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Hiring for embedded UI jobs is hard. I went out and recruited from schools that teach video game programming. The skill sets overlap a lot.

I also wasn't allowed to tell people what job they were interviewing for. That made things extra fun!

Teaching people who had spent their life in tight highly performance optimized C++ how to work in embedded wasn't that hard.

Except for the "so, now we measure ram in Kilobytes!" part.

But, there is a reason the Microsoft Band had real alpha blending, transparency effects, a simple particle engine, and true type fonts, all with a 120mhz CPU and 256KB of SRAM (and a few more megs of super slow RAM for cache sitting off the side).
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The market is this tight in part because birth rate is dropping like a rock. It's dropping like a rock because having a child is either unaffordable or too much pain in the ass to deal with. The companies will have to see a bit beyond their next quarterly revenues to see reason in having a sane labor market in the future. I'd also like to see large tech companies (which constantly complain about the "shortage of talent") pitch in on the education/training side of things, without externalizing those costs to the taxpayer and worker.
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I'd much rather see my edit form shown again, with my content still in it, and a conflict warning... Nothing worse than loosing that 20 minutes of typing to a conflict!
My office is directly in view of all the handicap spots in a large commercial office buildings so watch this everyday. It is crazy how many people abuse the handicap parking permits.

And then you see the people who really need it and would make a difference if they didn't get those very front spots taken up by these folks.
As recently as last weekend, I had it go through as green instead of blue without asking because the recipient was in a no-data area. Perhaps because I'd previously approved green messages for that person.
Tensorflow also created Eager - their dynamic environment
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Given the need to get to an airport early for security/etc, time of flight, time to get bags/transport/etc upon landing -- unless it is a business trip that is a day or two long, driving between the Bay Area and LA area isn't really that much longer.
I do wish it was socially acceptable for men to stay at home with kids too. In 90% of the cases currently people will think there's something wrong with the man.
Regardless of why Google did this, it does offer some interoperability - you can write Java libraries that compile and work on both J2SE and Android. That is valuable.
I like your observation. I think it’s true in part because indi makers move in to collect the low hanging fruit. Once that’s done, the remainder of the fruit is less low hanging; forcing you to either to reach higher or seek other trees.
This is an ORM.
what a dumb sentiment, the world needs reporters just as much as they need coders
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Not in the US; unfortunately, I don't think Poland has a dedicated government channel for kids.

Still, I want to make it video-on-demand, but with content fully curated by us - to avoid age-inappropriate content, ads and recommendations. There's no way I'm going to let my kid touch raw YouTube in the next decade.
On bad days, I either avoid extremely large stores or wait until I get a good spot. On good days, I walk from whatever spot I get. Either way, it's less walking than I'd do to/from a transit station.
Subsidize is not a government only term. Paying someone for nothing is subsidizing them. If government picked up the tab, it would be different...but in the case of the Gates Foundation that is not happening.
You're absolutely correct, but change semantics changes how you deal with network failure, there not entirely independent - and I'm aware my example is likely too simple, but typing a better one on a phone is hard :)
How soon those feel good foundations go from low infrastructure toilets, to risky gene drive research, to economic proscriptions.
The number of elderly and disabled who are excluded by the automobile-only neighborhoods in the USA vastly outnumber the people who require an automobile to get around within a city center. The pro-con in helping disabled people isn't even close in how many people would be helped by anti-automobile policies.
I can also walk up to anyone in the street and ask for a hand job. Why not ask?
It's confirmed to be intentional by internal Facebook docs and emails that were made public by a class-action lawsuit.

Furthermore, an employee proposed a fix for the "friendly fraud" that was rejected by management.
Take a look at the claims. The patent does not claim option chaining. It claims a few ways to implement a system that may support option chaining.
Electric wheelchairs typically go 3-4 mph. They are not a replacement for point-to-point transit. My area also swings from -5f in the winter to +105f in the summer, so anything that's not climate controlled is quite unpleasant.
What I'm saying is that all the people who are trying to make the "but it's bad!" argument are missing the point of the courts. Courts are not there to determine whether it's good or bad, only whether it's legal or illegal. If SCOTUS rules that APIs are copyrightable, it's not because they hate the software industry, it's because our law is stupid.
The under appreciated links are not SF/LA, though I'd prefer rail to flying due to overall logistics (same reason I prefer Eurostar to discount airlines).

The real winners will be Fresno and Bakersfield to SF or LA. Lower living costs, and tying those economies into the Bay Area. Having an office of your startup out there becomes just as reasonable as doing one in Fremont or Pleasanton.

The actual Fresno<->Bakersfield link itself (from one terminus to other) I think will be less likely -- the drive is boring but most likely you're not going from city center to city center and the local transport is limited. So I'd probably still drive down 99.
Thanks, I noted it down and will check it out.
Paying parents to take leave is a form of social engineering to begin with. Once you're already engaged in social engineering, it's important to consider the impacts that alternative social engineering policies will have.

"Life choices," moreover, don't happen in isolation. They happen within a broader social context. My wife and I basically have the same job--we're attorneys of similar seniority at corporate law firms. Over the years, she has faced so many more headwinds related to parenting than me. People stop my wife on the street to remark about how our 5 month old is dressed (warmly enough, etc.). I could stroll him down the street in nothing but a diaper in 40 degree weather and people would either offer to help or tell me how I'm such a good dad for not immediately ditching my family when he was born. (I'm joking but only a little bit.)

(One of the neat things about "Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" is that it shows how it was socially acceptable for rich people in the 1950s-1960s to completely delegate parenting. In 1965, 70% of kids were not breastfed even in the hospital. It's much more socially acceptable for women to work these days, but in some respects the expectations for "mothering" are much higher. Decisions about whether to return to work are made in the context of these differential social expectations.)
This has been covered by far more than NPR - unemployment is at its lowest number in years, and labor force participation is actually up (so it's not that the rate is declining because people are simply leaving the workforce). The difference is that the vast majority of jobs are low skill, meaning that if another firm will offer a better deal, it's very easy for employees to simply walk. If you wanted to get _a_ job, you'd easily be able to.

Wages, however, are not growing at the same rate, which is probably more related to your experience.
They'll do a study on this by studying Japan, but a better place to study is France. Or even Europe altogether; the high-speed part here is a red herring, what matters is seating-room, few-transfer commutes of tolerable duration to outlying towns where road-bound price pressure doesn't currently extend. Many countries in Europe accomplish this with trains of "conventional" speeds.

On the other hand, it's hard to argue that places like Tracy, Stockton, Modesto, and Sacramento aren't already in the gravitational pull of the Bay, or Lancaster and Palmdale aren't already in the commuter belt for LA. Desirability in these places is likely to rise with the option to trade a long car commute to a shorter P+R train commute.

The toss-ups are Bakersfield and especially Fresno. These are metros far removed from others, can't significantly interface daily commuters with others, so their housing and job markets stand on their own. But for the same reasons, among California metros they're also the least subject to existing affordability crises. If their access to the Bay and LA improves, this will change -- and already-sprawling, already-transit-poor Fresno and Bakersfield can hardly distribute this rise in demand evenly in their grid.

EDIT: 'Organic' affordable housing has always been greenfield, because it's cheap to turn peripheral land to inexpensive dwellings. But HSR will serve built-out city centers, where expensive redevelopment is required if one wants to satisfy demand. And if the demand is there, the asking price will reflect that.
Something that's bugged me a long time about paid leave is the wrong group is paying it.

The company paying means the company has a strong incentive to minimize how much of it is used. They don't really receive any benefit for paying out leave, it costs them a lot, both financially and in terms of work done. It creates strong incentives to discriminate against people who might take the leave in hiring process, to subtly retaliate against people who take leave, and so on. (Yes, all those are illegal, but proving that a hiring manager is doing so is next to impossible in all but the most egregious cases)

The whole "people might not come back" thing is just another instance of the misaligned incentives. It's probably good for society if we have people raising their own children, but it's bad for the employer who is currently expected to pay leave.

We should take all of this entirely out of companies hands, run it through taxes and the government (leaving the general payout scheme unchanged). It would remove the worst of the misaligned incentives (now at least companies aren't paying someone who isn't producing value for them) and should come at minimal cost (you'd have to worry more about fraud, companies and people conspiring to get more leave than they are entitled to).
If a civilization finds that systematically supporting the creation of the next generation of citizens is just too expensive, it won't find itself a civilization for much longer.
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Maybe we're not on the same page here. Definitely, the company cutting paid child leave from a year to 6 months is beneficial to the company. I disagree, though, that this is beneficial to the workers or society as a whole because this benefits cut results in more women working. Such a justification necessarily implies that it's worse for a woman to be a full time parent than to be part of the workforce, and I can't bring myself to agree with that premise.
Are federal workers being forced into involuntary servitude?
I happen to work for a council and know the general order of magnitude for road infrastructure investments - I participate in their approval. I would file this suggestion of "building smaller intersections", that is, completely re-routing the traffic flows in a given area, in the purely fantastical bin.

If we could squeeze 20% more traffic capacity from a given congested intersection with a one time investment of, say, under €200K, it would be a major breakthrough. We use a complex system that involves periodically measuring traffic flows using pneumatic tubes, then feeding that data to a computerized model that will produce the timing sequences for the lights lights and their evolution during a day. There is a crew moving around the district installing these tubes and counters for a week or so.

The current state of the art are induction loops embedded in the asphalt that measure the number of incoming vehicles and adjust the timings in real time. A purely optical detection that can work in all weather and recognize all types of vehicles or even pedestrians would be quite a feat.

Anyway, thank you for your factual and data infused contribution.
This is sort of like how if you want to hire a chef for a Michelin star restaurant, you ask them to make an omelette, not come up with an innovative dish.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskCulinary/comments/2qw1rp/executi...

It's something that virtually everyone knows, and is a test that they have a very solid command of the basics as a foundation to build more complex things on.
You know a reasonable approximation of everyone's preference, and with a modicum of empathy and communication you should be able to suss out the areas where it might be unclear.
FYI, the article mentions that InfluxDB will eventually support PromQL:

> With InfluxDB 2.0 we support both push and pull models out of the box. Eventually we’ll also support querying via PromQL out of the box
Maybe I'm just out of touch (25 years old here) but I've never felt this desire to share this stuff. I don't want to be the stereotypical "it's the kids who are wrong" here - but I think this behavior has been trained into them by companies whose interests are served by it. In my book that's a bad thing. A desire for privacy isn't selfish at all, it's actually a sign of a well-adjusted person.
So is vacation or sick leave a subsidy as well?
> That's not sustainable for the company.

It's not sustainable for a company that doesn't intend to stay in business for more than a generation. But for a multinational corporation the aging of both their consumers and especially of their workers is on the other hand pretty unsustainable. Just look at where Japan was in the late 1980s and where it is now, with no redress in sight.
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That's a tricky comparison because using IPv6 required updates to the client, server, and every box in between whereas HTTP/2 only requires the endpoints to be updated and has a graceful degradation path in most cases. Unsurprisingly, it's already far more common than IPv6 because you don't have to go to every enterprise on the planet and tell them to fix things even their network team is afraid to touch.

In contrast, HTTP/2 rapidly hit much higher numbers thanks to Firefox and Chrome shipping support via automatic updates. When CloudFlare deprecated SPDY about a year ago they were already seeing adoption numbers just under 70%:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/deprecating-spdy/
Presumably, it will also get him his venue back for the State of the Union address.
I didn't go to school for it, but I did manage to apply for an opening, get through the initial screening, and go to the academy as a trainee. Washed out in the finals by a few points.

From what I saw of the entire process, the biggest issue they have is the strictness of their hiring process. It's very bureaucratic, in the interest of fairness, but also very harsh. They get tens of thousands of applicants, but only have enough throughput at the academy for a few thousand students per year, and they wash out around 50% of those students. Then more wash out at their respective facilities.

The kicker is that when they bring in current/retiring controllers to act as instructors at this academy, they put them through the same course, with the same final, and only about 2/3 of the instructor candidates pass. In other words, their program is so strict that a third of people actually doing the job couldn't qualify to even start the job at a trainee level.

I was told, while there, that the final exams simulate a level of traffic somewhere between a level 9 or 10 tower. Trainees who complete the academy get sent to towers below level 8, and have to succeed there before being able to transfer to a higher level tower.

If I gave them some benefit, I'd say the idea was to get the best of the best into the low level positions so that as many as possible would progress up to the top levels, but when they can't even fill their low levels because they are cutting half their hires at the academy, it seems like they might be overdoing it.

List of facilities and their levels, for those curious what kind of airport warrants a given level.

[1] https://123atc.com/facilities
For everyone not happy with the paywall article: https://pressfrom.info/us/news/world/-108881-the-kgb-papers-...
I guess you don't live in Russian Hill, Nob Hill, Pac Heights, etc. And even if you, personally, are able to bike up those hills, the vast majority of residents would have a very tough time.

Plenty of SF is bikeable, but to say hills are a non-issue citywide is ridiculous.
I don't disagree that governments should be incentivizing reproduction (at least that is my position) the problem is that in this particular instance, the Gates Foundation was not having their cost offset by government and they were just losing workers for a year at a time on their own tab. Yes, Gates is a very rich man, but in the end that really takes away from their charitable work for people that need things a lot more than an extra 6 months. For other companies it takes away even more, and in some cases can outright drive them out of business or cause companies to just hire less women.
The lessons are fairly brief compared to Coursera\Udacity
But if you’re in the position of deciding whether or not to use it, you should have a realistic understanding of both the benefits and the costs. Will it have a positive or negative impact?

I strongly disagree. You can start using typescript without thinking for a second about what parts of it will be beneficial.

Initially you can just run javascript through the typescript compiler and let type inference find some bugs. You can start adding types in places where you want autocomplete to work better. You can ratchet up the strictness if you start to find bugs that stricter type checking would have caught. If you've read any typescript discussions on HN you already know this.

On the flip side, obvious once you think about it, the option is always there to ratchet down strictness if for your codebase the requirements turn out to be too heavy, i.e. slowing feature development down more than the bug reduction warrants. But you don't have to think deeply about it in advance. Just write your code, and every so often take a step back and look at how well things are working. Then adjust based on actual benefits and costs, not some premature estimate of them.
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This is probably one of the most insightful comments in this entire thread. Density isn't the problem - zoning is. Even in a suburban area, if there was a corner store, you could just take a golf cart, provided that you live someplace with a climate like the West Coast. I live in an area that swings from -5f in the winter to +105f in the summer, so for many months out of the year any transport without HVAC is not something you'd actually want to use.
I always look at it this way.

Both parents and non-parents are trapped on their own side of ignorance.

The childless because they haven't tried to the experience of having a child and the love that most feel.

The parents because they forget how it was to not have the obligations of a child.

My personal opinion on the matter is that children are 49% horrible and 51% of pure bliss and it's that 1% which makes the whole difference.
Because long term tenure doesn't get companies enough of a return. If a company wants me to stay long term, I need regular raises above the rate of inflation, parental leave, everything you listed. It's so much cheaper to spend the $10k or so it costs to replace me every year or two and not worry about the other things.
Speaking as a full-time father of a 2-year-old, don’t worry, people also feel free to question fathers’ parenting on a daily basis. (In particular, they are shocked that we often walk around town barefoot, but plenty of other random stuff draws busybody commentary.)

I imagine it is worse for women in some places, but plenty of people on the street are eager to share their opinions with parents in general. Not to mention those who just stick to frowning and shaking their heads without saying anything.

Back when he was a few months old, I was told on a regular basis by strangers that I was an ‘amazing’ father just for carrying him around, which is certainly something that mothers seldom encounter.

> One of the neat things about "Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" is that it shows how it was socially acceptable for rich people in the 1950s-1960s to completely delegate parenting

Judging from some of the raised-by-nannies-then-prep-school people I went to college with, this sometimes has mediocre results. YMMV.
So that's why the same guy keeps adding me. Hah, never thought of it.
It is not a medical dysfunction. "Not wanting to have children" is not a medical disorder, it's a preference. It's not necessary to use birth control if you don't want to have kids. You could instead just not have sex.
How about not allowing for using ad campaigns for targeting individuals or even groups of individuals by email or other personal information, you fucking retards (youtube employees responsible)? How does it feel to know that your "don't be evil" corporation is what allows for the radicalization of fringe/psychologically-vulnerable users? They have literally placed a greater importance on fine-grained targeted advertisement than one of the most subtle forms of malicious manipulation that has probably had a great deal of influence on the worst atrocities of our time.
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Non-profit is just a tax structure. They make plenty of money and reward themselves handsomely.
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You could think of this as deferred compensation, in that policies like this make the Gates Foundation a more attractive employer, at no additional present* cost to them.

[*] Or possibly future, if the employee does not have any more children.
> Also, this announcement says it first came out in October 2018, while the WSJ article came out in July 2018?

I tried to confirm the date I saw this in my project notes, and failed, so maybe I indeed saw it in October. If so, and if WSJ report came out months earlier, then maybe it is indeed a reaction.
They connected every town too. You're being over literal. And have you never seen a Western movie?

Every tiny spot had a train station.
"humans, even from infancy, prefer games where it is possible to punish cheating...this is actual analysis—instantaneous, intuitive analysis—of a system of rules, to notice, in advance of ever being slighted"

[Citation needed]
I recently began a new position at a company which has had a bit of turbulence in the past year. While getting up to speed someone said, "We had this other guy a while back who was great, but he ghosted us and we didn't realized it until we checked our AAA logs to see when he had last authenticated".

I wondered if it was an old colleague of mine with a 15+ year reputation for ghosting employers when he was burned out, so I asked, and of course it was.

I usually leave on good enough terms to have a conversation with my boss, but I ghosted an incredibly abusive employer once, and it felt pretty good.
This appears to be the 'article zero' for these reports:

https://www.revealnews.org/article/facebook-knowingly-duped-...