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Don’t know if it’s your situation, but I also saw that in an extremely poorly managed company. A chunk of the non management team had gained huge power (and money, I believe) because they were the only ones that were able to understand how the core product did works. The management were useless and nobody ever encouraged knowledge sharing.

A lot of people complained about the under market salaries but those technical guys never complained or even speak about it.
"six to seven years" what a joke.

How many people stay on the same team for six to seven years these days to have long term effect on orgs or policy?

Just ask anyone to predict where they will be in six to seven years first or what their predictions were six to seven years back. Most have no clue because this is such a complex ever changing world for a 6 inch chimp brain to fully grok. But lets talk about where the entire chimp troupe will be in six to seven years.
Lol I spend about 5-10$ a day on food. Where do these people eat at lol
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> There are also plenty of people who like their coworkers and enjoy spending time with them each day.

Not saying you are wrong, but

The vast majority of people first get jobs to earn money THEN meet the coworkers AND having no other option besides interacting with coworkers during work hours, will try to get along
Well, my POV was different.

Thorium is what India has in abundance. And we're growing to be the largest consumer of energy in the world (as is China).
I went from working with Erlang to working with Java/K8s microservices.

While I understand there are some path-dependent reasons for why we ended up where we are at, but setting up a new service as part of an Erlang release is just an order of magnitude simpler. It's not even close.
Yep, it's a pun.
> Huh, I always assumed it was a portmanteau of Erricsson and Language

I’m sure it’s both.
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I love shellfish and am not at all squeamish about the heads or veins on shrimp or biting into the crunchy body of a soft shell crab, but even though I can see the similarities, thinking about eating a cicada gives me the heebie-jeebies.

I wish I understood disgust better then I do.
Hmm, I had completely forgotten about that distinction. I also can’t find it in the spec <https://tc39.es/ecma262/>, which says that Number “performs a type conversion when called as a function rather than as a constructor.” <https://tc39.es/ecma262/#sec-number-constructor>. What this means isn’t spelled out, which seems poor. I would have thought it meant ToNumber <https://tc39.es/ecma262/#sec-tonumber>, but that would throw an exception on BigInt (like unary plus does, <https://tc39.es/ecma262/#sec-unary-plus-operator>). So now I’m guessing it means ToPrimitive <https://tc39.es/ecma262/#sec-toprimitive> with preferredType number, which seems to match. This being the case, I believe BigInt is the sole difference between +x and Number(x).
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SO doesn’t have threads.

Discussions are discouraged.

There are clearly people commenting here who don’t understand how the SO works, and haven’t bothered to read the FAQ.

This is exactly why SO needs restrictions on new accounts.
I read the same article then realised that the author didn't understand the full capabilities of OTP and maybe had a bit of survivorship bias from kubernetes hostage experience.
If cryptocurrency disappeared tomorrow ransomware operators would have no difficulty switching to bank transfers or bags of cash flown to Russia.
what do you think of the strategy of stabilizing just the input schema for Nix flakes, which is all that's required for pure evaluation, then stabilizing each component of the output schema separately as those components are called for by specific features of the Nix/NixOS CLI?
FYI to others, Glassdoor ratings don't mean anything. Amazon is dead last in company reputation on Blind for employees, by far. If senior management isn't aware of Amazon's truly awful reputation in engineering circles, they are incompetent.
Is there any reason to believe that this will be faster or more powerful than how reverse debugging works today? rr is already pretty fantastic and handles pretty complex cases surprisingly well with decent performance. I believe the way it works is that it only records memory changes of side-effect APIs (I.e. I/O, kernel, etc) & then just runs the program instruction backwards between those points. I’m not sure that snapshotting the entire RAM for an application will prove to be more efficient/powerful (copying large amounts of RAM is generally expensive). You might try to do crazy tricks like making the pages COW (while flushing them to disk) to reduce the actual cost of how many pages need to be copied. I think that’s still tough to compete with vs just recording the little bit of state around function calls that have side effects.
Also, the Xbox Adaptive Controller deserves a lot of respect.

https://www.xbox.com/en-US/accessories/controllers/xbox-adap...

That’s not a token effort or a cash-in. The team behind it really gave a damn.
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it's crazy how our progenitors had the wisdom and foresight to reserve FOUR distinct delimiters for us 28-31 file/group/record/unit but webdevs are just nope we'll go with commas and crlfs and when that doesn't work we'll JSON
depends on if you're giving them 4 hours of work extra a day for them (12 hour workdays)
They just live in a totally different world than us. They don’t struggle making ends meet each month. They don’t have a soul crushing commute. They don’t worry about child care or whether their kids are getting a proper education. They are surrounded by thousands of people utterly dependent on them for their lifestyles, and who will never tell them No. They REALLY think that the general employees care about the “hum of activity, the energy, creativity and collaboration” just because in the exec’s world he actually does.
I doubt that’s why. Modern hash tables typically include a random factor in the hashing to prevent bucketing from being predictable, so attackers can’t craft malicious input that causes every value to be put in the same bucket as a form of DOS attack. The fact that this means iteration order is randomized is a side effect.
>No vaccine is 100% safe

Is the virus 100% safe? Weigh them against each other and account for who the kids could spread it to, how much vaccine uptake there is, immune compromised they could spread it to who can't be protected well from the vaccine, etc.
There is definitive evidence. Many many threads of Amazon manager's specifying on Blind they're doing this exact hire-to-fire to save their team.
food and water at home is more expensive ? How do you manage that ?
I genuinely appreciate this response. It is good to know that someone is thinking about preventing nuclear from being used as an attack vector, while others in the thread think nuclear can do no wrong.
Many many threads of Amazon manager's specifying on Blind they're doing this exact hire-to-fire to save their team.
Sexy URL, sucks for you if anyone actually clicks it and/or examines your profile as a "Defense industry consultant".

Just to be clear, your answer as someone invested in the defense industry to the question of "What military role does the F-35 fill in the modern world that unmanned drones can't?" is to say:

>A mission flown for the purpose of detecting targets and coordinating or performing attack or reconnaissance on those targets. Strike coordination and reconnaissance missions are flown in a specific geographic area and are an element of the command and control interface to coordinate multiple flights, detect and attack targets, neutralize enemy air defenses and provide battle damage assessment

Forgive my ignorance, but are you saying that we basically need a trillion-dollar endeavor to develop manned fighters which have just barely caught up to the existing technology to go pick fights abroad that we could have already been doing?

What new threat are we facing here, other than a slowing of contractual dollars?
Is it advantageous for a company to own some of its competitor's stock?

Does it represent a conflict of interest?
It's exactly the same. Nail work is something that the lower classes cannot afford right now. Once the work of a nail technician is mostly or wholly automated, the service will become available to lower income groups.

The nail technicians meanwhile will find work in industries created as a consequence of consumers having more disposable income with which to spend on new goods/services, from having to spend less on nail work:

https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/6717/economics/the-luddit...

It is always those goods/services that are the least automatable that cost the most. If getting one's nails done becomes automated, we may see consumer spending shift to the next most valuable service that can't be automated, like home cleaning, caretaking of the elderly, massage therapy, childcare, tutoring, or barrista work. Automation allows us to enjoy a higher standard of living.
Yes, there will be psychological issues from a short stint at a large company. But changing job is not just emotional, and affects other people too.

1. Would having a big company name (FAANG) on a CV be a good thing for finding future jobs?

2. Would the income from FAANG encourage fast-forwarding other life goals, such as starting a family?

3. What about foreigners who need the job in order to keep a visa? If losing the job means leaving the country, that new family might be separated.

Refusing to hire migrants at all isn't an acceptable solution either. There are many talented people who are doing everything possible just to have a chance to live in the country, who are systematically excluded by recruiters and HR. The labour market is not a capitalist free market.
My point is that if there's a war with China then the US will seek to contain it to the East China Sea. Kadena is 700km to the Chinese mainland, which is well within the F-35's combat range of 1000km.
It sounds about right to me if you don't like cooking. Note that the cost is for prepared food.

Buying raw ingredients and cooking them yourself is cheaper in terms of explicit dollar costs, but if you don't enjoy cooking then you also need to assign some monetary value for having to do something that you don't like.

I think I would enjoy taking a break and cooking so free food is probably not worth $60 to me personally. It's not crazy to think that my employer gets a benefit of more than $60 through increased productivity by providing me with free food though.
Turns out that this standard already exists. UT1 (and its close cousin UT1R) track Earth's rotation using radio astronomy techniques. The basis for adding leap seconds is the wind up between UTC and UT1.

I agree, we ought to align UTC to UT1 instead of TAI. Doing so is not trivial on a technical level, though. At the very least, the GNSS broadcast time parameters wouldn't support such a revision for decades.
Right but a Google employee living in SF and commuting to Mountain View will spend 3 hrs/day commuting give or take. Are Google employees worth $20/hr?
I've seen cases where out of 2 out of 4 people are not inclined (including BR), but still hiring manager convinces everyone that the candidate should be hired with the assurance of focusing more on the candidate to make them meet the bar.
Yes that is because sets have their own hashmap implementation and the dev team remains so far unconvinced of the value of “unique lists”, and the primary gains of the new scheme might be nonexistent or of low impact for the set situation (for python the ordering properties were an ancillary change, not the reason for them))
Only if you're an extrovert. As an introvert I love people throwing stuff over the wall to me and I never have to deal with office gossip, politics, or other shenanigans.
I feel your pain man.

A big part of the story is that k8s is a naked king.

It’s just really poorly designed, over-engineered, shitty devx piece of software.

But most of devs eat you alive if you tell them this harsh truth.

We, regular engineers must be patient while people coming to enlightenment on their own and someone with big money would start developing & promoting better alternative.
Here's a good 5-min video by the creator, explaining some of the workings: https://youtu.be/cCqGtvTA36k
And here I thought actual physical beats being driven by servos perhaps.
In my company we are now in some unofficial hybrid approach where everyone works where they want or where they need to. It works really well. There is enough people at the office for it to be a sufficient socializing place, and enough people who WFH to « force » the remote way of work.
But does state investment into R&D and state sponsored companies more than compensate for this? I think (as does Ray Dalio) that the U.S. will be surpassed in the next 15 years. The U.S. aggressively removes meritocratic gifted programs and replaces them with diversity quotas [1] while China's Gao Kao is widely studied for (in contrast to say the SAT) and pure meritocracy. How can you claim that lower odds events will occur more often in the U.S. when we're suppressing the programs which produce people that go on to make those lower odds events happen?

1: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/thomas-jeffer...
I may go back to the office soon. Currently it is optional for anyone who wants to, but I know only one person who volunteered so far, so I've thought it would be lonely.

What changed my mind? The cable company, which appeared to give me a really good deal on switching my cellular service to them, jacked up my internet rate by $15 and notified me they will increase it by $10 more soon.

I only have cable internet because I needed the bandwidth for remotely attending meetings, so I feel like they are trying to extort me. An unlimited cellular plan with some other provider may be cheaper now.
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The best model for a company is based off it's performance as a product. If your products are doing well then the team gets more funding. If not doing well less funding and cuts would have to be provisioned from that.

Performance is messaured in five points. Sales, adoption, support, dependency and need.

Sales, how much money am I making.

Adoption, how many users are joining.

Support, how many people current actively use the product.

Dependency, how dependent are it's users on the product.

Need, how much we really want this product to be successful. Some products purely exist on a need basis.
I have a few suggestions:

- Dash, the macOS app for language and library documentation is really nice. This is the first thing I go for.

- Chrome notices when you visit a page with a "Search" box. Next time you start typing python.org you can press tab to search the domain. I wish Firefox had this.

- AFAIK, Firefox's version of this is to RMB on a search box (for example on python.org's main page) and "Add a Keyword for this Search..." Set it to something like "py" and you can now type "py http" and it would search Python.org for "http"

- I honestly get better results from DuckDuckGo for stuff like this. Even better, they have bang! shortcuts. "subprocess !py2" will search Python.org's Python2 documentation for "subprocess" https://duckduckgo.com/bang
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Unpopular opinion: This policy lets managers take bigger hiring risks. They can take a chance on diamonds-in-the-rough without feeling embarrassed for it.

Without this, managers are incentivized to just "hire the best", instead of hiring and developing under-valued talent. Amazon know to hire undervalued engineers and helps them punch above their weight. Compared to Google, who boast about paying top dollar for incrementally better engineers, Amazon's feat seems more valuable to me.

This also avoids homogenous teams. I would prefer to work in a team with a spread of skills over a crack-team of A+ players. This way, I get to develop people who want to improve, instead of being in a band of elite jocks.
Generally you can see how company bosses view these policies by how they apply to top management. There never seems to be an evaluation metric for the the attrition rate of the c-suite for example. Just as those managers typically have much larger severance compensation than regular employees (relative to salary I mean).
Good story.

There's a memorial at the crash site is. Or presumably close.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Walter+Ray+Memorial/@37.24...
I mean, I guess that makes sense if you don't like WFH.

But it would take hundreds, maybe thousands of dollars per month extra for me to even consider voluntarily going back to the office.

It's the same thing with free dinner at work - the $10-20 I'd save simply isn't worth the 2 extra hours I'd need to stay.
If the order matters, it's only as hard as using a (different) data structure that preserves order.
It totally blew my mind a few years ago to discover that this is also common in the bar & restaurant world.
“Format compilation” in TeX also appears to be inspired by a similar snapshotting mechanism built into TOPS-20[1].

Generally, I’d say that dumping VM state (if not in the host executable format) is a perfectly ordinary thing for an isolated VM to do. It’s the default way Smalltalk systems operate, for example, being very close ideologically to Lisp machines in that they try to be an OS centered around a programming language more than a programming language implemented inside an OS.

(I should really look into that Oberon thing one of those days...)

[1]: https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb26-1/beebe.pdf
Is lack of support from friends and family common while doing a startup?
So for some background I’ve been working on a product for the past year and starting to see some tiny fraction. I’ve been doing this solo and trying my best to make this business take off.

During this time I’ve received little to no encouragement/support whatever you want to call it from family and friends. No one signed up for the product or gave me any feedback, people generally change topics or avoid the conversation if I talk about the product I’m building. These are people already in the software industry so they are aware of startups and understand this space.

While I don’t care if they use the product or not because they are not my target customer the complete lack of curiosity on their part combined with other strange behaviors sometimes just gets me down.

What’s the best way to handle something like this? Have you faced this problem yourself?
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Whenever an exec waxes poetically about the “hum of activity, the energy, creativity and collaboration,” I can’t help but believe what he’s really enamored with is the physical act of surveying his fiefdom, watching and hearing all his serfs shuffling to and fro acting busy and looking like they are doing things. That’s what these guys get a rise out of. The vast number of soldiers under their command and behold! There the army is in all its glory!

This is also why open offices are so popular with the exec class but nobody else. Cubicles and offices hide all those glorious bodies shuffling about visibly doing work.
Your [0] sounds great as a treatment if it works, and complementary to vaccines for prevention. The paper is about a vaccine slapped on your skin ("This delivers the vaccine directly to the dermal and upper dermal layers of the skin").

Along those lines, some other interesting companies in early stages are:

* Inovio - skin-based, but with a special device - https://www.inovio.com/our-focus-serving-patients/covid-19/

* Vaxart - oral pill - https://www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/news/vaxart-vaccin..., https://vaxart.com/tablet-vaccines/

* ImmunityBio - oral/sublingual/subcutaneous injection/combo - https://immunitybio.com/covid-19/, https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2021/01/12/215692... (some of their papers also compare against intramuscular versions of their drug, but they appear to want to avoid big needles and have some means of injecting just below the skin, but not as shallow as this HD-MAP approach it seems)

* Oravax Medical - oral - https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/2021032... / https://www.ora-vax.com

* Aeterna Zentaris - oral - https://www.zentaris.com/oral-coronavirus-vaccine, but this is still pre-clinical.

This site https://covid-19tracker.milkeninstitute.org/#vaccines_intro
also mentions two other oral-based companies, but either they don't have any explicit info on progress or they haven't been mentioned since early 2020:

- Applied Biotechnology Institute - http://www.appliedbiotech.org/research-development/products-...

- Migal Galilee Research Institute - https://www.migal.org.il/en/coronavirus-vaccine-project, https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-made-oral-vaccine-for-... (since the main website still says in-vivo in 90 days, I'm guessing there was a halt in development.)

If the Milken Institute is up-to-date, Inovio should be furthest along (prepping phase 3), followed by ImmunityBio (phase 1/2). Anyone succeeding would be a wonderful addition for the world!
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While I appreciate biotech articles being on hacker news, this one is nothing I would expect on the frontage. Three of the authors have interest in the company that makes HD-map. This in combination with being linked as a preprint without peer review makes me look twice. The wording „complete protection“ does the rest.

Does anyone have information if this was ever peer reviewed?
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I'd like to see API's like this implement deferred operations, with help from the kernel.

For example, the zip folder could realise that deletion is an expensive task, and defer the job till later. It would tell the kernel that the raw bytes of the zip file are only available to other applications after this operation is complete (so that emailing someone the zip file can't represent the pre-deferred-operations state).

The tree of deferred operations can then be optimized - for example, deleting multiple files in a zip file could be combined into one. Deleting stuff in a zip file, and then deleting the whole file can likewise be combined.

Kinda like peephole optimisations for stuff your OS does.
Not entirely. One could imagine that China would be willing to invade Taiwan, if the only possible response from the US would be nuclear strike. The US would not go to nuclear war over Taiwan and the Chinese know it.

The F35 is able to defend US strategic interests in Taiwan (mainly chip making) in a way nukes cant. On the other hand The budget of the F35 could buy TSMC 3 times over, so it may not be the most cost effective way to defend your interests...
I wonder if some part of this is the ego trip of seeing your workers in your building working for you. As an executive, that's got to be more fulfilling than looking at some OKR slides and an employee roster. I don't believe this is the only motivator but it's surely somewhere in the mix.
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The insertion of a random factor in hashing/bucketing that you're describing would change the iteration order per _instance_ of a hash table, not per _iteration_ as the parent comment notes is the case for go maps.
>If you weigh this against spending an extra hour or two commuting, then it looks like a lousy bargain.

How about if your commute is <20 minutes one way?
People learn in different ways.

Some people will read the documentation, and MDN etc have excellent documentation.

Others will ask questions on SO.