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Ask HN: Second Part-Time Job?
I've had a stable (remote) SWE job for company A that pays 6-figures. I feel under-challenged and not super-excited about the industry (marketing), so a few years ago I took on a side-gig at company B in a completely different industry to learn new things, did that for about 8 months (not impacting my job at company A as I would work evenings).
Then I quit company B (on good terms), for the following reasons 1)was not super happy with the engineering practices. Code that was produced by other engineers was - to my standards - not of high quality (testing wasn't enforced, random bugs would pop up, lots of patches etc) 2)B was in a complete startup-phase so big uncertainty about the future 3)got burnt out and wanted a shift to focus on open-source projects in the AI domain (which I built and still do, on the side, not making any $ for those currently but being excited about building them)

Now, years later, B has seemingly (survived?), raised $$$ and since I left on good terms they want me back (with higher base offer than what I currently make at A, and higher pay than what I was making last time I worked for them). So my options are

a) stay at a "boring" (remote) job at A (being under-challenged), decline offer from B and have time to work on open-source AI libraries (that really excites me) in hopes of productising those and making $

b) stay at a "boring" (remote) job at A and take on a side-gig at B as part-time in hopes that engineering practices have improved, make a lot more $$$ per paycheck, though sacrificing time spent on open-source AI libraries.

c) quit "boring" (remote) job at A, and join B full-time in hopes that engineering practices have improved and make a bit more $ than at A, and have time to work on open-source AI libraries

What option would be best in your opinion?
In the case of GitNews, we can add any Git repositories from any sources. In the current version it's only from Github it's through but it may be extended to Gitlab and Bitbucket in the future or even Glitch.
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Google? DoubleClick? Perhaps the more accurate headline would be: New York Became a Tech Town (Because SV Ran Out of Space and People)? Not a criticism, simply an honest observation.

But what industry doesn't have outposts in NYC? Why would we expect tech to be any different? Where is the story here? Where is the news?
> True leadership would have been to have these protests when the incentives package was put together,

Which is hard to do, since Amazon convinced most city leaders across the country to keep the majority of the incentives secret, and therefore no one could know how bad it was until it was already too late.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/05/technology/amazon-headqua...

There's a strong argument here that the protesters were the only people involved in this whole ordeal that actually did their job properly.
Thanks for the idea, I will look into it!
Sounds interesting, although I will not be able to join it this time.

But it seems that a game is my only option, although I was trying to think of a non-game project, but I can't come up with another idea.
What’s your goal with that? Character smearing is tiring, repetitive, and doesn’t belong here. Let’s move on and focus on the ideas he’s sharing.
Nice job, it's very good !
For me, I've simply started freelancing. I love working remote so much that it became non-negotiable for me. I've then worked at one startup, where my hiring basically pushed the whole team to become remote (they were kind of on the fence before I joined, and the boss realized that not having an office was much cheaper).

I believe that the key to make it work is to have a remote-first culture, at least in the team you're on.
Amazon's still expanding in nyc too. But....not 25,000 employees. Does Google have 25,000 employees in NYC?
I've been wanting to move to NYC for years. I love big cities, and since I was a kid I loved NYC. I went on holiday there a few years ago, and it only reinforced the idea of living there.

In practice, finding tech jobs as a Brit has been horrendous. I've applied for countless roles, including roles at all FAANG companies, startups crying out for people with my experience, and established medium-sized companies hiring (and offering sponsorship of work permits)...and nothing. Either immediate rejection, or emails saying "actually, we don't sponsor visas".

I don't know if this is an America thing, but I've had other companies more than happy to fly me over in other parts of the US California and Washington). Given how mixed the culture is in NYC, with so many immigrants throughout the city, I have been very surprised that it's so hard to get a job there.

This is purely from my experiences, and maybe it's just that all these companies hate me for some reason, but IMO you can't be a tech town if you're not willing to bring talent in, at least in the same ways other worldwide tech hubs will.
Thanks I'll look into it, I'll fix it as soon as possible!
It's weird to me that there's so much attention given to AOC. She has no hard power in domestic NY politics. She didn't stop the deal. State politicians threatening the permitting process stopped the deal.

If NYC has a problem it's with Byzantine building codes and zoning.
Maybe 4 is a trade-off between stability and information density.
There's also the person who seems to not be contributing but who gently steers others towards a solution. Without this person, the team wouldn't work well, but looking in from the outside (or even from the inside sometimes), the person looks like they're doing very little.
What bothers me about Kinesis is that it is prohibitively expensive at scale if you don't compress your data before putting it to Kinesis.

But if you want to use the nice features like parquet conversion your data can't be compressed.

If it could handle compressed data at the same price I would use a lot more of it.
It still really does: the remote offices might have self contained teams, managers, etc. So only cross team collaboration has to handle remote boundaries. With remote workers, it's all interactions.
This always happens with whatever movement that is hip the current day in your location. Regardless of what movement, #MeToo or Red Guards or etc, this will happen. Your only hope is to follow it and make a profit at it, which is what I'm doing.
What browsers on Linux produce a User-agent containing that exact string _by default_, without user customization?

EDIT: Elsewhere in thread confirms Firefox and Chrome affected on lots of Linux.
You can do the same in the bay area. People who are complaining about how unaffordable the bay area is on six figure salaries are either wanting to be much closer than one hour from hot spots, owning a house, having a kid, or some combination thereof.
It’s kind of insane that they do that considering the majority of phones are androids. It means many people are almost certainly going to need your laptop which really limits how it can be used.
Why does space advancements made by non-US agencies only receive after-the-fact notice in the US media? I would like to know about these before, and in much more detail!
As true as this may be in much of industry, it doesn’t really apply to the fine art marketplace Sachs is operating in. Through video pieces like this and by leaving intentional imperfection (ave might say “apprentice marks”) in finished sculpture, Sachs makes his studio practice a part of the work. By developing & communicating the unique processes he uses, Sachs imbues his sculptures with origin narratives, adding market value as collectors consider not only the object but the performance that brought it into existence. Being able to talk about all the unneccary hoops they jumped through to make a piece is a definite boon. Finally, since a tremendous portion of the work coming out of the Tom Sachs studio was physically produced entirely by assistants, Sachs-dictated processes help to center Tom himself in the work while reducing the authorial role of assistants. Collectors aren’t interested in the comfort or intentionality of some no-name assistant.

At the end of the day, today’s collectors aren’t buying for a specific end product— they’re buying for an artist’s name and the STORY of the work. Better story -> bigger valuation -> More effective tax shelter
Trying to control culture is difficult.
This earlier work discovering nucleotides X and Y might be interesting too (warning paywall):
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2019/01/19/...
First people are outraged about X.

Then people are outraged that people are outraged about X.

Sooner or later people won't remember what they are outraged about but they will still be outraged.

That's the power of "fake news"; it doesn't matter what X is at all.
Thanks, did try to fill the form out but it wouldn't submit.
Doesn't have all the functionality that AutoCAD does, and there are some usability issues if you're really comfortable in AutoCAD already, but I imagine FreeCAD [0] would work well for your use case.

[0]: https://www.freecadweb.org/
Sure. But that's not my point. My point is that the entire argument that Linus has about users willing to test and deploy code on the same arch is flawed. I'd understand and agree with that argument if we we're talking about developing and deploying C (which is what Linus is used to), but that's just not how "the cloud" is used.
The fact that my local CPU is a different ISA from the server is barely a consideration after I've already had to account for the fact that the database is local instead of remote, that I'm using PCIe-attached storage instead of a network-mounted volume, that my local workload is wildly different from the deployment environment's... Ultimately, cross-development is much more meaningful as a software problem than it is as a hardware problem — but, given the popularity of macOS as a development environment, it seems clear that we're happy developing on something unix-y and deploying to another brand of unix-y something-or-other.

Linus is then ignoring the single biggest factor in this equation: performance-per-watt. ARM offers better performance/watt numbers than anything Intel can provide right now. Recent offerings on the server space suggest ARM is managing to scale up without sacrificing too much on that front, and Intel doesn't seem to be keeping up.

If you're operating a data centre, power supply is the single hardest limit to your capacity to scale up. Putting up another building at a pre-existing site is cheaper and easier than finding a way to pipe more power into it, so it doesn't even matter that much that servers are individually less powerful.

Google is investing in ARM, Facebook is investing in ARM, and I can only imagine several other big players are looking into it too. I wouldn't write it off this easily.
And companies wonder why their employees try to unionize.
This is almost entirely unrelated to the topic, but it's interesting to read these musing on addiction from a person who benefits (for now, at least) from a coffee business. As I read this I actually wondered at a few points if it was satire.

> Because we need that next hit, we need it right now. Being in a constant state of emergency — a condition in which people notoriously make terrible decisions — is like having a fire raging inside the body, one that needs to be fed. It needs new fuel, and so we seek new enemies.
I've been on the receiving end of Gitlab's calculator. The pay cut isn't small at all; I was offered less than half the equivalent SF salary. And I live in North America, just not in SF.
I'm truly grateful for podcasts as a medium where I can learn something and not have to stare at a screen anymore
> Mobiles are mostly communication

Communication is also work, especially as you go up the management value chain. I think maybe people should refer to the thing that PCs do and mobiles don't as "typing".
The problem is these vultures tend to swoop in while the company is still alive and kicking. Everybody expects their company to do amazing in 3 to 5 years and if does not they kick it to the curb.

The problem is if you look at all the amazing companies that are doing really well. The majority of them took near 10 years to come to their own. Half the amazing companies in SV if ran buy these PE guys would not exist if they were given to them at year 5 of their life.
The LA Times talking about outrage culture being out of control.. Just yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19219089
Mine only contains "X11; Fedora; Linux".
My wife got a job a couple states away and while I loved my job, I was moving with her. My responsibilities had been moving into more server-admin stuff for a while, so my boss was able to get approval to let me work remotely. It's been 3 and a half years now and still working well. I miss the ability to drop in on people and bounce ideas off them, but we talk a lot through IMs and calls.
I bet Apple's experience moving from PowerPC to X86 gave them a leg up as well, and in both cases (PowerPC/X86, MacOS/iOS) they had the power to force developers to cross-develop to maintain access to their platform. Nobody is in a position to force server-side developers to switch to ARM.
Yes, not shady, but it totally unravels the argument concerning HFTs helping price discovery. I know the "hey retirement and index funds are doing it, think of the pensioners!" argument is common defense of it, but that's not at all the target audience of DPs. It's liquidity going off exchange, which hurts price discovery, simple as that. Considering how competent trade execution/slippage capabilities are for the types of broker-dealers that would be handling index/ret/pension volumes, that argument is nonsense
I've always akin-ed sensory perception to a language interpreted to bytecode for the animal's OS, were just running a bunch of different OSs so our resulting bytecode is going to be varied.
There have been a few Intel Android phones. For example, this one: https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/03/28/possibly-last-intel...

Tablet list: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/devices-sys...

(and there were a lot of small brands that used to make them, that I don't believe get represented in that list)

Having said that, for it to reach >1%, it was more likely a combination of Intel Android tablets (which were fairly common for a while) and Chromebooks.
I worked for my company for 1.5 years and then said I was moving in 6 months. So, with plenty of warning, my boss said he wanted to keep me... so here I am wor king remote.

I did have several things going for me:

1) We had a wfh day once a week

2) We had a few other employees (but not other devs) already working remotely

3) I already had a lot of freedom that came from tackling not fun (to some) issues, like build tolling, infrastructure interactions, etc. So I was already trusted to be proactive in what I was doing

4) I'd say perhaps the biggest thing that lead to it was having split management - a people top level manager over development and a tech top level manager of development. Both are great and work well together.
I think you are right. I could not get past the introduction to A New Kind of Science.
If Apple makes such hardware, it will be just a matter of time to port Linux to it. Probably easier than getting it to run on yet another weird internal architecture of a smartphone.

And you can run Linux on that Yoga. It's just Windows for ARM that is the disaster...
I have an Asus Zenfone 2, complete with its "Intel Inside" logo. Not particularly special but when I bought it met the critera of "gorilla glass + pokemon go for below $150". Nice case too.
Related,

But I've had to do a lot of hiring over the years for low skill labor work (think warehouse type jobs) using indeed.com, which constitutes a large majority of out-of-house hiring (about ~50% global average). I've been doing UX/UI case/workflow studies for years as the employer. At my current job, I've funneled and optimized the entire process using copy-paste templates and calendly links. What took me several hours takes a few minutes now.

On the other end I started to slowly transition into full time development. I've been running an experiment with linkedin on lead generation. My hypothesis is that linkedin's algorithm for showing which candidates show up on recruiter's pages is exactly the same as SEO. If anyone is interested I can provide more information.
>My shock is the dual narrative on "tech pays too much -- down with tech" "tech pays too little -- down with tech."

What's shocking about this? If you're uneducated and barely scraping by in LIC and Amazon moves in you have two problems: their low end jobs don't pay enough to improve your quality of life while their high end jobs are unattainable and will drive you out of the neighborhood. While Amazon might have been a net positive for the city it would have been actively harmful to a slice of the population. They spoke up.
i’m offended we didn’t even get to discover this level of offendedness ourselves! That’s ageism!
See what happens to the lots Amazon was going to build on. If they're sitting empty in a year or two, sure. If another company (or dozens of smaller companies) snaps them up and builds similar amounts of offices to what Amazon was planning, nah. I'm betting on the latter.
I think outrage over “outrage culture” is out of control. It’s quite remarkable to see how much ink the elite media give to things like this and the whining over college speakers being disinvited.
I find Gladwell very entertaining and enjoy his podcasts, even his most recent one about the music industry (Broken Record) despite not even really caring all that much about the topic (He makes even boring stuff interesting!)
However I have to agree that he doesn't strike me as a writer that deserves to have a masterclass named for him.
I also have some serious skepticism about the quality of his insights and his journalism. I'm under the impression that he is "often wrong but never in doubt" as they say.
Come on, he's selling coffee, not opium.
Brave of the author to standup for what she believes in, risking and ultimately destroying the family business.

Many others have families and careers and just stay quiet, which is the rational move. Would I ever do what she did for anything I believed if it were so controversial? No way, I have bills to pay...
In regards to the question of whether professors should be managers or monastics: professors are essentially managers.

Supervising a research group is engineering manager, product manager, project manager, marketing manager, career coach, and fundraiser all in one. Most professors aren't trained in management unfortunately, because one doesn't (usually) learn those skills during a PhD.

Most generally accepted management techniques would make any professor more effective.

(source: I have a PhD, worked in research including briefly as a professor, and am now in a startup)
>>what resources do we even want from asteroids?

Once you have capabilities to build in space, going down gravity wells makes zero sense.

Want to build a factory or physics lab in space. You just mine things there and build them there. After a while you are looking at permanent colonies and then it's useful there.
"It takes well over a million dollars just in engineer salary to get k8s up and running from scratch. And you still might not get there." - Cindy Sridharan[1](https://twitter.com/copyconstruct/status/1020880388464377856...)

That said, I'm running a few GKE clusters now with an 18-month old production codebase, and its kind of been a pleasure. That's a good portion of a million dollars in my pocket, no matter how the start-up fares after its done ;-)

[1][https://twitter.com/copyconstruct/status/1020880388464377856...
If you’re suing an employer as an at-will employee without a contract, it’s pretty academic.
"For many of us, such one-off encounters have become a regular—sometimes even daily—form of “debate,” especially on social media, whose dynamics encourage rhetorical stakes-raising. The idea that two people acting in good faith can look at the same set of facts and reach different conclusions has gone from unspoken assumption to exotic claim. People aren’t just wrong on this or that issue: They’re morally flawed. They don’t have bad politics: They’re bad people. On Twitter, you actually find college professors and politicians using Nazi analogies to attack people who disagree with them on mundane points of policy."
https://quillette.com/2019/02/21/what-my-days-as-a-marxist-t...

The "social justice" movement has turned into a church where everyone who disagrees is a heretic that has to be burned at the stake.
'The Naked And The TED' is the best criticism ever written about TED generally, and very much worth your time:

https://newrepublic.com/article/105703/the-naked-and-the-ted...
Native development sucking on android is mostly an android problem (and to some extent a Qualcomm problem since their smartphone SOCs don’t support anything else.)
There is an extended discussion about this in Cal Newport's excellent book So Good They Can't Ignore You.

In short, build up "career capital" by making yourself valuable to the company, which you can later use as leverage. Or as others have said, just get a different job that's already remote.
The web server's access logs will probably be a good place to look in the future then.
i agree but the competition for true remote only jobs is really crazy. I've had much better luck getting an onsite job and transitioning into remote.
if you're talking about the iCloud website, switch to "Desktop Mode" on your phone and it will work for the "Find my iPhone" application on there.

source: lost my phone and went full panic mode when it said "unsupported" and fiddled around with it for 30 minutes on an android phone
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TOM SACHS is a sculptor, probably best known for his elaborate recreations of various Modern icons, all of them masterpieces of engineering and design of one kind or another. In an early show he made Knoll office furniture out of phone books and duct tape; later, he recreated Le Corbusier's 1952 Unité d'Habitation using only foamcore and a glue gun. Other projects have included his versions of various Cold War masterpieces, like the Apollo 11 Lunar Excursion Module, and the bridge of the battleship USS Enterprise. And because no engineering project is more complex and pervasive than the corporate ecosystem, he's done versions of those, too, including a McDonald's he built using plywood, glue, assorted kitchen appliances. He's also done Hello Kitty and her friends in materials ranging from foamcore to bronze.

A lot has been made of the conceptual underpinnings of these sculptures: how Sachs' sampling capitalist culture, remixing, dubbing and spitting it back out again, so that the results are transformed and transforming. Equally, if not more important, is his total embrace of "showing his work." All the steps that led up to the end result are always on display. On a practical level, this means that all seams, joints, screws or for that matter anything holding stuff together, like foamcore and plywood, are left exposed. Nothing is erased, sanded away, or rendered invisible. On a more philosophical level, this means that nothing Sachs makes is ever finished. Like any good engineering project, everything can always be stripped down, stripped out, redesigned and improved.

The reward for work is more work.

--Mark van de Walle
more manual work and isolation
A service we use has just started banning logins from the whole country of Japan on their cloudflare, just about to contact them about this. At this point I'm still willing to assume it's an automated filter gone wild and not some odd xenophobia
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This has been going on for a while:

https://mobile.twitter.com/xdaroj/status/1090319095134867459
When Apple replace Intel with ARM in their laptops, that goes away too.

(See my argument elsewhere in this thread)
There's nothing better than cycling your way to close places.
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