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report-every-breath-you-t...
I agree, but I think that's partly a chicken & egg problem. People wouldn't inflate their resume if HR was a little more H and a little less R.