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It's not completely clear to be that the original poster did anything nefarious. (Although the Stack Overflow post has been deleted, so I don't know what was mentioned there.) It seems to me that section 10.3 could cover termination due to a mundane administrative detail via "You cease being an authorized developer".

For example, my developer profile is slated for removal in a few weeks because I haven't provided a verified phone number and email address that can be publicly available for the world to see. (And I don't care to, since I haven't used this developer account in years, and I'm not actively doing Android development.) Does this mean I'll be barred for life?
could you imagine a world where only the first company to develop a game mechanic is allowed to use that mechanic in their games?

That would make games like iphones, only the smallest change allowed between each generation, Atari would rule the game universe, the kids would be playing jumpman in 4k resolution (Now with 256 colors and 12 unique levels!)
If you believe this you fundamentally misunderstand the kinds of people who were participating in the insurrection.

The opinions of the people who are comfortable sitting by while the conspiracy "steals the election" (or more likely, the astrotufed reactions put forward by sockpuppets of the conspirators themselves) don't matter by the time you get to the point of invading the US capitol.

Trump was being cynical, but the insurrectionists themselves were just nuts. They couldn't have cared less what Twitter thought.
Well, the OpenAL API is now part of WebAudio. Listener position, buffers, sources... You name it, WebAudio API has it.
Not that I disagree with Alexander here, but sometimes it feels like I'm taking crazy pills - this kind of integrated model has been WHO standard for over twenty years.
> and companies shouldn't break their backs to accommodate people.

Why isn't the inverse equally true? That workers shouldn't have to break their back to accommodate a change in company policy?

> You took the risk in maybe unclear situation, you bear the consequences if the risk doesn't pan out your way.

Again, I think this is equally true going the other way. Companies allowed their workers to move away from the office, why don't they assume any risk that workers won't want to return?

I get that there needs to be a balance of power, but I don't understand why any request from the company is valid by default and any request by workers is somehow an imposition that the workers need to justify. Why isn't the company asked to justify why workers need to RTO?
Bad software keeps cyber security companies in business
Less negativity and more listening by everyone can be a place to start.
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Wanted to learn some Unity and implemented one of my favourite puzzle: sliding boxes (aka Rush Hour if you have the physical version) with over 2.5 million levels. No ads, data collection, payments, points - just play. It's using the amazing puzzle map database from Michael Fogleman: https://www.michaelfogleman.com/rush/#DatabaseDownload. The source code is open source at: https://github.com/itarato/slider/.
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I have conflicting feelings abou This. The OS should not be concerned by this kind of thing. This is completely in the realm of the shell and many physical could change the number of rows or columns either on user command via its settings or through the host sending an equivalent command.

This does not belong into a kernel.
Ok, where's the evidence?

> I see no point myself and I'm even in the field.

You don't see the point of readable stack traces?
> There are entire systems built around doing exactly that. Embedded, military, high-trust.

This is a completely different thing. In those systems, the organization doing the vetting is the one that protects itself through those systems; the good of the organization is presumed to be aligned with the good of the end-users by the threat model. That is, the threat model is purely external to the organization: we are protecting the army's computers from an enemy army or a rogue soldier. An end-user of such a system (say, a low rank soldier sitting in a tank that includes remote-controlled components) can't really trust that those things are used in their best interest. For all they know, the devices are listening to every conversation looking for signs of treason/incompetence - this is still perfectly allowed by an embedded, military, high-trust system. It's the generals that trust the system, as it were, not the individual soldiers.

In contrast, in an election, what we care about is not that the sitting president trusts the results; we care that every individual voter trusts them. And the individual voters are not the ones that have the power to control the way procurement, hiring, vetting, verification, and everything else is done. In fact, the relationship between the electorate and the voting organizers is normally modeled as partly adversarial. The true test of a democracy is whether the populace can easily vote down the people currently in power, the ones that are organizing the election, when they would like to maintain their power.

So yes, I agree that if I am building a system that I want to trust with voting, and I have enough money, I can build an electronic system that I can trust. And you can build one that you can trust. But I can't build one that you can trust, unless you already trust me.
Honestly yes. I've been interviewing people that have gotten laid off and almost 75% of the time I'm thinking that they were probably chosen for layoffs due to low performance
I'm glad you had a good company do the right thing on their own. I would like to have those same enforcements universal so everyone can be as lucky as you were. This is what a society does.
>Calling it the preeminent progressive institution in America media today is axiomatic.

...among certain not-unbiased segments of the population.
I will unashamedly admit I was one of those people until recently. When I got into the housing market, I thought $650k for a turnkey property fit for four adults would be sufficient, with another $70k set aside for repairs and projects (HVAC, oil tank removal, etc).

Turns out I was wrong, and my failure to adapt my standards has likely cost me an opportunity to own a home sans a significant pay rise.

Once I accepted that new data, however, I was able to see the immense gap between reality and expectation, as well as understand that it’s not necessarily my fault for missing that opportunity. I went with the widely-propagated programming for new homeowners at the time, and missed the pitfalls despite my ample additional research. Housing is complicated, and it’s the biggest hindrance to a more stable, equitable, and productive society in my personal opinion.
Perhaps their partners and sponsors want it.
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In the US you can be reinstated, it's not actually that uncommon of an outcome.
The Carnegie Institution of Washington used to use this model — each year publishing a 'year book.' From 1902 through the 1980s, Institution funded scientists contributed detail reports — including figures and even new results — to the organizations Year Book. Year Books often exceeded 700+ pages.

Today, the Year Book is little more than a glossy fundraising document.

You can view the reports over the years: https://carnegiescience.edu/about/history/publications/carne...
> I want management to develop a system to determine who is low-performing

Nobody has ever invented a working system for objectively rating software engineers. I really doubt NYT will be the ones to do so!
True but I'm not sure of the relevance here. NYT is clearly going to be biased here. This isn't Carl Sagan being "balanced" by flat earthers.
No one is looking at Digimon and going "Hey, that's Pokemon!" -- looking at Palworld's creatures for the uninitiated, it looks so very much like Pokemon creatures that most people I know have confused it for Pokemon.

There's a HUGE difference between being influenced by, and blatantly copying the inspiration and design. It took Nintendo decades to come up with creature designs, and Palworld less than a year - and they could do that because they likely went through each creature one-by-one and said, "How can we make it just so slightly different?"
Government is in charge of regulating the minimum wage. Private companies are in charge of bidding for the "maximum wage", they have no obligation for providing a minimum as they serve their shareholders not the public, the government serves the public.
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> But yeah, some random neckbeard's blog is more authoritative than Janis' own site, for sure!

That site said it was made by super fans in 1998? Doesn't seem like go to source for critical quotes (not that an official site would be either).

Here's a source for the quote about him not liking her band from 2013, so no, it doesn't seem to have been hallucinated by the 2020 author:

https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2013/12/robert-crumb-i...
It's unique in that it's a country with h western values with relatively underdeveloped worker protections.

Sure places like Saudi have literal slavery, but they don't pretend to value life either.
Look, I don't know who you are or what has led you to this position, but it's worth I think giving an appeal a chance. You are being tricked and manipulated for someone else's political gain. I know it sucks to hear and every human's response to shut down the thoughts, because admitting to yourself that you've been had is an uncomfortable thought. But I'm asking you to at least entertain the possibility.

We talk a lot on HN about people's beliefs being a reflection of the systems they're placed under— you show me the incentives I'll show you the outcome— and the incentives are clear as day. Democratic voters have two nice properties that are being exploited, Democrats are generally concentrated in major metro areas, and Democrats vote early and by mail. Being concentrated makes those counties easy targets for lawsuits hoping to tie up the process with vague nothingness and rule-lawyering to try and turn away voters. Attacking mail in voting very cleanly affects almost entirely Democrats. And pre-undermining the election results act as a hedge to explain away a loss. Because this is a must-win election for Trump's GOP, two losses in a two risks pushing the "MAGA" faction of the party into irrelevancy.

And so that's what you see, it's a narrative that has been pushed hard designed specifically to carry out the exploit. It's genuinely clever and once it reaches critical mass the people who are tricked into actually believing it outnumber the original concern-trolls so it's naturally self-perpetuating.

So look, I have no expectation that you'll change your stance, I just hope at least that if you really bought into it that going forward you'll at least do it on purpose and be in on the game.
I agree with you completely.

In the wild, there are too many variables to use watermarking to draw meaningful conclusions about any piece of text, no matter the word count. Scott Aaronson described well one of those variables, "the pineapple attack," in his Aug. 2023 talk at Simons [1].

Watermarking is illuminating to the ongoing study of language models' functionality, but it doesn't put the genie back in the bottle.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Kx9jbSMZqA
Both are speculating. Both are taking on risk whether they understand it or not.

I would argue that the risk of bitcoin being a lower value in ten years is tiny, and also that chance of the dollar's value halving or worse over the same period, is almost certain.

You might speculate the opposite.
Not necessarily. Trump might not win.

It boggles my mind at how proud people are to refuse to draw a distinction between two completely different candidates. One has demonstrated competence and public service, while the other has demonstrated incompetence and chronic self-dealing.

Refusing to draw a distinction is moral cowardice.
> If the metrics don't properly measure whether the job is being done then change the metrics.

Nobody has ever come up with a good set of objective metrics to judge software engineer performance. So the best we have is still the subjective opinions of your managers and peers.
I do think LLMs change the game a bit. Rails is nice because of the ecosystem and how magic and expressive it is but LLMs can generate and maintain a lot of the boilerplate while they're less good at debugging the magic when it is misbehaving.

I am working on an app that has a frontend in Django and the backend in Go and when I make changes to the Go side I just feel a lot more confident it'll all work as intended. Compared with Django I keep finding myself in the weeds debugging why some random dependency is misbehaving which is difficult because python allows you to do some really heinous stuff like instantiate classes that are chosen using runtime configuration.
I mean, in the context of most union agreements with a similar provision, kinda.

Your union might protect you from termination on an assembly line, and at least they can move you around the facility or bring in extra workers. Or for a teacher they bring in more supervision and resources.

In contexts where unions have similar provisions, direct supervision is implied.
>"These are business contracts."

I would agree with this but if that's the case why employees are not given the same perks as companies from a tax point of view? My personal preference is to treat every human as a business. The alternative would be to eliminate all taxes except sales tax with some cutoff for low income persons.
> My understanding from the comments

That is your problem right there. You cannot trust comments to give you an accurate idea of what actually happened. The linked source is marginally better (but keep in mind that it is close to one side of the story, even though it is more independent than some people here seem to believe).
in some scenarios you could even go smaller...if you suspect a malicious request theres no point even to return a response code
Who's bigger, I'll wait.
People are claiming they want 3rd party reporting would you be happy with NPR? Why do you think any for profit newspaper wouldn't be biased against unions? Do you think the WSJ has ever published a pro- or even neutral union story? Or will you get fluff like someone, in quotes, implying the NYT will have to shut it's doors if they are forced to pay some of their record profits to their employees.

And before you start. The problem affecting article quality in reporting ISN'T a direct conflict of interest, it's bias. A direct conflict of interest just implies bias.
> Do you think bias is a one-dimensional tug of war that cancels each other out when combined?

Ironically, the NYT's apparent belief in this exact thing is the main reason I'm no longer a subscriber.
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It took me a minute to grok what this was for, but I think I like it

It doesn't really replace any of the tooling we use to wrangle data at scale (like prefect or dagster or temporal) but as a local library it seems to be excellent, I think what confused me most was the comparison to dbt.

I like the from_* utils and the magic of the Column class operator overloading and how chains can be used as datasets. Love how easy checkpointing is too. Will give it a go
The limited size helps with keeping the code short and simple. ;-)
> Machines, unless actively exploited by a third party, will always do the same thing, time after time.

That "unless" is the whole problem. And it's not just if a third party gets involved, it can well be from the builders or the current operators of the machine who are the ones actively exploiting it as well.
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Cosplaytriots also go in for the literary kinds of fiction; LaVoy Finicum wrote a book, and the former Oath Keepers leader's son says Rhodes had intended to write one as well: https://dakotavadams.substack.com/p/partisan-rape-zombies-st...

Oddly enough, this article has 5 hits for "AR-15" and none for "drone" or "drones"?
Information has outlived entire civilizations because of books. The key is the technology needed to decode and read it, which is just humans themselves. Either people still exist who can read and speak the language or closely related languages, and if not, we can hope to find something like a Rosetta stone or use statistical analysis that relies up on the commonality of all human languages.

Any digital storage device is simply giving you a bit stream. Being able to read the bits at all might rely upon technology that no longer exists. You need to know the layout of the medium, where to start reading, how to perform any built-in error correcting, what constitutes data versus metadata. Once you read the bits, you still need to do all of that again, but this time at the level of the filesystem. Then you need to do it a third time at the level of the file format. Then you get, at best, something like a consecutive sequence of unicode code points. Now you still need to know unicode.

We have no idea if these sorts of technologies will be remembered in 3,000 years, but given the history, there's a very good chance people will still be able to read Sanskrit and Latin, and the way the human eyeball accepts and decodes light waves will not change.
Sure, but most students at the University of Alabama don't go through entirely on loans. Only 42% of them take out loans. Median federal loan debt at graduation for them is $23k. 8% also take out private loans. The people with private loans have a median debt of $59k.
If you ever went through interview loop at Google or a similar company, I doubt you would call those companies "lazy" wrt. hiring.

An interview is at least 4 people, each grilling you for an hour, asking hard questions.

Their hiring bar is high and they optimize for avoiding bad hires (which of course is pissing off the commenters who want to be hired and therefore would prefer lower hiring standard).

In Europe they make it harder to fire people and guess what happened?

First, companies have probatory period (2-6 months, depending on the country) where you're hired but can be fired at will. This is to minimize chances of being stuck with a poor performer.

Second, EU economy is about the size of US and China but software industry (and the tax / employment riches associated with it) is largely in US Chine. Might be a coincidence but I think there's causality between over-regulation and stagnation of the economy.
What metrics do you propose that aren't susceptible to Goodhart's law?
one I thought about was zero-width spaces. if you add a sequence of them, lazy copiers will paste them, and you'll be able to test text with almost no computational overhead!
> Because that is bad for the individual worker.

Not necessarily. Sure it is better if every other factor is held equal, but it's not: everyone benefits from living in a more highly economically developed society where industry is more successful. So you have to weigh pro-worker concerns against these other benefits.

If your argument were valid then its logical conclusion would be that all profit from the business has to distributed to the employees (as in most traditional strains of far-left thought). In practice systems like that have major flaws.
Yay! Excited to see DataChain on the front page :)

Maintainer and author here. Happy to answer any questions.

We built DataChain because our DVC couldn't fully handle data transformations and versioning directly in S3/GCS/Azure without data copying.

Analogy with "DBT for unstractured data" applies very well to DataChain since it transforms data (using Python, not SQL) inside in storages (S3, not DB). Happy to talk more!
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> What they were pointing out was that the failure rate of offshore work was never due to offshore teams being unable to coordinate due to not being in-office

Yes, that is what they pointed out, but it made no sense. The only way that could have applicability to the conversation is if you moved the entire business into that new "offshore" office, but then you wouldn't be "offshoring" anymore. You will have moved the business instead. Which isn't what anyone is talking about. The original comment is clearly about offshoring, not relocating businesses.

I expect you are right that the other commenter misinterpreted something and replied based on that misinterpretation. But, no need to change the subject because of their confusion. Especially when, as you point out, they established the subject! If it was good enough then, it remains good enough now.
The percentage of all software engineers working on compilers is probably lower now than it ever has been...
I like the implication that being "trans-skeptical" is "non-progressive" and therefore to be a progressive you have to buy into the ideology without questioning anything. That does align with my current views of where progressive ideology is headed
>Private companies are in charge of bidding for the "maximum wage", they have no obligation for providing a minimum as they serve their shareholders not the public, the government serves the public.

This doesn't support your point the way you think it might.
Discussion (157 points, 13 days ago, 78 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41919365
I believe terminals in the late 70 already could change their geometries. The VT100 could go from 80 to 132 columns.
What a fucking flex lol

I don't have a link handy but another hilarious thing to look up is Quincy talking about the Beatles' (lack of, in his opinion) chops

I love the Beatles but it's endlessly hilarious to me
I'm generally an advocate for a robust, mandatory type system like Rust. But there are production scenarios where it's a hindrance. Imagine processing arbitrary JSON document containing several required properties and many additional ones. You can't possibly know what additional properties any given document will have (it's only available at runtime, with infinite variations) but it's often a hard requirement that these extra data get passed through the system. Being forced to create a concrete type for what is effectively an open map + some validation logic is awkward at best. Maps and general purpose functions that process maps are a better fit for this problem.
So what? The U.S. food and drug laws aren’t protecting against things that accidentally work, they are protecting against things that don’t work. These laws are hard won and represent many people lost to both ignorance and greed.

If something has efficacy, then trials will eventually prove it, it’s just a matter of time. You just made a case that the process works. If efficacy can’t be shown, then it’s very risky for people to try the treatment, riskier than using something with known outcomes, and potentially riskier than doing nothing at all.

Either way this is all irrelevant to your bogus claim at the top that the FDA has anything to do with the perception that treatments aren’t improving. The top comment’s hypothesis is incorrect, which adds to the multiple reasons your proposed explanation is wrong.