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> I run my own mail server but my VPS provider could be coerced to yank it from me.

I've got two comments on this.

Firstly, you're already doing much better than most people. Make frequent backups, and if it comes down to it, you can always point DNS at a new provider.

Second, don't put anything on a VPS that you aren't willing to let the VPS provider or whatever Gov. has jurisdiction access. Where email falls on that spectrum for you is of course your own decision.
Top 20% of one of the most intellectually challenging jobs in America, also if you exclude Amazon it is not 20%.
“Fitgirl” the Repack Queen of Pirated Games
I use YouTube to find new music. Their recommendation usually knows what my music interest is. The other thing is watching a fashion show in YouTube. Some fashion shows have a nice background music. It depends on the message or story that the designer wants to tell to us. The beat could be fast or slow.

If I find the music is nice, I will try to find the music title in video description or comment. "Helpless" by Federico Martelli [0] and "Time" by Arca [1] are the examples that I love.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2b0sQmSRuc

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6-svj5HK9o
Optane seems to be their one bright spot engineering wise. But unfortunately they have priced it beyond what the market will bear.
So, basically, you have nothing useful to add to this conversation. You're just here to let everyone know you don't use Apple products. Cool.
just please don't put this shit as a real alternative! Other ones mentionned all have their pros and cons imo but are worth the mention :)
We go to school in the US for usually at least 12 years. Any person should already be educated on topics such as anti vaccination. In particular in my state you can’t even go to school if you haven’t had your vaccines. Not only that but we learn how to learn in school. The argument for censorship against stupidity assumes exactly that, that the majority of people are stupid which they are not.
Software delivery's goal is to minimise the lead time to business impact (2013)
It's definitely easier for large, profitable companies to take on the risk and training cost of interns and new grads.
True. Administering many drugs without the proper knowledge can be dangerous.
Why would you need any more proteins than that?
While most of your points are true, I will quibble with this:

there hasn't been a whole lot of evidence that they have what it takes to succeed in this space.

Does it matter? In 2006 and 2007 there were legions of pundits, columnists, and "experts" who said the same thing about Apple making a telephone.

I wonder if there's a market for a server optimized for iOS builds. Cram as many Mx chips and possible into a rackable case with abundant cooling. Certainly it would be useful to Apple internally. But I wonder if there are enough iOS developers with the budget to make this workable.
I conclude the opposite:

Yes. I mean really very obviously yes.

And Microsoft. And Google.

I assume they're acting in my interests because they have clear incentives to increase their profits by giving me useful helpful products that I'll buy.

That's the entire premise of competition and the free market. The invisible hand gives consumers what they want. If, as a company, you don't, then you go out of business.

If this were a communist country where the Party performed validation checks? With no choice between products? Then no.

But in a competitive free market? Absolutely. In fact I'm relying on their motive to increase profits in order to trust that they'll act responsibly. What can you trust more than someone else's self-interest, at the end of the day?
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I had the same reaction. I don’t know much computer science either, but this talk was really interesting and substantial.
In general though from what I read on hn I get the impression that it sucks to be an early employee at most startups, especially early stage. From what I've read a lot of compensation seems to be in equity and not cash, and unless it takes off like faang, you end up severely ubderpaid relative to what you could be making
Yeah, that's something that I have been a bit confused on too. People talk about how hard it is and the "prestige", but there are 20k+ other engineers who did the same thing (at your company alone!). It's really not all that impressive.
...until you add in the path bar, multiple tabs, etc. It only looks minimal with the minimum amount of UI features enabled. IMHO it looked way more cluttered than the current version with anything besides the basic, minimal set of things happening.
I was thinking precisely this as I read parent's comment. These are managers/teams fighting in zero-sum game (or something they THINK is a zero-sum game) for a bigger share of stock bonuses of the existing extremely valuable company. Take that win and that bigger chunk of a massively valuable company, and in a way you don't really care what happens with the phone chip market; by the time it really pays off big, in 6 or 8 years, you might be somewhere else anyway.

Whereas, in a smaller company with a smaller pie to divide amongst folks, the growth of the pie is the most important thing.
even a single bit is too much as long as it wasn't opt-in.
Even when logged into Google, search still often enough thinks I'm a bot...
None of the plugins or pieces of software I use had to be installed through the app store, and I think that's something of the norm there. I think managing large, required changes (like updates in processor architecture) is difficult, but I don't think I can fault Apple for going through the changes regardles.
As with many corrupt organizations Enron was full of good people who had no power and never did anything morally wrong.

A select few held the power or agency to act selfishly and did so.

It didn’t become apparent to many employees that something was amiss until shortly before the FBI raided them.
I work in consulting, and I’d say the top-end in consulting is still higher and much more of a safe bet. It’s not uncommon for people in consulting to be making $500k-$1m annually by the age of 40. If you’re a partner, compensation can be significantly higher than that; in the $2M-20M range.

I think there was a golden era of startups capturing value from the old guard, but that era is largely over IMO. All of those tech darlings are hiring consultants to help build corporate functions and product strategy — turns out there is significant value in knowing how to manage a company of 30,000+ employees and revenues in the hundreds of billions of dollars. Even a fraction of a percent gain in efficiency translates to enormous sums, which the consultants capture some percentage of in fees. As the unicorns continue to evolve into mature enterprises, more of that value will shift into the consulting / finance realm.

If I were graduating in 2020, I would not go into tech as an engineer if my goal was to get wealthy. It’s still a great career and you’ll be able to live a very comfortable life regardless, but if building wealth is your goal you need to follow the prestige (aka political power).
Not all titles are clickbait, and even if the majority are, we should strive for better
If you do a lot of travelling Vodafone is usually better. Global Roaming Plus (https://www.vodafone.co.uk/cs/groups/public/documents/webcon...) covers more destinations than 3 'inclusive' and nearly every country in the world outside of that is £6/day. Whereas with 3 you're stuck back to £10/MB nonsense if you go outside of their roaming countries.
Great idea, I love finding music I'd typically have never heard about, foreign or other. I can't wait to go through this thread later.

Just to participate I'll share one I consider obscure, though it's not my language and I don't speak it(Gaelic), I find it calming.

https://youtu.be/r1CuSimHpTw
One value that cuts through most of elite society is the thought that competition produces better outcomes. So “competing” instead of collaborating with another office is good, actually, because competition will breed excellence (or something).

When you’re small all that competitive energy is directed at your competitors. When you’re king of the hill that competitive energy turns inward.
I've been trying this, and let me tell you, the user experience is absolutely terrible.

The Play store and what it gives you is incredibly hard to live without, unless you really just want to use your phone for texting, browsing, and calling. If you're a minimalist, then great. If you're accustomed to what a smartphone can do, not so great.

The alternative app stores are full of unimpressive, small scale apps. Dozens of calculators and little games, but no maps apps (of worth), no yelps, no IMDb (which I use often), no Sheets or Photos, the list is huge. I'm sorry but these apps make a smartphone worthwhile.

To avoid such a spartan experience, I ended up just installing microG (an open source replacement for Google's Play Services) and Aurora (a replacement Play store client, which allows me to install most apps from the Play store).

The problem is that most modern apps require a mammoth cloud backend, which costs big money to run, which means you're going to need a huge company running it. You'll never find big scale apps like this on F-droid.
for 3, this is normal, tiktok sends everybody a lot of sexualised content
For the qualities that you consider a negative, some may consider it a positive.
>I will at this point sympathise with people who have criticised Elm in the past for some of its most vocal proponents being frustratingly unhelpful.

As always, Elm's biggest flaw is the sanctimonious nature of its design committee. No native modules, no custom operators, no lenses (would they really ban them?), etc.

That second one even comes back to bite the code here, because compared to e.g. Haskell lenses, the Elm lens code is ugly and verbose. Having to manually write lenses instead of being able to auto-generate them with macros is yet another Elm failing, though to be fair, I don't know that macros are opposed by the committee.
Ah, Intel. Acre-sized floors of tiny cubicles. Everything is grey. Really.[1]

I visited Intel HQ once, and it really did look like that. Is it still like that?

[1] https://youtu.be/gXReifFHXbY?t=44
>"Of course he was also a lier (vapor ware). And a cut throat business man."

You could say the same thing about any business person. And the bigger the business the bigger are the qualities you mentioned (or should I say they just cause bigger effect). It is obvious. Also it is not reserved specifically for business person.
TI was also in the mobile AP space for a while then dropped out
I like the idea of the project, but this is a blocker for me.

Thanks for the work you do, and for open sourcing!
> I find many of these companies the opposite of prestigious.

I agree, but perhaps not for the reasons you'd think. The "moral stain" of having worked for these companies only matters if hiring managers elsewhere make it matter. They don't. Throughout the industry, they're looking at potential return on investment and little else. Having worked at Facebook might matter if you want to go work for the White House or New York Times, but not for another tech company.

The reason I think working at those companies is anti-prestigious is that they're such unique self-contained worlds. If I see that somebody only has experience at FAANG since college, I know that they've become accustomed to having a vast array of systems and libraries and experts and other kinds of support available to them that aren't so available anywhere else. Maybe they'll learn to adjust to how computing is in the rest of the world. Maybe they'll be absolutely helpless, functioning at a one- or two-year level despite five or seven years among "the best engineers in the world" or whatever they're saying nowadays. I don't attach a premium to that experience. I attach a discount.
ops, wrong url, this is the correct one

https://jsfiddle.net/capsadmin/n1ovq5fw/
I think you will find that The Man is especially going to be hassling you with your horse.
Yes, the message needs to never be sent in a batch with other messages which change the model.
One silly little thing that has turned my users away in the past (I don't know if it's still the case) was the difficulty to give them a URL preloaded to connect to another homeserver when using riot/element. Constantly having to click to show the homeserver field and then filling it in was annoying and added friction to the process.
A Bayesian take on item response theory for assessing engineering skills
Weight/strength training?
Very cool, love seeing projects like this produce repeatable results.
> It comes down to an argument of trust - do you trust Apple is acting in your best interests

Stallman had a lot to say about this[1] over a decade ago.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.en.html
Thanks to uMatrix, this site just renders as a completely blank page. Fortunately Reader Mode can pull the text out in a perfectly readable format.
Is there any way to estimate the total amount of investments that are vulnerable to a margin call or similar mechanisms that can force a sale during a downturn?
I've only recently started to pay attention to Elm after hearing some good things about it so this article was timely for me. I've also dealt repeatedly with the example the author uses, a wizard or multistep form, so I was definitely interested to see how it played out.

And I was nodding my head in rhythm with the author until he got to the section on lenses. He writes:

That’s 14 lines of code to update one single field. Not only is this single example somewhat confusing to follow, you also need to imagine how this update function will look when taking into account the five or so other fields just in the address record! This is — quite frankly — pretty terrible. The trick here is not to stare out of the window and contemplate rewriting everything in ClojureScript. Instead, the thing to do is write a whole bunch of lenses.

To my eye, the lenses code he ended up writing didn't look all that much prettier or shorter to me. I guess it's more neatly structured and could even be organized its own file?

Is the advantage that you're providing access at each level of the nested record as you code it out? Are there other approaches to this nested field problem?
yea it's so annoying to unlock the bootloader on Mi phones.. Samsungs are less a pain
This argument assumes that companies are unchanging. Apple will never become greedy and use their increased control to raise prices, never stop caring about security and only use the system for market control, etc.
The cloud is changing. At my gig we've embraced GCP's managed cloud services, and I do not want to go back to 2015. The operating cost savings (no devops people!) and the low cost makes engineering systems for cloud-agnosticism very expensive. If Apple provided a range of managed services that met clients' needs, they could find a lot of success. Would they beat AWS? Highly doubtful, but Apple already provides a lot of cloud data services to Apple developers and consumers as part of iCloud.

I'm hopeful with respect to Apple dogfooding its silicon in the data center because it may feed back into robust ongoing support for Unix/Posix on their publicly-facing platforms.
To add to that, there is a profusion of fine-grained actions like SetFirstName, SetLastName is endemic in Redux-inspired codebases. They are a lot of noise, but more importantly, they force us to keep all our domain logic in a single massive reducer, with no encapsulation between different sections.

This can be improved by using coarse-grained actions like say `UpdatePerson(person)`. And this new `person` value can be obtained by the event handler itself when the user changes the name. However, the actual logic can sit inside a Person module, allowing us to do something like: `onChange=dispatch(UpdatePerson(Person.setFirstName(newName, currentPerson))`

This approach lets us keep the behaviour close to the view while encapsulating the actual implementation inside a rich domain model.
Many employees have cause damage to companies when they are dismissed, so it's pretty standard to be escorted of the premises. Most people take that sort of thing personally when it's really no reflection on them.
Since 0.19 banned operators, I would avoid using monocle.

If you don't need prisms or isos, I would suggest looking at https://github.com/bChiquet/elm-accessors, which uses basic composition to make composable lenses/traversals.
The author is quoting Paul Allen about his first impression of Bill Gates. How is him being a cut throat business man relevant at all ? This is a pointless comment.
I don’t know why the article’s author thinks prestige is about anything other than money/power (for the population as a whole).

People would rather work at FAANG than Stripe because FAANG will get you a lot more pay and connections. And people know that, so they will value people from FAANG for it. But it comes from the root fact that FAANG makes a ton of net income per employee, same as some finance/consulting firms, and that net income is more attributable to you specifically, rather than say someone at General Mills.
I doubt it was about saving their pennies. Zen1 EPYC was a huge package with an expensive assembly & copious silicon area. But it was spread across 32 cores. A larger BTB probably had to come at the expense of something else.

What 'real software' are you thinking of? Anything in particular? Just curious, not looking to argue.

(sorry I changed my comment around the same time you replied)
People really want to believe these corporations are charitable organizations, not inhuman slow AIs optimizing for profit. The propaganda departments of these corporations really do a number on people.
Chandrashekar's book is a wonderful labor of love by a brilliant Physicist, but it's really a translation of the Principia into modern physics and mathematics, with little attention paid to historical context.

To understand the book (and Newton) on their own terms, you have to go to the historians of science. I'd recommend pairing Chandrashekar with I. Bernard Cohen and Anne Whitman's translation of The Principia, I. Bernard Cohen's, A Guide to Newton’s Principia, Robert Westfall's biography Never at Rest, and the more recent synthesis of Newton scholarship, The Cambridge Companion to Newton.

Oh, and if you really want to understand Newton and his view of the universe, you have to dip into his alchemy and theology. Historians have known for a long time that Newton spent far more time on alchemy and theology than he did on mathematics/physics, but it still comes as a surprise to most people not in the field. (Although, if you've read Neal Stephenson's The Baroque Cycle, you probably have some idea.) A ton of work has been done on these areas in the last 30 years. See for example, The Chymistry of Isaac Newton project (https://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/newton/project/about.do), and The Newton Project (http://www.newtonproject.ox.ac.uk/view/contexts/CNTX00001)
Makes sense. 99% sounds about right for myself. But, how do I estimate the degree of downswing that I'm 99% confident will never happen in my lifetime? Or, is there a way to buy options to protect against this outcome that would economically make sense? Thanks!
Well what's wrong with a bootloader unlocked if your device is encrypted?
> For the majority of Ivy Leaguers, the most impressive thing they've accomplished is achieving admission to their university.

Is this a common view in the US? In central Europe, the view is that ivy leagues are for people who need external validation so much that they are willing to pay through the nose for it. This view explains the rest of the article too.
This isn't a complaint. This is a statement of fact. It's called the Democratic Party, not the Democrat Party. The correct adjective to use when referring to its members is Democratic.

Why is this important in a larger context? Because there's a faction of this country who doesn't like to acknowledge that the US is a democracy. A faction who feels justified in maintaining existing anti-democratic structures in order to retain power while not being able to win the popular vote. That same faction wants to divorce the concept of democracy itself from the Democratic Party.

This rhetorical war didn't happen by accident, just like referring to the estate tax as a death tax didn't happen by accident. Especially in print, where there's no confusion between (small-d) democratic and (capital D) Democratic, I refuse to cede ground on this.

Lastly, you should call people like they like to be called. I am a Democratic voter, not a Democrat voter. More importantly, I'm a democratic voter.

Again, I link you to the wikipedia page on the subject:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat_Party_(epithet)
The relevant metric would be the ratio of how many got the position to how many wanted it.
A big step would be making police live where they work. There's a lot of talk about warriors coming in from outside to pacify an unruly populace.
Where can we read more about this?
Are you objecting to the premise that the scene is static?
I completely agree with this. I’ve been in software since ‘98, but many of the valuable tools I apply to interpersonal interaction were learned on the path of raising my 5 year old.

Natural consequences, timely feedback, parallel modeling, Socratic questioning, mirroring...

If you want to know how to handle the politics of a large organization, try interacting with children. The parallels are amazing.
Yup, this absolutely works! I always write my performance review as if I were updating my resume. If I don't like what I see, that's feedback to myself and motivation to change my plans for the next review period.

This particularly works in companies big enough that internal transfers are possible; the text of the performance review should be specifically written with the idea that the next hiring manager will read it in mind.
For the typical Harvard student, tech is better paying than consulting unless you are an extraordinarily successful consultant.

> It’s not uncommon for people in consulting to be making $500k-$1m annually by the age of 40

This is not "uncommon" in FANG either (just take a look at the salary charts), and if anything can be reached earlier.

> there was a golden era of startups capturing value from the old guard, but that era is largely over IMO

If I could take a bet against this, I would. That value capture is only going to increase.
Hmm, good point. One single person can bypass the DRM, and then everyone else can copy that file indiscriminately.
I think all OAuth apps are supposed to show up there - I have both apps with basic account info only, and apps with more.
From the point of view of IBM, most likely yes, otherwise there wouldn't have been PS/2 and MCA architecture.

Hence why laptops and 2-1 hybrids are basically back to the days of vertical integration of 16 bit computers, whose the PC was the only exception.
Intel's current design are 1-3 years late depending on which roadmap and sector you are counting. Caused by their 10nm delay.

Intel had Tigerlake / WillowCove Design but they cant ship it. They also have Golden Cove. If you have put the design they were suppose to be using now, on a IPC basis Intel might still be in the lead.
It is not uncommon for people in technology to be making $500k-$1m annually by 30, and the lifestyle is much better if you have outside commitments.
If it runs on DOS then it will run on Win 3.11 too, but using the DOS version.
Egypt unveils ancient coffins, statues found in Saqqara
There are amorphous borders between programmer, developer, and software engineer, but there are roughly ~4 million "programmers/engineers" in the USA. So call it ~5%?