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> We promote engineers and managers when they have demonstrated that they are consistently performing at the next level.

This while very common has always seemed... a little off to me, and also seems to encourage people not sticking around if they feel like they could do well at the next level, but maybe have some inconsistencies or areas of learning to work on. This leads to an awkward situation especially as thinking starts to become more "meta" as you go to a higher level. At what point is it okay to start touching code less and doing more design and organization-level work, when your current level is more about individual production and output? It can make a top performer trying to get to the next level look like their output has gone down, because the measures to those outputs look differently at different levels.

Additionally, if someone's making that big impact, you're saying they have to wait a year. If they can prove that impact, they can go somewhere else and get that pay bump /now/. Don't make it easier for someone to leave than to stay, especially if they're on a promotion track.
If this far-reaching hack succeed, it might be the end of Democracy as we know it:
Now the elected official has a vested-interest not to deter foreign hacking and the vicious cycle might go on.
Since when is government good at anything?

It's simple: if you don't like Facebook, don't use it's products. It's not the proper role of government to interfere in private business.
Based on a spot check of some of the bolded words, bolding seems to be used here to highlight links.

The old way of indicating "this is a link" was underlining. That seems to have largely fallen out of favor and most websites seem to use color coding these days.
I've seen many people shut down their side projects citing gdpr. Without fail it's always people who haven't really researched the impact gdpr has on them and they didn't really want to keep the project going anyways so it's more of an excuse to shut it down without facing backlash.
You think everything from Berkeley to Patterson should be under unified government? Everything from Palo Alto to Los Banos? That's not obviously wrong but it's not obviously desirable either.
I like your method here - it is a good "carrot based" solution.
> If someone has been operating at a level for 6 months, then why not retropay them for 6 months at their new salary? :)

Bonus and refreshed RSU's does the same, isn't it?
I doubt most people reading the phrase "simulating a human brain" will make the distinction between simulating and emulating. The distinction is very technical and simply does not exist in the everyday use of the word "simulate".
Ok, we took largestness out of the title.

Or should we just change the URL to the larger one?
I did all the correct things and encountered all the failures described online :)

It’s heartening to hear that they’re really, actually workable.
But only if, as I understand it, the temperature varies significantly throughout the day and night. Which is not really the case in much of central Europe as others have pointed out.
The thing is, I'm often happy to get extra responsibility on its own; it makes the work feel more meaningful.

In this context, I view responsibility as more of a level of operating rather than just "more work". For instance, I'd be very happy to mentor a more junior employee it's not something I'd expect a promotion for.

That's obviously very different than if my on call hours were doubled. Doing twice as much work at my current level is different than doing my work at a higher level (which I almost always want to do).

I'd much rather get called junior while doing senior level work than get called senior while doing junior level work.
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Looks like it's easier to resign from Square and accept a salary bump and title bump elsewhere than navigate Square's "Growth Framework".

If we wanted this much structure, we would have worked for the government or military.
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Does this mean it's at least possible that space and time aren't linked in the way we think? That General Relativity only makes it appear so?
Pineapples are fun! I for one appreciate the encouragement to purchase fruit more often
No? Splitting into multiple companies and keeping shareholders paid isn't turning it off.
Agreed, I'd say the period just before the internet really became mainstream/gained significant scale was the peak but then I sound like some dusty old hipster. communities are always great when its being built and enjoyed; just before the next, bigger audience jumps on and the mods really have to step in and ruin the original community..

sigh eternal september forever
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Samsung sells huge volumes of high end phones.
Because it’s hard or often even impossible to demote someone. Compensation/title change has only one way (up) so it makes sense to give more responsibilities first to try it out and if it doesn’t work out (on either side) then the employee can go back to their previous position without any loss of face. Although I do think that 6 months is too long, a trial period of 30 days seems more fair to me.
The content is designed and marketed to children.

It doesn't matter that some adults would watch also. You would never in a million years see an ad for The Wire while watching Sesame Street or Mr. Rogers, etc. Pretty obvious why not...

The same standard should be applied to "new" media.
This is pretty much every company. If everyone starts performing at the next level, you can't promote everyone, right? And plenty of things can squish your chances at promotion, like being somewhat unlikable in your group.

I think a better bet for spending your extra energy is often a side-hustle, like contracting.
> I want Equifax as a company to be dissolved for incompetency with private data

I want the system to be changed such that the burden of proof is on the lender that they actually interacted with the person they claimed they did. That is, if someone who is not you uses your information to get a credit card, then the bank loses their money for not following due diligence.
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Aren't Intel NICs considered the best, due to the way it manages interrupts (can't remember the source at the moment but I did read somewhere they were better than RealTek but maybe not necessarily Broadcom)?

Also every Intel motherboard of course has an Intel-developed chipset.

Didn't Intel also develop HDCP which is also in every television and graphics card at this point - though I'm not sure what Intel hardware is behind that.
While I don't want Libra at all... the framing of this is pretty absurd and overly broad, having not read the proposed legislation.

That said, given the path that technology as a sector has taken to censor and deplatform people based on their political alignment, I'm not sure I'm really supportive of any potential currency exchange that does not stay out of any discussions of legally protected speech. I don't agree with most of those that would be cast out, but potentially not being able to pay for housing, utilities, bills, taxes or buy food is a pretty big deal.
Don't forget Elektron.
15-20 years ago, yes, absolutely. Maybe even 10.

Now, it's nearly impossible unless you want a slumlord.

Maximum security deposits are set by the state. In my state it's illegal to require more than two months rent as a security deposit. Security deposit is defined by statute, you can't just call it "rent prepayment."
Here in NL we heat homes typically by burning natural gas. The natural gas reserves are not nearly depleted but the reservoirs are collapsing causing earth quakes that damage houses built on/near the gas fields. This has led to a huge push for alternative ways to heat homes, and one of the few feasible ones for many reasons is heat pumps. So there are quite a few of them deployed and there is talk of subsidies or subsidized loans for people that want to install one.

The goal is to stop building new houses connected to the gas infrastructure soon.
Seriously this again.

A product is worth more than just the sum of its physical components. The quality of the apps, consistency of end user experience, integration with my other devices, multi-year support and yes commitment to privacy and security are worth $500 to me. And to hundreds of millions of other people.

Otherwise is a Rolex really worth that much more than a Seiko. Or how about a Ferrari versus the new Corvette.
What's great about this is you're hedging your bets (prudent) while acknowledging the worker's needs as well. The problem without some kind of middle ground like this is that it reeeeeally feels like getting screwed when you're working above your pay grade for an extended period of time without explicit acknowledgement. I've had a lot of unhappy friends in roles like that where they were doing team lead / manager stuff and getting jerked around by HR and their boss for months or years. Now they're hypersensitive to anything that smells remotely like that experience. I like how you're making a public commitment but making sure to manage your risk. It's a great compromise.
Another way to think about it is that the contemporary dance sound is determined by whatever the hot gear is, and not by the artists using it(because they are disposable figureheads).

And the gear market itself, well, it's also looking out for number one here. Most of what one needs for any traditional music style - and hence, caters to all the session players that provide the real technical skills - is covered
by the big manufacturers with a workstation keyboard or equivalent multi-gigabyte sample library. The remainder has to exist on being a "cool toy", and there are a lot of ways to be a cool toy, but most of them involve providing a lot of presets so that DJs that do not know what a "major chord" or a "filter cutoff" is can still sound like heroes. Alternately, the cool toy can replicate a grody 40-year-old analog signal path so that anyone who lusts after yesteryear's gear can have the same sound without the space or costs involved in having the real equipment.

Among those three markets, space for defining really new sounds and styles in the form of a product is limited, but it does keep happening year-over-year.
I'm not saying the protests in Hong Kong are similar to events that happened in the countries I mentioned. The context here is a proposed US intervention, whether over or covert, and I'm saying that in the last few decades all such US interventions ended up very badly for people living in those countries.
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typically, the requirement is that you register the tow with the police (after the fact), not that you ask their permission before you tow
I don't think its true that most people do web browsing. Its just an easy generalization to make. The world has thousands of industries and each specialty domain has their set of software suites that they need for their business. In my industry (pharma), and I'll adda caveat here that I haven't done a rigorous scientific analysis of every single workload, but off hand, all of our software is heavily dependent on single-thread perf. To be sure, there is some stuff that benefits from multiple cores.. dna sequencing/alignment/processing comes to mind, primarily because we're processing hundreds of GBs of data. But by and large, I would pick a CPU that has better single-thread perf. For our accounting folks who use quickbooks a lot, are not going to benefit "massively" from a high core count. For our facilities team that uses autocad.. again same thing .. I don't find a massive benefit from 10-12+ core systems. Sure you can always on a case-by-case basis invent scenarios which could potentially benefit from more cores, but this massive gain across the board that you claim is a bit of an exaggeration. IMHO/IME/YMMV/$0.02 etc..
> Two Tracks / Becoming a manager is not a promotion

To any young engineers who may be reading this, this is social fiction. If someone can fire you but you can't fire them, you better believe you're not on parallel tracks.

EDIT: it's not just firing. Managers know your compensation, but you don't know theirs. They'll all work to split their team into multiple teams so they can say they ran a group; the good ones will soon become managers of managers, and then managers of managers of managers. They'll sit in on senior meetings, work on strategic decisions, and you'll watch them rise further and futher in the company hierarchy while you're enjoying your "parallel track".
I'm American and it was taught as a stalemate. I think most history classes probably teach it that way, and that's the most accurate interpretation. Your average American likely remembers nothing about their history class so asking an average American if it was a US victory is meaningless.

Also it's not accurate to say the British got everything they wanted from the war. The Americans got the British to stop the impressment and harassment at sea, which is why the Americans declared the war to begin with. I think the British would have preferred not having the war at all in the first place since they had bigger issues with their own war with France.
See my reply above. Content designed and marketed to children nowhere else has 18+ advertisements. Same standard should (and has to imo) be applied to "new" media.
More ads, yes.

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-is-delivering-les...
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Google does not curate web results, ever. The results for [pelosi drunk] are different certainly, but in what sense are DDG's better?

Google has a policy about "sensitive and disparaging terms associated with named individuals" in autocomplete https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/7368877?hl=en which is often why you sometimes may not see the queries in autocomplete that you expect. It also has a policy about "violent or gory predictions" so it wouldn't surprise me if you aren't seeing autocomplete suggesting the Christchurch video, if that's what you mean.
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https://www.tournia.net/en/Live-calgary-stampeders-vs-ottawa-redblacks-l-i-v-e-s-t-r-e-a-m/index

https://www.tournia.net/en/ottawa-redblacks-calgary-stampeders-streaming-25-07-2019-see-on-line-live-match-free-match-live-ottawa-redblacks-calgary-stampeders-world-updated-25-07-2019-03-55-25/index

https://qiita.com/lujese/items/b53eac14a17fa3c81e44

https://qiita.com/lujese/items/af663193476c24aba086

https://qiita.com/lujese/items/91dfb1c9c7ae62eddfbe

https://qiita.com/lujese/items/4efe33d9e5b81473bc57
The average selling price of Samsung’s phones is $235. (https://www.sammobile.com/2017/08/02/average-selling-price-s...). Most of their phones are low end.
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I don't know if that level of consolidation is necessary but the core area could definitely be consolidated into like 6-8 municipalities or even boroughs:

San Rafael-Sausalito

SF + Daly City + Colma + Brisbane + South SF

San Bruno - RWC

Palo Alto - SV

San Jose + Santa Clara and assorted surrounded munis like los gatos. Honestly you could probably include the Palo Alto-SV area with this one if you wanted.

No idea how to split up the east bay, guessing you will run into issues with nobody wanting to absorb the poor munis.

Anyway, the benefits of this is that it would be easier to align incentives at a regional level rather than creating adversarial, counter productive squabbling fiefs that keep acting optimally at a local level, but very sub-optimally at a regional level. The regions are also big enough that a much larger portion of people would actually live and work in the same area
I think everybody should move away from Windows & other software assets. In 2019 it is crazy to make end users responsible for the security of the OS. I have for example never questioned the security of my iPhone.

A child that has a chromebook will never understand why you need a virus checker, firewall, that the data really is gone if a ssd breaks or have to install a special program to make a fysical print. The average training time to make this migration from MS Office to Google Docs for employees at Forbes 500 companies is 1 hour.

Chrome OS is such an undervalued solution for the end user in a traditional business.

In tech we all use GSuite. On stackshare.io a whopping 17.200 companies use G-suite in their tech stack. Microsoft Office 173.

You can't get hired if you answer MS Office as your main document driver in an interview. This discussion is not even a thing that gets discussed at a sane technology company. G Suite is awesome and it just works.

Kids use Google Docs as a chat app. A traditional document program is a typewriter and a google doc is a laptop with internet connection.

G Suite API's create so much automation option plug&play out of the box that 95% of your automation can be arranged with SAAS.

Both Zapier & IFTT supply a polished UI, where anybody can connect G Suite with 600 other SAAS API providers. Nobody outside technology has ever started a conversation about these two.

https://stackshare.io/stackups/g-suite-vs-microsoft-office-3...
I'm curious how the numbers work out at the higher levels. As I understand it, and I may be wrong so please correct me if you know better, at places such as Google there are separate manager and IC tracks however at top levels there's more managers then ICs. So it's essentially easier to become a top level manager than a top level IC.
Caffeine is a diuretic.
It isn't. WW2 was a world war, and Germany was hell-bent on world domination and genocide. The US and its allies being under direct threat is a different situation than preemptively destroying nations to further US political goals.
Land value tax does not solve this issue. The vast, vast majority of property value in the impacted areas of California is land value, nothing would change.
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Oh my!

Also, your status page says you're only at 94% uptime for the last 90 days...not exactly a ringing endorsement for a service that's supposed to tell us when our services are down.
Not what I was getting at, at all. The sodium content will make you drink more water to compensate.
Oh I dunno antibiotics, vaccines, and water treatment plants sure beat cholera pandemics and polio.

A/C is pretty nice too
I worked at a startup that did this, but with one major difference. If you were interested in a promotion, you were given a set of new responsibilities explicitly that you could take on on a trial basis. If, after an evaluation period (typically 3 months) it turned out that you had executed on those responsibilities, you would receive a promotion retroactive for those 3 months, including the pay for those. If you weren't able to execute on those new responsibilities, you were left in your current position.

It has some interesting tradeoffs vs promote on a trial basis and then demote. Whether it's a good idea probably depends on how well the responsibilities and evaluation process are laid out (in that company's case, not so well).
Would a battery acting as UPS help then? One used just to power the system long enough to properly shut down in case of main power failure?
Another bs piece of academic gender quota propaganda.

The interior of a black hole is fundamentally unobservable. Yet, as an observation astrophysicist she says Einstein's theory "doesn't describe it"!
I like it quite it a lot. I don't have a lot to compare it to, but beefed up Circuit is a good way to describe it. Its sequencer, especially the song and arrangement modes, are powerful and probably the area it excels the most. My main gripe is that the sound can lack punch in the low end, making bass/sub-bass difficult and drums less satisfying. But pretty much everything else I'm happy with and love the workflow and form factor.
This is relatively O/T, but I've always been skeptical of the general concept of growing yourself in top tech companies. Seems like the overall idea is just to grow yourself professionally, do more and work harder for your customers, instead of growing yourself for yourself and your own personal happiness, being a better person, etc. On top of that, some companies expect you to give your all in that regard. "Practice your customer obsession" and that sort of thing so you can be a better worker. I hope in the future we'll still have very successful tech companies that don't do this -- ie. they have a more relaxed atmosphere and don't pride themselves on bending over backwards for every customer. Believe it or not, there is more to life than your career.
Could you please read the site guidelines and follow them when posting here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> the US got everything it went into the war looking for

> they too got everything they went into the war looking for

Did they even try trading beforehand? Going to war when there isn't a conflict of interests in the first place is particularly stupid.
Still locked down unfortunately.
No sources, but something tells me we are already past the tipping point.
> unfortunately for you, we are not yet living in a dictatorship. so no, the government can’t simply “turn it off”.

Why do we need to be in a dictatorship for the government to be able to arbitrarily seize assets? Civil forfeiture is real. Executive order 6102 is real. The government has the tools at their disposal to outlaw anything that is not explicitly protected in the Constitution (and even that too can be amended through the operation of law).
There's a lot more to preserving eMMC than just handling power losses.

A lot of what proper SSDs is to do the right wear leveling to make sure that damaged flash blocks don't cause corruption. eMMC is a pretty broad term that can cover something that's just a soldered SD card to something with a full-blown wear leveling controller.

That's why you still see a lot of eMMC failures in embedded systems when someone forgets to not log to the persistent storage or similar wear heavy operations.
Does it effect us on earth? Could it increase DNA and computer errors?
The period just after the Internet became mainstream was still fine, too. Banner ads were slowly infecting websites, but that's about it. But now all the easy money has run dry, so every overt ad is tracking you, every mainstream news platform is dealing you covert ads, and communities (whether old-school forums or modern social media) are being infiltrated by marketers.
Right now, 20% of HN's first-page articles are greyed out. Before today, I don't recall ever seeing more than one or two. Does this reflect a code change?
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More than 7 hours of screen time per day seems like child abuse. Or as I call it when I do it, "work".
Really? And who are these 'many' that do not? You and your cat perhaps?
4K video stream at 10Mb (mega-bits) would have nutso artifacts. It would look worse than 1080p or 1440p at the same bitrate. _Minimum_ I have seen passable-quality 4K is like 3-4MB/s so around 30Mb. That still looks pretty bad, even on HEVC.

Maybe you mean 10MB/s (80Mb)?
I hope your friends have had better outcomes since. A good thing to protect yourself as a worker is to get a timeline or plan of action or growth as soon as new responsibilities creep in — if the company had the intention to promote, they will appreciate a clear path, of not, they will push back.
Exactly. When a company hires me, they understand that they're going to have to pay me while I get up to speed and master all the responsibilities of the job. Why should promotions be any different? Are they back-paying these people after they take on extra responsibilities for 6 months?

These seems like a somewhat immoral way to squeeze extra productivity out of your workers without paying more. "Just keep piling extra work onto your plate and in six months we'll talk about the possibility of a promotion! It's gonna be great!"