skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Man, didn't know about folded-eared cats and cartilage, joint and bone issues. [0]

I'd also like to bring up tailless breeds of both dogs and cats and the spinal and bowel issues associated with that. [1] I'm having trouble finding a good source for dogs specifically, but I know I've seen studies in the past that mirror the issues in Manx and other tailless cats. In my mind, it's an especially messed-up situation. The docking of dogs' tails has been a huge controversy for decades. So in some breeds, breeders got together to develop lines that are born without tails. Now they've got lifelong spine and intestinal issues instead of whatever short-term trauma is associated with docking the tail within the first week of birth.

The breeding of short-nosed (brachycephalic is the technical term) dogs is unethical and should be banned. You can't change my mind on that. Another search term for additional information is BOAS (Brachycephalic Obstructive Airway Syndrome). It's kind of sort of like sleep apnea, but while awake and upright and much more severe. You see a ton of heat and exercise-induced symptoms in these dogs. They basically cannot safely do dog things. The Crufts Best in Show winner in 2003, AKA the dog the organization said was the best example of his breed, had to have surgery for an upper airway obstruction shortly after his win. [2] The dog that The Kennel Club designated as the best example of the breed standard, so much so that he beat other dogs of other breeds being judged against their own breed standards for best in show, was unable to breathe correctly before having corrective surgery.

There's a million other issues, but I don't have time to write about hemophilia in Dobermans or deafness (and eyelessness) in merle to merle breedings and more recently identified high rates of deafness in breedings between dogs with certain white spotting patterns (white head syndrome is the current term for this).

To summarize: Good. About time.

0 - https://vgl.ucdavis.edu/test/scottish-fold

1 - https://www.wisdompanel.com/en-gb/cat-breeds/manx

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakee_A_Dangerous_Liaison
nah, great success.
The New York governor is a very powerful executive because the governor can tightly control the budget process and introduce budget legislation. In the 90s there was an infamous stalemate situation where the republican senate and democratic assembly would block budget bills for months. Subsequent court cases put control of the process in the governors hands.

The advocates for this bill pushed it in the wrong year. With political circumstances of 2022, it unfortunately got neutered by the many interests against it.
You are not weak, you're battling against groups of some of the smartest people in the world who spend their days doing nothing other than figuring out ways to manipulate you to steal and keep your attention, in order to maximise their engagement metrics/ad dollars. It's an incredibly difficult and unfair fight.

I'd recommend Stolen Focus by Johann Hari, I've found it personally really helpful.
Optimizing Chromium with Bolt
Don't use them for pretty useless things?
99% of a persons opinion about a company is a function of who their boss is.

I’ve seen situations where people have been at a company 20+ years, loved their work throughout all of those year, felt appreciated and more. Then one day they get a new boss and hated their job, hated the company and quit.
typedfalse wrote "unityped", not "untyped" (note the "i").

When type system people talk about types they're implicitly talking about static types, rather than what Python might call a type. Robert Harper lays out the argument [0] that Python is basically a statically typed language with many "classes" but a single type - that's where I was first exposed to this idea.

> The characteristics of a dynamic language are [that] values are classified [...] into a variety of forms that can be distinguished at run-time. A collection of values can be of a variety of classes, and we can sort out at run-time which is which and how to handle each form of value. Since every value in a dynamic language is classified in this manner, what we are doing is agglomerating all of the values of the language into a single, gigantic (perhaps even extensible) type. To borrow an apt description from Dana Scott, the so-called untyped (that is “dynamically typed”) languages are, in fact, unityped. Rather than have a variety of types from which to choose, there is but one!

> And this is precisely what is wrong with dynamically typed languages: rather than affording the freedom to ignore types, they instead impose the bondage of restricting attention to a single type! Every single value has to be a value of that type, you have no choice! Even if in a particular situation we are absolutely certain that a particular value is, say, an integer, we have no choice but to regard it as a value of the “one true type” that is classified, not typed, as an integer. Conceptually, this is just rubbish, but it has serious, tangible penalties. For one, you are depriving yourself of the ability to state and enforce the invariant that the value at a particular program point must be an integer. For another, you are imposing a serious bit of run-time overhead to represent the class itself (a tag of some sort) and to check and remove and apply the class tag on the value each time it is used.

[0] https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/03/19/dynamic-lan...
Refreshingly, a Google search for “IRS Free File” returns this site as the top result and IRS sites for the top 4. This search used to be a haven for the scummiest ads too, and now it appears ad-free.
If the creator is here, are you paying for mapbox for this side project? Or do you just fall within the free tier?

I feel like your site is so smooth and really works well.

I wish mapcomplete could work as well but instead it's quite laggy when zooming out a decent amount. https://mapcomplete.osm.be/cyclofix.html?z=13&lat=50.84031&l...
I think it was in the woods!
Do those intrinsically include dirty prosecutors though?
IMO types are fundamentally about restriction. Limiting the shape of your data and what you can do with it, so that this information becomes explicit - making it easier to reason about the program, both for yourself and the compiler. I think this is illuminated very well by sum types. If you have a variable of X | Y, you know that it's either exactly X or Y. You can pattern match, to handle the case that it's an X and then you call a function on it and you know exactly which function it is.

Inheritance is so nightmarish to me because people tend to use it in such a way that I often don't have the slightest clue what I'm actually dealing with, buried under layers of indirection that seem to serve absolutely no purpose. If I have an object of class X, is that actually an X, or something that just looks like it and actually behaves differently because someone decided to override a method in a subclass?

Interfaces tend to be much less monstrous IME, so I don't think the issue is with abstractions themselves. Especially when people use interfaces to abstract over common behavior between data types, rather than trying to future proof for something that never occurs.
From someone who has always been very close to management all my career and is now a manager. The unfortunate truth is a lot of this comes down to social capital. That is the starting point and then the rest is all figured out after.

We truly don’t have the metrics when we are asked for laying off large amounts of people. Any metric we might find would just be gamed so it comes down to how liked you are.
If you don't mind Texas (San Antonio primarily)

https://www.swri.org/

Non profit r&d established in the 50s with different subgroups doing everything from trains, engine fuels to satellite design to defence.
I'd say "Yes, I did," but my employment in my 20s wasn't exactly a career. I started doing tech support at 30, moved into programming, and have been doing that since.

To answer your questions: Sure, there is hope; there is certainly a path, but I am not in a position to recommend one; again, I don't know; yes, I'm pretty sure they will.

For the last one, and looking at gensym's reply, "someone like you", meaning you as you are as you post, maybe not. But then you need to find a way not to be like that, without confidence and motivation.
If it was then thanks for the fun!
> Trade is about exploiting someone somewhere for your benefit, no exceptions.

This is absolutely wrong, there is a whole field of economics studying trade and you should read at least about comparative advantage. In healthy economy trade is for mutual benefit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage
I would be skeptical of correlated variables that defy logic.

Butterflies numbers in North America likely have some correlation with dementia in New Zealand, but that does not imply causation.
What a great idea! Wish other states would follow suit immediately.

All of the money being invested in electrifying this country's fleet of automobiles would be better spent trying to cure cancer or CVD.
They are illuminating the street for safety and street lights do point down but light reflects off surfaces.
Owning a company is safe? Not at all. It might not be called a “layoff” but you can sure fail at it.

Also, you can maybe build something people want today but we can’t predict what the future will bring.

It is comforting to think we have some influence on our fate. But also comforting (more comforting, I think) to let go of the illusion that we have control.
I think this comment is conflating a few different things. The definition of fiduciary duty varies depending on the jurisdiction you're in. Most public companies are based in Delaware, and this seems like some version of that.

In Delaware, the duty of disclosure is part of the duty of loyalty, along with good faith and oversight. Likewise, the duties are the same for both directors and officers whether CEO or not on the care and loyalty front.

Most of the CEO obligations and duties are outlined in the charter of the company rather than in Delaware law. I believe the only CEO specific duty in Delaware law is signing share certificates.

Agreed with your analysis of the business importance of this. That said, I hope the leaders would not feel good about doing this in light of the hard choices they ultimately made.
I remember, many years ago, using an alarm clock on my phone that used questions like that.

It was a clever solution to the problem I was having at the time, which was that I kept oversleeping because I got really good at shutting off the alarm before waking up enough to remember what alarm clocks were for.
Also user directories are thing and you can instruct OpenSSH to use any command you like to fetch a user’s authorized_keys.
I never finished my 4th year Honours thesis. It was just a point in my life where so much was changing - moving out of home, getting my first full-time job, etc. I already had my Bachelor's degree and life just.... out-ran it I guess.

Looking back now I feel a little bad but I honestly don't regret it. You kind of look back a decade later (it's been much longer than that by now, but I realized this a long while ago) and it just seems insignificant, like a past life. It doesn't actually matter in a sense any more, nobody cares about my degree.

It was a wonderful, formative experience at the time and I don't for a second regret doing it. It's just that life moves on and people change over the years, ESPECIALLY if they started university as young adults. I actually think there should be a hard limit on the time you can spend doing a Masters given what I've heard about them. Or at least there should be more sanely-spaced deliverables. I was lucky in a way that Hons. was only one extra year on my degree, so there was no swamp to fall into at least. I wasn't going to pay for another year and by that time I didn't want to do it anymore.
Twitter lays off 3k and people freak. Google lays off 12k..crickets..
Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.
> I know two people at Google who were slotted for T (transformative) and O (outstanding) GRAD ratings who were laid off, along with their entire teams. There's only so much you can do.

There's only so much you can do, but developers and other ICs often turn a blind eye to the actual wider business. Sometimes it's exceedingly obvious that the business unit, company, or even wider industry as a whole that you're working in is on a downward spiral, but people won't or can't recognize it.

The writing was on the wall for Twitter for many years. Alexa and Echo were clearly massive busts for many years. If you're still at a crypto company in 2023, you pretty much have to have resigned to just coasting until the inevitable layoff or company bankruptcy. If you're at Meta working on Metaverse/VR, don't say I didn't warn you when you get your layoff notice in a year or two.

If you want to avoid being laid off, join a company that makes money, and make sure you're in the part of the company that actually makes money. The crazy new tech and R&D groups might be the most fun, but they're also going to be the first to get slashed.
If this counts as sensationalist then I'd say the term click bait has lost all meaning.
You are a mercenary. Who you work for and the work itself are inconsequential, and you could be out the door at a moment's notice. It is not a family, and the job is never going to love you back. Do not get emotionally invested. You will suffer.

It is not about being good. Good people (exceptional people even) get laid off and fired too. Rather, be "So Prepared You Head To The Pub and DGAF, The New Gig Starts Monday." Low burn rate, substantial emergency fund, robust retirement and investment accounts, being able to negotiate from a position of power, professional network to rely on, etc.
There are multiple instances where someone has been exonerated, which is certainly a high enough bar to require a serious investigation.
I mean, if you're laying off the whole team, it doesn't matter who's on the team, everyone must go.
Is it exploitation to buy a kidney from a homeless man for $500?
Everyone being replaceable is a concept that is emotionally hard to wrap your head around, especially when you're the one being replaced, but it is undoubtedly true. Even Caesar was replaced, I think they can replace a programmer or PM/AM, etc.

That being said, I did leave my previous company for a better opportunity and am on occasion reached out to from that company or even that company's own customers for assistance on specific items. Still replaceable, but there is learned knowledge that can be a deficit for a while or even forever, especially if it is simply not profitable to have someone learn it or it exists without maintenance for so long that no one remembers or knows how to fix/remedy if it ever does need maintenance.
Indeed. There may be an interesting analogy there about primary and secondary purposes and effects. ;-)

However, the same basic argument applies: harder to repair/replace, but also harder to steal or tamper with.
Absolutely not. You have to understand how indiscriminate and capricious layoffs often are, especially for large organizations. Frequently the criteria for a layoff is crafted first in foremost with the goal of not being sued for discrimination. I worked for a very large, very well known global industrial giant. When the economic winds were too unfavorable they cooked up a layoff that was based entirely upon where the employee was located, and whether it was aligned with their "site strategy". So if you sat in the wrong location, you were gone, regardless of how good you were. They actually laid off one of the best and most valuable engineers that I ever worked with.
The Street expects companies to cut costs in a bear economy and there is no greater saving to this than a RIF.
You... do realize that people with vaginas often have sex with other people with vaginas, too, right?
> If this "replacement" ever did, theoretically, been seen as suitable, all that would happen would be that attack code would suddenly see an increase in quality.

This is where I believe security-through-obscurity is underrated. As long as you're small enough that targeted attacks aren't part of your threat model, merely being unique affords a great deal of safety. Your wierdo jerry-rigged authentication system may not be particularly robust, but it's more likely than any mainstream product to repel an automated attack.
Most street lights cast down, the only exception are those globe lights normally used on small town streets.
It's apathy.
>so that there can actually be a conversation with management

What conversations do you need to have? Genuine question.
> Bad doesn't have to mean PTSD-inducing "walking dead" scenarios…

I think that in apocalyptically bad times good people (the "weak") get taken advantage of by ruthless assholes (the "strong") who do better when they act like selfish monsters, but those kinds of people just prolong the bad times. The "strong" just fight amongst themselves while oppressing everyone else. "Might makes right" doesn't result in favorable outcomes, just tyranny. Bad times can tempt or force people into becoming monsters, but you can't have good times with monsters running things.

Good times allow (and insist) that folks behave like a civilized people who look out for each other and that not only helps promote future good times and advancement but also creates an environment where genuinely vulnerable people who couldn't survive the bad times can thrive and contribute. When people are fighting for survival they don't have time to invent new cool things and learn about how the universe works.

I guess after a while the good times allow some of us to get annoyed by all the good people who keep telling everyone we have to be nice to others and there's time to look around at all the vulnerable people who couldn't survive without our support and wonder if we'd just be better off without them, but I can't imagine that working out better in the long term.

Perhaps things play out somewhat the same in less than apocalyptically bad times too.
Incredible. Please tell us who did this, not to shame them, bit to help us!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrQlpY_eGYU

It's not meant to be easy, I'm 1800 bullet on lichess and struggling
Beautiful graphics.
60 is quite low for leetcode. There are a few dozen patterns to learn. Most people will probably do on the order of 200-300 before they are truly comfortable. I've heard some people do it in as little as a month or two with 8 hour days. But most people can't do that because you will go insane and suffer extreme burnout.

> if you spend that much effort

yeah that doesn't start until like 400+ LC problems. If you're still struggling with mediums at that level then sure. But at <200? That's entirely normal.

Sure you may get lucky and get in Google with 10 LC problems under your belt. But those are not good odds. Places are asking LC hard nowadays. And you really don't want to see what people in India are putting up with.
Instructions unclear, reread Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.
For the concrete situation I mentioned above, they were in a part of Google that was profitable, but just not profitable enough. (The Google graveyard is going to have a lot more tombstones over the next couple months.)

But, yeah: all other factors being equal, it's always better to join a company that's making money in the org that makes the most money.
Maximizing shareholder value is a position taken by many that is getting less popular.

Value is difficult - Wall St cares about quarterly results, but shareholder value may be better served with a different scope.
Is it though. You're the one liable for issues on your tax return. You're the one who signed the return.
Yes, I read it and enjoyed it. Clearly it didn't work for you, and that's okay.
TurboTax's "competitors" are part of the same protection racket. Taking away business from any/all of them is a win.

I do wish my approach were more scalable so that lots of people would do it. But for now I'll have to be content with personally not supporting the racket.

Also, piracy is not stealing.
Only works in the UK this way if you earn less than £100k.

Canada forces most people to file a return too. Though it’s simpler than a US return.
If there are T's & C's I need to read before being permitted to talk to someone, I'll probably just skip the whole thing. Which I guess lines up with the title of the article.
Places with not many hills will of course prefer other storage media.

Places with lots of hills will also prefer other storage media if they turn out to be cheaper. It is far from clear yet how costs will settle out. It is anyway not time yet to build more than just enough storage to shift the few hours from peak generation to peak use.
One reason that the West may have provoked the current war with Russia is to create a hostile environment in the future where all of that countries' fossil fuel natural resources will be withheld from the provocateurs.

Never underestimate environmentalists' ability to create mayhem for their own self-serving purposes. They've already made housing unaffordable for much of generation Z by helping municipalities pass all of the exclusionary zoning laws that makes it so difficult to build new construction.
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Yep, for example, lots of cases with coerced confessions or just confessions obtained from individuals with developmental disabilities. The investigator would be the one who overdid it, not the prosecutor, who is often obliged to pursue the case if someone says they did the crime. Whether the confession is any good is up to the justice system. This applies to many semisciences or pseudoscience or expert witnesses or shoddy statistics. The prosecutor should look at the case in good faith [not tunnel vision] and rely on the courts to be fair arbiters. Then you have technical boondoggles like Bill Cosby where the prosecutors view the matters of law one way and eventually the appeals courts view it differently--whether he committed some crimes wasn't really the first order matter.
Ah, the classic game of “Does this mistake get me free tax preparation or jail time”
I find something similar with relationships

People aren’t willing to acknowledge the high probability that someone just had a string of bad partners
Yeah all those companies except Nubank were founded at least 10 year ago (Nubank being nine). Epic was founded 32 years ago!
Also https://cash.app/taxes
That's what I like to hear.
Yeah this is a big problem with fusion too, it requires a really big concrete footprint which limits how cheap the power can be.
The links you've pasted here make my case for me. Canada sponsored a series of TED talks, for a pittance relative to what they send to other NGOs. Therefore: the WEF has "infiltrated" governments around the world. This is lizard people stuff.

Important people show up at Davos because it's a networking event and an easy way to get publicity. Important people have attended TED talks, too. That doesn't mean TED is a shadowy extragovernmental puppetmaster.