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Come to Nix and Nixpkgs, where we can cross compile most things in myriad ways. I think the barriers to new hardware ISAs on the software side have never been lower.

Even if we get an ARM RISC-V monoculture, at least we are getting diverse co-processors again, which present the same portability challenges/opportunities in a different guise.
This only holds water if you completely disconnect supply from demand, which is obviously ridiculous.
Thanks for the kind words ilolu! We used Google Books API
Extending COVID restrictions for years into the future would cause huge outcry, what are you talking about? I would immediately join protests and do everything in my power to get the current government out if that happened, and I'm not one for "viva la revolución!" normally.
Genuinely thought they were both going to get put in solitary and have their sentences extended for engaging in gang activities, based on their coded messages to each other. Good God, but I have low expectations of this prison system.
> Stripe and Spotify have both started to hire for permanent remote positions in Europe as well, expanding their hiring pool to all of the EU. Both companies are competing across Europe, and not with the local market. They join companies like GoDaddy, GitLab, GitHub, and others who have been doing this for years.

Although I know for a fact this is true, in the case of Stripe at least, I haven't been able to fit any role that fits myself (frontend/junior) so I guess they're looking only for more senior positions in this remote-covid post-era...

PS: If anyone at Stripe is hiring for more junior/middle frontend sofware engineer or fullstack node/ts/js/graphql/jamstack/serverless positions do let me know! mail on the profile
For anyone wanting to learn causal inference (the first item in the list), I highly recommend "Causal Inference, the Mixtape" by Scott Cunningham, a professor of economics at Baylor University. Scott has been writing this book incrementally in the open for the last couple of years, and recently completed and published it, and it is a thorough introduction to numerous techniques for inferring causation in different contexts. https://www.scunning.com/mixtape.html
This is not true. McDonalds runs at a bigger scale than Google and if I have a problem with my food I wouldn’t have a problem finding a person to complain to.

The problem is google runs at a global scale with less employees than most national companies. If they hired more people, this problem would go away. But of course that would mean they would have to kill their free plans.

Pick your poison. Cheap products but the risk of losing everything, or expensive alternatives with a phone number to call when you have an issue.
> A much, much cheaper Windows or Linux workstation will run circles around a Mac Pro.

Assuming the software on those "much cheaper" machines runs in exactly the same way.

Which it doesn't. Even if you use the same apps on Windows vs. a Mac, the OS's and their workflows are different in substantial ways.

Which they explain in the article.

Raw hardware cost is not the only driving factor in people's calculus of value. Also not sure where you thought you were going with the Leica example - especially with the image and ergonomics comments. Maybe you just don't know how to wield the tools - I have good friends with over 40 years of professional photography experience and the differences they get between their Leica and Nikon/Cannon cameras are more than noticeable.

Good grief. Just curious - how many billable hours in 3D modeling and animation do you have under your belt?
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If you give them money, you get better support than j. random user.
> I think the last commercial crash in the US that killed all onboard was in 2009

The FAA approved the MAX and let it keep flying after the first crash because it wasn't Americans who died. They only acted after more died in a second crash and they could no longer pretend they weren't at fault for those deaths.
The platform is just too big. Disclaimer; I'm only talking about technically. Not about breaking up their monopoly.

Youtube has been showing signs of being out of control for a few years now. To me it actually started with my mom getting a fraud ad in a google service that almost made her give up her credit card info to win an imaginary phone.

Lately I've been seeing porn on youtube, ads for young girls and even videos with out right porn that have been up for several months and have millions of views.

They mostly fly under the radar by posting in other languages like Thai for example.

This combined with the "randomly" blocked accounts tells me that the whole platform is too big. They've been expanding all over the world but haven't been able or willing to grow their oversight at the same pace.
Yup. Monetization of things that ought to be free and standardized is one of the biggest unnecessary drags on productivity growth today. That many non-profit bodies contribute to it just makes it more sad. Large companies don’t care about this relatively small cost, and they actually benefit from the (small) moat that monetization creates.
There's an issue on their tracker that discusses implementing the notification, and docs that say that without it K9 can only check mail every 15 minutes or so, even if excluded from battery optimization. So I don't know what support for IDLE and ‘background ability’ you're talking about. Before Android 9 or so, sure—it could just run in the background and connect to the servers whenever it wanted.
Can't remember specifics but I couldn't recover email from K9 after my provider pulled the plug and the only copy I had was on device.

Am now a happy user of Fastmail with BYOD(omain). =D
It's possible, but I don't think it's pragmatic. I don't think the higher tier needs of violent offenders is something as a society we need to spend resources on.
You are playing a word game here by taking a very specific definition of inflation useful to bureaucrats to argue that ipad processor speeds meaningfully counteract food prices in the way an average person perceives the price level. This simply isn't true unless again you redefine all of those words, which, while not hard to do, isn't particularly useful to people who aren't that specific group of bureaucrats.

So pick whatever definition of inflation you want. Just understand that what normal people care about in terms of inflation is how many pieces of paper they need to achieve the basic goals of their life and your definition is totally irrelevant to their set of concerns. Your having a totally separate conversation then they are with nothing but some semantic overlap.
Is it something special? If no, then no.
Sea slug can chop off its head and grow an entire new body, twice
To me the state of US prisons reveals a really dark aspect to US culture and that is there's a real penchant for... cruelty. Like here's just a partial list of major problems just off the top of my head:

- The essentially institutionalized use of rape as a means of controlling inmates;

- Ridiculously long sentences for relatively minor offences as just another casualty of the disastrous war on drugs;

- commissaries as a profit center with ridiculously marked up prices;

- ridiculous costs for telephone calls as another profit center, making it more difficult for inmates to maintain social ties to family;

- prisoners count as citizens but can't vote. Also prisons are jobs. This makes prisons the perfect tool for gerrymandering and pork barreling;

- being charged (not convicted but _charged) with a felony while on parole violates your parole and can send you back to prison to serve the remainder of your sentence. I don't know how this passes the due process test;

- Overcharging to force plea deals;

- Paying prisoners <5c/hour;

- Forcing prisoners to pay a co-pay to see a doctor. $2-5 might not sound like much but it is at 5c/hour;

- Female prisoners may need to see a doctor to get adequate tampons or sanitary napkins. See above for why that's a problem;

- 5c/hour incentivized individuals and private companies to use prison labour to undercut real competitors;

- You don't really have a choice: working is typically mandatory;

- Prison food. 'Nuff said.

- The "are you a felon?" scarlet letter you'll carry for the rest of your life. This actually causes problems even for the ultra-rich. As one example, it has caused real problems for Mark Wahlberg, such that at one point he sought a pardon from the Massachussetts governor for what was a fairly vicious assault when he was young. That effort failed. I absolutely oppposed the Wahlberg pardon. He shouldn't get an exemption. Reform this stupid system instead;

- Early release prisoners having to pay for their own drug tests where they have huge problems even finding a job as a felon in the first place;

- Disenfranchising felons in fairly stupid ways that are clearly a form of voter suppression ie they can't vote for really no good reason;

- Overcrowding;

- Privatizing of prisons;

- Having a delay between parole being granted and the prisoner being released. This is so dumb. This allows other prisoners to "tax" the parolee as any infraction during that period may violate their conditions of release. In comparison I saw a show about a prison in Mexico where a prisoner was called intot he warden's office, told he'd been freed and he was immediately free to go (probably for this "taxing" reason). I was honestly surprised at how humane Mexican prisons seemed in this show (compared to their US equivalents);

I don't think it's an understatement to call the US prison system to be a humanitarian crisis and a blight on the soul of the country.
It is discussed in the media pretty often.

By now, it is just accepted that it is terrible, so it is less sensational.

Searching 'criminal record employment' in Google News yields > 600,000 results.

'Ban the box' gives millions of results

'clean slate law' gives > 80k results
I think it’s just that the smarter you are, the more likely you give nuanced answers.

It’s called epistemological humility but I’m sure you’ll just assume I’m an asshole.
Almost certainly the case, for the well known issue you mention of antibiotics. A more interesting question to me is when we'll be replenishing people's viral biome and bacterial one too. There are these recent studies trying to fix intestinal issues by taking one person's ... well crap and sharing it with others to replenish their biome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fecal_microbiota_transplant
Do you think the author should not have been liable if he had implementing what Michelle was suggesting?
Better idea (maybe): store even more gravitational energy by sending heavy weights into orbit. Just use booster rockets to make it fall through the atmosphere, regenerating vast amounts of energy in the process.
Coinbase is not decoupled from government
So because they're too greedy to put decent customer service "at scale", we have to pay the tax of getting actual service done ?
If you are not sentencing someone to life in jail or the death penalty, then you can't treat a prisoner bad enough to cause lasting damage because they will rejoin society at some point.

This is irrespective of the victim's thoughts; if I get violently robbed and society + a judge has decided that's worth 10 years in jail, then that's what it is.

If you think prisoners deserve absolutely nothing to the point of causing psychological or physical harm then you are saying the crime they committed is worth life in prison or the death penalty.

This is assuming a functioning justice system.
I had a scare this weekend, when I loaded Gmail and it told me "This account is not available". Luckily it only lasted five minutes, so it must have been a temporary glitch, but I was already trying to figure out how to get in touch with people I know at Google without my Gmail account.

I've had that account for seventeen years. I signed up on the first week it went public. It has a lot of my history in there.

I've done regular takeouts as backups, but that's still not a good substitute. I pay Google money, but that doesn't really assuage me.
> these are people that would rape their mothers

And you know this how? Further, you know that this classification applies to the author how?

God forbid we put some effort into rehabilitation to prevent recidivism instead of just retribution for the sake of retribution. The guy's serving a 33 year long sentence. That's 33 years isolated from society, and 33 years of lag behind said society, resulting in a lifelong disadvantage even without considering employers being wholly unwilling to hire people with criminal backgrounds. That's punishment enough; if you believe otherwise, then the American prison system is clearly failing to do its job.
It’s a big world, and you must remember that you are the heir to a long lineage of sexual success stories stretching back to the dawn of time.

Most people can be attractive to someone somewhere with a mild amount of effort, it’s just that they don’t put in that effort.

I’ll also add, that in the modern world it’s difficult to realize what you need to do to be attractive since social mores aren’t so rigid anymore and thus most people develop their own ideas about how to signal interest and disinterest.
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Interesting - I can't say I've encountered this but I'm going to check the bug tracker now. Thank you - I have updated my parent comment.
You could excuse literally any punishment with that line of reasoning. It's nonsensical, designed to appeal to emotion instead of presenting a coherent, logical approach to sentencing.

At some point we need to think pragmatically about what kind of society we want to create, rather than spending all of our time worrying about whether or not people are getting what they deserve.
I have Google One and get support just fine from them.
Elevation translates in to 'head' and that's the single reason that this works well in Switzerland which has something that many other places do not have: very high mountains. With sufficient head the potential energy of a reservoir of modest size can be very impressive, and without you can have a huge reservoir that barely moves the needle.
Wow. I left a company a few years ago that was doing this. It caused money to rain down on the employees that participated (I was one of them) but it sounded like something that was completely up to the company to do if they wanted, and certainly not illegal. We had to undergo repeated lectures and training on insider trading. I do have to admit that employees were buying because it was low and they knew that certain new services were going to be released and the ensuing news would drive the stock price up. It did, and let's just say quite a few people got some windfall from the temporary bump in price. Easy double-your-money. I felt like this was insider trading but everyone was doing it so I must be wrong.
> they stopped asking Bill to fill out the form, and he gladly complied.

Compiled with what? Can one comply with an absence of request?
I saw an interview with one of the late night hosts (I think it was Seth Meyers). He told a story about building the staff for their show as part of the launch. They asked the various talent agencies for packets for writers (which are collections of sketches and other material tv comedy writers use to get hired. Think artist portfolio). The show wanted to hire a more diverse writing staff and asked for that in packet submissions. They only got a handful packets from women out of hundreds of options. The show went back and said they would only look at packets from women. Suddenly packets came from all over and the show found a number of great female writers.

It was a really interesting conversation because to get a diversity of outcomes they had to completely change their approach, not just sprinkle some diversity into their existing process.

Applied to the rooney rule from above it would involve cultivating multiple inputs to the talent pipeline to make sure interesting candidates don't get blocked along the way. NFL positions like head coach have a pretty limited pool of candidates to begin with, so ensuring an interview quota is likely sufficient. For something like software developer the pool is so much deeper and wider and interview quota on its own is unlikely to be sufficient.
Private standards are also how you end up with a variety of implementations that are all non-conforming in their own subtle ways. Some because the authors didn't have access and were attempting to do the best they could with documentation from other implementations, third party articles, and reverse engineering. Some because the authors have the standards, but the consumers of their products don't and won't hold the authors accountable since they don't know how it is really supposed to work anyway. Others because they think there is competitive advantage in deviating from the standard.

It's hard enough getting consistent behavior out multiple implementations of the same public standards.
The problem is that Google thinks profits are more important than providing half decent support.
Nope - they have different competing heritages - in this case the headline is "Berkeley beats Stanford"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09kPcg8Hehg
Mux (YC W16) is hiring engineers to work with Elixir and modern (Type|Java)Script
So in the US there are rules around court data being public so companies scoop up that data and basically package it as a background check. This data is also enriched with voting data which is also public in most states which includes the people living in your home and other info. The company ADP which deals with paychecks also sells your income information to third parties so someone running a basic background check can actually know where you live, who you live with and how much you make.

Luckily the french did give us a tool to fight against this bullshit, it is called the guillotine?
What are you saying? That we should take the mission statement of the Gates foundation at face value and as something that represents the motivations behind everything he does and says?
Not on purpose at least.

In early evolution of Drive when I was using Google for backups with their client, which was called something else that I’ve forgotten, one day when I tried to delete or overwrite something, it corrupted all of the data and it was lost. I was glad I had a different backup, and I’ve been spoiled since then by Drive because it’s not failed in past years.

Keeping another backup offline is critical.
Whoops, meant to include: southern United States.
Yes, much progress has been brought to humanity by <squints> making sure end users read marketing emails.
We do not sell your DNA and do not have future plans to do so, in fact we don't currently store your personal genome information, and would inform you if this were to change. We will ask for consent before doing any analysis on your personal DNA, if we were to expand studies to include human genomic markers.
> I'm sure an account rep will escalate it and the account will be restored. It's not like Google goes and deletes all the data with someone's account with they disable it for suspected fraud/spam.

If you left your comment here, it would have been typical HN sarcastic snark.

You are talking about a company infamous for its lack of customer support and, when you do get a human on the phone, infamous for the "sry, computer says no" dead end, so beware of extrapolating from what I assume are your positive experiences.

You mention Google Fi/Fiber in your mistake of thinking that if you can get anyone on the phone, then they can help you with your lateral issue in another system, but this is exactly the frustration with contacting Google.

I've had my account disabled without notice for supposed issues with Adsense, Adwords, Gmail, and Gcloud over the last 15 years, and your optimism would almost be endearing if it weren't so cocksure. Get burned a few times and you join the ranks of us who have learned to use different Google accounts for everything, breaking another Google ToS.
Proposition as types – historical perspective [pdf]
Actually I think the trick is to be young. By the time you are 22 you should have had a lot of experience flirting. If you can squeeze all your mistakes into your teenage years, you’ll have a much better chance of doing well socially as an adult.
If you cheat during a football game, there's a yardage penalty applied that gives the other team an "unearned" advantage. It's somehow plainly obvious there that if you simply say "don't commit penalties" but don't enforce it, people will cheat and commit penalties. And this wouldn't be fair or just.

Yet people lose their shit when it comes to trying to apply proactive equalizers to a historically deeply unfair society.

There's no real mystery, it's just selfishness taking precedence over correcting past wrongs.

That said, to do it effectively, I believe we need to focus on doing it early on in schooling, and the burden and pressure being put on companies is a heavy one because it doesn't align with where the opportunities first diverge.
If Amazon does track some users of their extension right now, we wouldn’t know. It’s a web service, nobody can tell whether it behaves the same for everyone. It has all the privileges, and I can look into what it does with these privileges in my case, but I cannot tell whether it works the same for you.

Note: I am the author of this article.
>You won't be able to work at a FAANG unless you are have such innate talent that you are basically god's gift to programming.

EDIT: I misread your comment, and realized you were referring to the newly-minted programmer in their 40's. I apologize, and fully agree that person will have a VERY hard time landing an entry-level role.

Keeping my original post below for posterity:

I like to think that I'm good at my job, but I can assure you that I am in no way god's gift to programming. With over 20 years of experience under my belt, whiteboarding was easy (fun, even), though I did have to practice the leetcode a little bit to make sure I was well-versed on the "smell" of problems and "tricks" required to get to O(n) or O(log n) complexity. That took about 10 hours or so.

Ageism is absolutely a thing, and it's something I worry about, but getting into FAANG at 40+ is 100% doable. There is such a massive shortage of experienced engineers that I spend an hour or two each week helping our recruiters find lots of other experienced folks.
Yep, hence GNU C extensions. Many are good and solve deficiencies in the language. I wish there was more collaboration between implementations before any became widespread in use, but I can appreciate avoiding design by committee.
> That "min(A4, B1+C5)" is liable to break if your spreadsheet changes.

I don't usually have that problem. Inserting or deleting rows or columns around the cells doesn't break these formulas. Only changing what type of information a cell contains would. Does this happen often for you?
Similar to interviewing where they never tell you why you weren't selected (or very rarely - it's happened once in my experience) - they don't want any kind of legal liability. The less info they give you, the less you have to file a lawsuit is the theory. It definitely sucks, though.
As the article says, they're bacteriophages, viruses which primarily infect the bacteria.
Of course people review these things. Review teams look at this stuff all the time, and often fix it.

But at Google scale, bad things will happen.

Google serves over five-billion queries every day, and scale for gmail is similar. One-in-a-billion events are absolutely routine.
Same.

It also drank my battery juice like an electroholic.