If it's anywhere like where I work, the PM took it upon themselves to create the pr (along with 20 others) and did absolutely no testing because they're still under the impression that creating the pr is the work.
Either I'm stupid or [2] doesn't actually say anything at all. It starts with "in 2025..." And later talks about how estimates are expected to rise in 2023 and beyond while referencing data that ended in 1988. What am I missing?
"In 2025, it was estimated that over 163 million Americans were in some form of employment, while 4.16 percent of the total workforce was unemployed. This was the lowest unemployment rate since the 1950s, although these figures are expected to rise in 2023 and beyond."
That's not true at all. I worked with Palantir on a project for a prior company and they'd basically do whatever you wanted if you paid them. They had a very heavy data / "AI" presence and this was years ago. They certainly do not just do integrations.
Not only is SNAP already funded via emergency funds, the administration was just told to resume SNAP benefits and they are unsurprisingly doing the absolute minimum.
I picked one at random (NVKP, "Diseases and Vaccines: NVKP Survey Results") and, while I needed to translate it to read it, it's clear (and loud!) about not actually being a scientific study.
"We fully realize that a survey like this, even on purely scientific grounds, is flawed on all counts. The sample of children studied is far too small and unrepresentative, we didn't use control groups, and so on."
Turns out the NVKP roughly translates to "Dutch Organization for those critical towards vaccines."
I understand being skeptical about vaccines, but the skepticism needs to go both ways
This isn't just a list of highest murder rates per capita, it's got some population threshold- likely the 300k population on wikipedia- which boils down to there being like 5 Republicans that have managed to get elected in large cities.
I worked in a couple companies with the "agenda rule" but I worked at one company in particular where it was successful. In that company, leadership had a "no nonsense" type approach and it only took a few reply alls from leaders to meeting requests with "Where is the agenda?" for everyone to fall in line. It also helped that every meeting they sent out contained an agenda.
3 years ago people understood LLMs hallucinated and shouldn't be trusted with important tasks.
Somehow in the 3 years since then the mindset has shifted to "well it works well enough for X, Y, and Z, maybe I'll talk to gpt about my mental health." Which, to me, makes that article much more timely than if it had been released 3 years ago.
I think the likely reason is they have signed a non disparagement agreement and have no avenue to publicly criticize. Additionally, quietly criticizing just means quietly getting fired, then likely still being unable to publicly criticize.
The only way to say "hey, I don't think this is right and I don't agree with what's happening here" is to publicly resign and hope that alarm bells start going off in people's heads as to why many of these folks are resigning simultaneously.
I don't think it's fair to say twitch "never wanted to offer" when not long ago, that behavior was the base functionality. You could rewatch everyone's entire streams forever. There was a DMCA scare at some point when streamers were getting in trouble for their old streams having music and many took down all of their history, but before then you'd see years worth of streams for people
Depends what you mean by optional join- if you mean you want the flexibility to build up a list of columns you actually want data from on the fly, you would probably have good results from doing left joins to the tables that contain those columns while ensuring you have a unique column (PK, Unique constraint) you're joining to. Your query engine should be smart enough to realize that it can avoid joining that table.
The logic is that you've ensured the query engine that it'll never return more than one row from the optional table so if you're not returning any actual columns from that table there's no need to think about it. Without the unique constraints the query engine has no idea how many rows may be returned (even if you aren't selecting the data) so it still needs to go through the work.
I'm very curious to know if you had an obituary written up for Princess Diana already, or did you only have them written up for celebrities that were "at risk"?
Was there any kind of cutoff in terms of age? Were there obituaries maintained for child actors and singers? So many questions but it's a very interesting topic!
But AWS alternatives ARE just a smattering of open source stuff.
Getting everything into AWS doesn't solve anything by itself, either. Then they'd still need to get everything off of windows, office, exchange, AD, etc. etc. Which is a ridiculous amount of work and they'd be fighting bugs and issues for years and years at their scale.
My experience is that it's night and day... in favor of Microsoft. Caveat is that I'm on the data side, but AWS is a hodge podge of open source projects that they "integrated" (poorly). There's issues with data type mismatches between glue catalog and Athena/Presto, you can throw your data into Redshift but that's behind its own security curtain in postgres. You can move your data via glue, emr, MWAA, etc. but they all feel bolted on and integration is always more painful than it needs to be.
Microsoft, meanwhile, is moving towards synapse and fabric which is just everything you need in one spot, (more) easily integrated. I'm not saying it's perfect, but the vast, majority of companies I've worked with don't have the expertise or desire to put together some bespoke architecture taking into consideration the 5 options they have every single step along the way. They want something they can use out of the box.
I have to be very careful how far I scroll down when reading threads. If I scroll a little beyond the last reply, I get a "See what's happening" full splash screen. Extremely frustrating when you have these X/? Posts and have no idea when the actual end is without checking for existence of the next.
If you're able to take Paternity, take it. It's going to be a whirlwind, especially if this is your first child, and this is likely the first real stretch of time you've had off in your entire adult life. It's hard to bond with a week-old child, but spend as much time as you can with the baby and make yourself available to help mom with anything she might want help with.
The good news is that the baby sleeps... a lot. You can only fill up so much time doing laundry, cleaning bottles, and doing dishes. You will have some free time, especially at the start. Use some of this time dusting off your resume and learning some things that interest you that you haven't had the chance to dig into previously. You should be free from the typical day-to-day work stresses so, if you're like me, this might actually be enjoyable. If you're already confident you dislike your job, maybe even try to get an interview or two scheduled during this time.
Once you're back to work you can evaluate with a clear head just how much you (dis)like your current job, and you should have a clearer idea of how close to the chopping block you truly are. Some employers have a knack for making you feel worthless even if you're incredibly valuable.
Make sure you're prioritizing your family; it's a lot easier to find another job. This is an very exciting time- enjoy it!