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Why is ageism so widely parroted on HN?
No ONE is complaining on HN! He is stating his opinion on the current and past US relations, something which many of us can agree with. Furthermore, if your reasonse to each statement is “leave” then you don’t understand what fighting for the country you love means.
> I suspect it's mostly just a matter of getting out of the house. Those 4 walls get pretty oppressive after a while.

They can be.

I'm fortunate to have enough space in my house that I can silo the different areas of the house. I have a few places I'm happy to work in, but I also have a basement that I never do work in.
with socks?!
And yet they are. Petite bourgeoisie and all that.
As a programmer in state government this approach is not feasible for many reasons the chief of which is that at almost every level of government we lack technocrats. In the very unlikely event that one is appointed or hired that has Audrey Tang's(from the podcast, digital minister for Taiwan) background I predict that the amount of pushback received from other levels of government and unions would smother any software with similar utility to that of the mask finder. I can't wait to jump to private industry.
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Our team is on a mission to make sure everyone has a great manager. The amount of knowledge that exist in psychology research about leadership and teams is mind blowing, but surprisingly enough, almost none of it is used on a daily basis: in your sprints, stand-ups, one-on-ones or performance feedback. We want to change that.

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Yeah now that you mention it, mine has needed this a lot less since I hung it under the desk earlier this year. It used to be on the floor.
When I was a manager, I had a rule that all my directs had to always be looking for new opportunities. If they find something better, I wanted them to leave. It made sure of 2 things for us: 1. We knew that anyone could leave at any moment, and we always planned accordingly. 2. We knew we had to keep people happy. If someone didn't like something, we had to change if possible or that person might leave. Conversations about having interviews and being contacted by recruiters became open, honest, and casual. There was no fear about someone might find out if you were looking, and people shared what they found out about talking to potential employers.
How was he discovered? It would be easier to do this nowadays, given the whole remote thing.
Though I like the sentiment of the post, it's funny and maybe remarkable how software engineers are in such a privileged bubble most probably don't even realize. Quitting jobs after a year at arguably the most innovative fintech company because you didn't feel satisfied, taking a vacation, casually mentioning you can "hack" interviews by focusing on leetcode problems for some weekends, working somewhere for 2 days, taking another vacation and then switching to a new job. Probably hopping through a few salary negotiations and gaining tens of thousands of dollars. Be sure to take a moment to realize.
>Most of the money in the markets are from the average Joe's 401k, or pension

This is just an assertion.
I find Zulip to be a nice balance. Threads are much more prominent than they are in Slack, but aren't clunky.
ooo and dim them if there's an disturbance, like ramped up cpu, gpu, or a key pressed on the keyboard would dim that key and radiating decreasing dimming from "disturbance"

I'd get that
It seems like with Quora you either get very bad or very good answers. The good ones tend to be significantly older, i.e. before it got big and people started to gamify the system.
Most likely it’s simply a new technology people can point at and complain about, amplified by this age of disinformation.

People have been complaining about wireless technologies since Marconi.

That said, yes, it’s got higher frequencies, beam forming, and orders of magnitude higher density of cells.
There are models with more than two countries, but no consensus on which to use. Most economists couldn't name one of these models, or anyone who has ever studied the question.
> Correct me if I'm wrong

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> I realize this might come close to violating (or even cross the line of) HN guidelines, but that's how I see it.

Ok, you're wrong. And worst of all, you've decided that anyone who doesn't share your exact opinion is insane. No wonder you've got it so wrong, you've cut yourself off from any real discussion.

What I argued was that lockdowns don't work. We have done serious lockdowns across the world, and in the best case all the do is buy a little time. In the worst case, they do nothing. The US printed $4T in 2020...do you really not believe that with that money, we could have a devised a better approach that put tremendous resources into isolating the vulnerable population and accepting the stunningly low risk to the rest of the population?

It's amazing to me that people on HN, a site dedicated to the constant advancement of the human condition, looks at a failed strategy concocted during panic and says "yeah, that's as good as it gets and can't be improved".

Jesus, when it comes to covid all I hear are people asking for faster horses.
We're looking at a target audience of people who already can "do quite bit with computers", know all the algorithms they need for the job they are going to do, and don't really want to spend time on leetcode because they would rather be doing or learning something else, or perhaps they have done leetcode or stuff like that a lot ten or twenty years ago and they wouldn't learn anything new, just re-adapt to do useless things quickly once again.

I'm not trying to denigrate it by labeling it useless - competitive problem solving/"sport programming" is a fun activity and can be a rewarding hobby, but it's important to recognize it as such, as a hobby that's only tangentially related to most actual development work once you move above a certain base competency level ( I'll grant it that it is useful for people without much practice in actual programming to do a bit of it.)

It's a problem from the industry perspective if we as industry have many people spend a lot of time doing things that don't benefit the employer (since grinding leetcode doesn't make a non-junior person better at their development job, it's an orthogonal skill) and that doesn't benefit themselves personally (we're talking about people who don't want to do leetcode just because they enjoy it) but only through the zero-sum game of competing for jobs effectively by "peacock signaling" of who invested/wasted the most effort in leetcode. This is effectively a lose-lose competition, spending a lot of everyone's time without a net benefit.
I think this all started as some kind of national security consensus that we would help China by having free trade with them.

It worked in that millions of Chinese have been uplifted (of course this is vast oversimplification: they helped themselves and many other countries also trade with them), but has definitely failed if we ever thought to make the Chinese government less authoritarian as a side effect.

It was definitely paid for by American workers. I don't know what economists were smoking when they thought the entire blue collar workforce would be retrained into better jobs, but that's the theory they kept forwarding.

I've also heard that this has helped America by keeping inflation low. What they mean when they say "inflation" is almost always "wage inflation". You can see the mindset in the Covid relief debates- God Forbid we give people more money than the slave wages they get from corporations- they might not work! Corporations might have to pay more in wages!
> This is all on top of the fact that engineers are woefully underpaid. I have finance friends that make literal millions in yearly bonuses. This is virtually unheard of in software, even though we provide orders of magnitude more value.

That doesn't necessarily mean engineers are woefully underpaid. It may just be that your finance friends are obscenely overpaid.

Though whether all/most engineers provide "orders of magnitude more value" may be questionable. Some of the highest-paid engineers, AIUI, devote their considerable expertise to optimising ad click rates. "Provide value"? Hmmm. To whom? Not humanity in general, I think.
I don't think it's sad to prepare for the interview process. I see it this way - whatever you do at your current job might be very specific to your current tech-stack/product/problem-domain/team/company. When you're looking for a new job, you can't possibly learn the stack or problem domain of each and every company that you will interview with. In that sense it's great that you're assessed on more general skills like data structures and algorithms. Those few weekends of brushing up on skills you had anyway allow you to apply for a wide range of jobs. You then pick a new job and specialise in it until the next time you need to switch. Sounds healthier than most of the alternatives.
In my experience, no. I did an internal team transition at a company several years ago, and while it gave me a pretty good salary increase, it was not as big an increase (percentage-wise) compared to my wife's job hopping during roughly the same time span. I hopped jobs a couple more times a few years later and currently make three times more than I did back then. Some of this is attributable to differences in pay levels between cities but there's generally just a lot more room for negotiation with a new company than there is within the same company. I know many colleagues that left a company because of the ease of negotiating better offers outside of one's company.
Type systems do not thinking for you, you still have to make a type with a range check. So you could just as well write

function foo(n) {
if(n < 10 || n > 100) throw new Error("Expected n=" + n + " to be between 10 and 100");
return n*2;
}

And while you are at it you can write an unit test that is tested at compile time or in the editor/IDE.

// assert(foo(10),20);
Zulip can be self-hosted - have you looked at that? I like the threads implementation.
Working for me with 20 things blocked by ublock, but try this: https://www.l3p.nl/l3p-d3sk/

The other link is showing this desk and another commercialized version inspired by it.
One change from previous FAT filesystems to exFAT is the removal of the second, redundant file allocation table. Disks are less unreliable now so it is less necessary, but there are still some scenarios, especially when the filesystem is in a dirty state, where the table can be corrupted.

This can also really hurt in unexpected ways with otherwise badly written drivers. Nintendo's driver for the switch would constantly write to the table unnecessarily, and while this doesn't do all that much in normal operation (other than waste a small number of writes), it made it drastically more likely (in some cases for some games almost guaranteed) that the table would be partially written and corrupt if the system crashed or lost power unexpectedly. When some new Pokemon games came out and were initially a bit unstable this came up a lot.
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A country’s premier research university seems like a pretty normal espionage target.
Why the obsession with manufacturing jobs? Unemployment was still low (at least pre-covid) and total compensation, while not growing as fast as some people would like, is still higher than ever.
Yes but this stuff is larping to basically push their narrative online. This is pretty much what all Parler posts look like now. I don’t understand why 4chan is allowed to continue unfettered, this is pretty much where all this began anyways. Facebook, Twitter etc. just amplified it.
This is the type of reddit crap I wish didn't appear in HN, it has nothing to do with technology or give any interesting insight to the phenomenon of 5g conspiracies. It is just an anecdote, a meme, a clickbait to generate somme useless discussions
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You can also quit working for other people and pursue your own projects or seek out contract work. Yes yes, easier said than done, but so is advancing along a company’s career path.
“Made using labor and environmental standards that would be illegal in this country” could work too.
So then how do we make progress without analysis paralysis?
The other employer found out, IIRC, through his LinkedIn profile and contacted us. Been several years though so I’m only moderately confident in that memory.
To be clear, the "BIPOC workers" and "fight against totalitarianism" are elements of picklists, with other options like "We are technologists who want pay equity". The overall message of the picklist is that the union is an inclusive group which stands together for a variety of reasons.

And, the union doesn't claim to speak for all workers. It only claims to speak for its members, and to fight to protect all workers.
I was set to criticize OP for never having tried out the commute, until I remembered that I once took a job without having worked or lived a single day within 9 time zones of the place of employment. It's somewhat par for the course for foreign hires, and indeed, some of them discover they (or, even more frequently, their partner) don't enjoy the location.

I did ask them to show me what a typical office would look like, though.
This is the thing I don't like on Soundcloud. Whenever I upload there some low effort cat-walking-on-keyboard stuff, some bot came around with: "Hey, this is so cool song. We can promote it..."

So many scams are targeted to musicians.
I've done this and having a strong manager advocating for me made all the difference.
because leetcode problems tune for a narrow set of jobs. many software jobs bear no relation to leetcode problems in practice. so the sadness is either that employers might be continuing interview processes that bear no relation to the real job (not always true, but also at least partially true), or that OP feels like he needs to grind leetcode to get a job, when he may have other practical skills and experience that would serve him better in the job search.
Dems used to be pro labor, Repubs used to be pro business (on balance, but kind of served both when it made sense).

In the ‘80s Dems saw being default pro business was more lucrative and jumped ship.

Now both parties play both hands and workers get shafted.

Oh but the Dems are pro workers! No, they are not. They pretend they are. The only ones who are pro worker also sold out (Bernie) and went globalist —Compare his positions in the 80s vs now.
It's rational in the sense that you'd seek to maximize your comp. But the reasoning of "they can afford it, therefore I should get more" is not a rational argument because (1) it makes enormous and unstated assumptions about what a company can/will/should do with its money and (2) the conclusion doesn't logically flow from the premise. It's underpants gnome reasoning, and I have yet to see a compelling argument that fills in the "???" step.
Absolutely buttery smooth in my (non Chrome/Chromium) mobile browser.

Brilliant!

If anyone wonders: there has been so many somewhat interesting websites lately that only works in Chrome that it is well worth pointing out when something just works.
Faster than TSMC can make them.

I applaud AMD for all they've been doing, but despite it all, Intel has the apparent advantage because AMD is bottlenecked on TSMC. AMD is competing with themselves, Apple, Nvidia, etc for foundry time. That doesn't seem like a good place to be at, even if they hold the technology advantage.

I am cautiously predicting Intel will remain the market leader indefinitely unless AMD finds a way to remedy the bottleneck.
Time is most definitely not a side effect of measuring entropy. Time elapsed is defined by number of periods of some (natural or artificial) periodic phenomenon. Orbiting of the Sun, or pendulum swinging, or clock hands motion, or electric circuit current oscillations. None of these periodic processes have anything to do with the concept of entropy.
Yes, I agree. But the comment implied neglect, which is false. Our education system is a mess, but it's not due to neglect, and it doesn't have anything to do with manufacturing being shipped abroad.

As a side note, the US has the second highest public spending per capita (second only to Norway, last I checked). Our Government spends more per citizen than all but one "socialist" country. We then of course spend another doubling of that in private expenditures, and, yes, get worse outcomes.

The US is in a very bad spot.
I often encounter arguments that conflate the volatile price of Bitcoin with its utility. Price is a meeting of supply and demand, and we're discussing an asset that is roughly only a decade old. Of course the price is volatile, but that does not reflect anything intrinsic about the utility of Bitcoin itself. If gold never existed, and just suddenly starting raining from the sky occasionally, we would also have trouble meeting minds on the effective price of this sky rock.
Why is it granted they would have gotten an EEA-like deal?
> Ironically, Kalashnikov describes the CV-1's inverter as "revolutionary," stating that it can handle up to 1.2 megawatt-hours of energy despite minimal packaging size and weight.

Uhh. Until it dies? That would put the car's life span on the order of 1000 km. Or did the author mean Megawatt?

It's also quite interesting that that rather small looking car has a significantly worse projected range than the american-level obese Audi e-Tron (best case they're not fudging the numbers as much).

Their other vehicles look cool, though. Maybe they could also become drive train suppliers for small manufacturers.

The most scarce good, batteries, they also don't seem to be providing though.
How many countries in the world manufacture commercial airliners? How many countries in the world manufacture automobiles sold around the world (don't forget a lot of 'foreign' cars are manufactured in the United States)? How many countries in the world has a private company manufacturing re-usable rocketry capable of carrying crews to the ISS?

I've been reading these scaremongering stories all my life. First it was Japan eating our lunch. Where are they now? Then it was Mexico poised to take all our manufacturing. Didn't happen. Now everyone is scared about China. Pretty soon they're going to realize they don't want to be in the business of manufacturing screws, either. There's simply no money in it.

Meanwhile U.S. manufacturing has been growing. That's something the NY Times is conspicuously silent about.

I'm not saying the U.S. doesn't have social and political issues we need to get sorted out - but there's never been a time in our history that we haven't had social and political issues we need to get sorted out. I'm not saying we don't have progress to achieve. I'm saying I'm sick and tired about hearing how the U.S. no longer manufactures screws and consumer electronics. There's a bigger picture to consider.
This is true. It takes a while for some people to really accept this, as it breaks the lone coder myth. There are some people who consider communication and influence to be politics, and think they can do their job solely by programming.
> These same employers may have a variety of software maintenance tasks that require recognizing a pattern of problem, knowing the appropriate algorithm from Ye Olde Textbook, and quickly applying it.

These edge cases might exist, although I argue the more likely problem is that hiring is hard, expectations can be unrealistic, and so it’s easier to fall back on puzzles and call them an objective measure of technical competency and soft skills. Project Euler is fun, but Stack Overflow is likely more relevant for your day to day for solving business problems with software.
> if we could have just knuckled down at the start and endured some discomfort we would be pretty much over it by now

Didn’t we do just that in the spring?
The DSM is a guide on average, not a book of truth. For one, it offers SOMETHING to discuss in the first place.

The names change, there are sometimes huge mistakes in those books, etc.. That's absolutely true. It doesn't mean that there is no progress to the process, even if admittedly it's all pretty slow (for reasons that everyone will have their own opinion about).

I've lived my life since early childhood with various major issues, of which only recently Major depressive disorder and Generalized anxiety disorder were the primary diagnoses (but there are other major things that I'd prefer keeping to myself).

Putting some name, ANY name, on those issues, allowed me to look for what is usually brought up to improve things. Doing that allowed me to apply certain tools to my situation which have been incredibly helpful, and those tools include both therapy and medical treatment. Doing THAT allowed me to stop digging a deeper grave. I'm not cured from depression, suicidal ideation, cognitive distortions, etc.. much in the same way a burn victim isn't cured from it when they're still in the medical ward working at their rehabilitation. It's not a reason to say that the medical ward is useless.

So even if you are not satisfied with the state of things (and I'm not either btw), at least you can concede that having people trying to apply scientific processes to the issues AND having a world-spanning effort in significant numbers will do more to help figure things out than any localized shamanism effort.
I did ACM programming competitions at both high school and collegiate level. So I'd like to think I have a pretty favorable opinion the types of things leetcode tests -- algorithms, data structures, big-O and big-theta, etc. They are incredibly important.

But these topics are very, very far from being everything important. I would put them under soft skills, especially in cross-collaboration and working with non-engineering groups. And I would put them under having the type of knowledge and experience in approach that, especially combined with the above soft skills, allow us to push the direction of the company forward.

As a dumb example off the top of my head: It's great if you know how to average a batch of numbers efficiently. It's better if you know how to do such in a streaming fashion, and recognize that we can use that within our architecture to materialize savings. And, it's best if you can convince the business that there's no need to calculate the average because we can do streaming estimates for any quartile.
You can't be a criminal AND not part of the ruling party...
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