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Ask HN: Long-term goals (within a company)
A few months ago I got a new job as a senior software engineer and my engineer manager has asked me to talk about my long-term goals regarding my career. Now, I'm 30 years old, and my long-term goals (and even my short-term goals for the next 5 years) are not related at all to the company I'm working for; my goals are not related to any company at all: my goal/dream is to have my own small company where I work on products I do care about using sane and boring tech. The only reason I work for companies as a software engineer is: money, learning (although I do learn more and better at my own pace in my free time), and yes, money again.

Obviously, I can't say this to my manager! While I appreciate learning about new hot stuff like K8s and the like, I find it miserable to work with such technologies. I can handle it, and I'm productive, but I don't think I will be able to handle it when I'm 40. Also the management path is not for me. I like programming, I appreciate well-crafted software and I like the idea of working on products that are actually useful and respect the user/customer (even if that means less money at the end of the day). That's why I want to have my own company. That's my goal for the next 5, 10, 20 years. I cannot come up with something to tell my manager that is not a blatant lie. I wish I could say "I appreciate your help, manager, but don't ask me about my long-term goals. As a good professional all I can promise is: to behave like a professional regarding the quality of my job, being honest and stick to the deadlines".
If you examine ancient (ie. 'pre-COVID') CDC documents for recommended responses to influenza Categories, based on the global CFR of 0.66 COVID is classed a 'category 3' influenza variant.

Go to page 9 and see what was mandated for that: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/pdf/community_mit...

It was voluntary isolation of the sick, 'consider' shutting down of schools but only for 4 weeks or less, and to 'consider' social distancing - based only on the age profile of virus deaths.

We've ignored everything previously established for pandemic response.

You'll also note that in this document, there is zero mention of contact tracing. Its basically impossible and fruitless for a respiratory virus. Attempting contact tracing is really just about pushing acceptance of general location tracking onto the population.
> I don't believe the London Underground has ever been profitable.

The subsurface lines were profitable for at least their first 50 years. Oddly, their profitability started to tumble at about the same time as the rise of the automobile, reinforced by the foreign-based urban renewal blitz that occurred a couple of decades later in which many homes and places of employment were forced to relocate.
I see only one reason to use custom JS UI stuff in a project: if it's an internal tool and you and your colleagues (and all your tech department) use those components when programming.

Otherwise i would use a framework, it's much reliable. If you don't want to deal with the React/Angular complexity, try Svelte, it has the best dev experience if you come from vanilla JS development.
Lots of antivax activists have been attacking vaccination sites all over North America and Europe
Not that it is surprising, it is rather being constantly ignored.
I don't see the builtin tab bar anymore due to my userchrome file, but the Firefox team is hell bent on chasing every single user from their software. The writing was on the wall ever since they fired the dev tools team. Being a dev and a Firefox user, I am the only person on my team and the only person, I am aware of, at my company testing that our features work in my once beloved browser.

Increasingly I need Vivaldi(chromium) to get my work done. I can't read most HAR files that chrome horks up. There are both new and long-running bugs in the dev tools as well. I haven't dropped it yet, but when I do, yet another company will have no one who cares about Firefox.
So you're saying the people who were shouting at people standing in line to get a vaccine against covid (which happened plenty of times in Germany and I'm sure in other places, too) are not antivaxxers?
> Moreover, we find that males and children in lower socioeconomic families have been most affected.

But arent these the same groups that ignored social distancing the most?

People could then interpret this paper exactly as they want: (a) lockdown made people dumb or (b) being in contact with the virus makes people dumb.
> we've thought continually we were dealing with another defeated Japan or defeated Germany --the enemy population would just comply to our wishes, so we kept on thinking we could "turn them into replicas of American government"

They did not "comply". They came to realize it was better to emulate the US:

> This is not to say that Japan remained fascist (as some left-wing commentators assert). It most obviously and manifestly did not remain fascist. Instead, various leaders who had earlier supported and even participated in fascism decided that liberal democracy was better for the country. One reason they made this decision is that the U.S. had just proven liberal democracy’s economic and military effectiveness by winning WW2. They almost certainly could have restored dictatorship in Japan — the U.S. was clearly willing to tolerate dictatorships among its Cold War allies in Korea, Taiwan and elsewhere — but they chose not to. Instead, they drew from a liberal democratic trend that had existed in Japan well before the military takeover of the 1930s.

* https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/the-afghanistan-occupation...

Both Japan and Germany had liberal democratic histories before they got taken over by fascists, so it wasn't a stretch. Cultures based on clan/kinship tend to have higher corruption and lower stability:

* https://ideas.repec.org/p/sfu/sfudps/dp17-17.html

* https://www.u4.no/publications/the-kinship-in-public-office-...

* https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation.aspx?paperid=...
That pretty much describes Lua.
If you're experiencing volume corruption, or can no longer guarantee the integrity of your system, at that point does it matter that it's open source? At what point do you cut the investigation, reinstall and get on with your day?

Proprietary OSes are less flexible but not to the extreme you're describing. In both instances there are faults you can recover from, and faults where you can't.

Edit, to rephrase my question as not rhetorical: I'm genuinely interested in knowing if troubleshooting this type of fault is a common occurrence to people outside of OS/kernel programming, as I lack experience with it.
> According to the Play store, the app I use has "100,000+ downloads" which hardly points to a dead ecosystem.

But that is far away from Google-Scale. Anything under 5-10 million is likely not in googles eye.

But I think the actual problem with google and rss is the isolation of users choice that google seems to dislike. Google is strong on AI-assisting the users. They seem to prefer giving the people tools which guide them and learn the choices of the user, instead of letting the user choose themself. And RSS is a big obstacle for this as it's outside their control.
OpenJDK's (HotSpot) stack maps do support callee-saved registers -- and they are used in some special cases, like safepoint stubs (that spill all registers at a poll-point if a safepoint is triggered) -- but you're correct that they've been removed from ordinary Java calls altogether on all platforms, now.
But I think the reason that isn't boring is because you have autonomy and, in this case literally, ownership.

Being stuck writing boring SQL reports or struggling with open-ended problems so someone else makes more money isn't such a great proposition.
I wonder why there isn't a well known firm running these kinds of benchmarks and "true" uptime reporting for the major clouds -- knowing perf stats for S3 or SQS or Kinesis etc in various geos and AZs seems like it would be useful.

It's not a big edge, but knowing about downtime before others could certainly be an edge
I haven't said anything like that at all.
Hello, thanks for helping make SerenityOS, it looks very interesting! I'm afraid i don't have the skills/time to contribute to development, but i'm interested to follow discussions. Is there a way to join your room from a free/libre decentralized client like IRC/XMPP?

A bridging bot like matterbridge is fairly easy to setup these days, and i'm happy to provide free hosting for it (on a small volunteer-run infra) if for some reason you wouldn't know where to host it. I'm always a little sad to see amazing volunteer projects organize on Facebook/Discord ;)
In a binary repo (http/sftp server.) That's literally what LFS does.
is there any particular reason why there doesn’t seem to be built-in type-checking system? i know it still seems to be a “personal preference” whether to check one’s types, but i wonder if any thought was given to including it?
Lots of prolific writers composed their early works while working menial jobs. It's hardly a barrier to entry for people with something worthwhile to contribute and if anything it's become easier to publish and find an audience rather than harder.
When I got the vaccine, I fully expected that at some point it was likely I’d be getting either a booster or a different vaccine or both. I don’t really see why I’m expected to object to this? Hep B can be up to _4_ jabs, and many people get a new flu vaccine every year.

Hopefully at some point there’ll be an easy to administer vaccine that gives near perfect sterilising immunity, and that will about wrap it up for covid. Until and unless that happens, we are where we are.
yes; here is our latest demo https://twitter.com/sharifshameem/status/1425185575645024256
Also needs 2015, and has been posted before https://hn.algolia.com/?q=elephants+cancer
This looks pretty good, but it would be better if you compared the performance and rendering approach to Svelte instead of React and Vue. It's well known that virtual DOMs are not good for performance.
I agree. Ownership is underrated. Perhaps one of the biggest incentives out there
I've pulled four of the little bastards off me, this summer (so far).

They have gotten much worse, in the last few years (Long Island, NY).

I also know a few (several) folks that have had very bad, life-changing debilitation, as a result of Lyme. I'm aware of one (that I never met), who died from complications of Lyme. I also have a family member, that got it pretty badly, recovered completely, and now seems to be immune.

I'm having myself checked at the doctor, next week.
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I forgot to say: I also don't get why companies ask about long-term goals. Almost all the engineers I know stay around 2-3 years at any given company and then they move on to another. I think companies expect this as well (and probably some of them encourage it, as in: they let their senior engineers leave and hire fresh junior ones for less money. We all know the story: Joe switched from company A to company B because company B is offering him a 20% increase in his salary. Company A couldn't offer him that raise because of reasons, so they let him go")
Another thing to note is that the income distribution in London seems bimodal. And so if you are earning a good amount, you may still find it a bad idea to assume similar good income in the future and therefore not want to get into a huge mortgage.

So yes, you may technically be able to afford a decent house, but in practice find it a very bad idea to do so. E.g. imagine if the OP got herself into a massive mortgage - she would feel even more trapped than she is now.
I've never driven a tesla or any other car with "autopilot" features..

theoretically, if someone was to 'borrow' a 20km/h sign from somewhere, and take it to a 130km/h highway, and attach it to a random spot, would the car slow down, until the driver intervened? Or would it "guess" there's something wrong with such a drastic speed change, and beep/ignore/alert the driver?
Why would the car follow a sign instead of Google maps?
They probably verify some of their hex digits (including those reported by earlier records, on the off chance that you find a difference) using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellard%27s_formula.

That formula allows one to compute the n-th hex digit of pi without having to calculate all digits before it (a fairly weird result. AFAIK, the search for a similar formula to compute decimal digits still is on). It is a lot faster for large n.

They won’t use that for all hex digits because isn’t as fast as other formulas if you want all hex digits.

That may not detect all hardware glitches (a single bit flip in RAM or on disk late in the process may go unnoticed, for example), but will detect bugs in their code or compiler, as errors in calculation will result in all digits being correct only by chance after some point where the calculation deviates.
Forgive me if I am wrong but I believe this is only binding v6 to the outside edge of VMs. Not GKE. And the document notes you cannot connect to Google API services over v6.

I don't want to overdo the curmudgeon thing: I'm really glad they've started to deploy dual stack, it's long b overdue. And remember that Google has been a strong proponent of v6 in Android and in ietf standards across the board.
Tracking Covid-19 Excess Deaths Across Countries
> I’m not sure what other confounding factor is powerful enough to counteract hundreds of people in close proximity breathing the same air if cloth masks have an insignificant effect.

The difference in populations. If your population is younger, fitter, lighter skinned (and that's just three of the most important of the many factors found in severity of the disease) then there could be the same number of cases in both populations but yours has a higher number of asymptomatic or symptomatic but self-misdiagnosed cases.

Unless both populations are being mass tested weekly? Or do they only get a test if they show symptoms…
Inside a single physical frame, that contains many inlined Java methods (the current default is inlining up to depth of 15, not counting "trivial" methods that are always inlined), locals are always in registers (unless they're exhausted), and are spilled only at safepoints, e.g. when another physical call is made, which is where all languages have to spill, too. Stack maps include only pointers and incur no runtime overhead on the fast-path, and are not used when throwing exceptions, even outside the current physical frame. There's additional debug info metadata associated with compiled code, which also incurs no runtime overhead on fast paths, that maps even primitives to their registers/spill locations; that debug info also maps compiled code locations to their logical, VM bytecode, source ("de-inlining"), and is consulted in the creation of the exception when a stack trace is requested.
I am a little confused, isn't this a "fixed timestep"?: https://www.gafferongames.com/post/fix_your_timestep/

Fabien calls it "fixed timeslice". I find Fabien's solution much simpler. It is quite different to Fiedler's one.
> An IQ of 80 is borderline pathological.

While controversial in everyday conversation, intelligence has been measured around the world, and in many countries 80 or even below is the average. If you see the Wikipedia article “Heritability of IQ” you will find that it is mostly inherited, like for example height which can be stunted in childhood, but not easily increased.

Many people live good lives like this, although the modern world must present many challenges to these unfortunate many.
Although I think it's best to find companies directly instead of going via recruiters, I found my most recent gig via https://www.a.team/
This is my understanding as well. It's not that keeping a CA drivers license means you are a resident, it's just one (of many) factors the FTB will use to determine whether or not you are a resident.

If you can break major ties with CA (not earning income in the state, you don't have a home in the state, you spend less than 30 days a year in the state) and show substantial evidence of residency in another place (employment contract, primary residence, etc) then it's a bit cleaner.
The govt bailed them out last year.
I didn't, I don't need another app to track me. A deposit is and should be enough to ensure the return of the item.

I think for many people the proposition "you need to download this app to do something for which the app is not needed" is a non-starter, also for tech-savvy people.

Another thing to consider is that I (and I guess many other people) are only willing to download an app while having wifi, since my data volumne in LTE is limited.
While C may be criticized for making it too easy to misuse pointers, for other features that are usually mentioned as security problems for C programs, e.g. out-of-bounds addressing and numeric overflow, the culprit is not the C language, but the manufacturers of the most popular CPUs, e.g. the Intel/AMD CPUs.

On most modern CPUs, checking for addressing bounds or for overflow is too expensive and the software developers almost always choose speed over correctness.

There have been a few C compilers with optional run-time checks for bounds and overflow, but almost nobody used those options for production code.

Unlike the Intel/AMD ISA, there are other instruction sets which include a variety of exception conditions, for a cheap implementation of the run-time checks (e.g. the IBM POWER ISA), but even there I do not know if the most recent implementations of those architectures have efficient exceptions.
I'm more irked, as usual, by HN's Automatic Click-Bait Case-ifying.

You can, and I do when submitting, remove it by editing the title, but of course most people don't and why should they. Seems to go against the guideline to, generally speaking, leave the title as it is in the original article, too.
Thank you for your explanation and pointing me to the double negation translation.

I know this is off-topic but if you have a book recommendation which teaches about intuitionistic logic/constructive math and also mentions the double negation translation, I'm interested. Most books I've read seem to either concentrate on only constructive or classical math.
It certainly wasn't up-sold to me when I was building things out. Maybe hiding the nginx light under the bushel because other tools were explicitly written up
آموزش تنظیم راهنمای تسمه در تسمه کش نیمه اتوماتیک
> nice to see its still around

It must be because people are still making music for the SID (the demoscene itself is still active¹). And jawdroppingly good tunes, with sounds we did not hear made 30 years ago. First example to come to mind: have you listened to Influx Deluxe, by Flotsam?

Myself, I always dreamed of a multi-SID system, say 6 or 12 voices, and I would like to find a collection of good producers for that, since the two-SIDs 6-channels way is now established. But I have not seen, say, a GoatTracker with the multi-SID option, nor I have noticed a sub-collection of multi-SID tunes. (In fact, many use multi-SID for the stereo effect in actual recording: say, a 6581 on one ear and a 8580 on the other).

And I want Martin Walker to produce something with it (and Tim and Wally and many many more - but MW first).

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¹ at csdb.dk, I read at "Latest Releases": "2021-08-17; 2021-08-16; ...-16; ...-16; ...-16; ...-16; ...-16; ...-16 [end of table of eight]". Post written on the 17th.
>I think this should link directly to Git's release notes (e.g. https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqq1r6touqi.fsf@gitster.g/),

I disagree about that suggestion because I think it's less friendly for the wider more generalized HN audience.

The very 1st sentence of the blog post already has a helpful hyperlink ref for the "released Git 2.33" that points to the official Git mailing list post.

>The open source Git project just <released Git 2.33=="lore.kernel.org..."> with features and bug fixes from over 74 contributors, 19 of them new.

The rationale for why I believe this is better for most casual readers:

- The blog post has extra context and nice illustrations and lets more hardcore readers also discover the Junio C Hamano's mailing list post for Git.

- But the reverse direction of information discovery is not as easy... if HN thread submission was the Junio C Hamano email text, there are no (reciprocal) links to the blog post by Github.

Sometimes, the urge to avoid posts from <megacorporation> is reader hostile.

ADD EDIT reply to : >OR it can link to the blogpost with a different title.

I thought this was superfluous/redundant since "(github.blog)" in parentheses -- is already the composited title of the thread even if the submitter didn't put "Github" in the title.

>I did not notice an objection to linking to a mega corporation.

It was a general response to 3 comments (so far) I saw that indirectly complained about this thread being a Github blog post instead of something official from a Git maintainer such as a Junio C Hamano email.
Prisoner of WAzkaban – How WhatsApp imprisons your data and how to break it out
Would it be possible with this to just apply tailwind css classes instead of learning this built in style syntax?
Tech says the Bay Area 'demonized capitalism,' but is Miami the solution?
It is, actually. Once you restrict what others can say there's no freedom of speech anymore. It's like China saying you can't talk about the regime - I'm sure they consider that "basic human decency" as well.
Should we not consider that only around 1% events are reported to VAERS?
This is something I've always found interesting because many Americans snidely refer to tax cheats as, at best, one rung about the lowest form of criminal on earth. But then you find out they've been on a week long business trip to CA or did a bit of work on the laptop while on vacation in Europe and so themselves are evading taxes.
> The number of garments produced annually has doubled since 2000 and exceeded 100 billion for the first time in 2014: nearly 14 items of clothing for every person on earth

That may not be as outrageous as it seems. The world population may not have doubled since 2000, but the number of people out of deep poverty may have, so of course they'll buy clothing.

That still doesn't excuse fast fashion, which is so wasteful.
Very true! And I’m typing this on an iPhone…

I wish I could hack but car, but also wouldn’t trust others if they did
OP here. What's the equivalent for data science / ML / stats type jobs? I'm not a pure software engineer. Any code I've even written in my job has been for experiments, not for end products.
I’m not sure what “personal knowledge system” means. I have my brain and memory. Sometimes I use the Apple Notes app on my iPad. I can usually search for things I need to learn more about.
Sure, you can apply tailwind classes like `<div.w-32.h-32.rounded-full>` etc, but I'd definitely recommend using the built in styling as it is much more powerful (value interpolation, flexible modifiers etc).
Most of IPv4 software still accept integers for IPs
This doesn’t seem like a particularly likely path, given the… lacklustre performance of most antivirals. Like, no responsible doctor would ever say to an at-risk person “no need to get the flu vaccine; tamiflu exists”. Even if an effective antiviral shows up, realistically it’ll probably be more a tamiflu than a magic cure.
How did you install it on MacOS?
Thanks for sharing. Do you do any of this stuff on your own accounts? And if no, why not?
The Lifetime of a Human and Semiconductor
>This is exactly why Spotify can decay so badly and still succeed.

The thing is, that for many people Spotify wasn't competing with other platforms. Spotify was more convenient than downloading music. And at some point of decay, it no longer is.
Artificial Intelligence Will Change the Future of Businesses
This is great. I definitely consider myself a solopreneur and hope to get back to being self-employed. The burnout after my first one took years to recover from… I probably wouldn’t have burned out if it was a web project instead of an iOS project