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Relatively few engineers actually want to do contract work. The day rates look high, but they have to pay self-employment taxes and health insurance, as well as charge more to cover inevitable gaps between contracts.

It seems unlikely that the existence of contract work is preventing senior engineers from joining your company. To be blunt, it’s more likely that you’re simply not paying enough to be competitive or you’re not an attractive place to work.

Without knowing more details about your specific situation, the obvious change would be to simply offer more compensation. Higher compensation can make an unattractive job more attractive.
I've been looking at a few eBPF tracing implementations around GitHub recently to try and get my head round it, and this codebase has to be one of the best documented (if not best written) examples out there. Kudos.
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Night and day. I hardly hear of anyone using LVM snapshots except in special cases, but ZFS snapshots for many people are like brushing one's teeth: a habit that is done multiple times a day.

Using them for system updates/upgrades is built right into FreeBSD (copying a feature from Solaris):

* https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?beadm

If the changes fail just rollback the system to the previous state/snapshot (including kernel changes) via the boot loader.

Services like rsync.net allow one to have offsite backups with easy, and the destination can be encrypted such that the remote end can't see your data. All through an SSH pipe.
That 4-6% is 'healthy' definitely does not mean that lower rates are 'unhealthy'.
While I agree with your assessment of known modes of travel, this also assumes we know everything. I believe it is a safe assumption that we do not.

There are potential modes of travel via worm holes or similar inter-dimensional transits that could account for vast distances shrinking to zero without violating our known physics laws.
Offer some form of training and development, which has often been woeful at some places I've worked and the opportunity to progress within the organisation. This would appeal to the kind of people that seek permanent employment.

Offer good holiday allowance and flexible working hours and location.

I've recently moved from contract to perm (UK). I accepted because with the holiday, pension and better job security I gained I could take a small loss in salary.
Wow that’s a shocking difference from the 2nm. Who can I trust anymore?
PART-TIME and REMOTE are the keywords you are looking for.

Also, stay away from Agile/SCRUM bullshit. I personally stay away from companies who have "Agile Coaches" or "SCRUM Masters".
I would amend that slightly:

It's okay, but mostly a waste of time, to sanitize data before storing it.

You must sanitize data when outputting it.

Why? Because someone could get the data into storage in another way, or new vulnerabilities might be discovered that you aren't sanitizing for before storage.
It's usually because of different accounting treatment and the relaxation of employee policies.

A contractor can be booked as a fixed expense, can come out of discretionary budgets, you don't have to follow salary banding and it's not necessarily seen as a problem if they're paid more than management - especially if it's hard to tell if they actually are (taxes, insurance, etc. complicate things).

The other stuff is retroactive justification.
Oh God. I can't read HN comments on Apple anymore. It's mostly just two sides throwing well polished turds on each other. Of course it is better than throwing shit like on other sites but the end result is the same.
Are you comparing apples to apples? That is including costs of taxes and insurance?
The vaccines first got approval in December 2020, it wasn't failing it was just starting up. European vaccine rollout also had starting aches but was then very quickly limited by the supply-side.
Do you really need a senior engineer?
> I wonder why this topic triggers it?

I think that this is one of those topics that is pefectly ready for inconclusive bike-shedding: easy to build an opinion and argue about it "safely" - without any risk of losing someone's face when proven wrong due to insufficient data. It's some kind of sport where after the match both sides gp home feeling superior to the other because there's no objective way to establish the winner.
Is this a drop in replacement for cPython?
While true, we as humans can't even fathom how an alien lifeform would reason if they came here. To base how aliens would act if they came here on how we as humans have acted throughout history is kind of stupid in my opinion.
As a contractor you also have to pay for most of your overheads, most notably insurance, training and any certifications. The company is also paying for the convenience of a flexible workforce and specific expertise. It's also relatively easy to treat a contractor as capital expenditure which is often beneficial for the clients accounting.
We're talking about Python 2.2 here which is literally twenty years old. You can't leverage what exists in the Python ecosystem using a version that old. Many libraries don't even permit using 2.7 anymore. I remember Python 2.2. It had so many things missing compared to what we grew accustomed to with Python 2.7's long lifetime. Going that far back with Python is a hair's width away from starting from first principles.
I don’t understand your second sentence.
Apparently, there was a cover-up, but not of an alien spaceship:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mogul
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It’s really not too difficult to build webview based wrapper app around your website. I’ve done it many times, and then you can have notifications or any other native features you might need.
I'm with you on this. What I think is crazy tho is how ready and willing many people are to discount, absolutely discount and say, "well that is crazy" the experiences of so many people, who open themselves to ridicule and share some weird thing that happened. And these people are prepared to judge, discount, minimize and dismiss, these other human beings, because....it didn't personally happen to the person judging?

That seems incredibly ungenerous, and low empathy. Even for regular human behavior. So, why, in this case?

There's even more respect, in the main, between people of different religious faiths.

So why? Because some big "Authority Agency with Capital A" has not come out and told everyone, "It's OK, it's OK for you to think this is true now, because we can tell you, we checked, and it's True." Is it really driven by fear of stigma and lack of endorsement by authority? Are we really all living in the Earth-centric, pre-Galileo, dark ages?

The sad, and I think the crazy, thing is, yes, to some extent we are still living in that time, with regard to human mindset and the manipulability of people in large groups via narratives and authority. Even in this age, with all our progress, all our tech, all our ideas and discussions and connectedness.

Like why are we trusting all these theorists and commentators over the people who say they have experience?

A striking parallel I think is with the Time's Up / Me Too movement. It strikes me that we as a society, used to, and in many ways still do, treat survivor's of abuse, domestic and sexual violence as "crazy UFO nuts", who no matter how many come forward, often at great personal cost, to share their stories, and to try to establish some equality, healing and justice. Despite this, and despite the obvious reality that (Ca) there must be some reality behind all these stories and (Cb) not all of these people are simply delusional or making things up, people are so ready and willing to just discount them, and to listen to all the theorists and commentators discounting their experiences.

What I wonder is, how can we as a society do that, and how can the people who judge them do that, when we, and those people judging them, have no idea either way, but are ready to do so, to these other human beings who may be at one of their most vulnerable times. Even when multiple people corroborate their stories.

So while it's a different set of stories, our reaction, and lack of consideration for these brave people, is strikingly similar. To me at least. Maybe now's ripe for a Time's Up or Me Too movement for people who's stories of UFO encounters and ET contact have been dismissed, minimized, discounted and ridiculed for too long. No?

The other thing I think is crazy, is how so many of us are prepared to dig in a position on this topic where none of has really has any idea what's going on. Stake out a tiny circle of our own certainty and say, "Now, here is the truth. All those who doubt me, are clearly nuts." Why does this topic trigger such idiotic, low-empathy and crazy behavior from otherwise extremely logical, balanced and productive individuals?
The “shape-shifting” organization. At the moment, organizational dynamics are largely created and maintained by gut feeling, rules of thumb, and inertia. There will be a shift towards flexible organizations that can purposefully change form in response to needs internal and external.

Consider one common pattern. Startup CEO grows successful startup, then the board inevitably replaces said CEO with a more traditional CEO and organization structure. What made the company innovative then slowly goes away as it becomes entrenched in the same paradigm as the established companies the startup had been disrupting. Rinse and repeat.

Why must this evolution be so one-way and so rigidly predictable? Eventually, organizations will be able to flexibly shift to nearly any reasonable state, identifying which resources are needed to initiate such a change as well as when and where to apply them.
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WatchPeopleDie was supposed to do this. I wish the mods had been better about the garbage comments, but even then I think the reddit admins were hell-bent on shutting down any subs they didn't personally like.

But I agree fullheartedly. Seeing such things really made me 'feel' how precious life is and how terrible the world can be. It helped me navigate moving to Europe a few times, even.
Yes. Python is not without tradeoffs.
From the footnotes

>3] This is one reason people with a touch of Asperger's may have an advantage in discovering new ideas. They're always flying on instruments

On the contrary, it is everybody else who is flying on instruments. The sperg sees straight.
This comment falls way below the standards of this community. If you think that posting something spiteful is a good idea, think again.
Completely agree from my actuarial experience too. Do you find in practice though that often Excel is only part of the workflow and that a lot of the agility is lost because it's using output from a (often black box) modelling tool that is doing a lot of the computational heavy lifting?
Looks like pg discovered consensus vs non-consensus ideas[1], good for him.

[1] https://medium.com/entrepreneurship-at-work/non-consensus-ba...
By nature, we humans are very lazy.
If I could sit all day and do what I liked instead of writing code, I'd do that instead.

Sure, I love to write code. But I want to write the code that gives the joy. Not the code that some client wants me to write.

That being said, ending the unemployment benefits is the right move.It's not sustainable. I worry greatly that we're entering a time when the government is going to become our dad/mom and we don't have to work.

But then, where will the money come from??? We can only tax the rich so much.
You seem to ignore Von nuaman (sp) probes, generation ships, non carbon based life. And that’s before we consider that our understanding of physics may not be complete.
Can confirm. I’m friends with a group of very smart distributed systems engineers who were excited to launch an actually useful crypto project that gets talked about here from time to time.

As much as they’re excited about the technology itself, very few people are actually interested in using it. Instead, their business seems to revolve around the value of the utility tokens for their project.

Few people are buying the utility tokens to pay for the service. They’re buying them to horde so they can resell to other speculators when the price goes up. They have a lot of tokens in circulation, but only a small number of them get used to pay for the service. Many of them are sitting in the wallets of exchanges where they get traded back and forth but never come near the blockchain.

Investors only care about getting more press releases out so they can pump up the price of their discounted tokens, which have a shortened lockup period relative to something like stocks. It’s almost like a pump-and-dump scheme for investors.

Maybe their underlying project will become popular in the future, but the volatility of the token price makes it increasingly unattractive for companies that want to actually use it.
Centrist voters may have given him some benefit of the doubt, but the news media never did and were never going to.
Conservatives knew that ahead of time, which is why they voted for someone prone to angry outbursts.

Biden isn't exactly an outsider, and is just the face for scores of actual decision-makers in his administration; I don't think one more year is going to surprise anybody.
Power9 is actually made at GlobalFoundries. And it's mostly just in (fading) IBM i systems and one-off super computers. Power 10 is supposedly on the horizon. There's a handful of niche workstations, and "a partnership" with Google/Rackspace, but I can't even see how to get one of those via GCP or Rackspace.

It's an interesting chip, and I'm a big fan of CPU diversity, but Power's time has come and gone. It's really only supported internally at this point: IBM i, AIX, RedHat, with Debian and (Open|Free)BSD as the outliers.

We'll just have ARM and RISC-V as non-x86 "real" CPUs, I guess.
Any phenomenon which decreases in rate proportional to our ability to measure it is very unlikely to exist.

This reasoning applies to all historical mumbojumbo: ufos, bigfoot, ghosts, etc. These ideas are plausible insofar as they are constructed to be almost unmeasurable.

The preponderance of camera phones today means we have 1bn+ people able to measure their environment at abitary frequencies, and all such phenomena have essentially disappeared.

Either somehow all ghosts, bigfoots, aliens, etc. are disappearing because we are measuring them; or they never existed.

NB. These ideas "go together" only socially, ie. believed by a secular-religious community. The objects they describe have no intrinsic relationship (bigfoot is not like a ghost). When you have a class of such ideas, it is likely they are wholesale false (ie. mythological).

It is possible to somewhat statistically predict P(IdeaSet is Mythological) by the degree to which each idea in the set is in a common domain with the other ideas. A conspiracy/mythology is an IdeaSet which is mostly disjoint.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a senior candidate considering my company to mention or cite a consulting rate as a comp or a reason to not join.

I think I’m competing against FAAN[M]G full-time for these candidates and, until your question, never even thought to benchmark against day rates.
It seems intuitive. The government has been printing massive amounts of money, there has been a direct-cash-to-taxpayers program, and material shortages have driven prices skyward for many materials. Couple all that with increases in minimum wages.

So who gets hurt?
- Poor people, who have little money to begin with. A few dollars will buy even less.
- Older people and people on fixed incomes.

Who doesn't get hurt?
- People invested in equities, generally.
> Following 2008 they began removing people from the unemployment numbers once their unemployment benefits expired.

The BLS unemployment rate that’s referenced here is the number of people looking for work who can’t find work [0] so it is meant to measure the percent of the labor force that isn’t working. There are six different rates estimated (U1-U6) and I’m not aware of any that stop counting once unemployment benefits run out. There is a specific stat (U1) to estimate those who have been unemployed for long periods.

[0] https://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm
[1] https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-economics/chapte...
Very interesting. This sounds like a response to the Mighty [0] launch which Paul Graham has been defending on twitter recently after an outcry from some of the 'hardcore' developers such as Jonathan Blow [1] and Casey [2].

[0] https://www.mightyapp.com/

[1] https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Blow/status/1387101172230672389

[2] https://twitter.com/cmuratori/status/1387645578067124224
Humans only discovered the utility of carbon-based energy stores(oil) a couple hundred years ago, and already we've landed on the moon, harnessed nuclear fuel for various purposes, and purposefully fixed nitrogen en masse to allow our population to explode. We only recently connected several billion people on a common communication platform(internet) and discovered how to modify our genetic code in any arbitrary way we want.

Do you honestly think that our current limitations will be the limitations of our species going forward? Imagine a species that has been undergoing such technological advancement for 10,000 years(a geologic blink of an eye) instead of 200. Even if we are fundamentally limited by the speed of light, stasis technologies and resistance to radiation exposure could be developed that make interstellar travel possible. Our closest star is only a few lightyears away.
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If robots do all the construction and maintenance, then there's probably an AI that owns the building too that just wants the energy to sustain itself, in which case it probably owns the grid too, and probably won't care much about what the humans living in its buildings are doing.
Occam's Razor is a heuristic. It does not determine what is real or not. According to your usage of the Occam's Razor, relativity and quantum mechanics would be invalid because classic mechanics is much simpler. That's not how science works.
>Now if someone asks me "Hey where can I go see that thing that was taken off of Youtube" I don't have a ready answer that isn't an alt-right cesspool

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It's hard to even make enough money to buy a house/save for retirement, is there any wonder why people don't want to work, when all it affords them only a marginally less meagre existence, with no leisure time to enjoy it?
That's not the correct quote, you're missing two key modifiers. It's "essential liberty" for "temporary security"... which is not the case here.
This kind of lip-service to global equality and fairness is very typical of United States in general. The difference being that DJT was very vocal whereas during tenures of established politicians the packaging around these intentions is much much better. Problem with Trump was that he was crass. Biden isnt. So if people are wondering why would you support this waiver while withholding export bans is that pledging support to something that isn't possible is a much easier way to earn brownie points than comitting to something actionable.
There's only a "worker shortage" because wages are low. There wouldn't be a "shortage" if these businesses actually paid decent wages.

https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonNYC/status/139001107417964544...

>Most of these restaurant and retail owners can clearly pay more if they want but they are worried about the precedent and they know if they ban together and whine to a compliant media enough and fake like people won’t get cheeseburgers politicians will pull UI and social programs

https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonNYC/status/139001943881718579...

>Here we detail the long history of industry trade groups in nursing, education, trucking, construction & dozens of industries shaping media narratives of “worker shortages”. covid just supercharged this decades old PR gambit with an added kicker of pressuring govt to suspend UI
It means they are not healthy, that is different but probably the same intent.
If a company relies on wage slavery and the implicit American threat of 'no work: no housing, no food, no medical', then those companies should die.

Edit: it's funny how I'm modded down, but this is straight up 'Socialism for the rich, and capitalism for the poor'. And it's doubly insulting that the unemployment "insurance" is being pulled en masse, with only regard to the monied elite.

Then again, I'd expect no less coming from a den of VC's and their ilk. They certainly don't care about the human.
If you've ever had a client simply refuse to pay you for a two week contract ("sue me"), argued with a client for hours about whether a specification change was "material", had clients decide your estimate changed T&M to a "fixed price contract" ... then even 2x is fools game. 2x is what I might charge clients I know for a low risk, low overhead project.
e.g. in Scandinavia you get an hour or sunshine per day in December, and that's at a very low degree above the horizon. In July, you can get more than 12 hours of sunshine per day. And that's for Copenhagen, don't ask about Stockholm...
It’s both. “The government” is not one entity. Even a commander himself may be baffled by sightings of an advanced technology that he is paying for but isn’t privileged to know about.
I'm Greek and live in Greece, I don't know of anyone here having seen an alien spaceship or anything that looks like one.
Maybe he meant to say we're observing the rules via mental systems(instruments) we developed to "fit in" instead of whatever neuro-typs use.
Really? Having the rules change in the middle of the game won’t affect investments?

I mean, what if the next company comes up with a cure for AIDS. Are they confident the IP won’t be broken either?
Specie?
> Working Pyston into your projects should be as easy as replacing “python” with “pyston.” If that’s not the case, we’d love to hear about it on our GitHub issues

So yes, it should be.
I think it is rather more messed up to give teens the power to create such horrors without first making them confront what exactly a car can do.
Maybe with the relocalization of fabs they will have an opportunity to grow that side again.
But the tax isn't is a problem, quite the opposite because it targets non renewable sources and has been decreasing as green energy has been established.

Also it works as a magnet for business surprisingly maybe.

We have enormous new datacenters from Google, Facebook and Apple being built right at this moment, even though Denmark is tiny.

Taxation is extremely important when it comes to transitioning to green energy. As long as the taxation scheme favours green energy - granted that is difficult to define exactly.

We've had to same scheme with electric cars giving you about half the price of a conventional car.

This is exactly how government should help the green transition, instead of the exact opposite that for many years has been happening in the US with the corporate welfare and grotesque subsidising of heavy industry. Though again this is a contentious issue as Tesla has sucked a lot of green subsidies from the pool. So there definitely is problems to tackle.
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