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Ask HN: How to understand the “big picture” of your own work?
I have worked for businesses that lean towards the very small side. This has become somewhat of a hassle to me, especially when I turned into telecommute work, because I have hardly anyone to talk to about software development process and life cycle, and what impact our work has whenever we finish a milestone. If someone tells me to do XYZ, I just do XYZ without giving it much more thought but nobody explicitly states on the why this is important to company goals.

Now with eight years of work under my belt, people expect someone of my tenure to be able to demonstrate knowledge of the big picture. They will want to hire someone who makes waves.

When I was just starting out my expected career path would have taken me into a senior, then lead developer position, and probably become a software architect. But right now, eight years of work later, I am nowhere near capable to hold any of those roles. I couldn't make waves, even at a small company.

My work history and resume give the impression that my career has stalled. I honestly don't know what looks worse- an inexperienced graduate who's gone a year without work, or an experienced person whose career has stalled and currently doesn't have work.

But anyhow, I'm trying to write some "impact statements" on previous jobs and my mind's drawing a blank. How can I understand how it helped the company when so many aspects were black-boxed from me?
That's definitely the intend of having vague laws. But whether Google is in it or not doesn't change that
These metrics fail to account for the transfer to a more stable medium, or even just a single full read of the data.
Github page with more info: https://github.com/corretto/amazon-corretto-crypto-provider
I have boycotted al these regulation dodge businesses from the start. This is a race to the bottom. And yes, I do consider the customers accomplices.
Interesting the article does not attribute any of the obesity to lack of exercise. It doesnt matter if your live in poverty or you are well-off, if you consume more calories than your burn day-over-day, you are going to gain weight.
This isn't as hard of a problem as you make it seem.

The people who pay for accidents will be the same people who pay for them now. It will be the insurance companies.

I am sure that insurance companies will jump at the chance to save money, by insuring statistically safer vehicles.
> I wish there were someplace where I could go and actually try high-end office chairs.

This doesn't make as much sense as you might think. It takes several days for the benefits or drawbacks of a chair to become apparent.

I can second the Steelcase Leap recommendations; Leaps (actually, Leap 2s) more or less fixed the problems I was experiencing with my back. But, again, that only became apparent after many days of use. (I didn't choose the chair; I was contracting at VMware.)

As a contrast to the "find a local store" comments, I'll note that madisonseating.com sells used office chairs.
Not sure if this works as an analogy.

Its like if you subscribe to netflix .. but if you want to share it with 4 family members, then get a family plan. You can simultaneously consume multiple streams of content.

Tethering allows you to share the internet connection with other people, as well as your other devices - which is essentially you consuming multiple streams of internet data simultaneously.
Are we even helping them at that point? It's just another censored search engine. They already have that.
> solve an unsolved math proof

Yes actually, although there are some philosophical objections to computer assisted proofs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_color_theorem#Proof_by_co...
Google Suspends Ticket Resale Site Viagogo from Global Search Rankings
What I saw is that half the time the card was still good, if I put it into another RPi, and half the time the card and the reader were both shot.
C11 atomics include a memory barrier, so making need_to_stop atomic would indeed suffice.
Make a list and allow filtering. Don't make a separate list.
The UK government wants to fit homes with electric car charging points
The question of "how much and how fast" matters more than you give it credit for, I think.

Take drones - drones are "here" in some sense. You can buy one, they work. But there's a big question about how common drones will be and what they will be used for. How much we care about drone regulations, safety, tracking, etc, will depend a lot on how often we see them. Right now they're rare-ish, but if delivery-by-drone works they could be very common.

The same is true of self driving cars. Of course we will have some number of self driving cars and self-driving features will probably exist on most new cars eventually. But how many and how much they can do matters a lot! I think people point out existing problems to suggest that the magnitude and universality of the technology is still unknown and impactful.
BioArxiv required at least one human author. We suggested this author list to him and, honestly, we just think it’s awesome.
> really upset over the calls from Washington to regulate big tech. Upset because they aren’t mentioned by politicians or the media as big tech.

To be fair, most of the calls concern American big tech companies. Not sure IBM qualifies anymore.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/technology/ibm-india.html
For playing computer games maybe. Chess is such a simple proposition compared to real life and you are only comparing this AI against other AI...
Tesla's latest security offering: cars
True, but it seems like the max weight for a letter/postcard is 3.5 ounces (~99 grams), also a postcard is about 148x105mm while a microSD is 15x11mm.

I would propose making your postcard out of a 9x9 grid of 1TB microSDs and tape to give you an 81TB postcard that can be delivered overnight at the minimum price while providing 11.25 Gbps given the numbers you used.
I've also noticed that comment spam seems to actually work, and have seen mention that nofollow links do contribute to pagerank, although I'd guess they'd contribute less than follow links.
You'd likely have had an easier time if you called yourself a 'programmer', I feel like the term was more familiar to me as a kid compared to 'software developer'
According to reporting for BuzfeedNews this article is based on, Pinker offered the opinion to Dershowitz and was not aware who was the subject in the case.

It was linguistic interpretation of what some sentence means. Not defense of any kind.
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> The analogy breaks down because the fact that you may or may not have slaves doesn't change the supply and demand of the slaves.

Nothing that I said is related to the supply and demand of anything.

> When you said all information is filtered by the government, that shows your ignorance of how things work in China.

All information is potentially filtered / monitored by the government. I am well aware that people use VPNs to circumvent censorship, and that censorship itself is highly flawed. That does not change the fact that, once inside such a repressive apparatus, you cannot be certain of anything you read and you cannot feel safe in reading it. This is a country where people "disappear" for wrongthinking.

> The rest are not worth responding to.

This is the typical answer of those who have no counter-arguments.
Imagine you're driving down a street when a kid playing on the sidewalk runs behind a truck and disappears from your view.

If the kid appears in the road from behind the truck, the computer can handle slamming on the brakes very easily - probably faster than a human can - without understanding the kid any better than a group of LIDAR points or a rectangle of pixels labelled 'obstacle' by a neural network.

But if you want to brake before the kid appears from behind the truck? For that, a fully attentive human driver will be making a bunch of estimates about what the kid is doing, whether they seemed to have noticed the car, how old they were, and so on. In other words, applying a theory of mind.

Needless to say, if the latter is a must-have feature, that's a pretty hairy problem.

Of course, it's possible the decrease in deaths from being fast on the brakes in simple situations will outweigh the increase in deaths from lacking a theory of mind in complex situations. If that's the case, the self-driving car programmer's job would be a good deal simpler!
Will Netflix be able to co-exist with new competitors? Quarterly Earning Tonight
Releases Q2 Report tonight. Article by Will Goad. https://twitter.com/willptgoad Hacker News wouldn't let me have 4.5K characters so please read the rest on the link below. I intended to publish the full article here and I apologise for any inconvenience.
https://sipreadrepeat.com/2019/07/17/will-netflix-survive-and-co-exist-with-its-new-competition/
In its 2019 Q1 quarterly financial report Netflix identified 2 upcoming competitors Disney+ and Apple TV+. Disney’s service will be the biggest threat due to Disney’s partial monopoly over the film world and now the TV world with it’s recent purchase of 21st century FOX. Apple will still be a threat simply because they are such a massive company so they will have more money to invest into shows however I believe they will be hindered by their lack of experience in the industry. Other competitors are also on the way including an upcoming streaming service from warner brothers.
Netflix’s biggest challenge will be the removal of shows from its platform for competitors to make them exclusive on their own platforms. According to a recent business insider article many of Netflix’s most popular shows over the last year which made up a 21% share of their episode views in 2018 could potentially be removed from the streaming service due to being owned by competitors. Netflix paid $100 million to keep friends on the site throughout 2019. Friends and The Office which together made up over 10% of Netflix views in 2018 will leave for Warner Media’s and NBC’s streaming services respectively by 2021.
The Netflix of 2018 would have likely failed in the long term. However, by the 3rd to 9th of July 2019 50% of the top 10 most watched shows in the UK are Netflix original shows including stranger things season 3 which 40.7 million viewers watched in the first 4 days breaking Netflix’s own record. https://sipreadrepeat.com/2019/07/17/will-netflix-survive-and-co-exist-with-its-new-competition/
You do know that healthy food is more expensive than junk food, right?
thanks for correcting me. i was not aware of this nuance. would you be open to posting quick thoughts here for the rest of us ?
I don't know about groceries, but the SoHo store was a pretty decent place for lunch opposite 568 Broadway (where 10gen, Foursquare, Zocdoc and many other NYC startups have been located).
Here's Krafcik reacting to how what he said there was quoted and interpreted:

"Yeah some context missing here, but it did make for a fun headline.( said the same thing about my own driving.) The point is that autonomous driving, like human driving, will always have constraints."

https://twitter.com/johnkrafcik/status/1063281250088042496
> An 11 October 2016 committee session found that motors used to open and close windows do not operate above 30 degrees Celsius and they need to be exchanged. Three thousand smoke detectors went missing, but were later found. Technical issues involving the electric doors became public on 18 January 2017. It was discovered that 80% of the doors would not open, which created concerns around venting of smoke in a fire. The sprinkler system has sustained failures in the south pier. The sprinkler heads were replaced for increased water flow, but the pipes are too thin to withstand the increased water pressure. The roof needs to be opened and the pipes will get exchanged. On 5 March 2017, the transformer station exploded.
> More to the point, in practice, people can easily use as much data in-phone as on a laptop, due to streaming video. Think, for example, of someone streaming music via YouTube for hours on end.

There are actually several tricks to make video streaming efficient for phones. The top sites are aggressively throttled [1]. This is harder to do for laptops, where users are typically connecting to corporate VPNs and stuff.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-04/youtube-a...
That's pithy. I have used PGP sign (via an air gap) release tarballs on a public server for clients that have individually verified my org's public key. It made sense in this context and everyone already had the tools. My point is we have our own contexts.
It’s funny because it’s almost always in LA. And they rarely get away but they still keep trying. Once there’s a helicopter it’s pretty much over.
That's what I figured about Facebook and Google. As a (new) firm. You are supposed to pay. And make it as hard as possible to get visibility. (the natural way)
What a garbage submission... But I'm below my comment quota so I'll bite.

Because packages are signed and it's much cheaper to serve them over HTTP.
I use letsmonitor.org for this - it's a free managed service.
The comment you failed to make sense of makes a specific correction to a specific false statement. The U.S. does in fact have constitutional protection of privacy.

You seem to want to discuss the applicability of that protection to this specific situation. I'm not especially interested in doing that. But I will supply the part of the quote you elided: "transferred to a third party, such as writing on the outside of an envelope sent through the mail or left for pick-up in an area where others might view it"

If you want to argue that giving info to the DMV is analagous to writing on the outside of an envelope, feel free. I was only interested in correcting the common misconception that the constitution doesn't say anything about privacy.
because piping water from a non-renewable lake to a desert is beyond stupid. no need to subsidize building megacities in arid regions
It's in use in almost all your financial transactions on IBM Z in their JDK.
You can have that with Here WeGo (https://wego.here.com).
>I just do XYZ without giving it much more thought but nobody explicitly states on the why this is important to company goals

Have you gone out of your way to ask about the why? Or asked to be included in the big picture? A big part of furthering your career path is to take the reins, rather than wait to be included.
Right. And, sure, that's an edge case for most people. But even if such edge cases only crop up every now and then, you're now at the difference between a reliable automated door-to-door system and one that can drive you around most of the time but every now and then forces a hopefully sober/licensed/competent driver to get behind the wheel to take some actions.

That's a huge difference. Maybe you can address it with some sort of remote OnStar-like system but now you're forcing a remote operator to jump into an unknown context and take actions that were too hard for the AI.
because wordpress
This 1960s Comic Claimed Nuclear Explosions Were the Future of Road Construction
Of course there are other reasons, such as co-opting foreign technology.
That's your opinion, in the mean time a lot of us will keep producing good applications using Golang and enjoying it :)

There's no amount of downvote that will change that fact.
To maintain political and social stability.
I think this is just a function of younger children not understanding their career goals yet. If you look at children when they get to college, Computer Science as a major has seen absurd growth in the past 10 years. Google, Facebook, Uber and other tech giants are the hottest places to work. So I tend not to overindex on the preferences of 10 year olds.
No, it is a factual property of the system that does not require the actors to conspire.
Can't comment on Cricket, but I'm researching low-cost carriers at the moment and discovered a similarly curious situation regarding Republic Wireless. I found some strange restrictions in the plan regarding tethering, looked into it and found they don't support iPhones at all. Why? They won't admit to this on their website, but apparently their "cell service" actually uses some proprietary hybrid cell/wifi network, where they piggyback off public hotspots and route your traffic through them when available, so the "cell data" you are paying for is actually priced on the premise that the bulk of it will be utilized as wifi data, instead. They of course can only enforce this in Android devices by futzing with the network stack at a level Apple doesn't allow.
Also, trademarks just had a supreme court decision that makes it so they can't deny "immoral"/"scandalous" trademarks since it was subjective and up to the trademark officer on whether or not something was immoral/scandalous.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court...
>MAC address inspection

AFAIK this wouldn't work because MAC addresses don't get forwarded to the next network segment. On android, the phone acts as a router (with its own DHCP server assigning devices a local IP address), so I doubt that information is getting passed on.

>Inspecting the network packets for their TTL (time to live)

>TCP/IP Stack Fingerprinting

>Looking at the Destination IP/URL

Probably works, but I'd imagine it's pretty easy to bypass by proxying your connection through the phone.
Not if you're careful. Rice, beans, frozen veg are cheap AF.
wrnr - This is literally the 'flatmap' solution you referred to above, but in sugared form - what they were probably trying to see was whether or not you understood how to collapse a pair of Maybes into a single Nothing if either component is missing without needing to do an if test - i.e., whether or not you understand the essence of the bind operatorion in the context of the Maybe Monad.
Yet again, the perfect gets treated as the enemy of the good.
What's odd is that back when Compact Flash was the norm a lot of equipment had 2x slots for concurrent writes (i.e. your photograph/video is immediately duplicated in two places), whereas in 2019 even though SD/MicroSD is much smaller and their related sockets are too, combo write systems are fairly rare (only on the highest end pro systems).

For example, I had a $500 camera that used CF and it had two sockets. You won't find anything below $1K that has that with SD Cards today, even if it is cheaper and smaller than ever. It is a really odd backslide.
>Self-driving is currently statistically safer than human driving.

I don't know of any statistics saying so. I've seen plenty of stats like 'self-driving in easy conditions is safer than human-driving in typical conditions'
The clear-cut difference between UX Design and Product Design, explained
The Great Crypto Heist
I don’t see where it said he died a pauper. He spent his whole life researching science. That’s a luxury life of the first world.

The last sentence said he ‘lived comfortably’ until his mental capacity diminished and he died at an old age.
I don't understand the argument that stack unwinding is unpredictable -- the most naive implementation of exceptions would just be multiple-function returns with automatic propagation (effectively the same as automatically putting the try! macro on every call in Rust).

Nothing about try/catch is like a "roaming goto".
Thanks for posting my weird collection!

A personal spy cam in a rental home is bad enough, but the fact that there are so many open to the world (and therefore indexed on Shodan) makes it infinitely worse.
Every time I read about autonomous cars, I wonder if these points have ever been discussed:

- Yielding to an emergency vehicle with sirens on.

- Moving backwards to a safe and large enough spot when the route is too narrow to fit self-driving car and oncoming huge lorry (and there is no line marking the limit between road and ravine).

- Upon instructions from authority, recognizing that the highway is closed due to an accident and, no matter what the driving code says, you actually have to make a U-turn on the highway and follow the crowd. Alternatively, just take that route (yes, the one with the large no-entry sign at the beginning) or that narrow path in the wood (yes, it exists, even if Google Maps isn't aware of it). At the bare minimum, park yourself off the road and let the others move on.

- Verifying whether a queue is forming behind you. Listening to the honkers, they may be right. When you are an obstacle to the most part of traffic, moving to the side and letting others pass from time to time is sincerely appreciated.
Who says, that your comment isn't a bot already?

Internet is really turning into a low trust society... I guess network sites with only your friends will become more important then. With probably even bigger niche conspiracy and antivaxx bubbles then now..
If there's a Design within Reach in your area, they have all the high-end chairs to try there. I personally really liked the Humanscale line for their back support.
How does it radiate enough heat with so little surface area (in comparison to an extruded aluminum heat sink with fins?)
It's funny, we used to go to Dogpile or Jeeves when Yahoo's results were crap and you couldnt be bothered to go search Lycos, Altavista and dozen others (and all the hyper-specialized ones). Then Google hit the scene and it gave equal or better results than the aggregators.

Now Google themselves gives dodgy or inconsistent results that incentivize one to look elsewhere, but I don't think it is entirely their fault-- charlatans can crank out chum content faster than it can be analyzed and indexed. Google is doing the best the can...they have their own financial interests but they happen to align with ensuring people trust their results.

The scale and nature of the web these days is very different than it was in '96. There was a competing engine popping up every year-- an endless cycle of "___ sucks, use ___ instead."

But I haven't heard of anything other than Google and DDG since Cuil failed.
Amazon and Alibaba are pacesetters of the next supply-chain revolution
Big passive heatsink is not an option?
with Neuralink you do not physical move.
It shouldn't be my job to police some Valley company's profit center. They don't pay me a dime
I can think of far worse uses for that money than trying to make our roads safer. The current system costs us 40k in lives and millions of serious injuries per year - there is a lot of headroom for improvements.
https://www.nsc.org/road-safety/safety-topics/fatality-estim...
It's still creating restrictions that go against the "natural" behavior of the medium. That's why they need sophisticated tech solutions to enforce it - it's not natural to label bytes, it's not natural to even talk about using the connection yourself vs. reselling the service.
But it also distracted people on this site.
> ... doesn't change that

Doesn't change what? The vagueness of the laws? Whether google's in it or not? I'm sorry, I don't understand your point.
Exercising is very beneficial for your health for a lot of reasons but it cannot prevent overweight without a proper diet.

The role of exercising has been exaggerated by Coca-Cola and other junk food sellers to shift the blame away from them: https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/coca-cola-funds-sc....
The world? IIRC it was pretty much just one person...
Is it not the very exact externality (interfacing with the carrier's network) that is being discussed here?
> By reporting these issues earlier we go from a situation where the user doesn't understand why Samba isn't working, to a situation where an explicit warning and a clue are given the minute an issue might require the user's attention.

It's really nice to see useful warnings and guidance being provided over "you're doing it wrong" error messages. This is critical in making the system usable.

(And especially with file sharing where the multiple overlapping permissions can't be avoided and are horribly counter-intuitive.)
China takes such stances on many issues, and flexes it's power. For instance, a private company referring too Taiwan as a separate country can expect severe blowback from China