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Heya,

Just wanted to let you know that I don't have a degree (nor do I know know FEA, transducers or electrical prototyping are)

I've been in the industry for hmm, a little over two years now, getting on perfectly well so if I can get in, so can you B)

I actually applied for a graduate role (after being turned down plenty of times) and partly through sheer luck, an opening in a different city being unfilled, and a bunch of self directed learning, I got an offer

Partway through, I actually left the graduate program through a bit of sneakery (I applied for a regular dev role and passed the interview) and have been working as an SRE ever since.

I happened to have a decent background with the skills required (Python backends) but my brief experience with React came in handy as we've flipped some internal APIs into self-service internal products and so on

Personally, I'll usually poke around people's Github profiles out of personal interest, as part of the interview prep process, but I don't assign any weight to it if there's not much to see. More like a cool added bonus but nowadays I don't publish much that I work on :)

For reference, I think I was 22 when I got my first role and I wasn't someone who had been programming since a young age (although I had picked up a bunch through osmosis reading eg; HN and so on) but there are people who make career moved even later in future

None of the above is necessarily actionable but I guess just know plenty of people have been in your shoes before so don't think it's impossible or even improbable!
Oh good, the monthly HN systemd 5 minute hate is upon us once again.
I know that HN is an international community but it's based in the US and most users are Americans. In the US, you need strong evidence of negative repercussions to restrict speech, and even then it's extremely difficult, due to the 1st amendment being one of the most important laws of the land.
It's not the other way around - evidence is not needed to show that allowing speech is helpful.
Yes, I think that net income chart is what people really should be looking at when considering salary vs cost of living but too many times these analysis are so hyper focused on home prices.
That's right, because "Lizard People" are technically "Jews", so he's not actually ranting and raving about fictitious lizards, he's ranting and raving about Jews, so maybe he's not technically objectively full of shit because Jews really exist, huh?

But maybe YouTube's lawyers advised them that the First Amendment doesn't apply to them because they're not Congress, so they booted him for anti-semitism, and inciting terrorism, and being a menace to public health, among other subjective but perfectly legal and valid and morally justifiable reasons.
Moving to Austin in August after I finish my degree. Definitely feeling validated with my choice by this graph.
Pretty cool. How can you ensure a Mastodon Instance isn’t running malicious code? Are there checks and balances somehow that ensure forked copies pass some sort of checksum?

Or is it just assumed that users who sign up for a Mastodon Instance should trust the Instance maintainer?
It’s kind of the same argument for your water company. There’s only one company in town, are they allowed to deny you water service without some sort of published process with oversight?
I can't speak for NYC, but the salary noted for SF (just under $120kpa) is almost certainly base pay for the most junior engineers you can find who aren't interns. Three years ago my team hired an intern into a FT position for $100kpa base, and it was widely acknowledged that he was grossly underpaid, because he was far below the target midpoint for the entry-level pay band (that company was targeting the 65th percentile, and he was below it by a double-digit percentage).
Believing that shutting down "bad" speech will help things is also simplistic and seductive.
I usually have a fixed block of time for working on side projects on weekends. The research phase usually happens through the week, whenever I have the time to think about it.

My problem generally is splitting the weekend time across too many projects, with newer ideas displacing older ones. Having much fewer ideas to work on in total, helps me spend more time on them.
Most stems from ignorance. Of which education and constructive debate style education are the best solutions and what you have left, that is the pure hate that need more than blocking in society.
Those jobs aren’t going to other cities. They are going to other countries. The most affordable city is the US can’t even come close to the salary savings from moving to many of the well established outsourcing markets.

Remote work is incredibly popular with US companies. It’s called outsourcing and it’s about to get even more popular.
I remember reading a similar article about disinfecting wipes - the bottleneck is actually in the plastic containers, not the wipes, and so a few companies have started packaging them in bags like baby wipes.
I don’t know where the data comes from, but as a hiring manager at a mid-size public company in SF, I would say these numbers are way, way off the mark.

An ordinary mid-level engineer (3-4 years of experience) would expect to make $150k salary with 10% bonus and about $120k equity. If you add that all up your tax return for the year will show approximately 150 + (150*0.1) + (120/4) = 195k taxable income.

As a rule of thumb I would say:

New Grad: $140k total comp

Mid level: $200k total comp

Senior level: $250k total comp and up

Numbers can go far above that for FAANGs, especially Facebook and Google.

I can’t speak to the rest of the numbers, but given the numbers for the bay area are so far off, I would not put much stock in this analysis.
Rural Croatia too, except it’s a truck that comes to all of the villages 3x/week with staple items. Plays ridiculously stereotypical Croatian music through a loudspeaker to announce his arrival.

And then a meat truck once a week and a fish truck more irregularly.

Took requests as well.

I think of it like villages having Amazon Prime starting in the late 90s.
AMD has a tiny market share in the cloud GPU market. AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure all have compute instances with NVIDIA GPUs, and I don't think any with AMD GPUs (IIRC Azure maybe has windows instances with AMD GPUs for graphics).

According to https://www.techquila.co.in/nvidia-cloud-ai-gpu-share/, AMD is at ~1%.
What you are missing is the bad, immoral and harmful ideas that perpetuate themselves by virtue of being proclaimed true by the authorities. Every totalitarian regime out there perpetuates a set of such 'official truths', that are painfully and obviously untrue to the subjects, but have to be aquiesced to.
If you don't like something, put your energy into implementing it the way you do. With any luck, the ensuing distraction will be more effective at weakening the original than simply complaining about it.
Do you have evidence that censorship wins over lies? Considering that one of the most fundamental and important US laws is freedom of speech, it behooves you to prove that censorship works, not that free speech works.
Are you saying that the truth is "Covid-19 is caused by 5-g towers"?
I don't think glassdoor salaries are correct. It looks like they auto-generate salaries using some algorithms for companies they don't have data
> The government cannot persecute you for your opinion or beliefs.

United States v. O’Brien?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._O%27Brien

Edward Snowden?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden
I would prefer content not to be prohibited at all. Content is not a problem. Actions are a problem. Watch all the videos you like telling you to burn down a cell tower. Once you do burn down a cell tower, then you go to jail. Perhaps we should also then hold the people telling people to burn down cell towers responsible, criminally and civilly, for the people who listen to them.

David Icke might not be so cavalier about telling people to burn down cell towers if he could be sued and/or jailed after people took him up on it.

As a general principle, I think we should focus on actual consequences, not imagined, potential consequences.

This has the effect of also encouraging useful dissent. If you disagree with WHO and you turn out to be right, you can be properly credited with it. You are not automatically punished for the crime of daring to disagree with the WHO, and we all benefit from having more accurate, useful information.
No, there should not be a standard of truth, that's the point. It's a market place of free ideas.
Breaking Down the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis
That 90% number seems really hard to believe.

Not to me. The real number could be even higher, at least for the USA population.

Without electricity, here are just a few things that come to mind:

1) no water to your house. Have fun drinking out of the nearest river. There won't be a hospital you can go to when you get cholera or dysentery or heavy metal poisoning.

2) have fun using a chain saw (you do have one?) to chop down nearby trees so you can cook your food. How many cans of spam do you have right now in your pantry?

3) One tank of gasoline. The one in your car. That's it. Gas stations can't pump out of their tanks. It wouldn't be hard to get the 10,000 or 20,000 gallons out of their storage tanks by portable pumps. It's a day or two worth of gas. Many stations get daily gas deliveries, they don't have much inventory around.

4) No electricity means refineries can't operate. No diesel for trucks to deliver the gasoline that refineries can't produce. How many refineries can operate for long, if at all, without external electricity?

5) A lot of oil and gasoline moves by pipelines. These need significant energy for pumping along the way. No electricity, no pipelines.

6) No food being shipped from farms. No energy for factories to process it, e.g. refine grain and slaughter cattle.

7) How long can diesel-electric trains run with the diesel they have on hand? A few weeks? Of course, subways and overhead-electric trains would be totally non-functional.

8) Have fun in urban areas like NYC. I can't imagine what a place like that would be after a week or two without water or power and without working sewage.

I'll just stop right there. I could probably come up with another 100 things without really trying.

On the bright side, who will be OK:

1) A lot of the third world. People whose daily existence depends on subsistence farming can survive for years. Many of them don't have electricity right now.

2) Some farmers in the USA. They probably have hand-pumped wells (a relic from bygone days) and plenty of food on hand.

3) Some groups like the Mormons. They (at least on paper) prepare for those kinds of things.

4) People like the Amish. They would probably do OK.

5) Survivalists in general. They have stocked up on food, and they have guns. They will be happy to shoot you dead if you come to them to take their food. And if they run out of food they will be happy to go looking for you and shoot you dead and take your food.

Just 150 years ago none of this would have been an issue. We didn't have electricity and we had much lower population density.

But now, if we lose electricity nationwide for an extended period of time, we are way beyond fucked. We're mostly dead.
There's even a saying for this: "A lie can travel half-way around the globe before the truth gets done putting its shoes on."
Persuasion isn't easy. There are those who adhere to ideas that have endless historical wreckage piled up beneath them.
When you say something that is inconvenient to those in power then one way for them to deal with is to label you as a conspiracy theorist. These confirmed scientific theories weren't always confirmed and there was a time when they were quite inconvenient to those in power (the church). The parent poster is making the argument that it's easy to label true information as a conspiracy theory too. Even to this day there are many people who think evolution is a lie. What do you think it was like when Darwin was alive? Now think about the fact that many people have been killed because they were accused of practicing witchcraft.

Yeah, I'll take 9/11 truthers over that.
The WHO seems to have been embarrassingly wrong or overconfident on many accounts:

1. Global air travel does not need to be stopped.

2. There is no evidence of human-to-human transmission.

3. There is still a "window of opportunity".

4. Masks don't work (but health workers need them!).

5. The CFR is like 4%.
Somewhat amazingly the US government anticipated a COVID-19 type pandemic, and even prepared for it.

Unfortunately a number of different failures of government resulted in that preparation being completely squandered. Leaving the US completely unprepared when it actually happened.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/opinion/ventilators-coron...
As an example of your point. At some point in the past the censors would have gotten the truth wrong on the cancer/smoking connection. Believe it or not, that began as a fringe belief.
Also agree here.

Rational financial planning is, of course, essential for managing a business sensibly.

However, vague intuition + random luck generator + huge uncertainty != a useful financial plan. I feel like a lot of startups could summarise their financial slides with something like "We anticipate an outcome somewhere between failing within three months and becoming the next Facebook, with somewhere between Ramen profitability within six months and a unicorn exit at 8-10 years being most likely."
Embedded makes less for whatever reason.

What I'll say is that over $100k-ish at non-FAANG, the salaries say more about the company than the person doing the work.
It's dramatically simpler and more intuitive than what it replaced, so I'm super excited when someone comes up with something even better!
> the Declaration of Independence explicitly stated the slaves were not people.

That is categorically not true. It said some problematic things about Native Americans for sure, but they could never have gotten away with pro-slavery language in the Declaration. It's a propaganda document that had to unite wide swaths of revolutionary ideologies; abolitionists included.

I assume that you are actually thinking of the 3/5ths compromise in the Constitution, which is still more complicated than just "saying slaves aren't people." Counting slaves as people was the slave-owner position, because being counted wasn't about rights or freedom, it was about State power. It was the abolitionist arguing that slaves shouldn't count as people, not to de-humanize them, but to keep the slave-owners from being able to have it both ways.
Ask HN: Does anyone here does option trading or atleast use that instrument?
I am learning to trade in options so I am thinking does anyone of you has any experience about how they got into it.Which resource did you use for that?Which strategy do you use now?
While this may be the rule on paper, if you have something like "Mechanical Engineer" on your LinkedIn profile, even without the word "Professional" you'll have your engineering organization send you a scary letter asking you to remove it or face the consequences. The reason is that the "Professional" part is usually implied by the "Engineer" part.
I concur. I've made three loaves of bread and two pies during all this, and will likely make another loaf this week. Just because I want something to do and wanted to learn how to bake more. I had to get yeast shipped to me from a friend out of state though, as it was already gone here.
Yeah, don't get me started on the fragile glass test tube called systemd-resolved that fails in mysterious ways when I use wicd on Ubuntu and the WiFi gets momentarily disconnected. I don't see the sense behind treating name resolution as something so special that it has to be part of an init system.

I like the overall theoretical concept of systemd but it has ugly implementation details like this.
Okay - I'm intrigued. How do you recommend managing infrastructure which consists of thousands of servers? With k8s - you just delete the pod and it gets recreated with a clean image within a few seconds. What's your proposal?
Corporations should not be allowed to persecute based on option or beliefs either. Corporations already cant persecute based on sex, race, religion, orientation or age. Why should beliefs be any different?
Yes the media has many ways of getting wacky stories out there.

One of the old favorites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_Sport
Still didn't stop some people believing it completely though, human nature.
> How do you really quantify that in a way that is objective and obvious

We set a number. Done.

These are corporations that only exist because we permit them to. Given enough political will, we can regulate them however we want.
> But you do it once and you never do it again.

Well other than every time there's an Xcode update.
The idea that in some cases we do not know what is true is valid. The idea that therefore we can never determine what is true and therefore must, in the name of "free speech" support and help anyone say anything is not.

David Icke is not spreading information. He's spreading nonsense about lizard people. That's objectively true.
But then we'd learn about all those oligarchs, abuses of the system, tax evasion, astroturfing, propaganda, opposition gate-keepers, distractions, fake conspiracies etc. ;)
There indeed were a few dangerous vaccines, about three generations ago. That's exactly why we have the elaborate clinical trial system today: they stop potentially unsafe vaccines all the time. A large fraction of the COVID vaccines might go this way. Nobody is against banning unsafe vaccines, but some are for banning people from spreading baseless, conspiratorial anti-vax bullshit.
This really comes down to whether or not all ideas should be _promoted_ equally. Do we think all ideas–even if they are demonstrably untrue-deserve to be boosted to the same level of provable truths.

Should they all be promoted equally and considered equally and taught equally, forever? Do we allow demonstrably false claims to remain at the top to be treated equally, forever? To forever waste time? Every single provable untruth? Millions of them? Forever?

I personally see no problem with demoting ideas which have been considered already. I however would have a problem if these peddlers of demonstrably untrue ideas couldn’t easily go set up their own websites or print on their own paper.

This is why I’m not running around flapping my arms dancing in a panic circle. At this point, people can still:

- easily make their own websites at a cost which is a tiny fraction compared to history

- ideas can still printed and pushed the same as they always could through print

- people can still stand on a corner and yelp out whatever ideas just as they always could.

This is really about how much promotion into consideration these ideas deserve and for how long. How much of our very limited time/energy reserves do every idea get?
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Curious what's so horrible about Austin, as I've thought about Texas as somewhere I might want to move sometime in the future.

Any chance you could elaborate a bit? Would appreciate the opinion of a local.
> Add in all the waste of every 23 year old who has never baked in their life buying 20lbs of flour to go bad in their pantry and things.

How quickly does processed flour go bad? I’d imagine as long as you store in a dry, air-tight box, it should be ok?
WHO, CDC, hospitals, universities, doctors
(I live in the Yukon)

It's extremely common to zip down to Juneau to go shopping and then hop back to the Yukon. It's just a 10 hour one way trip, and when you live in the North that's not so far. Tons of people go there simply to go to Costco (which doesn't exist in the Yukon)

It's also really nice to go in winter when it's -40C/F in the Yukon (all inland) and usually right around freezing in Juneau (coastal)
Just some food for thought. If youtube was around in the past and doing this stuff they could have deleted videos in support of the following: (these all started as fringe beliefs(1))

Interracial marriage

Gay marriage

Smoking causes lung cancer

(1) interesting topical read and it has sources for these at the end
https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/09/american-brain.html
I recommend not having thousands of servers. Who has thousands of servers? Maybe 10 companies, worldwide, have an actual demonstrable need for that. The rest of the companies are just engaging in devops masturbation.
> Content is not a problem. Actions are a problem.

This is an absurd standard that would excuse literally Hitler. When the Nazi party was coming to power, he never fired a shot himself -- he just talked a lot.
I think the joke is that people that start fresh baking bread at home start eating a lot more of it because it’s delicious.
Sure. I guess my point is that even picking ranges, your error bars are so wide before you have any concrete data on revenues and product-market fit that I don't believe you can draw any intelligent conclusions anyway. Once you get something into market, and you start spending and making money, and you start hearing back from paying customers and running experiments and iterating, then you can get a meaningful sense of how your product or service is going to perform and choose ranges that might not be so wide as to be completely useless.
Probably because traditional supply chains are awful when they encounter anything except super predictable demand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_distribution_game

I'm guessing the retail supply chain and their wholesalers are a pretty much seperate business and supply chain to the restaurant industry, and a jump in demand for home baking (even if that's probably mostly just going onto household pantry storage) has pushed the traditional supply chain into instability.

Pretty much the same story for toilet paper too. It's not like people need to wipe their arses more in isolation, but the retail market and the business/workspace market supply chains are now flailing around looking for a new barely stable ordering/stocking equilibrium.
The original version of the NVPTX backend was contributed by nvidia, but iiuc they abandoned it afterwards and I think all the work on it since then has been by Google.
Pretty but useless cherry blossom tree
That's just not true though. In the US the rights of property trumps the rights of Freedom of Speech in 99% of cases.

If someone puts up a cardboard box on my property and begins a speech, I have the right to kick them off of my property. We have 'Free Speech Zones' which we kick protesters into so that their exertion of their rights doesn't bother other people. We have cases of senators getting people arrested solely because they laughed at them.

And that's ignoring our long history of suppressing people based on their race or origin. Black Americans are the first ones that come to mind, but we treated Italians and Asians as second-class citizens not that long ago as well. We've had this 'freedom of speech' right enshrined but not at all interpreted like people seem to think it was.
If a majority of the population was using HN, then we’d be getting closer to an apples to apples comparison. The crux of the issue includes Google’s reach.
If he's right about the Go Fast video, doesn't that call into question the others as well? They all come from the same organization; figuring out that one of the videos is obvious horseshit should have us extra suspicious of the others, no?