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Can someone explain why the development of a computer programming language needs "mod teams" and other stuff?

I don't use Rust; does Rust aspire to also be a social network or something?

It seems to me, from my outsider's perspective, that Rust has a lot of bureaucracy for bureaucracy's sake. The "teams" directory [0] has two pages worth of files, which I assume are sub-team membership lists? Good grief.

[0] https://github.com/rust-lang/team/tree/master/teams
As weird as it may seem, it looks like that there may be people willing to pay positive sums of money to go to Mars even without a return ticket.
So I can look into the company myself before I see if it's worth wasting either persons time
Because… JavaScript.
I agree - The author hits at topics that are somewhat controversial but at the same time everyone has a story. I suspect, and I could be wrong, but majority of the comments on that DUI post are people over the age of 40 or 50. They all want to share their story of how drinking and driving wasn't a big issue when they grew up, that their dad always had a drink in hand. People love to talk about themselves and this topic, combined with that audience creates a lot of "nostalgia" for lack of a better term.
>What private companies would want to do with Mars

Um, SpaceX. Private. Volunteers for the jobs are plentiful. They'll have a harder time culling the list than filling it.
If that counts then you can do exactly the same thing with a UART-based protocol, no?
Good books. Surprised to see some fiction, didn't know Bill reads that :)
I absolutely agree, the way health insurance works in the US is completely broken. In a flood insurance it's simple, floods are singular events, if you had insurance at the time of the flood you are covered, if you didn't you are not covered (US flood insurance is broken for different reasons, but that's beside the point). With health that doesn't quite work, any system that allows people to enter and exit health insurance at their leisure is sure to be gamed by people who get insurance only while they have health problems. That leads to insurances having the power to screen and reject people, leading to a whole world of hurt and inequality.

The reasonable way to run health insurance is what most European countries do, with various implementations: you get health insurance when you are born, and you can't get out. That way the insurance can actually work as an insurance (averaging out risk), can't be gamed, everyone is covered, and if your work isn't your insurance you have a freer labor market.
Depends on the corporation's bylaws, but generally the board of directors issues new shares. Investors get a say in so far as they agree to the bylaws and elect the board.
> It's possible that there were CoC violations that they were not able to moderate, that the actions available to them were limited (e.g., they would have initiated a ban but they were not able to ban a core team member), that a core team member intervened to prevent effective moderation, or that the core team prevented the mod team from being able to access official core team channels in order to moderate.

It's not clear to me that they're claiming a violation occurred.

The wording is vague, but one interpretation is that they simply wanted more control over the core team but the core team didn't want it structured that way, so the mod team resigned.

IMO, it would be strange to make a moderation team the highest authority in an organizational structure. I don't really agree with their demand to be the ultimate authority over everyone.

Violation or not, I wish they could have come to an agreement without throwing ambiguous accusations out into public as they quit. Between this and the "I refuse to let Amazon define Rust" post a few months ago we're getting a lot of drama with few, if any, details. There's a lot of "just trust me, but don't listen to what anyone else says about the situation" in this post.

Their closing statement asking everyone to not trust anything the core team says makes this feel particularly petty:

> We
recommend that the broader Rust community and the future Mod Team exercise
extreme skepticism of any statements by the Core Team (or members thereof)
claiming to illuminate the situation.

I really hope that drama like this doesn't become one of the defining features of the Rust community.
Their website clearly states that the Librem 5 USA ships in 90 days when ordered: "Now Shipping! Place your order now, get in approximately 90 days!". I had ordered mine in November of 2020. One year later and still no device delivered.

This either seems like a lie or they are having issues managing a proper queue.
I feel like it could be an elaborate social engineering attack, but yes bingo :)
Thank you for this. Reading the OP article, I kept wondering when they would get to the numbers. Then it ended.
Fingerprints are not usernames. I wish that idea would die but people just love putting things in existing categories so much they keep thinking "fingerprints aren't the same as passwords... so they must be the same as usernames!".
WebSockets bypassing Sop/CORS
My daughter loves it :). But she asks for better WhatsApp integration, lol.

Good work!
If you want a pay bump the easiest thing you can do is learn SQL. Just do bunch of practice problems and get comfy with it. It will take a few months at most. Then, when you apply for a job that requires SQL knowledge... well you lie about using it in your last role. If you're good enough with SQL to make it seem like you used it in your last role – no harm, no foul.
My reMarkable 2 is sitting in a drawer waiting for me to get motivated to sell it. It completely lived up to all the promises, but in the end I couldn’t make the migration from a notebook, partly because I have terrible handwriting and finding things I’ve written down requires me to use the physical cues of paper to go back later. The only other knock was that I couldn’t seem to get it to import my bullet journal format in PDF in a way that made it easy to use as a daily note template.
>and many of yours.

I'm fine with the built in `man` command, and of course offline documentation for almost everything. It's actually kind of weird that our first instinct is to waste internet bandwidth while we probably have a copy right with us.
The filter fits into my left ear based on a mold. It’s flesh-colored and visible when my head is viewed directly from the side. Otherwise, it can’t really be seen. It has holes in it but I don’t know its internal design. It was made almost 20 years ago, so I’m sure the state of the art has changed.

The filter limits unhelpful input into my left ear, which for me is conflicting input in voice range and high-pitched loud noises.

I was instructed to wear it for classes and meetings and to sit to the left of the main speaker when possible.

I haven’t worn it in years, but I credit it with a higher GPA and a few friendships that might have struggled to form if I hadn’t been able to hear well enough to converse.
Employees have no duty to find replacements for their employer. There's especially no moral duty if your bosses are being jerks. I'd say that logic applies to this situation as well.
Why would you have such a wide pay range of $150k-300k for a single position? Seems like such a range enables the kind of thing these laws are trying to prevent, i.e. underpaying employees, or gender/racial gaps in pay. That, or just a massive bait and switch.

Surely there has to be a limit on the ranges for salaries posted, otherwise what's stopping an employer from just posting a range of $10k - $1M, at which point the salary information becomes as worthless as having no information.
I have nothing but sympathy for a dishwasher or a random office worker who gets mistreated by the system

Software engineers, technicians, build engineers, sysadmins, etc are a different story. You have the power to change your circumstances, and it sucks that the world works this way, but you're going to have to use that power.
When I quit my last job my plan was to work on some personal projects for a few months while looking for a new position, hoping to land something before the money ran out.

One of the personal projects was writing up a short memoir for family/friends[1]. This was a mistake as it fed some mental health issues that had contributed to me walking out of my job. Things got a bit serious for a while, and then the money ran out. Thankfully I had the massive good fortune to get a referral to a psychotherapist who helped guide me to a safer place. Then Covid struck.

All-in-all I was without a pay check for just under 2 and a half years. I did manage to complete some projects in that time, which I'm really proud of ... but next time I think I'll listen to my Mum's advice: don't walk out of a job until you've got another job to walk into.

[1] - https://rikverse2020.rikweb.org.uk/book/riks-army-career
> I've had a 20 year career spanning 15 companies and in retrospect none of the work I did for any of those companies strikes me as meaningful.

You absolutely did meaningful work: Increasing shareholder value.
Wikipedia Loves (Stolen) Art
I hate the stock market almost as much as I respect it as an incredible tool. The further out you can guarantee future rewards in exchange for labor and materials, the more prosperous your society will be, and we've seen that in spades. The Dutch invented the concept of common-stock and became the masters of the sea in no time flat; I wouldn't be surprised if the progress (if that's what you believe it is) of the Europeans in philosophy and government was engaged in a feedback loop with the ability of the "common man" to tie his own fortunes into the engines of commerce, rather than into his own social status.

At the same time, it feels infuriating that in order to afford medicine, clothes, food, shelter, and defense once you're past your working prime you must attach your fortunes to companies that have very little to do with the actual services you require in retirement. Personally, I think that the American middle class has been totally taken hostage by Wall Street via the 401(k) and the IRA; anything that threatens "market performance" (e.g. a series of metrics made up and owned by the market owners) threatens their ability to provide for themselves. In this way, any serious large-scale action that might mend a social ill is off the table if its implementation damages large-scale market performance.
> "Play nice", "don't piss off" and "the wrong folks" are open to interpretation.

Yup. It's sometimes hard to figure out how power flows and the social preferences of the people who modulate those flows. Getting along in large orgs is a skill that requires both experience and intentional work.

The problem is that people rarely run into trouble due to abrasiveness among peers, so examples like the Recurse center can be helpful but are woefully incomplete as a guide to corporate politics.

Getting along while being ambitious is anything but easy. There are no rules.

At the end of the day, "social skills" and "social intelligence" are just that -- forms of skill and intelligence. "Getting Along" is always a learned behavior, albiet does come more naturally to some than others, and is far easier said than done.

These skills are often learned pretty early on in life. It's one of the reasons I encourage folks who are considering home-schooling to at least send their kids to one year of high school.
Bubble is here
The advantage from using it a bit (not for anything real yet) is that it supports remote code/deploy/logging/communication. So it’s for the server/maintenance aspect that you are paying a monthly fee.
I actually did that in a matter of 4 years. Was rather incredible in hindsight.

First part time internship had an office with a door and my freaking name on the front.

Second internship had a nice private high walled cubicle.

That internship turned into a full time job, and they moved us into a large 4 person area's where each screen faced a different direction, and the walls weren't as high.

Finally after two years they moved us into the open office, all next to each-other, and gave us the shittiest beats headphones $100 could buy. Audio quality aside, they squeezed the head into a migraine. Comically bad.
Are you the Bene Tleilax?
States have people with guns that enforce laws and officials who willingly leave office when they lose elections or are fired. That’s the hard part, not the voting. How does a DAO do this?
The holy grail isn't always memory safety without garbage collection, especially in standalone apps. If you have a magic garbge collector that runs instantly while taking no memory, then there's no reason to not use it. That also means that if a GC language gets as performant as Rust, Rust would lose part of it advantage.

For example, OCaml is getting multicore and effects, and can serve almost as much HTTP requests as a Rust server based on Hyper. C# is getting performance improvements too, and lots of them.
Ah, that's interesting background, thanks!
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Let me clue you in the US isn’t doing so hot either. Drive through the South along I20 and through Pennsylvania.
"Speed related" is another one of those examples where the government lies with statistics to sell some safety FUD while failing to address the root cause of the problem.

Countries such as Germany have much lower traffic fatalities than the USA but they can operate vehicles at much higher speeds. Speed isn't the problem... uneducated drivers, poor vehicle maintenance, poor road quality, etc are the problem. But all those things would upset the masses who think they are entitled to operate a vehicle for 50 years after 2 months of training and a 15 minute test, so (in the USA) we get the lowest common denominator and roadways that are engineered to handle vehicles at 80+MPH are stuck with 55MPH speed limits.
I can see that you didn’t read the article.
when I see these posts i always figured it was a kind of bot-net role call. imagine you pay a contractor for one million sock puppets and you want to check how many of them aren’t shadowbanned - the bots already follow each other and are programmed to “engage” with posts their bot-friends engage with, so it becomes a follow the leader effect, and allows the purchaser of a botnet to inspect their army, kind of like Obi-Wan getting a tour of the Kaminoan’s clone army after finding the official records were deleted from the archive.

no official list of which accounts are bots == check the size of the network myself, and if a few million retirees get caught up in the net, all the better for camouflage

just a conjecture :)
It's probably not a single position. They're probably just after developers generally and can fit them in at any experience level.
You're right. It is. I'm thinking about setting up some sort of archiving web proxy on my home network to archive most of the pages I visit. I'm not sure if that will turn out to be any more useful than searching the Google index, but, at least it'll be a fun project. :-)
We have a few million unique users, which is small within the broader context of 3D creators and consumers - so small N, but I'll share a couple observations at that volume.

Adoption

STLs remain the most popular, today, on our platform. 3MF has been growing, but only in the past quarter did our users tell us in meaningful volumes that we need to support it - which we did, happily. The push to 3MF seems to be gaining momentum.

Expected benefits vs current state (again, small N and biases in my data)

1. Color/texture is a benefit, though creators include it to varying degrees based on their use case and the intended consumption. We support printers, general 3D designers/sculptors, and mechanical engineers - so our audience is broader than primarily/solely 3D printing. As such, adoption varies considerably depending on the user and use case.

2. Often, the model has more metadata (though rarely includes color, photorealistic renders, etc) and a smaller storage footprint. Benefits creators, consumer and platforms. Though again, adoption lags on the more advanced capabilities inherent to the format.

3. Support for assembly like models is a huge benefit! However, the average 3D printing oriented creator still prefers collections of STLs. In user interviews, I often hear the rationale for this is that there are (perceived) tooling and general workflow changes that seem time consuming - so the usual.. change/learning takes time.

Timing

Creators will drive adoption, as if often the case. We are seeing this increase every month on our platform (thangs.com), but the relative share of uploads still skews towards STL and other formats.

Platforms will need to adapt and take advantage of the format benefits to help consumers see the value.

Over the mid term, I am really excited about 3MF. The fact that there is a spirited discussion on HN about it, if nothing else, strikes me as a great sign!
> Everyone shits so hard on HN all the time.

Do they? Or is it just some minority of shit stirrers? Or is it that HN is more likely to have people that can healthily laugh at themselves - a la Monty Python? I mean you can love HN and n-gate.com at the same time right?

Back on topic: The very public “we quit” message seems like a very clear message to try and effect change for a cause they deeply care about.

I presume the mod team had multiple other options on how to deal with the core issue. For example, they could have internally suggested a quiet rollover to a new mod team over a few months. Say modelled on how CEO leadership is changed, avoiding public drama, when a CEO is rolled by their board.

Deciding on a very public option just causes all the drama to play out with every Internet and Hackernews (including me) adding their own spit into the mix.

Edit: added colour.
This is what I see too! Glad to see that I'm not the only one that does.
Turtle + turtle = turtles all the way down
Monster 1.25.0 Released
Maybe it's because you chose to pick up a few Chinese achievements and ignore the corresponding Western results?

China put a robot on the moon -> NASA put a helicopter on MARS [1]

China achieved some milestone in nuclear fusion -> so did the National Ignition Facility [2]. And so did the private startups Helion [3] and Commonwealth Fusion Systems [4].

Stem cells/ gen therapy: I got the Moderna shot, which Covid shot did you get?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingenuity_(helicopter)

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02338-4

[3] https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Helion-announces-fus...

[4] https://news.mit.edu/2021/MIT-CFS-major-advance-toward-fusio...
Processing and P5 Got Newbies into Coding
This is where my brother is at.

He has over 15 years experience working customer-facing jobs, but they've all been low-level of retail and inbound sales. He wants to get into tech, but has no experience in tech and no education.

But he managed to get an entry-level IT job for a retirement home company. It's only ~$50K/year, but not only is it more than he made before, but gets his foot into the door into the IT world. He hopes to learn the skills necessary on the job to eventually move to doing IT at an actual tech company, which could skyrocket his salary.
what IF a person in a responsibility position is openly accused of being XYZ-phobic by attention-seeking, emotionally unstable netizens?
If you are savvy with computers, my recommendation is to try to get an entry level I.T. job (like helpdesk, office I.T.) where you can work 40 hours a week for similar or better pay.

Do a coding bootcamp and then apply for many entry level software engineering jobs. If you arent getting any offers, try to get some freelance coding work or build a side-project website showcasing your skills.

Having some relevant tech experience even if it's I.T. where you work with software and networking troubleshooting while you are building up some coding skill would be great.

You can take out loans and go to college and all that but I personally wouldn't.

I never went to college and I'm an engineer at one of the biggest software companies in the world, because I have experience.
This is incredible, how is it that I have never heard of this service?
I wonder why you got downvoted. I've found the paper you had linked quite interesting and to the point of this discussion
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Weird, it does work for me...
Perhaps try other snapshots? https://archive.fo/https://www.reddit.com/r/node/comments/6w...
So there is a difference here. On local hardware this is not that crucial. But on (portable) software relying on the fingerprint is more severe.
First responder who needs to deal with deer probably has a pair of earmuffs, might not have enough pairs for everyone standing around looking at the deer.
> Thankfully, the company I work(ed) for was unreasonably cool about it - they gave me a good 5-6 weeks off, kept in touch while making it clear I would be welcomed back, and finally, re-instated me and offered a significant promotion and raise if I could move to another office in another state.

Wow. You really got lucky with this company. Too many will easily cast you aside.
When corporations hide facts we call them immoral, and when they publish the facts we are scratching our heads?

Facebook does a lot of internal research which to me seems to be coming from a good place. Doing that research carries a lot of risk for them; e.g. the recent 'whistleblowers' mainly leaked that exact research reports. But instead of giving Facebook credit for even doing that, we always take a negative approach.

Note: I don't like facebook, I don't even have a facebook account, but unless we encourage good behavior (even at places we dont' like) how do we expect things to get better?
> For the most part the CoC should be standard, and a few experts to enforce it would be better than random enforcement.

I've heard that large-scale enforcement of CoC is super easy and that all the big social media companies have it figured out ;-)
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https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
I guess with your position, you probably have a direct line to Ylva Johansson. Any chance you can ask her to change this?
Yes. It seems like there's a baseline tension in the U.S. from socioeconomic circumstances that doesn't allow for a long-term approach. It's like constantly being in survival mode, one happenstance from ruin (real or imagined).

As if the lower one's income, the closer one is to the heaping mass of natural inevitability: decay and death -- its gravity crushing.

> Its not zero-sum (if it were, the grand-scale effect would be neutral.)

I think I was referring to emotionally. There are so few great sources of positive emotion to tap into, that the zeitgeist is simply "take as much as you can for yourself, before it runs dry."

That in order to escape from "loss," you must create negative externalities and emotions -- no matter how small.

It feels cultural. There is no great basin of tradition and culture here; the positive emotions built off the backs of forefathers that sacrificed and endured negative emotion for the hope of a better tomorrow: missing.