skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t see how this is any worse than the “ICO” craze a few years ago. Probably 99% of those scams are now dead. Rumors about crypto’s death are always greatly exaggerated
Not a new kind of issue, and not a problem IMHO.

Some GCs need to reach a safepoint before doing their work; and when a classic Thread is chugging along in a tight loop, that thread is blocking the whole system for a pending GC.

One hacky fix is to provide an opportunity for a safepoint (System.out.print every 10k iterations). Other tools like JVM command line options allow for observing safepoint triggering.

The same goes for virtual threads: inserting a Thread.sleep(1L) every nth iteration of a tight loop does it.

Also there was talk specifying a custom scheduler for the virtual threads. That would not help in inserting switching opportunities, but it would give a way to define what kind of fairness you want.
That is a problem with how the governments treat layoffs vs quitting. In attempting to make companies and individuals responsible for more unemployment benefits, they made a number of large cracks for people to fall through.
Thanks for the only compliment in the thread! I appreciate it, especially given I've been such a fan of your writing and life for such a long time.

I think that the people who responded to you covered much of it, but you can find more by doing a web search for it. I'd find you links myself, but it's early in the morning and I'm a little tired.
So would that co-worker be able to guess the caste of the candidate during a 30minute phone interview ?
For 3: the vast majority of those who died were over 60.
It's just so weird. If you think about it, this is the FSF saying that they don't believe the GPL works.
Agreed about Newshour. they may have a left bias but they report facts and not just mostly opinion like most other channels.
Yes I didn't mean to say that there are no issues in science. I disagree that politics and personalities are a big part though. I think we have huge structural issues, requirements and pressures are increasing constantly, the way into science takes much longer and much talent is burnt out in the process, current funding favors short term "low risk" research and disincentives trying out new things or changing direction/field...
"Klein Tools is a manufacturer of hand tools for professional electricians, and they’ve been in that business for over a century and a half. Are they the best at it? Ehh, depends who you ask."

Well if you ask any professional electrician they will likely answer "Yes". Our company employed over one hundred IBEW electricians and the universal preference was for Klein hand tools.
Does anyone outside of an airport still watch CNN?
Well in case that it won't be a thing long enough, then there will be no coinbase in current business model, so I guess its correct strategy.
Anyone who thinks the USA has a caste system doesn't understand what a caste system is. People are not defined or restricted based on the occupations of their parents.

Class mobility is celebrated, so much so that the successful often play-up any humble origins in their families.
Hi there! I'm Tyler, I'm a SWE with 6 YOE. I'm interested in joining a team where I can empower and learn from the people around me.

Location: Austin, TX
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Typescript/Javascript, Node, Next.js(React), Go, Svelte, HTML/CSS, TailwindCSS, C#, Python, Azure, Docker, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, AEM
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hEnV5TTIXdtLF0LVBpSoDAcD9KSiuOmq/view?usp=sharing (GDrive Link)
Email: hire@tpolito.com
Thanks OP! I had a shitty day and this was really nice.
Just before I found this story, I called Canon to find the nearest repair location. First time they asked me to register an account online and call back. After registration I called back and they say it will be $19.99 to speak to a human. So I figured the $100 printer was dead. I almost threw it into the trash. Lucky I did the quick google search. It works fine now that I disabled the printers ability to reach the internet.
I see that you are not willing to conduct a honest discussion.

Only thing I wonder about is how is it possible that the rhetoric and vocabulary you are using is too damn similar to Russian trolls.

I recommend you to meditate about it if you consider yourself an American.

You are a prime example that shows that whataboutism is exactly what it is thought to be.
This sounds like a lot of work.
I have a general rule not to lie or deceive people.

But when I play poker, I lie and deceive as well as I possibly can, without remorse or hesitation. That’s because lies and deception are part of the game.

Likewise, when I engage in an employment relationship with a business, I play by those rules.

It is complicated, and to a degree it certainly makes sense to act as though you have a commitment beyond what money paid has bought… but just like all companies do, when enough is at stake, you should recognize that it’s a business relationship and it may not be to your advantage to pretend a higher level of commitment exists between you than really does. It’s a tough call. Burning bridges you don’t have to is not good. Neither is playing the sucker for very long.

Edit: Yikes, I should have presented my poker analogy differently to be more clear!

Lying and deceit is good in poker, but definitely not in business, IMO.

In business the rule is something like this: Pretend that every sentence making claims about the future ends with "... assuming, of course, we either have a signed contract to that effect or nothing significant changes between now and then." That goes for your own statements and the other party's. I think you will do well acting truthfully with those caveats assumed (and avoiding those that don't act truthfully within those caveats).

A reply put it like this, which I like: present your "future-perfect-best self" and expect your employer/potential employer to do the same.
Yeah. Our problem at $FAANG was that PMs were incentivized by the "footprint" they had on the product. Makes sense maybe when doing greenfield, or for a major revamp, but man did it fuck up existing long-term projects that were essentially in maintenance mode.

You'd see PMs join, change direction, narrowly grabbing a promo and leaving only to be repeated again by the next guy. Each time, the product became more complicated and much less focused.

Things like vision and strategy shouldn't factor into any performance review for at least 2 years, for long term projects. Until you know deeply (a) how everything works and (b) the cost of changing things, nobody should be allowed anywhere near those big buttons.

The only ones who knew that were the senior engineers who had been around forever. And they're not liked by management, because they tend to be nay-sayers, and they often like how things are. But if you asked management if they were willing to break existing customers the answer at the end of the day was always no. Yet they all wanted new and shiny things, in denial of the feasibility and especially cost.
> the developer must produce working code.

Bingo, I can't (well won't) build a contradiction even if its part of the spec.

> Only to have the feedback 'great, but why did you not think about this?'

Even worse IMO: "Great, no problems!" every time. Ok, I'm not that good, is anyone even running this shit?
Exploding offers are, by far, the easiest thing to negotiate in a job offer.

Please don't be duplicitous - there are many teams out there with strong core values and an honest and open communication culture.

Don't let the crypto-bros poison our collective dignity!
As usual, deepl doesn't disappoint.
I did the same thing once I started really playing with Home Assistant. There's a wonderful little add-on/integration/whatever name you use now called Adaptive Lighting that can use those kinds of bulbs to change the temperature automatically as the day goes on (either fixed times, or with the sun). Not only do I not have to do it myself but I have them all timed with f.lux (and other computer and phone versions) so that it just all happens without me noticing. I can't say I notice a huge difference in my sleep but it does end up making all the lighting more pleasant all the time since it'll match (as close as you can) with sunlight during the day around noon and then start setting with the sun until it's about as red as everything can go after sundown.

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/new-adaptive-lighting-...
There's a very old but still pretty effective book called Programming for the Java Virtual Machine. Byte code is remarkably stable.

(Disclaimer: author)
Yes, it's right there in the link I posted.
Pimantle
Putting those young healthy males without significant training and enough effective military hardware right into the trenches being shelled/bombed would be a typical Russian approach which produces a lot of dead and wounded without any positive result. As it has become obvious over the last 3 months Ukraine had learnt to fight differently, smarter.

>while this group is pimping their business.

From the macro scale POV, the large wars are won by economies. USSR and USA won over Germany and Japan by running larger economies (USSR starting 1942/43).

One of the significant part of the war being waged by Russia is to decimate Ukrainian economy. These guys are successfully fighting it back. Them continuing to exist and even thrive and grow is one more piece of war lost by Russia. It is a long game/war. It is very possible that the conflict would go into ceasefire smoldering mode for years during which the survival of Ukraine as independent nation would be decided not by occasional artillery exchanges across ceasefire lines, it will be decided by whose economy would continue to develop successfully.

>hiding out in 'safe places'

They aren't hiding from the draft. Most of them could easily be reached and drafted by army when/if needed. Ukraine drafting offices are overwhelmed with people ready to sign up.
> Half of this country (US) denies that Sandy Hook happened, they deny that the election was fair, they think that every mass shooting is staged in an attempt by the government to seize their guns.

Half? This is such a gross overestimation. The people that hold those views are a tiny fringe minority. It's rhetoric like this, where you accuse the half of the country that didn't vote for your team of holding extreme views, that drives division in the United States.
While I agree on most points made here, It still struggles for me to understand this boundary of us-them when it comes to government. I AM the government when it comes to policies I create/support/empower at university, municipality, my circle. There is no straight line between society and government really.
> Others said people from marginalized castes lack the education to properly interpret Hindu scriptures around castes.

"If you're one of them, you're too ignorant to understand why we're right". Absolutely repulsive.
That's why I never recommend delaying the starting date too much. I've seen people accepting offers and giving crazy starting dates (like 3 or 4 months). Too much can happen in between.
I’ve got this impression that all these diversity and equality programs employed by large American corporations are annoying to some and lame generally because they are astoundingly myopic.

Like, they do a vastly simplified, explain-like-I’m-five take on these issues (blah blah white male middle- and upper-class are evil type of thing) and tackle it with full ineptitude of five-year-olds.

I think a lot of people benefit from such approach.

First, hordes of people are generating busywork and you don’t really need mad skills or even basic competence to be doing it.

A lot of busywork paints a picture of the company press and shareholders will love.

Meanwhile, all the bullies keep on bullying.

There’s this culture where you will be treated better or worse based on the color of your badge. Race/religion/gender are off-limits, but discriminatory employee-contractor dynamics are blessed!

There’s this other bit of corporate culture that flew under the radar of any and all equality/diversity effort where managers of Indian origin would treat their also-Indian reports like shit because the poor schmucks happen to be of a lower caste. They would also make an effort to halt their career progress.

Those same managers would treat their overseas office teammates (in Poland) as if they were below the lowest caste possible.

Speaking about companies that have offices in both USA and, say, Eastern Europe, the Eastern Wuropean teammates are often treated as second-class people. They don’t get to participate in any project discussions of importance, presumably because those discussions happen informally, at the watercooler, in the US office, and should be content with all decisions handed down, like it or not.

I’m seeing the same kind of attitude starts happening now with onsite/WFH workers: since you don’t see the latter ones face to face, they are not quite real people.

Oh, and if you want to see a full-fledged rampant racism and supremacism, you should try working for a Korean company as a worker of their European branch office.

But apparently such issues are way too complex to be actually worked on by your off-the-shelf diversity and equality teams, for whom the white/nonwhite and male/female divide is the upper limit of comprehension.
The main benefit of caste comes from 2nd and 3rd degree connections from your family. Simply changing your name won't help you with that.
Is this a joke? Companies have no qualms about rescinding offers for people who may have already quit their current job or who need a job for Visa purposes.

>Coinbase has some specific issues that aren't indicative of a broader industry probem

I have seen examples of this from several FAANG companies.
The situation you propose is more than just rescinding an offer. It's colluding with another company to make an offer in bad faith with the intent of rescinding it, in order to entice an employee to quit.
> My guess would be that ... the majority of parents and 10 year olds competing at this level are basket cases.

No need to guess such things, just ask!
From experience it's not that big of a deal that you walk back accepting an offer. These things happen all the time:

- Immigration / relocation issues

- Partner / significant other (can't find a job, doesn't like the location. etc.) issues

- Health issues

- <Received a better offer but used one of the above reasons> issues

I've had candidates not show up on their first day and email in that regretfully they won't be able to start. Everyone was bummed, but no one wrote down their name in a list and shared it.
In the specific case of Stripe, Ill gladly take a larger bureaucratic moat in exchange for PCI compliance.
The cryptocurrency world is rediscovering this tradeoff all over again.
https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari/issues/158

> It will not possible for uBlock Origin to work with the upcoming Safari 13 / macOS Catalina release
I personally use some home depot branded zigbee bulbs myself. They only do the white temp changing and not rgb but they work rather well in my lamps and other fixtures. I use Home Assistant to do it but I suspect it could be done with any smart home system that supports zigbee lights.
When making lens mounts for big lenses, keep in mind that the tripod mounting is usually via a ring attached to the lens, rather than to the screw hole in the underside of the camera body.

So, making your mount similarly strong enough to support whatever you're using as a camera body seems like good design.
It's not about efficiency - it's about justice. If you're against discretion then you're against basics of our society like trial by jury.

And if you can't trust these people to use discretion sensibly and fairly then you shouldn't be trusting them to do anything.
I feel like this should have a UI written with Textual: https://github.com/Textualize/textual
Shiboleths
3dicons – open-source Figma plugin – 1400 3D icons
Most people are incarcerated for the reasons you list. [0] That doesn't necessarily make them a scumbag or a bad person in my mind, without knowing more about the situation. There are plenty of examples where it's not so clear cut, here are a few:

Supposedly over 90% of convictions are from plea bargains. We'll never know how many of those people were actually innocent. CeCe McDonald may or may not be one example. [1]

Anthony Gammons, Jr. may have acted in self defense for him and his child, but he wasn't legally allowed to own a firearm so he was convicted of murder. [2]

Teenager gets 10 years for consensual sex. [3]

Kalief Browder in jail for three years without a trial. [4]

Alexander Torres wrongfully convicted for murder for 20 years. [5]

When I was in jail, the few people I talked to, were in there for cannabis possession (as was I), driving without a license, and missing a jury summons. None of that necessarily makes them bad people in my mind. Maybe they are, but it would be for other reasons I'm not aware of.

[0] https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/p19.pdf

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CeCe_McDonald

[2] https://www.criminallegalnews.org/news/2020/sep/15/indiana-s...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_v._State

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalief_Browder

[5] https://www.aol.com/news/20-years-prison-man-found-204259158...
I built my first house in 1997 so my memory of NEC is mostly from then. It seemed ludicrous to run 15A circuits especially to kitchens and bathrooms, so I didn't. It did require GFCIs in the usual places back then. I built another house in 2007 and by that time AFCIs were required in bedrooms.

The code does seem to get a bit better over time.
That's generous? I've been through two RIFs and countless hiring freezes some with rescinding offers in big name companies, startups and "unicorns" and it was always at least that or more.
The US caste system absolutely exists; it’s called old money. And old money communities absolutely limit occupations and opportunities based on this.
Most Windows drivers are quite small, in the single megabyte range. The majority of the download size is either the installer or optional utilities that are installed with the driver, but are not necessary for the device to work.

Graphics drivers (and to some extend audio drivers) are exceptions to this.
Ha! Sorry bout that. We just did it at the lowest traffic times, and I'm a night owl.
I've heard similar arguments being made about teaching CRT in school. Are you really saying ABCDs are so confused about their own identity that they'll cling on to n antiquated notion of a social hierarchy based on knowledge of the Vedas?
They have 2100 employees. What do they all do?
the idea that there's nowhere to put capital without a ballooning or nosediving market is a thread in the mental straitjacket that untethered us from reality in the first place

there is an ocean of opportunity, it's just that investing in it is less likely to maximize alpha and more likely to benefit all our children and grandchildren at some immediate financial risk to ourselves and direct dependents
Not exactly the same, but when I worked as an _intern_ for a program funded by NASA, my grandmother ("Nana") used to tell her friends I worked for NASA.
I guess us Millennials are stuck feigning conversations with our morning avocado toast.
In very, very, very few places is that the median price for a home.
Foxconn Factory Hit by Ransomware Suffers from Production Impacts
Discounts is a very misleading word in this context. The core issues relate to the fundamental legal doctrines surrounding water rights, particularly the Prior Appropriation Doctrine. See, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior-appropriation_water_righ... and https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&ht...

People with prior appropriation rights to water don't need to pay for the water at all, except perhaps incidental fees and taxes. The right to use the water, contingent on availability, is a property right.

The prior appropriation doctrine threads through all water issues in the Western U.S. States also have appropriation rights as between each other. See, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River_Compact And then the Federal government introduces another dimension of complexity as they can pick and choose flow rates and distribution.

Theoretically, and AFAIU, there's nothing fundamentally anti-market with the prior appropriation doctrine. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coase_theorem and also the above paper by Micha Gisser. And there are markets in prior appropriation rights--farmers buy and sell their prior appropriation rights. But apparently these markets aren't very extensive, presumably hindered by a century of complicating legislation and political bickering layered atop the underlying legal doctrines.
how about no sweetener
It's weird to pull things tighter so soon after pausing hiring two weeks ago. Why not take all these measures (no new positions, now backfills, rescind offers) 2 weeks ago? Did they figure out that what they were doing was not drastic enough in that time? The whole thing screams of incompetence.
Can we get comments enabled on them? I'd be interested to see what other people have to say about the companies. I think it'd be an interesting compromise. They don't really bother me either way.
I don't know. But I recently asked a dad what his son did, and they said they don't know! That's really sad.
There's nothing on the GP about positive discrimination.

If you hire based only on competence, you will probably get more people that suffer discrimination than the average. The stronger the discrimination, the higher the odds.
Teams, yes. But the greater companies? By default, you should assume that any modern corporation cannot be trusted to do anything but act in its own perceived short term best interest. Some may not, some may do better, but you should never assume that they will.
This reminds me of the plot of The Man Who Was Thursday by GK Chesterton: a secret policeman infiltrates an anarchist cell, only to discover that basically all the other members are also undercover detectives/provocateurs.
Casted are guessable simply by seeing someone’s name.
Privatizing police forces will not make them more accountable. If they are not accountable now as a public good, how would them being private somehow improve that?

The only comparable example was charter schools and the results were they cost the taxpayers more, and had worse outcomes, and rarely is their charter revoked for poor performance because they hire the sons of politicians, like Chakrah Fattah's son was before both were charged for corruption, in the case of Philly charter schools.
> Geez, are you supposed to not give your current employer even two weeks notice, but not tell them you're leaving until your first day at a new job, to avoid getting screwed?

No, don't do this in a professional developer job.

These rescinded offer stories are rare. That's why they make headlines. It's a newsworthy event, not a common occurrence.

Don't compromise your reputation and burn bridges on the way out the door just to compensate for the remote possibility of being subject to an outlier event like this.

Leaving on a good note and maintaining positive references is far more valuable than hedging against perceived downside risk of having an offer rescinded.
"held to a different standard"

Not just that, the newspaper edutorial staff might strongly disagree with the content on those pages. They published it as someone's opinion, not necessarily their opinion.

That seems to be a lost art. When Tom Cotton wrote an opinion piece for the NYT, the editor who ran it was gone in a few days. Yikes.
and skin color, gender, race or sexuality based on the local politics/religion.