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> Intel seem to be paying a hefty price lately

But the gains they made have surely outweighed any current hit? Also I haven’t perceived that much of a hit (although I’m not in the industry): are they selling more CPUs? AMD have an opportunity, but I haven’t seen that translated into sales to hyperscalers or consumers (beyond what they were achieving anyway).

Same as Microsoft knowingly for decades chose functionality before security - with the cooperation of plenty of customers that knew better.
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Is it a flat rise or just new tricks like late night fees for "faster" matching ?
It's at least as much my fault as yours, since I said "systems language" as a shorthand for C/C++, not to describe the problem domain, and it's true that the modern zero-cost-abstraction memory-safe languages that can displace the last of the C/C++ code are very new. We'll be out of the era of C/C++ when a mainstream browser is written in one of them.
First of all you need to figure out if you're a "tech lead" (informal title, no reports or authority) or a "dev lead" (formal title, with reports and authority).

As a former Google tech lead (and I know this sounds like a YouTube parody): my advice is don't be a "tech lead" for long. Either be a dev or move into management. Make up your mind. Google "tech lead" is defined above.

As a tech lead in such informal position, you'll end up doing 2 jobs and you'll eventually find that the level of effort required is not commensurate with compensation. You can make much more and have a faster career progression as a manager. You can make the same money with less effort and headache as a dev. Your IC career won't move any faster just because you're a "tech lead", indeed the opposite could be true, because now a non-trivial fraction of your productive capacity is taken up by intangibles which are very difficult for an IC to articulate the value of come performance review time. Being a tech lead makes no logical sense whatsoever, at least not at Google, unless you're aiming for a manager position in the near future, and you need to demonstrate your "leadership qualities".

Other companies may differ, of course, but I bet it's like that at most places that have "tech" leads. In contrast, at Microsoft there's "dev lead", not "tech", and it's a frontline manager position, with reports and authority, and with the aim to move upwards on the management ladder.

Google-like informal "tech lead" is not even a title, it's just a SWE too stupid to understand that they're basically doing more valuable work, and more of it, for the same money.
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Agree, and if I may add, I think cars are worse because their primary function (transport) hasn't changed nearly enough compared with that of phones (voice calls into computation/information-at-fingertips). Therefore, it's harder to justify the same exponential increase in complexity and 'smart'. Maybe OTA hardware tuning ala Tesla will prove me wrong in the future...
If you want the candidate to be more likely to reapply feedback would help.

In fairness I received feedback I didn't get the position because I was too chatty from a hr person who told me to act more chatty because qualified candidates on paper were failing for being too quiet. I kinda wished they didn't provide feedback because I have an opinion on the internal culture that would make me avoid them in the future.
> I see an age where our orbital space is so full of waste we can no longer leave the planet

If you haven't seen Wall-E, watch it.
Whle that is true, to some extend this can be pushed into the absurd and people still make excuses for it.

The JWST yes is new and great and better and technically difficult. But a serious discussion must be had about how NASA spends its money. Many of the things they do are not that innovative and the big companies basically have no accountability and essentially know that delays to JWST will keep them in business. That money could simply have been spent a better way.

Now with the JWST at least you are pushing the possible and I agree you have to be willing to keep pushing those things beyond the initial budget.

However other things, like SLS, Orion and a number of other programs are just charity for big companies. They do not push the possible in terms of technology, but rather are mostly old technologies that they can incrementally work on.

So overall I do agree you have to go over budget and accept that as a reality. However you need to be careful and not just give a free pass not unlimited spending, when that money could be used to improve a dynamic space infrastructure and industry rather then having 50% of your budget in the 3 huge programs that have little accountability.
This is what state sponsored actors and agencies have been doing for generations.

There is no reason to think that anything has changed with the explosion of security consultants and firms.

If you are doing anything national security related, you should really just boil your security thinking down to thinking about the remotest possibility something could happen, and then multiply that x10, and then apply your mitigation.
The additional problem with election security is distinguishing between the parts of the corruption that are local, protected and untouchable; the parts done by foreign actors at the behest of the local untouchables; and the parts done by foreign actors on their own initiative against the local elites.

There's no need to hack the votes themselves if you can just get a list of opposition voters and just cancel their registrations, for example: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/28/georgia-voti...
If you pay attention to people at all, it has a potential to distract you from whatever work you're trying to focus on, every time. If you're in a space where you have people moving about and coming and going in and out of your field of view, you need to learn to pay no attention so that you don't get distracted all the time. The best way is to focus on the screen in front of you and avoid making accidental eye contact with people.
The article even states it's only 1 select statement.
Those are examples of some sort of ecosystem. I didn't say rust doesn't have any, I'm saying it pales in comparison to C++.
There are SEI Level 5 operations in the world. They do exist. Or at least, we've been told they do.

But they are also super expensive.

And no one has any money to spend on anything like testing or quality any more.
Interesting read. I recently experienced something very similar and wrote about it here: https://upmostly.com/specials/2019-year-in-review

I went from 0 to nearly 600,000 page views in just under 12 months.
> The only people I've known personally who see a therapist are women (and from that small sample they don't want you to see their same person).

Which is fair enough. That's why I'm suggesting to not get their therapist's details to see the same person, but to get a recommendation from the therapist. Hopefully that would alleviate their concerns.

AFAIK a good therapist will not see people who are too close to each other anyway as there can be a bias on the therapist's side due to the close relationship. For example doing both couple and individual therapy with the same therapist is not a good idea.
> We need to stop pretending that these missed estimates are a catastrophe. They're inventing new things, and there's uncertainty.

Uncertainty is certain! We also need to accept the fact that sometimes we go down paths, make discoveries, and need to reverse course, or hold people accountable so the wrong people don't pay for the mistakes of others. None of that is happening with JWST, while Northrop gets to pull in billions. That's in addition to ~$30B/year Northrop is pulling in building weapons.

> The same assholes who whinge about the JWST being $4b over budget will happily cheer for hundreds of billions to be spent on wars or whatever.

That's just not true, and the criticism of the F35 program is a fine example.

Beyond that, Webb going over budget is stifling progress on dozens of other pursuits that could probably use the funds more constructively.
Is that good for them? Is there currently a shortage of drivers?
I love how people who support capitalism always draw it in opposition to dictatorial socialism, implying that the democratic socialism we see in many European countries is impossible to achieve or non-existent.

It's one of the most simple logical fallacies -- the strawman. Everyone should have learned about this in high school at the latest, yet there are plenty of very smart people on HN touting this viewpoint. It's sad, really, how people lie to themselves in an attempt to convince themselves they are morally superior.
IIRC, Netflix never showed the average, but rather the rating they predicted you would give it, taking into account your previous viewing and rating.
Uber is diversified between Rides and Eats.

And during a recession it has been shown that people eat more fast food. So I imagine overall the business may not be so exposed.
I have never owned a computer with more than 4GB of RAM. It's fine as long as you don't embed separate copies of chromium in your text editor, IRC-substitute, and music player.
At least with ride hailing we got cheap, convenient rides for a subsidized price.

For food delivery, we get overpriced (upcharged) food, plus a delivery fee, for cold food that takes forever to show up.
Did they put that much up for insurance though? The delta between 18 and 19 is only about $200M.

Uber also tripled it's R&D budget, which may be a good sign for the company, but it looks like it's primarily stock-based compensation.
Much of this is far less sinister if you think who most likely gets held accountable for a battery explosion.

With 2 billion iPhones sold and 750 million in use, anything that can be done wrong, will be done wrong, somewhere — and the easiest proximate party to blame gets blamed.

Changes the risk reward calculus.
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"Given the potential for systemic issues at Boeing, I would also note that NASA has decided to proceed with an organizational safety assessment with Boeing as they previously conducted with SpaceX"
This was written well after he had done the work for which he is remembered. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Grothendieck#Retirem... . That is, at the time the work was done, it was not his intention to limit copying.
On the other hand, by giving good feedback, your company engenders goodwill and brownie points ratings on Glassdoor and elsewhere. Shouldn’t good PR be worth a little work from a company?
If they went to a single DEF CON talk on voting they'd strongly favour paper.
> While researching this piece, I spoke to a few labor lawyers and ran some Lexis Nexis searches to see just how often a company’s constructive feedback (i.e. not “durrrr we didn’t hire you because you’re a woman”) to a rejected eng candidate has resulted in litigation.

It's not "durrrr" and this is why feedback is not given, this immaturity is why people get sued.

Many non obvious statements can have implications about illegal discrimination.

It is probably very rare, this is a quite valid point people get wrong. But benefits are also probably rare, so it equals out.
> the MCAS should not have overridden pilot input when it did

The entire purpose of MCAS was to override pilot input as the typical instincts of a trained 737 pilot is to do the wrong thing. The failure was not handling edge cases (conflicting or missing sensor data) and no clear way to turn off the system when it was failing.
None of those places are capitalist either, and they will actively tell you so if asked.
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Wow.

I wouldn't really call that diversification. I mean, I take your point about fast food, but during a recession, it's probably about cheap eats, which Uber Eats is not. And time should be more plentiful, so there's less need for delivery. And UE is a tire fire of a business from these numbers, so that would hardly be a blessing for Uber.
> Tell this to the politicians who created the copyright laws.

I am sure Grothendieck would be on the front lines of those castigating such politicians. He made this request not to ensure personal gain, but to express his profound disappointment with and disengagement from society as he saw it.
Most countries with socialized healthcare and comparable (sometimes lower) GDP per capita to the US have higher life expectancy, lower expenditures for both the state and the citizens, and a better relationship between healthcare and the citizens. It's a fact. No, death panels aren't a thing. You die when your heart stops beating, period.

Really, reading all the stories on this thread is insane when I think my wife and I could just walk into a hospital and get out three days later with a baby without having to worry about paying a buck. Same when my father went to the ER and came out over a month later after an emergency heart surgery, a week in the ICU and two weeks of physiotherapy.
I have at least one close relative that I believe qualifies as a narcissist. My personal conclusion is that it's sort of a trait that you're born with. I think it relates to a lacking ability to pick up on the subtle social cues that other people send out. Most people can read those signals pretty well, while others cannot. I think, if you cannot read the subtle signals that people are sending out, and if you cannot intuitively pick up on how other people feel, then neither can you respond or react to it in an adequate manner. These are my thoughts after dealing with the said type of personality for quite some years now.

If it's at all treatable, I'd suggest training yourself in picking up on the subtler types of social cues and signals that other people send out. Like Sheldon does in Big Bang Theory, even if that's a bit of a parody.
> Someone has to collect, document, sanitize, and explain the feedback.

Either something like this is being up collected and articulated up through the decision points in the hiring process, or the decisions are being made on a fuzzy basis that can't even be explained internally, which presumably represents a risk that decisions couldn't be properly justified should a candidate suspect discrimination and pursue a claim.

(This is especially true for any kind of exercises, btw. If an employer asks me to do some, I am going to screen them on whether they have (a) complete reference solutions with (b) numbers on how long it took to complete each and why they're confident those numbers are reliable(c) a written rubric for evaluating candidate solutions that (d) they'll agree to share with me when we're done.)
A lion doesn't have to tell anyone he's a lion.
A couple of high-end screen privacy filters paid by me of course, solved the problem 100%. Stress levels went way down
I think the most important aspect of the job is making sure that what you and your team plan will work. Try to keep things simple and use well tested technology. If you are attempting anything bleeding edge, do a quick proof of concept to make sure there are no gotchas. Sometimes team members want to use something novel to solve a problem, and they tend to underestimate the risks (short and long term). Keep it simple. Deliver what you say you will.
The last decade of Shuttle launches had fantastic remote camera and ground tracking coverage (including 4K and views from the SRBs and external tank after separation), even better than SpaceX's. In part they did this because they were watching for potential foam strikes, etc, but it makes for a fantastic view.

SLS is likely to have an even greater level of video documentation since technology will have progressed another decade and it will be such a high profile event (versus the regular Shuttle launches). I suspect many of these views will be live, too.
Communism isn't the only alternative to capitalism, you know that right?
Indeed, I also feel its a closed loop, you only get managers who want to be in total control, which tightens the loop, and we end up with daily stand ups in a battery cage under continuous surveillance.

It gets worse at the lower end of the food chain (e.g. call centres) - even toilet breaks are monitored. Strangely though in the same places there is often a lot of down time because calls are bursty, so watching youtube is permitted (friends of my daughters talk). We are indeed in the strangest timeline.
But they lose money on every ride, and presumably investor money would flee towards business that actually like make a profit.
Adding: I think there is some selection bias. Those who self-select to move to the US probably already have motivation, means, etc to get to the US and the intelligence to manage the complicated immigration process. Then, there's the "burn the ships" part, where you simply must succeed because there's no option of leaving.
Having worked at Cisco 2 years ago and seeing "how the sausage is made." No. Not a shred of faith.
> A well done sad moment probably has a lot more emotional impact than a saccharine ending. I certainly remember Bambi's mother death scene or Alfred's parents death, while the happy endings are lost to the fog of childhood memories.

Of all the things I remember from childhood the weird or scary stuff sticks in my mind like a knife. I believe thats is critical to inspiring creative people later in life with vivid memories of the scary or strange. A lot of those weird and scary memories have shaped the way I think and look at life. The sanitizing of stories leaves little to remember and likely to be forgotten after the next sugary schlockfest has been consumed.
Yes, it would be, since it gives them the freedom to drop costs (supply and demand).

There doesn't need to be an existing shortage of drivers for this to be beneficial.
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Until privacy leaks have more than 0 consequences, why would anyone care to prevent them?
That's the snarky wit of a great therapist healing you of your worry in a single sentence.
He didn't want his works republished at all; it wasn't an issue of translation.
> Implies that there is intrinsically some computer system that continually parses the commanded stick deflection and applies an overlay.

That's not how the 737 works. The 737 is not a fly by wire aircraft. The pilots control the rudder, ailerons, and elevators electrohydraulically; there is no computer filtering. The electric stability trim system, which is what MCAS feeds its input into, controls the trim tabs on the elevators. This does not change anything about the pilots' inputs to the elevators, but it does change the aerodynamics of the elevators in a way that can limit the pilots' ability to control pitch.

> this plane is more or less stable except that under some conditions it will make the pilot soil their pants at higher AoA, which is where the promises of MCAS come in. Big deal.

If the 737 MAX had been a new aircraft type, it would not have been a problem. There might still have been some adjustment needed to meet FAA certification requirements for stick force (basically, the stick force is supposed to increase with increasing angle of attack, so the pilot has to pull harder to keep the nose going up as you get closer to a stall). But there would not have been a need to cobble together anything like MCAS.

The problem was that Boeing wanted the 737 MAX to be certified under the existing 737 type certificate (because otherwise the potential customers wouldn't want it, since they didn't want to have to re-train and re-certify all their pilots), which meant that the stick force as a function of angle of attack had to be the same as for previous 737s. But the new engines on the 737 MAX made the plane aerodynamically different, so the "natural" stick force was different. MCAS was a software kludge to try to change the stick force.
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They would be able to pay less per ride if there are more supply - i.e. available drivers with existing assets.
Last time I was on a delta flight, their terms of service (or whatever they call them) explicitly reserved the right to swap out the type of aircraft at any point in time. That was less than a year ago, I assume it is still the case.
Netflix should have an "So bad it's good" rating. ;)
They will (not would) die. A financial crisis means at least a temporary pullback in investments, and Uber is not cash-flow positive, so without additional funding they will shut down eventually. I see no reason to believe they ever will be cash-flow positive, unless perhaps they can get self-driving cars to work, and that seems too far off at this point.
There’s usually a fixed overhead cost to offering such a service, especially across large orgs. Think about training customer support staff to know about it, developing procedures on how to handle it, etc.

So if it’s used 2 or 3 time’s a year, you might be looking at $2,200/lb plus $1 million divided by 2 or 3.
I think most of the luster Cisco had 20 years ago is firmly and irrevocably tarnished.
Just a quick note to be careful extracting what binwalk considers to be 'everything' (such as the pattern above, or a -e for known file types) on larger files. Sometimes there will be a higher amount of matches than you might expect (such as in a .pcap file). You could magically extract gigabytes of data from a 100MB file, which may be unhelpful and takes a long time.
It's interesting how "it's business" has become catch-all for absolving every breach of previously accepted social norm.

As a hiring manager, you're unlikely to be on the clock. And even if, I am somewhat certain that you could come up with good justifications for giving feedback if anybody asks, which nobody will.

It seems to be a specific disease of middle management to feel the need to demonstrate their "professionalism" by going out of their way to deny their humanity. At Wall Street, they buy ugly but expensive clothes for this purpose. But I guess on the West Coast you only have the Gordon Gecko playbook to fall back on.

I used to work at a branding agency, and it was interesting to see how risk averse middle management was: ideas for product names tend to only be good if they evoke some sort of not entirely pure concept. Think of "Plan B", "Virgin", or "CockroachDB". These would always get shot down by middle management as "unprofessional". Go a level up and people are far more open to be human. I don't know if they are just more self-assured and therefore willing to trust their instincts, or if the selection process for higher management actually works quite well.
How exciting! I can't wait for next brilliant idea. Maybe... "notify your friends when you're thirsty via click of a button! Subscribe now, only $4.99 a month!"
Amazon was building expensive infrastructure and improving their brand, whereas people are increasingly coming to associate Uber as tarnished (don't pay their drivers enough, don't screen for rapists, dumpster fire politics, killed a pedestrian testing their self-driving cars recklessly, continue to hemorrhage money after a decade of operations).

Amazon breaking even is very different from Uber lighting cash on fire to keep the lights on. Amazon was working towards something - becoming the best online shopping place possible (and building the logistical infrastructure to make that happen, allowing them to offer better services such as guaranteed fast shipping). Uber is just continually rearranging the chairs hoping to keep it going as long as they can.

There is nothing about Uber that scales without losing more money. If there were, they would have figured out how to make money by now. It's not like they haven't had enough time and money.
You would probably find it easier to hire if your company gained a better reputation with prospective applicants. Having the courteous culture to give feedback is the sort of differentiator that applicants would value.
Still bearish on Uber stock
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