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As a developer/architect in a major metropolitan city, why would I worry about getting laid off? In 20 years its never taken me more than three weeks to get another job - always paying more. My record was walking off a bad contract at lunch Monday with not even an application submitted somewhere, meeting a recruiter and having an offer at what was then a Fortune 10 company on Thursday. The only time I got laid off was when the company went under - meaning any promise of “severance” would have been moot. Even then I was laid off on Friday and scooped up by one of the company's clients and started working the next Monday.

Yes I was around for both the dotcom bust and the 2008 recession. Even then major corporations were hiring.

There is a much higher chance that I’m going to leave a company than a company is going to leave me. I’m going to negotiate pay, PTO, and even a title that looks good on my resume.
How to Build a Killer Product Design Team
I think there's a ninja IRL somewhere out here on Alternate Earth
How an obscure German group cornered global trade in endangered parrots
Or we just force the company to go bankrupt by not approving a fee hike and then have the state purchase the assets and run the company directly.
Wow, that sounds great! I used to play on DWANGO a lot as an early teen (13 or 14, back in 1994-95). Somehow I convinced the DWANGO staff to make me a moderator on the San Francisco servers... it came with responsibility to keep chat relatively civil but it also meant free Doom 2 on their service which was incredible at the time.

I ended up talking to Romero directly back then because he would make random (?) visits to various DWANGO servers. I remember him specifically being generous with his time chatting with me and others. So if you ever see this Romero, thank you!
Unions are typically democratic organizations

Modern democracy relies on secret ballots.

Unions want "card check" votes that let the leadership see whom they need to intimidate.
Got a link for one of these articles?
Just yesterday, I was trying to explain to my partner (who isn't a programmer) why I think open source software and hardware is so important. My argument is that without enough core components in the industry standard tech stack being open source, the more likely companies who develop solutions will restrict user freedom.

For example, Apple has been able to own nearly their entire iDevice stack from manufacturing to silicon to firmware to OS to ecosystem. They have very little incentive to interoperate with external organizations via open standards because they own many of the pieces which need to be interoperable. Thus, they can force users and developers to use their tooling, the applications they approve of, dictate what code will run on their platform, and how easily you can inspect, modify, or repair their products.

This is all to say, it is easy to imagine a future where all performance-competitive technology is entirely built upon proprietary, locked down stacks – AND – it will be at a level of complexity and specificity that independent people simply cannot gain access to the ability to create competitive solutions. It could be back to the days of the mainframe, but worse, where only the corporations who create the technology will have access to the knowledge and tools to experiment and innovate on a competitive scale.

Amazon wants developers to build solutions entirely on top of their platform using closed source core components. They also want to control the silicon their own platform runs on. In 10 years, what else will they own, how much will this effect the freedom offered by competitors, and what impact will it all have on our freedom to build cool shit?
TSMC can run the masks, but if the design is not sound, then it doesn't matter how good the transistors are. Power islands, clock domain crossings, proper DFT, DFM, etc. are all needed to get a good design.
How is Intel dying? Losing a near monopoly is a far cry from dying.

And Amazon's Graviton/armv8 chips aren't going to be competitive for many workloads. If you look up benchmarks you'll see they generally aren't competitive in terms of performance[1].

They'll only be competitive in terms of cost (and, generally, not even performance/cost).

I'm personally pleased that there is more competition but I find that saying Intel is dying to be silly.

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ec2-grav...
And beyond all that, puberty is when our bodies start telling us we're adults, while society tells us we're not. A large part of teenage rebellion seems to stem from that disconnect.
Qualcomm brought the case in China. This give China an opening to put punitive measures in place against an American company. In the aftermath of the detention of Huawei's CFO this is a great opportunity because it isn't China acting unilaterally, it is them acting in response to a legal challenge brought by an American company. Literally as win/win as it gets from China's perspective.
Here's a link to the video being referenced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW8HNAlUXxU

ThisOldTony is very entertaining with his machining and dad jokes, I can highly recommend his channel. This video is not a bad starting point.
Zhang Shoucheng Was Touted for a Nobel Prize in Physics;Why Did He Kill Himself?
> Introducing sane gun regulations have polled above 66% but the representatives we have in washington won't touch that with a ten foot pole.

And do you know why it is so? The popular adage is "gun lobby throws money at representatives", but it's actually not true.

The reason why gun control doesn't get traction despite popular support is because those polls that measure support or opposition don't measure the dedication of people expressing it. The majority, when asked about gun control, support it, yes - but most don't feel particularly strong about it, and extremely few consider it a make-or-break single issue. So when it comes to voting, politicians know that they can get those people's votes even if they don't go for gun control, riding on other issues.

OTOH, NRA (and other gun rights orgs) have a very effective resource, and that isn't money - it's membership. Specifically, it's the subset of its members that is laser focused on gun legislation, and the majority of whom consider it their single most important issue. Because of that, they're likely to turn out in the primaries, and vote based solely on that one thing, ignoring everything else. Furthermore, NRA (or rather NRA-PVF specifically) facilitates it by compiling dossiers on various candidates in all races across the country, and publishing them together with voting guides. So what this all means is that any Republican who openly supports gun control will find it hard to get through the primary. And, conversely, not supporting it is not a big downside in the general (D voters will vote against you anyway, and R voters will vote for you anyway).

This is changing lately with the rise of left-wing, ideologically motivated groups that target primaries in a similar way, like Indivisibles, which means that Dems these days are a bit more likely to pick it up. But it's still a litmus test for Republicans, and for as long as that remains the case, you're not going to see 70% popular support translate to 70% legislature votes.

By the way, we had a very good demonstration of this recently. Remember the whole bump stock kerfuffle? When ATF announced that it's reviewing its categorization of them, there was a public comment period. Here's how it went:

"Of the more than 17,000 public comments received so far by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), a review by Reuters of 4,200 turned up only 10 favoring the bump stock ban. Almost all the rest criticized the proposal as heavy-handed, unnecessary or unconstitutional."

Funnier still, most comments expressing support for the ban were form letters, while most comments expressing opposition were not. This despite the fact that over 80% of the population support the ban, according to the polls - just not enough to bother leaving a public comment on the Internet expressing that opinion, much less prioritize it in their voting choices.
As someone who's been traveling for the last 10 months and currently am in Thailand, this was a very enjoyable read.

Although cheap flights and smartphones with data and GPS have made the life of a traveler incredibly easier, the downside is the places you visit are more touristy and people I'd imagine are way less social (at least to the people directly around them). Often I'll arrive to a hostel just to see everyone in the common area silently glued to their smartphones. I wouldn't necessarily want to go back to a time before this technology, but there are certainly serious downsides to this hyperconnectivity.

It's the same effect that technology is having on everyday life. The increased connectivity of the internet paradoxically withdraws us from our immediate surroundings.
Right, but 100% efficient is pretty bad. Heat pumps can be 300% efficient for example.
If you exchange electron A with A', the wave function changes sign (antisymmetric). But if you exchange A with A' and B with B', nothing is changed (symmetric).
Gotta link for that? Sounds really neat
How to Check If a Website Is Safe
Microsoft confirms that Chrome extensions will run on new Edge browser
My company utlizes Corvill appliances and network taps on the switches to monitor activity. We mostly use it for metrics, but no reason it couldn't monitor exfil. Onky problem is it only has enough storage for about 3-4 days of network traffic.
unlawful to negotiate Union favored closed shops

Agency shop has the exact same effect, unless your employment predates the union. You are still constrained to the CBA and have to pay full dues.
Working for a big company/megacorp without valuable good stock options/bonuses on weekends and off-hours is dumb and abusive.

On the other hand these startups are voluntary organizations. You choose to work there or not. I don't see anything wrong with a company deciding on a culture/work enviornment which attracts people who are very dedicated to the company (and hope to be rewarded in the long term as such) and are willing to sacrifice personal time more than typically expected at a usual company.

Some people love working and solving hard problems (and having tens/hundreds of thousands of people use their software) more than going to restaurants or night clubs or having family - at that point in their lives.

It's one thing to work obsessively and to the detriment of your health. But that doesn't mean a small team of "10xers" is necessarily a toxic/abusive arrangement that people are forced to engage with.

There will always be plenty of 9-5, no nighttime/weekend type jobs for software developers. You just won't find them as often at high-growth/high-risk+high-reward type startups.

That said, not all high risk/reward agencies require an obsessive/super hard worker type either. But that type of commitment isn't necessarily a bad thing either (unless they do it to the point of hurting their own health, which hurts the intellectual/physical ability and ultimately their contribution to the company).

I know for a fact it's possible to put above average commitment into a company, while still being entirely health. But it's certainly not for everyone, nor should it be. That also doesn't mean you should feel bad for getting fired or pushed out of such a company because it's not for you.
Yes, it's great that C++ enables you to make aesthetic design decisions. What I dislike is the way they interact in complicated ways with architectural decisions.

Libraries like MTL (the matrix template library) are completely architected around providing their nifty syntax. They do insane things like have operators return types representing a symbolic computation, so that template specialization can be used to do a kind of peephole optimization. The end-user experience is aesthetically improved, but do not stare into the abyss of the template definitions.
I think I have read hundreds of reports and warnings filed about similar scams since years ago. We should have been quite familiar with their tricks. Since now, I still could read people complaining about them at sites like http://whycall.me and also on social media. We need to inform our family about this. Don't let them become one of the victims.
> agency judges like immigration judges are so willing to buck their employers

And that "protection" is one of important reasons why it is so hard for a potential immigrant to find a job in the US.

Similarly, removing "forced arbitration" will make getting job at Google even harder.
5 things you need to look out for in Remote Hiring
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Since the prospective employees are dispersed in different parts of the world, the employers may never know their true identity.

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They may appear to be authentic on a phone call, but in reality, they may be presenting counterfeit documents or a fake identity. Along with fake papers, they may be imposters, stealing someone else’s identity to get paid and dupe the company in the process.

3. Security Breaches

Fake workers may be a cause of the security breach in the company. Once in the system, it is a piece of cake for the professional scammers to access the company’s sensitive information and use it against them. They may even gain access to the financial accounts and get away with laundering money worth billions of dollars.

4. Financial and Reputational Losses

Companies have had to suffer financial and reputational losses once the workers get away with scamming them with stolen identity information, money laundering via company’s accounts, and failure to deliver quality work (or any at all) while asking for payment in advance.

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Are those custom? Or is it a total coincidence it starts with 1Aaron?
Mruby 2.0.0 released
Maybe you need like a warrant canary. "This service is great for customers" is removed from a url once that is no longer true.
My perspective of the article, which seems to have not even crossed your mind: The mother's actions aren't those of someone trying to understand her daughter, but instead co-opt her daughter's interests to make it all about herself instead of her daughter.

It's not so much that it's "uncool" or "ruined", but that her mother isn't allowing her to find her own identity, trying to pull her back into defining herself in terms of her mother. And she doesn't want to be just her mother's add-on.
If you're trying to seem more credible, supporting EOS isn't gonna help you.
> bonding and structural differences which are assessed to be biologically insignificant.

Are there specific plausible possibilities in nutritionally required molecules that you are referring to here, or is this just a "no one knows for sure" argument?

> Prions for example were easily described as chemically equivalent to their other phenotypes

Did anyone ever actually point to a container of prions and mistakenly describe them as chemically identical? When I said "chemically identical", I did not merely mean the amino acid sequence.

Like, we have x-ray diffraction for this stuff. There is a reason vitamin supplements work to correct vitamin deficiencies. There is just not much room for unknown unknowns here.
The image of some crack antipiracy team hanging out in a war room is just so ridiculous to me. They say it's an individual subscriber's stream being rebroadcast, who has somehow managed to remove the watermark? Alright, just blank the stream for a few frames for half of your customers while watching the illicit stream. Binary search until you find the culprit subscriber. Even if you had 100 million subscribers it would only take 27 iterations to find. No one is going to mind or probably even notice that their screen flickers a few times.

Instead they've put together a team of highly-paid professionals bumbling about that they can't possibly figure out who is behind all this.

While it may be slightly more complicated in the real world, I suspect it's simply a case of justifying their own overpaid positions.
I've hired dozens of people in tech and building something that works and is related to the job you want is so important it's hard to overstate. IMO, it's far more important than what school you went to and maybe even your employment history. Tech moves so fast that if your portfolio is something you built 3+ years ago, it can be difficult to find a job other than at companies that can afford substantial training programs.
Insurance.

This distributes the risk over the companies (useful financially, bad for risk mitigation), but also creates an incentive for the insurer to audit policies, practices, and procedures to minimise risks. Insurance is a pretty powerful business invention, and is unique amongst virtually all businesses in that it seeks out risks (and then tries to manage them).

There are smaller power companies within California (most of them are municipality-owned utilities), and they tend to be fairly accountable to their individual market-owners.
Memristors for Curious Outsiders
A good start would be only actual professional engineers calling themselves engineers.
Ask HN: How to avoid memory leaks in C?
Let's legislate that all cars must attain 150 mpg and cost less than $10,000. The EU proposals are approaching that kind of absurdity.
Ask HN: What's up with the site being slow?
Even the logged-out Ask HN page was slow to load.

Is this a temporary or as yet unknown/ongoing condition?
For me the trouble with the company was the product was as dull as a spoon. I'd rather work at SpaceX.
'Dying All Tensed-Up': 30 Years Since the Troubled Secret Mission of STS-27
Just going to share a sentiment I've felt while diving into Golang over several months. The canonical way to do things feels like it's all over the place in several areas of Golang. Not in the fundamental "this is how you should indent" bit but in the "this is how you should unpack dynamic json content" sense.

I really wish golang had more canonical content. But at this point, I feel like I'm working against the grain. Golang doesn't feel like a language that wants to prescribe a lot more than fundamentals. How you structure your code beyond the src/git/path/your-code/ is completely up to you and every repo you visit could be different. It's not my thing personally, and I'm leaving this comment just in case any "want to try golang" folk stop by. This is something you should be aware of going in. Don't bang your head when you can't find a clear way of doing something that probably seemed simple in other languages. Embrace the new concept and see if you can get used to it.

That said, if anyone ever breaks into the eco system with an es lint style tool that allows experts to share their best practices via plugins, that would be awesome. If that exists already, please do let me know. I'd love to give it a go.
Most, if not all of the Forrest Mims "Engineer's Mini Notebooks" are up on the Internet Archive.

https://archive.org/search.php?query=Forrest%20Mims
CISC is still an asset rather than a liability, though, as it means you can fit more code into cache.
Thank God, finally a proper "Getting Started" guide for Go Modules. The official docs and wiki page always felt so obtuse and unhelpful about how to actually use the feature, while dep at least offers the obvious "dep init then dep ensure and you'll be fine" solution.
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I have fond memories of his book and his writings. I was rather stunned that somebody so intelligent would be so willingly not so in other areas. No interest attacking him for it, but just, "Wow. really?"

We all have our quirks, don't we.
What does that really change? When the electrical grid burns down a city next time, the taxpayers pay for it?
It's about time we had terminal emulators that took font/size commands the same way they understand colour changes. There's nothing (today) stopping us from making terminals that support outputting a font-code before dumping out some art like this produces, then setting it back afterward.. Suddenly TUIs could make use of tools like this ..
The police-acquired homes are a red herring. They represent a fraction of the properties being rebuilt by developers for new, rich, white renters. Anything that isn't nailed down in Fishtown, NoLibs, and Kensington is being bought up and developed into condos and apartments. The development is even pushing its way south down Broad Street, with multiple new complexes of apartments and shopping coming online.

Even if this seizure bs was not going on, nobody in this area of town will be able to afford to live there in 5 years. And there's no new public housing going up anywhere, because all the contractors are bidding ridiculously inflated prices to build them.

This is going to push everyone in the area into the streets, or jail, and push crime into every other corner of the city it can spread to, because nothing is being done to help the people who have to resort to drugs to survive. Philly is still very much a dangerous, desperate place to live.
Different people learn in different ways. Unlike most people apparently I credit Mims with delaying my taking up electronics. I found his books a complete turn off when I was young - painfully unimaginative and boring. Mims books were the only books available at Radio Shack and in the US, Radio Shack for decades before hacker spaces was in most places the only place to begin to tinker with electronics. The high number of Mims books sold has a lot to do with those decades of "monopoly". The Art of Electronics is what worked for me and many others and I have three hard bound copies that are falling apart from overuse. There may be simpler, fewer- topics-covered alternatives that would be better for very young readers, but AoE is what most teachers in particular that I know swear by.
It would be prudent for Wikipedia at this time to shut down service in the EU, and simply put up a banner indicating that they can't comply with XYZ regulation.

Regular folks in all walks of life, and also the bureaucracy would immediately be effected. It would be a 'shock' to Europe and a powerful signal of how vital these resources are, and the real extent they are messing with them.

Basically, everyone would become aware of the issue, in a very material way, and get a taste for he chaos this law might imply.

Kind of like internet 'gilet jaune' as a crude metaphor.
For anyone who wants to read more about this claim it's most commonly referred to as the "success sequence".
The problem with GDPR is that the actual scope of it applies to is rather unclear, and the regulatory guidance hasn't been reassuring as to what the actual extent will be in practice.

For example, do email addresses on the comments on a blog site fall under that protection? If so, there are some agencies in charge of enforcing GDPR that are violating GDPR on their sites...
We don't yet live in Orwell's world of 1984. We live in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, which, incidentally, is how you get to Orwell's world eventually.
the early notebooks are a bit basic (probably good for people who are new to Python) but the later notebooks are probably one of the best PyTorch tutorials I've seen out there...