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I think a lot of us hire into jobs we 'grow into'.

When you find you've reached your level of incompetence, it's probably time to look for a way to move laterally. But if you find yourself still learning and growing into your role, then you've still got room to move up.
Amazon calls this a feature in Alexa!
>4. There must be something wrong with the person if he didn't get into management by the age of 50.

This idea amuses/saddens me. Personally, i know a few older technical people (myself included) who have been managers and chose to return to non-manager work. Non-developers (including non-technical managers) seem to have real trouble accepting that someone would not want to be a manager. Hands on techies usually get the attraction of spending your time building stuff Vs going to meetings, shielding your team from political goings on, taking calls, setting budgets, and moving jira tickets around.
Scientists create super-thin 'sheet' that could charge our phones
> It is possible for someone to put deliberate practice and care into learning basic public speaking skills without being a charlatan.

I never suggested otherwise.
It would be really cool if someone created an updated RaSCSI for the Compute Module https://github.com/fran-cap/RASCSI-68kmlaver
So are they just a serious journalistic website now they have fired their opinions section?
The other day my friend Alice (not real name) attempted a FaceTime call to Bob. To both our surprise my phone rang with a FaceTime call from Alice (and as far as we know, Bob never received the call). Holding both our phones together, Alice phone was showing a call to Bob while my phone was showing a call from Alice. A very strange fluke which makes me wonder how robust the FaceTime code is.
It makes me sad too, and I use Instagram and don't like Snapchat. Instagram has focused way too much on competing with Snapchat with "stories". I wish it would stop pushing this feature so hard; it gets in the way of the main photo feed experience for me.
Ah, yes, Canada has really been the target of Chinese hate lately

some gems:

'Canada is a white supremacist foreign enemy' -- Chinese state media accelerates propaganda against Canada

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canada-is-a-naive-ameri...

China Just Likened Canada to a ‘Whore’ For Firing John McCallum

https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/8xynnv/china-just-likened...
I think there's edge cases, dialects, and straight-up absurd rules in JS too.

I don't think CSS is any less logical... but some might not be use to _declarative_ languages like CSS is?
Thank you, I’ll try this board
I wouldn't be surprised if part of the reasoning is there was a threat to power that would come from an overskilled person taking a position. For example, that overskilled person may not fall for certain lies or controlling aspects that the manager uses on actually-unskilled labor, who presumably don't have industry experience or are too afraid of losing their job to cause a fuss.
Job Cuts at Apple Car Project Underscore Self-Driving Tech's Hard Realities
Reminds me of the origin of jitter, planes used to be build with the highest manufacturing precision but they realized the more precise, the higher failure rate. Too much precision caused coupling / node points of failure. Loosening gave opportunity for errors to get through the mechanics.
Listening to Those at the Hinges
The price appears to be for the Teak, which is a quite expensive wood. The Doug Fir isn’t available yet but I would expect it to be less expensive
Not even- I don’t know the relevant numbers, but I’d bet there are many more AWS regions than factories making the same kind of chips as the one in the article.
I wonder what Nortel's management and Canada's national security did to prevent that from happenning.
No.

People tend to expect that rehab will cure addiction, and become disillusioned with the reality that addiction is a chronic illness. Relapse rates are high in chronic illnesses, like diabetes and hypertension, the latter having a relapse rate of 50%-75% according to the NIH. Addiction is no different, and its relapse rates are between 40%-60%, even with ongoing treatment. Efficacy rates will reflect this harsh (and often very expensive or deadly) truth.
I'm 45 and I know a bunch of people far older than me who are highly-valued on their teams. Even in Silicon Valley I found younger engineers enjoy working with super-experienced people _IF_ those years actually translated to expertise. What you can't do is sit on your ass for decades then expect to be rewarded for treading water when the cozy job at BigCo finally dries up. All of the computing industry gets more competitive each year. Age gives you a head start if you are _actually_ using the time to keep growing, IMO. Often, people get older and get comfy and stop learning, or they lose the ability to related to younger talent on the team, which is just an essential business skill, like it was when you were young and had to relate to older people. And, if you actually have real skills, but a company won't hire you because the leaders think superficially, you should filter them from the list of companies you stake your future on.
I feel like you're answering a different question that I asked. I don't think the bug is low-severity.

I'm asking:

Is there any historical evidence that high-severity bugs in iPhones (or really any mobile phone) are reputationally damaging, sufficiently that Apple would worry about the impact of this bug?

I'm not aware of any instance in the past where a high-sev iPhone bug had noticable long-term impact. This is similar to other issues, like the Sony PSN hack, where despite the gravity of the issue, everything continued long-term as if nothing had happened.
I never understood credit card fees interaction with small transactions (eg shops with $10 min); if its a perfentage fee, what does it matter how small the individual transaction is? Total revenue is hit by it all the same

A billion from micropayments and a billion from one payment should be equivalent..?
I enjoyed the tongue in cheek question, but words where "aught" sounds like "aft" are Germanic in origin (such as laughter or draught), whereas "graft" is French in origin :-)

A lot of the more unusual spellings in British English (in particular) relate to trying to distinguish words by their origin.
Hiring Mechanical/Materials engineer with biochemical background
Athelas (https://athelas.com) is a fast-growing biotech company leveraging computer vision and microfluidics to radically improve patient monitoring. Our investors include Sequoia Capital, NVIDIA, and Stanford University.

The team is looking for a smart generalist with background in mechanical engineering, materials science and/or a biochemical background. Having a combination of these three would be an incredible bonus!

Please send resumes to founders [at] athelas.com
To commenters in this thread explaining that this is unfair (since almost all countries including US did it at some point of time), the main issue is that USA is powerful enough to do something about it. They can rally up support from their allies and keep Chinese companies from gaining any international adoption. Look at how they got Meng from Huawei arrested - it was almost unreal. This is how the world works today.
The 5G Protocol May Still Be Vulnerable to IMSI Catchers
> Line-of-Code Completions - Kite's completions engine can now predict several tokens of code at a time

I can predict several weeks of stock prices... not very well.

Shannon had an estimation method: ask people to guess the next letter in text, to find its information content. (Assuming people have a perfect model of text - probably, today, with billions of samples, machines might be better?). Could do this with program text, to bound the benefit.

loc completion is a great idea, might work well with idioms, especially if it can figure out the likely parameterization (e.g. in a for(;;) loop). I reckon this approach will no where near realize its promise... but will serendipitiously reveal unexpected adjacent benefits.

Also reminds me of that joke tool that automatically finds and pastes Stackoverflow code.
Thanks for looking into this, and posting these directions!
Imagine, all this time Five Eyes actually had a way of breaching privacy and they only started making noise about access enablement recently because they knew someone was going to report the vulnerability to Apple.
The community definitely overreacted, but the experience really was pretty poor. I watched it on fb (because I like the ESL production and I don't hate facebook), but I had serious connectivity and quality problems even if I have fibre. On top of this the platform is just not that great, I can't think of a single feature that was better than Twitch.
There is a natural repercussion for being a manager who passes on talent, and hires something less. You lose. Unless you are in a company where being good doesn't make a difference.

Working in a company that hires poorly is its own punishment. Dodge the bullet.
The Wikipedia contributor behind 2.5M edits
Tossing aside any concern for privacy seems to be the American way. Amazon, Microshaft, Goolag, Crapple, and are all onboard with profiteering from your inability to protect yourself.
No, he's right. Most people are better off investing in the stock market than trying to build a successful small business, SaaS, startup, or otherwise.
US requires currency exchanges to make a strong identification for the customer in every transaction. Using Monero does not remove that requirement any more than using a suitcase of cash which just happened to show up in your office would.

That alone would be a federal crime and it almost certainly would be enough to get search warrants, etc. which would likely turn up evidence for other charges for anyone who is running an exchange while badly misinformed about the law. Anyone trying to be legit is going to steer clear of those hypothetical Iranian transactions, especially since the odds of being compromised in some other way are high even in the unlikely case that Monero can withstand a nation-state level adversary. For any significant volume – such as what we’re talking about – traffic analysis is going to get a lot of info and since it involves Iran you’d be betting that none of numerous highly-capable intelligence agencies have compromised another party who has a trace pointing at you.
> And it works, too. Look at the quality of life in China, compared to India... Or Vietnam.

Can't say for Vietnam as I don't know much, but quality of life in India is much much better than quality of life in China.

People in India have access to full Internet, have access to real Democracy, have freedom of speech, live free life, aren't afraid to speak their mind, minorities are not being thrown in concentration camps, Government has no control over their thoughts and so and so forth. Sure, they may not have as many life's luxuries, but I think most people will take a free-er life than a gilded prison.
That‘s a dogmatic approach. A practical one would be to estimate the frequency and duration of emergencies based on experience and the cost of being out of order and compare this with the cost of running below capacity all the time.
How is your 401k invested? Contributing the maximum since 2007 would only give you (~187k @ 17k/yr average) and I don't see how you could have almost quadrupled that with anything but the riskiest of investments.
In my experience, there's a pretty big difference between mid 40s and over 50. Companies may be hungry, but they've also become more selective.
Do you have more info about this? I work in Steel and I admit I don't have a large high level picture of things, my understanding/perception is the tech innovation in recent decades have come largely from JKT (Japan, Korea, Taiwan) region those countries have the modern plants that are technologically interesting, my understanding is US plants are mostly older previous generation technology so I find it dubious that trade secrets from US plants would have much value any info would be less relevant to modern style plants being built in China.

I'm aware there is a lot of shades of grey around large commercially sensitive ore contract negotiations etc - see Stern Hu case https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-04/stern-hu-explainer-wh...
Here is a question for you.

What if instead of the situation that you were in, the opposite happened to a young developers.

Ie, the employer used a euphemism to discriminate against someone because they were too young.

Would this bother you?

Or is it only your age group that you care about being discriminated against?

TBH, young people are massively discriminated against, in all forms of jobs. It is merely accepted, though.

When you treat people equally, the group in power may feel like they are being discriminated against, because they no longer have an advantage.
So… your theory is that if people understood pointers this wouldn’t have happened? I don’t think that follows.
I have had to work with plenty of older programmers and it's always a bad experience. The boomer generation are not team players and they will use office politics to sabotage anyone who they perceive as threat to them. I have to deal a guy now who complains about ageism all day and talks about how experience he is and how he did x great thing but I have to explain simple programming concepts to the guy and agrees and looks down on me all.
> What does this look like to you?

I don't know, really.

An app & web site are great for convenience, but large-scale hacking needs to be very difficult to do and easy to detect and verify... vs. highly motivated & well-funded state-level actors. That's not easy. On a related note, people generally also have to have a level of trust and comfort with the system.

While those "details" are worked out, maybe some enhancements to the existing mechanisms will help...

* pre-paid postage on mail-in ballots? I've heard that the post office will deliver mail-in ballots even without postage, but when the envelope clearly says "postage required" not a lot of people are going to attempt that route.

* Same day voter registration? There's some increased potential for fraud. But it's also the day where all the political officials & volunteers of all parties from big to small are mobilized and watching. It should be possible to have a system for this that is very difficult to perpetrate fraud against it at any scale.

* Make voting day a Saturday or Sunday? (A national holiday is tricky. A lot of people don't get paid when they don't work, it doesn't matter if it's a national holiday or not. And I expect a new national holiday will be largely used for purposes other than the intended one.)

* 6am to 9pm polling hours? This is tough. There are real people working the polls all day, from before they open until after they close, sometimes a long time after. IDK, maybe 6am to 8pm?

* Give people a sandwich or a pizza when they vote? I guess more generally, get food trucks to come out and work the polling places which accept vouchers from the polling place?

IDK. There are surely people who've worked on this for years so my off-the-top-of-my-head ideas are surely hopelessly naive, aside from the ones I've gotten from those people.
The PewDiePie Hackers: Could hacking printers ruin your life? [video]
you have to expatriate ... only solution for you ... go in a less developed country where your experience counts
Their tool automates the creation of new GPU Kernels that are 1.1x to 3.2x faster than expert-optimized code in tested computations, including 2D convolutions (which are widely used in deep learning models). This tool thus has the potential to boost GPU performance for many computationally intensive applications, including AI applications:

"We develop Swizzle Inventor to help programmers implement
swizzle programs, by writing program sketches that omit
swizzles and delegating their creation to an automatic
synthesizer. Our synthesis algorithm scales to real-world
programs, allowing us to invent new GPU kernels for stencil
computations, matrix transposition, and a finite field
multiplication algorithm (used in cryptographic applications).
The synthesized 2D convolution and finite-field multiplication
kernels are on average 1.5-3.2x and 1.1-1.7x faster,
respectively, than expert-optimized CUDA kernels."
We can agree to disagree, but I don't consider 30% to be close. Maybe for applications that aren't time-sensitive, but I rarely deal with those.
so competent that they steal a developer's laptop, apparently!
Dunno if I should enter this seemingly infected argument, but I only now read up a bit on it: https://qz.com/1043614/this-startup-learned-the-hard-way-tha...

While I agree with your sentiment that the changes were intrusive, from the article they weren't actually ads in the strict sense. No Ugg Boots or Rolex Replicas. They were helpful links to knowledge articles or documentation, from what I gather.

Could be wrong though.

That's gotta be a tough position to be in, having raised ~ a lot of money and having the pressure to do a suboptimal move to please the investors.
took me a while to realize Facebook Watch is actually something like YouTube. thought it was talking about Facebook releasing something like an Apple Watch!
My bad. I was confusing two different desks. The one I have is the IKEA Idasen desk, not the Bekant. Sorry for any confusion.
I worked for this company in 2016 and 2017 and they were still faking signatures then.
Unsatisfied expectations of the interviewer?

Maybe it's better to list full experience, instead of limiting to 20 years? And mention the age.

To prepare them better, rather than surprising.

At least he would need to spend less time on interviews with people not ready to hire a 64 year old, and only talk to people who are ready.
Pretty sure the linux kernel is exclusively C. Actually the major OS kernels are pretty much all C - Windows, FreeBSD, MacOS and other BSD derivatives. The GNU software and utils could be written in C++.
I always wondered why FaceTime Audio has almost zero call establishment time on iOS, as opposed to WhatsApp or FB Messenger where you need to wait half a second before the audio feed kicks in after answering. Guess this is the reason!
Always flattered when this gets posted.

Always wish I could go back and re-record this talking about 50% as fast.
It looks like even the brightest scientific minds of the past forgot to increment the year after January 1. Even as late as March and April in some years.
Not nessisarily relevant if the same management companies are running these rentals for large numbers of investors.

“25 money laundry clients, all with about $3 million (after you & your washing cut) they need to invest. $75 mil? Let’s buy 6 dingbats and put them in an REIT. Which hires a management team” This means that specific team is managing property for a hypothetical group of 25 people.

The second part “If the REIT buys a building for an inflated price, and they’re getting clean money monthly? They can just sit on it until someone legit comes along, having convinced a bank to make them a very large mortgage on an inflated price.” In other words they don’t care that much about cash flows the way somone leveraged to the hilt would.

That said these numbers completely ignore leverage, that 75 million investment could easily own 200+ million in property.
That's still a thing via the map. You can also pay for a location based filter & start a similar story as well. Ideal for weddings.
Not sure if this was intentional but in security, Alice and Bob wre the names in hypotheticals for the attacker and unwitting victim since the RSA paper.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_and_Bob
> SALT exemptions should definitely not be restored - I grew up in the north east where those SALT exemptions are fully utilized but they introduce an illogical perverse motivation for state and local governments to spend freely since any taxes they introduce are essentially just that level of government getting a free non-revokable payment from the federal government.

You've confused the effect of a deduction with that of a 100% credit.

What SALT deductions do is they avoid creating perverse disincentives for state/local taxpayer-funded programs that create economic benefit for both the state/local taxpayers and the federal treasury.
How will they tell the difference between if I am 45 and 50 before they make an offer? I haven’t put my date of college graduation on my resume since I was 35 and now I only put the last ten years worth of work experience.

Let’s say I’m back in the job market when I am 50 in 2024 and I just keep my experience from 2008 or 2012 depending on the company I am interviewing for.
Thoughtful answer, thank you. People complain about HN having gone downhill...but answers like this one still pop up fairly frequently.
Turns out this is not actually a joke. Yikes!
Not Apple related, but you could log into any linux box using a specific few versions of grub2 by hitting backspace 28 times: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ezpdqz/hack-into-...
> CSS Media queries allow you to trivially handle different mediums (screen size, pixel density, screen-vs-print etc). It really is very very easy.

Disagree. CSS media queries allow you to identify different media, just like uname(2) allows you to identify the platform you‘re running on. Handling all the aspect ratios, resolutions, capabilities, bugs, idiosyncracies of the current device or modus operandi is not at all trivial, especially if you don’t want to design for each situation from scratch.
Could you link to some of these resources , their start up school doesn't really include documents such as this.
That really depends on his interests:

A Raspberry Pi board is a computer that one can conveniently attach things to and control them from software. He could build a variety of interesting systems with it.

A FPGA board would allow him to design digital circuits. He could, with enough skill, create his own custom CPU and computer from scratch. That's a fairly stiff challenge for even college juniors in a computer architecture course.
I just called my friend who was already on a call talking to his brother. He could hear me and his brother but his brother and I couldn't hear each other.

I was also able to call him, have him hang up and then see his video and hear his audio. He couldn't hear me, but I could hear and see everything.

I'm turning my phone off tonight!
Okay, now explain how cars that are necessary (such as for a director, that needs to meet with partners, customers, ...) should be taxed. Or how about for a cleaning company that sends out cleaners in cars, there's a lot of those. Would you seriously tax the poor cleaner for the value of the car ? How should Elon Musk be taxed if he bought a bed for sleeping at his megafactory ?

How about the office in which you work ? Should you be taxed on the value of the office building in which you work ? How about the value of the machines ? How about the coffee machine (which you may or may not use) ? How do you intend to check this ?

Even that is the very tip of the iceberg in terms of problems with this policy. Will you be able to catch abuses at the extreme ? Sure. Will you be able to prevent this from becoming a widespread alternative to paying out dividends using policy ? No.
Diversity in protocol ecosystems is often a good idea. That way you get a push toward inter-operable systems rather than single implementation as de facto standard (see: OpenSSL).

That said, regardless of how 'satisfying' you do or don't find it, "it's done, going intp production and we like it" seems like a really, really good idea to use something.