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If you could do all of the following as part of a single bill it would go a long way toward getting brilliant people into government roles.

1. Pay for all the below by strategically cutting military spending some low-to-mid single-digit percentage.[0]

2. Eliminate public sector unions and most Civil Service classifications, both of which make it harder to fire low performers.

3. Peg government payroll for all positions to (if it exists) their private-sector counterpart, plus a healthy percentage, say 15%.[1]

4. Eliminate government pensions and match government employee 401(k) contributions up to a large percentage, e.g. 10% of salary.

5. Allow all government employees to enroll in Medicare.

[0] The military is already getting projects it doesn't want as pork, most of these cuts could be to those programs.

[1] There are legal caps to salary for the executive branch but there are already ways around those (e.g. as contractors).
By realizing that the other 1/3 of our lives are spent on what is meaningful to us. And the 1/3 that is work funds more resources to put towards what is meaningful. I can go buy expensive tools and supplies for my sculpture hobby. I can afford gas and hotels to explore the country. I can go out to eat with my friends and family. And the last 1/3 is sleep... which isn't really a negotiable part of the human existence.

Also, don't discount weekends. You don't really work 1/3 of your life because you get 2/7ths off every week.
Isn't that just a function of when most highway construction took place in Europe and the US?
Well, that depends on your definition of small. This is what I believe the diesel generators of a typical datacentre look like (+fuel tanks):

http://www.dchuddle.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Backup-ge...
In theory, this sounds great, and I am a huge proponent of functional programming. In practice, I've never seen it intuitive or useful.

I've been at 3 companies now where "time travel" has never been used and web app development has been more painful than it needed to be.

It feels very much like the proper (from a CS perspective) approach, but the language and libraries just aren't there to make it feel productive or fun. Is there any meaningful work being done to address this, or is it perhaps a boiling frog scenario?
Combination of things (which probably also explains why some distros are good at one becnhmark but less good at others)? Scheduler, no architecture-specific kernel code etc.

Plus it's never just the OS: there's always platform-specific source code and the compiler.. Non-optimal optimization options for the latter and you're screwed as well.
And also we should keep in mind that in Kernel level improvements, Linux by far is agiler than Windows. Windows process scheduler does not have fairness for ages now. When was CFS was added to Linux? a decade?
> anonymous. Your wife won't find out in a bank statement, so less chance of "fake-angry" customers trying to force money back.

Right, she'll think you're buying drugs instead when she sees the charge for cryptocurrency.
I recommend the book "Fire Your Boss" for anyone that has a job :)
Not long ago homosexuality was considered a mental illness.
I suspect in time we will come to understand that everything anyone does is simply as a result of the input we are given and has very little to do with the conditions we use to validate those inputs.
Maybe the reason these topics keep coming up is that a lot of people feel that they are important aspects of employment.
> Senior level pay is pushing $500k for employees, ( and higher for consulting)

At a handful of elite, highly-competitive companies.

> Pretty much any gig can be remote

The defense, health care, finance, and embedded sectors would beg to differ. Also, can be remote often does not equal "allowed to* be remote.

> Hottest job market in history

"In history" is too strong, but it is definitely a hot market (in most areas).

> Lots of fun work to be found if you don't want to go the BigCo track

If you choose this your first bullet doesn't apply.
This was the issue with the "Millenium" bridge in London, renamed unofficially as the "wobbly" bridge.

Because of the nature of it's construction people would over time start to sync their steps, the more this happened the more the bridge swayed and the more people synced their steps.

It was fixed by adding dampers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Bridge,_London
Because most of thr time bridges don’t collapse and it’s nice not to waste the space and create an unpleasant pedestrian dead zone below?
Not well tested... just whipped this up.

The example to sort df -h by the percent:

df -h | p 'sorted({}[1:], key=lambda x: int(x.split()[-2][:-1]))'

I saved this as ~/bin/p

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import sys

single_line = sys.argv[1] == '-l'
code = ' '.join(sys.argv[2 if single_line else 1:])
if single_line:
for line in sys.stdin:
print(eval(code.format('line.strip()')))
else:
print('\n'.join(eval(code.format('sys.stdin.read().splitlines()'))))
Ironically enough (given that someone mentioned the general audience, which they imply we aren't), most software guides are overly-verbose as hell.
> If we can increase the number of containers on trains, this could change

This increases wear on the train and tracks. We might have materials breakthroughs that change the balance. But such materials would make (a) shipping more efficient and (b) large fractions of the existing Belt and Road obsolete.

> right now the China-Belgium trip can take 20 days by train (cf. https://www.train-chain.com/) and usually around 30 days by sea

Emphasis on can. In any case, there is a reason the world's commercial shippers are all focussing on Arctic maritime routes.

Rail is a neat way of controlling territory. It's better than trucking or flying, when it comes to cost. But water beats it at scale.
And here is an image of what it looked like before: https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-genoa-liguria-polcevera-mo...
I wonder if mid-30's could be a point of going either direction?

At 34 I discovered a career passion around serving others, whereas previously the orientation was mostly toward myself.

Nothing changed in my daily work, just a perspective.
The whole concept of "community standards" for a worldwide communication channel strikes me as newspeak for centralized moral policing.

Imagine the leading social network weren't facebook but vkontakte or weibo and they imposed their own standards on billions of people communicating with each other.

Filtering should be a tool available to individuals and delegatable to groups that are aligned with their own standards. As long as we don't get that there should be zero surprise about strain between differing standards.
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The precollapse photos make me think that the bridge was built over an existing industrial area with minimal disruption to existing structures.

Looking at some of the links from the various Wikipedia articles on the subject, it does look like the buildings underneath the bridge predate the bridge: http://informesdelaconstruccion.revistas.csic.es/index.php/i...
I reckon your parents experience is totally reasonable - up to a certain age, they're your first call for any questions you have in life about literally anything. It's not until you've gained enough of your own experiences that you can make a judgement about what they've told you. I'm not sure it should take you up to your mid-thirties to learn these things, but hey, everyone's different.
I don't think I understand the issue with using 3D Secure, or Verified by VISA. It's something customers are already accustom when shopping online. You're buying a high risk item, from the perspective of the sell, similarly to downloadable content, or high price electronics. Solution like 3D Secure seems ideal in this case.

Companies like Stripe could easily say: Yes, we do accept payments for adult sites, but 3D Secure will be enabled on all purchases. I don't think that would scare of more customer than bouncing them between multiple payment provides and seeing the their payment reject multiple times.
There's a bunch of additional work required to maintain the product outside of developing it in the first place. The brilliant product developed needs to be refined, marketed etc.. and all of those have support structures in place which sometimes amount to "work". Reports, analysis, collate data etc... integrate with X, all work that may not be what you sell but support the organization to sell what you sell.
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Why? Making money early saves you years of struggle later and gives you option that nobody else has through their 30s, after which starting new things becomes physically more difficult. Missing out on what everybody else is doing in their 20s, is by definition not something particularly novel. If money is a tool to buy us time, then making them early when u re most motivated and capable is the right strategy imho.
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No. Maybe if you maximized your time 100% toward earning money. Maybe (but almost certainly not). But if you did that, you'd be in the back of a Maybach or a 7 Series, working, and someone else would be driving. And they could do the speed limit.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angers_Bridge : Soldiers create resonance on a brdige, making it collapse.
Yep, but you're rationally killing yourself (ex: smoking).
Jumping out the window cause you psychotic and think you can fly is different though.
In this case it is why they built a bridge over existing buildings.

A photo of the construction (1964):

https://www.autostrade.it/comunicazione-e-media/mediateca/ar...
> if you're not happy with life, and you feel like you aren't moving closer to your goals and dreams

I like many aspects of this post, but I find your opening problematic, because you can be perfectly happy without moving closer to your goals and dreams. In fact, you don't need dreams or goals to be happy, and they're actually the source of unhappiness for many people.

It reminds me of anecdote from Allen Watts about westerners traveling to see Buddhist monks in the search for enlightenment. When the monks would offer simple solutions (you just need to change your perspective and understand what's what), the westerners wouldn't believe it, so the monks would construct arduous tasks so that the westerners felt worthy of enlightenment.

But, to the meat of your post, it's a good point. There's no sense in being miserable. If you are, try something else. If you're still miserable, try something else, etc., etc.. Of course, this is easier when you have resources, and people with mental-health issues should include treatment in their 'something else.'
Before the fall there was already a lot of talk about the constant, excessive maintenance and repairs needed by the bridge; there was discussion if the best way to go forward was a major overhaul or just demolition (of course such talk could have gone on for years or decades before anything was made).

In the '80s the support structures were already reinforced and apparently it took years of filling the subsidences in the asphalt surface for it to stabilize and provide a level surface for the cars.

I'm not a structural engineer and I am in no position to judge, but there definitely was the suspicion that the design of the bridge was flawed, even before today.
Lazar, who was a minister back then went out to Vienna and made a video that said the city is flooded with migrants, it isn't safe and Budapest is much better, safer and such. Oh, also he didn't feel safe in it too.
> The only reason it seems to even learn them is to pass an interview...

While I agree that the process is broken, a solid understanding of algorithms and data structures is very important for developers at my company. And nobody knows all, or even most of the algos or data structures! But we do have large amounts of data and some pretty complex analytic problems, and a poor design can cost a lot of time and AWS $. Likewise over-engineering something small is a waste of time not just in writing but maintaining it.

I agree that most e-commerce or business web developent probably don't need this level of formal skill.

Whiteboard questions are useful, but not for figuring out trick questions. Instead for figuring out how the candidate approaches problems.
Caustic Technologies had this in 2000 and then Arm bought them. I believe the date of 2018 as the release by NVIDIA is actually related to the Caustic Technologies patents expiring.
Caller ID can be very easily changed today. I can set it to anything I want on my phone system. But when FAX machines first became popular, this was less of a problem
> In the UK "government" is used both very generally (as you're construing it) to mean institutions including courts, police, the Bank of England, a local municipal authority, and thus about half of everything

I'm British and I can't recall the term "government" being used in this way, even informally. I think most people, even if they're not interested in politics or our "unwritten constitution", would have some understanding that the courts, police, etc. are separate from the government that they elect. They may or may not have a word for what that thing is (the State) but nobody talks about people being "arrested by the government" or "convicted by the government".

I can imagine the people might think of the Civil Service as part of the government though.
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So just anecdotal but I've definitely realized the cog in the machine bit since like age 24, and honestly I still think life is pretty great, definitely not a sea of misery and despair.

I can enjoy the lifestyle my work provides even if I see the work as 'meaningless' ( I don't, or only insofar as everything is meaningless ).
>They have figured out that they are never going to get payed the true value of their work,and that is almost the definition of being an employee.

It's at "almost", it is the definition of being an employee. Marx was right about that.

Employee-owned companies ftw.
What you're referring to is known as wordiness.
IMO not doing it. Why'd you do it? There are much more important factors than someone's ability to do a whiteboard exercise while under stress. You can e.g. check their Github, ask them to make a simple example project at home, etc.
> That apartment existed way before your country.

This might be even true.
> Sure you can write a for loop to iterate over a data set, but will you fall on your face when that data set is petabytes in size?

I also asked a question in HN yesterday. It looks like there are more questions on data structure and algorithm for big data. However, books I read don't focus much in this area. As I haven't worked on big data before, that would also be a challenge for me.
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I've worked with so many people that satisfy themselves with this lifestyle. Frankly, I'm envious. I simply cannot be happy that way, I've tried, I failed. I cannot live in the suburbs, I probably cannot have a stable family life, I will not commute. Instead I decided to accept that I cannot burry my desire to be on top, doing things others look forward to in the future, I'm trying to find ways to be sustainably excited about constantly being out of my comfort zone with new things.

I've left jobs paying over $1 million / year to do something that barely breaks even to chase this, and ironically it always seems to end up delivering another well paying venture with too much of the things I don't enjoy doing at the other end. It's immensely productive and counter intuitive all at once. I'd love to find something that lasts, but instead I feel destine to cycle over things that initially I love, and eventually despise for what I've turned them into.
As someone who works for a large tube site, you're entirely wrong. We pay a lot of money to people who upload content.
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In Germany we care about sustainable life on this planet.
There's not an equivalency, though. In the US, at least in theory, we have a system that is founded on the idea that a human being has inalienable rights that come from their creator, and therefore are not arbitrary concessions of the state. China has no such concept.

China views a human being as merely material, and human rights as essentially arbitrary. This is not just a theoretical difference. It's as practical as it gets.

If the US does keep going down the road towards tyranny, it is in spite of it's foundation, not because of it, and its actions will be inconsistent with its own guiding principle. This foundational guiding principle of the US gives me some hope that we are not on in the middle of an inevitable collapse into tyranny.
Well they're pragmatists, so they'll recognize that pragmatically they need some way to fund their life and accept that as a cost they'll have to pay until they find something more efficient.
The Facebook video in question is linked in the very first sentence, but the yellow highlighting doesn't distinguish the link from the rest of the text. So here's the link for the curious (in Hungarian of course): https://www.facebook.com/lazarjanosfidesz/videos/19566176783...
In my experience it's a combination of b) and c): most of the added value is generated by a surprisingly small number of "heroes" and everyone else is just there to support them. While the random office drone's contribution to the project's success is small, the fact that none of the "heroes" had to bother spending time and effort on that little side task enabled the team as a whole to solve the difficult issues quicker.
people go because its a community. they face the risks because this community and the work they do is important.
Plus in my case it freed up a ridiculous amount of time to do other stuff and plans i had.
Seems like "billion-vehicle-miles traveled" is not a good metric; people travel faster in aircraft and in cars than they do on bicycles and on foot. Time spent travelling should be a better metric.
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> The employment bubble you describe really only exists in the Bay Area.

There are a lot of places where you get a job in this industry faster than you can say "Software Engineer", so it's definitely not only a Bay Area thing. NY/Berlin/London are just as bad from personal experience and as a rough estimate every city above 1mil population, is probably not too different.
What are "capitalistic rules"?

In this case, the dogmatic assumption that every endeavour should be financially profitable.
And don't forget if their DBA team is all consultants, "at cost" for the state just included that DBA's time, putting together the scope of work for the client, writing the proposal, management approval, etc. Generating a PDF of all tables and all columns in a presentation-level format could definitely cost the state $2k.

I work for a company that has a lot of state consultants (>50% of the workforce) and our salaries are typically 2-2.5x our state counterparts, and most items of work that would take more than an hour or two will require at least one level of management approval on both sides.
Well...dangerous or violence doesn't mean just doing physical damage to person or property, which is what makes the whole issue ambiguous.

There are lot of people out there, who damage the people they deal with psycologically.
That’s an entirely legitimate approach, as long as you’re putting enough aside for when the chase isn’t fun anymore, you burn out, etc. That time will come.
Exactly, I don't need to know this stuff of the top of my head. I can look it up...
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Why would Facebook have any content moderation obligations towards any government? It is their private platform, their rules. A community they built = their community standards. They can decide what content they allow on the platform. Governments imposing content rules upon private companies is a form of censorship. China is not a democracy. If a country doesn't like their citizens having free and unlimited access to the internet, they can come up with their own versions of "Great Firewall"
I still think "failure of engineering" is too convenient of an excuse, but I concur with your points regardless.
arent the tube sites owned by the same people that own the content production studios?
I would say it depends. I have been working in this industry for 12 years but I don't need to use those knowledge.
However, if you read source code of popular frameworks and systems, they use a lot of those algorithms and data structures.
52 and loving my job. I get to do all sorts of fun technical stuff and get paid well. I don't care that I'm just a cog.
Most people I've met in big American cities have come there from a home far away and not brought their relatives. They are then tied to that new place and can't easily spend much time back where they came from.

I absolutely agree that it's the privileged few who are able to go to California to seek fame & fortune and who can take life on the African safari road.
If anyone here suspects their mattress is causing them back pain, I have a mattress buying technique that worked well for me.

Buy a firm or very firm innerspring mattress. This does not have to be expensive, I got mine at IKEA for $300. Sleep on it a couple nights to find out if it is too firm for your tastes. Adding a 2 inch thick memory foam mattress topper can cost about $60 and will take your firmness to about medium. 3 inches would get you a very soft feel and would cost $100.

Now you have a mattress that won't hardly ever wear out- you can replace the topper as it wears- and was a good value and is easily adjustable in firmness depending on your preference. I also added a waterproof mattress protector sheet, this is probably overkill.
In the very first post Google said they will publish learnings from this experiment. What have they learnt from this experiment that we can benefit from.
One of the points of 3D Secure is that it shifts the responsibility from the sells to the card company or bank, not necessarily the customer. So I don't believe the bank has much incentive to do a chargeback, as they will be the ones covering it.

Also I don't believe chargeback on a 3D Secured transaction doesn't count as a strike towards the seller, not to sure about that one though. It would seem reasonable not to count it, seeing as the seller was in good faith, and the card company claims to have verified the buyer... but the rules of online credit card payment are anything but fair.
A multiple week long project as part of your interview process for assessing candidates? Genuinely curious, what makes this a better process than others? I don't have a solution, but I imagine the majority top half of applicants will not even bother applying.