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I'm over 10 years in and it's worse for me. When I was less experienced I had problems with technical interviews and got rejected for any mistake or slower-than-expected answer. Now I have the experience and ace the technical interviews, but get rejected because of salary or culture fit (i.e. the interviewer doesn't like me).

You can't win in this field. Hiring is so random that the main advice everyone is offering is to apply everywhere and pray. I regret choosing it.
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Network traffic makes sense if you consider that network traffic is active usage - and the routers, switches, infra all need power. Whereas a typical user's CPU sits idle most of the time.
However: the UK government is also directly financing, through UK Export Finance (UKEF), a whole lot of fossil fuel developments, though.[0]

UKEF has ploughed more than £6 billion into fossil fuel companies in the last 10 years, which will produce 69 million tons of CO2 per year, or 1/6th of the UK's current output.[1]

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-51216084

[1] https://environmentjournal.online/articles/uk-government-has...
They look nice :)

Did you remember to flip the plastic switch on the GLaDOS floppy into the write-protect position before framing it? :^)
This thread alone on Apples site, with no official response, is over 250 pages long: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250878229
What about updates/extensions? They would have to wait till the spec gets released to the public to bring new compatible functionalities to their chip.
... by installing fart filters for pigs.

I kid you not:
"The company tells me its offsets so far have focused mainly on capturing natural gas where it's escaping from pig farms and landfill sites."
I thought it was pretty clear that the fake markings surprised me and that the adapters were not the main item sourced.
I think it's important, in this case, to distinguish between simple multicellularity where identical cells form clumps (known to have evolved at least 25 times in eukaryotes, as well as in prokaryotes according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicellular_organism - and which has been observed evolving in the lab before your linked paper), multicellularity that has cell differentiation (evolved in 6 groups), and multicellularity that has enough behavioural complexity that we might reasonably expect the emergence of intelligence (only in animals).

I don't think simple multicellularity has ever been something that seemed like a likely candidate as a particularly strong filter (although you could argue that it's a weaker filter combined with others)
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According to the "Purpose" section of the readme, it doesn't look like beating jq's speed was ever a goal. It was meant to be a learning exercise.

But if I had done something like that, and then serendipitously discovered that I was exceeding the original's performance, I certainly wouldn't be shy about it.

Also, this comes across as armchair criticism purely for the sake of armchair criticism. My own experience has been that, when I'm doing ETL that involves wrangling JSON, the "wrangling JSON" bit of it is almost always the bottleneck. So any improvement is more than welcome and deserves to be cheered. Even if it's an improvement on something that's already the current fastest way to do it.
They can certainly have a contract with Arm that allows them to renew their arch license in perpetuity that nvidia won't be able to void.

I obviously don't know that for sure but the idea that Apple would stake their future on something they don't have a legal ironclad position seems unlikely.
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Philip Connors. I rather expected it to be a 2008-era article about one of the most famous fire lookouts in literature: Gary Snyder who worked as a fire lookout in the 1950s and found the job congruent with the interest in Zen and contemplation that distinguished him as a member of the Beats.
Google's energy consumption to make goods is zero. Achieving similar zero carbon foot print is next to impossible for lower profit margin fertilizer production. ( i.e. third world countries, as a whole, are working at quite less profit margins, and because of that, have trouble achieving similar zero carbon footprint. Ultimately All the profits are moving to west.
/e/ ( https://e.foundation ) provides a google free android experience. i am quite happy with it.
Our planetary system (formed 4.5B years ago) is comparatively late to the game. The waves from older civilizations should have been everywhere by now. If they were expansionist, they should have even collonised the whole Galaxy long ago.
> Wealth is a far larger source of pollution than life.

It's both. Wealth drives down the birth rate (as does empowerment and higher education of women [1]), but it also drives up the rate of pollution [2]. You need "Clean Wealth" (high quality of life with low or zero CO2 emissions, pollution, etc) if you want lower birth rates (which we do, we're on track to hit 10 billion people by the end of the century) and less pollution.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate#what-explains-the-...

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/co2?tab=chart&xScale=li...
Yeah, it's like Shell was offering customers to pay one cent extra per liter of fuel to drive in a "CO2 neutral" way. If it really was that cheap to offset carbon emissions, we wouldn't have any climate problem by now, would we.

https://nltimes.nl/2019/04/08/shell-charge-customers-extra-c...
In the first 10 minutes of the movie they talk about what happened after what seemed like a revolution at Google. It was essentially nothing. People will not care due to how convenient staying the same is. It's sad really.
This is surprising to me. I didn't think that platforms that leverage network effects were typically well-suited to open sourcing unless it was something federated. Are you worried about the system being gamed or usurped by someone willing to be more exploitative?
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PDF is absolutely a programming language. It is not a general purpose programming language but a page description language. You are referring to looping constructs and procedures being removed, but a loop does not a language make. Similarly, LaTeX and sed are programming languages.
This price looks incorrect. Tier 4 damage would only be accidental damage that the customer caused. Delamination of the screen doesn't count. Tier 4 would be liquid damage. I think the rep was new to the internal tools that apple provides.

A cracked display in a MBA retina 13in 2019 cost the customer $489.94 total.
I suspect there's a growing market for summer camps and other forms of tech hiatuses. I would gladly subscribe to a service that forced me not to use social media or whatever, since I don't think my own brain can be trusted with that
Honestly there is not a technical reason here why C or similar could not be compiled into a bytecode-like representation.

Some programmers may not like that they loose control and lack the ability to target platform specifics. But that is kind of the point.
No, there is no such requirement. However, Softbank decided to sell a majority of its operations in China to Chinese investors in 2018.[1] It appears that fear of US sanctions motivated the sale.

1. https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/Softbanks-Arm-Chi...
It would be hilarious if we've been wondering why we're alone in the universe all this time just to find out we're not even the only planet in our solar system to support life.
The speed is not concern for me. I am wondering if there something better than `jq` in terms of syntax. Whenever I want to get something more that just prettify json output in the console or simply get value by specific field name I have a problem, for me it is just difficult to remember jq syntax without looking into history. As well have in my notes links to examples like this one

https://mosermichael.github.io/jq-illustrated/dir/content.ht...
If the PDF uses a font that the creator neglected to embed, the reader’s system will have to supply the font, which could be a substitute. This is the only case I’ve seen where the PDF did not render exactly the same on all systems.
I bet it's closer to $400, plus tax and labour. But yes, I suppose it should be under $2,000. But then, I don't know the specifics of this case.
For me it boils down to:

- They fit my ear and don't hurt. Nothing else ever has expect apple buds, wired or not.
- I find the design much more appealing than all the other products on the market.
- They actually work properly.

I have had bluetooth headphones etc before that either sound like crap or are just to buggy to use. Hell, even my 'premium' Bose BT speaker randomly gives up for weeks on-end and then decides it will work again.

The latter two points hold for most apple products in my experience. Over the last year I've tried replacing my laptop and phone with non-apple products, and not the cheap crap either. It was fucking torture to me :P
Their treatment of the music app is criminal. They always futz around with the controls.
I mean, I wouldn't call support for panspermia /boring/ exactly, but I agree that a wholly separate abiogenesis event would be pretty astounding.
> One can safely predict that in a decade the only difference between an affordable digital piano and a real acoustic piano will be the keyboard action.

There is still some chamber repertoire that really does rely on a real acoustic piano for resonance effects: the pianist silently depresses keys, so that the strings are left to vibrate, and then they will sympathetic-resonate with notes played by another instrumentalist.
There is no carbon-free energy just because you don't burn stuff doesn't mean no carbon is released at some point.
“I also looked into sentry.io which is one of the best headless CMS out there but the pricing plans were very much beyond what I can afford.”

Am I missing a joke here?
Nice!

I will try to bring it to the brenchmark, thanks for sharing
Apple mobile beating arm mobile is pretty irrelevant considering they can barely run the same type of tasks it's a miracle they both have the same benchmarks since they're operating systems are totally different. Beyond that it doesn't even really matter which one's faster because you got all that overhead of the os's that are so different. I would also like to say that Apple users are going to buy the newer chip whether it's faster or not. Because of planned obstinance at a software level. I've never heard an Apple user talk about speed or The benchmark of the phones because that marketing segment is clueless to that. My guess is that Nvidia needs arm for their self-driving stuff.
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My apologies, I'm in Pittsburgh in the USA and currently making 90k just for front-end work. According to the research I've done, 120k is on the low end for senior devs across the nation and perhaps just right, maybe a tad high for my local area.
Surely as an 'ocdtrekkie' you've obsessively read the HN FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html? :) I confess that I'd forgotten about them until I saw this comment a couple weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24353985.
There are bacteria that live entirely in Earth's stratosphere so floating bacteria wouldn't be out of the question.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090318094642.h...

I can't see how bacteria could possibly evolve in the atmosphere but Venus is believed to have once had oceans.
I got into Forth in the mid-80s on my Commodore 64. At that point I'd learned C64 Basic and 6502 assembly, and Forth was just a revelation. A much more expressive paradigm than Basic, the full power of bare metal programming, and if using a "high" level language proved too slow it was trivially easy and almost seamless to define performance-critical words in assembly instead. It was a joy to program.

(Edited to add that while I haven't done any significant Forth work in probably 20 years, I've long been intrigued by Factor and I keep meaning to try 8th, as I've got some small simple program ideas that would be lovely to be able to run on Mac, iOS, and Android.)
> cheap things humanity can do to offset carbon emissions

Contraception.
Roll20 has an interesting way of generating random numbers as well - https://wiki.roll20.net/QuantumRoll
> With PDF, everyone sees the same thing.

SVG does that too, but it can also have aria tags to improve accessibility and have text that can be extracted much more easily.
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Same. When I saw the name "q" I thought of this same tool.
Basic ipad hits it limits pretty quickly in multitasking use cases and the screen real estate is half that of a laptop.
Most technical interviews aren't technical. You are expected to know irrelevant trivia like which port does ICMP use? There's literally no job on earth where that matters.

So when I did technical interviews; I had a demo domain controller vm. I printed out 5 steps they need to do. dcpromo, slave domain.local to the dc, install wsus. pretty boring stuff that much candidates know how to do. My trick, there's lots of tiny details like did you get the server's name instead of SERVER-1897237534

Oh and I'll be talking about video games, tv and movies distracting you as much as possible during the testing. I just sit there asking them question after question about hobbies. Really really distracting.
>Apple uses a lot of customer hostile behaviors nowadays

I think that's w.r.t personal experience, but they've been doing that for a very long time.

Remember the time Jobs told that we are holding the phone wrong?
Ah, the good old 20th Century. Two massively destructive world wars. Perfectly awful working conditions for those in heavy industry for at least the first third. Appalling conditions in Russia and China for a great deal of it. Famines and mass dislocations in the Indian subcontinent.
I rephrased my comment (hopes it help). Another mediocre analogy on the subject that you may find both relevant and funny:

"I spread germs all over town today but I bought coronavirus offsets so we’re all good". via https://twitter.com/WeiZhangAtmos/status/1245890907511181312
What is the purpose of this comment? Keying off a random deity figure you’re replying to, you decided 9am on a Monday morning on Hacker News seems like a pretty good time to spout off hateful and discriminatory feelings about “they” the religious group? They don’t deserve to talk about climate change because they’re prudish in your interpretation of things? Seriously, what the shit are you talking about? Christians live on this planet too and have a stake in its future.

I’m completely nonreligious and have my own gripes with religion in the broad, by the way, so if I’m checking you, you’re way off the deep end. I can see why HN is resistant to humour, because there are a remarkable number of people who can operate Vim but can’t for the life of them figure out a joke without punching down people who aren’t them (or making light of mass shooting events and conspiratorial delusions right upthread).

Suggested HN guideline: Humour is best avoided and left to those with enough empathy to understand when their “sense of humour” is really a catastrophic case of toxic, unpleasant person who thinks their take is hilarious and has enough people around them enabling them to not know any better.
I had a similar anecdotal story just a couple of months ago. I've spilled a few drops of juice on my 16" MBP keyboard, which was enough for three keys to become sticky. They've replaced the keyboard and whole top case chassis for free without any comment and I got my laptop back in three days.

It was the best tech support experience I've had in my life.
Because saying you're going to do it and actually doing it are different things? The former buys lots of votes, the latter not so much.
That sounds like standard doomsday cult rethoric. Very dangerous and it will end with dictatorship if we listen to that.
Because it's not 1k qualified people applying to the job. Also, retaining engineers for more than one or two years is a problem our industry has.

Software Engineering jobs get applications from people all over the place. Our industry is "open" compared to similarly paid professions.

You wouldn't apply to a finance job without a relevant degree or experience, you need to go med school or pharmacy school for medical fields, you need to go to law school or at least pass the bar exam for law jobs.

Meanwhile I work with devs who studied Comp Sci, random liberal arts, other types of engineering, and some who dropped out of college entirely.

I think it's a net good that we don't gate keep the profession but a downside is that everyone applies to every job. For example, bootcamp grads are told to blindly apply to jobs. So are college seniors.
People are too street smart today to subscribe to something site unseen.
I looked into it a while ago after having my chosen airline tell me it'd cost $2 to offset, which sounds suspiciously cheap, and while I can't remember the exact third-party site I went to a remember their offset calculation being at least 10x greater.

I bet this is something that isn't regulated properly so we have Airlines straight up misleading customers about how much offsetting does cost.
It's too late to use the brakes. The only possible solution is to reclaim the carbon from the atmosphere. Or war to thin out the population.

We will obviously settle on war.
>They fit my ear and don't hurt. Nothing else ever has expect apple buds, wired or not.

Same for me. I'm lucky, for my partner they hurt minutes after wearing them. The only other in-ear besides Apple's "dagger tip" design that works for me without pain is a custom mold.
Does it matter if you're being told to fornicate yourself in a professional manner? The tone of the conversation is irrelevant if the matter is ridiculous. And don't try and frame it as though it wasn't. An independent repair shop would be able to replace a screen for far less. That is of course, if the screens were available for purchase freely.
>> The casual dismissal of the work of a team of experts across multiple institutions like this just surprised me, and that parent has a PHD in the field made it even more shocking.

It's a casual dismissal only because it's a comment on HN, rather than e.g. a review comment in a peer-reviewd journal. Otherwise, that's exactly the kind of reaction one learns to expect when one is doing research. Your work will be criticised. Ruthlessly.

It's not even a bad thing, long-term, quite the contrary. Only work that has survived the criticism of experts in a field can be expected to make a real impact.

And this is really just me being philosophical about it because of course criticism stings and rejection hurts. But you learn to live with it and I think most researchers who have taken a baptism of fire (submitted to a journal- or conference in CS) eventually come to terms with it: people will rubbish your work constantly. Until they are convinced it's good work.
Here is a blog speculating how open source could be covered by the US sanction regime as well:

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5590

Open Source Could Be a Casualty of the Trade War

When I heard that ARM was to stop doing business with Huawei, I was a little bit puzzled as to how that worked: ARM is a British company owned by a Japanese conglomerate; how was the US able to extend its influence beyond its citizens and borders?
TV+ is a special case, because the trial period (1 year) is longer than the non-trial payment cycle (1 month).

Apple Music pop-ups are annoying, but I only saw them after some iOS version updates. There's also a setting to hide Apple Music features completely.
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Welcome to vulture capitalism it's been gutting American industry for about 10 20 years used to be four or five paper mills around here but now they're all in China and everyone who worked there is on drugs now
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Yeah - the argument in the paper is a lot more nuanced than it's being represented in the media, where it's being flattened to the point of uselessness.
One of the main ideas of query-json is to provide excelent errors. So, it would teach you by using the tool.

and there are a few techniques to "discover" the schema of the json file, I trend to read with '.' or 'keys' and later keep going.

I'm planning to implement a flag where each operation prints the internal state of the json, so you would see what are the "pipes".

I will pick a few of your cheatsheet to implement next in q, Thanks!
So using it without paying is a sales pitch? Is that news? Spotify's free plan is the same, YouTube Music costs money.

I don't think it's fair to criticise a paid product for asking for you to pay for it.
I bet Google is really glad there are reckless, cheaply preventable greenhouse-gas emissions like that. And thank god no one has regulated it yet.

Otherwise you'd have to look at your OWN emissions, who wants to do that?
> The "particles" you mention are most probably Highly siderophile elements (HSE)

From what I saw of some of the articles I was reading, it was nanodiamonds and magnetic microspherules. I'm getting this mostly from [1], which is definitely a strong critical take on the evidence, suggesting that the methodology for identifying these particles is sufficiently subjective that researchers knowing where the samples are to have occurred is biasing their interpretation of the results to find a sharp distinction around the Younger Dryas threshold that isn't corroborated if that context is removed.

[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
It's well-recommended in tech forum/enthusiast circles. It actually is a good book and worth reading if you're a backend dev.

But the % of devs in the US that have read it is probably below 2-3%. Most of us (devs, not HN users) don't read or do code after work.
I think what I think about docudramas in general: Hyperbolic. I think the harms of social media are exaggerated, and not entirely unique to social media.

I don’t have a problem with Facebook knowing what content I interact with and using that to serve me ads, or content that I want to spend time consuming. I don’t agree with the characterization of publishing or volunteering information (likes, posting photos, profile details) as private information. Facebook makes clear what information is public, what is shared to friends, etc. I think most people are relatively aware their interactions determine ad selection, as it is intuitive. It’s really not scary to me that Facebook knows which city I live in to target ads.

I don’t agree with the characterization of engineering apps to provide entertainment or social value as “manipulation” in the harmful sense. The fact that something is enjoyable to use or is used a lot isn’t necessarily a bad thing, and is not necessarily an addiction. To use another example, I would want game developers to “manipulate” me to enjoy playing a game. That’s the point. The fact that people spend lots of time on social media just demonstrates that they derive something from it, not that it’s addictive or harmful. Is social media a worthwhile use of your time? Maybe not. Is it an intrinsically harmful activity? No.

I think the Internet in general allows for the more rapid, selective spread of information, and that it lowers the cost of publishing. It follows that ideas can spread quickly, including conspiracy theories. I don’t agree that belief in pseudoscience, rumor, or superstition is anymore prevalent than it was before social media. I think it’s just more visible to everyone how many people do believe wacky ideas. Regardless, social media isn’t going to suddenly make me believe the moon landing was fake, so I don’t see it as being harmful.

In short, I don’t think ad targeting is harmful or violating my privacy. I don’t think social media is harmful but that passive consumption of media is not the best use of time, like video games or watching TV.