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Unions are extremely effective at solving what they were meant to solve,

There’s a reason Tom Brady is part of the NFL players association.

There’s a reason Tom Cruise is in the Screen Actors Guild.

These superstars join unions but engineers think they have’s negotiation power because they practiced leetcode.

Doctors have the American medical association. Lawyers have the ABA. Meanwhile the ACM releases some academic guidance.

Your comment says “we don’t need collective bargaining or organized labor” then says “we need society wide change that organized labor is most effective at implementing “.

Most programmers are convinced collective bargaining is a bad thing because of repeated propaganda from corporate America that highlights the worst parts of collective bargaining while ignoring that it’s virtually the only tool for advancing any sort of labor rights in any industry.

In a free money bull market perhaps it didn’t matter. But watching how Elon can turn Twitter into squid games and YCombinator can coach all their companies to discard you the second investors demand it should be a wakeup call. They don’t care if you are “default alive” in a recession. A union would.
CSS is standardized…
> As far as I know Linux gives you mechanism to lock files and directories, so the compression program you used should have locked the directory by default until it was done or canceled.

File locking on Linux is advisory, it excludes other processes which try to lock the same region of the same file, but not operations other than locking. Mandatory locks were optional (required a mount option, see https://lwn.net/Articles/667210/ for details), and were removed in 5.15 (https://lwn.net/Articles/874493/).
Standards objections
> They should have stored the funds to weather through the storm right now instead of slashing jobs and hindering company's growth!

Maybe they're doing both, storing the funds and slashing jobs; what's left to "grow"? They followed the stereotypical model thus far

1. Operate at a massive loss on VC funds under the guise of user growth and acquisition
2. IPO at the peak
3. Figure out how to become profitable with a realistic business model or watch your valuation plummet

They're at Step 3 right now and they haven't figured out how to make a profit yet
From the article:

A singularly wealthy man who recently purchased his favorite social-media

platform for $44 billion — and who has said he hopes to turn it into an all-

encompassing “everything app” — has a message for the rest of us: Unaccountable

big-tech companies have too much power.
Has anyone had a horrible time with DoorDash recently? Every single time I order stuff is missing, order is MUCH later than promoted, and customer service is awful. I had a dasher leave an order leave a pile of stuff outside my building, and customer service won't help because the incident was more than 3 days ago.

CS also seems to be _heavily_ automated - you can tell that you're rarely talking to a human being. It used to be the best delivery app, now it's streets behind Uber Eats.
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Decentralization has some advantages but it also enforces bubbles further. My corner of social media will have no overlap whatsoever with your corner and they drift further and further apart.

The only real solution for this is education, teaching people to think, to listen, to evaluate the quality of their sources of information, to draw their own conclusions, and so on. It's not perfect but the alternatives are closer to simple AI trained on a very limited and one sided dataset.
> It's an example of the truly extraordinary performance of JavaScript. It really does get very close to C/C++ performance

Yes I can attest to that. In my day job I write JS code that processes images in 2D. Processing images, even of a high resolution through simple algorithm is perfectly doable at 60 fps in JS. You just have a to be careful to what you do but that's pretty much true for any language.

Recently, I implemented a bilinear interpolation in JS, C (wasm) and WebGL. The C version was only marginally faster than the JS version even though the whole set of optimization was on. Sure native C would probably be significantly faster but then you wouldn't compare languages but runtimes.
Cool, "pandiculation" was a new term for me! Had not thought about the purpose of yawning and stretching before.

For others curious, this page gave a better ELI5 definition for me:
https://somaticmovementcenter.com/pandiculation-what-is-pand...
"No" is so much more polite than what people do today which is just ignoring something forever.
British people of a certain age can be defined by their Blue Peter
credentials and activities, rather like a geek-code. Mine FWIW; Lesley
Judd, Peter Purves, John Noakes, Shep the Dog, Collecting milk bottle
tops to buy a donkey (for some reason).
If this dev would be blatantly misrepresenting their work, then people also would not be happy.

Is there website still designed to be deliberately misleading?
LinkedIn reports ~42,000 total employees, "Operations" being ~70% of total headcount, "Engineering" being ~5%, "Sales" being ~3% and 20% is marked as just "Others".
Just like the BART stopped releasing video footage of crimes because they feared people would misattribute criminality to the majority of offenders.
I’ve noticed this but I don’t look at it as maintaining relationships.

If you are going to cover a topic deeply better cover all sides of it rather than just a criticism piece or a puff piece. This is what Keeps me coming back to economist.
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That's hard to believe - I posted my experience above, but CS there seems to be very heavily automated and frequently an actual chatbot. Getting to CS requires going through a number of UI screens. If they are employing an Amazon-level of CS people, then they're horribly utilized.
How to Read a Book by Adler. It describes a systematic way of reading, interpreting, criticizing, and judging the value of non-fiction.

An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis by Hospers. Provides an approach to thinking about different types of philosophical problems.

Both are accessible and will make you super genius.
That's by design, the H1B program is similar to illegal immigration like that. Create a underclass of workers that are more vulnerable with less rights and beat the domestic workers over the head with them to drive down wages.
Comparing a SaaS solution to a cheap vps like vultr is completely missing the point.
This is the best answer so far. I would add that a researcher/blogger/columnist well versed in the languages/industries/topics they write about, and fusing together and referencing data sources used to form their commentary/view is optimal.

For example, the recent Economist article "In Ukraine, living as normal is an act of defiance"[1] presents a view of everyday civilian life in Kyiv but offers no references or links to anything of substance.

This article would be much more useful and interesting if it provided references, data (as opposed to anecdotes from interviews of a few people) and visual information at both macro and micro levels. For example, the following types of information could be useful in answering the question of "what is life currently like in Kyiv?":

1. A picture showing the rate of growth of "Point of Unbreakability" sites across Ukraine[2] alongside links to videos of a few sites being toured (to show an example of what they typically look like).

2. A link to daily reports on the Ukraine energy grids[3] and a graphical map of changes in energy availability over time.

3. Recent walking tours of Ukrainian cities.

4. A link to retail pricing and availability of a generator or typical basket of groceries and a graph showing changes over time. Or a video tour of typical supermarkets or retail outlets showing the effect of the war on supply of goods[4][5].

Some journalists at media outlets do provide well researched articles from time to time filled with graphs, maps and tables of data[6] but they still generally don't add references and photos/videos. I find this is particularly true for articles that frustratingly claim "New research from the University of Something shows ..." yet there is no mention of the paper title or link to the article in an open journal. Or any reporting on legislation or legal matters--would it be so difficult to link to case information on a court system, link to a bill presented before parliament, etc?

[1] https://www.economist.com/europe/2022/11/23/in-ukraine-livin...

[2] https://nezlamnist-gov-ua.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_t...

[3] https://dixigroup.org/en/analytic/russian-war-against-ukrain...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzO0ikUcL-c

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzsEdRLML5E

[6] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-10-19/maplab... (example relating to how some media outlets have been using satellite imagery during the Ukraine war, also see 'Map Links' at the bottom for more examples)
and then you have a a kernel panic and bring down the entire VM. That doesn't work and totally defeats the whole point of having a VM, 9 9s or reliability, etc. Having a bunch of FF/NIFs in C to get around the VM is really missing the point.
> kinda like

You seem to have missed some words. Please point out how Tailwind is not a tool that makes working with CSS more standardized and simpler for someone just sitting down to your code base?

Literally the entire original comment was just that Tailwind fills much the same role as Bootstrap did, just with far more capabilities. Thus, it engenders the same flame wars that were fought over Bootstrap. You responded by saying, "It's a superset of Bootstrap."

Which is what I was saying by "Very fancy Bootstrap"?
A related question is why would you want to reload the entire file/namespace every time you make a change?

Coming from a Common Lisp background, I am used to evaluating single forms/functions. I would sometimes re-evaluate the entire namespace, but that would be relatively rare.

I switched to Clojure many years ago and followed the same workflow. Then ClojureScript and tools like figwheel came along and I was somewhat surprised to find that people admire the "auto-reload" functionality so much: save a ClojureScript file and all of it gets re-evaluated in the browser interpreter. I found this to be inefficient, somewhat annoying, and a big step back from evaluating exactly what you wanted to.

My guess is that lots of those people never worked with a REPL where you eval single forms from the editor, so this auto-reload on each save seemed much better. But it isn't! And it creates its own problems, like the one the OP solves in the article.
I was expecting that the process writing to the now deleted file would throw some kind of error/exception that the file doesn't exist anymore. I would have noticed that. But instead it silently continued writing into the void.
found a source but I don't trust it https://scoopertino.com/wikileaks-releases-140000-emails-fro...

edit: it's a fake news site

> By now, you probably have realized that this was just a joke by Scoopertino, a website dedicated to sharing “unreal Apple news”.
I thought this had already happened. WebKit (and it’s forks) has eaten almost all the things already hasn’t it?

(FireFox stands as a lone exception to this but I get the impression, probably wrongly, that Mozilla is always a couple of dollars from bankruptcy).
My pickup truck is faster than your Ferrari
1/100 = 1%
A drug for Alzheimer’s disease that seems to work
The problem, as usual is that "bigot" is just another word in the long list of words used to silence people. To quote Paul Graham:

<<In every period of history, there seem to have been labels that got applied to statements to shoot them down before anyone had a chance to ask if they were true or not. "Blasphemy", "sacrilege", and "heresy" were such labels for a good part of western history, as in more recent times "indecent", "improper", and "unamerican" have been. By now these labels have lost their sting. They always do. By now they're mostly used ironically. But in their time, they had real force.

The word "defeatist", for example, has no particular political connotations now. But in Germany in 1917 it was a weapon, used by Ludendorff in a purge of those who favored a negotiated peace. At the start of World War II it was used extensively by Churchill and his supporters to silence their opponents. In 1940, any argument against Churchill's aggressive policy was "defeatist". Was it right or wrong? Ideally, no one got far enough to ask that.

We have such labels today, of course, quite a lot of them, from the all-purpose "inappropriate" to the dreaded "divisive." In any period, it should be easy to figure out what such labels are, simply by looking at what people call ideas they disagree with besides untrue. When a politician says his opponent is mistaken, that's a straightforward criticism, but when he attacks a statement as "divisive" or "racially insensitive" instead of arguing that it's false, we should start paying attention.>>

Coming from an ex-communist country, where the word: "reactionary" is still useless after being used as a weapon for so long, I find it really scary that it is now, again, used unironically in the west and appears to be regaining its power.

My grandmother lost her job because she was part of the anti-communist, democratic opposition, and the reason given to her was that she was "divisive, and anti-worker".
Hey HN!

I’m happy to answer any tech questions about this. I haven’t worked on it personally (so it’s not a Show HN), but I’ve been tracking the development and know the details.
It's become a new wedge issue for Republicans, alongside trans rights, CRT, and the generic "woke left".

Basically, some investors started considering broader elements of corporate governance in their decisions.

Now the right has latched on, claiming that choosing to invest in companies that, say, commit to sustainability initiatives or fight workplace harrassment, are somehow engaging in woke censorship

The irony is their solution is to try to ban the practice, thereby restricting freedom of association. Isn't it ironic?
fwiw, this is because H1B has evolved far from its initial purpose. Most tech H1Bs really should be on EB-1A, which has more reasonable regs.
First off, even assuming that your thesis is correct, are overweight people expected to just wait until we can fix our entire food system?

Secondly, while I think it is unquestionably true that the composition of our diet has a significant effect on the propensity for obesity, it does remain a propensity. There are innumerable people that maintain a healthy weight, some with dedication and willpower, others with an almost effortless ease, and everything in between. And, we know from very basic science that reducing the inputs and increasing the burn will absolutely cause weight loss. Homeostasis is not necessarily easy to achieve, but it is certainly possible.

But practically there's some combination of diet, genetics, psychology, metabolism, gut biome, viral agents, endocrine system and a million other unknown and unmeasured phenomena that feed into it. At least in the USA, there is an overwhelming feeling that if you have the capability to fix things yourself (change your diet, change your lifestyle), then pursuing an alternative that takes it out of your hands (bariatric surgery or non-surgical interventions or weight-loss drugs like semaglutide or liraglutide) is admitting failure. I propose that it is less productive to dwell on failure than it is to actually lose the weight. We should remain skeptical of a "free lunch" -- extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof -- but it does appear that we are getting closer to having workable solutions to curing obesity.
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“poor example that some Christians set?”…can you recommend any group of ~1B people that doesn’t have members that “set a bad example”? Do you think you yourself could stand that scrutiny? (I doubt it.)

The OP says he is feeling lost. Following a map sounds like the sort of thing you do if you are lost. Any of the core scriptures of any of the major religions has the sort of map the OP may be looking for. Read deeply and broadly (Bible, Koran, Torah, Upanishads, Dhammapada, Sutras, Tao Te Ching…but often popular writings about the Scriptures are an easier start or even religious poetry, Perennialist or New Thought/New Age writings). Then find a community you like consistent with what you find true in your reading of those texts, if you wish. Many billions of people over the centuries couldn’t have been that wrong taking such an approach.

But choosing a community first before finding your philosophical/spiritual footing runs the risk falling into a cult. They can seem “especially attractive”…at first. As can political and philosophical fringe groups. Try not to waste your time (and lots of money) by putting their cart before your horse. First find and listen to the still, small voice within, then explore what direction will lead towards your better life. If someone proposes the opposite (community before individual spiritual exploration and commitment), run away while keeping one hand over your wallet, because your money is what they are really interested in.

If you already feel comfortable in the spiritual tradition you were born into, then you already have your answer…you just need to deepen your understanding and actually pursue the practices of that millennia-long tradition. Community and theurgy can help. As the Dalai Lama said, you can test whether you are on the right path if your path is making you kinder and more loving to all you meet. Love your neighbor as yourself. Golden rule. Not that hard :-). I’m guessing your heart will be way more important in finding your way than your head will be. You do know where your heart is, don’t you? :-)
Males saying this to females is very much a thing. Particularly older males to younger females.
> `body.single-page .entry-content .btn.btn-small {}`

But why would you do that?

That's awful CSS. And nothing calls for it. There also are tools for linting and analyzing CSS that would flag this atrocity. Everything is there for us to use CSS in a good, simple way.
It's addiction. Managing food isn't as hard when you're not addicted
The only reasonable stale-bot policy for me is when a maintainer asks for more information and the issue creator stops responding.
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This is kind of like being a fan of early Simpsons, where exposure to one thing leads you to find out more about the thing they’re drawing inspiration from.

The association of Flight of the Valkyries and helicopters came from Stanley Kubrick’s Apocolypse Now.
The smarter you are, the more unhappy and lonely you will be. Been known for millenia; doesn't have to stay this way.

edit/ sorry got shadow banned over this post. cant reply to anyone.
Strange, the only place I only ever see someone mention hpmor is on HN. In fact, I first heard it from here.
Top tech companies and VC startups will take a lot longer than a few months to resume hiring. So even when the glut of supply passes there will still be lower demand for a while. Or at least lower demand at the higher TC levels.
I don't see why you'd blame Linux for deleting a file you asked it to.
However, if the process is sufficiently long-running, it is possible to relink the file by looking inside `/proc/$(pgrep yourprocess)`.
But Javascript the language is intrinsically linked to Javascript the runtime. Not sure what you are going for here. I'm not at all the surprised that tuned Javascript can be as performant as pre-compiled Javascript.

To explain further, I'm also not surprised that hand tuned assembler can get the same performance as compiled C.
Yeah, stale bot is just an awful experience. I would rather not be able to create issues at all.
It's not offensive as much as it's kind of odd sounding, and would feel awkward pitching to someone else.
Google results are way too political and censored nowadays, if I wanted to get some uncensored results I have to go to Yandex, Brave, maybe Kagi, but I agree Reddit is good option as well.
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The race is between the process writing the zip file, and you trying to delete it.

If the process creating the zip file runs faster, and finishes, and closes the file, your attempt to delete it would have worked anyway. Because the program that created it didn't have it open any more.
It's not just you. The quality of Google search results has been declining for a long time. It reached the point of being no better than alternatives a while back for me. These days, it's worse than several of them.
> I think investors & owners would want the company to use real data science to improve products & maximize profits.

This is based on the assumption that companies are focused on long term profits and stability, and I’m not sure why anyone believes that to be the case anymore. The vast majority of companies are run based on next quarter’s stock price or growth metrics.

I worked on a newly formed data science team coming out of grad school that was tasked with taking some predictive initiatives that the company had relied on external consultants to produce, and implementing them in-house. The external team’s results always looked exactly like what the business wanted to hear, but they rarely played out in practice. This was in part because the underlying data quality was terrible, and the company wasn’t executing in a way that allowed anyone to actually answer the questions being asked. The consultants would just torture the data until they could come up with a report that would ensure the company would come back the following year. So we spent a lot of time trying pouring cold water into the business groups who saw data science as a magic wand that would conjure up more money at no cost. But we never were able to convince them to invest in anything that would take longer than a year. Anything that would require a change in their marketing or strategy executions that wouldn’t immediately deliver increased results was just a non-starter. But actual data science requires that kind of investment for long-term layoffs. So the data science team became figure-heads, never given the buy-in to actually make impact on business, but kept around so teams and leaders could tout being “data-driven” and throw “AI” and “machine-learning” into PR and marketing materials.

You aren’t wrong about middle management is looking to get promoted faster. But every single individual from the employee looking for a promotion to the executive suite to the investors are addicted to incentive windows no longer than 6-12 months.
There is another side of support that regular users won't interact with, the B2B side of things. Might be that those customers take up more time and CS is oriented towards that side.
I agree that making it clear is important, and I think I edited my post at the same time as your comment to say the same.

However, I think I still disagree with closing issues, particularly with a bot, even if expectations are set. On GitHub, I think labeling the issue is more appropriate. Labeling it as "maintainer-wont-fix-contributions-welcome" with a detailed "I will only accept a PR if these conditions are met" in the README is much better than just swatting away things by closing and saying "won't fix" or "this is not a bug". If PRs and issues truly will be ignored, then that really needs to be explicitly stated. Because otherwise, why even open source or release it? I have seen quite a few presentations with "I maintain all these projects" instead of the truth of "I open sourced all of these personal projects". There is a difference.
might exercise at least slightly invigorate and thereby improve it?