skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use Python for real work too, but my current employer does not use it as much.
By Occam’s Razor: the people in charge of the day-to-day running of things at most companies are simply not very bright. I’ll get downvoted for this, because “attitude problem” or whatever, but I’ve been around 30 years y’all. There aren’t many explanations that fit the data.
Very nice writeup and I appreciate the effort put into showing the process. I got nerd sniped yesterday playing around with how to find the isle_opt.rs filepath from the core file and didn't succeed but left some notes on scripting with lldb here https://gist.github.com/aconz2/aef366a7b198b8ac151df147fec32...
I have a pretty low opinion of judicial review, but I'm not clear that reviewing actions by administrative agencies actually qualifies as JR. Review is when the courts strike down actual laws passed by Congress. In this case it's an administrative action by an agency
That assumes that everyone you are engaging with knows their status.

If someone knows they are HIV+ and are undetectable than you are more informed about the risk than you are in many other situations.

Also, if your partner is positive are you really not going to want to be with someone just for that reason?

Really need to get past the stigma around this and focus on education instead.

Edit: You changed your comment to no longer mention just not engaging with people who are HIV+...
The opportunity to go to space is worth so much that I think they would get qualified people to do it for free, maybe even pay to have the job. So I don't think there is a need to pay more than a regular "good salary".

I would gladly have done it for $100k.
Nobody lets the new guys have all the fun at first. But seriously outside big tech / unicorns I doubt most companies have the luxury of finding all the right talent to have such well defined roles.
I have worked with product owners. They categorically refuse all proposed refactoring work that developers find necessary. As a result, the project keeps piling on so much tech debt that it's doomed after two to three years. Moreover, they never suffer the consequences.
totally agree. culture is prevalent yet it is also difficult to learn & understand it well.

have you found reliable ways to learn about other cultures?
Iran's president implores Khamenei to avoid war with Israel
Related: Keygen is also Fair Source now (https://keygen.sh/blog/keygen-is-now-fair-source/)
My guess would be that for non-technical people it's much easier to schedule visible work (frontend) vs invisible work (backend). Are the people that are managing you less technical possibly? If you have a good technical lead they should probably understand the work to give you, but PM's and scrum masters frequently don't understand.

I guess the other thing I'd ask is, why the strong resistance to frontend work? I get not seeking jobs for it or not preferring it, I don't seek those either, but for my own personal productivity I like to have a decent idea how to build a frontend in case I'm waiting on someone that's overloaded in order to deliver my feature etc. It can be helpful for a career if you don't have to frequently tell people "I can't do that", vs, "it's not my strong suit but I can pitch in"
Well, there's no arguing with that. Electronics used to look a lot cooler, but now all the gizmos and geegaws that used to look so cool are just a few chips on a green wafer now.
C# recently came out with Native AOT (ahead of time) compilation that compiles your app to a binary that can run without the .NET runtime (!!), and has fast startup and lower memory overhead. There are a few drawbacks: many reflection and run-time code generation and loading features are unavailable, and LINQ expressions must be interpreted which makes them slow. But it's easy to work around those limitations for a greenfield infra project, and C# has great performance characteristics.
I am sure it's perfectly fine and constitutional, right?
A similar hack that's much cheaper and also works if you're poor or black is to go to your local station and buy one of their stickers ($25 ish?). When they pull you over they tend not to hassle you as much when they see the sticker.
It is an easy mistake to make because Van Ness is a strange station to have been built. It’s past the point where the BART tracks turn towards Mission and is close enough to Civic Center to seem redundant; but I guess a ton of civic buildings are directly on Van Ness and it is a major North-South transit corridor.
My last workplace used pyo3 for a project. It was slower than vanilla Python, and you picked up all the normal compiled-language problems like slow builds and cross-compilation toolchains.

I wouldn't take away from that observation that pyo3 is slow (it was just a poor fit; FFI for miniscule amounts of work), but the fact that the binding costs were higher than vanilla Python computations suggests that the overhead is (was?) meaningful. I don't know how it compares to a hand-written extension.
I don’t think this is the “bitter medicine” or “hard truths” you think it is.

Separately, while it’s very interesting that you played a role in writing this, and I believe that you’re correct in general about the errors in the linked articles: despite the fact that you are highly experienced, there are still idiots who win court cases, even Supreme Court cases, on crap arguments, sometimes. However, idiots never become surgeons. In my personal experience, I don’t know any idiots who also write sophisticated software. So this idea that there is some kind of objective, apolitical correct interpretation of a statue - that the practice of law at the highest levels in trials in front of the Supreme Court has this major objective element to it as surgery and math does - is kind of bupkis, you are as much practicing something imaginary, subjective, political, and poetical as the musings of Alan Ginsburg as the professors do.

So what is your opinion: do you really think Supreme Court decisions are apolitical? How would you tell the difference between a politically motivated decision that uses your arguments as a “parallel construction” to support that political decision, and a sincere belief that your way of reading the statue is objective and apolitical? Because that is what people are pissed off about.
The Rule of 5 and Inheritance
Meta shuts down Quest developer Ready at Dawn
You would send them 10K USD and you could forget about 10K forever. What a great opportunity. I'm not even sure the were from Hong Kong, probably some scam from mainland China.
One doesn’t always know. And besides, if in modern times the risk is essentially zero, then it’s worth considering.
I'm more and more convinced that the only way to do this is the "Swedish way", make all SSNs public and/or available on request.

Until that happens, companies will still pretend they're private information.
> several times in the past few years?

Several times in the past fifteen years, but it was that I got fired or quit.

> Do they tell you its because you can't do frontend or is it for performance issues?

The times it was involuntary, it was because I got moved to doing front-end stuff, my performance tanked, I told my manager or whoever was relevant, and sometimes I hear "Just bear with it a minute" and sometimes I hear things like I described above. This was the first time I tried saying anything about it during the interview.

> I feel like there's some key information missing here.

I don't get it either, so at least there's that sanity check: I don't get what's going on because it doesn't make sense as presented. That was what the questions were: I'm certain there is something I'm missing, I tend to be socially oblivious sometimes. I do not get it.
It's a wonderful (if rare) event when a medical trial is stopped for efficacy.
Are we really going that way?

The OP fully reports a Kafkan maze of being hired for a job, and then asked to perform a completely different job; having a low performance because, well, duh; and then we expect him to explain his low performance?
I fear that clearly defining what does it mean to compete in the context of this license is going to be a bitch.

Was it Unity recently that they had to do this ridiculous back-and-forth, issuing multiple statements to clarify whether this or that edge case is a violation or not? Or was it Redis? I don’t remember which product it was, but the turmoil I remember quite well.
You have an indefensible position, got it.
> Or there are many high level function structures as, which also has no UB (with some assumption on the called functions):

void bar() { struct foo *p = foo_alloc(); foo_do1(p); foo_do2(p); foo_delete(p); }

Are we assuming foo_alloc always succeeds? malloc returns NULL to indicate failure to allocate, which this code wouldn't handle.

> Such code can be easily screened and also this can be done automatically.

That doesn't sound right at all. Robust static analysis of C code is extremely involved. It's an area of ongoing research.

Prior efforts along these lines have not been successful. Even adopting the MISRA C ruleset doesn't guarantee absence of undefined behaviour, for instance.
No. That's not how it's supposed to work. Without delegation (which has happened), the presidency (and Executive branch broadly) is constrained by the Constitution, the laws set by Congress, international treaties (consequence of the Constitution), and restricted by the interpretation and judgement of the courts. If there's ambiguity the Executive can make their own call, they don't have to sit and wait, but they can then be challenged in the courts and have to stop acting in a manner judged inconsistent with the law, constitution, and treaties.
It appears they're trying to change the platform to be more of a media and payments platform. That requires talent.
No, they should sign you up for free Credit Monitoring for 7 years. All I would get is a letter stating something like this: "Your Credit is being monitored by firm xxxx, you will receive notices from them by Mail when items of concern are noticed" along with a real direct line phone number to call with questions.

I should not have to do anything nor give any information. Why 7 years, that is equal to the Statue of Limitations for saving US Tax Documents.

That alone will end these breaches almost over night.
> Mississippi has been a reliable Republican voting block since the parties switched platforms in the 60-70’s.

In presidential elections? Yes. On the local level the Democrats controlled the Mississippi House of Representatives every single year until 2011 (almost the same for the Senate).

Even federally, the Democrats usually won most of the house seats (occasionally all 5 of them like in 90, 92) until 1998. Last time they won the majority was in 2010.

> So republicans don’t need to spend money there to get votes.

Only over the last ~10 or so years (and the Democrats still have 1 mostly safe seat there).

The party "switch" wasn't really a switch to such a huge extent on the local/state level. The Southern Democrats lost most of their relevance on the national level but locally the it didn't really happen until the generation that held offices in the 60s retired/died out

IMHO even nationally it wasn't even that obvious, the Democrats "abandoned" the South but the Republicans more or less just stuck to the same positions that were mostly mainstream in the party for the last 20-30 years outside of the progressive wing. On the whole even Nixon was relatively progressive and liberal by modern Republican standards (probably much too progressive considering his stances on healthcare reform and the environment).
I think at the end of the day, I have a bunch of config files and commands. Showing a quick translation between the spaghetti and your solution would make the most sense. The less language I have to parse the better.

i.e. you have a set of kubernetes CRDs probably managed by a gitops solution -> we do this for you, you have a bunch of different pyproject.toml files that need to be orchestrated into a docker container -> this is what that looks like in release, tbh our terraform isn't a huge bottleneck because so much just ends up going in the kube crds.

maybe have two pitches: 1 for startups getting started and 1 for startups who already have a lot of this figured out (probably your bigger target audience if you have a strong pitch)
This is not quite the same but i recommend https://m.youtube.com/@2STROKESTUFFING
Google has an organization-wide ban on using AGPL software, and they explain why here:

https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl...
macOS 15 Sequoia makes you jump through more hoops to disable Gatekeeper
"I don't do X type of work" is pretty unrealistic and comes across as more stubborn than anything else. This is especially true in a small/scrappy company up to medium size companies where you're expected to wear multiple hats.

Maybe at Google you can get away with being the "person that does X-only" but that doesn't work in most companies.

Your job is to do _the thing_ if that thing includes front end work, then you do the front end work.
it is quite simple to explain. it is a while(1) and some if.
2010 article, "6 Private Companies That Could Launch Humans Into Space":

<https://www.space.com/8541-6-private-companies-launch-humans...>

That lists SpaceX, Orbital Sciences (since merged into Northrup Grumman), Blue Origin (which remains suborbital, though the orbital New Glenn is due for launch this year and Blue Moon is in development), Bigelow Aerospace (defunct), SpaceDev/Sierra Nevada Corporation (active, but struggling?), and Virgin Galactic (suborbital space tourism).

Wikipedia has a maintained list of current private spaceflight ventures, principally SpaceX, Blue Origin, Rocket Lab*, Virgin Galactic, Axiom Space*, and Sierra Space. (Starred are additions to the space.com article's list).

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_spaceflight>
Can you get around that nonsense by turning off wireless radios before launching apps?
Not really they are moving into homomorphic encryption where the entire query and processing is encrypted and Apple has no knowledge of the what you actually requested.
This is exactly the sort of thing that will make people seek out a replacement central authority. Most people don't want to, and won't, micromanage their "currency" like that.

They just want a medium of exchange that changes value slowly enough that they can be reasonably sure they know what the currency is worth. If cryptocurrency somehow replaces fiat money, people will turn to financial companies and pay an extra fee so that they bring back the advantages of the fiat money.
Awesome feedback, thank you!!
The latest and greatest Ford class US aircraft carrier costs over $13 billion for the ship itself --- not counting any aircraft on board.

According to a CBO study from January 2023, a hypersonic missile capable of destroying it is expected to cost the Pentagon $41 million each --- 0.3 percent of the cost of the ship --- aka target.

These Long-Range Hypersonic Weapons (LRHW) are scheduled for delivery to the US military later this year. Russia and China supposedly have already deployed similar.

Relatively speaking, these missiles are "low cost".

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/ford-class-aircraf...

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF11991
> > people do not realize that their human rights depend on constant, vigilant awareness of what the government is doing with the super-powers granted them by the general population.

People happily waive their rights and their privacy in exchange for “the new trendy app” or trick, “alexa order a large pizza” was life really that hard before? We turned from physically lazy to mentally lazy and AI is just accelerating the pace. People have become “comfortably numb” to the lost of privacy, I don’t know if it’s by design but surely is a nice side effect for some.
Not to dismiss your criticisms, but I love that file ordering is relevant for compilation for one key reason:

It forces you to reconcile your architecture as it gets bigger and before you accidentally turn it into a monolithic nightmare. IMO, It's more than just a preemptive defense against cyclomatic complexity. Going into unfamiliar F# code, the file ordering is usually a huge clue where to start reading first.
Archive / paywall: <https://archive.is/4lmfu>
don't forget about agentic workflows
In Finland banks are the ones who usually handle the strong authentication (not necessarily just the initial one). They are required by law to know the customer. In-person authentication in the branch is required to be done via either ID card or passport, those can be requested from police and expire after 5 years. Driver's license is not official ID card. Logging into you bank account requires 2FA (I'm not sure if any bank sends codes via text messages, at least it's not very common).

It can also be done with ID card (which is a smartcard) or mobile certificate (https://mobiilivarmenne.fi/en/) if the service supports it.
neon.tech's offering looks good - the $69 offering.

Any reviews?
We? HFT?
What's your job title been at these places? Is it "Backend Engineer"? I'd have that as your job title at the top of your resume, and insist on being hired under that title. When assigned frontend work, point to your job title, and refuse to do it.

From what you've described, I'm not hearing "I don't do frontend", I'm hearing "I only do frontend badly and under protest". That's complicated, "I don't do frontend" is simple -- but you need to back it up.
Apple is finally sending checks for its bad MacBook keyboards
You should check out Hover
https://hover.to/interiors/
I hear where you are coming from, but as a marketeer I wouldn't take this model.

The problem is that marketing is "transferable". Say I build a company marketing and selling your product. I spend capital building "your" brand. You decide to terminate the arrangement. I have -nothing-.

Worse, you decide to create your own marketing department. You rename the product slightly but basically leverage all the work I've done.

>> The customer base that marketing partner builds belongs to him

You cant 'own' a customer base. I might have the customer list, but do do you. Customers are free to (and will happily) switch to the original maker.

If I try and sell my marketing company a buyer takes one look at it and realizes it has a single supplier, and owns no IP. There's literally nothing to sell.

So yeah, if uou can find a marketeer willing to partner like this, good luck to you both.

Incidentally the reverse is also true - having just one customer (the marketeer) puts the supplier at risk as well. If there's any falling out both companies will suffer.
I would be willing to bet quite much on cancellation.
And it's important that we have these conversations. I would however like to understand why you believe the limitations on the FSL are too strict and what exactly they prevent which you believe they should not.
Sounds like even more phones are needed, with a control plane that can let them sleep regularly!
You need to work at larger companies.

You mentioned startups and scaling problems. Scaling problems are typically for smaller companies.

You need places with 500+ engineers. Look at bank, insurance, bigN, anything in the f500
Supposedly that's a "it's currently running which version of the software?" issue:

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/nasa-confirms-slip-of-...
Surely you've taken out a feature in software and then later regretted it
No memory, no reasoning, no planning.
I don't get the sense that people are expecting that sort of thing, but expecting analog computers to move into what digital computers are doing in a big way, and I just don't see that happening. I think the people who are talking about this sort of thing wouldn't even call what you're talking about 'computing'.

I'm comfortable calling it that. I'm happy to take an expansive definition.

When one end of the output is analog, it makes perfect sense that you may have a stack of components that are operating in that regime. Similarly I'm sure top-end robot arms have a lot of components designed to do things that you could model in the control software as some operation, but it's easier in every way to add things like real physical dampening and such. That sure isn't going anywhere, but neither is that about to start displacing the digital portions; the symbiosis is already near optimal probably.
I’m trying to find a clear distinction between “Source Available” and “Fair Source”. Sounds like there isn’t any common definition for source available other than that you are allowed to read the code.
Naah, I believe in some areas like DARPA's a lot of folks still do C out of tradition only. Same as in banking they still use COBOL -- way too many existing problems and integrations are already in COBOL.
In DARPA I think a lot of control software is written in C, even though some of their controllers can even run Java.
So a large-scale effort is needed to refactor all the infrastructure.l and processes.
Thank you, this was exactly what I was planning to search for later. And now that I know what to install I will go through with it too instead of procrastinating.
A hack needn't be effective to be a hack.
Ashley Maddison happened just under 10 years ago, that's as scandalous as it gets, and nobody cared either.
Maybe you should learn some front end and avoid the problem altogether?
Boing won't be allowed to fail until there's another American company building large passenger aircraft at scale.
Do you have any first hand (or even secondhand) knowledge of Elon's involvement in engineering at Tesla and SpaceX, or are we speaking strictly in terms of your imagination or projection what you think happens? Having watched a few long form interviews with Elon regarding the engineering and construction of Starship, I'm fairly confident he is involved in the engineering. But I haven't talked to actual SpaceX engineers, so discount that as you will.

With respect to Twitter, perhaps the engineers drawn to work there are interested in the future vision for the company and the engineering that such a vision will entail. Not to mention, even in its current state, it is a global social media company with 100s of millions of users that I'm certain presents interesting engineering challenges. What cutting edge, successful tech are you working on that makes you so willing to disparage the work of Twitter engineers as "not self respecting"?
Depends what you mean by "agents".
Many business models are entirely dependent on FOSS. It's not really an argument either way. If it weren't for those businesses, a lot of FOSS work would not happen...
WikiWhere
That's a good question, I'll have to check on this the next time I go out there.
> Empirically the most dangerous cities for pedestrians are sprawling ones with large high-speed-limit pedestrian-hostile roads, not denser ones with walkable streets.

Can you cite this?
I keep thinking what are they doing?

The flight wasn’t planned to be this long, there are experiments being done on the station but doesn’t that require lots of tracing in preparation.

As experienced astronauts no doubt they can slot right in and pick up tasks to do, but even so.
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> Specialising is only possible in larger companies (more than 500 employees)

I've seen this sentiment a few times now, so I'll weight in and say that I have to disagree. I mainly work for companies smaller than 50 devs, and frontenders do front-end, backenders do backend. I've never witnessed the behaviour described. Maybe it's a USA thing?