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Depends on what you work on. If you are not on pure tech (a minority of people are), as you get closer to the business you will get insights on how things work, how you can change them, make them better etc. Only part of our job is technical, and without the business knowledge you can't push the world in which you work further. There will be pushback from the "old guard" always, everywhere, as there will be push for the "new thing" always, everywhere. Neither is healthy, and both should be evaluated with a cool head.
>> Japan is still one of the safest and politically the stablest places to live on this godforsaken planet.

>Unfortunately, racism in Japan is rampant.

Any chance that that has something to do with it?
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If esthetics are of utmost importance this Ikea unit will be pleasant, but then again if actually cleaning the air is the priority there is no better device than a simple box fan with a high quality furnace filter taped to it, as CBC Marketplace's laboratory tests confirmed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26101153
Start by listing out the features in a spreadsheet. For each feature, think through it and list out the stories, one per row. Create a section per feature in the spreadsheet (i.e. put a line under each group of rows).

For each story, add an initial estimate (in terms of developer-days). This is your "low" estimate. Now in a second column, add a "high" (potential-but-reasonable "worst case") estimate. If you're looking at more than 10-15 days for either column for a story you should probably break the story up some more.

Now add a 3rd/4th column, which are the low/high estimates multiplied by 1.3 ("fudged low" / "fudged high"). Total up all stories per feature in a row at the bottom of each feature's section. Divide by team size, divide by business days, round up to nearest integer, and you have your calendar weeks for each feature.

When sales/marketing ask you for estimates, you then respond "between X and Y calendar weeks from [completion of previous feature]". Just be aware that they will hear X, so make sure Y is very clearly included in every communication where the dates are being discussed. If "previous feature" slips, make sure to communicate clearly that "next feature" has also pushed back by however many weeks. You'll be tempted to, but don't be optimistic with progress reports or estimates of where you are in the range - undersell and over-deliver, and you'll keep more allies on the business side.
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The 12th episode of Sagan's Cosmos, "Encyclopaedia Galactica", is a classic on this topic.
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> What everyday users? There’s nothing you can do with this stuff except speculate, gamble and build obfuscated Ponzis.

Lie. I can receive payments from my foreign customers in a matter of 30 minutes instead of many days via traditional banking services or Draconian fees line PayPal. I can also safely donate to anti-Putin opposition.
>I am in China currently, but I am as ignorant of the underlying motives behind the crackdowns.

Why search for underlying motives when the overt motivates are clear; Chinese tech companies should 'come home' to mainland capital markets. The script is simple:

1) Ticket X is floated in an NYC-based exchange
2) China announces some regulatory crackdown affecting X, whose valuation falls precipitously
3) X goes private at a fraction of its original valuation
4) X is re-listed Shanghai / Hong Kong
5) The regulatory challenges affecting X miraculously dissipate
> It is actually quite hard to raise the birth rate, Japan has been trying for years

Not...really.

> UN report on Japan's birth rate policy attempts:

And details defects in the specific policies (notably, these defects are, one who is familiar with policies of the type will notice, ways they fall short of the support policies in many European countries that aren't even specifically trying to boost birth rates.)

E.g., a paid family leave policy with low payments and lacking legal force, so many employers haven't actually implemented it.

This is a government making a pro forma show of “doing something” about a problem, not a serious policy effort.
I have a family member who just used a PI to get child support from someone hiding income illegally.

PIs are used to catch cheating spouses, insider trading, theft and corporate espionage.

That doesn't mean PIs or given practices are immune to criticism. However, blunt statements such as "PIs are stalkers for hire" are so sloppy as to be factually incorrect and useless, and comparing them to rapists belays naiveity and an agenda.
> have to be on top of threads in 50 different slack channels every day.

My team established early on that Slack is not intended for real-time discussions. Urgency means a phone call. Anything that needs documented for the future should be in a tool that is less ephemeral. Slack is for watercooler discussions, not actual collaboration... at least, for us.

So no - splitting your attention to Slack is not the new normal, and I'd be worried about a company that does expect such a thing.

My recommendation is to call it out to your team as a problem, and explicitly decide what communication mechanism serves which purpose, and what the expected response times are. FWIW, we decided to expect 2 hour response time to Slack discussions, one day responses to email, and to pick up the phone if someone calls as that implies something more urgent than 2 hours.
If I’m not mistaken I think that some languages with managed effects allow you to do this through types. For example, in Elm HTTP requests have the type of Cmd Msg and the only way to actually have the IO get executed is to pass that Cmd Msg to the runtime through the update function. This means you can easily get visibility, enforced by the type system, into what your dependencies do and restrict dependencies from making http requests or doing other effects.
Yes, but you're not addressing the thrust of the argument. Certainly print shops don't exist in Poland, but that doesn't mean that getting prints done is inconvenient in Poland if you don't have your own printer.

In sufficiently-developed countries like Poland, you don't need print shops, but it's not because "nearly everyone has printer accessible at home or at work." (That's not even true; many people don't have color printers either at home or at work!)

Print shops never existed for the sake of making one print or one copy; the way they made their money was commercial, volume printing. Sign printing; poster printing; flyer printing; etc. "Consumer" printing/copying was always a side-business.

No matter how developed your city, commercial print shops still need to exist, because consumer printers just aren't up to the task of producing thousands of pages per hour, reliably, day-in-day-out; and because there's real labor involved in collating and feeding all that paper. Especially for weird paper shapes that need cutting (e.g. business cards.)

No, the reason Poland doesn't have consumer print shops, is because the commercial printers (and package services) who used to offer walk-in consumer printing as a convenience service, have been out-competed in that space by the lower margins offered by online document/photo print-and-deliver services (who can serve Polish customers from anywhere in the EU very cheaply, and so don't need to have a local presence in Poland.)
A small emergency savings account isn't there to insulate you against a sovereign debt crisis. It's there to insulate you if you lose your job and need a few months to pay your mortgage while you find a new one.
The "switch" here is in the wording. This is supposed to be 1-year grants vs a 4 year grant

We the former you total payout is rebased each year. With the later you get to reap the growth in rsu value.
Powerquery is great, but too bad it breaks with version upgrades.
Also, borrowing money for purchase of real assets is a pretty decent inflation hedge, when your central banks and government are injecting trillions of dollars of newly printed money in to the economy.
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Asking because I don't know: what are the odds Germany and France by way of Brussels bail those folks out?
> Fred is a VC with a reputation for pushing founder CEOs out

Fred is a prolific VC with a lot of investments. At scale, eventually any investor is going to have companies that have outgrown their CEO.

I think two things are simultaneously true:

1) Founder-run companies are, on average, better performers than companies that have replaced their founders with career CEOs. This only works if the founder can grow into the CEO role as the company scales.

2) Not every founder is capable or even interested in transitioning to the CEO role of a growing company. If the founder is unable or unwilling to grow into the CEO role, it’s better for everyone to replace the founder with a more qualified CEO.

I’ve worked at two startups where it was obvious that the founder only retained the CEO title because they wanted to remain top dog at their own company, but they didn’t really want to do the work of being a CEO. In both cases (one <$100m startup, one >$1b unicorn) it was painfully clear to everyone that their was a leadership vacuum at the top. Other C-levels and VPs were constantly exiting the company because they were forced to do the jobs of the CEO while someone else took the credit. In one case, the CEO was ignoring important business meetings to come work alongside the engineers, “just like the old days”. But he had long since fallen behind the technology curve and was trying to force engineers to do things like he did 10 years ago. It’s not fun to be forced to choose between obeying your CEO or doing things the right way. We all wished he’d just let us do our job and go back to filling the leadership void at the top of the company.
Must have been a Pentium 4.
> See, the brilliance of Unix didn't stop at functional orthogonality, they also used C: A high-level programming language, as compared to machine-specific assembly code. Once Unix started getting ported to new hardware architectures, the two-dimensional implementation matrix becomes three-dimensional.

Yeah, like plenty of other OSes since the late 1950's.

Multics was also written in an high level language, PL/I.

If anything, I am looking forward to the cloud platforms to replace UNIX.

It doesn't matter what AWS runs on, as long as my language runtime, or Kubernetes runs there.

UNIX, hypervisor, Linux, Windows, bare metal,...., I just don't care.
You cant just easily immigrate to CJK countries.You will not become a part of the society.That's just impossible.Not even those of us that married koreans,speak the language and know the customs are that accepted in the society.We are tolerated and easily live and work there but you will never become korean or japanese or chinese.

You will always be the "foreigner".
Hey thanks for the info; this is very interesting to know; mind sharing some links (English or Chinese is fine) on the protests regarding the merging of schools? Thanks!
>The proper way to do what that guy set out to do would've been to write an RFC to some mailing list (or some Rust forum/social channel) and collectively build up a group. But announcing a group before the group's actually been formed is putting the cart before the horse.

I don't see why it's a big deal. Now it's on the frontpage of HN. That's kind of like announcing on a big developer mailing list / forum / social channel. So what's actually different here?

>I probably am being way to harsh on people who actually are trying to do something good for the community.

At least you recognize this might be a bit much.
> I thought about many ways to get rid of heat without having to dump it somewhere, but thermodynamics is such a terrible thing.

This is likely a stupid question but temperature is a statistical property describing the energy of molecules right? Is there no way to tap the energy of the molecules for useful work without having a temperature difference?
Any idea why it does require exactly 4MB of RAM, even if kernel is much, much smaller?

It's some kind of default size of memory page or what?

I asked the same answer here but for normal Linux kernel:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26979499
> It is entirely possible that we traded a medium length “shutdown” recession for much more painful inflation

Well, there were a lot of people who were going to be out of work, unable to pay rent, evicted, and homeless. That would have had knock-on effects as those people quit buying things, which hurts more businesses, resulting in more layoffs, and so on. Instead, people may face inflation, which could give them worse circumstances than they had pre-Covid. It's going to hurt. But it's going to hurt a lot less than the homelessness would have, and it's going to destroy a lot fewer businesses. I don't like the inflation, but I suspect that it was a good trade-off.

> ... or lit the fuse on some other crisis that we aren’t even aware of yet.

Yeah. That's worryingly plausible. We've moved into an area of the possibility space where we don't have much data. We now have to avoid catastrophe as we find our way back out, but we don't know what the set of possible catastrophes are in this new area.
We also see many cultures have something like a "trickster god" in their pantheon. For example Loki in Norse mythology or Coyote in some Native American traditions. Perhaps the purported alien visitors are just modernized versions of that archetype.
Thanks for the thoughtful response.

> Would it motivate you to have children if the government offered to take them off your hands after they're born?

Yes, I'd give them all the babies int the world if they offered to take them off my hands after they were born. "Kibbutz" was the word that sprang to my mind when I wrote my first comment.

I'm curious, too, if the state could professionalize birthing: a woman would be paid a hefty sum to bear a child to term and the child's care would be taken over by an intimately sized kibbutz. My understanding of the failure of orphanages is that it is both the origin of trauma that haunts its orphans and the poverty of resources and caregivers allocated to them.
Floating is not controlled flight. Being blown by the wind due to a high surface area to weight ratio is not flight. I move through the air without wings when I walk. I could jump off a diving board and get some forward motion going. Neither are in any way flight.
I’m pretty sure Trump also had a big grudge against China. Yet he got blamed for his trade policy against China.
Why are you so confident supply will every outstrip demand?

The government could just mandate old buildings get destroyed and turned into parks.

Remember, >55% of people are homeowners - they'll vote for anything that will protect the value of their homes - especially if non-homeowners pay for it entirely.
Sorry, not an attempt at FUD. As I wrote, I’m entirely ignorant on whether there is hard evidence one way or another on the topic.
> In this universe the laws of thermodynamics specifically forbid destroying heat, or converting it into something else.

But wait, what does a Stirling engine run on? Or a steam engine? You clearly can get some energy out of heat.

Also, objects that are hotter than absolute zero radiate infrared light — and you, in principle, could convert light, regardless of its spectrum, into electricity.
Diablo 2 came out over 21 years ago; if it were a person, it would be old enough to go to the bar in the US and get wasted.

I don't think it needs mentioning. It is impossibly hard to keep the same culture at a game company two decades later, especially when the company grows so much. It's not like Valve is the same Valve that released Half-Life, or Bungie is the same Bungie that released Oni. None of these companies today could possibly have a similar culture to what their company culture was when those games came out.

Changing company culture, it turns out, is easy. Stupidly easy. I say it's "stupidly" easy because all you need to do is hire new people, and most companies already do that. The hard thing is changing company culture in the right direction.
Multics failed for Bell Labs, it was quite useful for others, and in a DoD security assessemnt even proved more secure than UNIX thanks to PL/I.

https://multicians.org/myths.html
> Believe it or not, I spent the last hour typing and re-deleting a response to your sarcastic comment

It wasn't sarcastic. Poignant.

> Reuters and AP, as news organizations, do not typically make value judgements.

Reuters and AP are state propagandists. Go read anything Israeli related or china related or russia related or venezuela related. Go read anything culture wars related. That they have "values" and an agenda is obvious. They are state operators.

> On whataboutism:

That is a propaganda term used by propagandists. It's a dead giveaway. It was so widely used and so heavily exposed that propagandists rarely use it anymore.

That you spent an hour trying to respond just shows your arguments have no merit. Think about it.
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Ok, thanks. Although making a one step process into five, doesn’t sound like a big win. Perhaps the shorter version is workable.
The lies and coverup was intentional, and preceeded the protests. Derek and the other police at the scene knew that what they did was wrong. That's why they lied about it in the police report. They weren't just performing their duties, unless their duties include covering up murder.

And 'unintentional' murder is still murder.

The courts can't work when the police are actively covering for murder. That's not doing their jobs.

If they don't want to be demonized, they should stop acting like demons.
Just old enough to have seen how weird and political official announcements can get, and how important it is to nail communication if you're in the limelight.
>I still don't understand why Vine went away.

Twitter/Vine did not want to pay creators. I don't know the history on why YouTube/Twitch/TikTok figured it out and why Snap/Twitter/FB drag their feet with it. I remember there was a turning point where many large creators on Vine decided to move to Instagram/YouTube because it was easier to monetize.
cool, but it will never happen. There are people like me that will buy at any price, regularly.

If BTC goes to zero, I will buy the remaining 14 million floating coins for $0.00000001/BTC.

Of course, there are others like me, and this will bootstrap value >$0

What we need to brace ourselves for is it going to infinity. There are not that many coins left, and when people realize this, they will run for the exchanges.

The exchanges, of course, are all actually insolvent, as over the years fraud, loss, theft and just plain being a dumbass has made their liabilities impossible to satisfy. There is not enough coins.

Not your keys, not your coin. Stash em away asap!
There is no accessible “database” for Wallet, these are just digital versions of cards that are stored on your local device in the Secure Enclave. Some items in Wallet, such as a credit card, may be included in an (encrypted) iCloud backup, but with some of their critical bits omitted (such as the CVV). It’s really not a different security profile than an analog card. While there could feasibly be a vulnerability giving remote access to the contents of the Secure Enclave (anything is possible, right?) that would be highly targeted and would almost certainly be harder to pull off than some simple social engineering if you just want someone’s SSN or student ID number.
Because it's neither a Nobel Prize nor a science.

It's just the Nobel Memorial Prize, just another bankster trick to sound legitimate.
Is there any space for Data Scientist here who knows his way around ML and AI?
I see some roles that require some Data science but they are not widely prevalent.