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Been there. I had very strong technical skills and was well known in the organization for that. Changed jobs on the promise I would work on projects using those skills.

In reality they wanted me to do change management, negotiate budgets, negotiate dates, coordinate projects, make power point decks…

Because of my excellent track record delivering technical stuff they expected great results from me doing this new stuff. I couldn’t deliver it as they wanted. “You must grow and become a leader, that’s the path forward” they kept telling me. In the end it didn’t work and I left.

Now I’m in a new team and they expect me again to become a leader but this time it’s different, it is truly a technical leadership and I hope this time it will be different.
I guess a finetuned version yeah - plus a few years of founder experience and YC network ;-)
How did the rest of the department fare? Were you the only one who avoided going hybrid?
Is it possible to get a list of addresses and add them to a block list, in PiHole for example?
Does it still have the cursed text with it that says "going away in (some month soon)".

It's so stupid and confusing and baffling that I want to rage quit Firefox with this as the absolute last straw. Like wtf, you're gonna take back my color in a few months? Just pull the upsell for it? Why the hell am I having to wonder about any of this? Why on God's green earth was this done instead of spending any effort getting a SINGLE bit of unity among the Bookmarks, Downloads and Add-ons panels, all of which should behave at least rougly similarly. (Because, to be clear, I had a Firefox theme that was imperceptibly similar to this months ago before this Colorways upsell)

I don't get it. I do not do not do not get it. And now they're screwing around with another extensions menu that takes space on the toolbar but doesn't de-dupe with the extension buttons themselves (I actually can see where this Might be going, but again, zero clear comms about it).

I'm the poster boy for an annoying Firefox advocate and I'm increasingly looking at selling my laptop to build a woodworking shed because it all feels hopeless.
Basically ML family languages have them. When you read Rust is ML style, almost 100% sure it's going to have Algebraic Data Types.
You mean like lightbulb companies for the last 100 years?

How can two people missunderstand eternal growth... I said premise... that is what they promise... obviously it dosen't exist!!! Do I need to add /s or something?!

Jim Keller has been wrong so far... he can't solve the memory bottleneck.

You can choose a non-locked down product now maybe, in 12 months not a chance in hell!
That is the underlying theory of copyright law. We make the speculation that if we don't have copyright law then people won't have the incentive to create future works.

A world without copyright would however save more than just a few millions of man hours that copilot might do. Allowing people and companies to freely use the best software available, view the best art, enjoy the most relaxing music, have the best recreational time with the best films. The only harm is the highly speculative claim that people won't be creating the best software, the best art, the best music or the best films.
No one is talking about fentanyl? The opioid epidemic is a constant and ongoing topic of conversation and debate. It's one of the defining political issues of our time with Gavin Newsom just weeks ago vetoed a supervised administration bill which took up a news cycle. The opiod epidemic is one of the most talked about things out there. Pharma companies and others are being sued to hell and back for their role in the epidemic. Just this February there was a 26 billion dollar settlement[1]. Honestly, I'm not sure how you'd manage to avoid hearing news about one of the defining public health issues of the past two decades.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2022/02/25/1082901958/opioid-settlement-...
One of the first crypto personalities in Norway did this back in 2011. Even had an article in the local paper. “Local man heats bathroom with his computer”. Basically he had water based heating in the floor on his bathroom and had hooked the water cooling on his computer to that. Even had a script that would “start doing heavy calculations” when the temperature sunk below a threshold.

Reference: https://www.cw.no/it-bransjen-komponenter/bruker-pc-en-til-a...
I believe the "disable lock screen" permission is to prevent auto-lock, for example while displaying a video or QR code, and does not mean anything like that the app can remotely unlock the phone. The other permissions are certainly concerning.
In that the people who are already dead won't die again? Since they will no longer be counted I would expect numbers to simply return to average among those left living. I doubt the survivors are extra healthy or less susceptible to the normal causes of death.
One could email @dang hn@ycombinator.com to suggest the correct link since the edit window has passed.
https://github.com/RavuAlHemio/cpptotp/blob/master/src/libcp...
It could. Probably not for most minor bumps but reinsertion in the slot is more likely to cause issues than small bumps once insertion forces are being applied constantly. Hence the BIOS has to check.
Presentation mode is terrible for doing code pairing, code presentations, or really anything that involves screen sharing.
> Every big tech company would think twice before acquiring another company .

Great! As an American, I'm thrilled there are governments in the world that still place people & competition at a higher priority than Mark's wallet. My government has completely given up on the idea of anti-trust enforcement.
Fentanyl has had a ton of coverage so I’m not sure why you think nobody is talking about it but I suspect that our limited response mostly has to do with the degree to which drug problems are often symptoms of social problems we’ve chosen not to do with.

The article specifically details the different factors in the overall decline in expected longevity. COVID is the largest but definitely not the only one:

https://static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/assets/Image/202...
Wasn't this suggested in the original comment's italicized phrase, "even after accounting for the protective effects of COVID"? It argues that we have the relative risk backwards.

This might have been suggested by some, but systemic effects have been acknowledged since the beginning. Both of the original papers on the safety of the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines report systemic effects being more common in the jab group than the placebo.
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An Accident at SpaceX
Great detail, thanks!

> For example, in RGB black is an absence of light, whilst for the painter's RYB space it is an active element.

As a painter, I find it all very interesting because there are no pure colors anyway. There is no "black," there is (for example) bone black and Mars black, and then if it's bone black is it real bones and if so what animal and how was it made? And then Liquitex Ivory Black is most definitely not Amsterdam Ivory Black.

And so on. Right now I'm in Asia and cadmium colors are readily available -- what exactly is Cadmium Yellow Hue anyway?

Then along come some scientists who claim to make the truest, blackest black color ever to be painted with, and what happens?

Some rich megalomaniac buys the exclusive rights to it[0]. Goethe would be proud.

https://www.thecollector.com/vantablack-anish-kapoor-stuart-...
> not just for code

This is quite important, actually, and I don't think enough people realize this. I am a photographer sometimes and it would be really cool if I could share my photos online under a copyright license that forbids their use in training AI.
Yes, I helped build the team. Many of the colleagues are my friends and best coworkers from past jobs. That’s what makes leaving so hard. I’m being recruited heavily by other internal teams, which helps my mental state right now.
Hi! TigYog.app actually started out as an attempt at building something like a JS framework for this. But it's evolved into a platform. Here are some reasons why ...

- The "gradually revealed content" flow tends to require full control over the page. See by contrast https://quantum.country/ which uses https://withorbit.com/, which is more like a framework. For that reason, it's quite restricted in what it can do in terms of flow control.

- Tracking progress - you can just save answers client-side, but I wanted something that would allow users to sign on their mobile and continue from wherever they were on the desktop, etc. This also enables flashcard-style spaced repetition emails (future feature)

- Saving answers while being able to edit the page requires that you have stable identifiers for all questions and buttons. The WYSIWYG does that for you.

- I wanted it to feel like blogging, or traditional writing, rather than coding.

All that said - I'm thinking about ways to open up TigYog for more like framework-style creation. Email me if you're interested!
Learn a statically-typed FP lang and get a job doing that.

Even if you end up at a "Simple Haskell" place, you'll still have all sorts of opportunities to reinvent the wheel (so that you can run yourself over with it, of course).
Two additional factors:

- Much higher stress from making ends meet, world events, national decline, etc.

- Supply chain issues leading to lower quality chemical byproducts in your food and household items. Though we don’t know how much of a problem this is and we may not for a long time, if ever.
The comment I was responding to was positing that the covid "excess deaths" statistics (not the same thing as life expectancy measurements) were confounded by fentanyl overdoses. They are not.
Poverty – Our World in Data
> I hypothesize all zebras have stripes. I observe zebras 10 billion times. They all confirm my hypothesis. Then on the 10 billionth and first time I see a zebra with spots. My hypothesis is wrong. This can happen any time.

Even if the original belief turns out to be wrong, you only have to slightly weaken it and it will remain true: "the vast majority of zebras have stripes". Even if you discover a new continent full of hordes of uniformly-colored zebras, the true hypothesis becomes "the vast majority of zebras in my original continent are striped".

Essentially every observation brings proof for a whole family of hypotheses. We normally only talk about the strongest of these hypotheses, but that doesn't meant that a negative example rules out the entire family.

For example, even if we didn't find a deductive proof the Fermat's last theorem was wrong even after all of the empirical proof that it probably wasn't, a weaker version would have still remained true - the one validated by that empirical proof.
Hacktivists or state actors attacking the SCADA systems and increasing the pressure to levels that it's not built to handle?

The russian government itself doing that to make it appear someone else did it?
That's probably true, but so is what's written in the article. A much bigger factor in the lab leak theory is that it played into various conspiracy theories and, for some people, was convenient politically. It's much easier to believe that someone you don't like created covid maliciously than that it evolved naturally thanks to a huge number of factors no one person can control.
Firebase brings new frameworks to Hosting, allows custom Extensions, and more
Which is fine. As I already mentioned, even if they just had a text scaling which applied to all the editors so I didn't have to keep doing it every time I opened a file that would be a massive QOL improvement.
The Oktoberfest took place (5.7M visitors)
fantastic. i’ve been on that path for the last year. it’s odd and very different. it feels like there’s an actual fog of war now. things to discover and be curious about.
Short of having some acute emergency, it was for all intents and purposes IMPOSSIBLE to get a doctor's appointment of any sort through the height of the pandemic. At least that was my family's experience in Los Angeles.
Language features. There are many features and language patterns, paradigms which I need to get used to in order to use libraries and read others code. (Similar to C++) I can't even begin to understand macros.

So far it doesn't seem to be insurmountable but it's definitely not what I'd call simple.
You set yourself up for that by declaring people to be open minded but then saying you couldn't have your mind changed.

More importantly I don't think most people over a certain age change.
One of the people laid off yesterday (along with his whole team) had been a candidate to lead development of the Xbox 720. This was definitely not a very public PIP ejection. It looks more like a spreadsheet driven culling of the product lines.
I, and probably many others, feel that the quality of this as an HN submission is related, but not synonymous with, the quality of it as a Mozilla communication. But it was submitted to HN, and so it will be judged as an HN submission.

But many of us also believe that, though it's POSSIBLE Mozilla is acting how you describe ("We are committed to privacy at our core but we have to publish this kind of press release to survive!"), they are actually corrupt at their core to the point where they only see privacy-conscious users as customercattle to be milked.

I believe we critics have good enough intuition to see this kind of behavior from Mozilla as a canary indicating their true nature. This is kind of an aftershock of the Mr. Robot incident. I think it's unlikely that that kind of bad judgment was not chronic and systemic.
Thanks man. I needed to hear that.
I wonder in court if they will rule that this is no different than a human reading open source code to learn how to code. I guess the main difference here is the human would not be able to be used in parallel where Copilot can be used by millions of people at one time.

It will be interesting to see where this goes.
Mozilla & Firefox stop trying to be a god-damned social movement. Just be a fucking browser.
It also manifests in potentially bad management that keeps itself going such as the current administration’s braindead covid policies.
>tl;dr: many OEM vendors are moving toward creating "dumber" cameras, with the hardware just exporting a raw data stream and all the image processing logic is done in software.

weird, I understood it the total opposite - with vendors shipping more and more sophisticated solutions with embedded dedicated processors doing everything inside a black box (IPU6). You dont get ANY access to raw data stream, and no access at all if you cant talk to those black boxes.
> It is now possible to edit PDFs: including writing text, drawing, and adding signatures.

That's a fantastic feature. No more Adobe Acrobat for me!
There is no usecase just look at RAI or maybe the unlaunched Nuon, they are cryptocurrencies that try to minimize volatility. That turns the rest of the ecosystems into a bad joke. The point of these cryptocurrencies is to beat the central banks at their own game.
That's fine -- they have plenty ankle bracelets on hand.
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> I've learned it better to communicate

Good advice for almost any situation.
4:85 While she is explaining the experiment, she says that “Victor sends a particle to Alice and Bob simultaneously.”

But the word particle in physics and especially in Quantum Mechanics is undefined. High energy physicists call a statistical “bump” in data a particle. A particle can be a wave. It can be a sphere with a finite radius. Or it can be a mathematical point. All these things and many more are called "particle". So we have no idea what Victor sends to Alice and Bob unless she takes the time to define it, but she doesn’t.
Every pg essay seems to bring out a cohort of nay-sayers and weirdos.

Maybe there is also a revealed alien truth somewhere in there about the psychological effects of differences in expertise, knowledge, social status, writing skill, etc...
Eventually (not in the next 5 years but probably in the next 15) a system like this is going to lower the market salaries of developers (or make some of them outright unemployable). While using their own code as input to achieve that, without ever obtaining actual permission.

Seems like a pretty tangible harm to me.
"[when] the inferior scholar hears of Dao, he greatly ridicules it" -laotzu
Should Meta refuse I imagine the UK would ban them from doing business in the UK.
Yeah even if I'm a big fan of ML family lang, complexity to solve memory safety is too much to the point Zig is more appealing in way that helps you do it yourself more easily.
These "convergent mutation" variants seem to be arriving at a rapid pace, all by themselves without researchers helping (some hypothesize this is due to virus replication in immunocompromised patients.) [1] Since these mutations seem capable of repeatedly emerging, we should understand what they do, both alone and in combination. The cost here is that yes, researchers could make and release a new deadly variant. On the other hand it's just as likely that something very similar will pop up through natural evolution in the next few months. When that happens we can be clueless or we can be armed with knowledge.

[1] https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/payers/preliminary-data-poi...
> JWST is just making all their data immediately available to all researchers who want to dig into it

This is not generally true; it only applies to a narrow, specific class of programs. The "Early Release Observation" (observations chosen by the Space Telescope Science Institute) and "Early Release Science" observations (director's discretionary time awarded via a competitive proposal process a few years ago) do not have a proprietary period. However, the majority of the "General Observer" programs (these make up the majority of the time allocated on the telescope) have proprietary periods of up to 1 year. The proposers can request from a range of proprietary periods when they apply[0]. "Guaranteed Time Observations" (time awarded to the instrument teams) also have a proprietary period.

[0] https://jwst-docs.stsci.edu/jppom/jwst-proposal-level-inform...
I guess that is just more evidence that your message is unclear. Did you mean promise instead of premise?

Energy/money is also the solution, so if you see it as the problem then you are probably missing the specific details.
So many developer stories out there where it doesn't sound like they ever really had a direct talk with their boss.
Pedantry, warfare for indulgent. Your passion for spaces rises commensurately with the ennui in your life. Are not these the cultural flourishes of nuance that bring social majesty and depth to our world? So quickly we judge, categorize, and discriminate those who defy our narrow acceptance of proper.

Where will you turn for knowledge if only single-spaced bodies of work stand as acceptable to your delicate sensibility? What a poor, daft man that simpleton Einstein must be with his extra spaces.

Let go your hate, extend grace to all, engage sincerely, and be the light.

On the other hand, people who use tabs in code are philistines... there's just no room for them (Bwaahahahahahah)
I agree. However life is short and after trying half a dozen things over a year, it’s creating a lot of mental health problems for me.

It is likely I have failed. I have tremendous empathy for this boss. But I also have to think of my strengths and where I can be successful elsewhere.
I actually agree with everything you say there Jimmy. They're
anti-social toe-rags. But in the humanist tradition I'm digging a
little deeper and asking what's going on for these kids?

Why would you spend hundreds of pounds and lots of time trying to make
your car a bloody nuisance?

We ignore human psychology at our peril.
1) talk about failure to read a room

2) even the alleged learning from the experiment: "The conclusion of the study is that mutations in the spike protein of the Omicron variant are responsible for the strain’s ability to evade immunity people have built up via vaccination, infections, or both, but they are not responsible for the apparent decrease in severity of the Omicron viruses."

...does not hold up, because this was in mice. Ordinary lab rats were immune to the original strain of covid-19, but not to Omicron, which shows that it is not at all unlikely for there to be significant differences in the resistance of rodents to one strain or the other, compared to humans.

So, they made a hybrid covid-19 strain, that could conceivably have been as contagious as Omicron but as lethal as the original strain. Nice work, folks.
I've been persuaded that we are plagued by hyperinsulinemia due to the sugar in the American diet. There's plenty of studies on this but as an additional point of anecdata, I reached for a can of Campbell's butternut squash soup yesterday, packaged with their new "healthy" brand "Well Yes!" https://www.campbellsoupcompany.com/newsroom/news/campbell-s...

NINETEEN GRAMS of sugar. In a small can of squash soup.
> Well it's either an overestimation in production or an underestimation in demand.

Or they correctly estimated, planned not to go out of stock
and were able to succeed. Jumping from "it never shows as out of stock" to "therefore they must have badly estimated one or both of supply or demand" is even stranger a leap of thinking than the initial misconception of thinking that not going out of stock proves low demand.

In both this comment and the previous one, you're guessing at a possible explanation while writing as if you know it to be the correct explanation.

(Sorry for coming across all critical, hopefully learning what can and can't be construed from a product being in stock is worth my negativity!)
I saw a YT video about how safe Rust is. I want to give it a try but I do mainly web applications, where I use Spring Boot and front-end frameworks. From what I have read Rust is better for system level or regular applications (not web apps). Can modern web applications be built efficiently with Rust? And by efficiently I mean, is the ecosystem there (libraries and tools).

I imagine the following would be needed..

1) Spring MVC like library for interfacing with HTTP requests.

2) DB ORM or ORM like. DB libraries for any possible DB.

3) centralized logging. e,g, Logback that forwards all logs to ELK.

4) Dependency injection.

5) Versatile configuration system. Similar to Spring configurations.

6) AWS SDK.

7) Commons like libs like Guice or Apache Commons.

stuff like that.
Snapchat has nothing to do with a general 'growth slowdown'. People have left Snapchat for TikTok[1]. Social media users, especially youth, are fickle and the industry relies heavily on network effects. Once you're no longer perceived as cool and/or lose enough users that the network effect isn't as powerful, it tends to snowball, and is hard to get that back.

"But there could be a bigger reason the company[Snapchat] has seen revenue deflate. Its reputation as the social media platform for young people has faded—particularly in the eyes of advertisers."

Not denying that growth slowdown is happening to some extent. But Snapchat has problems beyond that, and isn't a great example for it.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-09-01/snap-i...

As for Roku, I'm not as well-versed there, but I do see that in October 2021 they announced that they're losing 85 channels, including the behemoth YouTube, so that may have contributed significantly to its decline this past year.

Not to mention lots of TVs now tend to have the same type of channels as Roku built-in, rendering it a bit unnecessary. Mine has everything I care about for streaming, for example. Netflix, HBO Max, Hulu, Disney+, etc.

[2] https://bestlifeonline.com/news-roku-losing-channels-youtube...
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Become a "research engineer", take projects that need research.
The universities also very quickly banned crypto mining in dormitories. People still did it secretly, but it was very easy to get caught. There would have been no way to have any sizeable operations in a dorm.