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> Whats the most you can make at government job?

If we were serious about fixing this problem, existing federal pay scale constraints would not be a barrier to entry.

Legislation could be passed yesterday that would add arbitrary pay scales for special purposes such as these. Attach an AWS architect salary to a government job and I think you will immediately find the skill gap filled. Bonus points if you put incentive structures in the employee contracts so that the brilliant minds are directly incentivized to deliver, rather than via proxy of their lobbying container organization.
There was user & supervisor security (code that she had developed for another system). It included backup of code and databases.

What was shown wasn't a demo - it was a full implementation. It was rolled into production weeks after the first showing and AFAIK is still in use 20 years later.

What is there other than "getting things done" (that is, other than bitching about it)?
Your comment definitely implies that Audacity records mouse movements and is a keylogger. I encourage you to read and adhere to the HN guidelines[1], especially when using vague language to suggest things that are false and then reacting in an incredibly abrasive manner when called out on it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What's the tradeoff between "delete all state in the world with 100% certainty" and "be able to choose any next state of the world with (100-epsilon)% certainty"?
Mainly I am in control of it, not a company that may or may not have access to what you are doing.

For example, that company may not be able to see your passwords. But they probably can see the servers/sites the passwords are for and maybe the hash.

I will not even speak about all the break-ins that seem to be occurring on CLoud Systems.
If the runtime is no longer maintained then it is of course it is a problem (I'm from the Unix world and don't know if classic ASP is still supported by the vendor). We cannot say that a system as a whole is well maintained if it's dependencies are not.
Yes I know. It’s a solve operator…it’s equivalent to division only in the infinite precision world.

The \ operator differs from the / operator in that it doesn’t compute an inverse … it solves the system of equations. Solver algorithms are more numerically stable ( in that you’re much less likely to have large errors due to wacky input data).
So Project Veritas is ok too. Cool, Glad you can agree on that.
Climate change includes a range of outcomes ranging from “terrible for agriculture and many species but possibly survivable” to “mass extinction”. We’re already seeing some of the “mild” effects in the form of crop underperformance in the Middle East and wildfires all over the world. Many of the worst outcomes have to do with tipping points that we don’t fully understand, some of which seem to be breaking against us.

TL;DR climate change isn’t necessarily an extinction-level event. It is just possibly an extinction level event. I would argue that if you’re looking at it and saying “meh” then you’re not assessing risks properly.
If it gets substantially easier to build a startup over the next five to ten years, in terms of the amount of hours it takes to get an MVP into production, then it stands to reason that the hit rate from platforms like this is going to increase. If you think that Moore's Law is going to more or less holds throughout the decade, I think it's a prescient bet.
using LinearAlgebra, SparseArrays
N = 10
D1 = sparse(Tridiagonal(ones(N-1),-2ones(N),ones(N-1)))
Id = sparse(I,N,N)
A = kron(D1,Id) + kron(Id,D1)

You just use the Kronecker product to build the matrix in the different directions. This, along with the relationship to convolutional neural networks, is described in the MIT 18.337 course notes: https://mitmath.github.io/18337/lecture14/pdes_and_convoluti...
I appreciate what you are saying, but it is again just repeating why Ada is better than Rust. I posit that's irrelevant to this discussion. Rust is a safety centered language that seems to have champions and a growing community around it. Can we not just be happy that finally a safety conscious language has a following? If you are convinced Ada is better, nobody is stopping you from being the champion and building the Ada ecosystem. Right now, Ada is for all intents and purposes invisible both in terms of libraries, mindshare and hype.
It's already obvious where we failed. Companies that don't care about sales won't sell, companies that don't care about R&D won't stay up to date, and companies that address IT liability by getting a bunch of forms filled out that don't have anything to do with information security won't be secure.
"The original article detailed how it took 15 years to find the origin of SARS, and China was secretive with that, too". Wrt SARS, other animals in the wild were identified as mostly asymptomatic carriers long before scientists found that bat cave. Not so with COVID
Perhaps! I've heard of those agencies but not looked at that project.

I guess its "cloud.gov" vs "cloud.mil".
Yes full QA and Prod environments should provide coverage for most cases in which you would not need to setup a database on each test run.
I did not consent to being talked to by a stranger earlier today. I did not consent to any replies on this comment that might follow. I did not consent to the music from my neighbour this afternoon. I did not consent to being barked at by my other neighbour's dog yesterday. I did not consent to a list of things longer than I care to name.

It's all about expectations: consent for everything is unworkable.

Equating some basic telemetry to rape is idiotic and offensive.
Thanks. I think I just found a new comic to read.
Hero's Hour – TBS with large scale real-time fantasy battles
Oh sorry! Must have been a copy-paste failure.
C is a smaller language on some axes. That's not necessarily a good thing.

Looking at the following function definition, can you figure out how to use it safely?

int foo(char* text, char* out,
char* s, char* x);

If you were to have the same signature in Rust, it would look more like the following:

fn foo(
text: String,
out &mut String,
s: &str,
x: &mut str,
) -> i32;

Now it is clearer that foo is responsible for getting rid of the allocation corresponding to text, which is on the heap. out can be modified and potentially reallocated. s is read only and it won't be deallocated by foo. x might be mutated in-place by foo, but it won't be deallocated.

Having a more "complex" way to represent in the typesystem something that C only bothers to call "a pointer" makes things better: safer, easier to skim, explore and understand an API, and allows the compiler to catch API misuses.
I have sometimes high blood pressure. 5-10 minutes of slow focused breathing almost always bring it down from "you may need to see a doctor" to "maybe think about possibly getting some regular cardio". It's amazing. The only other thing that does it as much is alcohol, and that has a number of negative side effects later.
Multimedia editing, especially video, is what kills you there. Not so much from an OS perspective. You can do a minimalist container Linux install but in terms of the resources you need on the system.
The greenhouse effect is due to radiation being trapped by the environment, atmospheric or otherwise - not the increased CO2. And while greenhouses may have artificially increased CO2 to improve plant growth it's accompanied with nitrogen fertilizer. The global increase in CO2 will only see a minor increase in plant growth but will be capped by limited nitrogen, and the hotter environment and associated increase in water evaporation will lead to reduced plant growth.
Does dynamically linking to libgccjit.so trigger the GPL requirements for the linking code?

Yes, the GPL triggers if you distribute programs that merely link against a thusly licensed library - at least that's the intention.

Full disclosure, there are people who disagree with the FSF's interpretation, arguing that merely linking to a library doesn't necessarily create a derivative work. I don't know if that has ever been tested in a court of law...
Author here -- No, I have never been a particular fan of action movies. I find them pretty boring; they're perhaps the worst offenders in the "all movies are the same" category.
How a Soviet miner helped create today’s intense corporate workplace culture
Huge upvotes for this. The book isn't just about learning, it's about how our minds really work - as opposed to how we think they work.

It's as useful for insights into practical intelligence as it is for theory-of-teaching.
> I encourage you to read and adhere to the HN guidelines[1], especially when using vague language to suggest things that are false and then reacting in an incredibly abrasive manner when called out on it.

I was. I had a rude version in mind, believe me. My post is very short and the sentence-diagrams not particularly complex, as far as I can tell.

[EDIT] frankly, the "nicer" ways I could think of to say it all felt passive-aggressive as hell no matter how carefully worded, so I stuck with simple and direct. Re-reading the post was apt, respectful advice.
First, what makes a book any less of a "passive-type" entertainment option? It is basically the same as a movie or tv show in that regard - you're not creating anything, you're consuming content.

Second, I'm not sure why you think that you get diminishing returns from fantasy, but not from reading biographies. The biggest problem with both is that you start by reading the best books, but eventually you can run out of those. After you've read the 10 best biographies or 10 best fantasy novels, if you continue, you're necessarily going to read 10 lesser books. [1]

Third, it's absolutely true that after reading a bunch of biographies, you start getting used to certain standard tropes and ways of writing.

Notes:
[1]
There is of course no real definitive list of best books, as it's highly individual, and it's hard to know ahead of time which books are the best for you so as you keep reading you can always find more gems. Still, as you read more of a genre, you'll tend to gradually work your way to works that have less chance of being good (though reading a new genre allows you to "restart" this process somewhat, and the more you read, the better you might get about finding good books... so there are ways to mitigate this effect.)
Those are quotes from the respective companies.
My understanding is that this is a much bigger issue, because the leaded pipes would calcify naturally, forming a barrier coating between the lead and water
Saying there's "no possibility" of something is a religious statement, not a scientific one. You should try to reframe that in terms of probabilities.
I think Ben Franklin beat us all to the joke... as usual.
I agree that GPA is useful as a binary indicator—if it’s abominably low, like a 2.0 in your example, it’s a red flag. But a 4.0 is no more predictive of being a good hire than, say, a 3.3. It’s also very school-dependent. Some places inflate grades a lot more than others.

In my own anecdotal experience, I omitted my GPA entirely from my CV when looking for jobs straight out of college and got interviews at every single place I applied. It’s not nearly as important as a lot of people think.
That's not the argument. Nobody's pretending that propositional logic can decide this. It's a question of how to weight empirical evidence. Some people think it's relevant that a new coronavirus emerged next door to a lab working on new coronaviruses, especially since concerns had been raised about unsafe conditions there.
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You ever watch Judge Judy? She says quite often "If you tell the truth you don't have to have a good memory."
I don't really think it's a case of CEOs good, R&D bad.

I think it's more of a case of CEOs not taking no for an answer for mission critical funding. I've been on the chain for many VC connections, and in the room for maybe twenty pitches. In almost all cases a slightly neuroatypical CEO has carpet bombed sources of funding with genuine letters requesting meetings. The process often takes 6-8 months from initial contact to follow-ups, to actually getting a reply, to setting an in-person meeting, then discussing next-steps, referrals, etc.

VCs aren't an API; they're VERY busy people. Make sure they know you're committed.
We do security audits for a living.

In a nut shell, here's why things are so screwed up IMHO:

1) Most of these companies have had audits, but they're being done by 3rd rate or very inexperienced external consultants.

2) The companies limit the scope of the tests. Real hackers don't give a shit about your scope of work, they have no rules, only goals.

3) Even when a test is properly done the exec management looks for silver bullet product solutions instead of changing across people/process/technology

My company solves #1, but we can't do anything about #2 or #3 :-/
And that's the real rub of it.

I don't know what I don't know, but I also don't know where to get that knowledge, so a reasonable first step is to investigate the people pushing "self-help" methods.

From there you can often learn the right keywords to get a foot in the door with someone knowledgeable and have them actually tell you something useful rather than just taking your money and sending you on your way.
Designers and programmers seem to have a blind spot for the "I'm not interested" idea. I've pushed this for 15 years whenever I can in products we make, and literally no one gets it (I call it the "Sucks" button). What would make Netflix browsing, or any search result list, way better? Getting to go down the list and quickly say "Sucks. Sucks. Sucks."

The usual counter-point is "What will people do if they change their minds later?", which makes me tear my hair out.
Yes it can, so I wonder if the double length offsets that.

I would assume that assuming an attacker knows that it is nonce Finnish, that he would be able to craft a specific algorithm that is faster than 32 random character for specifically this, but that in practice if he not know that with all modern approaches it is æquivalent to attempting to bruteforce 32 characters, giving priority to letters and vowels, especially with the inclusion of <ä> and <ö>.
> there is no meaning to all this order

This resonates (for lack of a better term) with me so much.

I recommend reading the book of Ecclesiastes. The author's frequent refrain is "'Vanity of vanities', says the Preacher, 'all is vanity.'"

You're right, chaos is a useless word. I've often tried to describe it as emptiness or worthlessness or a lack of intrinsic (self-contained) value. That is the efforts of my life are motes of dust in the history of the universe. The affect I have is empty, gone, "dust in the wind" as one artist puts it.

I guess looking at a well organized array of widgets does not exude meaning. Those, too, are meaningless without context. I mentioned in another comment that the universe itself does not contain the context into which it was created and that context -- I believe -- is where the true meaning and value of everything arises.

A tool is useless without the mechanic to use it. Clay is formless, void (meaningless) without a craftsman to shape it, fire it, and put it to use.
Comedy is way too broadly defined. Maybe my definition of comedy is too narrow, but I at least expect to laugh out loud during a comedy once in a while. Too many comedies lately just reach for the "cynicism" and "dark comedy" tools rather than genuinely make you laugh. Another thread put it better: We need more slapstick. We need more irreverence. We need a modern Mel Brooks or David Zucker / Leslie Nielsen combo to come back and show moviegoers how to totally run out of breath laughing again. Be able to poke fun at people, or companies, or institutions, or at least something outside of politics, and not worry so much about the Twitter mob sharpening their knives.
Currying visual nodes that way is an amazing idea! Did it just come about naturally as you were building out the higher level language aspects? Most visual UIs choke if everything isnt fully wired up.
> 2. What that's going to do to ecosystems is largely unknown

This is true, but is also a bit of a red herring. All hierarchical organizations from the individual to the country is optimized to the environmental condition they are situated in, and any level of uncertainty at that scope should alarming in of itself.

Just two examples of our optimization and as a consequence, our lack of resiliency to disturbance: Suez Canal and the Ever Given, chip shortage, cargo container mis-allocation in shipping that is happening at the moment.

If the poster boy of efficiency, the market is so easily impacted, what do you think will happen to lumbering and lethargic political institutions that we like to rail about so much?
Whoever is responsible for the filter words probably knew what they were doing.
No. Rust jobs are a niche - not even 0.1 % of the jobs out there. Most jobs are in frontend, mobile or standard business backends. So Java, C#, Python or Go are much better choices regarding job prospects and going to be for a long time to come.

For fun and interest? Why not?
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I’ve been in software a long time and I’ve had to navigate the gpl and it derivatives the entire time. I primarily work in games and I’ve run into a lot of issues with gpl along my career. For most of my career lawyers dictate what is and isn’t acceptable for software licenses and gpl is always the biggest issue. Which gpl license? Is there a single license holder? I feel the gpl was enacted with good intentions, but I feel the wrong people enacted it. Too radical in many ways, too restrictive, and so aggressively enforced that it at least makes using gpl libraries a hard decision.

I think that open source projects, that aren’t gpl, have proved that you can build software and still money from it. Godot, React, Chromium, and Node to name a few. Active development is worth much more than the actual code and encouraging your users to contribute back without the cost of giving away their product has allowed these and similar projects to grow.

I think ID would have had a similar experience had they gone with a different license.
In my late 20s the stream of unrelated thoughts slowed down some, but it has always been similar for me. I assimilate a lot of surface level things quickly and am always doing a lot of different things... and after several passes and refactorings things start approaching a good state. Amusingly, forcing myself to use tests in places has been very helpful as it helps me back into problems in a more constructive way pretty often. I have always had a very iterative approach to building software. I can definitely make myself work on things now. I don't think I was ever at the extreme end of the ADHD spectrum, but still pretty far along it. I have always struggled to finish things that don't have a deadline of some external factors forcing me to finish them. My periods of productivity are always extremely productive and seem to cover weeks of unproductivity, I have always managed my career pretty successfully. I transitioned to consulting about 15 years ago which was pretty good for me. A lot of different and smaller challenges as opposed to big rocks to move.
If it's a placebo effect then we should not consider long covid to be an important aspect of the vaccine strategy.

I don't think it's a placebo so much as just typical persistent flu symptoms and people misattributing other problems to their COVID case.

Which is not to regurgitate the meme about covid just being the flu, but if your body is weak and fights off a problematic disease, its not crazy that it takes a long time to heal fully. My original point, poorly worded, was mostly that if you're reducing hospitalizations, you're going to reduce long covid. It's not a mysterious orthogonal effect.
As a Canadian and a French citizen, America definitely has this puritan streak of trying to be the best person you can be - or the purest you can be. Work harder, drink less, exercise more, etc.

My French grandparents lived until they were 100, were perfectly content, had 8 kids, ate great food during long meals and drank lots of wine. I don't think they jogged a day in their lives.
CO2 isn't the only metric to look at to determine if plants can grow or not in a given environment...

Rainfall pattern/acidity, humidity, average temperatures, extreme temperatures, animals living the the area (providing nutrients through body waste and decomposition), insect population, &c. are all factors, and most of these factors are interdependent

Trees, like animal, migrate, this migration isn't a matter of months, or years, but centuries, since the lifecycles of trees are very long and their locomotion speed is ... limited

If plant kept up with our co2 production we wouldn't get a graph like this when we look at atmospheric co2 level: https://www.climate.gov/sites/default/files/CO2_emissions_vs...

Arguing that "the greenhouse is good because we get more plants" is extremely reductive, and factually wrong
How do we know that? Would we even know if they were?
If you say black with capital B, is that OK?
Any talk of a SQL database offering? The KV is awesome but there are times when a relational database is a way better fit.

E.g. I'd love to be able to deploy a full blown Elixir/Phoenix/Postgres app to Cloudflare Workers.
Best of luck! I spent most of my twenties using all the cash I had on travelling. I don't regret it at all, but some of my friends showed me their retirement accounts recently and I'm definitely a little concerned.

I'd love if North America would get behind the 4 day work week. I might even make a category for employers offering that.
C encourages simplicity.

Code is either clear and simple, or extremely obscure and safe, or kinda in between is complicated but not complicated enough such that its not safe.

"Simplicate and add lightness" aerospace mentality people like C.

At some point any project expected to do ever more complicated tasks, like a kernel, will be unable to use simple C and will have to take the hit of a more complicated language.

Simple is good when matched to simple tasks; my microwave oven or TV should ideally never data network with the external world and never malloc memory and never do string processing. C makes an amazing toaster or car automatic transmission controller.
Joy Reid regularly does the same. [0][1][2]

[0] https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/06/24/joy_reid_...

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/joy-reid-fact-check-tapper-1546432

[2] https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/4/27/17286392/j...
The pandemic is estimated to have cost the world >$16 trillion already. Now politicians are telling us we will have to live with it forever.

For that price, we literally could have paid every human on earth $2,000 to shelter in place for 4 weeks.