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> jobs that are a bit outside your comfort zone

There is usually little correlation between the job requirements and what you're actually going to do on the job.
Ah, that makes sense. I read it as "permanent-health watch". English compound words always confuses me. Thanks!
I guess my go-to ideas of "conspiracy theories" are things like MKULTRA, Gladio, COINTELPRO, Stargate Project, ECHELON etc. Which seem extremely interesting, to me anyway, and I think we can say those things are "real". Whereas I find the QAnon, AntiVax etc stuff fairly tedious (although I do find the sociology behind them interesting). Maybe it's more about my relationship with these things, rather than than the theories themselves.
I actually don't think there's much of a moat here at all.

GitHub repositories are open for the taking, GPT-XXX is cloneable (mostly, anyway) and VS Code is extensible.

They definitely have a good head-start, but I really don't think there's anything here that won't be generally available within 2 years.
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There’s an Unpatched Vulnerability in Google Compute Engine
They run their proprietary securities database and its associated programming language from before the creation of C.
The amount of people not knowing the difference between Open Source and Free Software is astonishing. With the amount of RMS memes I see regularly I would expect things to be settled by now.
It's explained further down in the comments. It's the so called wet bulb temperature. I was wrong about the 15 minutes limit though, turns out it's about two hours.
This is the most blatantly ridiculous straw man, I can’t believe people on HN keep trying to make it especially against FAANG. Do you really think these companies are run by middle managers that just want to watch people work?

At least at Google, a huge number of employees already work in a different floor, office, city, or even country than their managers that this couldn’t even be a factor for them.
Nothing about what you've said wasn't known and employed by people at companies who've made budgets and estimates that went over. This is why estimates and budgets go over. Everyone thinks they have it figured out.

The Taylorist principles of management don't apply to knowledge work in my experience. Refine your requirements gathering and estimation processes all you want. Your estimates will still be wrong most of the time. They're educated guesses and we don't have the foundation to make accurate ones.

One thing I think you nail though is that communication is key. A lot of good comes from being honest, transparent, forthcoming, and supportive.

I never recommend software teams and companies make estimates. I say break down tasks, make mile stones, set learning goals, and get to work. Communicate progress frequently and keep feedback coming back to the team. Working software talks. When you can see the goal in sight that's the time to start talking about release dates. Once you have that first couple of releases you then you can start developing a cadence. It's all based on evidence and what you know and making promises you can keep.
Sure, and I've personally been in charity events for economically disadvantaged groups where that's been one of the more important pieces of advice we gave, so such approaches are ongoing, but still the studies indicate the message hasn't gotten through with current levels - so you'd need to either significantly scale up such efforts to reach more people at a personal enough level to convince them, or try another approach.
It's hard to feel sorry for employers that have been treating employees like garbage for decades. I hope this new freedom awakens the spirit of collective action in enough employees that labor unions make a comeback.
> you also have to teach to people how to be ambitious.

You need to train people to leave their ethics at the door and lie until they make it?

They say these are "minimum requirements". You called them "qualifications". They're not suggested capabilities that you should have to feel comfortable in the job. They have a separate section for "Preferred Qualifications", so these aren't just preferences, they're requirements if you're not willing to break the rules.

A certain subset of the population is willing to check the box that says "I meet these requirements" and then later push around the interviewer and say they don't actually meet them but that they ought to be considered anyways. This brash, often narcissistic, overconfident group is over-represented in management circles not because they're "more ambitious" than others but because they're willing to sacrifice their morals to cheat the system.
Driving to Minot a decade ago... you'd see more modular houses on trailers on the road than cars at times. The flood of 2011 messed up a lot and this was also in the oil boom there.

There were even tent cities for people there after the flooding.

Yes, these modular houses would have been quite welcome there.

A tangent question to this is "how easy is it to undo it?"

A guy I know wants to do some major renovations on the house - gut it and fix it. It will take a year or two to do. In the meantime... where do you live?

Another situation where this could have been useful would have been Biloxi after Katrina where, again, housing is needed in short order.
I think there’s a discount if you allow commingled inventory (or a cost to keep it separate) which makes sense as Amazon has to track and potentially stock it in multiple warehouses
Nobody wants to give up a something once it becomes a part of their life that they enjoy.

The FANG workers got a taste of not having a daily long commute and don't want to give this small life improvement back. Getting back several hours of your life is pretty big.

FANG companies however have gotten a taste of nearly unlimited power and have not heard "no" in years. They too don't want to give this up. This is why they demand the butts back in the cramped open seating office. Does anyone buy their "we will allow you to apply for remote work" BS? That is just something to get you back in the office. They will quietly deny your request later.

People can call these FANGers spoiled, but I really hope they win. It would benefit everybody, but the CEOs of the world.
in many ways jQuery has a lot of developer friendly niceties, in a different timeline jQuery became the new standardized DOM API and everyone would be happy
Yes, that has direct precedent. And with the most obvious precedent, was the alternative taken when that group [surprisingly! /s] didn't do what Gandhi thought they should have done.

Edit: but that isn't nonviolent protest, it's just leaving your home. It doesn't cause any political change, and it's not at all the logical extreme of nonviolent protest (the logical extreme is stupid, and seems only to have ever been carried out by millenarian cults, but hey ho).
But can it make the programmer understand the code as auto-diarrheas it out?
The AI most certainly does not lack the ability to generalize. Not as well as humans, but generalization is the key interesting result in deep learning, leading to papers like this one: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.05468

The ability to generalize actually seems to keep increasing with the number of parameters, which is the key interesting result in the GPT-* line of work that Copilot is based on.
At 49C you need a dewpoint of almost 70 (!!) to get 20% relative humidity. thats nasty -- during the heatwave in portland the dewpoint was between 63-68 most days. Usually its ~55. For context, the dewpoint on the east coast during the storm season usually is between 70-75.
> but humans will probably be fine.

I wouldn't be so sure about that given the propensity for war when things get rough.

Imagine what droughts, famine and loss of land due to flooding will bring.
I wish there was something like Reddit that could be organized by topic, but had the simplicity of HN's design instead of the monstrocity Reddit has become. My guess is it would still succumb to the Reddit Hive Mind effect without a reasonably benevolent moderation team though. For all the times I've said that HN basically does the same thing, I have to admit that it is much better about keeping it in check.
What usually happens there is that the sites do not work because the JS wasn't downloaded and interpreted yet. That happens more often when all the images are always downloaded when loading the page. Lazy loading of images is one method to address exactly this problem :)

My definition of broadband is correct, and 1.8Mbps does not match it. Where I live 1.8Mbps just is not legal broadband. In the US that also does not count as broadband anymore, see https://broadbandnow.com/report/fcc-broadband-definition/, and it hasn't for over a decade.
WHO dis itself a great disservice with how they handled the COVID response and more so with Chinas influence over them.
With the current sad state of the world it will only further diminish their credibility especially with anything concerning China.
When you are willing to pay a million+ a year you already know who you want to hire.
On the other hand, it looks much better to call it "minimum requirements" than "fake reasons to refuse people we don't like".
Thanks for the clarification. I misread the details of how the particles escape the blackhole. Which makes much more sense from a physics perspective that it's the accretion disk.
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A greater percentage than that leave every year anyway, so it doesn't sound all that dire. (I'd love for it to be that dire as we've gone remote-first with pretty good support for that, but I don't think it's actually going to be as massive a tailwind for us as this and similar articles suggest.)
Does it, if code was written by a bot that trained on Linux kernel?
Not directly addressing your point, but how common is it for someone to be a FAANG developer - extremely well compensated and smart by all accounts - and not have other options? An argument like this makes sense for the random dev shops and non-tech company dev departments across the country. For many of those, the top 1 or 2 people are arguably good enough to switch over to FAANG or HFT or some other very highly compensated thing if they really want to.

I would expect everyone at a FAANG to basically walk into a comparable or better role at a more "traditional" employer.
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The CNES (French national center for space studies) had done similar 'vintage' ones a while ago

https://reves-d-espace.com/affiches-spatiales-pour-decorer-v...
(unfortunately not available in the original site anymore)
> However, legally, the most recent Oracle vs. Google case has already settled a major point: APIs don't violate copyright. And as Github co-pilot is API (A self-modifying one, but an API nonetheless), Microsoft has a good defense.

That's... a mind-bendingly bad take. Google took an API definition and duplicated it; Copilot is taking general code and (allegedly) duplicating it. This was not done in order to enable any sort of interoperability or compatibility.

The "API defense" would apply if Copilot only produced API-related code, or (against CP) if someone reproduced the interfaces copilot exposes to consumers.

> Microsoft has a good defense.

MS has many good defenses (transformative work, github agreements, etc etc), but this is not one of them.
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If someone could show that the "copilot" started "generating" code verbatim (or nearly verbatim) from some GPL-licensed work, especially if that section of code was somehow novel or specific to a narrow domain, I suspect they'd have a case. I don't know much about OpenAICodex, but if it's anything like GPT-3, or uses that under the hood, then it's very likely that certain sequences are simply memorized, which seems like the maximal case for claiming derivative works. On the other hand, if someone has GPL'd code that implements a simple counter, I doubt the courts would pay much attention.

I do wonder, though, if GPL owners worried about their code being shanghaied for this purpose could file arbitration claims and exploit some particularly consumer-friendly laws in California which force companies to pay fees like when free speech dissidents filed arbitrations against Patreon.[0] Patreon is being forced to arbitrate 72 claims individually (per its own terms) and pay all fees per JAMS rules. IANAL, so I don't know the exact contours of these rules, or if copyright claims could be raised in this way, or even if GitHub's agreements are vulnerable to this loophole, but it'd be interesting.

[0]https://www.dailydot.com/debug/patreon-suing-owen-benjamin-f... (see second update from July 31).
This is the exact sentiment I hold as well. I think the demographics of hacker news may be slightly swayed towards people who already have established networks and industry experience.
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Well, my primary goal is to get rid off my personal information. It could/should conatin things like comments i made or shopping accounts I created but it's not the primary goal (for this moment).

I followed the logic that if I delete my personal data (google records, facebook records, ad records) other data would be affected too since the reference data is lost but I might be wrong with that conclusion. I'm just trying to:
1. Get rid off my personal data (Anything that represents myself on the internet)

2. Delte anything that might be associated with me (accounts created with gmail, facebook linked accounts reddit account) (Basically deleting anything I posted with pseudonyms but is linked to my person)

3. Start a private life on internet (join privacy oriented social networks, services etc.)

I hope this make at least some sense.

Anyhow, thanks for the eff.org mention, that's the privacy juice I'm craving.
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You think companies and universities specifying a masters or PhD for certain job positions are secretly a white supremacist patriarchy of bourgeoisie, hell bent on filtering out the proletariat?

Interesting conspiracy theory.
you're absolutely correct, i was referring to models based on classical GR + QFT (standard cosmology + standard model). ofc those are wrong but yield the most accurate predictions any models has ever yielded.

i'm almost certain (no proof tho) that space time itself is just an illusion (and that there is only "information ").

in other term i know i know nothing (but still is able to give predictions up 10^-32 s after big bang)
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Contractual penalty clauses are activated: Good luck collecting, get lost.

Credit rating is dinged: In the eyes of the lenders that debt trapped you. Why would you still want to be rated well by them?

Country cannot secure international finance: Continuing to secure financing from the people trying to debt trap you is a good idea?

Reputation damage: Same idea, why do you want to keep your reputation up with debt trappers?

Trade sanctions among financiers allies: This one actually has teeth. Don't pay your debts, don't get to trade with your debtors until you do. Hence why Iran and Cuba are locked out of trade with western countries due to their nationalization of western capital.

Taking on debt as a precondition to accessing a trading bloc so they get you hooked onto trade and can use that as leverage to force you to pay up is a pretty good power play. Of course, that leverage decreases if have other trade blocs as options.
> employees have to live within 100 miles of the office and be able to come in 1 day a week or 1 day a month depending on team.

This is much more reasonable than what I've seen most places offer. I don't mind the sound of that at all!
Because “advanced degree” is statistically a proxy for “white male”.
Except some random nobody can become a disruptor.
should worry about -> do think there is a problem with

shouldn't worry about -> don't think there is a problem with

How are those the same?
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Well explained.

Thank you!
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Yes it is. We look to everyone's case individually and it's possible to be a part-time student having ISA.
The international audience that put in years of effort to learn English can also put 10 minutes of effort to just learn Fahrenheit as well.
"Devops" is nothing more than making "developers" responsible for supporting the mess they "release", because the model of them just shrugging off all responsibility for support, and the sysadmins (2nd level support) being stuck with the fallout was unsustainable. That's the long and short of it.
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That's completely true. Companies contribute to our curriculum by co-creating projects. We work together with them to create these projects and are heavily involved in this process to assure quality.

Reasons we have this are:
1. For students it's a great way to see what tech stack is the company using and what problems they are solving.

2. For companies, each coming-in student has a "technical interview" already completed and a lot more context about the company.
The inability to unilaterally impose another Plaza accord speaks volumes.
Or at least indicate what you mean by 'degrees'.
I sometimes have a dream where I check my weather app to see that 80°C (175F) is expected for the week to come and that everyone around me is living their lives like everything is ok. Yeah I'm a little anxious.
Isn't it also in general an euphemism for something being graspable?
Thank you. I made a mistake due to the starting comment in the thread.
> Everyone should know that the requirements in job listings are almost always guidelines

In my experience job requirements are used to weed out and reject those that the hiring people don't like for reasons other than ability.

This ranges from excluding women, being only inclusive of women, only hiring a certain races or religions, or justifying the use of work visas. I've even seen it used to justify not hiring someone because of their accent.
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> Loneliness is a widespread problem, even prior to pandemic

Tell me about it.

> often associated with the older generation - despite more young people struggling with loneliness.

Thanks for the age shaming.

> Three times as many young people deal with loneliness compared to older people.

I do wonder what dark hole you pulled that factoid out of.
I was just musing about whether this kind of tool has been written (or is being written) for music composition, business letter writing, poetry, news copy.

Interesting copyright issues.

Anyone who thinks their profession will continue as-is for the long term is probably mistaken.
This is 100% accurate and it's the reason that I prefer the SAFe (Scaled Agile) approach to estimation and planning over the common Scrum approaches.

Doing the bulk of your planning during a 2-3 day PI Planning event lets a lot of people dive into a few things, preparing an estimate for the coming quarter, mapping dependencies across teams, lining them up with other planned work and outlining risks to the plan. Then the developers get to explain the plan to upper management, discuss any potential revisions and get moving...with everyone on the same page.

This also keeps any estimation beyond the current quarter firmly in the realm of subject-to-change.

That's the most critical part of it. Tech people and business people being out of alignment on expectations is where everything goes sideways and all of the friction comes from.

Out of all of the methodologies I've come across in my career, this is the only approach I've seen that really balances development realities with a level of "enough" future planning to help business people make informed decisions.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27606039
> By uploading your content to GitHub, you’ve granted them a license to use that content to “improve the Service over time”, as specified in the ToS.

That's nonsense because they could claim that for almost any reason.

E.g. assume Google put the source code of Google search in Github. Then Github copies that code and uses it in their own search, since that "improves the service". Would that be legal?

It's like selling a pen and claiming the rights to anything written with it.
Corporations like Facebook and Google do far more surveillance of any citizen than the government does. Surveillance capitalism. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/03/harvard-profe...

Russia surveilles its citizens mostly any way it wants. The US government has more controls (as long as the US remains a democracy.) The Church Committee actually made real reforms.

And sadly, everything that Snowden writes now is approved by the Russian intelligence services. You can decide how that influences what you think of his writing.
As a French-speaking brit who's been on a tech course in France, tech discourse in French is pretty challenging. Sure, most individual French techs speak very good English. But "ordinateurs", reseaux", "bases de donnees" - I should have got myself a decent tech French/English dictionary. Schoolboy French doesn't cut it in tech.
Tsai Ing-wen does not believe that.
more intuitive??? for me both are far beyond my brain's intuition

it's a quite active area of research even tho it's more than a 100 yo, check gr-qc on arxiv
> The requirements aren’t being used internally as a strict pass/fail criteria before anyone is considered for the position.

Then they are mislabeled as "minimum requirements." They must be relabeled as "preferred requirements."
Better invest in some solar panels and AC. You can heat your home using AC in the winter, saving a lot of money in winter.

My electric+gas bill dropped from 280€ to €130. I pay 56€ a month for the loan on the solar panels (loan by “stimulingsfonds”, which is a 1,6% annual interest loan you can use for stuff like solar panels)

The ACs did cost me 8000€ but they cover most of the house. Only a few weeks in winter I need fire up my central heating because the AC can’t heat enough.

Given the investment needed for the ACs, it’s not actually cheaper (the ROI is about the same as the 10 year expected lifespan) but… I have AC in most of the house
I would interpret that as a face-saving way for the HR person to say: you're too good to work here, and will feel alienated and alone surrounded by comparative mediocrity and incompetence. Then, as a cherry on top, they demonstrated the truth of the implicit assertion.

In the end, I'd say that HR person did your brother a solid.
Most master's degrees, and degrees in general, are going to females, so if they're trying to filter for males then they aren't doing a good job.
Same. Anything that plugs in, has batteries, or goes in my family's mouths is a no go for me now.

I'm pretty much down to a few books, video games, and obscure fasteners/hardware/tools (which annoyingly they're just about the only good source for).
Which part? I think it gets grosser near the Redlands since you get the mugginess of the glades + less cooling from the ocean. Late July through early August can stabilize around 95, maybe 20% of the days were like that when I lived in Homestead, FL. The other days around that time like 85-92 F w/ 80% humidity.

But I guess you're right -- I've had friends heat stroke after 2-3 hrs of unshaded exposure when it hits ~92+ i.e. soccer pickup games. Shade will carry you a long way, even without AC though -- I have extended family in La Guajira that still lives like this.
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Security through obscurity is only really effective when your company/brand is also obscure.

But at least there are no zero days to worry about..
If that is the effect you are going for, would wearing a camelback water bladder have a similar effect? It has slightly less surface area to interface with your body, but you can carry a much larger amount of water.