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> the UK, where tech salaries top out around $100k.

Citation needed.

I work in a FAANG in London. I am a middle-performer in a non-senior position and not even a "real" software engineer (I code, but its not my main job responsibility) and I am £84K/$101K basic, £149K/$180k total-comp. If I were a proper engineer, I'd expect to get at least 15-20% more than that, and if I were promoted to a "senior" position I'd expect a similar 10-15% pay rise too.

There is money to be had in London.
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Someone explained to me recently that it might be that part of Trump’s strategy is that by cutting off technology transfers and attacking Chinese IP theft (ie “fusion Centers”) he wants to block China’s way into high tech entirely.
My understanding is that, at least historically, in finance there was some mandated time off based on the idea that if an individual were doing something sketchy, forcing them out of the office and offline for a couple of weeks might flush it out.
And it has no people aboard!

People need food, water, oxygen, etc. For a month, they need a lot more than for 4 days.
Considering the constant attacks and theft over the last 50 years, wars have been fought over less.
Why not? Android security is actually top notch.
Another story that highlights why I absolutely love HN..
I don't see any reason you couldn't use a Pi Zero but you would need the wireless flavour for what's described. I'd guess that's slightly more than $9.
What I mean is https://i.ibb.co/P6N35qv/Screenshot-from-2019-08-10-10-27-25... does not make it clear whatsoever that 'public' really means public. Before we get into blaming the customer, there should be a bright red warning label in that dialog. Consider that English may not be the first language of many users reaching that screen

I think they have it for some stuff elsewhere, but it doesn't seem unreasonable to make public snapshots a per-account permission that defaults to disabled, and requires an interactive UI checkbox to enable. Out of the millions of AWS accounts, public snapshots are legitimately useful to maybe 1000 tops
"I think" ... "I like to think" ... "probably can't grasp" ... "I reckon"

Oh come on! That's pure opinion based on what? Am I supposed to be swayed by that?

And if you look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bonobos_Panbanisha_%26_Ka... do you still feel that the chimps (bonobos) can't recognise SSR as being smarter in some way?
On the post, if Linus is referring to low-end Xeon and workstation non-Xeon lacking ECC, I think it's completely idiotic. Nearly all infrastructure should be baking in ECC as standard rather than some "option" to not have silent, unknowable, probabilistic corruption that is realistically realizable on a near-daily basis given the orders of magnitude of network, storage and computational volumes of today (and the future) by ever lower tiers of end-users and common examples of network infrastructure.

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> realtime service with second-SLAs that needs to know where you are, where the closest 20 drivers are, the map of the area, places of interest and a dozen other things - for millions of users in hundreds of cities

That's actually "for thousands of users in one city" executed a few hundred times, and map/PoI/pathfinding parts can be (are?[0]) outsourced to a third party.

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[0] - I don't use Uber as a matter of principle, but the competitor I use utilizes Google Maps for these parts. So do food delivery companies I use.
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Yeah times 1.6 isn't too hard right? Just add 50% and 10% in succession, very easy to do in your head.

The other way around is trickier. I tend to divide by 8 (or /2/2/2) and multiply by 5, which is harder but still consists only of steps that are clearly defined in my head.
The trouble is, that definition of "modern propaganda" desacribes the entire press. For example, take the FBI's use of the latest mass shootings to push for encryption backdoors - those shootings make up a tiny proportion of deaths, but we prioritize emotive stories that get large amounts of press. This has also lead to some terribly ill-conceived gun control campaigns that downplay the importance of the guns most often used to murder people.
Echoes of William Gibson's Pattern Recognition book.
Seems at their scale, they could operate their app/infrastructure by charing drivers 10% per ride or less and still rake in the money.
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Yep. Factoring is useful in a lot of cases.

Also, although not strictly a debate around metric, the Fahrenheit scale gives you more granularity without going to decimals and requires less use of negative numbers on a day to day basis. And, if one is really concerned about a scientifically relevant temperature scale, we'd be using Kelvin, not Celsius.
uber pool is an interesting optimization problem. an eng there was telling me about the graph theory she used to tackle it.
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Well in plain sunlight it should work OK.

The problem is the plate numbers are limited, you are not injecting random data, just repetitive data.
Storage isn't yet realistic for whole-day fluctuations. Current capital costs are about $200/kWh. Daily global energy use is about 400 TWh. That would be an 80000 trillion dollar battery.

That number is so outrageous it's basically infinite. Even if the whole world focused on building a battery to supply a single country for a single day we'd run out of materials and land (batteries aren't small).

The only hope for energy storage is 100000x cost reductions.
or, why should we, who pay AWS thousands per month, help write the documentation for their commercial product?
It doesn't always draw that much power.

Try plugging it into the MacBook switched off, let it charge a bit, and then boot the MacBook but keep heavy gaming to a minimum, and all should be okay.
Is there something like FUSE for a single file?

My use case is for pass. I like to keep my secret files in there, but I still have plain text redudancy, because, well, encrypted files are useless while encrypted.

I would like to have a "virtual file" which any program could accept as its config file where I could control the results of `read()`

In my case, I would associate the current file to its pass equivalent, decrypt the pass equivalent and return the decrypted data.
And then goes on to make outlandish claims about the benefits of the technology
Smdh. The "paper" author may be a fossil fuel shill, crazy person and/or attention-seeker. It's too bad we essentially need a climate change "snopes" to debunk Cato-style nonsense, but I'm infinitely glad folks are doing it on regular basis to smack-down (d/m)isinformation.
> I draw the line on the side of privacy.

It's easy to be abstract - what if it had been your family & family? Or do strangers not count?

> there are always several avenues of inquiry for evidence-gathering

which you've not given, twice.

> It smacks of laziness by law enforcement to suggest it's somehow impossible without encryption backdoors.

It's difficult and I see what you're saying even if I don't yet agree.
If you got two different shirts displaying two different plates, you could flip a coin each morning to decide which one to wear before starting your daily jog down the freeway.

Guaranteed randomly sampled data
The Uber apologists on here really boggle my mind. Other competitors seem to do it fine such as Free Now, which operates in multiple cities and I don't even know where their offices are located because they don't need these super 10x Devs people speak about. There is no special sauce in Uber. Once the VC money that uber spend on subsidising EVERY JOURNEY dies up then customers will move to another platform.
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similarly with Trump's tax cuts which largely did not end up in pay rises or investment.
OO works well in some cases. Procedural in some. Functional in some.

And a lot of it is how it fits the person. There are different ways of thinking, and a different way matches more naturally to an architecture choice.

Some of it fits the problem; sometimes performance is top priority, sometimes it isn't. Sometimes maintaining a consistent architecture for decades across a large team is important sometimes it isn't.

Sometimes it's the organization. We've recently switched to Domain Driven Design, I don't naturally tend to like it, but for how our organization and communication is structured, it helps get the business logic into code in a way that didn't exist as well before.

Learning about architecture and picking the right tool for the right job is important. OO might never be the right tool for you, but may have more use to someone else.
If they really wanted to offshore there are far better countries in Europe in which there are very high skilled english-speaking engineers for far lower salaries than those in London.
German here. We use Chinese, Spanish and train station.

As in: Am I talking Chinese to you?

And: That seems Spanish to me. Meaning"that doesn't seems to be right.

And if I am not able to grasp something I would say: I only understand train station.
to synchronize backups to the onprem datacentre.
https://angus.readthedocs.io/en/2014/amazon/using-ebs-snapsh...
Similar concepts existed in Europe in various forms such as dirigisme, Fascism, Keynesian economics, the German post-war model.
I think they must be claiming a 20% improvement on the 90% baseline, otherwise it doesn't make any sense.
I think it's sad the USB spec didn't go right up to 5 kilowatts, so it was able to replace AC outlets worldwide.

A hypothetical design could use 1000 volts at 5 amps. By having the power conductors isolated from ground, an earth impedance checker could detect any human body parts coming into contact with the power lines, and as long as the cable capacitance is required to be kept low, and the cutoff within a few hundred microseconds, it would be perfectly safe for your child to bite through the cables.

The same design wouldn't require extra costs for cheap devices either - they needent bother with electrical power isolation, but would just end up limited to 20 volts.

Minor modifications to the existing connector would let it withstand 1000v
My LinkedIn feed (full of recruiters) doesn't show me anything under £100k, so I doubt the market tops out where you say.

Plus there's a very large financial tech consulting market where you can make loads more as a contractor.
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Spot on. It is really important to understand that China does not have the same value system as the enlightened world. I am not saying that the sino mindset is inferior in any way, but it is important to realize that it is very different and that many premises we take for granted are null and void when it comes to China.

The Chinese state of today is far worse than the most dystopian views the west had of Soviet during the Cold War. Then the western block tried to paint as a dark image as possible of the alleged enemy. Today it seems most try to paint as an rosy picture as possible of the Chinese state when in reality it is something right out Orwell’s nightmares.

Note. I have absolutely nothing against Chinese as individuals and people. It is the state that is scary, and to be honest; intimidating.
Which is a totally reasonable position to take except it overlooks the reality of time being a finite thing.
> And my point is that, statistically, if you want the lowest risk of injury in the real world you'll buy the one star box truck because you'll have triple the mass of 90% of the vehicles that could possibly hit you.

Not all crashes involve other vehicles, you have to take into account the frequency of crashes vs. the environment.
This article missed the most interesting part.

In Chinese we say it's "book from heaven"("天书"), for incomprehensible writings. That's the end of the this English...->Geek->Chinese->heaven sequence

For speakings, yes it's "bird language" ("鸟语"), but the "bird" here is used as a euphemism for male genital.

BTW Chinese is an analytic language, so the grammar is actually very easy.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_language
Came here to say this, but I'm just going to correct you: Arabic is the language, Arab the people. :)
The answer for how to find out whether Lisp has practical benefits for you rather than only theoretical benefits is to... force yourself to write some practical projects (non-toy)!

[...and additionally maybe expend the effort to absorb a sizeable practical codebase that others have written]

Maybe the answer to the question will ultimately be "It's not for me", but an experiential approach is the only way to reach an answer that is satisfying.
Is there any business analysis tool available?
x86 is 41 years old, which Uber uses for sure. Newer often doesn’t mean better or better enough. Telephone companies have been streaming voice data for millions of people with a reliability that I haven’t seen from any modern internet service.
This is so sad. He was such a lovely and brilliant guy :(
I completely share your sentiment. For that reason I have yet to wrap my head around the news of Uber's rival spending $80 million a year on AWS. What are these people doing???

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/01/lyft-plans-to-spend-300-mill...
Why am I getting a feeling that they will shut it down in 6 months.
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i dont have a link to the paper but there's patterns
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After 350 years of economic and social terrorism, I would say it's fair to say most of the AA people in jail did not have a fair legal process, they couldn't afford it even if you ignore the combination of systemic/overt racism.

We have to remember there are two justice systems in this country and re-introducing slavery through the prison industrial complex was something we deliberately did without good reason.... not in response to dangerous extremism like in China.
I've heard that and I don't disagree with it. But things fail really badly. E.g. 2 inches and 5 sixteenth
Chinese and Russian governments already got access to every local device, even from Apple itself, with no protest from anyone. Israel can apparently hack into the devices without a backdoor (according to Cellebrite), and isn't a justified part of your list - it's a democracy not a dictatorship. NK doesn't allow any devices, not that it bothers with any excuses.
The even more useful conversion for me is inch to centimetre: F(n)in ~ F(n+2)cm

The Golden Ratio squared is 2.618 which is pretty close to 2.54.
It isn't true that current rates of change are greater than natural fluctuations. During the Younger Dryas average global temperatures changed 2-6 C over a few decades and 1000 years later, changed back.

That's just the most recent and reliable example - we don't have the ability to measure such changes far into the past.
I see my colleague making a web app that forces the browser into 100% CPU on scroll, just to animate a shrinking nav bar. Also a page that wont settle in for 15 seconds until assets from Google Fonts downloaded and all scripts have run. So I secretly pray for a draconian anti-js order imposed on us, even though my minimal Vue scripts will go away.
>...encryption not only can't kill people, it also prevents people from stealing

To be fair, it can also prevent people from being killed in extremely oppressive regimes, just by association with 'x' out-topic (e.g.: the gay community).
Aren't we always dependent on US companies? Same for Chinese companies? Think about it for a second. If you use the Linux kernel, you use world-wide code. Its at odds with a concept of monolithic, national code.
It's called "sunglasses".
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What's interesting is that the absolute error converges to ~0.5399705049968784% (or a floating-point type or constant imprecision were introduced).
Well I don't like to dismiss someone based on the argument that they didn't study for it. Hackers of all people know how effective self education can be. But yeah, in this case, there is nothing that makes him more qualified than the large number of professionals he's disagreeing with.
I guess it's hard for any CEO, board, or share-holder in China to refuse requests from the party/government.

So in terms of control, the ownership of the company doesn't mean a lot in any case.
So in China, the government owns the corporations, while in the USA, the corporations own the government.
Some things to read:

Dave Ramsey has a podcast and many books, and while he mostly talks about getting out of debt, he’s really talking about controlling your money.

Look up asceticism. I don’t think it’s the answer but it has a lot of helpful things to say, particularly imo Christian asceticism. Stoicism might be similarly helpful: not the answer but says some helpful things.

I wholeheartedly agree with the others who say to limit your exposure to advertising. Over 10 years ago I drastically reduced my TV watching and that alone has helped tremendously.

Spend time with people who have very little, such as people who are homeless. It helped me to gain a different perspective.
A Finnish company has developed a way to make food from CO2
Depends on whether or not there is something to copy...
In French we also use Chinese for the same expression.

When someone makes mistakes in English we say they speak English like a Spanish cow.
If we think like this, we are either paranoid or already live in a totalitarian society.
"Why not?" here is an idiom for "I know it serves little purpose but I did it for the fun of tinkering with stuff."
Best practices are guidelines, not exact and fully-specified recipes that an ant could follow.
If only implementing complex tech solutions was so easy.
Recession is in the air and the tech gravy train fueled by the VC culture stops here (Hopefully!).
I am using firefox since 2008, google services are lacking performance in firefox from last 2 years.

First it was only youtube videos, but now it has expanded to docs and other services also.

From last six months Gmail never opens on first attempt in my firefox second is required, but if I switch to chrome it not only magically opens at first attempt but with faster page load.
A calorie was originally defined as as the amount of heat required at a pressure of 1 standard atmosphere to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1° Celsius.

But you're right that is sort of a weird unit from the past insofar as it's related to the SI system but isn't formally part of it. (It's basically now defined by its ratio to joules.)
How many drivers and riders does "Free Now" have?
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Thanks, that sounds very interesting - will check it out!
Unlocked iPhone XR is now cheaper(briefly) in India than USA
Once again emphasizing the importance of separating between percent and percentage point :P
What should be nearly free and ubiquitous is obscenely extorted. Welcome to underprotected vulture cannibal vampire capitali$m with a Verizon lawyer heading the FCC.
RE: fix the interface and stop canceling shows without at least giving them conclusions.

In your view, how can they improve the interface - other than improving the recommendation algorithm. I find myself browsing their catalog for 20 minutes or so and then end up not watching anything.

And totally agree with you on not cancelling shows. For example one of their better, more creative and daring shows was the OA. Cancelled. One of Netflix's USP could be that they are a place where people go to watch non lowest common denominator shows. But of course this takes time to get up the viewership numbers up and doesn't help them in the short term, hence why they have to cancel shows I guess.
I thought the same. As Australians in the US for a few months recently, I'd regularly ask my 6-7yo son to convert miles to kilometres as a test - say, 53 miles into km. Multiply by eight and divide by five (or divide by five first in cases where that was quicker). He found it straightforward enough.
"Are we going to go through this for every administration now?"

No. Nobody cares about this or that shooter (there'll be another one next week) but the next time there's a 9/11 you can be sure encryption will feature in the news and in a subsequent law.
The sad thing is that I have seen signs of AMD starting to do the same. When I was shopping for a motherboard lately, I've begun seen motherboard manuals that state "ECC is only supported with PRO CPUs."

See http://asrock.pc.cdn.bitgravity.com/Manual/X570%20Phantom%20...
Of course it works. It didn't work in the past because most autocracies were led by low IQ people. When you factor that out, you get a system that works.
In Slovak, they say ‘Spanish village’ („španielska dedina“) for something beyond one's understanding.
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I don't understand why an interviewer would create a sterile exam situation which is nothing like the real world or the job of interest. I'm supposed to be appalled by the interviewee but I'm more appalled by the interviewer.
They can't admit "crazy person with a gun" because they suggests that maybe fewer people should carry guns; better to find a narrative that lets then describe each one as desired: white person "angry, money problems" so change nothing; brown person "radicalised alien" , deport and toughen immigration".
I know we (Google, Apple, and also me) were busy getting rid of Flash and other "impure content" from the web since 2007 (when the iPhone was released) and 2009 (when HTML5 became a thing), but with only two and a half browser monstrosities left in 2019, and HTML5 basically a failed standard, I'm not sure anymore that it was a good idea. Flash enabled many non-programmers to develop games and educational content (but mostly ads, admittedly), and it's scene graph was a strictly more appropriate approach compared to HTML/DOM and ad-hoc JavaScript libs for the job.
It's thoughts in response to a thought experiment. Not every discussion needs to start with evidence.
I'd like Xfinity unlimited 1 Gbps ISP/unlimited landline/260 channels + Hulu + HBO + Netflix + Amazon Prime + Youtube Red + Spotify for one order of magnitude more. That I could get behind.
Because it’s highly unlikely to work in the first place, not to mention likely cost as much as their annual operating budget.
Understanding Bucky is an exercise of making notes of things that apply to me personally or things that stood out that I could apply to my own work/life.

My favourite exercise in applying Bucky’s work was to take his self-disciplines (from Critical Path) and modify them for myself.

The value for me was/is the process of making his work personal to me. What stands out about Bucky’s work is that it’s still (if no more so) relevant today. Maybe it is something I should blog about :)
> or the NIS want Samsung's data they just ask for it, on the understanding that a) they're not really in a position to say no and b) cooperation with the state is a mutually beneficial quid-pro-quo.

Er... just to clarify: Samsung was deeply inter-wined with the government before(from the 80s to ~'17), I’m not sure if NIS has actually requested Samsung’s data but I suspect Samsung could give out such data.

However most companies don’t; for example, the biggest chatting app Kakao (think as WhatsApp in the US or WeChat in China) refused to provide information; opened the fact that NIS requested info to the public; and revised the chatting system to only save the message for 3 days in the server and added a end-to-end encryption mode.

Just wanted to point out that South Korea’s situation is less like China but more like the US.