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I feel the same, and liked that you used the word puzzles. I enjoy solving puzzles, and often I use programming to solve them. Sometimes though it's just a process solution, and things like devops puzzles have their own solution space.
Personally, I am excited (or satisfied) by systems that work, up to and including the processes required to keep it "in motion". The technology used is secondary as long as its properties and risks are understood and accounted for and you can work with it without having to double-check every little thing with the business owners or clients.

Sometimes things break, but in a "good" system, some breakage is expected, and the risk of breakage is not minimized by being fearful of change, but by having monitoring, redundancy and checks in place to keep the change controlled and the impact of faults within agreed boundaries.
Boeing doesn’t make engines.
Yep, this. Or the team that arranges the contract (what to test, when to test it) typos the IPs (or misses a digit when copying or so).

To avoid that, in the larger orga I worked for we had a checklist for the morning-of: check signature on indemnification agreement, run a WHOIS on the provided IPs and domains. Fewer and fewer people have their own v4 ranges, but the companies that pay our rates are typically large enough to still have it. If not, they had to tell us in advance whom we should expect it to be hosted with.

The team that has initial contact also checks, but we were supposed to double check anyway and it was a good thing, too. Getting caught hacking another company is not a situation you want or be in as a security company.
LTCG rate on a $10M exit is already 20% today (and I think even 23.8% if the Obamacare 3.8% surtax applies, which I’ve not researched recently, but I think does apply).

There’s a heavy twin push to find more sources of revenue and to increase taxes on cap gains specifically, so I don’t know that I’d bank on capital gains taxes continuing to stay low long enough to take advantage of them. All taxes on $10M exits are going up; cap gains probably faster than income.
Engineers who find a stable technology boring after a few years probably lack curiosity and are not digging deep enough. It's a form of ADHD.

After almost a decade, I still find lots of interesting ways to write plain vanilla JS code that makes developer's jobs easier in lots of interesting ways. Before that, I spent a full decade writing C++ using nothing but a restricted set of in-house libraries. I don't recall ever being bored because I always felt like a carpenter: have a problem? You have the tools to build more tools to make your life easier. I experimented with event driven models vs. streams vs. queues, doing complex calculations by spreading them across the nodes of a tree, developing unit and API test tools (C++ had none, many years ago).

Today, architecture feels more like technology shopping than tinkering.
What's facebook? Oh right, the pot stirrers.
I’d like to have a sideways arrow, for ‘get this garbage out’ so that there is a difference between voting ‘I don’t like this’ and I want this comment killed. HN is my favourite place to come and read opinions, because while I don’t agree with every opinion, They are better expressed here than on most forums, more likely to be sincere and rarely pure trolling. Unless I’m not picking up on something, there are comments here getting killed for being unpopular, it would be better if that only happened for crappy behaviour. I think the dead comments are often some of my favourite to read. On my laptop I can change the css to read the dead, but on phone my I’m squinting at the grey on grey.
Employees need to be kept happy, otherwise they leave and the company has to spend more money hiring and training a replacement.

The alternative to this is offering more money, which isn’t even guaranteed to work.
The problem with plastic is not the CO2, but the fact that we are producing more and more of it and it does not decompose so we now have it in forests, rivers, ocean, fish, drinking water, our bodies... this can't continue, it's not a sustainable path.
Can someone explain the trend of fetishizing the “bootcamp fairytale” whereby someone doesn’t have a CS background but ends up as a working programmer after going to a bootcamp?

Let me explain. I didn’t study CS in college, but I did stud CE, a relatively related field. When I started working as a programmer, I immediately felt that there were some fundamentals I was missing, so I’ve spent a lot of time reading in my spare time to fill in some of those gaps.

There seems to be a trend where someone switches careers, and glorifies the fact that they don’t have a CS background. Why dismiss the history of the field that you’re in? Not everyone has a PhD in CS, but there has been some incredibly important work done in the field, work that we all stand on the shoulders of. Is this an ego thing? It’s hard to be humble and admit that you have a lot of things to learn, so instead you resent the field and blame it for being arrogant?
BIPLAN looks to be 1370 times faster than Python
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I don't know what you're talking about. Wiles received an avalanche of awards for his achievement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wiles#Awards_and_honour...
No you can't, as the article explains these cards don't have display outputs.
This is a great comment, but I would generalize to just about any other profession. Are nurses bored with bandaids and hoping for better technology? And also comparisons between computer engineering and construction are always problematic because they are at completely different stages of maturity. Maybe what you suggest did happen in 1500 BC when the homeowner was like "Hey buddy, just build this closet with mud bricks" and the carpenter was like "Nar bro, I got these twigs I cut down that are super cool. Mud is for neubs".
I feel like the push towards PWA where you "appify" those websites rather than running another instance of a full blown browser would be good indeed.
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> I've found being too attached to code is a recipe for frustration in the workplace.

Not sure why, but I've always viewed code as a means to an end of solving a larger problem. I end up attached to the end result, and not the code itself.

I suspect this is one of the reasons I don't get very passionate about language features. Something that makes my life easier is nice, but I'm not one to argue about them. I've solved problems in Visual Basic to C with everything in between.
I don't think both are mutually exclusive, I see one more important then the other. You see space, and I see environment.

> I’ll ask more directly: do you think 0.45% of the budget will solve those environmental problems enough to offset what is lost in aspirational benefit?

Yes, I do. If that 0.45% pushed towards environmental which helped develop new form of technology that returns well-being to the planet, then the aspiration wouldn't of been loss. Aspiration would return and would wager higher return including hope for humanity. It works both ways.

As like the current example on the front page at the moment about plant based recycling. That's inspirational but has much thought, time and money as of going in to space been invested in to that? Where would we be if did the same.
> It's exhausting to listen to mentees complain that they don't have enough time in the day to work out, or read a book they want to read, or cook the healthy meals they want to eat, but then they go on to discuss things like Bitcoin and Dogecoin for 4 hours straight in Slack or recruit their friends into another Twitter argument.

It's practically never about time, but rather about energy. People need some downtime from work and chores and "improving themselves", and BS arguments on Slack or Twitter is a way to unwind for some.
> It's an entitled attitude, but getting the line workers to see it that way is not gonna happen.

Not it is not. Knowing you can get a better job elsewhere and therefore going elsewhere is not entitlement. Thinking that workers who are unhappy and can get a better job elsewhere shouldn't leave is entitlement.
I think the argument was that drugs should be illegal the same way speeding is illegal. A strike system where most of the time you get away with a small fee. However, in my opinion this is missing rehabilitation based on reducing dosages every month, which is absolutely necessary to quit drugs that cause chemical dependence.

The tar and other additives in cigarettes cause chemical dependencies. Vaping removes the additives and replaces them with a controllable amount of nicotine. Over time you reduce your exposure to nicotine and at some point you just quit entirely when the dosage is very low.
Still not as good as uBlock origin in terms of blocking quality.
I was hoping for my phallusbergs to float with the scrotum upwards, but sadly they float on their sides.
Some people are, but we also saw a flood of both normal and mining only cards in the used market last time the mining bubble burst.
Seems expected since demand is down. As a consequence, restaurants near the residential neighborhoods will see new lunch buisness.
(More in comments) Brave Browser leaks your Tor
BIPLAN: https://github.com/gioblu/BIPLAN
is a programming language, which comes with its own virtual machine and its compiler. It is really simple and it is an early protototype, although benchmarking it looks astonishingly quicker than other interpreted programming languages like python. How can be 3 orders of magnitude quicker than python? O_O
It doesn't make logical sense. How people can enter one anothers dreams? We can not see whats going in another person's head.
Deep learning, including automated model selection, is under development in MADlib. See for example https://madlib.apache.org/docs/latest/group__grp__keras__run...
I guess in the next couple of releases it will probably stabilize and be promoted out of "early development".

I don't work on it or know anyone who does, but it is one of the most established open projects for ML in the database, as far as I know.
One benefit of drugs for law enforcement is that it's possible to plant evidence.
Choose a mix of boring and exciting technology instead. Pick 1-2 new things for your new app and you're probably good.
My new M1 is full of bugs and at this point after being downvoted here for stating the facts I do not care wether those are software bugs or hardware issues. It's the buggiest machine I ever had.

It even became not bootable in the first day. And I mean completely not bootable. You can't boot it from external usb stick. You can't do anything without 'another Mac' to 'revive' it as they call it. (see here for description: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26203799 and I have described more of the bugs in this thread)

I can't say this about MacBookPro of 2009. This one worked. But the model of 2015 just have fallen apart.
(You can dig in my comments how. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25809097)

This M1 became not bootable because their Disk Utility in recovery options become unresponsive at some point
and then it showed black screen containing exclamation mark with url where they tell you that you need
another Mac to revive this one. Somehow not this black screen with exclamation mark nor the web pages it points to did not mention that there is another boot option that is discussed here. Look for idiotic explanations for that fact around this thread. And see how I've been downvoted for stating that fact.

"Very fast" some say? I still wish to see it, because so far it feels just like the one I had before or slower! I am not talking about benchmarks, I am talking about day to day experience. Example: Screen shot (cmd-shift-4) takes ~1-2 seconds for cross-cursor to appear.

The saddest thing that all of my attempts to communicate about the problems are ignored or facing downvotes
instead of digging into it and trying to find out why it happened which was my initial intent and what I was expecting to happen at least here.
Instead I observe some bs like "oh, I never heard about any problems or let's ignore those problems because perhaps it's your hardware". But even if it is?
It's still an issue! BTW I ran apple diagnostics and it shows "no issues found". So I've seen no evidence for any hardware issues so far.

With such attitude when attack goes toward the messenger and not toward the problem It's hard for me
to expect a brighter future with that or that those issues would be fixed.
They perhaps would simply pretend that nothing has happened and everything is perfect. And at this point I am getting sick of this BS. If this bullying mechanism would not be removed from HN I see no reason to be reasonable here or trying to contribute
I have tried testmon before, but it didn’t really work that great. What tools do you use for this type of problem? And if not how do you overcome it? Splitting the code base, making sure tests run very fast?
> I'd like to remain working in the public sector, so I can't really transition to a dev role internally without the credential.

I've been working for the public sector for a decade now. There are plenty of dev jobs in this sector, if you seek out those of us who sell SaaS software to government entities. Many of the jobs I'm aware of in this sector are remote jobs, almost none of them require a degree. The software needed by public entities is also different than private - we tend to deal with specialized needs and regulatory environments, so you can walk in the door with added value to your employer when you already understand the needs of this sector.
You can look at it metaphorically. Whatever that thing is that people are talking about when they say, "have a heart!!", that's the soul. It's supposed to be your innermost self. If your innermost self becomes unethical or immoral as a habit, that's, "losing your soul."
A lot of new technology eventually becomes boring technology, and this is because of adoption in companies exactly in the way the author is discouraging. When the new becomes boring, everyone gets to reap the benefits of the new tech.

The world of software rests on the hard work of others, whether it's open source maintainers spending their free time making libraries for peanuts, or it's people going through the pain of productionizing a new technology. Being in the boring technology club is in a sense also being in the freeloader club, never contributing back to the state of the art.

It's a good article. It makes us aware of the drive many have to use the new thing, and the negative consequences of following this drive blindly. But I'm also happy that people do it.
That's a decent point. To my argument though, the duty of the police sometimes does acceptably involve violence against citizens when necessary (although at present they are far too frequently forgetting the "when necessary" part).

Also, police departments are far more localized and I think hold much less clout than a national organization.
>At best, you could call AASK an apologist for military.

Ah yes, then shes definitely not responsible...irony off.

>>she took the podium on Wednesday at the United Nations’ highest court to defend her homeland against accusations of genocide, arguing that there had been no orchestrated campaign of persecution.

>>Instead, she insisted that what foreign observers have called an organized, years-long campaign of atrocities against the Rohingya has been exaggerated and misconstrued.

2019/12/11
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/11/world/asia/aung-san-suu-k...

2018/07/07
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/07/world/asia/myanmar-rohing...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_genocide
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Not sure elixir qualifies as "old and boring tech"
What would be your preferred reaction? That we all agree Texas taxpayers should foot the bill for their money pinching peers?

If you take on risk your should fully assume that risk. The same way that if your insure your house for half its price to save on monthly payments you don't go around expecting the government to bail you out.
Doesn’t surprise me this is Uber we’re talking about
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I am relearning TP and DOS as a hobby. I would be interested if you decided to share you code.

I lost all of my TP programs from '92-'02 as the result of a dramatic neglicence.
I disagree that employees need to be kept happy. The confident/ well informed ones do if you want them to stay, because they will go spend the extra time to leave and find another job. But I've been in jobs where developers are clearly not happy, but they put up with it.

So the point is, you will brain drain your company if you don't make developers happy.

I was initially gonna say "Good" in place of "confident/ well informed", but I'm sure some developers who are good simply don't know there are better places out for them.
Some companies need to be tested for legal reasons or because the parent company requires it. It's often easy to tell when you're dealing with one of those from the details being incomplete or coming in late (like get the API docs 7 days into the 5-day test - so we basically didn't test, but we still have to bill the reserved time), but if it's unclear, being a little too happy with an empty report and inviting us to test another thing is another tell-tale.

Well, the report is never empty but in general it's not as if you always hit jackpot, sometimes there's a very small attack surface in a black box test (or if it's a black box because your account credentials are still not arranged...), sometimes there's a mostly default install of something and that's secure by default because a lot of people already looked at the project, or sometimes they just did a good job.

Not being invited back can be more than one thing. Embarrassing the company is one of the most effective way of losing clients, though. It also doesn't help get issues fixed because the manager will prioritize saving face over anything else, including protecting assets.

If you enable them to protect assets without looking bad using good communication... that manager will want you for every test.
again, part of the problem was lack of communication and documentation. waiting 2 weeks to be told "fuck off" (in essence) is shitty all around.. it's not JUST that a (stupid) bug exists, it's how it was handled in this case, and, apparently, how they choose to handle it going forward, affecting who knows how many more people/teams in the next few years, and how many more weeks of wasted time. And if this team handles this sort of thing this way, how much more time is being wasted and projects delayed? This is at least as much a communication problem as it is a technical one.

And yeah, I can put myself in those shoes, as I've been on both sides of this. Treating newcomers in your communication channel (slack, etc) with the same level of urgency YOU would want (or need) when you ask for help from some other team is a bare minimum.
I think COVID-19 has shown that most countries with multi party systems can implement comprehensive policies centrally.
Well, Python is not known for its speed (even among established interpreted languages), and a couple of design choices make it have a pretty heavy overhead.

Still, a toy language focusing on a particular benchmark can most likely easily beat any other high-level language.
It finally arrived! :)
Anecdotal counterpoint: I bought a cheap Intel SoC laptop in 2019 thinking it would make a nice ultraportable writing machine. Things that it shipped without Linux support for: the trackpad, wifi, Bluetooth, and disk (eMMC controller). It just about works now with the latest kernel version and some manually compiled drivers, nearly two years later.
Dissapointingly the article does not cite their sources.

> Bryan Del Rizzo (director of global PR for GeForce) @bdelrizzo
> Hi Ryan. It's not just a driver thing. There is a secure handshake between the driver, the RTX 3060 silicon, and the BIOS (firmware) that prevents removal of the hash rate limiter

https://mobile.twitter.com/bdelrizzo/status/1362619264423747...

> Just a minute or two after starting, the hash rate has dropped from 41.5 MH/s to 26-24 MH/s. Since the author of the video has no drivers for this card, this would suggest that the anti-mining algorithm is not present in the software, but rather implemented in the BIOS itself.

https://videocardz.com/newz/zotac-geforce-rtx-3060-early-gpu...

They wrongly claim that the author has no drivers as can be seen from the source video but come to the correct conclusion as confirmed above.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=282Ozbp-Uv8
> If you have these kinds of serious issues about humanity as a whole what are you doing to solve these problems that you perceive?

I have an on-going list with idea's I'd like to attempt. But I don't have the funding to carry them out. So I have to work, invest my own money with a limited target in attempt to help out.

I've started taking night classes in environmental studies, I daily go out and pick up trash. I don't eat meat, I recycle. I do all I can do. Every day I try to discover new methods on how I can do my part. If I didn't have to work, I could be focusing on research and working to a better environment but that's not possible. I'm doing all I can with the resources I have available with me but those itself are limited.

> If that's the case try and find something that you enjoy or take interest in and speculate about how you could make it better.

As much as I would like to, I can't. It's not like I can self-invest my time when I have to work eight hours a day to just allow myself to live. As much as I would love to start inventing to come up with new strategies, it's not possible. The interests I do have are underfunded, inaccessible without some sort of scientific degree and a life style where you have time for education.
If military never answered to her or took orders, control all the courts like you said, what is the point of the coup?
Facebook takes down main page of Myanmar Military.
Myanmar Military takes down main service of Facebook (eventually, if they didn't already do.)

The question here is: would (some) misinformation be worth it to avoid total blackout. And I mean this places other than North America and Western Europe.

In huge swathes of the world, internet and facebook are interchangeable. And where democratic values are strong enough, any government can take down the main channel of (free, non-governmental sanctioned) information for a whole country.
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Thank you. I love this bit at the end of a successful demonstration:

> [The bank manager] raised his hand during this whole all-hands meeting and he says what about the free computers? Do we still get the new computers? I'm like no, I was lying to you. I'm a horrible person.

And this one after getting caught at the wrong bank:

> He calls the guy who hired us to rob the bank. They start talking and halfway through the conversation he literally says do we have to split the cost for this? At that point I realized it was probably going to be okay.
I disagree that it wasn't so much as an argue but more wanting a debate. I want to know more, this is how I currently see things. Show me a new light, show me the light of how I am wrong that we are not heading in to an environmental crisis.

Retrospectively I do agree that the whole edited, down-votes comments may of been childish. But when people can just walk on by, down-vote without any justified meaning to why the down-votes are, I call them out; I do the same in real life.