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ITU really got it bad here, having designated "Very High Frequency" at what we now consider pretty low frequency (<300MHz). Subsequently stacking on Ultra- Super- and Extremely-High Frequency bands before giving up at Terahertz.
Native means that you're programming against the platform's APIs.
> Seems like Oracle is taking totally contradictory positions in this case and the Google one.

As a legal strategy, that's not a problem, and in fact it's what lawyers are supposed to do: make the best possible arguments they can in any case they are a part of. It should not be interpreted as a case of corporate schizophrenia -- it's just the lawyers doing their jobs.

This can lead to contradictory positions if multiple cases are going on at the same time. That's fine. The legal system is designed around the assumption that this will happen.
Read the article. They suggest that’s what they’re doing.
Why is this? Is it standards body politics where new standards don’t want to step on the toes of whoever made the previous standard? Like WiFi 7 might imply that WiFi 6 isn’t good enough any more?
> the Takeout metadata is mostly deleted, and sometimes outright changed, from the original files.

Are you talking about the inferred bit from other sources like phone location history? My experience may have been different because I paid Google for extra storage so that I could store the original versions of all my photos (For those that don't use Google Photos, Google offers "unlimited" lossily compressed photo storage but counts original quality photos against your drive quota.)

The json data is what they display in the UI, not a verbatim copy of the metadata, but the photos have the original metadata embedded in them.
They’re saying people don’t follow their political labels when it comes to building codes. Progressive environmentalists might advocate grass over density. There was a recent article about conservatives freaking out about a proposal to repeal a regulation prohibiting duplexes. It got framed as an attack on single family homes and our lifestyle.

But, we’re all stuck with this until we unlock Intellectual Integrity off the SMAC tech tree.
Is it really limited to just grass/dirt or is it simply that you can not place buildings on that space? Could you plant trees there?
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I do this too and I’m not sure how good it is - I mean it’s good that you’re not drinking or overeating to cope but you’re (not just you, but the royal you) still just masking the problem
> If you pitched a date as an "intellectual, college-educated man with a good life and a six-figure job" she'd literally laugh in your face.

That literally says nothing about what makes that person interesting or fun to be around.

Thinking that people boil down to salary and education level will make you only able to display those things.

Find a hobby that you like, enrich yourself in ways that aren't measured by the IRS.
I think these numbers are accurate.

Some of the numbers are skewed by the unicorn startups: since employees at Airbnb and Stripe (and Lyft and Pinterest, at the time these numbers were reported) can't sell their equity, and since the equity may drop considerably after IPO, these companies compensate by offering more of it.

LinkedIn is widely known for paying extremely well (to the chagrin of people at parent company Microsoft). Same with Netflix.
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Syncthing. Run an extra instance on a Raspberry Pi 4 with a 512gb sd card plugged in in a closet somewhere for the always-on node.

Make sure to set STNOUPGRADE=1 in the environment though to disable the RCE that it gives the developers.
Under/overpaying has nothing to do with how much any particular firm has and everything to do with what other companies are willing to pay. If there's a bidding war, then whatever that produces is the fair market rate.
Intel marketing is confusing; Optane is several things

There's Optane memory, which is the one the link is referring to, it needs Intel CPUs

Then there's Optane SSDs, which works with AMD fine

Source: I'm using them on EPYC servers

Optane memory is not a traditional SSD, it's more of a disk cache, matched to the Intel CPU. While the rest of the Optane family are standard SSDs
I do the exact same thing for Yelp or TripAdvisor or product reviews: Read the actual text of the one-star reviews. Most are non-specific, or obviously a case of over-entitlement or completely misaligned expectations, those are noise.

But there are usually specific ones, and those are useful signal. Read those, and figure out if the specifics the person is complaining about is something that actually bothers you.
At one point I fancied the idea of working abroad for fun, I could learn a language and try something new. The income disparity was far too great compared to the US, so I never did it.

The one exception: Google pays pretty well in Switzerland, but I hear it's hard to land.
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Tired and bad meme is tired and bad. Why would prior evidence of Google shutting down things that are not anything like GCP suggest that Google would shut down things that are like GCP?
I don't believe anything I read on HN about the lifestyles of the SV elite, but I think this scenario is comical if it were representative.

You get paid well into six figures but have "to camp in an RV for a decade", and then you retire with a $40K income. You could have just gotten a $40K job at some place* that didn't kill your soul! In ten years, you'd be making at least $60K. And if you burned out for whatever reason anyway, you could go on disability.

*by place, I mean either employer or city.
> Google is failing to identify and extract more valuable labor from OP.

Google is doing a pretty good job extracting labor value in general. If they miss a specific individual who doesn't seem very motivated (to the extent of being a self-described slacker), I wouldn't view that as a failing. Ambitious people generally make themselves noticed, and trying to extract ambition from every slacker in the company is probably not very rewarding.
>I don't see how they can claim that their own Java APIs can be copyrighted, and then defending their copying of Amazon's API on the grounds that an SDK using it is open source. I would think they could just look at the documentation, and skip the SDK altogether. :)

They took an open source piece of software (the SDK) and made a derivative work (the backend the SDK uses). That indeed is copying and is essentially identical to what Google did. But there's no copyright violation here because Amazon explicitly granted everyone the right to do that by releasing the SDK under the Apache license.
My family never put anything on the, eh, 3 acres of grass I regularly had to mow as a kid.

It wasn't perfect, nobody cared. There were dandelions, there was some clover.

If you can bear to tolerate the fact that your lawn isn't going to look like a putting green, you can do literally nothing but cut it and perhaps water it if your climate requires and be done with it. If there are plants you don't want in your lawn, take them out with your hands or a hoe. If you can't be bothered, then be happy with what you have. If your lawn really can't grow without intense chemical assistance, then maybe don't have a lawn.
Joke was a bit too fast for my taste :D
If you want to take on the cognitive load of being the generalist for everything, all the power to you!

For me I pick and choose. I pretty much leave my car and rooftop to the experts but I dabble in electrical, plumming, carpentry, landscaping, etc. Etc.
It's not all the cards but companies (recruiters) usually have information asymmetry on their candidates. Sites like levels.fyi are a good remedy, with the right info and counteroffers you can negotiate salaries/sign-on bonuses up by pretty large amounts.
Knowing more or specific technologies isn't what makes someone a good engineer.

Practice identifying problems, taking full ownership of them and fully thinking through and delivering solutions.

This is way easier if you find a problem that you're interested in.

If you're not able to sink your teeth into any good problems, at least pay attention to people around you who do this well so you can copy them in the future.
I find myself reading a lot of fantasy, and I use GR to track the reading that I do. I have to be honest, I find it really useful, especially if you are undecided as to whether you want to purchase a particular book or not.

The negative reviews (1 or 2 star reviews) will often highlight the parts of the book that the reviewer did not like, and that is often something that determines whether or not I purchase the book or not.
And a quick zoom in video showing the galaxy's location in Perseus here: https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/videos/2020/01/1270-Vi...
>> Not to mention they apparently pay many people these sort of salaries to do basically nothing [1]: they've decided it's better to simply retain talent than risk them going to a competitor, regardless if they provide any value or not.

I don't think Google is purposely ok with some of their employees doing basically nothing. I've heard the theory that companies pay for some top talent who don't generate value just to prevent them from going to competitors, but is there any hard evidence for it?
Honestly, if you haven't read that much, anything above a 4 is usually pretty darn good.
The part on “Make code more concise“ struck me as an anti-pattern that should instead be a simple function composition. Or the functional programmer in me notes that the author re-invented the Maybe monad.

I do like the point in Learn the user’s language, as friendlier error messages is something we should all strive for, although I’ve never had an issue with particular problem in Python’s stacktraces, and actually having types like Julia or at least annotations via mypy seems a better solution.

CRAN is a great point, and pythons packaging is in a sorry state with a crazy number of approaches and undeclared dependencies. R does a great job here.

Functional programming section is ironic given the lack of functional patterns in the post. R has even fewer higher order functions than the python standard library.

It’s hard for me to see how R is better for production than python, and the argument against pandas seems a bit strawman considering that numpy/scipy are quite stable and more central to the ecosystem than DataFrame. R is fantastic for data science and highly productive, until you need to do data mugging or anything else that involves a general purpose language.
Full Disclaimer: I am CEO and founder of a software company that works on reproducibility.

The disconnect between "most scientists agree there is a reproducibility crisis" and "most scientists believe most of the papers they read are basically true and reproducible" has extended to every domain in my experience.

With the way the funding model currently works, my hypothesis is that doing more, completely reproducible studies will drown out the non-reproducible studies (and funding model) with reproducible studies (funders ultimately vote with their checkbooks).

That seems like a second logical disconnect and completely impossible if the cost model remained the same. However, the question is do studies operate in a way that is maximally efficient for the scientists or for the economy of science publication and knowledge dissemination. We, at MyIRE, believe that technology can tip the scales in the favor of scientists.

Read more about our platform and business plan if you're interested:

https://docs.myire.com
Levels.fyi has this on their main site. But RSU vesting at public companies is a lot more humane these days (unless you work for Amazon).
They are mostly for Server / Database workload [1] and Facebook looked at reducing Memory usage with Optane[2].

Consumer workload see little to zero measurable benefits. Once you pass a certain Random Rd / Write speed, Seq Rd Write is still king, or likely not the source of bottlenecked.

[1] https://www.servethehome.com/intel-optane-hands-on-real-worl...

[2] https://research.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/reducing-...
> the older the tech, the longer it will remain in active use

You may already be aware, but this effect has a name:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
Some bay area cities encourage replacing with native or drought tolerant plants. They give a small rebate if you convert from grass to any of the above. They also offer free courses to learn about this topic.
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They hated him, because he said the truth. Azure also does not run sharepoint, teams, and it didn't run skype.
Another point of reference: here are some offers recently aggregated on Blind. In 2019, I got an offer almost identical to one of those listed below, and a friend got an offer a little higher than listed below. So I believe the reports are legit.

While the raw salary data on levels.fyi is useful, other context about the candidate & team is pretty important. For example, my friend has no college degree but matched to a very profitable / well-funded team, so he got a relatively larger stock award. levels.fyi probably has a pretty good estimate of how each company assigns base salary bands to the now "standard" four levels (junior, senior, staff, decorated).

It seems sign-on bonuses grew a lot in 2019. Several posts for Facebook new grads getting $100k sign-on bonus.

LinkedIn

Senior

* 185 base, 10% bonus, 300k - 400k for 4 years stock, 60k sign on

* Total Comp: 294 - 319 / yr

Staff:

* 210 base, 15% bonus, 600k for 4 years stock, 75k sign on

* Total Comp: 411 / yr

Senior Staff:

* 230 base, 20% bonus, 1M for 4 years stock, 100k sign on

* Total Comp: 551 / yr

Facebook

Senior:

* 210 base, 15% bonus, 700k for 4 years stock, 80k sign on

* Total Comp: 437 / yr

Staff

* 225 base, 20% bonus, 1.1M for 4 years stocks, 100k sign on

* Total Comp: 570 / yr

Google

Senior

* 195 base, 15% bonus, 750k for 4 years stock, 100k sign on

* Total Comp: 438 / yr

Staff

* 220 base, 20% bonus, 1M for 4 years stock, 120k sign on

* Total Comp: 544 / yr
IMO that’s not necessarily DRM, so much as just a watermark. Although one could argue they are using it to manage their rights digitally, hence DRM.
It seems unlikely for the change to be abrupt without, ah, bigger issues...
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You don't have to live in the cities. A luxury villa in e.g. Phuket with views of the ocean and water purification system and other international-standard amenities can be bought for what you'd pay for a small condo in SF or Palo Alto.

I'm strongly thinking of doing this with the family when I retire as well.
Knuth thinks machine learners are not geeks. What do you guys think.

Also he defines geek as people having certain qualities like understanding systems at different levels of abstraction.
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Honest question - is this a part of your hiring pitch? "Our engineers don't complain about business constraints" is a red flag if I ever heard one.
Unless GCP is an order of magnitude better or cheaper (which I have seen no evidence of), the question becomes "Why take the risk?"
NY state pays all IT people (with a 4-year degree) $56K to start currently. Of course, you get a pension(!) and good health insurance. Private sector companies often don't pay much higher, and have much worse benefits.
But don’t forget that the WiFi Tokyo Drift version actually fits in between two later versions and it’s up to you to figure out where by carefully examining which characters are present in the documentation of each version.
> The top firms have gotten themselves into an insane bidding war.

That may be true, but there's more to it than that. The first wave of successful IPOs (Facebook, Amazon, Google, Twitter, etc.) caused a spike in housing prices as employees purchased houses. On top of that, companies have added tens of thousands of new jobs, without proportional growth in the housing supply. So housing prices are now absurd, and these companies need to pay more so their employees can buy smallish houses on the peninsula at $1.5-$2.5M a piece and have a middle-class quality of life.
It sounds like (guessing based on phrasing) ameen is the only, or only senior, technical staff member? Why would they let them go? If I were a cartoon-villain, mustache-twirling higher-up for said company, what this post tells me is that the situation is currently working, that my employee knows the score, and they don't seem liable to do anything about it except complain on the internet. In a really evil way, wouldn't it be reassuring to them?

I should be clear, I sympathize with the situation and hope that ameen's employer is not cartoonishly evil, and instead would maybe even realize they have improvements to make. But just thinking about possible outcomes of someone venting on the internet, firing doesn't seem like one that makes any sense.

If they are such a central team member to an ecommerce operation, likely the company feels equally stuck with them (e.g. how many sales would be lost if the site went down while looking for a replacement, and would the company even survive that?).
Username checks out. Did you have a point, or are you just here to offer content-free snark?
Is there any language for which the same could not be said?
This particular solution doesn't sound feasible in the long term. If a significant portion of customers start using this, the benefit is nullified. And providers will probably react.

It's very similar to the "download boosters" of old which worked until they got popular which is when download sites started throttling.
> And then they can listen to everything I'm doing, which is not cool

If this is a concern to you I encourage you to read about hardware-implemented wake words to get a better understanding of how is that the microphone is only recording when you trigger the device. This has alleviated the concerns of a number of people I've spoken to about this. If you concern is about accidentally triggering the wake word and being recorded when you did not intend to be, can't help much with that, but it seems like something of a niche concern.
Or the judges can also make contradictory judgments and screw Oracle in both cases for being an ass.
I really like this idea of having students (not just advanced ones) reproduce classic experiments (ideally before getting the theory, so the class can attempt to puzzle out what's happening). My sense is that early science was very hands-on and readers of such results were also doers. Plus, doing the experiment before theory puts them in the same spot as the scientist, and might give them a little more respect for an achievement that is really quite magical (and too often is taught in a kind of arrogant hindsight that implies the discovery is/was sneeringly obvious to any human that draws breath)
make sure it stays on personal accounts and equipment to avoid ownership issues but ianal
I think that's underselling things. These companies have very low admit rates, and leetcode is pretty tedious. That said though, divide the compensation difference by 200 hours of studying and it probably works out to a worthy investment.
Is it a problem?

I've learned so much living a solitary life that I probably would never have learned if I'd spent all that time socializing.

That's not to say there aren't benefits to socializing more, but I don't think it's so obvious which is better. Each has their advantages and disadvantages.
Looks like us over here in Europe are getting shafted. Even if you adjust for living expenses, European engineers are grossly underpaid.
What's sad is dandelions are neither ugly nor bad for your lawn. They feed bees and the tap roots draw nutrients from deep in the soil, which also benefits the grass.
NB: your website looks like "My Ire" is that intentional?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ire
edit: self-avowed socialists
I grew up in Siberia. When I came here as a kid in the early 90s I was dumbfounded by lawns. Why was everyone cutting all this normal grass all the time??
I'm not American, but the Democratic party self-describes as social-liberal.

Of course people can agree or disagree with the ideology, but only you here seem to have attached stigma to the word.

(Though the same could have been said for 'fascist', which certainly now has widespread stigma attached, and most proponents have stopped self-describing as such.)
It’s always fascinating to me how some people churn from tech to tech, burning most of their time reading docs and fighting with configurations, just because a new technology might be a bit better than the existing, perfectly adequate system.

It’s not that things can’t be improved, just that there is so very much low-hanging fruit that has never been implemented at all in a usable manner. We should focus on the huge gains to be made there before the tiny incremental gains to be made by endlessly iterating.
Loving the video. I have a couple of volumes of TAOCP. Even though I am not in CS, the series is so well known and so respected that it is a must-have. I'll periodically leaf through some pages and have a hard time grasping how much work he must have put in, how many papers he must have read - good, bad, and indifferent - to extract the best and put them all in context. No wonder he gave up email before most people even heard of it and decades before it became cool. I saw him many times on the Stanford campus in the late 1980s when I was a grad student in chemistry. Never went up to say hello and to thank him for TeX.
It's also a lot more line of sight, and easier absorbed in concrete and more dense construction materials (think rooms away with layers of wood and drywall).

2.4GHz = 5 in

6GHz = 2 in

The inches are the wavelength height from base to top... Meaning that's pretty much what it can get around without impeded.
> she'd find at least one guy who is an exec or VC making 7 figures per year, and it would usually be a match.

> "120k/year"? You'd make her laugh.

I don't understand this fixation on earnings, I wasn't making half that when I found my partner. Making 7 figures won't get you a girlfriend, but thinking it will makes it likely any partner you do find won't stick around long.

One of two things are happening, either a, all the women you're meeting truly are fixated on nothing but a man's wallet (highly unlikely but possible) or b, you have some seriously unhealthy views towards women and relationships that you should work on before attempting to enter a meaningful relationship.
This is the conversation between Lex Fridman (MIT) and Donald Knuth, the legendary computer scientist & mathematician. Lex Fridman's podcast is my favorite and it's about Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). He says: "To me AI is bigger than computing, it is our civilization's journey into understanding the human mind and creating echoes of it in the machine.".
setbacks are about reducing FAR so people need to buy a lot more land than they need to build a home to live in. It helps keep property values high and land as a scarce resource.
What's the stack? You should do a blog post!