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I just found out a subordinate earns 26% more than me, what do I do?
Hi HN

I work at a famous global tech corporate. We have a employee career mentor program, where mentors are responsible for managing performance reviews and communicate salary outcomes. As fate would have it, my newly assigned "mentee" have been earning 30% more than me last year and 26% higher than me this year. I'm at manager level and this person at consultant level. I'm a bit stuck in terms of what my attitude should be to get it fixed. What should I do? What's the right approach?
Look at our teeth, mostly plant chewing teeth.
> ...fear can have a really positive effect when it comes to learning something.

This has a built-in failure mode caused by the fact that the student is optimizing the objective function, "Reduce the potential for public embarrassment," and not the one the teacher wants, which is, "Learn the vocabulary." At some point, the student decides that the safer path is actively refusing to study and refusing to be embarrassed by this choice. No one knows if they could really learn the material or not (probably not even them), and they maintain self-respect by having the balls to stand up to someone they do not like (especially pre-university, where attendance is legally mandatory and you have little to no influence over your assigned teachers).

I have seen this play out with several obviously bright people (to counter your anecdote with another anecdote). It is particularly sad because it fails expressly for those struggling the most with formal education.
ThoughtWorks even has a term for it: "Microservice envy" https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/techniques/microservice-e...
The biggest reason I'm not shopping at Amazon as much anymore are the scams and fake products. It's really annoying.
> This has nothing to do with health

Are you an agricultural scientist? How do you know that? How do you know the quality and purity of the soil from which the food grows and the aquifiers which hydrate it didn't affect the nutritional quality of the food itself? I think such impacts have already been observed.
Historically some did (e.g. you could be an early feminist and still consider gays or even lesbians immoral), but in general gay men were acknowledged as themselves oppressed and besides they do their own thing (e.g. gay men wouldn't be in a relationship with a female in the first place).

Whereas in the situation with heterosexuals and fembots, the feminine side is still present -- just replicated and reduced to sexual functions. .
That’s what’s the most amazing about EBay: just how niche the parts get.

Either internal components, or people parting out a broken system, you can find it all.

Need one screw for your iMac? It’s there.

Need some random resistor size? You can buy 1000. In through-hole or different SMT sizes.

Need a power supply for a particular TV? It’s there.

Need a USB male to male 4’ cable? It’s there.

Need a 5V to 18V 2A power supply? Etc.
> Though, there are plenty of counter examples of cultures that have an almost all meat diet and are perfectly healthy, there are other factors involved in those cultures that don't apply to your average first world eater -- the meat is mostly wild caught for instance.

The more obvious and probably more important factor, that doesn't apply to the average first world eater is there are very few of those that have a diet consisting predominantly of meat. Most meat eaters today still have significant portion of their calories coming from refined carbs and they usually avoid fatty meat, which is a staple for those cultures you mentioned.
Same! I’ve been using Duplicity for most of my backups and had been considering switching to Borg, but passed when I found it couldn’t use B2 as a backend.

Now I’m using both Duplicity and Restic, for different backups.
I think very soon, "low-level programming" will mean writing JavaScript directly without a transpiler.
I employ various hacks:

- I permanently deleted my Facebook account

- I block certain sites in /etc/hosts. My /etc/hosts file also blocks several hundred Facebook tracking urls, and I scatter the “tempting” sites randomly throughout these so that unblocking them requires more than muscle memory

- I change the passwords on the tempting sites to random strings but don't save them so the only way in is to do a password reset

- I use content blockers

- I excoriate myself in a journal entry each day (this hasn't worked yet, but I keep on doing it)

These things sorta slightly work in that they slow me down for a second and give me a chance to consider whether I really want to visit [website]. However, my lizard brain tends to adapt pretty quickly, and disabling the blocks gets incorporated into muscle memory as well.

So I think my solution will have to involve zen-like self-discipline as opposed to hacks. I keep telling myself I want to give it all up for good, to become a person who makes things instead of a person who consumes things, who reads books instead of surfing the internet. My solution will have to be simply deciding to change.
I wish we could get a modern spin on this style
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Beyond strictly runtime failures, 2018 feels like the year that most of my friends tried kube but not everybody stayed on.

The adoption failures are mostly networking issues specific to their cloud. Performance and box limits vary widely depending on cloud vendor and I still don't quite understand the performance penalty of the different overlay networks / adapters.
Thanks for pointing this out.

Can you give an example of the strncpy problem?

Also is there a precaution programs can take to use memset more safely?
I showed my son (age nine) a floppy disk a couple of months ago. His immediate comment? "Wow, a 3d-printed save icon!"

Sigh.
Later in the thread they determined the virus detection was a false positive.
Yes, it does matter. I'd question the intentions of a marketing department very differently than I would 3 developers who appreciate a given set of tools and want to share them with other developers.
Growing Disparity Between American A.I. And Chinese A.I.
Using Markov Chain Generator to Create Donald Trump’s State of Union Speech
Indeed that is the reason. On my system, I have:

#define errno (*__errno_location ())
Introducing Feast: an open source feature store for machine learning
The article mentions isolation leading to unique genetics but then ignores the obvious conclusion that the ideal diet for them is also unique to those genetics. We know there are different dietary adaptations in different populations why do we keep looking for the one trusted diet? That said the lack of stress in this population is almost certainly universally applicable.
>closer to the metal

Lol. Sure! Just like how I get closer to the Earth’s core if I’m sitting on the floor instead of my chair.
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Stock market is going higher
I'm inclined to believe that a significant urban ebola outbreak in Africa would be sufficiently frightening that politicians, regardless of their political stripe, would authorize the appropriate funding. In any case I'm sure it would fall under the rubric of being a national emergency and funding would be authorized by the executive branch with little controversy.

You do bring up an interesting point about airport screening because presumably that would require significant manpower. In passing, however, it appears that screening at airports hasn't advanced to the stage where it's particularly effective. [0].

[0] https://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g6202
I did this for my Mum about 6 years ago.

These days she doesn't buy a computer unless it will "run that minty thing".

I pretty much don't have any tech support calls from her anymore, I think a couple in 5 years and one of those was her knocking the video cable out with a hoover.

I just install Mint based on LTS and forget about it.
What I like about this tweet is that society starts changing and realizing what possible things could be done with information that is shared. Good to see more critical thinking evolve when it comes to social media.
Short history of global living conditions and why it matters that we know it
The best part is when they get that call from a scammer claiming that something is wrong with their windows installation and it dawns on them how obvious the scam is.
> Perhaps, but the mere act of having an external dependency creates all of those liabilities on a significant scale in addition to any risks inherent in whatever functionality is being implemented.

Why? What is different about an external dependency that creates this risks in excess of writing it myself? To me, these risks all seem less when importing then writing it myself.

No matter how crappy the module I find is, its gone a lot more testing and review than whatever code I'd write to replace it.
Innovation in Elevator Technology Has Enabled High-Rise Construction
Switched my father-in-law to ubuntu 10 years ago and I basically ended all his "support" calls to me :). He was constantly getting malware from all sorts of banners and popups while playing chess and rummy online. That, coupled with some good extensions such as mining block + uBlock + Disconnect changed the whole deal in an hour.

He's 76 now so yes, linux is a very good option for them.
IIRC the performance gain is when doing things like updating the state of a deep component tree, where react and others diff on the vdom to see what elements need to be re-rendered and then only so actual dom manipulation on those, rather than clear and re-render the entire tree.

I’ll be honest, though, it feels to me like a solution to a hard problem you inflict on yourself by first committing to have the giant component tree rather than questioning if that was a great idea.
Given the imminent G+ shutdown. WBM link, though the source, for now, is here:

https://plus.google.com/+MartinSeeger/posts/JtbWHWiDgWn
>Is Webpack really better than Bower and Grunt?

IIRC, grunt/webpack would be the comparison. bower is more of a package manager (akin to npm), no? bower has been deprecated (from a year ago or more, no?) Worked on a project in 2015/2016, set up the project with bower, and I noticed by early 2018, deprecation notices kept coming up in the build logs. Not a major crisis, but I wouldn't start a project with bower in the mix today.

re: newer/better - I know some folks who transitioned to react from other stuff, and it really is 'chasing a trend', but their goal was primarily to be 'relevant' because they are specifically trying to attract a certain type of developer (IE, one that is focused on the newest stuff), because they think they'll get funding or more cachet or something else along with it (move in the right circles and you're a bigger target for acquisition?).

The opposite of this is a current project - a slapdash offshored project using codeigniter 2 (and was started in 2016, IIRC, well after CI2 was EOL). There's dozens of bugs, and fixing each one involves far more time than a rewrite would involve, but ... "it's working, and we don't want to rock the boat or lose momentum or...". So there are projects which chase the latest trends for the wrong reasons (and maybe sometimes legit reasons), and there are projects that cling to the past for bad/poor/wrong reasons. I'm not dogging on CI2 specifically, but the fact that we've got a pile of broken code that, even when 'fixed' will still only work on PHP5.
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It seems conceptually similar to Google Web Toolkit. So probably it is also a nightmare to debug.
It seems clear to me that English is not the author's first language.
I find this especially infuriating -- they even do it within a single product!

https://i.imgur.com/aeaeuT2.png

That's $0.98 / oz, but if you switch from fruit punch to blue raz it becomes $15.18 / lb, and if you switch from the 60-serving pack to the 30-serving pack it's $24.58 / lb, but if you want to subscribe and save that's $0.93 / oz.

WHY
Very interesting, thanks for sharing!

Your second link says that the Okinawan sweet potato is a staple in Hawaiian cuisine. I wonder if there were studies comparing the health profiles of Hawaiian and Okinawan people.
But people that flip companies, and large companies focused solely on profit, etc., realised they could do away with subject-knowledgable sales people and simply have good sellers who tell you the highest margin goods are the best.

It works too, you can put an established business down by robbing their sales for a couple of years pretending your product is better. By then there's no [affordable] quality option available. Plus, the morally corrupt owners make oodles more money; inspiring others to do likewise. Greed feeds its self.
The idea is that if you have any big organization where you want to make decisions (like a City, a Cooperative, an Asociation, a Foundation, an Union, a Politica Party).

Who gets and controls membership (aka verification or authorization) is a decision made by this organization:

* Sending a SMS code to users to verify that their have a valid cellphone

* Allowing users to upload a photo or scanned image of their identity document

* Sending users a code through postal code

* Allowing users to go to to a physical office and check their documentation

* Checking some information through other systems (as a Municipal Census on the case of Municipalities, Cities or Towns)

* Having a list of valid users emails

More information regarding verifications at https://github.com/decidim/decidim/tree/master/decidim-verif...
I concur with this experience. A few years before my grandmother died, I installed Ubuntu on a new laptop for her. All she wanted to do was check her email, view her bank account and play solitaire. It was easy to set up shortcuts to any of this, and she never had any problems.

Every time I came to visit, I would make sure to check the status of the packages, and run the software updater if any updates were available.

The only 'problem' I experienced was confusion from my uncles, when they tried to use her laptop, when they came to visit. But I wouldn't really rate that a problem, since they just gave up and didn't ruin anything.
VSTO isn't great. There was something called VSTA earlier, basically a little visual studio embedded in Office, you could do with any .net language what you could do with VBA. Unfortunately they canned it.
Girl Scouts of America offers badge in cybersecurity
Second shout out to that particular item, which I bought July 17, 2017, and have used about once a day in the 18 months since, on a gas stove. One of the best nonstick skillets I have owned. Even heat distribution, and no issues with peeling coating. Strong construction, but as lightweight as it could be given that. (I’m superstitious, and generally hand wash.)
I miss redhat's bluecurve icons. https://www.deviantart.com/redrope/art/Bluecurve-Complete-Ic...
FCPX has been going from strength to strength since the release, with a constant stream of big updates, and winning lots of hearts back from the FCPX backslash.

This is also interesting: https://offthetracksmovie.com/

(Interesting factoid: the same person spearheaded and designed all of FCP, FCPX, and Premiere)
Yes, but that also themoves the power through self-victimization that they've always held. It's a real thing, Google it.
The crux of the argument that they're making here is actually oft repeated by many mainstream Christians.
Thanks for that info! Yes I am native german speaker, so I appreciate your help here :D
Is a component of that due to either a performance bonus or commission. Or are you talking about straight salary?
I Hate Business Phone Calls
Ah, I did not know this. Thanks.
The iPad way could also work quite well, but as my dad does a lot of writing he needs a keyboard :D
https://www.amazon.com/Super-Handy-Heavy-Duty-Capacity-Rope-...

Twenty bucks on Amazon.
Still, when you have a team of very smart folk writing complicated bussiness critical software in Excell, it is a good indication that you should invest in training those people in more proper programming languages.
I think what's happened is that one-bit reasoning (everything is either wonderful or terrible) has become too common? Maybe because most comments are short, and some witty, shallow takes are viral?
Answering my own question here: It's not the equivalent of setState as it doesn't set in memory state, but edits the dom directly when called.
Is there really such thing as a trusted server? Any server could have been hacked, it's not something that's under your control, so it's better to be a bit more paranoid about this.
I also tried to.

The first thing they did on my absence was having a local PC store install XP again on it, because they couldn't use any of the software for their devices.

Nowadays they just use Windows and I am confident any local PC store will take care of their issues, instead of having me deal with them.
Well, I've did JS since 2000, so I'd consider myself a senior. There's lots to learn, and early Node ecosystem was immature, but it's today quite mature, well supported, with a steady update cycle, good backwards compatibility, and no worse than most of the other options.

If people want to go wild with fad frameworks and libs every year or so, that's their thing. But you can have absolutely stable systems with very few dependencies if you wish so.
Who was the designer? What’s the license/copyright situation?
That is what I am saying though. If you spend a ton of money and time on marketing and product development don't have people essentially pretend to be building it. Or say that it is modular when the case seemingly only supports your modules.
My nitpick is about some of the inconsistencies. You said that you got them accustomed to Firefox and LibreOffice, and then you turned around and installed Chrome and MS Office in Wine. Does that mean they didn't take well to the new apps, and your user training method wasn't entirely successful?
Software Development Estimates, an Analogy
Community and Capitalism – Publicly Traded Person
> It is not FOSS, but I did install google chrome as it was the easiest for watching netflix

I haven't had to do tech support for my parents on this, but I find that the best and easiest way to do streaming media is via a set-top box like Roku or Fire TV. The interface is simple and you'd probably rather be watching on your TV than your monitor anyway.
This part is critical:

1) Sit down with your folks and talk trough their daily usage of their computer (Please be not so arrogant to think you already know it all)

As technologists this all comes easy to us and it is easy to forget what everyday computer usage means.
Dry skin guide – Have moisturised silky smooth skin all year round
I don't believe that for a second, it totally sounds like a conspiracy.
I'm not sure, I'd really have to think about that one. I'm pretty sure there has never been a society where the bulk of activity was not labor. That seems necessary by definition: you can't build things if you don't first sustain life which can build it, so "work" is necessarily a luxury of surplus. But I do think the idea of transmutation might be unique to capitalism. If you're really interested in thinking about this stuff I'd recommend going to the source and reading Arendt and other political science. This idea specifically comes from "The Human Condition," which I've just started.

EDIT: Sort of a follow-up thought: capitalism might actually be the escape mechanism that allows the bulk of activity in a society not to be labor. But the tradeoff is that all work is "transmuted" into labor (or feeling like labor) since everything is priced and a salary becomes the means of subsistence. I'm just spitballing, but I thought it was an interesting enough thought to add.
Is that true? How do we determine that our teeth are primarily intended for eating plants?
Correct, just like when you read an article on HN about how new crypto laws could lead to increased surveillance / decreased privacy, articles like this are trying to promote some sort of change before we end up in somewhere we don’t want to be.
I 100% agree. The BeOS icon set remains my personal favorite to this day. When I run Linux I usually load them up first thing.

https://www.iconfinder.com/iconsets/beos
Animations by a NASA Scientist Show the Speed of Light Is Torturously Slow
I'm laughing grimly because I know the feeling. I like your stage analogy. The antidote I use is to carve out my own small space... My own show, as it were. Also I think it helps to get away from the information firehose and be outdoors in a natural or quasi-natural environment for some hours. Gives you a different kind of understanding of what's real.
>"Are you an agricultural scientist? How do you know that?"

Ok, I should have spoken more carefully. First, I believe that literally every single thing we can observe is correlated with every other thing (although this correlation may be weak/negligible). So there is nothing that has nothing to do with any other thing.

>"How do you know the quality and purity of the soil from which the food grows and the aquifiers which hydrate it didn't affect the nutritional quality of the food itself? I think such impacts have already been observed."

Definitely, there seems to have been a great amount of vitamin/mineral depletion. Usually this is chalked up to intensively farming (high-carb) grains (rice, wheat, corn) that really no animal should be eating much of:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221451411...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution
I switched my family to elementaryOS and Google docs. It was more than enough for their needs. I can't remember the last time anyone in my family used Windows or MacOS, and I don't think they miss either.
> They’d even go as far as to not send marketing emails to ‘zombie’ accounts that had been long time inactive.

Do you know if this is common practise or even has a name? Would be interested in reading more discussion around it.
Is this actually happening to lots of parents/kids or is this joke that lots of people copy from each other?
https://www.google.com/search?q=Wow%2C+a+3d-printed+save+ico...
From the The European Code Against Cancer:

"Avoid processed meat; limit red meat and foods high in salt." [1]

[1] https://cancer-code-europe.iarc.fr/index.php/en/
The article mentions that first you check how they use the computer, transition them to free software apps, after that transition to Linux. To check if their hardware works you can use a Live session, check the video, sound, network,printer.scanner etc
Yet our gut is optimized for a meat based diet. Our digestive system resembles more the one of lion than the one of our closest cousin - the chimpanzee.

In his book "Sapiens", Yuval Harari talks about how we literally drove into extinction something like 90% of the biggest animals on Earth. And that wasn't because we competed with them for the juiciest grass fields.
At the moment we're not aware of any comparison with the other options, but one of our main points is being free and open source from the first day. We'd love if anyone can make this comparison.
I did the same with my parents-in-law. The best thing with mint is it has very similar interface to windows (they were using windows XP previously). So I didn't need to explain anything, the icons just became green, chrome icon became blue and Firefox icon was the same. And nowadays they can even play some of my (even windows only) steam games like zuma or peggle deluxe. When I meet them I do an upgrade and that's it.
A simple debugging module for AWS Lambda (λ) timeout
This looks like a deliberate attempt at cloning iOS’s aesthetic.

The demo does work well!
Genuinely curious...Does that strengthen or weaken it, in your mind? The fact that science may be moving closer to something millions of people across history have intuitively believed.
Internet blackouts in Zimbabwe, the DRC, and Gabon are a sign of what's to come
Ask for a raise or leave. You're getting screwed.
Motherhood: ‘Thank God I think I love it?’
Would you mind sharing the list of sites you block? It would probably be a good starting point for others wanting to do something similar. Thanks!