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This reads like someone who is quite out of touch with the trades. A large number of states implement right to work laws that discourage union membership. I could go out and get a framer job today (and with the current immigration crackdown probably have one by the end of the day). Having worked as a framer before college, it will be incredibly long before these jobs have any level of automation (a thought which gives me comfort when I consider my own job prospects).

However, I'm thankful everyday that I get to sit in an A/C office and type on a computer. Framing is hard work and ruthless. Most people won't last a day doing it because of how challenging it is.

I believe current battery technology is optimized for fast charging. You are incurring damage every time your battery goes below 20% or exceeds 80% (see current EV charging recommendations).

Even LinusTechTips did a video that showed the length of charging doing more damage than fast charging. For the concern about thermal damage, most phones will throttle their charge if they become too warm.

Personally, I feel my wireless charger in the car does the most damage. It generates more heat and holds the battery in a charging state for longer

This came during my OMSCS Game AI course as an example of the dangers of using floats to represent game object location. If you get further from the origin point (or another game element you are referencing from) you are losing precision as the float needs to use more of the significand to store the larger value.

We need to collate this. Is there a repo where we can mention companies that do this? I’ve talked to HR reps who extol their amazing work life balance only to find engineering is expected to work close to a 996

Honestly great to see this. This is the power that FB/Microsoft/Google have if they ever decided to take the gloves off. Maybe this will be the motivating factor to get some privacy laws with fangs.

If you continue to send telemetry after I explicitly opt-out, then I get to sue (or atleast get a cut of the fines for whistleblowing)

"An app was created to help women stay safe on dates and avoid creeps, proceeds to be hacked by creeps"

Not a great look here.

However, Tea could have done a modicum of cybersecurity work (or hired an outside firm) to prevent this. If they are claiming to want to keep women safe (and not just running a gossip board) then this should be a red alert for them. No public acknowledgement is concerning...

Is this Google's n8n competitor?

How was the flame graph created? (Not very familiar with C and the performance tools around it)

I still think Jetbrains has the gold standard in IDE - Database interaction

Wow, anyone able to provide a ELI5? OTel sounds amazing but this is flying over my head

Everyone in startups should be a fan of this. More competition in government space is a net benefit for everyone.

Its quite funny to see the comments complaining about "lowering the bar" when FedRAMP compliance is essentially a compliance regime that is so convoluted that most startups wouldn't be able to afford the entry barrier.

Now, there is a chance that a smaller vendor could feasibility compete with a massive consultancy like Accenture since the artificial barriers have been decreased.

FedRAMP compliance are also required for SaaS vendors. Datadog is famous for having it (and it took them awhile)

I've tried hard to remove phthalates from my life. The biggest change that I feel is sustainable is looking for "hard" plastics. Usually phthalates are found in flexible, soft plastics. So hard plastics typically have less of them.

What do you mean? This looks like open-source

While I admire the work of hobbyists it still looks like C/C++ will be the default until a GPU vender makes the decision to support these libraries.

From my understanding, Vulkan and OpenGL are nice but the true performance lies in the specific toolkits (ie CUDA, Metal).

Wrapping the vendor provided frameworks is liable to break and that isn't tenable for someone who wants to do this on a professional basis.

By this logic, most software engineers would also be considered high risk since they work a sedentary job and have higher risks for heart disease and obesity (which likely leads to higher healthcare costs over the long term)

I wonder how those compare to something like this: https://developers.google.com/optimization/service/schedulin...

Wow, the smugness of that reply. Responding by calling someone naive and blowing them off despite there being real questions.

The “insecure crypto “ that they clearly link to (despite not wanting to put them on blast) was also a bit overdone. I guess we all are stuck hiring this expert to review our crypto code(under NDA of course) and tell us we really should use AWS KMS.

Unironically, the superior tone likely has done you worse than a single joint.

imo Datadog is pretty hostile to OTel too. Ever since https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-co... was nearly killed by them I never felt like they fully supported the standard (perhaps for good reasons)

OTel is a bear though. I think the biggest advantage it gives you is the ability to move across tracing providers

Is the author a lawyer? I imagine we will he seeing more posts like this in the future. I doubt the language will ever be good enough for everyone.

Rust doing these things has lead the language to being an example of what not to do in OSS.

Any suggestions for a 101 introduction to random forests? In university I encountered some ML courses but never random forests.

What is GSO?

Wow! Amazing job! I briefly met Holden at Kubecon. What an incredible engineer.

I’m really curious how this works! Obviously I don’t want you to disclose anything you don’t want to.

I assume its some sort of ML? Are you using an external LLM? Any insights into building recommendation systems would be awesome!

In terms of realpolitik though, Congress is so deadlocked that new proposed legislation is unlikely to ever come and if it does, lobbyists and special interests will have plenty of time to render it toothless.

The coverage is not hyperbolic, it hits on real concerns that the courts will now be involved in every controversial decision. Previously, if your company was involved in something that would fall under the governance of a governmental agency, like dumping some new chemical into a body of water, the EPA could be brought in to make a ruling on the matter.

Now, that ruling might not be in the best interest of that company depending on the level of regulatory capture.

In our current world, that organization will now file a lawsuit to block the ruling of the govt organization and cite the removal of Chevron deference. Then a long, tedious process of court rulings might follow. With the ultimate ruling mentioning "the Clean Water Act does not mentioned chemical XYZ specifically by name". Resulting in the company continuing to release said chemical.

When a new toxic chemical enters the water supply near your home, I hope that your congressman responds promptly. In my experience, they have been quite slow moving on most of my concerns...

If I wanted to write some simple web-automation as a DevOps engineer with little javascript (or webdev experience at all) what tool would you recommend?

Some example use cases would be writing some basic tests to validate a UI or automate some form-filling on a javascript based website with no API.

Cloudflare support being terrible and non-helpful? Say it aint so /s

Seriously though, it feels like support exists as a hurdle to get to engineering. I have never had a serious issue that was resolved by support. I miss when customer engineers or customer support actually was treated like a value add part of the business.

There are quite a few "ai apologists" in the comments but I think the title is fair when these models are marketed towards low vision people ("Be my eyes" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq710AKC1gg) as the equivalent to human vision. These models are implied to be human level equivalents when they are not.

This paper demonstrates that there are still some major gaps where simple problems confound the models in unexpected ways. These is important work to elevate otherwise people may start to believe that these models are suitable for general application when they still need safeguards and copious warnings.

Surprised to hear Azure beats AWS Textract. I found it to be the best OCR offering but that was when I was doing documents.

I think this comment is peak Hackernews… dripping with sarcasm and minimizing a significant engineering accomplishment