skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Non-white groups lag in almost all economic categories.

Why are the data for Asian people not shown on those graphs? It only lists Black, Hispanic, and White. Is it because (at least according to the stats on Wikipedia[0], sourced from the US Census) they don't reinforce that narrative? In fact, according to that data, the median white income is ~$66K, which is surpassed by Ghanaians (~$69K), South Africans (~$98K), and Indians (~$150K). I can think of several reasons for that that have nothing to do with racial superiority or systemic oppression. Deciding what must be the cause of the problem ahead of time and claiming anyone who disagrees is a racist is both poor form and ineffective in actually solving problems of inequality.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_U...
Completely agree. I wrote a multithreaded compute-heavy program in Rust, semi-ported from a C++ version, and sidestepped async completely—just used old school thread primitives. It was delightful! Once I sorted out the data structures and messaging, the borrow checker and Send/Sync traits made implementation nearly trivial, and absolutely no memory corruption or accidental non-atomic clobbering. It took a bunch of hours with gdb and valgrind to achieve the same stability with the C++ code, and to this day I'm not 100% sure I got every edge case.
The Pros and Cons of Embedded SREs
This reminds me of the Skiatron, a CRT (aka dark-trace CRT) with the ability to display a permanent image: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skiatron

I’ve never seen one in operation, and I don’t think there’s even pictures of one online showing an image.
Another case where Americans seem more than willing to ignore the experiences of the rest of the world.

Many workforces in Australia are highly unionised. Unions have been largely effective - even in recent years - at using their collective bargaining power for the good of the worker. Hell, our ruling political party is literally called the Labor party. It has strong union ties and a history of passing pro-worker legislation. Union corruption exists as it exists in all areas where power can be had, but in Australia’s case you’d truly be throwing the baby out with the bathwater by saying “unions are bad!”, even in industries like tech where we’ve never really sought collective bargaining on a large scale, the universal protections ushered in by the union movement benefit all workers here. It sounds like you’ve fallen for the same propaganda as everyone else but you particularly think that you have “smarter” reasons. You don’t.
One thing I've noticed is social media is becoming more close-knit. This is an observation from my younger relatives. They only submit content into their profiles which only their close friends could see. Another thing is their preference to use messaging platforms to relay information instead of utilizing posts.
It is generally the case that said exceptional talent has already immigrated to HCoL US areas like SF/NYC, or that there are immigration/timezone restrictions preventing them from being hired by companies. It is very rare that someone who is talented can't get hired for a rate that they are worth.
Or they will get great talent from outside SF and do great.
I was told a long time ago that it would be great to start a startup. However, not so great working for one... One has the excitement, one merely the uncertainty. When you make a move, or when you consider making a move, make bloody well sure you're more a founder than worker. Particularly if you're risk averse.
Because it doesn't answer the question "how fast individual languages write individual characters to a pipe" if in fact some languages do not.

It's not language "cheating" of course. It's just OP "measuring the wrong thing".
oh man, could you do this for powershell as well? :-P
Yeah that's the point.
This wasn’t an employer, it was a volunteer effort by a Hindu group to organize legal representation for Syrian refugees caught up in Trump’s Muslim ban. There were a few people on the committee who were really intent on spending time doing stuff like this instead of connecting people to legal resources they needed.

The group has, since, dissolved for obvious reasons.
Is this like a business or are you just really committed to the project? I see you all have it listed on your linkedin, and was wondering what the long term goals are for the project.
Are there? I think it's much more likely there are engineers that were told to work on this, and thought that working on this would be fun, let them have an ML project, be a learning opportunity, give them something good for their performance packet, give them good experience, be good for visibility in the org, and many things like that.

I don't know why jumping to the most far reaching evil option is popular in threads like this is the default.
The entity you’re trying to compete against has enough money & reach to have your body dissolved in acid & dumped in the Mariana Trench within a few hours if they so feel. The incentive to do so as well.

If you’re not already part of the family, your chances of successfully competing against is nil
I don’t think some thing can be trained. Product managers usually need to do the most varied things in any organization so they just need to be quick learners/able to “understand everything” while making good decisions and having good taste. Certs and degrees don’t really help that. In fact “Product Management Certificate” sounds like the biggest smell imagineable for working with a PM
The red wine thingy was mostly debunked a few years ago. Kudos for adding the $75K part, I got the joke.
> Why is this exactly newsworthy? Any communication through official channels is the property of the employer anyway.

Pretty clear one of the major things they're going for here is detecting "jobsite troublemakers", ie employees who are upset with job conditions/agitating for improvements/discussing salaries/etc, which is given specific legal protection. It is explicitly legal and protected for employees to discuss labor conditions, organizing, or salaries regardless of whether you do it "on company property" or "on company chat". Just because the company owns it doesn't mean you have no legal rights - just like a company can dismiss you for no reason but they can't dismiss you for any reason.

They are wrapping it up with "think of the children" justifications like "employees who are discussing salary might be considering leaving and they might take nefarious action if they do so" but that's the core of the situation here - these are tools to detect and fight against legally-protected activities by employees.

> Workplace collusion: The workplace collusion classifier detects messages referencing secretive actions such as concealing information or covering instances of a private conversation, interaction, or information.

> "The leavers classifier detects messages that explicitly express intent to leave the organization, which is an early signal that may put the organization at risk of malicious or inadvertent data exfiltration upon departure"

Hypothetically, do you think it would be a good idea for Microsoft to build a classifier and provide managers with a list of potential "religiously devout", eg based on correlated work/away periods, language patterns, etc? Sure, it's a legally protected classification, but there's an elevated risk of extremist activity, which surely presents a business risk, right? So why not?
I've bounced around a few languages this year, looking for a language to use in my spare time for fun / enjoyment / skills growth (I have a similar set of criteria to you). I've looked at rust, swift, haxe, zig, and now nim, and I think I'll be sticking with nim. I like that it's seemingly simple, and takes care of memory management for you, but you still have access to pointers if you want them and can extend the language with its macros. It seems like a language that I'll be able to grow with / pick up complexity as I want it, but by default I'll have concise readable code. What was your take on nim?
This is why we started https://skiff.com
But the US is not always willing to let those people in. Currently you have to get lucky on a lottery for example.
given how well voice recognition work nowadays it's really a matter of cost of implementation rather than if?
This is a fascinating thesis, but it utterly fails to take into account that, well, maybe actual discrimination, as opposed to imagined discrimination still exists.

> equal rights were fought for, and won.

Some of them were won, to some extent, leaving plenty of gaps. We've reached civil equality about as well as the USSR reached 'true communism'.
Yup. Professional OCaml dev here, higher order modules are pretty cool. But OCaml shows its age and without typeclasses I don't find it very pleasant to program in. Most days I'd rather use Rust to be honest.
I do not have to imagine such a world since LaTeX exists already in exactly the space you're describing.
Yep.

Echelon is one keyword I remember.
That's an excellent game and you made an excellent contribution. Community-made updates like that are a fantastic example of why open sourcing games can be great for their longevity and quality!
> The taxation of assets (beyond a certain point so that people don't need to sell their home) and not just income.

That’s a great way to discourage investment and capital formation and encourage emigration. There’s a reason wealth taxes are not popular in OECD countries.

https://taxfoundation.org/wealth-taxes-in-the-oecd/
1. "You only have to be right once"... out of how many times? 1/6? 1/10? Much worse? This caveat is nothing but an ad for lottery tickets.

2. Sure, startups are a fine place to hone your talents, show your worth, and network. Same as any other type of workplace. Who's to say you wouldn't have met someone else at a big company who could've gotten you into Square?

3. For every serial entrepreneur who truly has a knack for it and truly learned along the way, there are those who are persisting in error. You're combining your first and second caveats here, describing the possibility of networking one's way into working for a quality experienced founder who will be your lottery ticket.

Nothing wrong with startups, but this is just another set of hoary old truisms more optimistic than the previous one.
Yeah, realistically they would need to replace a very large part of the people working there. Most of the people being hired the last 8+ years.
I hope you're stance assumes you know why the candidate reversed. If you don't know for a fact that it was a cynical or frivolous ploy, then it can't have much bearing on their reputation. Perhaps they accepted the offer, closed their search, and something came up. Perhaps a bad thing, such as cancer or rehab or mental care, or a neutral thing like their military spouse was transferred.
I know some folks are working on this but I just want cargo for JS
Even if it works out as you say, the chilling effect on who's left will be very real.
There should be a role in every org where all you do is delete stuff
Links [1] and [3] are wrong, and link [2] is correct but has nothing to do with this discussion. Link [1] is so full of errors it isn't even worth discussing. The pingpong ball analogy is wrong--it's all wrong. Link [3] commits the sin of ascribing single-electron behavior to parameters extracted from the Drude model. This is a semiclassical analogy and worked essentially thanks to units.

Here's the link you're looking for. http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Solids/Fermi.html . Two electrons can't occupy the same state. In a metal of finite size, the momentum spectrum becomes quantized. Two electrons can occupy each k-state, one for spin up, one for spin down. Considering an empty metal, we can insert electrons one by one. They will find their lowest energy by packing into a sphere in k-space. Electrons inside the sphere have no states to scatter into, and there are no electrons occupying states outside the sphere. This means that only electrons on the surface of this sphere participate in conduction. The radius of this sphere is called the Fermi wavevector, and converting to units of velocity you get the Fermi velocity. All electrons participating in conduction travel at approximately the fermi velocity... at room temperature plus or minus a tiny fraction of a percent.
I'm genuinely curious to read what your edit would have been so that it didn't appear that I was putting myself into one of these groups.
Here's something similar, though it's limited in scope to just clone games: https://osgameclones.com/
I know it's policy to use original titles, but the editorialization in this case hardly seems sensational. Just look at the linked roadmap tickets:

* https://www.microsoft.com/en-my/microsoft-365/roadmap?filter...

* https://www.microsoft.com/en-my/microsoft-365/roadmap?filter...

* https://www.microsoft.com/en-my/microsoft-365/roadmap?filter...

* https://www.microsoft.com/en-my/microsoft-365/roadmap?filter...

* https://www.microsoft.com/en-my/microsoft-365/roadmap?filter...

* https://www.microsoft.com/en-my/microsoft-365/roadmap?filter...

* https://www.microsoft.com/en-my/microsoft-365/roadmap?filter...

The title "Microsoft Purview: Additional classifiers for Communication Compliance (preview)" sounds like nothing at all. It doesn't seem like exaggerating to say that the reality is literally Big Brother in a corporate context. Seems like your changing the title is just going to have the effect of reducing attention given to something that really needs to be exposed in clear terms.
Sure, before labor unions existed, there were no laws about labor unions - why would there be?

But there were laws allowing freedom of association, so something like unions were default allowed, in the absence of any other laws.
hmm I think I have a new reason not to use any Microsoft products in the office. I can even claim an ethics issue with interacting with them now. Unfortunately the existence of this feature breaks trust that my management hasn't abused it, the only way to avoid this is by not engaging with Microsoft offerings such as word or excel in the office.
Thanks for the clarification about this sort of catch 22. I had been wondering about this exact scenario that seems to happen fairly regularly.
In the same way that a completely controlling government and political system could stop literally anything, yes. The basis of collective bargaining does not inherently depend on government support and the proof is in it predating government support. It depends on governments not penning anti-unionisation legislation. There’s no need to be so snarky.
I’m a Rust newbie. Mind if I ask: are you referring to using threads and locks and queues and such?

Does Rust give you rope to hang yourself when doing it without async or does it continue to be very specific about forcing you to guarantee that you’re not going to run into races and whatnot?
And I am willing to bet most don't because moving is a huge change in your life, the USA probably won't let you in, and being rich in a poor country isn't all that bad.
I said a world, not a small subset of the world.
Posting from throwaway -

I probably shouldn't but I'm going to go ahead and share my experience. I try to be open minded but I think the article paints a picture that doesn't reflect reality and it almost reads like someone is trying to write a sales brochure for that lifestyle. It certainly minimizes the amount of interpersonal drama that I saw first hand back in my younger days between various polyamorous couples and individuals. Unfortunately, my experience overall with polyamorous people was that they tended to act more like a cult than anything else and often did not to respect personal boundaries at all. A non-negligible percentage of them were bisexual and they appeared to lack the capacity to accept that some people are heterosexual and are only interested in monogamous relationships.

Ultimately, this made maintaining any sort of non-sexual social relationship difficult as many convinced themselves that my mere presence indicated consent to unspoken things or that I am closet-poly and that I must be hanging out and drinking a few drinks and watching a movie or playing pool with them for some other reason than wanting to hang out and watch a movie or play pool with them. This would often lead to me getting uncomfortable propositions that I had absolutely no interest in and despite always declining politely I can recall very few times I was actually treated politely in return after declining. Usually, me declining would result in some childish name calling - "closed minded", "prude", "nice" (this always made me go wtf - I knew exactly what they meant by that but it was just a ridiculous word to use - like being nice is some sort of horrible thing) and sometimes even real, unvarnished anger and being told to leave and that I wasn't welcome anymore. Over time, I found myself losing friendships with people I had once considered to be good friends mainly because of the gossip that spread among this relatively large group about my unwillingness to do things they wanted me to do.

So, I wasn't even actually connected to the lifestyle and had an absolutely terrible experience with polyamory (if I had to review it I'd give it -infinity stars - do not recommend). If someone that is polyamourous is reading this, please don't take me talking about my personal experience of things that happened well over a decade ago as a personal attack or feel that you need to leap to the defense of your chosen lifestyle. I'm sure that there are plenty of polyamorous groups of people in the world that respect others that are not and I probably just had a terrible experience with a particularly militant group.

However, if you are poly and are reading this and you ever acted like the way I describe above towards those that are not poly then you are a fucking intolerant, closed-minded asshole.
I don't think Canada would be easier. People with a criminal conviction are generally "inadmissible" without special permission.[1]

And if someone was desperate enough to try to hide a US criminal record, Canada is the last country they should try, because Canada and the US share their criminal history databases.

1: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/se...
> If it takes 4 months to hire and onboard.. fix that

It takes an average of 58 days to hire an engineer in the US. [0] Add to that another two months to onboard them. [1]

> Offer them half your company if that's what it takes.

Wait - so someone accepts a job, implying that the comp was fair. And then quits a week before a start date without any notice (OP's story). Were you recommending that founders should pre-emptively give away half of the company on top of the original offer just to prevent the possibility of any one random person acting dishonestly?

[0] https://resources.workable.com/tutorial/recruiting-kpis
[1] https://www.quora.com/How-long-does-it-take-to-onboard-a-sof...
Remote work has led to more meetings than ever was the case in person. Google Calendar's default 30 minute meeting has made things a lot worse so that each interruption is now at least 30 minutes.
It's interesting looking at the way they try sell this monitoring to the employees as being a positive thing[1]. At least the wider population can experience what it's like to live under DTEX[2]

[1]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-viva/insights

[2]: https://www.dtexsystems.com
It sounds like there's an ML based way to get rid of A&R reps and that labels would be interested in it. If someone rolls with this and makes A&R obsolete, you've likely done a good thing for the music industry.
For more examples of the phenomenon you mention in your edit, compare definitions of the word "vaccine" from 5 years ago to today.
Oh, I've heard of you! CEO of Bitcoin, right?
I’m not sure how we go from serotonin to pacification. That seems like a leap to me based on the role serotonin plays in the body.

Regardless, I find the whole jump from product experience to neurochemical behavior a bit silly to begin with. I wouldn’t use it except this article did first.
The A6 in the Alesis A6 Andromeda name refers, of course, to ASICs.
Competitor to what, Live Nation? It is a wide range of different businesses. There is nothing to compete with since you're competing with everything. Any time something infringes on one of their areas, they just buy it or put it out of business. Them being a global company makes it impossible to even get started.

Case in point, check out Insomniac...

Insomniac produces some of the most innovative, immersive music festivals and events in the world. Enhanced by state-of-the-art lighting, pyrotechnics and sound design, large-scale art installations, theatrical performers and next generation special effects, our events captivate the senses and inspire a unique level of fan interaction. The quality of the Headliner experience is our top priority.

Insomniac produces 10,000 concerts, club nights and festivals for seven million attendees annually across the globe. Since its inception, Insomniac's events have taken place in 13 countries across five continents. The company's premiere annual event, Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas, is the world’s largest dance music festival and attracts more than 525,000 fans over three days. The company was founded by Pasquale Rotella and has been based in Los Angeles since it was formed in 1993.

Little do they tell you... "In 2013, Insomniac entered into a creative partnership with Live Nation."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insomniac_(promoter)

Such a close creative partnership that LN hosts the jobs page for Insomniac... for example...

https://livenation.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/InsomniacExternalSi...

If your record label isn't in cahoots with these guys, you aren't playing anywhere public. There is nothing that YouTube and TikTok can do to help you there...
3 mile island fucked up big time on American soil, and they didn't exactly come clean during the course of the meltdown as to what local residents were being exposed to. For profit operators still have incentive to cover up accidents as much or more than anyone else. At least with small modular reactors there is a chance to get the manufacturing costs under control by standardizing designs and production lines.

Sadly, humans have an inability to make meaningful comparisons between statistically remote probabilities. Nuclear power will always have an uphill battle convincing the general public that it is safe because its accidents are so horrific and outside of the normal scope of experience of humans (vs coal, which is just fire that everyone has personal experience and understanding of). It may well be that this perception was in part cemented in the mind of humanity by the horror of the use of the first nuclear bombs. Had nuclear power been introduced to the world in a more peaceful fashion without such devastation, perhaps its trajectory in the public eye would have been different.
Did you intend to share a recipe for the 4-Layer Dinner?
Anyone who thinks differently than you is "falling for propaganda". Got it.
It has been a sec but if I were to do another multi-threaded async Rust project I would do one thread per async runtime and explicitly pass anything that needed to be shared.

This should be more ergonomic as this should get rid of everything needing to have send/sync traits. I also suspect it may be more performant as I am not sure how good the async runtimes are about keeping scopes pinned to a particular core so its not constantly jumping around and busting the l1 caches (which would be extremely detrimental to compute latency and bandwidth)... Happy to be schooled on any of this.
This is a pretty classic example of “what’s your threat model”.

WhatsApp/Signal may not be perfectly private, but it’s plenty private enough to hide trivial things like job offers from your employer.
I tell people my wife is a product manager, and when they invariable ask what that means, I say, "I dunno, it's like marketing I think, you know, sales." She used to hit me. Now she just roles her eyes.