skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a delicate balance--having a smaller high quality standard library versus the "everything you could possibly need", "kitchen sink" approach found in the Python standard library.

It is great that there is an active Rust community with tons of useful crates, but it can be daunting as a newcomer or when introducing Rust into an organization to discover and adopt the "right" crate(s) for common tasks that the standard library has no answer for.

An example common task is asynchronous programming. For my current project, I am better off using thread::spawn, async / await, async-std, tokio, smol-rs, or something else? I had tentatively selected async-std, but then I came across this thread: https://github.com/async-rs/async-std/issues/992#issuecommen...

If I select a given crate today for a given common task, will the crate still be around and maintained in three years? Will I need to rewrite my project to use the latest crate du jour?

I wonder if it would be possible for the Rust community to design / define a common library of traits for common tasks that could be used as "interfaces" (sorry, Java background) that library crates could be implemented against.

This would provide better stability for crate users and help to avoid analysis paralysis and uncertainty when selecting crates for common tasks that the standard library has no answers for.

There could even be multiple libraries of traits grouped by the type of task. This would allow for more natural groupings based on usage (instead of one huge library of traits) and permit independent changes from other defined libraries of traits.

The Ada programming language has a similar idea called "Standard Library Annexes". See the bottom half of http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/22rm/html/RM-TOC.html where the sections start with alphabet letters instead of numbers. There are standard annexes for: "B. Interface to Other Languages", "C. Systems Programming", "D. Real-Time Systems", "E. Distributed Systems", "F. Information Systems", "G. Numerics", and "H. High-Integrity Systems". Ada toolchains do not have to implement all of these annexes to be a standards-compliant Ada toolchain, but it gives those that do a standard interface so that they are more interchangeable, and code written against them does not have to be rewritten.

Rust is wonderful and I want to see it improve.

Is an idea like this feasible? If not, why not?
I don't understand this website and why it always get linked. It's just a list of a bunch of crates unsorted. Most of them are unmaintained, or just early prototypes.
There isn't a good comparison of all these crates
I'll believe it when Google Maps stops asking me if I want to get off the highway, drive around in a big square, then get back on at the same exit going the same way.

No google. I don't care if it's 8 minutes slower. Still not tempted.
But what if I like having sex?
https://embedded.fm/

If you are interested in embedded software, and by extension all the stuff that software goes into.
Narcissism is the key to success.

To boldly go where no man has gone before, into forms of exploitation unthinkable to others.
I'm not much invested in Rust, but seeing how the C++ Committee wastes time discussing topics like a 2D graphics library or audio playback I shudder at the thought that Rust could become the same.

Also with Cargo, what's the difference between a 3rd party library and the stdlib? (none really)
Where to start? Pick a career. Set a goal. Make it SMART[0]. Put effort into it every day. See results.

Education and training will help you get your foot in the door. That is where I would start.

There was a MASSIVE wave of retirements the last few years. Lots of openings.

0: https://www.ucop.edu/local-human-resources/_files/performanc...
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Tech sector recovered to astronomical new heights?
Who would have predicted ever increasing inefficiency and decreasing service from an effective monopoly with little to no selection pressure?
1) I don't want to mock anybody, but do you suspect he might have some kind of condition like autism or ADHD or something?

2) Perhaps your goal should be to see if he wants to build a company (even a small one with a few engineers) that can work on implementing and refining his many ideas. If you and him can work well together (at least as well as somebody like that can be worked with) perhaps you should try and see if he'd be interested in that.
Niko if you are reading this please add RSS to your blog!
Extinction by lack of procreation won't stop climate change at this point. It's too slow. It will just solve "the problem" by not having anybody around who could care.
I only mean to say that the counter culture is there relative to software devs. It's depressing how far from its roots infosec has made it. BlackHat is a great example - it's a fed conference.

In terms of the explosion in products, sure. But that doesn't apply to the technical people. There are lots of problems because there's a large market solving a complex problem. If you're actually talking to technical people they can be of a pretty high calibur.
Not necessarily. Not all PhD holders want to become postdocs. Why restrict supply artificially?
>If fear of being accused of sexual assault is what it takes to convince those (mostly irrational) young men to keep their dicks in their pants and their hands to themselves and their mouths shut, then so be it. That's called progress, and it's a wonderful thing.

Note that I was speaking of fear of being falsely accused, not rightly accused. Men who expose themselves or commit other sexual crimes have no such concerns. They also live among your circles, believe it or not.

The world is bigger than your strictly enforced American bipartisan ideology. My experience is from places where there exist no republicans or democrats - long before people such as Trump or Andrew Tate were widely talked about.
> The original contract should have provision in place that the system be maintained, that the school be notified in any change in parent company ownership, etc.

> It would then be much easier to compel the company to do the replacement and if necessary sue them to recover the $1.2m cost.

The way this usually works is the original company sells its useful assets and then goes bankrupt. Or goes bankrupt and sells its useful assets. You can't compel a company to stay in continuous operation, and if you pay for an established company to do the work, you'll get complaints about paying too much for the work, because they'll charge you more to cover for future things they're compelled to do because they actually plan to be around.
Mostly, yes. (It's one of the "sexual fluids touching a moist area" ones. So there's things a prophylactic won't quite cover, but... mostly.)

https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/stds-hiv-safer-sex/g...
I don't think there is a way to export filters from Gmail but they're just a collection of simple rules like:

"Congrats CALLU !" in subject goes to spam

Like I alluded to in my post, it feels like these would be easy for Gmail to catch directly.
Bad doesn't have to mean PTSD-inducing "walking dead" scenarios…

Also, whether hardships makes or breaks you depends largely on your outlook and coping skills (this comes from someone who's had CPTSD and had to stop suicidal idealisation and learn coping skills in my late 20s).

All skills diminish, if unused. Having too easy times means there's less need to "cope"

It's very likely most millennials have poor coping skills due to the predominantly emotionally neglectful parenting styles the previous generation
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU-IlqiP4sU"

Well, it says its a LWR, video says "fuel rods", which means solid rods and meltdown risk. Eh.

If it's a solid fuel rod, then if you get a runaway reaction, and if circumstances mean the safety systems go offline (see: Fukushima) then meltdown.

Contrast this with something like LFTR: the liquid fuel needs to stay in a certain shape/containment/vessel to maintain criticality. If it starts overreacting/heating, the "plug" at the bottom of the containment melts and the liquid flows into a shallow distributed pool that, per nuclear physics, is impossible to maintain criticality.

That type of system is inherently meltdown-proof, even if all the systems go offline, the plug will melt. You know, assuming gravity still works.

A pebble bed, where the solid fuel rod is instead a bunch of solid pellets, but if they get too hot you can similarly melt a plug and the pellets fall into a shape that likewise wouldn't stay critical, might also be similarly meltdown-proof, but I haven't read nearly as much on pebble bed designs.

But a solid fuel rod? Nope.
> They mostly just want me doing grunt work, despite my desire to do larger, “force multiplier” type work. Work that my coworkers and customers are asking for.

Is it possible for you to only share "grunt" work with owners and talk about "force multiplier" only with who "gets it" ?
Oh damn lol
There are a few options on the market depending on where you are. The specific product I have seems to be out of manufacture now but the replacement is the Samotech Hue Switch cover SM200 V2. It fits over the top of your existing light switch and the wireless dimmer attaches magnetically. If you need to turn off the light completely you can pop the cover and access the switch underneath.

It is a little bit bulky due to the nature of it but that's not something that bothers me. If you're particular about your interior design, you may need to look elsewhere: there are also complete light switch replacement products that are thinner and look a bit sleeker, but I haven't felt the need to move to those.

Another thing I like about the Hue system is I had so much difficulty finding reliable combinations of non-smart dimmer switch and LED light. Despite spending a lot of money to get supposedly high quality LED compatible dimmers, one would break every few months and occasionally they seemed to cause my LED lamps to burn out or have other weird issues like not completely turning off. All dimmer switches I tried had a subtle buzzing at certain light levels too.

It's possible there is some combination of lights and dimmers that works great, but since switching to Hue, it's the first time in my life where my lighting system has required zero maintenance in over a year. Other than when a squirrel bit through my garden string lights...
I suspect there was a big meeting with a bunch of managers about the need to make up a 7-figure budget deficit and 50 of the 60 minutes was spent bikeshedding about k-cups. :)
Rtainer, a Docker wrapper for managing containers and promoting reproducibility
Darktable was indeed what I meant. Thanks.
I use rspamd for my self-hosted mail and I still don't really see any spam at all. I've spent quite a bit of time tuning it (ensuring that domains I expect mail from are trusted, mostly) but I can't believe how GOOD it is.
What exactly is it you think our ancestors were doing to successfully avoid disease?
This is what happens when your country has laws requiring workers to sit on the board. Aka strong unions by law.
It means elon musk is a dick.
They should invent a vaccine for it. I also read meningitis vaccine is somewhat effective against gonorrhea.
Yes. I was a musician until 30. Kept up with tech and always had projects going. Worked my way up the ladder from contract help desk to Director of IT in 10 years. I just kept applying for help desk jobs until I got one and absorbed everything I could.
Would it be this GSK Vaccine that just started a clinical study relatively recently?

https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05630859
In my daily life, all my tech coworkers and zoomer (and older) friends in VRC say it's horrible, myself included. The only people who don't have a problem are it are my very casual-use family members.

TikTok search is apparently better. My version of that is "site:reddit.com", but even that's gotten worse as the culture there becomes more censorious, echo-chambery, and more insane.
I recently got out of a job where I had nothing to do, and it was soul crushing. I actually had a boss I really liked, but the company had so much red tape and bureaucracy that our team didn't have any real work to do. I didn't write a single line of work related code the entire time I was there, and it felt like I was losing momentum, like all my skills were getting duller.
You wouldn't think doing nothing would exhaust you, but not doing anything _real_ all day stressed me out a lot and I was weirdly tired at the end of the day. This meant I didn't have very much energy for job hunting or personal projects that would help me find another job.
I wanted to reply to this post in particular because it hits a point that a lot of job advice posts I see miss: a shitty enough job can make it hard to do the stuff you need to do to get another job. I don't know what advice I can give though, it's a hard problem and a lot of the stuff that makes it hard is in your head which makes it difficult to generalize.
> Objects carry prototypes and mutability with them.

You can deep freeze the objects and freeze their prototypes.
The fewer people have access to Twitter the better.
The question I have with this move is why didn't Twitter just force advertising as part of their API for third party clients? Just change the TOS for using the API so if they didn't show advertising they would be cut off. What am I missing?
I meant darktable, not Lightroom. Thanks, I changed the comment.
I get dozens of terribly-formatted spam emails per day. I get about 2x-3x as many "spam" emails as I do real/marketing emails. "Spam" is in quotes because the emails make no sense...I can't see anything they're even selling. There will just be one non-sensical link by itself that I never click.

Example:

from: runnerup info_GBAQBHFLXV@news.ukgkkwwumjhqu.edu via netorg12672764.onmicrosoft.com

subject: --confrmtion-70346102

content: a link labeled: "runnerup-N0tificati0n"

I can't tell if Gmail can't figure out these are all spam, or if they purposely send me 1-2 dozen every day because I religiously label them all as spam and no one else does. Maybe that's because its super hard to label an email as "spam" using their mobile app! My wife has also noted a large uptick in similar spam emails over the past 6 months.
Why is it so much manual work to turn Docker runs/Containers into Kubernetes yaml anyway? Or is that only me.
They did have a much smaller partner pool, though, which is a prevention measure. But just use condoms.
I was a summer intern at a big defense company for one of my first summer jobs. They gave me some fairly simple work but not enough to fill my day. I ended up reading a lot of books for a large chunk of my day. =/
I was in a similar position once. I was working at a green tech startup, took about a 5x pay cut to work there, but it was something I was passionate about.

They had me working on low value BS, internationalization of an old product, etc. Just wasting my time. I don't think they had any idea of my capabilities (despite lots of proof of that).

When I finally said "I really want to be challenged here, I'm super capable, and I want to drive forward on meaningful work", I got no response, and shortly thereafter was laid off. Funny place. I then took another high paying job that assumed I was capable and pushed me hard - much better!

Sometimes you're just wading into interpersonal dynamics and low trust environments. If it's consistently weird, there really is just one choice: find a place that's doing hard work and will value your contributions. Life is too short to waste it with contributions to those who don't value them.
I don't _really_ get it. Wouldn't it have been easier to work with these platforms and mandate that they show promoted tweets the same as the official app? I imagine Elon also downsized the official app teams so why not outsource some of that work to third parties and let them figure out monetization?
"turns out I’m horrible at suicide!"

Ouch, I am not sure if you meant it like this, but please don't take it as more proof of how you failed.

You did not. Your remaining desire to live was just stronger, otherwise you surely would be dead. So please live this life, because you want to, not because you have to. All the best!

Edit: And screw those performance based love idiots, they didn't know better and you had no alternative, but now you can find people who know better.
Apparently "king" is the new fashion word for cool guy, chad, bro
My best friend was thoroughly unhappy in a research gig. So she took out a massive loan and went to med school. It was a STRESSFUL period for her and her family. She's out now and makes 10 times her previous money and is a fair bit happier at her job.

My wife was a store manager, wanted to slow down for family, took hr courses and is now an hr manager.

So there are success stories in fairly radical career changes.

On the other hand it sounds like you want to stay in the field, just get some traction? I work for a big tech technically in technology, and would hire "someone like you" depending largely on other qualifications and aspects,especially on something adjacent - I. E. (spit balling) if you have a decade of average or below average technical experience, you might make an above average incident manager, release manager, service delivery manager, etc - depending on other skills and circumstances. If you are willing, diligent, detail oriented, have good comm skills, have good troubleshooting skills, or any combo of above, there are jobs with upward mobility (not saying it's trivial finding them).
you have to understand that age is becoming not a thing nowadays. almost all tech and office jobs are moving to remote so no one cares about how old you are as long as you can do the work.

that being said. i started over at 45 with a consulting company and i'm doing VERY well with it. i'm now 47 and can tell you that i love my job and wouldn't trade it for the world.
Great distinction. I agree 100%.
Not be on Tinder.
Time to stop shitposting, bud.
This could be because product development is much more quantifiable, while infosec is not. This means the grift can continue for a long time, before an actual ransomware incident happens and the team gets fired. Afterall many of the recent companies that were hacked had contracts with cyber defense firms, but they were just too busy posting memes on social media.

Side note: you should read my other comment on this thread.
I once had a job like that, though my situation wasn't quite as bad as yours. The job started out well and then went sour when they hired a new manager. After years of 70-hour weeks, I couldn't remember what a decent job was like, nor could I imagine a job being better elsewhere.

When I finally did make the jump to a new position, I landed in a great company, with a great manager, and everything turned around.

One thing I'd advise, now that you're in a better place, is to try to work past the resentment. As long as you carry that in your heart, the old boss still has a hold on you. It'll take time to get it out of your system, but do try to get it out. You'll find that a more positive and productive attitude creeps in to the space that resentment once occupied, and your level of happiness goes up another notch.

In case you're interested, I posted about that job gone sour at https://sheprador.com/2022/04/worst-manager-ever/. The guy wasn't mean. He just didn't care. And writing the post made me laugh.
They may be referring to the meningitis vaccine: https://www.bmj.com/content/377/bmj.o997
You might like this very short article in the New Yorker about a cafe for procrastinators with varying levels of supervision. I immediately thought of it when reading your post. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/01/02/coffee-with-a-...
Do you have a link to this vaccine data?

Are there different types of gonorrhea, or is it 40% effective against all strains? And how long does the effectiveness last?
All 3rd party clients shut down is the best case for twitter.

All 3rd party clients migrate their users to Mastodon, while simultaneously solving the UX and approachability problems that have hampered Mastodon, sure seems like the worst case scenario for twitter.
As an F# developer who also does some JS and Java this would confuse the hell out of me!

|> is the best operator
And so ends my daily use of Twitter. I still haven't been able to get into Mastodon in the same way, but if Ivory is as good as Tweetbot was it might bring me around.
No, Search Ads dwarfs it.
> Gravity and EM fields are everywhere.

And now you understand why "quantum gravity" is such a big question in physics right now! We don't understand it all. I actually don't know anything about how EM fields affect superposition, perhaps someone else can chime in.
If you don't care about performance, then obviously it's fine from a performance perspective to have both... but what does it actually give you other than problems?
I'm still confused by how an AI could run rampant that couldn't be shut off (power, networking, etc) by humans.

Like what's an actually realistic scenario for that?

I guess it could be possible, but I feel like many obvious mistakes would have to be made over time in order to have a machine running that can sustain itself and can't be shut off by humans.

At least is seems like that level of autonomy is really far away.
This could be a regional experience. Some states have 70% apple market share, with Rhode Island having 80%[0]. The difference could be even greater for smaller regions within a state.

[0]: https://deviceatlas.com/blog/mobile-os-popularity-by-us-stat...
Thank you :) It was such a long road (5 years, 2 of IVF).
That announcement was meant to be mostly for the shareholders when MS's ChatGPT and copilot is the next big thing which is actually usable IRL.

This is a site for techies, so you and I search for IRL techs from Google that are products of the mentioned AI-first years

We (he and you+me) have different understanding of stuff, and probably Different friend circles and audience. And that is fine.

Hope the good ones out of the 12k find a good job afterwards where their work result in actual real life products.
It's easy to get certified. Now they have to get a few hundred customers and local planning permissions...
> I can't tell you how many times I got burned doing merges in Subversion where the entire repo became corrupt.

Earlier in my career, in the first week at one company I ended up corrupting the Subversion repo. I was a nervous wreck. My boss reassured and told me about he had also corrupted a Subversion repo previously as he restored the repo from backup.
Yeah but outside of (Manhattan and the expensive parts of Brooklyn) leaves like... not much of NYC? Most new grads do not choose to live in Queens, the Bronx, or Bed-stuy.

Assuming you pay $200/month in healthcare, ~$1800 a month to max out your 401k, your take home pay is about $5,000 after taxes. In Manhattan and the expensive parts of Brooklyn, your own place is realistically a minimum of $2,500, possibly as much as $3,000. Outside of those places, still $2,000.

Source: I literally just went through this process, as a new grad, making slightly above $120k about 3 months ago.
> On its website, Smithfield Foods claims that its CO2 chambers lead to “painless loss of consciousness and death.”

They made a claim, but did their best to prevent any recordings from being made, and their claim turned out to be a knowing lie. How many more cases of companies asking us to trust them while hiding evidence will it take, before we finally learn that hiding implies we should assume the worst?

Edit: Specific to this case, is there a good argument for not requiring that the method of slaughter is public? I.e. making those spy cameras mandated by law.
Also interesting as a programming language:

Lean 3: https://agentultra.github.io/lean-for-hackers/

Lean 4: https://agentultra.github.io/lean-4-hackers/
Calling someone "King {adjective}" is saying they are not just {adjective} they are the King of {adjective}s
In a perfectly dark room, isolated from cosmic rays, at zero Kelvin.