skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes your gut feelings are right. Be on the lookout for more red flags, they're sure to pop up. The thing is, unless you are indispensable to the company, they're possibly gonna axe you without a second thought. Your gut feeling is telling you there's a good chance of that. They company isn't going to care about your baby, it cares only about money. Even on the more personal level, your direct boss doesn't give a damn about you it seems, so don't count on human empathy to give you any leeway here.

The reality is you can't do much. It's not up to you whether you can save your position, if the company is planning to axe you then it's gonna do it without any regard to what you think is fair. So just keep that in mind, and plan your current situation to your advantage:

First I would check to see if they pay out PTO. Some PTO like floating holidays or personal days may not get paid out (read your contract). Optimize on taking that PTO first, immediately. Since you have a baby, take your parental leave soon. Even if they lay you off, you can get severance and also be able to apply for unemployment benefits to cover some costs of your newborn and support your family while you're not working. Do not just quit yourself, because then the company wins: they get to skip out on severance, and you can't apply for unemployment.

Then after your parental leave is over, see if there's sick days you can use. Sometimes it's use-it-or-lose it, so you can use that time to find a new job if you don't like your current one. You don't have to take this all at once, just disperse it here and there to lighten your workload so you can have time to practice those leetcodes and whatever for your interviews.

Whatever you do, just remember you have to look out for yourself and your family first, and congrats on the baby!
More likely that it's a autocorrupt of ALS.
Yes and yes, it isn't microsoft that started pushing it.

Biggest promises on top of better data types is actual device discovery, so for example after connecting control keyboard to a synth you can have the knob names automatically populated. And no hacks needed to get MPE
https://archive.ph/YiMpA
Yeah, units that algebraically reduce to 1 are always very interesting to me. Consider a chart showing how many CPU seconds you're consuming per second. The unit is seconds/second, which is equal to 1, but it is still a distinct concept from radians.
Assuming the binary on the disk hasn't changed opens to time of use type attacks, where an "evil disk" is substituted that changes the binary after the first load. (Or, more likely, some sort of rootkit)

Unlikely, yes, but that sort of thing comes up in security reviews.
And I said they were not prevailing attitudes.

> OOP languages dominated that graph and that was not a new trend

That's fine.

But your claim was that the prevailing attitude was that "OOP was the only acceptable and superior paradigm".

That is not true.

> Another source that claims it directly

It says "software development has been dominated by a methodology". That is not what you argued.

Also - wow, an AOP hype paper from 2003! I hadn't read praise for AspectJ for a long time.

In any case, there were a lot of multi-paradigm languages by 2003 - and yes, with OO being a commmon one. People in general were not rejecting procedural, functional, or logic programming on the basis of being a worse paradigm!

> My evidence for what was being said about Go is that I was there, in those conversations.

And I was there too, and know people who jumped right on it. Meaning that we can't tell what the common perception was.

> The social relevance and crisis of psychology is discussed here:

That link is about "social psychology" (quoting it, "By 1960, social psychology was primarily a subdiscipline of general psychology; that is, it was practiced primarily by psychologists, in psychology departments, following the principles and methods of general psychology "), not psychologists in general, like a private psychologist one would go to for mental health reasons.

And the issue wasn't one of voodoo. The most damning criticism is:

] Thomas went on to argue that social psychology had not only failed to assuage racism; it had in fact sustained and contributed to it, and in the process, alienated minority groups: ‘‘It is not entirely by accident that ghettoized people are saying, more and more, words to the effect, ‘Psychologists, take your psychology and go home’’’ (Thomas, 1970, p. 259). It became increasingly clear to social psychologists and to academics more generally (Metzger, 1970), that they were being accused not just of failing to account for the diverse experiences of oppressed groups, but also of purposefully maintaining the structures responsible for that oppression.

It also highlights how that crisis was part of what Schlesinger termed a '‘‘crisis of confidence’’ in American culture' and "undoubtedly part and parcel of what one scholar saw as a larger crisis of academic authority (Metzger, 1970), characterized by student revolt and persistent questioning of the power structures and professed neutrality of the ivory tower."

This is not how you characterized it.
As a former government employee, I doubt they work directly for the government. The government loves to outsource everything remotely technical to contractors in my (dated) experience. The GS and even the SES pay scales they offer are laughable in comparison to what one can get in the private sector.
What's the short version of why Meta did this, wrapping so much up in this internal nonstandard format?
I bet the "reading" modes of the browsers are just using the HTML that's visible on the page, but that's marked explicitly as hidden from screenreaders, using the aria-hidden attribute.
anglo morals
The response would be My heart goes out for ... because when heart goes out, no further action or difficult decision is required.
People saying that it's "easy to make games" surprise me. Are you actually trying to make something real, or is this just speculation? If you're on the sidelines or a dilettante, why speak? You're just adding noise.

Personally, I'm in the trenches and making games is _hard_! Sure we have faster computers and better tooling. We also have _much_ higher expectations... Still, it's incredible to make games. I'm so lucky to work on them each day.

If you feel what I feel you don't make excuses about "luck." What the hell is luck? Of course "success" is out of your control... But you control what you make. You can choose to make something beautiful, to hone your craft, to stir a feeling. What could be better than that?!
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> You can also eliminate the constant in some of the integral formulas by using đx instead of dx. I'm surprised the author does not propose this.

In the post I propose doing that for Gauss' theorem and Cauchy's formula, because there it's convenient, heh. But to me it feels better to use Θ^ix than a scale factor in front, since the 2pi is always present in the exponential, while the prefactor can be avoided in Fourier transforms if you keep the 2pi in the exponential (or hide it inside Θ). Does this not apply also to the elementary formulas you mention?
You can't discuss math while getting rid of the math symbols. That's not a reasonable proposal.

Math on the web is broken, the the affected people should be up complaining about that. This site did the most accessible thing possible; the fact that every tool broke here, just like they do for every other method is not really the author's fault.
Scared tech workers are scrambling to reinvent themselves as AI experts
Sort of, except that the Federal government controls all sorts of things that influence housing development, such as taxation and significantly contributes to infrastructure spending.

When we look at the last time an enormous amount of apartments were being built in this country, through the 60s and early 70s, the Federal government was deeply involved both in directly subsidizing coops and non-profit housing and also through tax expenditure which aided market housing. There were a great deal of federal tax incentives to build market housing, many of which no longer exist.

Basically Chretien got the Feds entirely out of housing during the austerity budgets of 1993, housing construction plunged for decades and decades and now we seem to somehow have an enormous shortage.

The Feds also are in control of Indigenous reserves, so a failure to build housing there is their fault.
> You're really buying a transferable lease for 6-7 years on a device that has a hard stop to go to landfill after that time due to software obsolescence by way of unpatched vulnerabilities.

I'm still using my 2012 MBPs for various purposes, such as playing videos and music for the whole family or music creation. Yes, I can't put newer versions of software on it, but I'm quite happy with what I bought. I just replace the battery every couple of years (because in these old models - I can!).
An alternative / replacement without the side-effects would be huge. Since I started 1mg / week of Ozempic, the phrase "power vomiting" has become part of my vernacular where it never was before. Just last night I was overcome by a round of puking that rivals stuff you'd see in a horror movie. :-( It doesn't happen often (2 times this year so far) but when it's bad, it's BAD.
1,000km is a tiring drive in a luxury SUV.

I couldn't imagine 4,000km on a knee-high 125cc bike.

They are very cool bikes though. I'd love to buy one, but I want to buy a Rebel first.
Great. At least it's going to a US ally.
Tell me you've never without telling me etc...
flyctl getting rolled into aws cli (or boto3 shudder) would definitely hurt
It's important to qualify this though. E.g. Amazon was not profitable for a very long time, but only because they furiously reinvested everything. They could've turned profitable at any time.

Assuming Cloudflare is a similar case to Amazon: ie they could turn profitable at any time but choose to reinvest those profits immediately into more business, that is a very good spot to be in.
It exists because you want to feel good by looking down to others, and this is the best you can come up with. I don't know where does it came from. The church, probably? Does it matter, tho?

edit: you are bullying people for their hobbies and taste, it is bad, please stop.
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick “Made a Bad Judgement” on the Nintendo Switch
At that scale you have discounted multi-year agreements. It's a good problem to have.
> There is enough evidence by now that in my opinion it is within the realm of possibility that we are being visited by alien intelligence.

Nah. I'd wager it's more likely to be earthlings from an alternate reality or that time travel turns out to be feasible and it's our descendants, than that it's space aliens ("but one of those is entirely based on speculative physics and both require our model of the universe to be pretty damn wrong, to allow such travel" yeah, I know—that's how incredible I find the space alien hypothesis). I don't think those are credible guesses, either, but I'd say they're more likely to be true than "it's aliens". That explanation's got a lot of things working against it.
To avoid sounding like you're trying to take some credit you might have phrased it:

"This is something I've been wanting for 22 years."
> We know the CIA, FBI and NSA have a common interest in weakening all domestic cryptography.

To the extent that the CIA, NSA, or FBI have an interest in weakening cryptography, it applies at least as strongly (more strongly for most of them) to foreign cryptography, so I’d probably drop the modifier “domestic” from that sentence.
First, your answer has nothing to do with my question to xbonez about why, despite his being stuck in the US H-1B morass, he did not mention planning to take up this offer.

Second, your supposition of my under/overestimation has nothing to do with the factual composition of FAANG and other US tech companies' Canadian offices. As I said, they are a) mostly people who cannot and will not ever get US visas (i.e., those who didn't make the first hurdle that xbonez was lucky enough to cross), and b) a few native Canadians who for one reason or another don't want to move to the US.
I think the guy that needs a blood or plasma transfusion is going to be much better off with it (even with the PFAS), than without.
Hey, Joran from TigerBeetle here!

You raise a fair question.

Coincidentally, one of the reasons we picked Zig was for how readable it was, and strikingly so, even for high level programmers who might not understand systems programming or C. Because Zig reads like TypeScript, and we were working in payment switches where the majority of programmers could read that. This particular switch, in fact, had this same business requirement, that programmers should be able to at least read the systems language.

But generally, our experience has been that people who understand C will understand how to maintain Zig [0]. Zig's toolchain is also more accessible, and across all platforms. Zig's compiler is already being used by Uber for hermetic builds.

It's also easy to learn. You can pick up Zig in a week and be comfortable in a month. Zig has a simple grammar. I love how, when we have someone join the team, we never have a discussion about how to learn Zig, as if it's a difficult language to master (like C++!). Rather, there's excitement around learning the language, even ahead of starting at work, and within a day or two they're committing.

We made this decision for TigerBeetle in July 2020, and didn't take it lightly. We had already followed Zig's progress for 2 years by that point, and many factors were considered [1][2][3]. C was the other contender, given that we had to handle memory allocation failure.

The crux of the decision, then, was whether to invest in a systems language of the last 30 years, or in a systems language of the next 30 years. A distributed database is a big investment. It made sense to invest for the future. If anything, it would have been a colossal business mistake to have picked C or C++, which would have crippled our development velocity.

Furthermore, for TigerBeetle's design goals, especially w.r.t. our adoption of NASA's Power of Ten Rules for Safety-Critical Code and thus static memory allocation, Zig made (and continues to make) the most sense.

We also liked the efficient performance culture surrounding Zig, with talented game developers like Michal Ziulek and Stephen Gutekanst, and embedded programmers like xq, Matt Knight, Jens Goldberg and others moving to it. These industries (gaming, embedded) are often a good litmus test of where systems programming is at.

More details (our thinking on Zig through the lens of safety/performance/tooling/ecosystem/hiring/marketing) here:

[0] https://kristoff.it/blog/maintain-it-with-zig/

[1] https://docs.tigerbeetle.com/FAQ#why-is-tigerbeetle-written-...

[2] Building a Distributed DB in Zig: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pHHb6ONTbw

[3] TigerStyle! (How to Design Safer Systems in Less Time): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3WYdYyjek4
In many years, the US seemed to be cooling, even while the rest of the world was warming. The temperature anomaly map often looked like this:

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/2-Map-of-the-globe-showi...

It just felt so weird that the one place on the planet ideologically disposed to disbelieve in climate change would also be the one unaffected. The planet itself seemed to be conspiring.

Of course it wasn't, and neither is it "karma" to have an oil-wealth state suffering. It would be nice to have it nudge Texas (and its political allies) in the direction of accepting that climate change is not a gigantic hoax on them. Weather continues to not be the same as climate, but if a weather event convinces people to stop making excuses about climate change, then perhaps two bad things can cancel each other out.
I think most people are fine with the idea that some of the costs (monetary and otherwise) arising from disabilities should be transferred from the people suffering from them to society at large. But I don't think it's reasonable for producers and users of broken screen readers to expect everyone (including authors of private blogs posts) bending over backwards to accommodate them, nor is it a remotely efficient use of societal resources. It also creates completely perverse incentives.
In the case of memory safety, we can say that absent compiler bugs, use of unsafe (including by dependencies), or callouts to other languages that rust defiantly eliminates essentially all memory safety bugs.

We can't make the same strong statement about the type system preventing other bugs. The type system in rust requires a LOT more boiler plate code an extra typing, some of which can introduce bugs.

I am not aware of any study that would support the claim that rust reduces the defect rate overall and I'm somewhat doubtful of claims that it does because of the absurd regularity that rust software immediately panics on me when I attempt to use it (and, the amount of firfox crashes I've experienced which of late are almost entirely rust code panicking under the hood). It's also possible that what I'm seeing are all defects that would have existed otherwise made slightly more visible, if so -- it's a good thing.

But we shouldn't let the fact that we can take for granted that rust avoids memory safety bugs by construction from meaning that its other properties which MAY reduce defects over all actually do. Hopefully it does. But writing software entails a lot of cost and risk to undertake for a hope and plenty of things that have been intended to make things better actually made them worse.
The Navy also has the FADOSS, though it wasn't needed here I believe.
It can lift insane amounts, at insane depths.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyaway_Deep_Ocean_Salvage_Sys...
The people that received your blood have most likely "destroyed" alot of their own which most likely also contained PFAS thats why they need yours. No need to deliberately throw away perfectly good blood.
When I'm forced to write Java I do appreciate these functional tools. They make things a tad less verbose.
> If a UFO lands in the middle of.the Congo whose going to know or be aware.

People with smartphones and Meta/WhatsApp/TikTok accounts are all over the planet.
Plus, silver flying saucers actually exist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_VZ-9_Avrocar
I don't think it's really viable to just stop posting equations altogether. Yeah it's more accessible, but it would also completely cripple any sort of discussion between mathematicians, physicists, etc.

Equations and mathematical notation aren't simple illustrations. They're in many ways more important than the stuff around them.
I think for certain high risk populations, specifically pregnant women or women planning on becoming pregnant, it makes sense.

Based on the new clinical recommendations, my 10.86 ng/mL level puts me at elevated risk for preeclampsia (if I were a women/pregnant). Knowing that could mean my BP during pregnancy is more closely monitored, with a BP cuff for example.
Every time I try to do time-series cohort analysis or Lifetime LTV expandability on many of the analytics tools out there I get frustrated and up resorting to Tableau. It took mixpanel a decade to finally get some of it right but it's still too simple. I don't like tableau but it sure beats doing custom SQL queries all the time. How do you handle cohort analysis?
Pity it's only available on iOS and Android as apps and as browser extensions elsewhere. I would've been interested to check out a desktop password manager that's free/cheap and is not based on Electron* and follows native OS UX.

[* As far as I know, Bitwarden is an Electron app. It shares the same kind of sluggishness and some weird navigation issues that are common in Electron apps. Though I wouldn't go back to 1Password for various reasons, I recall that it's also an Electron app ever since Agilebits got huge funding for the company.]
Not sure if you intend this to be a going concern, but won't it be hard to compete against LabDirect et al.?
Doubt it. It’s not only about money, and Canadian salaries are improving dramatically. I moved to Canada in 2019, already have permanent residency with plans to get citizenship this year. There are many non-monetary reasons to live in Canada (healthcare, Childcare for $10/day, etc).
> make specific shareholders rich at the cost of everyone else

I haven't worked in a single company that have succeeded in making their owners rich without giving the clients what they want. Have you? The only entities I know that do that are organised crime and governments.
I wonder what took so long. Maybe it's partially due to midi being perfectly fine for 90% of its use cases.
Still, seeing "midi 2" legitimately announced reminds of that meme of "Music 2" being announced.
I hope Buck2 is better. Like I said, I have no experience with it.

My issue is more organizational. Meta, as a company, in my experience, does not put in sufficient investment to build a mature, robust open source project with few exceptions. Even things like the www test infra, which are core to the company when I was there had ~1 FTE SWE. That's not open source but you get my point. Buck (and Thrift) seem to have been woefully underinvested for years. Thrift was originally an intern project at a time when Stubby (Google's protobuf-based RPC) was not open source.
@babyshake, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?
I just tried all the examples you gave (on my M1 Max) except Skype which I don't have installed here, they all load in 1 second or faster, maybe its something else on your Mac?
I don't think IIT is a correct theory or even on the right track. Nevertheless I fail to see how it's "silly". It's no sillier than any other putative scientific theory of consciousness -- less silly, since IIT actually makes a testable prediction.
> Soapy water won't break down the molecularly bonded fat and iron on your cast iron.

In that case I'm not sure what the exact mechanism was. But I know that after others have used/cleaned a seemingly well-seasoned pan I've had to deal with chips, flakes, and/or rust and had to go back through the whole annoying seasoning process. And of course it's entirely possible that despite carefully following instructions that I've done the seasoning wrong -- chemistry is the only class I ever flunked.

> A drop of water should dance on a properly heated steel pan and things won't stick.

My partner made a similar recommendation. It sounds trivially easy but for whatever reason I have not managed to make it work. Given that cast iron (generally) works fine for me I've had minimal motivation to learn the idiosyncrasies of another material, though I would like to give it another shot at some point.
iCloud Photos is part of iCloud. iCloud backups are not end to end encrypted by default. The option did not exist then. They claimed 30 not 100 photos. It could change at any time. The claim could not be audited. The databases are known to contain false positives. They could not be audited.
If you mean units instead of dimensions I agree.

There is a natural reason for pi occurring in physics that makes little sense to ignore.

Treating it as something to be dealt with misses the forest for the trees.

Radians are the naturally occurring Euclidean unit of angular measurement.
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Actually I suspect unnecessary use of async IO is what makes many Rust applications slow. It surely makes things slower to compile (+100s of crates dependencies for the Tokio ecosystem), it makes the binaries bigger, which in turn makes the application slower to cold start and download.
All of JS, Ruby, and Python are vastly more complicated languages than C. They do have a shallower learning curve. It's unclear to me what degree they have a bigger review audience: there are an awful lot of write-only JS programmers! :)