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I lived in an area where a lot of people were contracted to work for the US Army in their bases in Afganistan, Iraq, etc. for support roles (kitchen work, IT maintenance etc) with 6 months deployment, then a month free and 6 months again.

It was kind of a work that attracted many people from many different nationalities and their pay level was adjusted by average income in their home countries. So their expenses during the deployment were the same but the amount they would bring home was as much as 3x different for the same role.
Thanks for the extra info. I assigned myself an issue to remind myself to look into the topic more: https://github.com/google/WebFundamentals/issues/6832
> caring about one thing and not caring about the other

> in the logic of OP, all other dogs who think this is behavior is okay

No. The OP did not talk about approval. They talked about specifically thinking the candidate is racist.
Totally get what you're saying.

Where are you based out of? Would love to get coffee nonetheless if you're in the bay area. In the least, it appears we have some interesting stories to swap.
I believe Nutella is manufactured by Ferrero as well. I stopped eating it, though I love it, because of the initial backlash about palm oil many years ago.

Then, when they said they were going forward with 'sustainable' palm oil production, I started buying it again, but having second thoughts again because of the points raised in my original post above.
The shops with Brooklyn in their name don't irritate me, or transplants. I am glad things look less gritty, although, I don't want to go too Disney or Normal Rockwell here ;)

After all, I am a mutt, and at some point on my father's side, his father was from either the Ukraine or Poland depending on the borders at the time, and settled in the Lower East Side. My grandmother, my mom's mom, was from Ireland. My (4x) great grandfather on my father's side was from Scotland and fought with George Washington in the Revolutionary War.

I was confused and curious at the same time on why someone who was born and grew up in LA, lived in Brooklyn only for two or three years or their 35 year old life, then back to LA before I had this conversation with her, would answer "Where are you from?", with "Brooklyn". She had been in SE Asia for a couple of years by then too. She also seemed like she got caught in a lie when this came up with me. Chameleon?
Are the combatants channelled into the same area? If not you end up with a game of “needle in the (forever growing) haystack”.
I have some questions for you:

* What do you mean by "efficient way"? Piano pedagogy is an old system that's been perfected over 200 years. What aspects of this system do you believe to be inefficient?

* Are you trying to supplement piano lessons taught by a teacher or are you trying to replace a piano teacher?

* Are your target students looking to learn classical piano or pop or jazz? Do they want to learn basic chords to sing along with, or do they want to learn to play instrumental pieces?
> no city was compelled to apply

I think this could be argued. The thing about democratically elected politicians is that while you can't "force" them to do something, there can be enough political pressure to effectively compel them to do something. In this case, any city that passed on this opportunity would have to describe to their constituents why they didn't want to bring 50,000 high-paying jobs to their city. It's much easier to just play ball, hence over 238 submissions.

> Should we dispense with competitive processes completely? Why have the Olympics, for instance, because it's such a waste of time for everyone that doesn't medal?

Do the Olympics change the rules in the middle of a competition like Amazon did?

> the Scott Walker/Foxxcon debacle is a completely different category than the HQ2 situation.

It is different in many ways, but also similar in a number of ways. Specifically, both used the promise of X number of jobs to extract a set of concessions, then proceeded to chop that jobs number in half.
Working for a Berlin tech company that is looking for backend engineers. If you have deep experience with Golang or PHP and willing to relocate, let me know ;)
They integrate Mattermost into the Omnibus....
It's a remote job.

I get a small flatshare and do the Mon-Fri working thing. (Loads of people do this for on prem jobs because homes in London are small and/or pricey. You get the train in on Mon, stay till Fri, and go home to your big country house).

Then I stop doing the commute because it's a remote job and this is obviously silly.

Basically it seems like this whole thing rests on arbitrary rules set for no reason.

I can't figure out how working for GitLab in a northern English town would work at all and why anyone would apply when they could rent a postbox (or even an entire flat) in London and come out way ahead.

If the differences were a few grand it'd be different. It's more like half the money for living a couple hours north on a train.
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I think it didn't just deleted his personal files; it corrupted the installation itself. It might be another bug. I'm not sure though.

Searching around for some sort of source, I found this article[1], which says "...some of my readers told me their hard drives were corrupted and thus were unable to roll back the update." Of course this may be hearsay and false information in times of panic, so I take the statement with a grain of salt.

[1]https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2018/10/06/micro...
Unfortunately I think casting Amazon as the villain here is incorrect. I say unfortunately because that would be the convenient thing to do. But Amazon doesn't have an obligation to repair America's infrastructure or create jobs in cities that haven't succeeded in attracting skilled employees in large numbers. If Amazon believed they could legally gain an advantage by having cities compete against each other, they are almost obligated to do so. But perhaps there's a less cynical way to look at it. Maybe Amazon really didn't know at the outset which city they would pick, and only after considering everything submitted to them, concluded there wasn't a strategic case to be made for putting a second HQ in a city other than DC or NYC. I actually believe that to be the most likely scenario, but maybe I'm naive.

The unfortunate fact is that the politicians who emptied their pockets are to blame. But they too are only doing what they believe both benefits their constituents and of course helps them stay in office. To put it another way, if the mayor of Pittsburgh said "we aren't going to play ball and give a handout to one of the largest companies on earth" people who live there probably would have revolted. I don't think there's a good solution except for voters to become smarter about how their budgets are spent and make clear to politicians they don't want tax dollars wasted courting a company that doesn't need any government assistance.
This is a great development for both new and experienced users. Most importantly, it seems to be an effort to introduce a canonical way to build a given network in Tensorflow, as opposed to the previous era where any given TF repo might implement the same network in one of several completely different ways (tf.contrib.slim, tf.layers, etc). Hopefully, defining a standard way to build models will also help accelerate the standardization of train/test scripts and data pipelines, putting to rest the era of models being deeply infected with the execution structure built around them.

Overall, it looks like Pytorch is forcing TF devs to focus more on users and usability, and I'm excited to see how they continue to spur each other's growth.
My employer has a campus similar in size to a midsize university, which formerly used district steam heating from a central boiler plant. About a decade ago it was decided that moving to a modern distributed system with a natural gas boiler in each building would net better energy and cost efficiency, and while the transition took several years and was fairly disruptive in terms of the construction in each building, it's ended up delivering as promised.

I just don't think central heating has the advantages today it used to, unless you're in the unusual situation that you have a "free" source of steam (e.g. from process equipment). The boilers used now are compact, low maintenance, and have impressive remote management features. The "steam plant" staff here went from a dozen operating a building to a computer workstation at the facilities operations desk for remote monitoring and a few roving maintenance technicians.

We are also currently transitioning from a central standby power plant to generators located at each building. This is being done for almost the exact same reasons - the generators today are small, low cost, perform testing and exercise automatically, and are remotely monitored.
Still a bit of a hassle, but I got it working. It's a shame it isn't easier to install like Racket, Shen or CL.

I really want this to build as a Windows exe without the need for the Posix stuff, I think?
> It's very conceivable that the folks moving within NYC will have a payroll tax increase of less than $6k.

But do we think the jobs that the new Amazon hires are vacating will go away? Seems probable that many of them will be backfilled, and potentially at a higher compensation rate than they were before, since there'll be more demand for software engineers in the market after Amazon has moved in.
If you click on any of those links they are all fake. If you click on "cached", you see the text googlebot saw - totally different and most likely valid PDF. Someone is doing cloaking.

I also do not think the company is doing it on purpose, a lot of these PDFs are titles for ebooks that would be copyright violation.

https://searchengineland.com/guide/seo/violations-search-eng...
Different things for different purposes. That food industry chart shows you how a few players control many of the major brands, so it makes sense to be dense and show the brand logos.

This is trying to show how many pies Amazon has its fingers in, and for the vast majority, nobody is going to recognize any logo, and using text would make a chart like the food industry one hopelessly busy and hard to read. As it is, that food chart is really only good at conveying one thing since it doesn't clearly differentiate groups of ownership form each other, which is consolidation of an industry into a few large companies. That doesn't even make sense in this case, as instead it's trying to show the reach on one company.
There will always be disruption. Disruption is part of being human. How long do I have to live in a place to declare that I am no longer responsible for maintaining my financial stability and I get to demand free rent from the city? 2 years? 10 years?
As a company we don't want unhappy team members.
Google Maps put the time at 23 mins by car right now. Still an incredibly easy and cheap Lyft ride.
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Exactly the same as the original is a shallow copy.

Deep copy roughly means "If I do `dst = deepcopy(src)`, modifying anything in the world I can reach through a reference from dst should have no side effect visible through src" which is a reasonable thing to ask in some special cases (a tree of plain old javascript values, a DOM node) but not reasonable in others (a database connection object, a file descriptor, a user-id)

Like, what should a deep copy function do if it reaches a reference to the global object? or a function that closes over some references in the object being copied?

The answer is always "it depends on what the object will be used for later and what specific behavior you want"
Lots of witty quotes in this article, such as:

... the true tests (such as the dissertation requirement) in graduate school are really designed to discover whether at some point one is willing to just turn the damn thing in.

The willingness to do hard, mundane work may be the most under-rated quality in all of modern life.

I think too little is made of the how the Internet and its various forms of instant entertainment make it all too easy to sidestep the mundane nature of most valuable work. It's worth considering the many long-term consequences.

Speaking of which, it's time to get back to work.
Really unclear to me what you man by "third-party application" here. How is Google Chrome not third party, but this app is?

Typically in this nomenclature the first and second parties are the user and OS (or computer) vendor. The third party is an application developer. So typically Google and Mozilla would be third parties the same as maker of the HN browser.

Aside from that, I see no real distinction here. When I launch Firefox, it shows me on my "blank" home page (provided by the browser, not a web page) a list of popular articles curated by its Pocket division. This is essentially identical to what OP's app does. One is a browser that proffers links, the other is a browser that proffers links.
Interesting. Not clear if they got the big lesson of QNX vs. Mach - scheduler and interprocess message coordination is crucial to microkernel performance. The relevant pages of their "book" are blank. I'm trying to find the interprocess communication primitives and can't. Anyone know where that's documented?

I notice they put an ELF loader for executables in the kernel. It's better to have the loader outside the kernel. See this Linux vulnerability.[1] They may get there; they don't have shared objects yet. QNX starts up new processes with a canned startup which links to a shared object to do the loading of the executable. So loading runs with the privileges of the thing being loaded, which is safe.

They put very few drivers in the kernel - just a serial console. That's good. Like QNX, the boot image contains user-level processes you want run at startup. So you don't need drivers in the kernel to get going. This is good for embedded applications. QNX comes with a boot image builder into which you put what's needed at startup. There's a set of services for disk-based systems which get you a UNIX desktop like environment. But for embedded use, you can build a diskless QNX image with much less.

One advantage of a small unchanging kernel is that it can be put in a boot ROM for the life of the machine. This is a win in embedded devices. Any updating is done by loading new processes in userland, not with some super-powerful low level thing that nobody understands and probably relies on security through obscurity.

[1] https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6924
Cities actually spent quite a bit of money on hiring consultants, site planners, doing impact studies, etc. I don't think it's unreasonable to say mid to high 7 figures.

-https://www.consulting.us/news/290/consulting-firms-recruite...

-https://technical.ly/philly/2017/09/13/site-selection-consul...

This is not to mention that cities likely had to hand over demographic data that would've otherwise been very expensive to collect: https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-hq2-search-data-2018-....

Look at some of the cities that made the finalist list:

-Columbus (population ~880k)

-Denver (population ~700k)

-Indianapolis (population ~870k)

-Nashville (population ~667k)

-Newark (population ~285k)

For these cities, an additional 25k jobs would have been huge. Scott Galloway has advanced the theory that a large goal of the HQ2 search was to secure competing bids, which Amazon then took back to NYC and DC in an attempt to secure better terms. If these "finalist" cities were simply used as stalking horses with ~0% chances of actually winning, I can't help but feel it was a little wrong to induce them to spend the necessary fees on consultants and planners to put together a decent bid.
The usual cliche about Italians. I would like to remember HN's audience that Italy is the 2nd manifacturing nation in EU and that a big share of our GDP depends on engineering products and services: https://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/profile/country/ita/.
Package medicaments, pumps, iron based products, cars, trucks, chemicals are not products that can be improvised without any organization. And in general Italian engineers are good.

P.S: I am both Italian and an engineer.
I learned years ago that most RFPs are a massive waste of time and effort. But why should the process be illegal? If cities want to compete, so be it. If the citizens don't like it, then vote out the city council. Corruption is illegal... This headline and article are link bait, at best.
Or successfully pull off the library OS concept with POSIX as a first class citizen. Z/OS is most of the way there. NT has tried a couple times with the POSIX subsystem first, and now their Windows Subsystem for Linux work came out of MS Research's drawbridge library OS work.
Good luck! Be consistent
I would argue the problem here is of special treatment. We do want municipal competition, we don't want company-specific competition, though.
You don't understand Amazon's pay model completely. They have a backloaded vesting structure of RSUs, sure, but Amazon also provides a cash 'signing bonus' that vests monthly over years 1 and 2 in an amount that gives approximately the same total expected yearly comp for the first 4 years (same as calculated at time of grant; subject to change with stock movement).

My Amazon comp has been more than competitive with FB, Uber, Google.

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I built this tool that you might find useful. It uses chrome midi api to let you play piano into your browser: https://sightreading.training/

It's not going to teach you how to play piano, but it's good for drilling reading notes.
The reason that professionals don't want to hear suggestions from the peanut gallery is mostly that the peanut gallery usually comes up with the same silly, impractical ideas over and over again. This distracts the professionals from working on real solutions. Intellectual property has little to do with it. But if IP is your concern, well you can cheaply purchase complete plans for dozens of different light aircraft designs and build them yourself with basic tools. Feel free to do that and use your own airplane as a test platform for your proposals. No one is stopping you; it's totally legal as long as you follow the regulations for experimental aircraft. Let us know when you're done and have something proven to work over thousands of flight hours.

From a systems engineering standpoint, everything you have described would add complexity and would likely be a net negative for safety.
I can't disagree, but at what point can sworn testimonies be allowed? 100, 200, 500? What about their 'respectability'? To dismiss such a mountain of evidence is unwise, I feel.

There are also hundreds of government documents on his website, discussing various et issues.

Most of the testimonies talk about how there is a systemic coverup going on. What if they can provide proof, but due to high classification, it can't be provided, except to Congress? This was ultimately what the disclosure project was about in 2001. Most of the testimonies attest to that fact.
If you want to get a better understanding of how Jeff Bezos "built the scaffolding around his mind" that is Amazon I highly recommend The Everything Store - https://amzn.to/2qK2er9
How dangerous are these lasers?

If hundreds of cars will have them, your eyes will be scanned multiple times per day.
On the other hand, GitLab didn't have to do any UI work to start with, they just appeared to copy and paste GitHub.
What’s interesting in this piece for me is not the remote working but that they raised $145.5M and generate $10.5M
Who bended over the furthest for their new corporate overlords?
Yeah, the comment you're replying to is very red-pill and based on a weird asymmetrical set of standards.

My feeling is that the high-libido (HL) people are assortatively mating with other HLs. They're no longer pursuing the medium-libido (ML) or low-libido (LL) people. The internet helps this a lot.

Without the HL people, the ML/LL people are free to have a more relaxed and less active sex life. That may mean being single if the libido isn't high enough to overcome social anxiety or inertia but at least they aren't stuck in a mono relationship with an unhappy HL who's prone to cheating.
The problem is the CEO never approached Steve correctly. Never threaten someone's job unless the situation is dire. He should have said something like, "now that we're growing, we need you to ..."
This is exactly why my partner and I live there. It's cheaper, cleaner, and generally calmer than Manhattan. Plus, we have an extraordinary view of the Manhattan skyline from a terrace we could NEVER afford in Manhattan.
It seems very unlikely that New York City needs to pump taxpayer money into proving to multinational companies that there is value to being located near the talent concentration they already have. It seems unlikely that Amazon's presence there is going to be the spark that finally ignites their struggling tech sector, or attracts job seekers from outside the region (spoiler: New York doesn't have these problems). It seems much more likely that Amazon is contributing to many of the existing NYC area problems (Read: housing/infrastructure) by further straining resources AND demanding they be paid a ransom for not building in Baltimore.

At this point, based on the cities chosen, it seems more like Amazon held these 2 obvious choice cities hostage by threatening to move to smaller, less established city instead. "Give us all your subsidies, or we'll just go build in Baltimore"
I think that's not true. My 800sqft apartment in Berlin in a "hip area" is 1k EUR all in, London or SF would probably be 2.5x that. Essentially to live in SF my salary would need to atleast double to have the same standard of living.
By the sake of god, please try to add also a more friendly build system too. Bazel is a disaster that would almost make maven looks lightweight, npm reliable and autotools userfriendly.
It's kinda common for companies to spy on company machines, so it wouldn't surprise me if that's the case.
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Yes, I point out AF447 as a perfect and horrific example of a problem which is really HCI (human computer interaction) / UX.

The lack of stall warning meant two different things: "not stalling", and "stalling so extremely it can't be sure, so don't report it"; as you say. I wondered if there should be a different sounding alarm for "can't determine". Or, the pitch of stall alarm could rise, such that pilots could tell "which side of the stall" the plane is on, so that entering stall from one side would side start with a very high pitch or very low pitch. (I'd guess there's a better way..)

So, in this case, it's more subtlety more tragic than you describe, because the pilot did correct the AoA, and nose down, but when he did that, the stall warning resumed (albeit from the extreme other "side" of the interval), confusing him: no alarm, alarm resumes, so he thought he "re-stalled" it and he pulled up again. This kept him mentally "stuck" in the extreme stall. They needed to "pass right through" the stall warning window, and come out the other side. They had sufficient altitude for this to succeed.
It would have to work somewhat like PUBG - people caught outside a given area slowly start to bleed health. (Or for bonus fun, are catapulted towards the center of the current combat area.)
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The people who truly care about it not being POSIX compliant are also the people who would still denigrate it even if it became fully compliant so ... From their point of view, why bother ? You are your own worst enemy on that one.

On the flip side, with WSL windows 10 can now pretty much run any POSIX compliant code anyway.