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Google has certainly moved the needle on things like SRE--both for themselves and for the industry as a whole--because they can and do hire much of what their interview process determines is the "best" into roles that many other companies will staff with more or less whatever resume comes along.

That said, it really hasn't helped Google much to expand their business. GSuite is probably the clearest mostly organic new area--and it's pretty good. Google Cloud somewhat although, like Java for Sun, Kubernetes will probably end up making other companies a lot more money than it will for Google. Hence the current spat over Istio. Certainly lots of things haven't gone anywhere. Anyone want to lay long odds on Waymo being around in 10 years?

And it's probably not healthy for the tech industry. Yes, some will go for the startup lottery ticket for reasons of passion or naivete. And others are just less driven by money. But having many of the notionally best and brightest spending years at Google mostly because they'll pay such large wads of cash to even fresh grads means a lot of companies won't even try to compete for them.
Gosh! Thanks for the hint!
It's the oldest text on mindfulness meditation in the buddhist tradition. In all likelihood, they didn't just read it and follow the instructions, as interpreting it's meaning from scratch is the life's work of a buddhist scholar. It doesn't include any of the buddhist moral teaching ("have goodwill towards others") so most likely OP meant that meditation had a positive effect on their life.
Interesting how quick the squad was able to deploy, clearly bypassed any diplomatic decision making
its shocking how many people here totally misunderstand the role and daily job of inhouse recruiters

they churn out these job requirements daily

the person you speak with on the phone wasn't involved with writing it, just correct them and get to the first technical person as soon as possible.

this is done at companies of all sizes, whether it is IBM, Google, Uber, Pinterest, as well as expected in non-tech companies.

you guys are in for a rude awakening if you think this is still an employees market in choosing companies based on the smallest, most irrelevant and nuanced signals of operational efficiency
I’m a black engineer and I don’t think this will help racism one bit.
You need to find something else to do and encourage your friends to do the same. This is incredibly unhealthy in so many ways. This is the gateway to anxiety, depression and physical disability. The human body is not meant to sit in front of a computer that many hours.

You will pay a price. Maybe not today and maybe not tomorrow, but you don't stay young forever.

Please help yourself before it's too late.
Doesn't getting rich help you?
The natural interest rate refers to the interest rate in a free market of banking. In a free market interest rates would not be zero otherwise the bank can’t make any money...
maybe at FT? The article seemed out of place with the others
Tor users using this e-commerce service are probably a tiny fraction of a percent of the op’s addressable market: easily a “who cares” demographic.
I never made the link with the sound levels before.

I just figured this out recently too. >6pm when people left the office and >8pm when the dull humming of the HVAC turned off gave this odd feeling of calm like it had been subconsciously aggravating me for hours.

Also stumbled on a wiki article on "Directed Attention Fatigue" [1] which implied that the brain's way of focusing is not like turning up the heat on a laser, but more like applying multiple blinders to a horse to create a tiny reticle of focus. That basically meant clear out as many visual-field and sound distractions as possible to minimize the energy required for attention (and increase stamina, too).

One thing I also try w/ the noise-cancelling headphones is only wear them during productive work, so that my brain subconsciously associates headphones on = work time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed_attention_fatigue
The problem is I'm not sure if it will be good for my career. Ultimately I'd like to be in more of a leadership role, and Job A has me doing some of that. However, its not clear how much room there is to move up. I like what I'm doing, but worried I'll get stuck while skills atrophy.
You started off with a reasonable point, but please take a moment to rethink what you're saying.

We're talking about words vs. words here. Nobody is enslaving anyone, which would be the equivalent to your utterly horrible analogy here.
> “All of the overcapacity that has been squeezed out of our healthcare system; we now wish we had it. All of the redundancy in our food production that has been consolidated away; we want that, too. We need our old, local supply chains — not the single global ones that are so fragile in this crisis. And we want our local restaurants and businesses to survive, not just the national chains.”

Just In Time - the machine that changed the world (See Toyota Production System)

Just In Time works great, until it doesn't. The factory works at 1 unit per minute, demand is pretty inelastic. Society is pretty elastic, if a bunch of people decide they want toilet paper TODAY, the Just In Time system is going to starve out.
What about these terms?

Black/White magic
White lie
Dark patterns
Black/Grey/White hat
Black comedy
Whitewash

Personally I feel these usages of black/white don't come from skin colour, rather from something like night/day.
ADAT was 8 tracks of digital audio on a S-VHS. It was actually quite different from this because it was definitely targeted to home-studios, and it didn't use any video encoding, it was digital from end to end (and 15 years later).
Well, conceptually this makes sense for what mysqldump is.

I'm guessing that "backups" would actually have to be live replicas set up from the start, and if the master fails, you convert a replica to master.

In addition, you could perform actual static backups by pausing a replica, backing up the actual table files themselves, then resuming the replica (and it will catch up). In case of total failure, you just dump the table files into a fresh install of MariaDB. (Copying database files is a common technique for migrating data, not just SQL command import/export.)

Is there any reason why these wouldn't work?
I would watch https://youtu.be/dmLTLkCBSN8 for a contrary view. These books are brain crack and rarely lead to any significant life changes.
Yes, but the point is that the history isn’t as clear cut as it might seem. I generally prefer other branch names anyway which tell how you use them - e.g. does “master” mean development actually happens there, where code is integrated for testing, the ready-to-release code (which is what the image/audio usage of master would imply), etc. Using terms like “develop”, “integration”, “release”, etc. make your project conventions more apparent.
Safe rust actually let's you leak memory if you want. It tends not happen unless you try (in my limited experience).

What it does prevent is memory unsafely: read after free, double free, buffer overflows, etc.
What is a good substitute for Master/Slave?
I'm suffering from a temporary lack of imagination. There must a be better phrase for this. Thx
Site is hugged to death, but as usual I won't let that stop me from commenting.

I don't think many lives are changed by self-help books. People who are actively trying to change their lives often read self-help books, and then misattribute any positive result to the book. Then they recommend the book to others, and it's either mindless blather, or common-sense tropes wrapped in a bow, or something that reinforces a decision they've already made. Someone decides they need to focus on something, and then reads a book about it while they're focused on it. They already changed their life before they read the book, by making the decision to change.

No one is changed by a religious text if they are already a religious person who largely agrees with the philosophy. No one changes their diet if they haven't already made a decision to eat healthier. No one GETS.RICH.QUICK if they weren't already entrepreneurial.

Yeah, maybe these books impacted people in some way. But they were already 99% of the way there. Recommending them to someone who isn't also 99% of the way there isn't going to change a thing.

The older I get the more obvious it is that there are no new ideas, there's just new branding.
I've written on paper from childhood and I still can't read my own handwriting.

I remember one time I found something I'd written in grade school and I could barely make it out -- until suddenly the memory clicked in my brain and I could understand every word. But only because I was associating the crude shapes with memories of what I wrote!

It is much the same with my programs.
I've only read three self-help books that have dramatically changed my thinking:

* How To Develop Your Thinking Ability by Ken Keyes Jr. It's out of print now, but easy to find a copy. It condenses down a lot of Alfred Korzybski's General Semantics into an easy to digest format.

* The Inner Game of Tennis by Timothy Gallwey. Also quite an old book, mentions a lot of similar ideas to Psychocybernetics (essentially the queen or king of all self-help books: most other ones just re-iterate the ideas in this one). It discusses how the thinking mind gets in the way of true excellence. I started reading it largely to consider how I was keeping myself from entering into meditative jhana.

* Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson. While certainly filled with some questionable ideas, this absolutely broke my neat model of objective reality into tiny little pieces in high school. It set off a journey of self-exploration.

While some of the books in this list are good, everyone in silicon valley talks about a lot of those books nonstop. You'll understand the language SV folks use to talk about ideas, but you won't offer much else in the way of a unique perspective. A journey of reading needs to be self-lead.
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A few years ago I found myself experiencing a different sort of very debilitating sleeping problem. It started, as I recall, as something that would just happen on airplanes, my legs would feel almost like a buildup of lactic acid unless I moved them around. I could keep them still maybe for a few second at most, until the sensation built to a point where it was irresistibly uncomfortable and swinging or tapping my feet would instantly provide relief. Restless leg syndrome.

While at first confined to trying to sleep in an airplane chair (interestingly it never happened while sitting in front of a computer to work, or sitting at the dinner table, just when sitting to sleep) eventually it followed me into the bedroom, where it became a serious problem. Basically within seconds of lying down my legs would start winding up. Think like, in order to get them to settle down having to rapidly kick against the bed for 15 seconds and getting like a 2 minute window to try to fall asleep before the sensation built back up. And then even in my sleep, I would still be kicking around. Not very practical to say the least.

What finally solved it for me was a doctor suggesting I try trazodone. It’s an SSRI which was originally developed as an antidepressant, turns out to suck for that, but it is a very nice little sedative. As long as I have 6hrs to sleep, 25mg completely stops the restless leg syndrome and doesn’t make me wake up groggy. It was an absolute lifesaver.

On a separate note, I can absolutely relate to getting my best work done at night. Many times an all-nighter would result in more productive work than multiple days that led up to it. The next day would be a wash, but usually I could find myself back to a diurnal rhythm within a day or two. I never went full vampire because frankly I find it far too exhausting to be trying to keep that level of focus day after day, but many times over the years when workload got out of control a shift to working nights was a crucial strategy.
My issue is we don't know where this will end.

What happens when tomorrow somebody complains about male and female connectors not being inclusive. Should we change the names?

What about killing a process? Some people have family members who were killed. Lets change that too.

What happens if a person was assaulted by someone with your same name. Should you change your name to appease that person? "I say: fair enough."
> I was in his boat.

Slaves were brought to America on a boat. I am sure you offended many with this insensitive term.
Ask HN: 3D Printed Circuit Boards (PCB)
What is the best solution available today to print high quality PCBs?

I like the Dragonfly, but I can't afford the massive printer and it seems you need some additional skills to use it.

Curious if there is a product out there that can be used to make customizable circuit boards that are high quality.
You lost me. The word ”slave” has nothing to do with slavery? It might not have to do with slavery in the US, but it very clearly refers to slavery.
Hold on.

You do know The Daily Stormer is a far-right neo-Nazi, white supremacist, and Holocaust denial commentary and message board website that advocates for the genocide of Jews, right?
Yeah. I was going to type more about the Shannon-Nyquist limit, but was on my phone, and I've heard several people over the years assert that the 44100 sample rate was a very early form of DRM since "anybody sensible" would have picked 48000, and indeed did for various other formats where this restriction didn't apply.
>Well, seriously, if some HR drone puts "rockstar", "full-stack" or similar buzzword

"full-stack" is a buzzword now? How else would you describe a role where you'll be doing backend and frontend?
If we're going to change the way we speak, is it really better to imply those words meant race all along?

It’s not about what the word meant all along.

“Negro” wasn’t considered a derogatory term for black people for the majority of its history as a word, but today, especially in English, we avoid it because of the legacy it picked up.

You don’t have to admit the word was always racist to believe that we should use some other words in today’s context.
Yeah, Marge Simpson too. It probably refers to a letter that the character wrote. But ignore those. Most of the list are real people.
No, he's just playing word games. That doesn't mean the argument is one of semantics.

If the problem is too much poverty, then the solution is to reduce poverty.

If the problem is too much racism, then the solution is to reduce racism.

The greedy rich people's corporate media pushes the racism narrative to keep the focus away from the primary problem because fixing poverty might cost them something.

All the well meaning people pushing the racism narrative are doing their work. Pawns in the game.
I think I get what you mean.

To me, it's a matter of degree. Reading slack, reading emails, 1:1s, project sync meetings, merging PRs, etc all require nearly no depth of thinking. Creating a design for a small problem or understanding unfamiliar code requires a bit more, debugging more still.

The possibility (and actuality) of interruptions is also a matter of degree. A day with one meeting after lunch and nothing on fire allows for deeper focus than a day with nothing but 30 minute gaps between meetings and 15 people on Slack all wanting something.

The deepest thinking - the kind that is best suited to having an entire day of space - helps the most with the hardest problems: planning a complex project, understanding a new bit of type theory, etc.

(And it is not necessarily true that these problems are impossible to solve in the face of distractions, but a day of focus might match the output of a distracted week - and sometimes it's hard to budget a whole week just to think about something!)

edit: s/is only strictly necessary for the hardest problems/helps the most with the hardest problems/
> Having to rely so much on recursion for instance adds a lot of complexity.

I’ve written some fairly heavy Rust macro code, and I almost never need recursion— the repetition primitives generally prove sufficient for my needs. What are you doing that needs all the recursion?
It was proper to call you ancestors slaves and their owners master.

In the same way it's proper to use same concept as a metaphor to describe other relationships where one thing is owned by other. There is nothing wrong or offensive in the concept of slavery. Even when the context is enslaving humans.

Slavery is immoral, but the concept of slavery is not.
Ideas Are Like Waves
Its cool but would be nice to spend the billions on peaceful activities
1. There are hundreds of millions of guns and people in America.

2. Police officers help black (and white) people millions of times per year.

3. Police officers murder black (and white) people at most dozens of times per year.

4. Black criminals murder thousands of black people per year.

Any black person who is more afraid of being murdered by a police officer than a black criminal is being highly irrational.

Any person that can't accept the reality that a small number of murders of black (and white) people by police are inevitable in such a big and well armed country is being highly irrational.

A totally reasonable goal is to try to reduce the number of murders as much as possible, which is something that no one disagrees with.

The idea that police are murdering in huge numbers, or that the problem is growing precipitously, is simply a result of people unable to overcome selection bias. They're watching a handful of videos and then exaggerating the problem in their minds.
This is a buffer overflow type of scenario where you apply and say you have that experience even if you have none.
Obviously it's not this specific guy's fault. But the undercurrent of meanness is something I've seen consistently. It seems to me that the public debate has generally been between "it's not a problem, those guys are just exaggerating it" and "we're doomed, those guys are too stupid to fix it", with the people trying to plot an effective course being mostly ignored. (How likely do you think it is that the author can point to specific proposals that should be implemented, rather than vaguely gesturing at masks and shutdowns?)
Dan Pink is fairly good. I enjoyed A Whole New Mind.

In it, he set out a fairly useful exercise for me, called "The mini-saga" (I don't think he originated the idea).

The goal is to write a story in exactly fifty words (not characters).

It was an enjoyable exercise.

I always like the story that was attributed to Hemingway, that the shortest story ever told was "For sale, baby shoes, never worn."
Best I've heard is "coctothorpe" but I think it was tongue in cheek.
> ultimately the primary responsible party for the deal in question

Unless he personally lost $200 million, or he somehow needs to pay it back to the bank, then no, he is not ultimately responsible for the deal at all.

What you are saying is that it might have felt that way to him because of his involvement and that it's understandable to feel that way. And that's ok. But it is also very tone deaf to use that language in an article about supposedly dispelling the illusion of control.
BFM... a less-than-common phrase online but very common on the DFS.
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Whose ancestors haven't been enslaved?
If the words had changed meaning, sure. But blacklist/whitelist are not words that have become racist. They're the same as they always were.
A lot of very young people on HN. From my jaded older perspective this is VERY common when they want no external applicants.

So we can't call it a corporate reorganization for Dilbertian process reasons and we're only transferring one person anyway, so we'll abuse the hire/fire/transfer process and put in hilarious requirements like a decade of experience with javascript react framework or this K8S ad.

Or the bosses nephew intern'd with us and we have been ordered to make sure the nephew and only the nephew get hired full time and his resume hilariously listed he's been "doing computer stuff for more than ten years; also does react framework" and we'll translate that into a minimum of a decade of react experience LOL.

This also shows up in stealth ageism. The last I18N guy doing the Spanish L10N project acted too childish for a professional office causing expensive chaos; OK then the next hire "needs" at least 30 years of experience in Spanish language I18N and L10N projects; really all we wanted was a bilingual translator who was not childish by nature of being at least 30 years old. The world's full of 30-something children but the odds are better than 20-something children. We already decided to hire one of the dev's friends who was 35 so all we need to do is make sure nobody else applies. So this project "needs" someone who's spoken Spanish for 30 years to translate stop and go to pare y siga, LOL. Well L10N always ends up being a lot more than merely translating words but whatever.
You can buy insurance for everything, so I was surprised something as obvious as this isn't available; a quick search found lots of 3rd party baggae insurance policies. If you want to find out the true cost of lost luggage it's some profit margin less than these premiums.
Some companies, like the one I work at (https://developer.commure.com/), will hire people to work on a Rust codebase even if their prior experience doesn't include it but are willing to learn. I would say it's worked quite well for us so far.
Thank you for your comments.

My point about "it doesn't matter how you feel" is inspired by comments like "political correctness culture is out of control".

So many times, people are concerned by their personal freedom and not their responsibility to humanity.

Being asked not to use a word is not severely limiting your world. The trauma of limiting your vocabulary is not comparable to the ideas they evoke.
I just finished reading _Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!_ and I agree - the word that described most of his stories to me was "boastful". Most of his stories involve him being more clever than everyone else around him, rather pointedly.

However, whenever he talks about getting recruited or being tasked with something important, he always claimed to be astonished that anyone thought "little Feynman" worthy of such a high task. I take him at his word that this was his reaction.

I'm not sure what to make of this.

I'll add that though his bragging felt a little distasteful to me, I greatly enjoyed the tales and deeply appreciated his honesty and forthrightness about his life (including aspects I find less savory, like womanizing).

I'd absolutely recommend the book, but perhaps try _The Feynman Tapes_ on audiobook if possible because they're the recordings of his own speech that was written down and became the book.
Yes but each order has a unique ID which only the customer who placed that order will have access to. If that customer decides to share that URL on his own discretion that is fine by us
Finished the initial draft and sold over 10 copies
> Every suitcase is labeled with a name and a flight. They know exactly who the baggage belongs to

For whatever it's worth, I once lost my drivers license on an airplane and it was returned to me in the mail a few months later. Of course, returning a drivers license cost them a lot less (nothing) than returning luggage would have. I'm not sure they had an incentive to return it though, beyond basic courtesy.

(Evidently if you drop a drivers license in the mail without postage or an envelope, the USPS will send it on to whatever address is listed on it.)
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I think the only reason why I disagree with the comments here calling Git horrible and unintuitive is because Magit (Git interface for Emacs) makes it so easy to use and discoverable.