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I experienced this too. In fact it was within the first couple weeks of being hired that you were encouraged to post to Glassdoor (and a Linkedin post that they curated).

Definitely rubbed me the wrong way, but besides that they were really great people. I don't know if they realize what bad taste this is, just don't care, or if it's really just one person with too much influence creating policy.

This was a while ago, so I can only imagine it's become more prevalent. I've come to believe this is pretty much accepted behaviour for SV companies, and I wouldn't put much weight into Glassdoor reviews beyond just checking for red flags.
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A discussion about how school is modeled seems on point for this site, but the author of this seems a bit... zany?

"Before humanity is taken over by AI?"
I don't see this problem with music streaming (although they have tried)
Translation: We're actually doing well, but you only hear about Wix and others because they spend more money on advertising than we do.
The mind of a person who can't seem to find something to do outside of work just doesn't make sense to me. Work is the thing in my life that most gets in the way of me doing things.
(author of bat here)

Exactly. Drop-in compatibility with 'cat' is one of the goals of bat (see https://github.com/sharkdp/bat#project-goals-and-alternative... and a list of alternatives here: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/blob/master/doc/alternatives....).

Another thing that I use frequently is previewing a whole set of files in a single (pager) output. Something like

bat src/*.cpp

This also allows you to easily search across a whole set of open files.
and this is why I don't allow my televisions to be smart. blocked at the network level.
Yet here you are on the internet. Do you realize how much fossil fuel was burnt so you could make a stupid comment?
Rebel XSi will yield similar photos after editing the raw-file

Well obviously. The whole point here and the impressive part of the technology is that you get these results by simply pointing and shooting in full auto mode, no manual post processing and with tiny optics and sensors.
Couldn't agree more, but honestly I think that is a completely overplayed issue. Just be explicit (This requires Python3.7) and have a requirements.txt file, maybe bundle with a `make install` command and move on.

If people can't figure that out... I don't know how you're going to expect them to read a cryptic bash script.

Don't get me wrong there is totally some good use cases for bash. Init-scripts come to mind when you don't want to lug around a Python VM in a lightweight container, for example.
Subtitles... or even audio. I've got an Italian Amazon subscription (even if I live in the UK now) and lots of US movies don't have the original soundtrack, only the dubbed one.
This just seems so strange to me. When I look for work, I look for companies doing things I find interesting, then narrow that down to maybe half dozen at most and send them my resume. I don't look for mostly generic developer work, though. I'm pretty specific with the industries and technologies (RFID, HW control systems, etc) (but not necessarily the developer stack; that's easy to get up to speed on).
There's still such thing as physically correct image reconstruction, i.e. removing technical limitations via computational means. Super-resolution, focus stacking, HDR (proper one, without fake colors), highlight color preservation (try to photograph light source while preserving color while not underexposing everything around).

Basically, make images that are currently possible on $3000+ hardware, on $600 hardware.

There's also such thing as perceptually correct image rendering, but that's a whole another can of worms (image appearance models and the like), it isn't scientifically ready just yet.
Can't you just pass in a raw block device, get rid of any fsyncs and you got some very volatile backing store? The OS will write things out as best as it can, and if the whole thing fits in memory (and it's a memcached instance, so it should after all), then read-write will be fast. And if you want to restart, just stop the memcached process, do a sync, wait for it ... and reboot. (This seems simpler than copying the tmpfs, but a lot less safe/deterministic?)
I've written aliases like cd2='cd ../..'. similarly cd3='cd ../../..' . Similarly cd4 and cd5. next time I'll think of this!
First, there can be a big power discrepancy in cases where free product is provided for review purposes. It's different if you are part of a traditional media outfit and have a significant, steady readership. But for someone like this, there can be a lot of pressure to give very favorable write-ups.

Second, this wouldn't be the first time someone did a paid promotion without noting it was paid. I don't know anything about this guy, so I'm not accusing him of anything. I'm just saying it's naive to think that everyone is always highly committed to playing nice with the FTC rules. (See game streamers and their odd tendency to open tons of 'loot boxes' on stream & get significantly better results than expected.)

Finally a lot of the copy reads like it's straight from a press release, with capitalized words and everything.

Whether it's enough to constitute an ad in a regulatory sense, I don't know. But you can be advertised to without the source being a literal ad according to a legal definition.
I wish there was a block user feature on hn. Frankly, with about half the commenters in this thread, I think I would be better off if I didn't run across their inane comments on any subject any more.
That sounds very cool. Have you heard of bilibili.com? It's a video streaming website, but where comments are timestamped and scroll overlaid on the video at that timestamp, hugely entertaining, somewhat like sitting with 1000 videojockies at the same time. Mainly Chinese language, as it's a Chinese site. Worth having a look though, similar gist.
Awesome work. I've been a happy user of bat for a few months now, I've almost totally trained my brain away from typing cat.
Sweden's SKF to shift automation into higher gear as markets flag
I'd argue that a lower tax rate is actually better than a traditional subsidy: the discount is applied at the time of purchase, while the subsidy is applied at a later date (such as at tax time, for many subsidies in the US).
Looks more like a "cookbook"
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That's what I thought, and indeed, the full res is useful when you want to post crop and to print them out.
"I'll always invest in product and engineering over marketing"

This is an often overlooked strategy from small to to big businesses, but one that pays off long term. We're a 3 people SASS having the same philosophy, and it's starting to pays off (we're 100% organic :)). Nice to hear Wordpress has the same.
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Ask HN: In your mind's eye, how do you visualise your codebase?
I've recently been reading about aphantasia [0] and I'm starting to think that I may have it. When I try to visualise complex concepts in my mind's eye it ends up coming up like a abstract list of features rather than a picture or sound or other visual stimulus. I also find that this is very difficult to conceptualise and describe to other people. Do you see a picture or video?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia
They may not drive their enormous mining trucks on public roads, but they benefit from the society (including other public roads) that our taxes support. Plus it's absurd that we're incentivising the use of fossil fuels at all, let alone to dig up fossil fuels.
But we have such a strong economy!
Yes, you are correct. I said it all wrong.

From a physical perspective, holding two states is the most efficient way of computing. I.e. the electronics required to compute in bases other than 2 involve higher power and present difficult challenges.
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My rule of thumb is to use a real language if there is more than one if fi block.
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I've been taking pictures with my iPhone for years and I never knew about the guidelines as an option. (Or I did, and I turned them off many phones ago without realizing their benefit, forgot, and the settings have been dragged with me since.) Thank you.
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>Anyone that has visited a college dorm knows that this low standard of living has nothing to do with race.

It just means shit parenting but that applies to a child of any ethnic background.
Thanks for taking the time to explain that, much appreciated.

I was not aware about the epistemology / philosophical implications of the "it's magic" comment.

I took the literally reading of your comment.

Can you point me at some stuff I can look at to start learning a little more about this - sounds like the kind of interesting stuff I should be reading late into the night rather than working on the sleep I should be getting.
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>GOTHENBURG (Reuters) - Swedish engineering company SKF aims to use a demand slowdown to its advantage, its chief executive said, stepping up an automation program that has already sent capital expenditure soaring.

...

>The automation of one production channel in Gothenburg in 2016 left 20 workers to run a process that had previously required 100 workers.
Maybe just my point-of-view. But Czech-Slovak companies have strong influence in antivirus software. With avast.com / avg.com / eset.com

...or does every country in world have their own AV software (local)giants? I'am curious...
> Most biologists tend to take very little math

Wow, really? That's surprising to me. The hardest course I ever took was one I took for my MSCS in bioinformatics. It seemed very math-heavy, and math-heavy in ways that I couldn't lean on my past experience to "muscle" my way through.
> Terrible deployment story, terrible amount of tweaking and JVM "hacks".

A lot of people these days are building fat/uber jars. All it takes to run your code is `java -jar foo.jar`. Can't get much simpler than that.

Tweaking is a plus that golang doesn't offer. The JVM runs an extremely wide range of workloads, and gives you the ability to tune it accordingly, e.g. whether you care more about throughput vs latency. Compared to golang where this is extremely limited.

It's not surprising that a huge number of data processing workloads run on the JVM (regardless of implementation language).

> Bolting on Akka, Vertx... yeah, enjoy your frankensteins monster lol.

That's not an argument. These frameworks are mature and battle tested, not to mention built on sound principles (e.g. Akka is similar to Erlang's actor model, which includes supervisor capability and remoting - nothing like this exists in golang).

> Generics _arent_ critical for a language, exceptions are a mess

They're not critical in the same way "functions/procedures" are not critical, but you're going to end up with a messy code base when it comes to reality. Again, the number of times I've seen what amounts to map/filter calls littering the code base, making it more difficult to read (not to mention error prone) is too many to count. Generics fix this. Funnily enough, it's golang that chose to disregard best practices from the 70s.

> and as for the JVM being state of the art... yeah. In the 90s it was.

Tell that to Google, FB, Apple, Amazon, and many more who run their critical infrastructure on the JVM. The introspection and monitoring it provides is literally second to none, not to mention performance, tunability, hot-swapping, rich ecosystem, and many more.

> I just fundamentally disagree

You can, but the fact remains that some of the same authors worked on a golang predecessor which never went anywhere, precisely because it didn't have the Google name behind it.
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What one learns in a CS degree is (ought to be?) considerably more and different from just "learning to code" so it's somewhat of a false comparison to put a CS degree alongside bootcamp and self-teaching.
I think number 2 is very common in the professional software used by hobbyists world. For instance if you dabble in music or video production but can't afford your preferred DAW or editor then pirating the software is a very low friction option.

I sometimes see companies offer "Lite" versions of their software for a reduced price but often stripping out desirable features making pirating the normal version even more appealing.
"Solar doesn’t work at night. Wind farms go idle when breezes slack. So until battery systems are cheap enough for generators to stockpile electricity for hours at a time, renewables can’t constantly provide power like coal and gas."

This is the crux of the problem. We don't just need cheaper batteries, we need entirely new battery/storage technology. Current battery production is an ecological disaster in and of itself.

"Still, they’re starting to compete on their own. The proof is in the sales agreements. For years, clean-energy developers needed 20- or 25-year power-purchase contracts to ensure a return on investment. Now they’re building wind and solar farms with agreements for 15 years or less -- with the expectation that projects will compete against gas- and coal-fired plants in wholesale markets after the deals conclude."

This may just be speculating that governments will be issuing all kinds of premiums on fossil technologies instead of directly subsidizing renewables, which is far more likely than actually switching to renewables.
This. I lost a lot of respect when Firefox complained that something was wrong, and it turned out to be Avast doing a man in the middle attack to 'protect' me on https websites.
Efficiencies of private businesses will lay bare backwards politicized revenue streams to 'derelicts' of bygone era likes of SLS.
> So the ideal solution would probably be for the camera to obtain location data from the phone via Bluetooth.

Which at least Nikon offers. But you have to have the paired device with you, leave the camera in the right mode, etc, etc.
That's a fairly contentious subject. Yes, fuel taxes often pay for roads; but they also are used for other purposes, as well as to incentivize behavior. Trying to reduce carbon output? Make carbon-based fuels more expensive to purchase, and let the market optimize for alternatives.
That big headline $5.2 trillion figure isn't money that was spent on anything. They're counting the difference between the actual market price of fossil fuels and what they think should be charged for them due to air pollution etc as a subsidy.
That's fair, it may be a provided phone. But then that puts him in a similar situation as any site that has a review for the phone now. You know his relationship with the phone itself and Apple. Consider his review with that perspective - but I still think it's a valid review.
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And photo purists complain about portrait mode on the iPhone all the time. For the everyday picture taker, the phones we have in our pockets are amazing.
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No he wasn't. He was just playing for money and for name recognition. He did absolutely nothing in the wind industry except attach his name to it. He built nothing. He developed nothing. He achieved nothing.
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Since when has valuation been based on revenue? :)
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It's great if you're trying to win a PR show against a cold war rival and bankrupt them. That was the original purpose of the USDA including roads, marketing, and subsidies.
Sounds like someone had a bad school experience.
fzf + bat seems pretty nice!

export FZF_DEFAULT_OPTS="--ansi --preview-window 'right:60%' --preview 'bat --color=always --style=header,grid --line-range :300 {}'"
I mostly thought the same but came to the realisation that the target of these devices are people using instagram, reddit, snapchat, &c. or taking quick snapshots to send to their friends/family. These pictures are made to be consumed and discarded in < 5s by the average viewer so it's not really a big deal. They'll scroll, say "oh wow" internally, click the like button and continue on scrolling.

No one will ever print those in 20x30in and frame them, hence no one cares about edge to edge sharpness or raw files. The "auto" post processing and night mode are the important parts.

> When I take a picture I rather have the real RAW data in the picture instead of processed jpg that I can't control.

afaik you can do that on most smartphones worth taking pictures with.
I can confirm this. I personally know of two companies were accurate but negative reviews were taken down by Glassdoor. One was the company I worked for. In this case it was triggered at the request of the CEO, who was heavily criticized in the reviews. He made HR sign up for a Glassdoor Premium account, so that they took the reviews down.

All negative reviews were 100% accurate from my point of view and not insulting in any way. So if you see the "managed account" flag at Glassdoor, be careful ;)

It seems the trick is to say that the reviews contain "company internal information",...or something like that.
> So until battery systems are cheap enough for generators to stockpile electricity for hours at a time, renewables can’t constantly provide power like coal and gas.

I thought the solution wasn't expensive batteries locally, but rather storing pumped water in reservoirs, or other solutions like melting and re-solidifying salt, etc. -- huge-scale energy storage connected to the grid. Your energy is produced once from the sun/wind, and then second (at night) from hydroelectric turbines or steam.

Anyone know how that's going? Does it have to be done at the city/region grid level, or are there micro-versions that make sense to be integrated with a single wind turbine or field of them?
> I think there's been a huge change in HN's tone over the last 1-2 years

Replace "HN" with "the world" and I'd agree with you. I think your average person is so exhausted by the shrieking of the the online naysayers that they just reduce their involvement. For example, I saw an article recently about Andrew Yang's very intelligent, classy response to those racist comments from that prospective SNL comedian, and then he was pilloried for "pandering to the white vote". While lots of folks came to Yang's defense, it was just sad that they had to.

I often think that the Internet has fundamentally altered the "freedom of speech" calculus in that it allows people to say outrageous things for attention, but largely ignore the negative consequences (i.e. social opprobrium) of those statements. I have no idea what the solution is, but I don't think it will get better any time soon.
They need to do both !
> I generally tell people that, once a script is longer than ~100 lines and/or you start adding functions, you're probably better off with something like Python.

Agreed. My threshold is usually "when you want to start using arrays or dictionaries". I find bash best for file manipulation and running programs in other languages
Do they do anything like Apple does with portrait mode where they black out all of the background?
I honestly just wonder if this was ever discussed in any court, because I've never heard of it. Like how much data has to be sent before it's distribution of copyrighted material. You could really go either way with this. Either 0 bytes (just metadata), or 1 byte (that would be reasonably expected to be taken from the copyrighted work, even if the byte is not unique in any way), or a byte sequence that is fairly certainly unique to this specific .mp3 (probably like 32-512? bytes), or enough data that you can reconstruct some sort of sound from it that you can play and that is long enough to be grounds for a copyright infringement.
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> Some even ask if they can take the "assignment" home and get back to me.

The amount of cut-and-paste I've seen on "take home" assignments is just staggering.

I've only ever used it for pre-screening before scheduling phone interviews, and so only a handful of very simple questions as I'd have considered it unfair to ask anyone to put much effort in that early in the process. I always cut and paste a few sentences into Google. One hiring round in particular stands out to me, as a substantial majority of candidates had cut and pasted answers. There were always some, but that was extreme.

The worst thing was that many of them got the answers wrong. I'd have been open to considering them if someone honestly told me they didn't know the answer but was able to find an answer on Google, and showed me they'd been able to look up the correct answer.

But we got things like someone trying to pass of a one page cut and paste from an Oracle manual to a question about MySQL that required a one sentence answer as their own. And someone who cut and pasted a reply to the same question from a forum post, but who failed to read on to where other commenters had explained at length why the answer they'd cut and pasted was wrong.

I mean, I often search for solutions to things I don't know by heart. Knowing how to find the right solution by search is a skill itself and a developer that knows how to learn can be valuable, but the combination of dishonesty and apparent failure to be able to ascertain the quality of the responses they found was terrifying given that many of these applicants had believable CVs that included years of working as developers elsewhere. (Of course given their willingness to lie about their answers, I can't really trust CV's either given we never got far enough in the process to request references; I'd like to think their CVs were fake too, because the alternative is worse)
That's a multiplying factor on top of H-1Bs, so it makes sense to address the "problem" upstream.
That doesn't surprise me.
How much better is the Pro camera than regular iPhone 11 camera?
They are targeting sites in Saudi its not like they are going after "hard" targets
>The link you're showing me shows average wages for the H1-B group near $80k for all occupations.

You might not understand how things work. The wages are representative of what the staffing firms who contract out the labor charge for the H1B employee. They make substantially less than $80k even though that's the rate a company pays to avoid hiring a US employee.
If you choose the book first maybe its better look writer website first where it is available. I have a pocketbook reader, it doesnt work very well with kindle books, when I was searching Wheel of time and Brandon Sanderson it was available on google books as DRM free but it was the choice of writer. So when you are looking for books there, you need to check first if there is a 'DRM free' flag.
Anything residential is complicated since VAT can be regressive for essentials like heating oil.
> Is it the existence of a rule forbidding it? In that case the principle seems more to be about the rule than about "what if everyone did it?".

The vast majority of the US lives outside what we’d consider “the city” so that’s a bad example. But anyway the difference is that the act in question involves payment for a scarce resource. If everyone paid for a house in the suburbs (assuming that the prices factored in externalities) then it would be fine because prices would regulate land use. And if the price doesn’t include externalities then it is antisocial to live in the suburbs, as folks here in HN point out regularly.
> Try rebasing in Chromium's repository, it's simply not fast

The intent for a tool which could do this quickly is unclear. Rebasing millions of commits will be slow, also rebasing published history will also generate a lot of extra paperwork.

Writing a utility to sort a rebase todo by message and change the later commits with the same message to be fixups is trivial.
Erm, the numbers he/she is quoting are video framerates