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Englebart’s is a pretty good example of work you’ll want to spend some time exploring on your own if you can, simply because it’s important and you shouldn’t fully trust a typical summary of his ideas.

For example, plenty of people watch the demo I mentioned above and spend all their time marveling at the invention of the mouse, or some other detail of the hardware, rather than taking in what was really being explored by the users of the hardware in terms of human/computer and human/human interaction.
Why is this even posted here? There is no real name on it, it spews one false and/or provocative statement after another without trying to provide any proof.
It's hard to imagine that the change from unicellular life to multicellular life is a great filter. Even single cell life has evolved to crazy complexity that blurs the lines between single and multicellular life.

> If we find Mars life, it would not at all be surprising to learn it is related to Earth life.

If it's DNA/RNA based, we might actually be able to determine the relationship and whether that's true or not.
How do you think they can lie as public company? Literally everyone is bottlenecked by TSMC right now.
>For collage dorms for example rarely charge based on electricity use. Some apartment complexes also include electricity as part of the rent.

Those situations are rare. A student in a college dorm isn't going to be able to afford multiple GPUs for a mining rig, and if he's mining with one GPU, he's likely going to keep it when the crash comes rather than trying to sell it into a flooded market. Apartment mining is more believable, but even then power consumption is going to be an issue for them because of noise. They're also going to be vastly outnumbered (in terms of GPUs operated) by professional miners because most people don't have a few thousand dollars to drop on generating highly speculative assets.
Grade A fear mongering, go for the kids. High schools are full of all kinds of illicit drugs. Regulating them and creating outreach would actually get a better handle of that. The additive argument is utterly absurd. Again legalization means regulation, which would prevent such a thing.
I can kind of relate to the author. Here in Spain, programming salaries are way _way_ further from those in the UK, let alone the US. The average wage for a senior developer is around 35k€ to 40k€ (roughly 48k USD). The technologies are the same, the working hours are the same, heck I even have to read, write and speak English on a daily basis even tho I'm in Spain, but the salaries are nowhere near.

What's even funnier is that the technologies I work with are not that common. In comparison, finding a C++ developer with good knowledge of Linux internals (e.g. me) is much harder than finding front-end web developers, but the former are getting paid way less than the later.

The difference with the OP is that I've analyzed the situation and I know that, if I want to improve my financial status, I have to move abroad or start freelancing, but I prefer the current stability I have. Not sure about the future tho.
"going freelance" is just as simplified as the other comment of "simply moving to the US".
These cards aren’t being used to mine bitcoin gpu mining hasn’t been applicable to Bitcoin since at least 2014. These cards are being used to Ming alt coins
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>Both AMD and Intel hardware supports Linux and wouldn't ship without it. NVIDIA is really the only hold out I this space.

So just the most important graphics vendor huh?
It's on the grid (the article discusses the power being sold into California). Presumably the local miner operations are able to pay the producing utilities more than grid buyers are willing to pay.
My point only applies to a colony that is functionally independent.
I wonder, all 3 current comments - including by someone shadowban - aokiji (I recently learned about the "showdead" setting you can toggle on in settings) - have been downvoted, I wonder if those downvoting all have financial interest in the success of the Bitcoin MLM?
Not luck. Design. These failures are anticipated. That they can be handled so well is testimony to the energy and regulation put into engine safety over decades. Whereas once such failures could down an airline, killing all on board, they can now be handled safely.
“worst choice of career” rings of hyperbole. For many it’s a ticket out of their current career. For all their flaws, boot camps and Lambda School are popular for a reason.

This article just reads like sour grapes.
A lot of people are taking the writer's content at face value and biting. Could it be that this guy is just really bad at what he does, and as such he couldn't get a well-paying job? He even gives us a hint:

> Personally, I've already spent months doing unpaid work on testing sites, and yet I'm still stuck in the same place.
I don't get this whole debate. Who decides what is boring and what is exciting technology?

Kubernetes can be pretty boring for somebody who worked with it for years, but an exciting, eye-opening experience for a team who has no experience with it. MySQL can also be exciting if you have only worked with Excel in the past. NoSQL can be exciting, but it can also be a safe bet if you need a multi master db, because your app needs to work offline.

I think it's easy to say a technology is safe or risky to easily promote or dismiss it. But in fact it makes sense to study and experiment with both boring and exciting technology to know if it might make your work easier and your results better.
> There are various comments in the thread about people who get bored after a few months because they have to do code maintenance.

There is nothing wrong with getting bored by maintenance work. If you have that kind of work then hire boring engineers who will do whatever as long as you give them money, but don't say that all engineers needs to be happy with that kind of work.
Isn't all this planning for future redundancy what the article is arguing against?
> Why are they moderating my content?

Because they don't want to be hosting malware and child porn. There are certainly false positives and your use case is such that it makes sense to go somewhere else. But you have to admit that your use case is fairly niche.
It's not a new development, people have been pointing out the large amount of energy consumed for quite some time.
Yeah London is kinda the outlier with this. Give me that pay in say Cardiff and I wouldn't really have anything to complain about money wise. I could be happy slowly getting pay rises collecting my mountain of gold.

Edit: But of we look at the title of the site I think we can see what the post is actually about
Can't you just open the sites in separate windows and resize them to the same effect?
Exactly, I'm currently at 56k and while I'm looking at getting paid more because there is room to do so it's fascinating to me that this person who is in top 10% in term of income think they are doing a job that pays badly...
> Finally, the paper with academic misconduct got retracted by ACM as Huixiang’s last wish. The ACM imposed a penalty of a 15-year ban on participation in any ACM Conference or Publication to the offenders.

Wow. It does sound like the student discovered suicide as one of the only known effective methods of triggering accountability for research misconduct.

That's awfully depressing.

I can't now find the article I remember reading, perhaps from HN, of someone who came across then spent a lot of time demonstrating/reporting apparently falsified data to journals, to pretty much no consequence. (except teaching the researcher how to falsify data better to evade the particular tests the exposer used in that case).
If it was both easy and desirable for private[0] schools to both spot and expel the violent, the current Prime Minister of the UK would not have completed Eton and from there gotten into Oxford, where he developed his current thuggish reputation by smashing up restaurants.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/07/oxford-bull...

[0] or, as they are called in the UK, “public schools”, because reasons
I haven’t done the analysis myself, but I highly doubt winterization would double the cost of energy. It’s probably some small portion of the capex to build the plant in the first place. Would you pay an additional 5% or 10%? Probably, especially if you get to avoid your home being flooded by burst pipes, rendering it potentially unlivable for much longer than the week of power outage.
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People choosing Quebec to immigrate must be either fluent in French or stupid. Quebec immigration is perhaps one of the most arcane system and politically influenced. To compare it only takes 4 or 6 months to get a PR in rest of Canada if you have the right skills. In Quebec, even if you have the right skills and speaks French, it takes a minimum of 2 years if the red tape allows. If you do not know French with the right skills 3 to 4 years.
I think you are right! And good riddance :)
Is this as a result of how the r&d expenses are deducted against revenue, or manufacturing process improvements?
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I don't like the title either. It suggests there would be some stats to back up the claim. Instead it is just a single person lamenting their career choice. I am sure that person can be found within every career path.

The author suggests he may get a 15k pay rise in the next two years. To me, and probably to most people in the world, that seems quite good. The detail lies in their cost of living and standard of life compared to their peers. The author mentions that the front office staff are getting paid more handsomely. I wonder what those salaries are in comparison.

I sympathize with the author around interviews but I feel they, along with the rest of us, should vote with our time and not do silly interviews that you have to study for. Let those companies starve for developers.
And then it read "Attention is precious" and I realized I was losing my time and should got back to more important stuff :P
Texas freeze led to release of tons of air pollutants as refineries shut
Whatever the coin, it is all the same crypto market. The crash will come one day soon and these cards will be in dumpsters.
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You’re making some big assumptions: not intentionally dumping into the ocean doesn’t mean that they don’t end up there, and there are other places than the ocean of concern. Where I live in the DC area, plastic bags were about a third of the trash found in rivers, storm drains, etc. and in addition to impact on animals that caused problems for all kinds water processing facilities due to clogs. After a bag tax was passed, that sharply reduced the number of bags which ended up in the local rivers.
what was the movement before it?
That is true, although I don't know how helpful that is aside from checking that the annotation is not broken? Much like `const`, the annotation would have to be opt-in either way:

* Rust doesn't infer function types (on purpose)

* like const (or Copy), the removal of the flag is a breaking change, so it should not happen implicitly

So functions would necessarily have to be explicitly marked as e.g. `convergent` or whatever. And while callers of `!`-functions would be easy to check for, I don't think rustc is currently smart enough to infer the totality loops in general.
Engineering jobs pay much better in some EU countries

Which ones? £55k is a pretty decent salary ( 75-85k is a very high salary) for a developer in basically all EU countries I've looked at.

engineering gets a lot more respect as a profession.

But only if you are an actual engineer. Developers without the degree aren't, in my experience, given much more 'respect' outside the UK compared to the UK.
It only took a few months for me working around bitcoin warehouses to realize I was being extremely hypocritical. Some will argue that bitcoin is important to society so the electricity use can be justified. I personally drastically reduced my stake in bitcoin though and put it in crypto that is committed to greener proof of stake algorithms.
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>What would Apple even have to lose by proving the specification and documentation needed to boot alternative operating systems?

They already describe how to do so, and the specification to merely boot is trivial anyway. Linux, OpenBSD (as in TFA), and others have booted already.

It's the details of the GPU and other such stuff that needs drivers (touchpad, etc) that are missing. And those are rarely well documented on the Intel side, by AMD and NVIDIA either, anyway.
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Tell me more! I've been tempted to get into the satellite game.

I love the one-day cycling races (Paris-Ruoubaix, etc.)
I've seen many people who turn into programming as a job, mainly because they think they'll make more money if they switch career, to find out that it's not for them after a few years. While I have no personal gripe against them personally (my gripe is with gov initiatives and the plethora of coding schools), and I generally encourage everyone to learn something about programming so that they feel more control about technology they use, working as a programmer / developer is definitely NOT for everyone, that is if you're interested in not having to switch careers (again) after a few years. Working as a programmer for the long run requires passion, which is a cliche, but there's some truth to that. Basically you have to enjoy it, and not just be in it _only_ for the money. I don't think this is a special trait to this professing, but I've never worked in anything else to know.
Yeah you could do it again now, but there was a dark age of mobile dev when it wasn't possible. I guess I should put it on the to do list!
We don’t understand the effects because of the stigma around their illegality. Only recently has progress been made there, and further understanding from legality could only be a good thing. Use is already happening and will continue to happen. Increasing our understanding of the effects and regulating production and distribution accordingly are the path to safety.
When a writer opens 10k words by moaning, and not even moaning in an entertaining way, I have no time in my life for this.

I read enough of this to see that they're setting up to criticize the way someone is presenting an argument. The few attempts at self awareness to the irony does not fix anything. It just makes it all the more tedious.
The existence of the craft could arguably obligate the corporation to incur ongoing expenses for upkeep.
"Keep engineers happy" is not the same thing as "let engineers do whatever the hell they want".
Even if the electricity argument succeeds in harming bitcoin, luckily there are many Proof of Stake coins such as Polkadot and (soon) Ethereum that will use a fraction of the electricity. So no-coiners will have to use a different argument. They have definitely started pushing this one hard even though IMO it’s disingenuous given most BTC is mined through carbon-neutral sources like hydro and geothermal.
One of the main culprits is often virtualization. Used without a good understanding of what goes on under the hood it is super easy to create a situation that heavily overloads some data path to storage without being aware of it because it's all so nicely abstracted away. Fifty virtual machines trying to access the same storage layer is a pretty good recipe for a disaster.
I don’t agree. I am very passionated about programming and love learning about new stuff. But I can understand you could feel trapped. For example, when you have kids and are in a demanding job, or are in any other way responsible for other things, there are only so many hours in a day!

So often a programmer’s merits seems to be measured by what they do outside their working hours. Do you value an accountant on the work they do during the weekend?
They put ads in but you could skip them generally (except that fbi warning).

I’m in the same boat. I like dvds because I could rip them and watch anywhere. Though streaming killed a lot of my physical digital media use.
Pushing troublesome kids out isn't gaming the system in the same sense that fudging exam results is, because it makes the school better for all the remaining kids. (I think "gaming the system" should be reserved for things that are overall zero- or negative-sum.)

The quality of the school experience depends as much on the peer group as on the teachers, curriculum, and facilities. Moving troublesome kids to schools with strict discipline can help them in life, too. But even if not, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
At what pressure? Sounds like atmospheric.
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Side note - we've done a lot of work in Wenatchee on their conversion to electric transit buses, which also benefit from the low cost electricity from hydro. Great little town
My business servers typically run Debian Stable for exactly this reason. Most platforms, sadly, are not as reliable in this respect as Debian's.

In particular, big consumer platforms like Windows, iOS and Android have all been horrendous when it comes to conflating essential updates for things like security patches or catastrophic data loss bugs with arbitrary updates that change behaviour and move UIs around.
It uses a shocking amount of energy. Is it wrong to point this ou?
> So, to run a 1 GW plant for 24 hours would take 192,000,000 square feet... a cube about 575 feet on each side. That's a huge tank farm.

Isn't that why most gas is stored as LNG?
£55k is not a great salary in the UK for a middle class professional with a degree and >5 years of experience.

Lawyers, doctors, dentists, accountants, front line sales, and even some nurses earn comfortably more than that - never mind MPs, many of whom are both clueless and useless and still manage to earn more than £80k base before expenses.

Some blue collar workers - mostly trades - can also earn a lot more, especially for contract or high-availability work.

Of course it's not a great salary compared to someone who works a checkout, stocks shelves, or talks to customers on the phone.

But qualifications and experience should matter at least a little.
Some people might choose to focus on that issue, but the article is about a lot more than that
I’ve worked with programmers in Spain and have limited salary information. They are definitely much lower compared to, say, New York. However, cost of living in Madrid was nowhere near New York. For example, I could get a beer and ham sandwich at Museo del Jamon for about 2€. Compare that to paying $15 for a salad.
I'm not someone who will claim the free market solves everything. But in my experience, a programming career gives programmers a wonderfully diverse labor marketplace. You can pretty much make your career what you want it to be.

Mine involved doing zero unpaid overtime ever (or no more than say 30-60 minutes here and there). Mine involved doing zero training for puzzle-based tests. Mine involved being paid above average salary compared to many others where I live. And mine involved only enjoyable, hobbyist practice of my craft in my spare time. When I landed in jobs that didn't suit me well, I moved to a different job.

There may have been a rogue weekend where I got a little work in, or a couple of nights where I was running through tutorials in a language or framework that work needed, so it wasn't primarily my curiosity getting me to try it out. But by and large, I've been paid handsomely for being efficient, adding efficiency to organizations, and I've learned what I needed to on the job while enjoying what I do.

Personally, I couldn't ask for me, though others certainly can and do expect more from their career and from themselves. If you want to be richer than me, you couldn't live where I do (or you'd have to be more attractive to remote-first employers that also pay higher salaries.) So the work you put in tends to reward you, though perhaps the Pareto Principle applies.

Now, I can attribute some of my satisfaction in this line of work with timing - getting into web application development in at the turn of the century meant that demand exceeded supply and it was an employee's market. But more so, I think, can be attributed to my flexibility, adaptability, willingness to accept change and move (change jobs) to where I could get what I wanted from my career.

Perhaps where you live and when you live, software cannot give you the career you desire. If that's the case, choose what to change. You cannot change the point in time we are in, but there are certainly software fields that are growing and paying well, so maybe location has to change, or you must seek out more desirable remote positions and make yourself a fit for them. If that isn't what you're willing to do, then perhaps the field is wrong for you, and you must make a bigger change.
For most people, moving some ten thousand kilometers away from friends and family isn't really an option.

I agree that the author isn't saying anything much, but "just work somewhere else" also isn't a very strong point.
Nvidia isn't using TSMC for any of their current products, they're using Samsung. They may switch to TSMC for their more high-end cards, but I don't think that is the case right now.
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>nobody wants their desktop computer to be like the iPhone or iPad

You'd be surprised.

(Also, this exactly has been the proposition and allure of the Chromebooks - a computer that you can just wipe and restart again and it's like a phone or tablet device, and your data are synced in the cloud).
Yeah, I agree they “left the door open”, but the point I was making is that Apple provides zero resources (docs, data sheets, people to help, etc) that I’ve seen to those who are trying to reverse engineer the components in their machines to get them to work with an open source OS. Like an internal engineer tasked with working on an A series processor gets a tens of thousands of page PDF on the processor alone, not including similar PDFs for the GPU, but good luck ever getting that from Apple to port say Linux to it.
The article is from March 2018. It is indeed not a new development.
On the one hand, we have the biggest crisis to ever face humanity, where all of our lives literally hang in the balance and daily we're seeing the effects from wildfires to cold blasts.

On the other hand we have bitcoin.
> much better in some EU countries

In which EU countries do you earn a lot more than EUR 64,000 on average?
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Yes, Hotwire is another game-changer from that genius DHH. So much so that Django and Laravel already have their own implementations. I just love the passion that guy has for what he does and his commitment to Ruby. I think Rails is an even better choice since it became boring.
I’ve seen nearly equivalent hires decided on “they have a large social media following” - not a critical factor, but a bonus that makes a difference. I almost lost my job protesting it.
How many people fix cars themselves?
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"Free" markets don't solve these problems. But it's worth noting that regulated markets are still markets.
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