skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I was responding to a particular comment that was talking about the mechanics of these entertainment unions with respect to actors specifically:

I get your point, but I was just using SAG to give a concrete example. The rules are broadly similar for the other film industry unions as well, with similar effects (and other roles have "industry-famous" if not "mom and dad famous" talent).

I suspect you'd get similar dynamics if, for example, a large cohort of the staff/principle engineers plus a bunch of senior engineers in the valley joined the SWE Local 16384. It's probably not necessary that your mom and dad have heard of them.
Could be the same rumors filtered through differently technically literate pipelines. To a lot of people React Native is still "web stuff", and the article doesn't admit any technical knowledge as to how this rumored project is going to attempt "native integration" other than it will attempt "native integration" so for all we know, could still be (has always been) React Native.
I'll put my experiences down as a cautionary tale.

I've had 3 relatively short stints in tech jobs, but none where I left responsibilities on the table, like leaving in the middle of a project, or promising some work only to bail. Notice was always given, and I made the best effort to transition by completing all work before the end date. My reasons for leaving each are a bit more serious than a lifestyle downgrade, but none-the-less, that doesn't matter to future employers.

There are lots of sectors to jump between that utilize programming and IT knowledge (DevOps, Cloud roles, security roles), so even when you go to try them out, it's being considered a job hop by recruiters/hiring managers. If it doesn't work out, you're now potentially job hopping twice when you try to go back to something you know you can do due to world events.

Not only is this the major take-away from the article, it also applies to switching industries, and in my experience for switching industries, it applies even if you have a recent certification in the new industry which gets requested by a lot of companies:

>It’s ok to quit after a few weeks (just don’t make it a pattern)

Unfortunately, companies won't see the notice you gave or the transition work you did. Those companies likely can't verify that, so they really only have your employment dates to look at. If they don't like it, they just won't put you forward regardless of how much they like your skills.

For some people, there will be companies where they don't fit in with because of personality traits. If you get particularly unlucky, you'll run into 2 or 3 of those companies in quick succession, with the latter positions being even worse than the first, and so you'll have to stick it out and endure more. This unluckiness doesn't do you any favors, though. But it's really up to you if those personality traits need to be fixed or not.

The only thing that seems to count is your tenure, so don't fuck it up. You might not even get to the leetcode step if you do.
Huh, never would have guessed, I suppose sarcasm really doesn't translate well in text form. There are just too many actual crazy viewpoints around to be sure which ones are actually just satirical/sarcastic.
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And even when it's "computer stuff" you find out that there aren't that many n^2 problems to solve, and you'll recall every n^3 problem you fix because they almost never happen.

Mostly what you deal with is architectural problems. And when it comes time to fix slow code, the problem won't be O(n^2) code but a mountain of code where the constant factor C is somewhere between log(n) and sqrt(n).
I was referring to the third party example, where there is an "imminent breach to the peace." The point about indecency can stand as it is: not how I'd order a society, but I get it.

However, I should not suddenly be in MORE trouble for wearing an indecent shirt because it made someone standing around me angry enough to get rowdy.
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I hadn't heard of rocket.chat before but it looks very cool. I integrated it into Pipedream.com based on your post as it sounds like there are many compelling integration use cases.

Example - https://pipedream.com/@/p_G6C6akB/
I don't agree with all his actions but I appreciate the transparency. The writing gives exposure, documentation of his CV and is arguably showcasing a skill. Job hopping isn't sustainable and shouldn't become a permanent pattern, but it's not unacceptable. Early career it's the fastest way to gain salary, experience different kitchens/industries and arguably just how the job economy is; you will not be rewarded for job loyalty so why optimize for it.
Given their behavior, sounds like you dodged a bullet anyway, but this is also a good time to point out if you're job hunting while already employed, you should never give in your notice at current co until you have a signed employment contract from the new one.
Remember when Facebook messenger was xmpp based? Lol.
I'm all for fighting against totalitarianism, but I feel like it's kinda weird to get a job at Google if you actually care about that
I'm guessing you're referring to the probability/possibility of large, untracked or suppressed outbreaks in other countries - India, Iran, Russia, China, Brazil, etc.

Depending on the source of your data, extrapolations on personal experience or rumor or innuendo, or distrust of different government systems, there may very well be massive outbreaks - on the level or exceeding per capita infections in the US. Frankly, we don't have solid data, so it's hard to say.

The US has, best case, massive testing shortfalls and untested cases, periodic government attempts to downplay the issue, and chaotic spikes and overwhelmed systems. It is almost certainly still better in all of these areas than those countries listed above. We can't do anything about that though.

It's fog of war. But you're probably getting downvoted because the tone of your message seems to be one of 'pfft the US isn't that bad' - which by most metrics we seem to have, isn't the case, at least in high profile areas like Southern California. Keeping it from not being overly bad, near as we can tell, also requires taking serious and often painful approaches to the problem to mitigate it, which doesn't happen if it isn't taken seriously. Not taking those measure seems to make the problem even worse - in the sense of concrete, real people being dead that otherwise wouldn't be.

To more directly answer your question - in total number of REPORTED new cases and deaths, US is solidly number 1. As a percent of population, the only sizable country with more cases than the US right now is the Czech Republic - which is serious, but isn't going to get headline news like the US will. By tests per capita, the US is doing reasonably well - the only largish country doing better so far is the UK. However, considering the scope of it's spread in the US, that is probably misleading. Most countries haven't NEEDED to test so much.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Feel free to click on the various sorting widgets to see it from different views.
Not a good read - more like a rant, light on substance, and stretches some things.
200k per year * 10 people is $2m/yr.

It was making $2.5m/mo.
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Hmm, did "flat earth" suddenly go out of style for linking ridiculous not-believable conspiracy theories to people who doubt consensus establishment views?

Got it, I'll start shrieking about guitar pedals now whenever anyone starts questioning taking the Covid vaccine.
Yes, but you have a lot more chances to have the bad luck if the virus is spread widely
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This podcast recently had an episode about parents getting radicalized, and it had some suggestions - might be worth a listen https://castro.fm/episode/2JwRY7
> I had a desire to marry my mother for a brief weird period when I was a little girl

This is even dumber and only guy can think it is anything.
Nothing is lost. You would convert the ad-hoc test code from the repl into actual unit tests in your source code. With the added good feeling they have already been executed successfully at least once.
yes, I think that is the bear point in the "Intel is doomed" analysis. I think at what point would the market/demand be financially worthwhile for another company to put up with the upfront costs of building a fab to compete w/ Samsung/TSMC?

Also, how many of the Ryzen units (and nVidia) are being scooped up by bots?
*Unidentified Falling Object
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-55430397

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/coronavirus-...

Etc.
Stackpath has a pretty solid WAF at very affordable cost with no per domain cost (last time I set it up for a client at least, I am not affiliated to them so not sure that’s still the case.)
Always surprised I rarely see them mentioned, Cloudflare for a similar feature set was vastly more expensive when we did a cost comparison.
It depends what kind of environment you're using. Eg, notebooks like Jupyter are a kind of REPL environment, which is how data scientists typically write code. You prototype in a cell that is the source code that gets saved. If you've finalized the function or piece you're working on, you go to another cell.

The reason data scientists do it this way is load times are gruesome for data science work. Sometimes it takes days to process something. Imagine every time you change a line of code having to wait days to see if there is a bug in code or what the output is. Instead we run it in an environment that loads it once and keeps it in ram (a REPL), so when working on code below what is already loaded there are no load times.

There are other kinds of environments though. Sometimes video game devs develop on a REPL where the game is running, they pause it, update some code, and then go back into the game with the updates automatically put in. No load times.
Even there, the reason those cards are considered valuable is ultimately because people played the game. Not necessarily the same people who are collecting the cards now, but that's where it started. There are hundreds of other CCGs from the 90s whose cards are basically worthless today because the game was a commercial failure.
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This is disturbingly good summary. I remember Matrix being presented as less bloated compared to XMPP... sure.
Would be wonderful if the status can be synced with my Twitter account!

Also would definitely pay for it I can use a custom domain.
i’ve actually done this. my tact was to leave off resume and disclose in background check.

i got an email asking why the job i left out wasn’t that n my resume. i simply said having it on there always drives the conversation to why i’m morally opposed to that business after working there. that’s apparently a fine answer and i was given the offer.

going forward i’m just gonna leave it off the resume and the background check. i simply updated my other job dates to 2/2002 - 3/2003 && 5/2003 - 8/2005. if asked i say i took a long break. been fine since
Looks like "they" know their customers.
"Harmful to society" is a poor standard used to justify a lot of evil stuff. That standard once included homosexuality. It was the basis for eugenics. Also like I mentioned before - Prohibition. It's a standard that's ultimately subjective and self-deceiving.

You're arguing that we should outlaw something that's vital to human life. Social interaction.

Violence, on the other hand, is clearly not necessary or virtuous.

Isolation is a form of punishment and I hope you're not saying that we all must be punished for the greater good and any dissent is evil. That's borderline cultish.
I dont think they are throwing in the towel, I think they are all going about it on their own to capture more of the low hanging profit?

> One key issue facing Haven was that while the firm came up with ideas, each of the three founding companies executed their own projects separately with their own employees, obviating the need for the joint venture to begin with, according to the people, who declined to be identified speaking about the matter.
Algorithms remain unpatenable.

The claims of this patent recite a chat bot system that does specific things a certain way. If it does require a particular algorithm, the algorithm itself is not protected.
The management have to find out you're in a union first, then ... why do they shun you, what's the play you're imagining here?

Don't you have employment contracts? People will, at least under rule of law, be treated according to their contracts and your country's employment law??

Does your company currently investigate who you've spoken to about your job and seek to punish you for representing your better interests?
If you plan to buy Bitcoin please wait a few months until lawsuit against Tether [1] gets a ruling - if they are found guilty of a price manipulation scheme it should temporarily bring Bitcoin price down to more reasonable level, say below 1000 USD.

[1] https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.524076...
Which elites did he knock down besides maybe the Clinton?
This is a terrible article. It is just a rehash of information that was public 2 weeks ago with a couple of scare quotes. I should have known better than to expect news from zdnet though.
If you can get away with customizing everything via elementor, you should have a fairly easy time of it. Be warned though, if you can't then working around what tools like elementor and wp think is "the way" can be a challenge.

You should probably love PHP before getting involved. Some people do, I personally don't.
This story isn't boring at all - it's valuable advice, particularly for younger engineers. This is yet another comment on here that I really wish I could email myself twenty years ago.....:)
Anyone at all responsible for the US being one of the worst countries hit is not browsing HN right now looking to learn new perspectives.
> Russia, we now know, used SolarWinds' hacked program to infiltrate at least 18,000 government and private networks. The data within these networks, user IDs, passwords, financial records, source code, you name it, can be presumed now to be in the hands of Russian intelligence agents.

Yep. I'm SURE it was just Russia. It's not like our government is perfectly happy squirreling away CVEs so our own intelligence agencies can exploit them themselves.
It could even go the other way because now your yearly review is thrown out of whack.
I probably wouldn't. I am getting more concerned recently only because I got the vibe somehow from her during new year that I was somehow involved in some of that shady stuff, which those conspiracy groups claim is going on under our noses. I work in IT for a bank currently and am doing pretty well as a consultant. Somehow she cannot really "compute" that.
Depends on where you are. Cost of benefits doesn't really scale with geographical increases. In Boston, my last several startups have used 1.35x salary as the fully loaded cost for engineers.
>Would you be able to force your company to make a donation of $100 to save someone's life?

Maybe it is because I work for a company that has a value measured in the singular billions rather than the singular trillions like Google, but the answer is yes. I could rather easily get $100 of company money to save a life. You are going to have to set the cost much higher than $100 before it gets to the point that I couldn't get that done myself or with the help of someone I already have a direct relationship with.

>The system is often setup in such a way that the person who is setting the rules doesn't see their impact and doesn't even know you exist, and the person who sees your plight is powerless to help you. Cruel system can arise with no intention, just stupidity.

Those rules are often setup specifically to give the people who see your plight an out for acting without empathy. That doesn't mean there is never an opportunity for them to give in to their empathy and bend some rules. It also doesn't mean that the person who set the rules is innocent or ignorant of the harm they did. They just absolve themselves of it through their own lack of empathy. It is not them committing these acts, it is "the company".
Lifeline?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifeline_(video_game)

We played it some. Battle was kinda silly... we seem to recall also that parsing was easier in original Japanese and English was harder to play.
> the Nightingale covid hospitals have never been used...

Because there's no staff to use them:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55413831

> "We are already 'diluting' our skilled ICU nursing staff with less-well-trained volunteers."

> As well as staffing, some have argued there is just not the equipment available to treat the sickest patients

> "In some there are not even appropriate toilet facilities. They were built in a rush because we were desperate."

Based on that info, my guess is these hospitals will only be used as a very last resort, possibly staffed with vets or NHS staff moved from elsewhere in the country for a short period... This is not a scenario that we should encourage or count on.
Sure it might be boring to find out any specific hack is China or Russia, etc... but where that becomes important is the fact that whatever secrets that get stolen, the country does in fact matter. Think of it this way - if the government of the country you live in places a bounty of say ($2000 USD or that country's equivalent) for each top secret document - it both places a high value target on us, as well as revealing the things that they DONT know. I mean, specifically do you know of the latest in Fort Knox's security protocols? Do you know the latest in high powered microwave weapons that we're developing (and how to make them)?

These are things we really don't want additional countries knowing how to make.
Edge was doing PWA even before it was Chromium. (Arguably better, because Old Edge had native UWP integration stories that Chromium doesn't have access to.)

Even Chromium-based Edge is still doing at least a few things in terms of native integration on Windows (including Windows Store support) that probably "count" as "more than just inheriting from Chromium".
I think all of this is overemphasizing how much we are subconsciously "training" our bodies to do anything.

As with most human behavior studies, I have yet to see a sleep study that managed to satisfactorily demonstrate causality in place of correlation when it comes to working in bed ruining your quality of sleep.

In this particular case, you could imagine that people who work from their bed tend to be on screens in their bed until just before bedtime, causing them to be more "wired" than people who have a dedicated office space and avoid screens in their bed entirely.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ whatever you say

(and to clarify, Lacan identified the literalism of the theory as a problem and abstracted the idea to the level of desire. The child wants whatever mommy desires, whatever will make her stick around, which may or may not be the literal penis. In many cases it isn't.)
This person in the article is whining because hardware is difficult and software is easy in comparison. And calls it as "littered with hardware parts"

And HN responds by upvoting the article and downvoting @Animats!