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I'm personally pissed I went Mechanical Engineering at this point. Original plan was to go Mechanical Engineering bachelor's and Electrical Engineering masters.

In the end, the pay for both of those careers is kinda complete shit for what you do to get the degree, unless you manage to happily completely bullshit yourself through everything and don't let it weigh on your conscience.

SWE is... arguably easier than both Mech E and Elec E in my mind, and the option for remote work has always been much, much higher. And the starting pay is... about 2.5x more, at a minimum, to begin with - and if you want to be a dick, and know how to interview FAANG and the like, you can hop company to company, do basically nothing and make that pay for 4-6 months before you're found out. And not to mention the benefits...

I can't understand why there's not more of an outrage. It's insane. I simply can't tell any high schooler that an engineering degree outside of SWE, and maybe a highly focused aerospace degree, is worth it for the foreseeable future.
The smart company goes along with the conspiracy but records everything and then they rat and turn over the evidence. They screw employees and their competitors and get exempted from the fine. In theory, they could collect a portion of the fines that their competition pays as whistleblower comp.
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Isn't the binary search here taken as the whole tree, spanning multiple nodes? Each time we follow a pointer we are discarding a huge swath of the tree.

In a single node, a linear search is probably better, yes.
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Also, in bracket events, the bronze medalists won their last match while the silver medalists lost their's.
When will cars have these interfaces? Both tactile but also dynamic in appearance?
Might be a novelty effect there. We all tend to like new foods if we eat one food too much.
To be fair most middle management isn’t as well compensated as software developers are. A director at a Fortune 500 is pulling down $200-250k, which is equivalent to about an E6 at big Internet natives.

That said, to those who create the value go the spoils, so it’s not at all wrong. The middle managers just get a little frustrated and wish they were still software devs.
I wonder how it looks if you consider all the companies running on AWS and the engineers that only use AWS. 1 out of 153 working for Amazon, but I guess what I'm wondering is how many depend on AWS.
At least you can be sure that the deed was not forgotten, someone higher likely took credit for it.
To be fair, someone else made a bug that cost that much. I don't think you want to be in the business of getting a say 20% of revenue from big fixes, but also get 20% of revenue from bug creation? Or hey maybe you do, you could try to get that in your next contract.
All the people I talk to in the Tel Aviv scene are glad they are able to pay these salaries. They choose to hire people from Israel because they believe they have strategic value for their companies and that on-site communication is vital for their success. Many companies in Israel hire remote workers as well. There is room for everybody.
Worth mentioning all the major news outlets in Israel regularly broadcast items about huge exists and IPOs of Israeli companies and ads for hiring tech workers are aired in prime time and plastered all around town
How Tech Won the Pandemic and Now May Never Lose
It has completely broken the housing market in Nice, France.

Now most rental contracts are "student contracts" basically allowing you to rent from September to June.

This means finding a year-long contract has become almost impossible for any reasonable price.
Class is defined based on lifestyle, not statistics. The average income in the US is nowhere near enough to sustain a middle class lifestyle.
Yes. It is. I developed a form of eczema after too much and had to manage that. Cereve/Cetaphil and better duration management became my friend.
I’m torn badly with Amazon. After read The Everything Store, and what has been written all over the place, Jeff Bezos is a massive turd. Employees are horribly treated, wages suppressed, and all sorts of terrible and abusive practices.

Then it comes time for me to buy something. I needed a new pair of size 14 sneakers. I drove to Adidas, Footlocker, dicks, and a few other stores but I just couldn’t justify $100 sneakers that didn’t look like prison issued.

Opened my Amazon app in my car after leaving the crowded mall, and find what appear to be a decent pair of shoes. FakeSpot agreed with the reviews, and I bought then for $35. They will arrive tomorrow.

That kind of convenience is terribly addicting. I haven’t figured out the solution, but I remember what it was like when Walmart came to town, put others out of business, mistreated employees, etc. We were unable to stop it then, how the heck are we going to stop it now?

So aside from “just stop buying from Amazon” what can we do ?
It just so happens that employees are more divided than ever on "social justice" / identity issues. We are on a wild wild ride.
That's why I think there should be two silver medals, immediately given to the winner of two semi-finals.

If you think about any sport with a one-on-one final, the silver medal is for the loser of that final. But the same team/athlete won a semi-final and were probably excited when they did. So just hand them the medal at that point.

Things are a tad more complicated for tournaments with 3+n finalists. But I have the feeling that being the second-fastest out of ten sprinters is not a bad thing.
For another example, here's the president of the Seattle Mariners bragging to a rotary club meeting about how their team's payroll was as low as it gets, how they get more than they deserve out of their TV deal, how they brazenly manipulate young players' in their minor-league teams to avoid starting the clock on their service contracts (basically the baseball equivalent of "my startup is offering stock options to justify low salaries, but we're going to dilute/fundraise at higher liquidation preference/prevent them from reaching the exercise price/terminate the employees before they vest so they don't cost us anything!"). He says that a particular veteran player and team leader is expensive, so they're going to fire him at the end of the season, another player from Japan doesn't speak English well and he wants to get rid of his interpreter. He brags that there's not enough parking, so he can get away with charging $30, $40, $50 to park in his tiny little parking garage, and he makes his employees park on the other side of town in a bad neighborhood.

https://youtu.be/zBg8_44uDZ0

It's one thing to observe that people may rationalize the decisions that benefit themselves personally. Sure, it would be unexpected for the CEO to decide "We don't pay our employees enough", but you'd like to have a veneer of justification for the cut. You can imagine their subconscious pushing them towards the conclusion that they're incentivized to reach. It's another to hear them literally say the quiet part out loud.
Congrats, you’re in the 0.0001% of youtube users who actually does that
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>Do you know how long it takes to save for a downpayment on $150k?

Tell me you live in the Bay Area without telling me you live in the Bay Area. Snark aside, unless you have massive debt, live in an expensive metro area (SF, LA, NYC), or a combination of both, if you can't save up a sizeable down payment while earning $150k then that issue is on you.
When AWS sneeze we all cough hard.
"Although we find no evidence the saliency model explicitly encodes male gaze, in cases where the model crops out a woman’s head in favor of their body due to a jersey or lettering, the chosen crop still runs the risk of representational harm for women. In these instances, it is important to remember that users are unaware of the details of the saliency model and the cropping algorithm. Regardless of the underlying mechanism, when an image cropped to a woman’s body area is viewed on social media, due to the historical hyper-sexualization and objectification of women’s bodies, the image runs this risk of being instilled with the notion of male gaze."

"Point multipliers are applied for those harms that particularly affect marginalized communities since Twitter’s goal is to responsibly and equitably serve the public conversation."

I'm sure Twitter is just responding to the controversy from Fall of 2020 and doing due diligence to address the problem. However, how do you award a bounty for addressing "risk of representational harm" due to historical biases not inherent in the model? Genuine question here and one I'm always curious about. Seems difficult if not impossible.
I am vaccinated, but I don't understand this reaction to the unvaccinated.

Unless the commenter above is much older than typical HN demographics, if they get covid they will likely get a cold and then be fine. This the overwhelmingly most likely outcome.

The idea that catching this disease is some great event is just media conditioning.

For the vast majority of people it is a cold. Sometimes it's a bad cold. You know, like the kind we used to get every few months in the before times?
Yes, the issue is getting access to the full Content ID dashboard requires at least some form of social engineering or pressure to make it seem like you have enough of a media library/client base to warrant access to the tool.
Not sure if you are familiar with Tunisia but this is particularly very sound advice. I got out of the capital a few months ago because where my family lives is kind of tribal. I used to live alone in some neighborhood and although it is nice, nobody really knows anybody.

Of course, it could be the case that the OP already lives near his family or maybe doesn't have one. In which case, it might help but only a little.
>>I should unpack them and then rearchive them into a single flat encrypted archive.

Which is a duplicity full back up (that one would normally do once a month or so).

Deduplication is an additional potential point of failure.
What's interesting to me is I thought at first that maybe the only reason this won was because California is one of the few states where non-competes are illegal (this being a form of de-facto non-compete.) Then I read the link and saw that even the Feds (US DOJ) found their practices worth investigating and acting on.

Still, it's weird to think about it. I live in a state where my First Senior role in 2015 paid less than the Cali mandated wage for a basic 'Software Engineer' at the time.
Being in a place where you can see the structure of the Milky Way very much feels like one is part of the Universe. There is stuff out there, it has structure, color and form. When the stars disappear, so does our sense of place.

There is so much we don't know, and so much of what we do as humans is arbitrage to trade something away from someone before they know what they have. Or to sell something only accounting for one dimension of value or worth.
> Is this a joke? Do you have any professional iOS experience?

Let’s just say that I can build a view controller for a large, multi-sectioned list where each section calls a different APIs and shows items with different layouts, and still end up with less than 500 lines of VC code even with generous line breaking. Oh, and I can make custom UICollectionView layouts with self-sizing headers and cells.

That said, your comment is just ad hominem and you should be downvoted to oblivion.
I was going to say, I've looked at local statistics before for my area and found out the city and local municipalities have a ton of employees. Typically the biggest employer in your city is going to be your city, possibly your county.
I was late 20's in the Daria time frame. Yet, as I noted in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28011399, I liked that enough that years later I torrented all the episodes and binge-watched a good bunch of it. The concept and the characters are good. It's an "artifact of cultural significance".
You may not be able to tell Google directly, but uBlacklist works reasonably well and has regular expression support so you can block all TLDs. I added

/pinterest\..*/

and here's the (lack of) results when I google image search "pinterest fish": https://i.imgur.com/pMQ2JQK.png

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublacklist/
The issue of principle is on how the jigsawing clause would be applied. It does seem similarly has ambiguous test like "I Know it when I see it" Justice Steward wrote for threshold obscenity in Jacobellis v. Ohio [1]

Yes, U.K. courts are not in general prosecuting for media contempt ( first case in 50 years?). Relying on the discretion of the court not to prosecute is not the same as having precedence on what extent a report can be interpreted as jigsawing a injunction. "Journalists" (the appeal seems to regard him as second class one at best) shouldn't depend on that fact that courts generally will not prosecute them, Shouldn't they know with some certainty when they are in the clear ?

[1] The problem is this is a subjective interpretation, I should also know it the same as the justice would do to make sure I am on the right side of the law ? This was later replaced by Miller test and that established some guidelines to go by.
This made me think of "Liquid Television", where Beavis and Butthead made their first appearances on MTV. There's probably an interesting rabbit-hole to go down re: finding copies of those old shows. There are definitely some pieces that I'd like to see again. (I still find myself saying "You love to bowl" monotonously from time-to-time.)
I would argue it's the C-suite execs that are overpaid. Their decisions are meant to be at a high-level, impesonal and focused on the finaincial well-being of the corporation. ironically that would make their work very easy to automate with AI. In other words... a robot could do his job.
> I've always assumed engineers (myself included) write code to the best of their abilities to solve a given problem at the time.

In your own personal project, I'd probably agree. But in my experience in a work project there can often be imposed deadlines or project changes that result in engineers writing code that they themselves know is suboptimal even at the time.

In other words, the sort of change that might include a comment like "I know this isn't the best way to do this but don't have time to do it the best way right now." It's not the best I can do overall, but it's the only thing I'm able to do for whatever reason. That's the kind of thing I'd call tech debt.
See also TechCrunch article about this:

US government watchdog rejects Blue Origin’s protest over lunar lander contract

https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/30/government-watchdog-reject...

Related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27960672
That is an excellent question, I hope someone studies this in the future. The best I can offer is this study on flu vaccines that seem to show that annual repeated uptake undermine CD4 cell response;"We find a striking disparity in their responses, with previously vaccinated subjects exhibiting significantly blunted CD4 T-cell responses and diminished antibody responses." (1) I know they are different viruses etc, but it is something to consider in light of the previous mentioned study and also all what seems to be going on with CDC.

1. https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiz433
In the Three Body Problem, the naughty aliens break reproducibility in particle accelerator experiments; they start giving random results. So we're good for now.
I would argue it's the C-suite execs that are overpaid. Their decisions are high-level, impesonal and focused on the finaincial well-being of the corporation. Ironically that would make their work very easy to automate with AI. In other words... a robot could do his job.
> We just received $230MM in funding

Money is falling from the sky on even the most trivial idea in someone's head, so by definition nobody can be getting too much pay. SV and american tech is crazy overvalued compared to the whole rest of the world, i don't know if this will end up good or bad.

This guy is talking about Israeli tech companies, and he s right, israel can't print unlimited money the way the US can and can't afford to sustain a bubble
This is one of the things I find most annoying about the Olympics. Oh you spend billions on useless frivolous things. And then the literal gold medal is fake.
I live in NJ. I can't afford a house with a $200k+ salary because every house that's even half-way decent is either outside my price range or is bought up in cash above asking price.

Must be nice to be so cushioned from reality.
I've seen it. It's a decent effort, but doesn't live up to the original.

But then again, I'm not sure our current times even allow that kind of humor anymore.
I've found two major benefits with yarn. First is package install time, like others have said it's an order of magnitude faster for projects I've worked on.

Second is a little more niche in running a Linux image on Windows host via Vagrant/Virtualbox. Out of the box symlinks won't work so bin files often fail. I would also run into file locks when running npm install on larger projects often, to the point where I was having to run it 5-10x before everything would finish installing. You can instruct Vagrant to offer some support (setextradata VBoxInternal2/SharedFoldersEnableSymlinksCreate/v-root 1), or set an environment variable to key on and update any scripts to use --no-bin-links, but it's flaky in my experience. I never found a solution to the file locks with npm.

I installed yarn on a whim on that setup and have yet to have any of those issues with it.
While it seems easy to us, that's survivor bias. Turns out not everybody can learn to program well enough to do it for money.
The Itanium wasn't just designed as a workstation CPU it was designed to be superior to existing high-end systems and then over time with volume be the eventual x86 replacement. The business case for itanium didn't work as a workstation cpu.

>>Intel and HP show up promising a clean sheet design in a decade doesn't seem like a time to roll up your market leading offering and go home.

They didn't roll up so much as have their existing market disappear. SGI, DEC and Compaq were dead. Sparc and Power gradually transitioned away from any workstation offering to servers.
Thank you! Yes, absolutely. Some of our candidate peptides impact bacteria across the spectrum and we are in the process of evaluating effects on viruses, specifically because the vaginal infections predispose patients to other secondary viral infections, and increased rates of HIV acquisition. In terms of benefits over other emerging therapies, we are focused on the safety aspect to the host and importantly, selectivity (differentiation between pathogenic and commensal bacteria), so that return to homeostasis is fast(er). Btw, I'm a fan of phages. But per our particular application, we belive it is best to move a bit away from "precision" as vaginosis and the umbrella of secondary infections are polymicrobial to a great extent.
Exactly. Encrypt with a simple utility, and write down the password and store in a safe place and let someone know. In my case, I have a friend who is very technical and I can trust to assist my spouse (who is not technical) with some items if need be. Part of my hand-written instructions are his phone number/email, and to call him if there are issues decrypting or restoring data.
> In this case, the consumer is being confused into thinking the film is about Amanda Knox

Are they? As I understand it, the name was not used in marketing, only mentioned once in an interview about where the story inspiration came from.
I guess that explains the pro-diversity corporate agenda.
>It might be easy these days with the amount of edgy cartoons that exist now to forget back then, there really wasn't any.

You're talking about shows up to twenty years removed from Bakshi cartoons like Fritz the Cat or his eighties Mighty Mouse show. The Simpsons and such definitely popularized the medium, but it didn't create it.

>Shortly before that we had 'the Dungeons and Dragons' scares and it was the time of the violent video game and explicit music crackdowns.

There is always content that is slightly edgier that conservatives freak out over. Some outraged people didn't disrupt cable, cable embraced the cartoons and pushed things further with things like the creation of Adult Swim.
Don’t you need to lay on it first? I’ve avoided beds like Casper because it’s an inconvenience if I don’t like it. Gotta lay on the couch.
Fun fact: the name of the service AWS Sumerian comes from Snow Crash!
"Ren and Stimpy" predates "Beavis and Butthead" by a couple of years (at least the full "Beavis and Butthead" show-- the shorts may well be older).

The original "Aeon Flux" shorts on Liquid Television had an aesthetic that was just creepy to me. Definitely a horror aspect.
Silly police. This noise actually signifies jubilation and support for the General Secretary of the CCP; it's just a cultural difference between HK and the mainland.
Eh, it's hinted at, pretty early on. If you knew there were aliens in the book, I don't think it's THAT huge a spoiler.
Oh, excellent, thanks for the link! I still want to do this myself, but am now pretty wary of building a GC in Rust...
Stop being a slave to your addictions and form some principles. Come on.
https://smallbiztrends.com/2015/05/fraudulent-dmca-takedown-...

The part of the DMCA that requires paying out compensation for knowingly issuing false claims is rarely used.
In 2015 or 2016, I setup a G-Suite (or whatever they called it back then) account for myself, the purpose was simply using Gmail with my own domain. So it was basically a "business" account with a single user, and I paid less than 5 bucks per month. One day I had a problem logging into my account and I submitted a support ticket. A few hours later, I got a call from a support engineer, who was very knowledgable about the underlying tech. He helped me live troubleshooting the issue and fixed it for me (I don't remember what the issue was but it was a user mistake on my end, forgot to toggle a switch or something).

I can't tell how shocking it was to me, because, my employer at the time ran on GCP, and that GCP account once got suspended by their bot due to some violation detection. We believed it was false, but we couldn't, for the life of us, get a human contact to clarify the situation.

Nowadays when I tell people story about my $5 account, no one believes me. Sometimes I couldn't even believe it myself!
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Does that mean any access to these data structures needs an exclusive lock? One advantage to the "path hints" approach described in the article is that the path hints can be stored separately from the btree itself. The author writes:

> For single-threaded programs, it’s possible to use one shared path hint per B-tree for the life of the program.

> For multi-threaded programs, I find it best to use one path hint per B-tree , per thread.

> For server-client programs, one path hint per B-tree, per client should suffice.

Seems likely multiple threads/clients would have different access patterns anyway, so the hints might actually be better this way in addition to more concurrent.

edit: also, this approach feels a lot lighter-weight to me than mutating the tree: I can imagine the mutations involving frequent allocation/deallocation where this hint is just a vector that grows to the maximum depth and stays there.
Why do you think that’s not happening already?