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I met Seymour Cray, and he was definitely as amazing as you can imagine. He's also very much dead.
Look like people with higher pay don’t tweet about their salary ;)
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I'm not in the telco space, but I've seen some signs that the telcos are changing protocols to solve the spoofing problem.
The first commercial GPU might have been the LDS-1 from Utah in 1969, which was indeed used for FPS gaming: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LDS-1_(Line_Drawing_System-1...

But it built on the history of “display processors” already in use: http://www.cap-lore.com/Hardware/Wheel.html

I had thought that computers of the time didn't have enough RAM for a framebuffer, but evidently the CDC6600 did, with what we would call 982 kilobytes today.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this seems to be missing array programming (APL, Matlab, Julia, etc).
You missed the point entirely. if USA already spends a lot of money (albeit in the wrong direction...maybe) in healthcare, how will the healthcare problem be solved if it spends another, say $200M ? You can argue reform, not that it needs a few more hundred million to "solve the problem"
After looking at these numbers I realized Western Europe pays a bit better than I expected and US outside SV a bit worse :) The difference still seems to be there, but one part of that is USD/EUR being pretty high currently.
MSN paid. We also carried all traffic for Microsoft properties; if you’re an ISP, whatever you were paying for Microsoft data went to zero and your other links had more capacity.
‘Perhaps the most important isotope’:how carbon-14 revolutionised science (2019)
In my experience interviewing people for small companies, I learn towards problems that aren't particularly hard but that demonstrate basic engineering fundamentals. I do value questions that give some insight into the interviewee's thought processes, but it's not necessary to give them a leetcode style question to get there. Startups that try to emulate Google hiring process are pretty clearly shooting themselves in the foot. Thoughtlessly copying successful companies is one of the banes of our industry.

Some companies are solving problems which might demand a higher level of algorithmic rigor in the interview, but it's always worked out for me on the hiring side to consciously avoid Google style questions. I don't think I've given the thumbs up to any truly 'bad hires' for many years, and I've given the thumbs up to many.
Big +1. Leave the Bay Area. Heck, you could even get a Bay Area job that allows remote and then leave the Bay Area. I worked remote from ATX for 2 years for an SF startup and it was great!
The comment you are replying to mentions more than a diversity goal. It mentions a financial incentive for hiring minorities. Can you give an example of how that would not create discrimination?
The American system sounds like what something called a “safety net” should provide. Why would someone actually need to use a safety net while they are healthy, young, and gainfully employed?
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> That's insane. What's even more insane is that a bit over 20 years later homecomputers reached that frequency. And in the next decade they reached over 100 MHz.

The CDCs still had a good run. This line was originally released in 1964. It started at 10MHz, but that was 60 bit words, and special floating-point systems. IIRC floating-point multiplies were only one clock cycle; if that's correct, it took 100 nanoseconds.

The Apple II came out in 1977, 1MHz, 8 bit CPU and no floating-point circuits. You had to use many cycles to do any floating point, and typically you only used 32-bit floating point (because it was painful enough there). A single 32-bit floating point multiply took 3-4 milliseconds according to:
https://books.google.com/books?id=xJnfBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA26&lpg=P...

The original IBM PC came out in 1981. Its clock was 4.77 MHz. But again, that was misleading. Internally the 8086 was a 16-bit CPU but its memory I/O was only 8 bits wide. It didn't normally come with a floating-point processor. There was one, the 8087, and I think the original IBM PC had a socket for it, but it cost big $$$ and the 8087 wasn't actually available for purchase until ~6 months after the PC's release. That one could go 4-10MHz. If you bought a coprocessor, you were finally getting to somewhat similar speeds for numerical calculations... but that was 16+ years later.
I think Cray kept that basic philosophy with all his subsequent designs.
I’ve been to that club. The internet descriptions are overblown. When I got all up in my head and attempted to follow all of the advice, I got turned away. I felt like I was wearing a costume and trying to be someone I wasn’t, and that was probably obvious to them.

When I went back years later and just went as myself, my wife and I were immediately welcomed in without much questioning. For those wondering, this is not a club where being with a woman is necessarily advantageous, but I will certainly admit that it likely had an impact.

The biggest things I saw them looking to screen out, beyond drunk - high - obnoxious, were youth and naïveté. They seem to largely be aiming at people who know exactly what they’re getting into, and are relaxed about it + not overly attached to the outcome.

Just so you know exactly what I had on, and how much it flies in the face of some of the advice... on Friday: White t-shirt, jeans, baseball cap. Saturday: Grey Everlane pocket t-shirt, backwards baseball cap, Patagonia 5” running shorts, Off-white Adidas Marathon sneakers. I did learn to dress like you’re going to dance for hours in Friday night, and jeans got hot and shirt came off real quick, so I adjusted on Saturday.

Wife went more classic and wore black jean shorts, black tee with a ripped collar, black baseball cap, black adidas.
This article made me think of what we DON’T hear about: protests against nuclear energy. The oil economy requires so much destructive infrastructure - pipelines, wells, roads, flares, refineries, etc.

By contrast, nuclear requires a few mines and some very careful handling of toxic materials.
With respect to AWS Lambda specifically, a real consideration is how fast the context loads. In the absence of warming schemes, any performance gains you get using Java for example, might be out weighed by the the cost of loading a much larger (in size) context. In general, the zip for the Lambda implemented in Nodejs is going to be considerably smaller than the zip implmented in Java.
Most intelligent people I know hate memorizing noise. (But I have a few friends that memorized a few hundred digits of pi. Good luck convincing them to memorize your random numbers.)
2.8 was a game changer for Blender. I absolutely believe it will be a multi-industry standard for years to come.
This seems, then, like another good example why it doesn't make sense to talk about cancer as a single epidemic, but a set of similar diseases, some of which we've made better progress on than others.
The crazy thing about anaesthetics is that we have no idea how most of them work.

Xenon is an anaesthetic, but it's a noble gas and shouldn't be reacting with anything in the body. How does that work?

Chloroform has been available and known about for 150 years, we only have a possible process for it to work.

Laughing gas works by doing something to ions in nerves. Or rather by doing loads of things to different ions one of which might be the thing we are looking for. So the exact mechanism is "not fully know".

People with ginger hair take about 20% more anesthetic to actually block pain. That's both for local and general anesthetics.

Im always amazed people don't see this as a huge hole in medicine and biochem etc.
Cute videos, but little evidence: Amazon Ring isn't much of a crime fighter
Did you mean to upload the directory .vscode (I'm not familiar with VS Code)?
The author didn't write about that in this particular article because, as mentioned and linked in the first line, he has a whole series of space articles.

Here's his article about radiation on Mars:

https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2019/10/20/omg-space-is-f...

And here, on terraforming Mars:

https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2018/08/05/atmospheres-an...

And on the immense infrastructure we'd need for a sustainable colony:

https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2020/01/20/what-would-it-...
It's important to note that you're not seeing the average of what your peers are earning. You're seeing what your peers who are willing to say what they're earning are earning. That seems likely to be significantly different. Still useful, but not quite as useful as the real data.
While I don’t disagree with the options for generalists others presented, I wholeheartedly agree with the advice to explore your options at your current company before you jump ship. Talk to your supervisor or an exec decision-maker you trust. If they recognize the value you’ve provided, they will bend over backwards to craft a role to keep you. And if they don’t, that will be the time to pursue the other options mentioned here.
+1

If you facilitated criminal to directly connect with me - you’re liable.

Telcos should be liable for “call laundering” similar as banks as for money laundering.

If you don’t know identity of person calling me - you’re responsible for damages.

Problem solved.
According to semantic versioning it would be Blender2 8.2.x IMHO

According to how browsers version it would be Blender2 82

Ideally the initial 2 would be dropped off since it only has a vestigial reason to be there
I work on infrastructure. Security, privacy, speed, reliability—all of these are complex challenges, especially at our scale.

And it's a reasonable question. Thanks for asking.
If I make more than they do and they think they should make the same amount, what’s to stop them from storming into the HR department and bringing my name up as a reason that they should make more?

Even though it is illegal to fire someone for discussing salary, that and a nickel will buy me a piece of five cent candy.

If they make more than I do, what am I going to do with that piece of information? I can’t very well bring it up at salary negotiations.

Besides, I have been around long enough to know that the best way to “get a raise” is to change companies.
Yepp. That is my case :)
Oh wow, this is nothing short of awesome. Your docs¹ are great at first glance, too. Incredible work! Thanks so much, this might prove invaluable for my (personal) research. I guess I have to learn Julia too now, eh. :)

[1]: https://grassmann.crucialflow.com/dev/
I’m a little surprised at that. FAANGs tend to have fairly prescribed comp systems. There’s flexibility around equity and signing bonuses, but if you told me that you were making (base+bonus) say $250k and someone at your level was making $350k, I’d be pretty surprised.

This reveals one of the challenges in these comparisons, by the way: total comp can vary dramatically due not only to initial signing bonuses (which can result in a total comp “cliff”) but also due to time-at-level: e.g. if you were just promoted to level n and your peer was at n for four years, your peer’s net cash flow includes four previous n-sized RSU grants, whereas yours is 3x of n-1 grants.

Of course transparency is still good, but it’s easy to misunderstand what causes a comp difference; in the case of the fast-promoted engineer they may appear to earn less per year despite having a steeper career trajectory than a slower peer.
> greatest impact

I would use “biggest” to remove the ambiguity. The impact wouldn’t necessarily be positive; we’ve had enough movies to remind us that. I can’t think of another area of research where there’s a significant chance that the eventual outcome is completely uncontrollable.

Btw, I’m a high energy physicist and I totally believe there are other intelligent beings in the universe, simply because I don’t think we’re special. We’re just dusts in the who happen to be able t peek a little into the laws of the universe, that’s all. (As a aside, despite all the particle accelerator generating black hole nonsense, my field is pretty safe for humanity.)
They don't own your innovation outright unless that's in your work contract and you haven't negotiated a fairer deal.

And I have no idea where you get your 10X figure from. In fact it's very hard to estimate the specific business value of specific dev work in very large companies, over any time period.

From a high enough level the job becomes "Pay devs to keep the engines running." Unless you're innovating new products/services at a senior level, it's hard to break it down further.

Which is partly why the interview process has become homogenised. Realistically most developers are engine components, not engine designers - although it's easy to be fooled when your component value is process optimisation - and FAANGs have optimised the funnel to select good components.

You need to be senior++ and/or in startup land to be an engine designer - which differs from being a component because it allows independent agency for strategic goal setting, instead of optimisation of tactical implementation.
Not really. It was pretty stressful for me last time since I needed to find a project whose commute allowed to get home in time to take care of my kids, since my spouse's job has no flexibility in that regard.
But that is exactly why you can't use cut in general for parsing CSVs - the usual CSV syntax includes quoted fields, in which commas don't separate the values. But cut only examines the input charwise:

% echo 'a,"b,c",d' | cut -f 1-3 -d ","
a,"b,c"

I don't think there's a good solution to this using standard tools, but I'm sure there are various CSV packages available. (Which I've never used! - I'm just familiar with this problem from seeing people try to work with CSV data in code using exactly the char-by-char approach taken by cut.)
As you get closer and closer to the surface of the phone, phenomena progress from a visible glow, to pair production, to the thermodynamic stability of quark-gluon plasma.
you can export all of your account data, and you can host mastrodon on a raspberry pie, what are you talking about
I routinely rotate accounts to avoid identification, sorry, but I’m not willing to name the business. Timing is coincidence to my comment.

I can say I have 9 years of employment at this company and I’m intimately familiar with the internal politics.
If you have something in the sciences/engineering that fascinates you enough to consider it, maybe grad school?

I guarantee that none of the IT skills you have acquired will go to waste. Plus -- by choosing a fascinating area -- you might actually NOT BE BORED!

On the other hand, if you are at all hesitant, don't go to grad school. With the wrong adviser, it will chew you up and spit you out in tiny bleeding little pieces.

Just my 2 cents...
Whether the app could run or not is irrelevant if the app doesn’t run. There must be enough apps that don’t run that MS thought to call it out.
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I've recently felt this as well... not just the direction but architecture on how they are created from the scratch...

Maybe in a few years after I get more experience in the business.
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I'm implying consuming more deliberative media, such as long-form journalism, research, "current" history, and the reports of advocacy groups you agree with to inform yourself and help decide what action you will take.
I was thinking the same thing. If the original intent was to help underrepresented folks, now maybe they’ll benchmark themselves against only this naive group willing to self report on twitter and continue to be paid less than the real average.
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You don't need to beg to get us to believe you, simply provide some evidence. You're already disguising your identity behind a new anonymous account, which doesn't help your credibility, so why don't you disclose the name and location of the companies and more specific details, so we will have more information to go on than your anecdotes and personal interpretations?
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> and there's no need to use nasty chemicals anywhere in the process.

Yeah, instead you get lots of microscopic airborne fiberglass strands (a known carcinogen). Yay....?
Burton Smith is still around, I think. My friend Norm, who worked on Stretch, died a couple of years ago. He was pretty fucking amazing.
Those are really interesting!

The point was that even if we could physically visit planets or reach them with communications, we would have to do it in the right time bracket. Any life (of interest) on them may have long since passed on, or not capable of interaction yet.

Mars may have once had life, and we may never know of it.
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Azure is not competent or customer friendly at all. I've been using Azure on and off since its very first days and despite me telling every client that they're better off by using AWS or GCP because it will cause their dev teams less headache, and cost them overall a lot less in engineering cost (time spent by their engineers fighting with Azure instead of building a product) there's still every so often a non technical idiot who got sucked off by some Microsoft Partner manager and trapped in this shitshow of inconsistent, slow, buggy and constantly broken cloud services which Microsoft offers.
It gets some criticism for it, but, in my opinion, it has one of the most innovative/powerful UX of any software I've used.

Some highlights:

- Any panel can be positioned/sized however you like

- You can create custom named layouts for your own common workflows

- Fully extensible via Python plugins (create new UI panels, menu items, hotkeys, etc.)

- Anything you can do manually can be scripted with python

- By default, (although this has changed some) the more-frequently-used hotkeys are single-key. And of course it's all configurable and (if I remember correctly) they have presets for matching other apps like 3ds max / maya.

- searchable commands palette (press [space], start typing command name, press [enter] to execute command)

- on load / "new file": it loads [something like] "default.blend" instead of a hard-coded set of defaults, so that you can configure its definition of an empty file (which IIRC also includes the default layout configuration). To make it quick+easy to change, you can set with menu option [File]+[Save Startup File].

- Windows can be broken out and dragged to a separate monitor

- Lots of highly-specialized UI widgets. e.g. inline ranged slider that captures the mouse on click and adjusts the value as you move the cursor, has a "progress bar" to visualize the percentage, allows keyboard entry if you single-click instead of click+drag, has arrows on left and right that can be clicked to step forward/backward, has label inline with widget, and has description on mouseover

- Generalized interactive timeline for animation and sequencing

- Powerful node-based editors for shaders, textures, etc., with nodes for each stage of the pipeline and utility nodes to apply transformations (e.g. add a node for a source image, draw a line from the image's color output to the input of a "brightness" node, etc.)

And not only can you use it for the obvious 3D tasks, but it can be used as a non-linear video editor (including things like cross-fade of audio and/or video, video superimposition, textual overlaying, cropping, stretching, mirroring, color manipulation, option to use 3D scene output as video input, etc.), shadeless 2D raster/vector animator, 3D printing, and probably other things I don't know about.
So let's make it portable? There should be an easy way to transfer your account/content to another verse without losing data. Then keeping a mapping from the old@firstverse -> new@secondverse and verses only allowing a limited amount of immigration transfers per some period to prevent abuse.
Exactly. Welcome to the dark forest.
But you can't yet import that data in your new instance and have it seamlessly continue to work from there, because your identifier obviously changed.
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Why were you doing text processing on a "scientific computer" in the first place? :) Sounds like there may be an interesting story there, maybe.
> The next hurdle for deep space, aside from shielding,

Zinc Bromide for radiation protection?
>> Gathering and defining requirements is very much a part of the job. It is entirely unsustainable to rely on others to tell you what to implement in Google.

It's like that everywhere. Nobody comes to you with complete requirements. People/customers come with problems they need solved. Sometimes an outline of a specific solution is specified, but there's always a lot of detail missing.
It can lead to unnecessary hard feelings about small differences in pay. I’ve definitely had relationships go awkward when people discovered I made a bit more then them, and have struggled not to think “why did that doofus get $5k more than me last year” myself.

I work for a large company with a well defined level structure. When I need to, I’ll say around $XXX, where XXX is what Glassdoor / levels.fyi says. It’s pretty close to accurate, and it also rounded enough that coworkers can project whatever number makes them happy.
Just because some companies think they need to pay that much doesn't actually make it the case.
Most tech jobs in NYC are in midtown and lower Manhattan, but people live all over. In my office there are people living in all 5 boroughs, Westchester, NJ, and Long Island. It’s true that Manhattan and BK are more heavily represented, but there are options.
Why this spreadsheet is not available for non-logged users?

I just tried to download it, but it still require me to sign up.[0,1]

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27000699/google-spreadsh...

[1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-xIgk7Mw1S5DXTZSbKBg...
I feel pretty much the same and have recently applied to a position of Logistician with Doctors Without Borders.

I got really surprised when I first read about the attributions. I had never seen all my interests forming such a harmonic whole before.
Full disclosure: I have not read the article yet but gathered a sense of it from the comments here.

I like your citations. They make me think about a recent radio interview in Canada where an MD was discussing cervical Cancer. He would not say that vaccination for HPV prevented Cervical Cancer. He would only say that it prevented pre-cancerous lesions and Cervical cancer "is never seen without pre-cancerous lesions".

I can understand using scientific rigour to avoid jumping to conclusions. However it makes me wonder about Louis Pasteur and the discovery of micro-bacterial disease origins. Would he have said: "I can't say that these bacteria causes disease X but we have never seen disease X without the presence of these bacteria." ?

All that to say perhaps medical research has been going down the wrong path with Cancer. We have one clear case of viral "involvement". :-)

How big a stretch is it to extend research in that direction and look for more cases?
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Also check out http://www.tellmewhatimworth.com

It’s a service where you get salary estimates from companies actually trying to hire for your skill set right now
Ask HN: Do Any ‘Coding Paradigms’ Influence the Structure of Your Thinking?
Are there any coding paradigms or principles anyone in the HN community applies to daily life, in terms of how you look at a situation, or solve a problem not directly-related to Computer Programming?

I am not a coder, (learning JavaScript) but want to improve at “Thinking like a programmer,” & understanding the line of thought along which coders “think in terms of” which yields creative work.

Also, if you know any great books on thinking like a programmer, it’d be much appreciated.

Thanks for you time.