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It's not a 'myth' because nobody ever said hard work was sufficient to get anything.

Rather it's usually 'necessary' and a pretty good qualifier in most ways.

Finally, who on earth said 'the top' was an aspiration for most people? Or even noble?

If you 'work hard' consistently, you'll probably be 'ok' and if you apply a little big of grit and consistency, you'll do 'alright'.

The 'apex' is whole other thing entirely.
The best I've seen is having a salary range for each grade level. At a large company I worked at during the late 90's to mid 2000's, I was hired in as an "E5". Raises above and beyond cost of living increases would be based on exceeding performance goals for that grade level. You would then move up in that grade level's range (which gets adjusted every year based on inflation). That in turn would be an indicator of those that need a promotion into the next grade level / salary range (and the promotion pay increase is independent of the cost of living / merit increase). In my case I went from an E5 up through and E7, then the company outsourced us (was a re-badging, all employees affected were hired by the outsourcer).

From what I remember this company had something like 20 different E levels, going all the way up to what would cover the C levels. And each job category had specifics that were required to move into a given level. For example an E5 would be basic systems administration, E6 would include scripting/programming, something like an E8 would include architecture type roles.

It really surprises me that more companies don't do this. Really helps with transparency, and when you hire someone you pick which grade level they get initially placed in (so there could be a group of job reqs that cover multiple grade ranges, and the new-hire gets slotted based on how they interviewed).
Most stars would not pass in and out of each spiral arm of a galaxy.

Perhaps it’s just our Sun that does it.
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The point is that the social consequences of a comment can be catastrophic. There is the potential to lose your job, lose your friends, lose your family. Even if your opinion was just miswritten, misunderstood, misquoted, outdated, or immature one can be attacked for seemingly random reasons.

Read some of the commentary on this thread, and note some of the well written examples that counter your comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27581532
I would generally suggest avoiding reference stability here (extra heap allocations) and going with the offset-based approach mentioned in the other responses.
The number of people who want to kill all the Texans is microscopic same as the conservatives who are in favor of racial justice and "queer" rights. The percentage of self labeled conservatives who support evil, insane, or potentially disastrous ideas is sadly more like a solid majority.

"Both sides" is a tired trope.
yes, that's why I put two exclamation points and an /s on the end.
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SW pivoting away from Movies to TV is a really good move in my opinion. The last 5 movies were fine. But on the TV has been great. Clone Wars, Rebels, Mandalorian have told the stories that have let me escape to the far far away galaxy.
As long as they are raised to be good citizens. Being a citizen of the US confers rights and privileges, it should require exposure to some basic knowledge as well.

Schools that teach against known facts like evolution are a net negative.
This makes no sense. Neural nets already tear through tabular data like butter. We're literally dropping out half of the learned parameters. This points to the fundamental inefficiency of the approach. Better regularization is the answer, but it's not about round-robin of existing techniques.
We learned years ago that our cats get put in the lower part of our house with the door closed at night. We felt bad about it, but being able to sleep all night made up for it.

Quick story: for several nights, I'd wake up in the middle of the night with horrendous stomach pains. I was thinking I needed to see the doctor it was so painful. Then on the fourth night when the pain hit I woke up fast enough to notice our cat walking off of my stomach. Turns out he (a 15 lb cat) had been jumping off a shelf through the air about 6 feet and landing directly on my gut. This was instrumental in the decision to keep them away from us ;)
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>because the parent poster was correct in iterators originating out of a being a generalization over pointers

And an animal is a generalization of a cat, but that doesn't mean an animal is a cat. What is true of a particular doesn't have to be true of the general.

> But, while implementation defined, a vector iterator must behave identically to a pointer

No it does not. MSVC implements a vector iterator with additional runtime safety guarantees in DEBUG mode and while those guarantees are not mandatory as per the standard, they are fully in compliance, so saying they have to behave identically is patently false as MSVC's behavior is a superset of the behavior provided by a pointer.

> suggesting that holding this opinion is a sign of inadequacy is condescending.

If you care about writing correct code, then do not mix the very concept of pointers, arrays, references, and iterators with one another. They are all related to one another but have very important differences to the point that calling them literally identical to one another is a sign of inadequate understanding. It happens far too often and inevitably leads to poor code, bugs, and a fundamentally poor understanding of what these things represent conceptually.
That's not how it works. Brave blocks third-party ads and trackers (which are known to be dangerous) on behalf of its users (the same users who were installing uBlock Origin in Chrome and Firefox before coming to Brave). This is a security and privacy necessity on the Web today.

Users are then able to opt-in, if they like, to a novel advertising platform within the Brave ecosystem. These users can earn rewards for their attention (70% of the associated ad-revenue). Ads are displayed within Brave and on the user's desktop; ads are not displayed in any publisher-owned space (e.g. a website or YouTube channel).

With these rewards, users are able to contribute to [verified] sites, channels, etc. The publisher/content-creator must already be verified to receive any rewards from users. If a user attempts to contribute to a non-verified site, the tokens remain on the user's device for up to 90 days.

This isn't much different from how PayPal allows you to send money to an arbitrary email address, regardless if it is associated with a verified PayPal account or not. This model simply addresses the problem of blocking harmful ads and trackers, while offering no alternative means of supporting those same content creators.
That's where something like STAR voting is even better. Just score people 0 to 5 on how much you like them. Gets rid of strategic voting, spoiler effect and works super well for large sets of choices as well. It's in essence like we score movies or restaurant reviews which makes it familiar as well.
I wonder if instead of asking for a higher raise, if there is better luck asking for a promotion. A promotion can typically be justified as getting an additional 10 - 15% bump in pay on top of the last merit increase, and can happen at any time of the year. Technically you are leaving one role and getting hired into a new one, but at the same company.
> Why is this ADHD and not just being human?

Because most people can work effectively on a project that they don't want to do by, for example, focusing on the positive benefits of doing the project or the negative consequences of not doing it. Someone with ADHD can go through the same reasoning and still not be able to pay attention and effectively work on the project.
What index is being used?
I can feel that wish for randomness though. I really hate having my days tightly ordered. It makes life really boring for me if I know exactly what I'll be doing at what moment during the next week. The same with holidays, I can't stand when I'm with someone that wants to plan every part of a trip in advance. I want the freedom to explore, and to spend more time on the things I find interesting.

The flip side of randomness is the lack of a feeling of accomplishment and of feeling of working towards a goal. But I do think these things are largely societal values imposed on us. When I realise I don't care about spending my time wisely it bothers me a lot less.

I manage to be plenty successful in work too. Not super much but at a level I'm comfortable with.
Hong Kong got more coverage than Minneapolis protests as well. It was only after Hong Kong protests were proudly displaying their racism to Black people that we stopped covering them. Which is hilarious to say the least. But I guess you have a point because Minneapolis is a smaller city.
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Do the microcode changed alone, without kernel mitigations, negatively impact performance?
That's actually hilarious and I would love to see it.
Even simpler, an approval voter can cast up to N (different) ballots.
> Putting in the hard (and smart) work and persevering is all you can do.

I mostly agree. But if the problem is systematic ( slavery, indentured servitude, etc ), leaving or trying to change the system is probably better than putting in the hard/smart work and persevering. There are other options than just hard work and perseverance depending on the environment/situation.
> Fully private. No profiles.

> Brave Search doesn't track you or your queries. Ever. It's impossible for us to share, sell, or lose your data, because we don't collect it in the first place

So eh, Brave's search is actually running through Amazon CloudFront load balancers. This wasn't quite my first idea of privacy. At the very least, it means searches are likely being logged at least once, and stored using some policies set by Amazon, not Brave

Some pretty curious internal API here: https://search.brave.com/api/state/independence , found in the copious amounts of duplicate JS on the page
I haven't been actually keeping track, but I can't recall a time I was in a store with only one brand of soy sauce and it wasn't Kikkoman. Maybe just because I'm in California though?
If your unit of recognition was a set of images, and not an image alone, then you would have permutation symmetry and want to use point cloud techniques to design your first layer. So yes images are points in R^N.
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From the article:

"The William and Will West story is somewhat sensationalized and omits prison record information, uncovered by later researchers, indicating that William and Will West both corresponded with the same family members and thus were probably related.
Prison records also cite that Leavenworth inmate George Bean reported that he knew William and Will West in their home territory before prison and that they were twin brothers."

Non-story.
Wow... you ain't kidding! Here I go down the software history hole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygnus_Solutions
Correct. Note the use of "we" in my comments, pointing out that I am part of the Brave team. Thank you for stating it more explicitly.
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Shockingly, it also has an effect on the brain microbiota of owners:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3963851/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasma_gondii
And your point? Just let people dribble out their mistakes without correction?
We should make the virus pay for it.
Well yeah, there's no permutation symmetry between columns. (Unless there is...)
Some cats carry Toxoplasmosis gondii.
Broken link. It is pointing to a different story.
Why wouldn't people support transgendered people able to be the gender they wish and being able to do so in all possible aspects? Be they transwomen wanting to play female sports, or transmen wanting to play male sports (which you oddly leave out of your question).
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Safari was covered in the aforementioned browser-privacy study as well: https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf. It finished with Chrome and Firefox in 2nd place (behind Brave).
Perhaps you can name some people who fell victim to "cancel culture" who weren't utterly despicable people. Cancel culture is an utterance that seems to lack a singular clear definition.

When someone tells others to vote with their wallets against something that is contrary to their own interests if a conservative is effected by people's free choice not to associate with him we are told its "cancel culture" likewise when someone hires someone nearly entirely for their image then no longer desires to be associated with their former hire's flagging popularity which is flagging precisely because of their own bad behavior.
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This is exactly what frustrates me so badly, with yearly performance evaluations. I was working at Sony for 3~ years. I would receive "Exceeded Expectations" as the evaluation, and raise matching the inflation :D, then they expect you to show gratitude and appreciation :D

It is almost an insult at intellect of anyone working at a knowledge work.

So, I switched to consultancy instead. No longer, annual performance review bullshit. My hourly rate is so high, they don't waste my hours with such crap anymore. That has been my new motto for career "If they're filling your time with crap, you're being underpaid for your time". Make them think twice for using your time.
Ask HN: What do you wish you knew / did before having kids?
I know it's not the most techy/hackery question, but I've seen some great adjacent discussions about childrearing here and I'd really value the HN community's opinion.

Some dot points:

* Partner (34F) and I (33M) have been together 3 years, own a house. Live in Australia so healthcare is sorted

* Both on an upward trajectory in our careers. I'm a programmer/consulting CTO, she's in the CX, business transformation & org design space. Combined income AU$340k, which is decent for Melbourne

* I have some family support (dad is a doctor, mum loves kids) and am from the city we live in. She has no family support, isn't from the city we live in & her friendship group here have all bunkered down & had kids.

* Have put off having kids because we wanted to make sure our relationship is in a good place, we have enough savings, have a house etc & are ready. Both lived it up in our 20s + feel like very "full" humans. We're nervous but excited about the next stage of our lives.

Main problems we're anticipating:

* We're both worried her career will suffer. She LOVES working, and she's the most passionate and hard worker I've ever met. Gets a lot of value and self-worth from work.

* Both worried about her lacking support. Obviously we have my parents, but she won't feel super comfortable leaning on them in times of need.

* Both feel like we want to have at least 2 kids, so kinda feeling like it's not or never, but very well aware of employer discrimination (so many women get made redundant after going on maternity leave)

Questions:

* What sorts of discussions, negotiations, things-to-figure-out do you wish you did before you had kids?

* What are some arrangements you've made that have worked really well for you?

* How did you, as a team, manage your/your partner's career?

* What sort of hired help have you used and is it valuable?

* Is there anything that makes you think "Hell, if I were doing it all over again I'd have done ___ while we were childless"
Even if IRV keeps the same two parties in power forever, there is still scope for it vastly improving politics by improving the platforms of those parties.

For example, if large numbers of Democrat voters decided it was safe to vote Green and put the Democrats as their second choice, the Democrats would quickly start to adopt more Green policies for fear that the two-party system kicks them out and the Greens become the major left-wing party.

As another example, if the Democrats were confident that there are more voters out there who are moderates than far-left voters, they could confidently oppose some far-left policies while knowing that they would still be the second-preference of far-left voters. That would allow them to appeal to more GOP voters and avoid being associated with fringe policies, while also expanding the Overton Window.
This took me by surprise at first too, but here's a bit more context:

"Prior to her role serving as Intel’s chief people officer, she led Intel’s Network Platforms Group."

From her bio:

"Rivera holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Pennsylvania State University. She sits on the Equinix board of directors; she is a member of Berkeley’s engineering advisory board and a member of the Intel Foundation Board; and she is part of Intel’s Latinx Leadership Council."
Handwaved away? You mean improved?
In reality you have a choice. You can either rank all, or if you are lazier you can just select your favourite candidate and then your first choice candidate's preferences will be used instead.

This is not true. In the elections for the Australian House of Representatives (single-member electorates, comparable to the mayoral election under discussion where there is a single winner), you must number every box for your vote to count.

In elections for the Australian Senate (multiple member electorates) you don't have to number every box, but you have a choice: you can either vote "below the line" for individual candidates, in which case you must number at least 6 boxes for your vote to count (the ballot paper advises you to number at least 12); or you can vote "above the line" for groups of candidates (in which case you only have to number one, but the ballot paper advises you to number at least 6). A vote "above the line" for a group is equivalent to numbering the candidates in that group in order from top to bottom, but it doesn't imply a vote for a candidate in any other group.

The voting systems in Australian states and territories vary from the above; some of them do allow only numbering a single candidate in single-member elections ("Optional Preferential Voting" or OPV) and some still have group-ticket voting in multi-member elections where you can assign your vote to the preference ticket submitted by a candidate (though hopefully the last few jurisdictions to still have this will be getting rid of it, because it is being gamed).
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But nobody is being punished here. You are not any worse off than you were yesterday before the aid was announced. If you had known in advance that this aid was coming would you have stopped paying your rent? Would you have kept paying and sacrificed just because you could due to some sense of civic duty? Did you return your stimulus check because you didn't actually need it and could have sacrificed more?

If you would have stopped paying then you're just mad that you didn't get out of your obligations and sacrificed when you didn't have to and feel like because of that you deserve it more, not that meeting one's obligations is something holy.

I understand the anger. But we're supposed to take a step back and not be jealous about good things happening to others.

Good for the people that didn't sacrifice and had a better quality life during COVID as a result. How could I ever wish anything else on them?
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Not the original poster but I’m going to seriously consider this. I’m at my wits end with a male cat who habitually meows at 2 am and 5 am point blank in front of my face.
So strong that it's a little odd to think about it as having once been trendy. For the three decades I've spent on this planet it's just always been there.
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>This policy was necessary to avoid mass evictions, which would have required the state to spend even more in social services for those evicted. So taxpayers ultimately save money

The mass evictions have already been prevented, spending the money now will not retroactively change history. are you saying this will prevent future evictions?

>Also, seems like this is largely being paid for with pandemic-related federal aid money, which I think had restrictions on how it can be used, unlike tax revenue.

I don't see how the money coming from federal aid changes the cost to the tax payers? The money is either spent at the taxpayers expense or not.
The article is cherry-picking for sensationalism. Those aren't representative, obviously. And the "there's no rhyme or reason" is the author's (entirely unsupported) opinion, not a fact.

Amazon is a for-profit business. It's not intentionally dumping MacBooks it can resell profitably.

Obviously neither of us knows in this particular circumstance, but one would assume they were damaged enough to not be resellable, that a mistake was made somewhere, or a third-party seller using FBA requested them disposed of for some reason (e.g. an ancient used model there was no more demand for).
Twice you say that Musk is fighting the government, but he is not. Neither Space X or Tesla would exist if taxpayers weren’t giving him billions in corporate welfare.
I think it's important not to get too cynical about this. It's simply not true that everybody is out there trying to adapt the world to their narrow personal interests. I can think of all kinds of policy issues for which I support a position that is unlikely to benefit me directly.