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>Linux kernel has SMP and good multi-core support, just for you to know.

SMP is garbage and multi-core IS trash, whether you like it or not.

>Linux kernel is not just for desktop, and being used in near real-time systems as well as mobile. It is the 'distribution' that makes the difference to their audience.

yeah i mean for servers it's ok, on mobile it's a JVM anyway so it wouldn't matter what you swapped the kernel with.

>Multi-user environments are very real in workplaces. At least one additional employee account is needed for using a system without modifying it.

yeah not on the consumer desktop though, families don't need multi-user systems, laptops don't need them either.

>There is no obligation to understand car design to drive them. But, what if one day you wanted to check the engine? That is at least you can't do with proprietary systems.

maybe not but understanding a car design is possible and within reason, understanding 15 million lines of code on the other hand is not. also I don't recall when I said you could understand proprietary systems either?
> This is common practice in lots of pretty successful and pleasant countries

With measurably deleterious effects on entrepreneurship. The solution to lay-offs isn’t hindering labour allocation. It’s socialising survival costs, e.g. through unemployment insurance, universal healthcare and subsistence guarantees.
Yes, you are right, is mostly money. But there is other stuff that at the end adds up, specially if you are a Senior Engineer in a FAANG company:

* Very few recruiters outreach mentions any kind of compensation expectation. Why would I bother with hours of chat, screening and interview loops if I know only a handful companies offer the same kind of compensation I'm used to receive?

* The bar of a Senior position is quite high, so high that most Senior engineers would not pass it, it requires months and months of preparation. I would do that only if I was absolute sure I wanted to leave my current job.

* I would be willing to receive a little less if a company could offer something that I don't have like a better commute, work on something I'm more passionated about, etc... However, most companies think that working from home is good enough to justify a 50% lower compensation.

The only exception that I can think that compensation is not the main point is if you are trying to hire someone so successful and rich that money doesn't really matter for them. But my guess is that this kind of people are even more rare than senior people.
Estonia did just that:

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/estonia-is-making-pub...
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If that's what they were secretly planning to do, then of course they're bothered by you not playing along.

What startup was it that was discussed here a while ago, where the founder was describing shareholding ex-employees as "dead weight" who didn't deserve the shares since they were no longer working there? I'm a guessing similar mentality was at play here.
There's an argument that: If the IRS does not show all it's cards up front, people might disclose additional income the IRS were not aware of. If you think of filing taxes like a negotiation, there's benefit to "not being the first to name a number".

With that said, I am absolutely "pro" automatic filing.
>They order a system, the engineers build it, nobody, including the engineers, has a perfect understanding of the problems that the system is supposed to solve, so it doesn't 100% map to the real world.

It seems like you're saying the system must be adhered to. Otherwise why would the system not matching reality matter? That the system must be adhered to is not a given, and is in fact the exact problem being created by middle managers.
> I would like law to fix their bargaining positions, because I think that's a place that law is capable of working effectively and that it would be good for society for it to do so.

There are ways to do that, but some of them are better than others. For example, institute a UBI and the person barely making ends meat will be doing better and be able to afford the lease with the notice.

In general, the policies that work are the ones that don't try to micromanage anything or prohibit anything. If people are choosing something, assume it's not because they're idiots. Give them more choices, not fewer.

For example, a great way to help the poor is to have tuition-free community colleges, or encourage anything that lowers housing prices. But we don't really have that. Instead we subsidize student loan interest and mortgage interest, because that's more profitable to the banks who lobbied for it and the for-profit colleges and existing landowners it allows to inflate prices into the sky.

The problem with programs to help the poor is that the ones that actually do are expensive and don't pass, while the ones that pass will claim to but really do something else that most of the time makes things worse, completely by design from the perspective of the people who proposed it because they profit from it.

Better to have a UBI than subsidized loan interest, but better to have nothing than subsidized loan interest. Many "solutions" produce negative progress.
> the "sign on bonus" she appears to reference apparently vests over 4 years, which is not that uncommon

At least in finance, nobody claws these back unless someone quit in bad faith.
I feel like in technology we talk so much about metrics, observability, having lots of logs and application metrics for _all_ of your infrastructure.

Yet, we don't seem to have anything similar for the human body. How many lives can be saved every year by having a system that grabs some data from your body and has some thresholds for warnings? Something doctors could simply hook into (pull based) or something you could give to a doctor (push based). Some "critical warnings" could call an ambulance straight away.

Do we need more IoT embedded systems to hook to the cloud? Is it a problem with regulation? Physics / biology deterministic measurement?
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Adopting Linux for the mainstream – not happening anytime soon
Not even close. It's all down to culture and where their priorities lie.

If WWII is any indication, the Germans would be very good at developing new tech. (They did it during the war)

I believe that the reason why Europe has not had a good chance at a SV:

1. They don't rely on credit for the most part. Using Debit/EC cards are more previlent.

2. High taxes and cheap sources of labor: Most tech is outsourced to Eastern Europe. There is some seriously good talent there, but there's a heck of a lot that isn't great. The treatement of talent is used as a cheap cog in the machine. Hard to hire the best talent when the wages are at a particular level.

3. Strong labor unions and policies: Germany requires companies over a particular size to have representation from the labor force on the board. (This has created the wackamole in companies splitting off)

4. The regulations and monopolies are pretty strong in Europe: it's hard to compete and overthrow say sap or mediamarkt. (Although those are prime for a disruption).

5. Companies play fast and loose there. Due to strong workers rights, they're still playing tricks to prevent people from being full time. (Contractors, probation periods, etc)
Kubernetes doesn't specify anything about overlay networks. That's up to the CNI provider. Are you referring to flannel's documentation?
The stocks typically given are non-voting shares.
I’m really mixed about this.

As a new immigrant, my wife had trouble finding work as a designer until she was given a take home work sample test. After that, the company that gave her the test hired her quickly and she has been doing well with them ever since.

I’m currently doing the gauntlet thing myself, but none of the interviews I’ve done have asked any technical questions pertaining to the role that they actually want to hire me for. It’s all generic stuff that frankly I would have done better on 20 years ago.
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Ageism is real. The older I get, the more and more I see it with my eyes. I have seen people denied jobs purely on age and have to work for peanuts because of their age (old or young). I sometimes fear the future because we are all getting old and the only ones living comfortably will be the elite money hoarders.
There's a certain charm from the early 90's that's been lost with all these new design trends.

I personally think that it has something to do with simplicity indicating that you are dealing with an individual. Not a 'faceless' company. Hence the charm.

In the 90's, you were almost always interacting with a site designed by an individual. Think GeoCities/AngelFire - so this was always a given. Now much less so.
In places worked we usually had a vmware cluster, load balancer, NFS for shared data when necessary and DNS set up (e.g: through consul).

This setup is very, very simple and scalable. There is very little to gain IMO on moving to Kubernetes.

Consul, VSphere and load balancers have APIs and you can write tools to do everything that K8s does.
Total lunar eclipse and rare super blood wolf moon this weekend
Ask HN: Older Founder Advice
Throwaway, Im a regular reader/contributor.

So im a 30-something year old founder with kids/family. Our startup (based in SEA) is doing very well, just closed an oversubscribed seed round with very good growth and extremely happy users. While we monetise already the model we choose will see us burn for the next few years at least, this and some market/product factors led us down the VC funding route.

In order to see it through this far both my co-founder and I used our savings to top up the initial angel investment during incorporation. I was able to support my family (School fees etc) through a well paid product / BD consultancy taking up a few hours a week. Unfortunately the consultancy gig recently and pretty suddenly ended (large org cost cutting). Due to closing seed im able to take a salary but it doesn't cover all my personal expenses.

While im trying to figure out what to do I thought Id ask the community here. Are there any other founders with families here? How did you get through the early stages? Did you look for other sources of income or did you justify a larger salary to investors? Any tips in general?
Most apps allowed you to customize toolbars, and displaying labels next to the icons was one of the options.

However, no conforming app should have had any functionality in the toolbar that was not available in the menu bar. This isn't to say that nobody ever did it, but the OS design guidelines were very clear on that point.
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I totally agree that the method you are using is a good habit. I noticed that cashiers often call out the denominations of money I hand them for a purchase, which too helps. I used to deliver newspapers late at night and once lost count (while counting in my head) of how many heavy bundles that I had loaded from one truck to another, which required me to start over - and on a cold night too. Thereafter, I picked up the habit of counting aloud, especially if somebody else came by and distracted me.
What are you going to make your crucible out of that is transparent, won’t contaminate the contents and is strong enough at high temperatures to withstand regular use?

Also if it wasn’t available 20 years ago there’s your reason.
Funny. I agreed with the author. It's relatively easy to gauge technical ability vs those who can pretend. I only use a simple take-home problem when I truly can't tell which type they are. The really great part is that I usually tell a faker from the resume. Maybe I should blog about this.
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I'm a father of 7- and 5-year-olds, and I constantly think of this.

I have some anxiety issues and frequently have mild panic attacks, which can have symptoms similar to heart attacks. I have vasovagal responses triggered by odd and benign things. I also have bad muscle tension in my neck and upper back, which can extend around into my chest. And to top it all off, because I have children, I am often sleep deprived and drink too much caffeine. Heart-related issues are on my mind so frequently that I've almost convinced myself that I'm going to die of a heart attack one day, despite me being in good health.

I spend a lot of time worrying, so if I could share my advice with others: if you are worried, just see a doctor. It's not worth being wrong. One day I had symptoms of a heart attack for hours and went to an urgent care facility and got an EKG and x-ray of my heart. They found nothing, and attributed it to musculoskeletal pain. Considering I've been worrying about my heart for many years prior, those tests gave me a strong sense of relief and allowed me to focus on learning how to control my anxiety without getting into a feedback loop (anxiety -> heart attack symptoms -> more anxiety from worry). I can now calm myself down pretty quickly.

This may seem obvious, but getting extra sleep and cutting out caffeine helps immensely with all of the above symptoms. Easier said than done as a parent whose kids don't even sleep through the night. :)
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I guess you could say that.

I suppose you do sort of feel a little stressed during the trial period but I've never seen anyone fail it and it applies at every company, so there's no escaping it anyway. When it was introduced some people got quite upset but I can't really say I think it's had a bad effect.

I guess from the companies perspective if they realize they made a grave mistake they can back out of the hire, but they are still very careful and rigorous in the hiring process just like always. It also allows the candidate to bail if they realize the company wasn't what it said it was. It goes both ways. Again, in practice it seems mostly harmless.

Perhaps the US wouldn't do so well with a similar policy maybe even just due to the crazy healthcare situation going on over there. I couldnt say.
If you're right, demand 2x your salary, because the industry's track record on this is abominable.
I do this also at my office -- it massively helps avoid misunderstandings, errors due to miscommunication, and other screw-ups. Like Hamlet said -- 'we must speak by the card, or else equivocation will undo us!'
You miss the point. To make your analogy right imagine there is must be single taxi company operating in your area and it decides not to take your order anymore because they don't make much profit from your trip. You need to wait several hours until their queue clears out and then you have to pray not to be outbid by someone else.

Of course the company decides what orders to take but you have to ask yourself why your government allows this kind of monopolies. After all capitalism promised to fix the worst flaws of commusims(i.e lack of competition/choices).
If it's not an original question find the original source (a source that is older than the company would be especially nice), and post a solution to the question posed by the original source. The world is a big place, a lot of question are not original.
At what point wasnt it?

The periods of economic growth and large scale upwards mobility that people like to point to in order to support their indoctrination were the also happening worldwide almost as soon as trade was liberalized.
I just installed Debian testing on an ACEPC GX1. Zero problems.
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I think people do realize that it’s codifying the “science” of “Ah reckon” and realize that same heuristic is famously terrible. Coding bias intentionally into an algorithm seems more like a thin justification for pre-existing profiling than any breakthrough in reading faces. It’s not hard to imagine the same behavior we seem today, but now with the excuse that “The algorithm did it.”
That's the difference between a democracy and an oligarchy. In Chile, the government tells the people and companies how much to pay in taxes. In the United States, the corporations tell the government how much they will pay in taxes.
Can’t answer that question with a thought because it precedes thought
Some people hate maintenance and isolation as much as you like it.
Which of the FAANG specifically have you experienced acquihire technical interviews at?

Just curious, because again, I’ve only ever heard this from friends that got bought by Google. I’m not saying others don’t, just haven’t heard of it from folks getting acquired at other places.
Let’s not allow tweetstorms about personal drama on HN.

What’s the point of policing the comments with an iron fist if the links are a free-for-all!? It’s such a weird dichotomy to be hellbanning people for being snarky while every day the front page is filled with flame bait.
China's economy cools in Q4, 2018 growth hits 28-year low
Placebo. Chiropractic is not real.
Nobody says corporations should not lay off. But they should give a severance package that can help the employee and his/her family go through the transition period and find a new job.
I'm not interested in arguing primarily in the discussion at hand, but you seem to have a position based in some philosophical/ideological claims that I think may hold up to scrutiny very well.

> I don't think governments can make people happy.

The government does positive actions (i.e. not merely preventing bad actors from doing bad stuff) for maintaining national parks.

I chose this example because the happiness of enjoying a national park is very direct, and the government's positive actions in maintaining these parks (e.g. controlling burns) is very uncontroversial.

So it turns out that the government can make people happy.

> I think the purpose of government is to defend me from you and you from me.

Does the government have a duty to defend its citizens from natural causes and from itself? If you agree with this, the there should be some guarantee by the government that the disabled veteran should be no less able to qualify for a job that someone not disabled can qualify for, with the difference in productivity compensated by the government.
However system level stuff will install 3.4 by default.
I was alive into all this, and I find it very nostalgic.
You don't have examples of projects that live on an intranet, belong to a client, or make a thing "go" in an industry you'll never interact with?

You've never worked on a project where you contributed a handful of pieces to a million piece puzzle, of which your contribution is nearly unnoticeable?

And can you say "I made that" when legally, and in the eyes of most, SoftwareCompany Inc "made" it?
I have seem this happening in many areas - GMO and ISP squashing well-fare schemes for farmers and internet users.

If only news agencies did proper job highlighting these issues, companies wouldn't date to indulge in acts like these.
> Which is why passing laws against things generally hurts the poor.

That's not a reasonable conclusion. Laws against usury protect the poor. Laws against dangerous workplaces protect the poor. Hell, laws against slavery and debt prisons protect the poor.

> Only it hasn't actually forced a solution. But rents sure are high now.

They may be high, but it hasn't increased homelessness. Homelessness is barely above a ten year minimum, lower than during the GFC. [1]

That's sort of my point, at this stage people just barely get by, which is exactly the sort of situation legislators can ignore.

> The unemployed youth in France are not having a good time.

Cherry picking, but also not obviously related to the point. Are the unemployed youth in France unemployed due to minimum wage laws? Would they be better off if such laws weren't in place? Citation?

> But more to the point, these kinds of laws tend to follow prosperity rather than the other way around.

I'm not making an argument for maximising prosperity. A country with one quadrillionaire and everyone else broke would be the most prosperous in the world. I'm making an argument for protecting the poor.

[1] https://www.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/2018-AHAR-P..., page 10
Actually, you'd be surprised how little of your life's information is on-hand compared to the eligibility requirements for certain tax credits and benefits. The biggest example is deduction of gambling losses. IRS knows how much you've won (receipt of Form W-2G) but unless you give it an accounting of how much you've lost it has no clue at all.
"The Internet would erase national boundaries, replace gatekeepers with a universal opportunity for free expression, and bring us all closer together."

Sounds like it succeeded in that, we just don't like the results.
Good to hear you say take-home problems, as I believe it's a much more realistic assessment than is whiteboarding per what the job actually entails.

Being a good dev is about being thoughtful in assessing a problem and designing/implementing a solution. This vs standing up in front a group of people and hastily trying to devise a solution to a random challenge.
Curious, does javascript, the language itself, cause this rate of change (whether you see it as a good thing, or as a bad thing), over server side languages, java etc.
Maybe slightly off topic but I would be curious to know what the artifact of lower bit rate mp3 encoding is actually doing. It’s not aliasing, but it’s in the 6-15khz range. I could only describe the sound of the artifacts as a flock of seagulls in the distance flying towards you.

Edit: found this which answers a lot of this.

https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/what-data-compressio...
> Your heart’s not just going to stop.

A heart attack is not actually your heart stopping. It’s caused by a lack of oxygen to the heart tissue, causing pain and damage. It is often not immediately fatal.

It can lead, sooner or later, to cardiac arrest, which is when your heart stops completely, and often is fatal.
Python3 was cleaned up pretty well, however it's up to devs whether to use the latest cryptic features no one understands.
The server editions are targeted at servers, the desktop LTS edition is targeted at desktops, specifically the desktops of people that don't want things breaking randomly, who don't need the latest and greatest and who don't like updating every 6 months.
>90% of people that can do that are decent

I can't imagine this being an effective qualifier for any but the most junior of devs.
There is only one form this year. There is no longer a 1040A or 1040EZ.
I hear what you're saying, but I think you're maybe creating a straw man argument here. A smooth talking engineer isn't one who sounds like a used car salesperson or is just hyped about the latest trendy framework.

There are people who can talk through challenging problems at their former companies and how the problems were solved. They can tell you everything you'd want to hear because it's true. Except…they didn't implement it. Maybe they are best friends with the person who did and understand in detail about the tradeoffs and the neat hacks and the insights learned along the way, but couldn't build it themselves.

Those are the "smooth talkers" of the engineering world. Those are the people you can't catch just through a verbal interview.

On a related note:

> If you can’t tell the difference between a smooth talker and strong technical competence you are probably interested in the wrong qualities. I have interviewed enough now to see why some companies cannot figure it out. Ask yourself if you really actually want a senior or a strong junior.

My dude.

Look at who you're replying to.
This is the only way how Python2 should be treated.
If both uppercase and lowercase "o" look the same, doesn't that ensure confusion?