skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Give it some time. I've been the manager of multiple engineering teams that had to undergo cuts, and in most cases I found myself in a situation similar to yours: it was obvious it was coming within months or weeks, but nobody was consulting me (which of course led me to believe I was being cut too).

But in every case, I was either consulted for input, or at least given a courtesy heads before the actual layoffs occurred.

In one case I was looped in a few weeks out and asked to help narrow things down. In another case I was simply shown a list of names the night before and offered a token opportunity to object. The list was sound, and I'm pretty sure my boss was doing me a solid on that one by sparing me the hardest decisions.

Line managers aren't always looped in for a few good reasons. Mainly, to prevent leaks. But also I think it can go a long way towards maintaining morale in a post layoff environment. There are countless anecdotes in these threads with people claiming their managers had no idea. Those same employees are now far less likely to be resentful of their managers for laying off their friends.

Best of luck. I don't envy being in your position.
“Almost 9k stars” is actually 7.3k stars…

But otherwise very cool project :)
Headline's gonna be "Black Friday at Twitter" with the bird in black.
> Same with nature

This was exactly the thought, and example, I had reading the article.

The last "oh wow" level photo I took was of a dragonfly perched on a flower on the shore of a lake. My phone would never have taken the photo; it lacks the hardware necessary to capture that photo. It's not a lion, but you can't walk up to a dragonfly: it would have flown away.

Not only the zoom problem, but for that particular photo I took a series of photos at just ever so slightly different focuses. Autofocus is only so good … and sometimes just completely misses the mark; I have fought my phone on this so many times, with it just picking the wrong spot continuously. Much easier to aim a camera's autofocus, and if that fails I can manual.

But even then, sometimes the autofocus is "right" (in that it hits the right target), but I find it's still only so good. And a dragonfly is not a large target; if it's off even a bit, blur. Sometimes it's such that I can look at the preview/view finder, and it looks in focus, but once the photo is taken, it's close … but not perfect, and it ruins the wow. Hence, manual focus and just spreading a bunch of shots across the nearby range — one is bound to be close.

I've also shot dance competitions, and they're dimly lit. Looks nice, but you need a real lens to get sufficient photons.

Absolutely composition matters … but if you're just consistently missing due to the hardware, then even if you get it right, the photo is still lacking.
I don't think it's super insulting or anything, it's just a condescending swipe. When you take a condescending swipe, you set a ceiling on the tone for everything that follows.
It's very sad how linux ended up being eaten alive, rotten deep inside

Devuan [1] or freebsd it is for me until an alternative emerges

[1] - https://www.devuan.org/
I think you're underestimating the ingenuity of the restrictions that can be put in place. By making the ID require a long journey (by car), and spending hours waiting in a line, it can cause people to miss a day of work or education (whereas retirees aren't as impacted).

Also, assuming people can skip this onerous process if they have a driver's license, that means that people who can't afford a car are more affected by this requirement. You might think that everyone in America owns a car, or at least has access to one they can drive, but only "61 percent of 18-year-olds in the U.S. had a driver’s license in 2018".[0] A similar bias can be found in states which accept gun licenses but not state student ID cards as valid for voting.

If you really think there are no groups who are under-represented in these states, you should really provide some statistics on voter turnout for different age groups and demographics. Do you really think that homeless people are as likely to have a valid form of ID as people who own a million dollar home?

[0] https://www.statista.com/chart/18682/percentage-of-the-us-po...
Not right now, but will be added soon.

Generally, there are three components

(1) a runner

This serves the function and waits for incoming jobs. There can be multiple runners serving the same function and they will get "load-balanced" in a round-robin way right now. Incoming jobs are received via a message queue the runner connects to. The load on the system is very small unless a job is processed.

(2) our server

This acts as a catalog for all functions that have been served. It also does the user and job management. When someone submits a job, the server also checks if the inputs and outputs work with the underlying function, e.g. same units, boundaries are checked if necessary, ...

(3) calling a function

Calling a function is really easy right now, if you use Python. You just import the catalog that is loaded from our server (2) and then you can call remote functions just like any regular functions. You can also share functions with others by providing an email that the invite is sent to.

(4) a web app

We also have a web app right now (https://app.lmrt.fyi) which lets you control the status of your jobs, your runners, ... The app needs a lot more polish to be really useful.

I hope this gives an overview of the architecture. If anything's unclear, please ask.
Low quality conspiracy theory noise.
Or just rent a Pullman car. I have not actually reserved one, but I always find myself searching around for charter companies when I see these types of articles.

These guys claim $2500 a day for a charter. Not sure if it is legit or if there are other fees. (I assume you then also pay all the Amtrak fees). But I do have this on my back burner to try sometime. Since they offer some 4 bedroom coaches. Would be fun to get a group together to split the cost.

https://www.pullmans.com
> The issue for me here is - what if hypothetically the political viewpoint is misguided?

Then you stay away from engaging with the underlying community that issues such statements (which might just be a smaller sub-community of the project's wider community).

> All I care about is the new and improved logic flow syntax of Rust.

And you are free to care only about that, use it as a purely technical product and just ignore any political statements (which shouldn't be too hard).

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While I don't think every organization intends to have some kind of alignment, they ultimately will all have one, since people do, and organizations are made up of people.

Sometime in the last week, there was an open source federated social network project posted on HN. They have a very political stance when it comes to their developer community, which causes many people to stay away from contributing to the project, to a level where I think it might be the project's long-term demise. While it's never a nice sight to see "wasted effort" like that, given the high level of transparency and contributors willingly joining and staying in the community, that seems like a decent mode of operating.
Micrograd: A Tiny Autograd Engine
You don't want to hear my whole spiel on the distinction between "advanced Python ecosystem experience" and "advanced Python ecosystem ability".
Love that Microsoft gives you a year to sign up for a deprecated feature.
Ha! I’ve always thought that all the Metra cars were identical and each one had a cab for when the train is heading into the city (Metra always configures trains so they “back into” the Chicago terminal (Union Station/Ogilvie/LaSalle).

Like the CTA (and the South Shore) trains - every single pair could be be the lead. They all have a spot for a driver (engineer?)
Elon's takeover began 6 months ago, and he's never hidden his disdain for how the company is run. All those PEOPLE with lives and families would have been smart to take the hint and start interviewing instead of waiting to see if Elon would spare them.
As others said, it's not naive. This is a person that has different values than you have. He doesn't care about keeping his job, if it's not on his terms. And that worked for a long time.

FWIW I read Manu's cartoons at Google -- to be honest I found them to be hit or miss, though I think they got better over time. As one other person here said, I do feel like a few of them unfairly called out a single person.

But this blog post makes me more of a fan! It's great when people have an agenda other than keeping their jobs, and when they recognize their right to be fired too :)
I didn’t understand where you were going the first sentence but then paragraphs 2 and onwards were fun.

Are you usually thinking in terms of type abstractions and enforcing invariants through types?
Sure, I can see Apple trying to set a price high enough to account for this, so they don't have to change it every other day. But boy did Apple (and others) see this situation coming since five years ago (when I started following this). Electronics (and related products) have always been more expensive here than in the US, even years ago, even accounting for VAT and other taxes.

Hell, when I was in college, (~2010, in France), I used to be really into photography. Bought a tripod and head. Italian brand, made in Italy. It was cheaper for me to order it from B&H in NY, pay for conversion charges, shipping, import duties, VAT, etc on top of the shipping, than it was to buy it local. Both Italy and France had the Euro at the time.
Users of dating apps are often warned that they should do due diligence and use caution when moving from the moderated, patrolled environs of the app into another mode of communication or encounter.

Creeps and stalkers will often try to get a woman's contact info (email, phone, GPS) so that they can continue pursuit and evade scrutiny by the dating app's monitors, who are often very good at identifying and banning unscrupulous people who are not in it to win it, so to speak.

Of course, yes, a dating app's ultimate goal is meeting in person and striking up a real relationship. But anyone crossing that boundary had better be very sure that they've gotten to know the person and they really can trust that an encounter won't turn into a craigslist murder.

Interesting case in point. My erstwhile fiancee and I met on a MMORPG in 2008. She lived in Europe and I live in these United States. She inquired politely of our mutual friends and acquaintances and then promptly booked a flight to visit me. Then she applied firm feminine pressure and caused me to fly to Europe and visit her for a month. As it turns out, I was not ready for the kind of relationship she sought and we flamed out spectacularly. She could not have expected this after how it went on that MMORPG and based on the reputation I had there among the other gamers. But if she'd asked real-world friends... it might've been a different story.
https://archive.ph/q3A4D
RIP cloud services. Google and Amazon overpriced their offerings and companies are finally moving away.
Thanks for the article.

We do not want to prohibit sharing code. You can always share your code. We provide a way to make the functionality implemented in the code available to other without them having to setup their system (install libraries, manage dependencies, buying a GPU to run something, ...).

Not sharing code however is a relevant requirement for a lot of companies to protect IP which we are able to address.
It's also the volatility. Wild swings within days and weeks. And general uncertainty about the direction of the market. The toughest trading environment for retail traders.
I just want to state the obvious, interviewing is a different skill than developing. You get better at interviewing with practice and the more interviews you do, the better you get.

Also, you got to be confident and toughen up before your interviews, because even if some would be interesting, constructive done in a pleasant way by nice people, many will be nasty. I got through many interviews were there were several people acting like machine guns, spitting dozens of sometimes silly questions just trying to catch me with a mistake.

Boy, how much I would wanted to switch roles a bit and show them that is not a constructive way to lead an interview.
30 member tech team.
I would imagine that if humans did use it at scale, it wouldn't be long until the microbiome was evolving to metabolize it.
Honestly, mediocre at best. Drawing style is even less so.
Someone from Amazon emailed me a few hours ago
Yeah, that's the "banned this practice" change that I was talking about.

The documents in the link that the post is about are from 2021/2022 though. So they must have un-banned it. The "guidelines" document at https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/projects/dotcom/english/p... lists 44 Amtrak stations throughout the US where this practice is allowed (and likely to continue to disrupt schedules for regular passengers).

It's infuriating actually. There are plenty of historic railroad societies that own track around the US where people can take their railcars to be driven around. Amtrak has a credibility problem because of its reputation for being unreliable, and this affects public perception of passenger rail transit overall and how worthwhile it is to invest in it.
Related:

Z Library - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29365627 - Nov 2021 (36 comments)

Zshelf: Z-Library books downloader for reMarkable tablet - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26355778 - March 2021 (51 comments)
In my experience I've witnessed that engineers/programmers have two dominant hobbies: woodworking, and photography. (Followed closely by cooking.)

I don't know which is worse financially for the person, but I've seen tens of thousands of dollars thrown at both. I'm not going to comment out the results... oh who am I kidding, of COURSE I am. We know where this is headed and what I'm going to say. Lots of really crappy furniture made on Festool/SawStop/Powermatic tools, and lots of really crappy compositions taken with Zeiss glass and Leica bodies.

As everyone has heard (or will hear): tools don't make the artist.
Startups. If they do the math and the trendline doesn't seem good, they'll make their teams go through a grind before layoffs. It's not necessarily to eke out a bit of productivity, per se, but they're essentially throwing hail marys in the hope that something will happen.

Of course, when it inevitably doesn't they axe a few and the rest go back to work.
you may have been asked this before in older stories, but why freebsd other than legacy reasons, and why not dpdk? is it purely because you need the fastest TCP implementation?
Yes. The same would be true of parrots, and other corvids like ravens.
Why is initrd needed for "real storage support"?

I usually have my storage drivers compiled into kernel, not as modules (because why have them as modules if you need them always).
It's such a terrible feeling. I repeatedly herniated the two lowest lumbar discs throughout my 20s and early 30s until it just finally couldn't heal any more. Too much volume was lost. It got to the point I was regularly throwing out my back and down for days from nonsense like getting out of a car and emptying the dishwasher. Finally, I threw out my back while putting underwear on one morning, and was suddenly introduced to an entirely new level of pain I didn't realize existed.

It was spasms, but not like any kind of muscle spasm I had ever experienced before. They were regular and predictable. Every 30 seconds. It felt like I was being electrocuted, like someone had placed an electrode in my spine and was throwing the switch every 30 seconds. My entire body seized up. I was luckily near a bed and fell onto it, and I was just stuck there. For three days. I didn't sleep. I have no memory of what I ate or drank. For three days, every 30 seconds, an electric shock came from my spine to everywhere else and seized up my entire body.

My wife, of course, wanted to take me to the hospital, but I was in too much pain to move, even if someone else was moving me, so I made her wait until the spasms stopped. Then I finally went in, got a steroid shot plus some oral prednisone pills, and eventually, two years, three surgeries, ten screws, two rods, two cages, and a whole lot of physical therapy later, I was basically functional again.

I don't really remember it. I can't envision the feeling. I just remember the sheer horror and helplessness.

The funny thing is, it's not even actually the worst pain I ever experienced. The worst was waking up after the double fusion, apparently before they started the morphine drip. I don't really remember this, either. It's more like a dream than a memory. My wife saw me. I couldn't see anything. I woke up and was screaming, begging the nurse to kill me, but thankfully this one was brief since I was hooked up to an IV already and she blasted me with fentanyl and I fell asleep and woke up the next time not feeling jack shit. But for maybe twenty seconds or so, I felt like you might imagine it would feel when someone just spent seven hours removing part of your spine, sawing a bone graft off your hip, and screwing a bunch of hardware into your vertebrae while pincers hold you open and your organs are all pulled out and on a table next to you.

It's really weird what this does to you. It totally throws off your sense of what is normal. Like should I be in pain right now? I'm laying in a bed unable to sleep. It's a mattress but it feels like I'm laying on stone where the fusion is. My entire left leg is numb and my foot is throbbing. But it doesn't hurt at all. It barely registers as background noise. The muscles that attach there are hard as concrete because they haven't moved in seven years, and they never will move.
> while dating apps feel loser-ish for people who can't socialize but are desperate.

Apps allow you be to visible to other people who are also open to getting together. Not all of the "infinite supply of women" in your area want to be approached at stores, work, on the sidewalk, etc.. Giving them control over who can talk to them (and when) can make dating a safer experience.

Further, there may be people with similar interests who live further away and don't frequent your circuit of clubs, bars, or wherever else you meet people. Apps can bridge those distances too.

And for other populations like LGBT folks, where they're a minority seeking a minority, apps are basically required in certain areas.

Your view here feels overly reductive.
> How many of us would be happy to open source all our code, provide easy ways for people to download and deploy

I would, as, in most cases, code alone doesn't really make
money.
> What does matter: the NYT's decision to focus skeptical reporting on tech as an "important power center" sure seems to have been vindicated.

So in effect the NYT which have been an "important power center" of American media since the 1800's, decides that another entity that comes along with too much power needs to be "taken down a peg".

Its a power play to discredit a new entrant into a business sector that threatens the inheritors of the incumbents.

So call it vindication, but its only in the same vein of a third generation monarch trying to quell threats to his inheritance. But to that perspective I agree, its definitely the correct power move to keep threats from taking away the power one inherited.
what do you mean by typical nic? these are COTS NICs anyone can buy
I think you're strawmanning his argument a little bit. He didn't say that systemd has mind control powers, or reports you to some council. All he says is that systemd is "Substance D" (so it's psychoactive if ingested) and is a "medusa" (meaning it turns people to stone if they look it in the eye, although presumably he meant it's a "hydra").
You literally don't know what you're getting into sometimes.

I had an essentially harmless cyst in my wrist, the doctor suggested draining it with a needle on the spot. "Sure, how bad can it be?" I'm completely unbothered by needles, always figured my pain tolerance was decent and they did local anesthesia anyway.

Turns out that it was a big needle and the anesthesia basically didn't work: the instant the needle punctured my skin, I felt like I had been body slammed and a wave of nausea washed over me. I'd always figured people fainted because they were somehow scared of needles, but this hit me so hard that I could feel the room start to spin and my vision dim, and I had to lie down for a while.

I was fine within minutes, but with something like shoulder surgery, a similarly casual decision could easily lead to weeks of agony.
Tesla ALWAYS does 10% layoffs. Why anyone wants to work for an overrated egomanic who believes an annual 10% culling is good for the company is beyond me.
That's right, AGE is designed to use both queries either separately or together. SQL (PostgreSQL), openCypher (AGE)
Not chronic pain like the author but I had many blood clots stuck in my lungs a few months ago. This lead to severe pleuritic chest pain, the worst pain I ever felt in my life. In the A&E, I usually have a high tolerance to pain, so I was up and talking to doctors and nurses fine and calmly about the ache, but once the pain ramped up to a high point with involuntary spasms that just made it worse, I just immediately turned from calm but uncomfortable to loud, screaming while rocking back and forth and pleading with my body to stop hurting me.

Really, only an injection of tramadol did the trick. After I was admitted, they lowered the dose, so the pain came back but I guess the drug just changed my reaction to it, like it hurt the same but i was too stoned to care I guess. Really only treatment made the difference permanently. Pain killers (paracetamol that is tylenol) after being discharged reduced the pain that would come back from time to time at least to the point I could bear it while my body healed.
> Later, I asked the person, “How many Mickey Mouses could be in the park at once, so long as they don’t cross paths? This man looked me dead in the eye and said to me, “There’s only one Mickey.”

Strange quote to end on.

I feel like they should just go upper class only. Offering a poor experience to middle class folks where they’re constantly cut in line by richer people can’t be good.

They’re at the mercy of queueing theory here. As much as we want to blame them for raising prices, the parks are too crowded.
If you can afford a private rail car I'm sure you can also afford a peplink router with dual wan interface, and one of the two way going to starlink, the other to a cradlepoint LTE modem and antenna system for T-Mobile or Verizon.