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At work I learned a theoretical set of best practices for the software we integrate with. I was very enthusiastic about applying them. This caused me to learn the real set of best practices, mostly leaning on the stuff that works most robustly (even to recreate other features, usually ones that prove inflexible when pushed).
Hey ! No worries your English is totally fine. I disagree with your vision, and I don't think the evolution allegory works with the rotating wheel. The complexity to me comes from the fact that in QM you describe evolution through the Schrodinger's equation (or for mixed system where you indeed lack understanding on the possible outcomes of the system, either Lindblad or Von-Neumann eqs), those are deterministic equations describing random processes and mostly the source of many unresolved problems in the interpretation of QM.

You can take two approaches : either in the Schrodinger's picture states are moving and operators (hence, measurable quantities) are static, or in the Heisenberg picture operators are moving but states are described as static. Defining trajectories themselves in QM is a daunting task (but can be done, through quantum trajectories, which can be interpreted as the ensemble of realizations of all possible outcomes of the system).

When you are dealing with superposition, in pure states, you might be in actuality in a stationary case and can only rely on measurements, which by themselves pose ontological problems (see the measurement paradox for more info). The determining factor of selection of the next outcome is philosophically unresolved and at the time I don't know if it can be explained through any case of quantum fluctuations.

At the moment for example I am working with arbitrary qubit selection with Ramsey interferences, the experimental setup can make by interferating one photon to another any superposition of two frequency states (thus manipulating the probability to be in a frequence or in other over an average of realizations of the experiment), thus an arbitrary Qubit.

In our case, we could freeze time and the outcome would be the same, in fact, time poses absolutely no role in any part in our description. I know some top physicists who lose sleep over this question of being able to describe past, present and future of quantum states in dynamical context all at once, without even considering time.

To put it simply, there's two sources of probabilities in QM : intrinsic to the random nature of QM (pure states) and probabilities due to our lack of knowledge (mixed states). When dealing with highly controlled system we can assume we are in pure states conditions, selection is automatic, and not due to any lack of description, at least to our current understanding.
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A fiat currency is issued by a government without being backed by a physical commodity. El Salvador's adoption of Bitcoin does not make it a fiat currency.
> I did not make up anything. I asked you kindly to provide your incredible findings

This is called 'sealioning'. It’s a documented harassment technique.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning
And charging your mother $90,000 for a drug that does nothing at all isn’t a fix.
Isn't it fraud to sell an Alzheimer's drug that doesn't prevent Alzheimer's?
I don’t see what’s wrong with the FDA approving a drug only for specific niche proximate-cause X that currently has absolutely no reason to ever be prescribed, presuming it’s disallowed from being marketed as being “for” anything other than specific niche proximate-cause X. Maybe someday a problem will come along that can be solved by treating for specific niche proximate-cause X — and hey, then you’ve already got an approved drug to treat that problem. (For example, maybe in this case the drug could also happen to treat some novel prion disease, where the mechanism of that prion disease involves beta-amyloid buildup, such that this drug would actually stop that disease’s progression. Sort of the same way corticosterioids were already approved for other uses, but then happened to be able to be used in managing COVID, because the same mechanism they target — systemic inflammation — was being triggered by the disease.)

Of course, if the marketability restrictions truly worked the way I’m talking about, then the drug would have zero sales until that real-world problem matching its niche use-case came along. Which means there’d be no point in manufacturing it until then. But it’d be nice that it’d be “on the books” as being allowed to be produced and sold, such that it could be later rushed to market if the problem it solves was ever realized as a necessary problem to solve.
mRNA vaccines are likely the future of vaccinations, but I continued with the older and battle tested vaccination route (whichever provider was offering the 1 dose vaccine).

I know these are cases are very rare, but I would like to do my part in minimizing any potential risks.
Only partially, because the US military protects more than just the US dollar banking system. For example, the US military protects the united states and everything inside it.

Bitcoin mining only protects the currency and since Bitcoin is exactly like fiat in the sense that it is just a ledger that allocates resources, it is entirely dependent on the physical world that the all the militaries around the world protect. Do we count the US military towards Bitcoin's impact on the climate? It would be justified.
Ask HN: Easiest Engineering Roles
Hello HN Friends, I hate to use a throwaway, but unfortunately, it is taboo to want an easy/relaxed job in tech.

I'm a senior engineer, with 15+ years of professional experience, and have worked at a bunch of big tech companies and startups. I can pass most (reasonable) technical interviews. I've been a manager & lead along the way. I've always been considered one of the better engineers everywhere I've worked, and have a strong resume, and plenty of great references (not that it matters).

This isn't necessarily burn-out, I just want to optimize for more time for myself, as my priorities in life are shifting. I don't want to completely give up prestige & challenge in the workplace, and I'd like to keep making as much money as possible. Eng roles can be fun and enjoyable, but I'm disillusioned by the reality of day to day work at most co's and I don't want to optimize for the content of the work anymore.

So many of the companies I've worked at are a total disaster, and the engineering teams are expected to be on call all the time, work crazy hours, and generally are walked all over. The failures of the organization seem to come at my expense, and work output/productivity are not measured, but rather toil, politics, busywork, meetings, etc.

I'm not lazy, per say, I just want to be in a place where I can do, effectively, as little as possible, but not completely give up on challenging/interesting work, and not going to a disfunctional workplace. I'm not looking to exploit anyone, or try to find one of these companies that's so broken, I can just do nothing and no one will notice.

Does such a place exist? Are there any companies in tech that have engineering roles that are more relaxed? Are there specific teams at FAANG or other co's that are known for being easy or relaxed?

Thank you all for your non-judgmental advice and feedback!
Per capita doesn't really matter to the temp.
Wht do you think the execs/owners at your client companies retain onsite staff instead of hiring only more people like you?
I think you misunderstand. I was rephrasing your statement "Why not take profits" to reflect the reality of WU's role in El Salvador.
Mainly implementing different VAT rates. My accountant also would charge extra to do the EU VAT filing.

Right now I'm just charging no VAT worldwide (and we keep track of the totals in US states to see if we approach limits) or VAT for my country.

Also, given we're a B2B service, most of our customers are actual businesses, so we would be adding complexity to our payment flow for not much gained.

Thanks a lot for vatlayer, that looks great and I will definitely keep it in mind!
Ah yes Russia, a state with an economy half the size of California, would dominate the world were it not for the US military incinerating a significant chunk of the world's fossil fuels. The USSR split up 30 years ago, time to update your villains!
Epoll-shim: epoll implementation using kqueue
This is the only answer right here.

What is the standard for measuring on our planet?

A lot of people can adopt one standard but there are still laggards that won't change so you end up with several standards.

If you have more than 1 standard, there is no standard.
Okay, let's do the reverse.

If you are somebody who wants to win an election, whose vote are you winning by proposing and/or signing a bitcoin ban?

It's not like Bitcoin has a CEO that you can point at in the Forbes billionaires list and claim that you are going against him.

You have to explain and present to people the coins per wallet distribution statistics and convert it to dollars to get to the topic of inequality, then from there trying to equate Wall Street to Bitcoin.

It's not easy, even for a socially competent person, you lose the room and people's attention quite easily. It's far easier to attack Bezos
Largely because they took the mask off and there’s no question they serve their corporate masters first, second and third. Anything relevant to people’s lives is considered culture / class warfare (surprise, the entities with money to achieve wide media reach are the ones saying that).

We need real anti-corporate reform before the guillotines come out. Both the far left (which is growing rapidly; Trump radicalized a lot of us) and far right (which is a circular Venn diagram with the Republican Party at this point) are working toward the future with the guillotines. Unless the politicians can get over their greed and actually do something for the people, that’s the future we’re looking at.

Lest you say this is just the US, pretty much every other democracy has this same problem right now. And the far left is often much bigger elsewhere than it is in the US.
> I usually don't leave CC info on some random site, only to major and well known.

That's the whole point of klarna (who also do CC processing so might have used them unknowingly): you don't need to trust Johnny's Little Online Store handling your CC, since the payment is handled by klarna.
AWS Frankfurt experiences major breakdown due to environmental conditions
“Cloud colossus says aircon fail caused kit to shut down, networks dropped out and EC2 instances went dark”
For quite a while the prevailing sentiment has been that bitcoin is a store of value and more akin to gold not dollars.

At any rate, there's plenty of crypto with much different aims.
Remote for the last 6 years for me. Pre-pandemic was also the only member of team that was remote.

I do something pretty similar. Friday's I will somewhat regularly send a dad joke or meme. These of course stay non-political and very SFW.

On a somewhat serious side. I try to regularly send "tips". If I learn something that I think is beyond cool I'll send an email teaching that new cool thing. If it can't be done in an email I'll setup small sessions to teach that over Zoom. I prefer Zoom because it's more impactful as far as being "seen" and not just another email.

Relaying what I've learned (even basic things) works really well, at least my regular 1:1's and reviews support this view.
Your doctor should be able to help with that and provide you only drugs that have completed clinical trials to your desired standard.
I wonder if your success is some combination of:

- Unusually good aptitude for handling context switches.

- Unusually good skill at concentrating on your work in noisy / busy environments.

- Not much time writing code that's near the limits of your abilities.
Again, what "conclusion" do you think I'm jumping to? Modernizing payment systems is having a huge impact across the entire developing world. I spent two years of my life building a system for payments (mobile to mobile) for a variety of African countries. Negligible fees, immediate, robust and reliable. This isn't new or novel.

Bitcoin has shockingly little to do with El Salvador. It is a lightning network being pitched (which could be funded by USD, gold, eggs, turtles...whatever), trying to pump BTC in the process.

So save with the feel good El Salvador story.
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UK is way better off than El Salvador.

70% if people in ES don’t have a bank acct.

50% have internet.

Take a look at the Bitcoin beach experiment

https://apnews.com/article/caribbean-el-salvador-bitcoin-lif...
I mean, I also refuse to install TikTok and Valorant for the same reasons. Don't paint us with the same brush. At least Android and iOS have a decent sandbox. Aka they can't just index my files.
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Yeah, this is my big challenge as well. Hybrid remote is really difficult--if you're not careful it can end up as the worst of both worlds--but not everyone wants a remote work setting and finding a way to be flexible and accommodating to people's preferences is going to be a real challenge going forward.

But, to me, the good news is we can have this conversation now; it's no longer assumed that remote work is inferior. It's just different. Now we get to figure out how to incorporate that into the way we work.
I guess we can’t be sure whether the rates are the same across regions.
Mom's on social security she doesn't hasn't paid for any medical procedure in years. Have you heard of Medicare? Medicaid? You don't know what you're talking about at all selectodude.
No, because new malware / legitimate apps are third party content. It's like how you can't sue Facebook or Twitter for someone using their platforms to spread illegal content or plan violence. What usually helps in these cases is that the platforms demonstrate good faith and fund moderation teams to remove harmful content once it is discovered. Likewise any malware on the App Store would get removed as soon as it becomes "popular." Now maybe you'd have a case if Apple or Google did nothing to remove this app, but that sort of laissez faire control doesn't really seem likely at this point.
I'm now sleeping pretty good, after decades of struggle.

TLDR: After trying everything, most of my insomnia was resolved thru surgery, done for unrelated reasons. So I encourage every one to keep looking, experimenting.

Here's my anecdata for what actually helps me sleep.

Most of my anxiety (insomnia) was due to pinched nerves in my spine. Resolved with surgery. This possibility was never considered, mentioned. None of my care providers quite believe me. Previously, I tried everything, eg meditation, therapy, drugs. None of it helped.

I no longer consume alcohol. Not a big deal for me.

I no longer consume caffeine. I'm told my genes (ADORA2A) makes me hypersensitive. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17329997/ I love coffee, so this change was super hard.

I wake with the sun. No curtains in my bedroom. It's awesome.

I go to bed around 7:30p. Usually asleep by 9:00p.

As a nudge, I have a 5:00a alarm play soft music. I allow myself to sleep in.

I got a very active dog. At 1yo, he required at least 8 mi/day (my steps, he does much more).

I still do much of the mindfulness, breathing, stretching, and PT exercises. I like it.

Like u/rapsey, I supplement with magnesium orotate. I have chronic cramping, clinching, spasms. (Think MS or ALS.) I found the other variants upset my tummy. I also take methocarbanol; one side effect is sleepiness.
The problem is that it costs $56k/year. Most people don't have that kind of money, so for the most part we're talking about whether that cost should be socialized, either via insurance or the government. That's an awful lot of money that could be used to treat a lot of other sick people. So it's not primarily a question of whether people should be allowed to take risks, it's more a question of how best to allocate finite resources.
The point is that the "insomnia advice" is treated as "do literally all of these things, some of which are fairly oppressive lifestyle restrictions, or we will ignore your complaints of insomnia."

There's no recognition that there is variation between people and maybe we should make things easier for a diverse set of needs rather than forcing people to do a bunch of labor to comply with someone else's lifestyle.
The one and only leetcode-esque interview question I even enjoyed was a pretty mild "easy" problem, where it was explicitly state that a solution was not the goal. The purpose was to simulate pair programming with the interviewer (who claimed they didn't know the solution off hand).

It was casual, conversational, and actually enjoyable.
The FDA didn't give it a full approval. It was an accelerated approval that basically said "This drug has been shown to help biomarkers that are associated with Alzheimer’s, but it's unknown if it helps with Alzheimer’s itself. While more evidence is collected, Biogen can distribute it."

Which is reasonable to me. It takes years to test drugs like this and if a patient and her doctor believe this is the best treatment, the FDA shouldn't prevent them from getting access to it.
This is not corruption, this is as designed. The DoD's mission is national security and Congress has determined that national security trumps environmental protections which, to be quite honest, are mostly procedural hurdles put in place to slow down innovation and progress.

The question is whether or not we should hinder our ability to protect ourselves from external (and internal at this point) enemies in order to (possibly) protect the environment. Congress has decided that we shouldn't. You can, of course, come to a different conclusion, but I doubt Congress ever will.
San Francisco has had less COVID-19 fatalities than drug overdoses. New York got heavily infected because up until Mid February the governor considered it just the flu. On top of the feds failing to respond (botched test creation, minimal contact tracing, resistance to travel restrictions). The MTA forbid workers from wearing masks to avoid causing a panic.
Presumably premiums are adjustable on a yearly (or relatively short-term) basis too, which would bound the risk of incorrectness.
Cells is really neat. I last used it 10+ years ago but it was a delightful way to express ideas about market structure in a way that made sense to my excel-addled brain.
Only if you make untrue claims. If you claim only what is proven, then it is not fraud.
Look up L5/T4/1-level-below-senior on levels.fyi. I don’t think this is above market value at all.

Edit: Not an uncommon view either, see - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27473505
And most people in Hollywood using rendering engines like Optix.
> When people say "transactions cost X amount to process", they mean "in the current state of bitcoin", not in the past when there were very few transaction validators

there are only so many miners (and so much energy spent) because security of bitcoin is what gives it value. so when people say "transactions cost X amount to process" they are saying something non-sensical, because it's not transactions that cost, it's security of those transactions.

it's important to separate, because there are many kinds of transactions in bitcoin ecosystem with various security characteristics that land anywhere from very low to on-chain settlement with multiple confirmations.
the reality is that compensation is sh*t, even at L6 level where you are expected to walk on water. a lot (most?) people I know that worked at Amazon used that as a resume builder that allowed them to open doors and land jobs that would be harder to get otherwise.
Weasel around this: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2005/pinter/256...
I think this is in reference to a US law that states that a "currency" adopted by a foreign country is not classified as an asset but as a currency. This has tax implications but I don't know the details.
the comment I replied to said all bitcoin mining is done exclusively with coal. I never made claims, I merely pointed out the original statement was incorrect and offered evidence to support it.

So what is your point in relation to that? Am I wrong? Is my evidence not sufficient? Do you also believe all bitcoin mining is powered by coal?
No he is shaming a person who needs shaming, they think they can project their BS without getting fact checked. It doesn't work like that, you are gonna have to have a thick skin if you want STEM people to listen to your anti-vax crap if that's the way you lean, that's life. Being an idiot isn't a protected group.
My first thought "How else do you quickly count pieces on a bitboard?". Definitely chess programming caused me to never second guess the usefulness of `popcount`
These types of commenters don't meaningfully provide counter-arguments. I even provided a study directly contradicting this person's claim and I got down-voted too lol.

Relevant study:

https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/handle/123456789/52153

We contribute to the extensive literature on international influences on democratization and democratic breakdowns by conceptualizing hegemonic mechanisms of regime change and assessing them empirically. Our findings are based on a multi-methods approach and highlight the varying importance of hegemonic influences in post-1945 Latin America. We argue that US support for democratization was consistent in the wave of transitions to democracy that began in Latin America in 1978 and that it was decisive in many of these transitions. While past work has attributed responsibility to the US for the waves of democratic breakdowns from 1948 to 1956 and 1964 to 1976, an examination of the 27 breakdowns from 1945 to 2010 gives reason to doubt this interpretation. Future research could use these conceptual and methodological tools to explore the role of other powers in waves of democracy and authoritarianism.
> a 30 day vacation from Facebook sounds wonderful, it'd be a great excuse to leave it all together.

I left Facebook few years ago. I can't really back it up with anything, but I have a suspicion that this is the main reason why people are leaving Facebook. Not concerns about privacy.

> that's such a poor example to use in pointing out the fallacy

That's a really common example to show the flaws in appeal to nature argument and pretty much the best you can make, because not many people support rape and murder. That's the point.

> I can see why someone might see it as "hateful", which is against the TOS,

And that's the problem. Just as I said, your intentions don't matter and if someone interprets it as hateful then you're out. It's completely arbitrary.

> pointing out a logical fallacy doesn't invalidate someone's argument, ironically this is itself a fallacy.

Sometimes it doesn't, sometimes it does. Depends on what the argument and the context is.
Maybe you missed the parts where I mentioned acting/miming. I'm not so oblivious as to be a grouch at work lol. That's y whole point: I _have_ to exert effort to be friendly and likable and get along with my coworkers. It takes effort because it's not something I enjoy or want, but is essentially necessitated by any job. I don't like working or coding that much either, but I still put in the effort to do a good job because that's what working is: work. It would just be easier for me and people like me if I could take out the unnecessary stuff like being in an office, just like employers generally pay for air conditioning so you don't have to try working through heat stroke during hot summers.
> you can see analogies to this all over the political spectrum.

No, you can see analogies of this specifically on the right, which is just doing the same thing still.