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I went from doing around 8 years of C# experience to a job using Clojure and ClojureScript full time while having zero previous experience with Clojure. The one of the internal recruiters at the company reached out because they saw I had a somewhat popular Elixir project on github. I also have experienced what you have with regards to Elixir. I had a recruiter call me asking if I was interested in an Elixir position and while talking with her I mentioned that I have had no professional experience with Elixir and she said that the client was looking for somebody with at least a year of professional experience with Elixir. I didn't push the fact I had an open source project that was being used as I just lost interest in working with the recruiter because of that statement and the fact she seemed to be just reading from a script when talking with me.

From my experience, there are companies that will take in people who they feel are good hires and then will train them in the language that they use but they are few and far between. From what I've seen, those companies typically have their own internal recruiters. The biggest factor that could help and is under your control is to have some sort of project(s) available for people to see in the language(s) that you are targeting.
For one it lets them lobby to cut unemployment benefits and to incidentally cut taxes, which many business also lobby to avoid.

It’s a free rider problem of profitable corporations on labor of society.
Most games require you purchasing separate versions for PC, Xbox, and PS. Then there’re also exclusives, e.g. PS-only games.
Please don't take HN threads into ideological flamewar. It's not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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I've usually hung my laundry indoors or on the stairs if I lived in a place with stairs. I realize this requires some space, but usually keeping the clothes in front of the window is enough to have them dry.

I've had one of [1] these for years and it hasn't let me down yet.

[1]: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/frost-drying-rack-indoor-outdoo...
For me what you write reads like "we need to focus on treating the symptoms rather than the cause of our problems."

Are we so attached to always having more and more? mostly to the benefit of a handful of super wealthy? While our democraties become authoritarian and ecosystems collapse?

Social justice (not a skewed idea of "progress") goes hand in hand with solving the ecological crisis.
But it’s much easier to root and install FOSS on Android hardware.
Also the labor share of income has fallen in recent decades, so there is plenty of slack overall for wages to go up without raising prices.
First of all, there are many free fonts but most of them contains a very narrow subset of characters. If you want a complete font with 3000+ Latin+Greek characters and variations like old-style numbers, small-caps, ligatures and so on, that's a massive work behind it. And also, as an individual, of-course it's expensive to pay hundreds of dollars on a complete font-family, but for a company making money on graphic design that's really not a problem.
I don't understand Bezos thought process in continuing to make himself look worse with this stance.

Like, I get the whole of billionaire phallus swinging contests, but he has many other ways of attempting to do that with Musk if he so feels the need that isn't space.

Is he really this worked up about things? Or is it a sort of calculated long-term plan despite the obvious short term failure in an attempt to keep slight relevancy in the politics of it all while they slowly chug along for a few more years with an end goal of capturing a much smaller and perhaps niche market of space related things?

Hard to tell, and though I dislike Bezos, I really hope it's not as petty of a situation as it currently looks.
datacenter is an on-prem product though?
Housing is one of the most heavily restricted activities in the US with institutions like HOAs or rental companies often applying all sorts of restrictions to enforce homogeneity or cultural values.
As a developer, you should want as little power on as few servers as needed to do your work. With the unlimited access to do whatever you want, you also get lots of responsibility, which means you need to develop your security-consciousness to near paranoid levels, and that's not fun.

If it's possible for you to log into a server and just become root (hopefully there's at least sudo so you don't log in directly as root), you have to make sure your personal laptop or workstation is encrypted, your SSH key is passphrase-protected and you use an SSH agent (or even an external physical device) to store your private key. Certainly you should not be using passwords to log in anywhere. You should do these things anyway, but the more direct power you have, the more important it becomes.

This is especially true if you have programmatic access to a public cloud somewhere: you do not want any more power than necessary for any longer than necessary because administrator access to eg. an AWS account means that when it leaks your infra can be automatically compromised in less time that you can react in and you can't even put firewalls in front because it's accessible from the internet.

Leave the operations that require real power to CI systems and automated processes where you have some testing and review in the middle. Get your logs and memory dumps shipped out of the system into tools that actually help you make use of them; if you need to debug a live system as root, that should be an exceptional situation that raises all kinds of alarms so that it can be formally accepted.

I'm a guy whose job involves maintaining hundreds of systems and I'm always happy when I can do it with less power.
An aside for your aside, in regards of port number: nobody reads documentation for fun. Even a little of tongue-in-cheek like your "unprofessional" example above makes the drudgery bearable ("heh, that's elite in leetspeak, ha ha"). It shows that it's written by humans, for humans, as opposed to oracle-style soulless corporate suck. You may consider it unprofessional, I consider it humanizing.
When was the last time you've been to Montenegro ? If you want to talk about wild overdevelopment there is no competition there.

Greece is unique in it's own way - but it's the OG tourist trap in the area.

Coast of Italy isn't really comparable on the Adriatc side (haven't been to Sicily so can't really compare)
While we are on rich guys who overreact, I note Twitter is still alive with the aftermath of the multimillionaire flaneur reacting to Snowden's call-out tweet with an exercise in scorched-earth character assassination.

But I digress.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28211023.
Theft! A History of Music (2017)
Probably not reading hacker news
It's not surprising that the Internet was no different.

It is surprising that the false myth is so persistent.
? In a comparison between having a roommate and living alone, i think living alone is more responsibility. There's nobody to call you on your BS when you live alone, just yourself.

E.g. Forget to pay your share of the rent when you live with a roommate? Room-mate yells at you. When you live alone you get an eviction notice.

Self-discipline is about the self after all. If you need another person there to be disciplined, then you are clearly not self-disciplined.

(That said, nothing wrong with roommates, it often makes financial sense and some people like having them, i just dont see the connection to responsibility)
If you attack others like this on HN again we will ban you, regardless of how wrong they are or you feel they are.

Even in a wretched, dumb, and hellish flamewar like this one, this comment stands out as crossing the line. No more of this, please.

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> For one, devs don't need root in prod in the vast majority of shops, which aren't FAANG scale. Assuming a nice sane environment where your deploys to pre-prod mirror your prod environment, I can't think of many cases where having root on prod makes much difference. It's the inverse of your statement, where places that aren't massive should find it feasible to 1:1 their prod environment for the devs to noodle about in.

You can and should mirror the environment, but it's rarely going to be perfect (particularly in terms of traffic), and while it's often worth putting time into better test environments, being able to just hop onto a prod machine and properly trace your programs' behaviour (which often means you need BPF probes or similar) is a gamechanger for fixing production problems quickly.

> Have you heard of setcap and CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE, perhaps? I know this is only one example of many where you may "need" root, but in a lot of cases devs just don't have the ops knowledge to know what they actually need.

We absolutely don't. Would learning it actually be a good use of time though? Linux user accounts are not generally seen as a hard security boundary, local root exploits are ten-a-penny, and the user account that's running the service necessarily has full access to the actually important stuff (user data) anyway. Particularly in this age of disposable VMs for single processes, I'd think the cost-benefit favours running everything as root, giving developers root, and structuring your security model so that your servers don't trust each other.
To answer my own question: I pieced together a partial picture from scattered data for fatalities and serious injuries in electrical utility workers from the late 80s onward for Ireland, UK and USA. It seems to have got a bit better through the early 2000s and is maybe flat recently. In any case not worse than the 80s as I conjectured carelessly, though not sharply better either.
The inland towns and more isolated islands are still quite local.

And Montenegro is 100x more overdeveloped and touristy. I’m not sure where exactly you are referring to.
The IARC process is only necessary when Google might own copyright in the first place (those gray areas I mentioned earlier).

I went through the IARC process 2 years ago for a startup I was about to found in Tokyo, and obtaining clearance was easy, as you say. It's an extra precaution to avoid future litigation, but not legally required if you keep your personal coding activity clearly and provably separate from your work activity.
Industry and electric generation. Switch to hydrogen rather than carbon-based industrial processes, and nuclear power.
There are still places on the Croatian Adriatic which aren’t over run with tourists. Of course the popular areas are extremely crowded. There are still other beautiful islands which are not so busy.

I’m writing this from a small 20 tent only campsite on a Croatian island. Access is only by ferry. Facilities are limited (no large supermarkets for example). It’s our third summer here and while there have been some changes, it is very slow.

Taking a boat out for a day or two also allows for exploration of other, more remote islands. Some bays still aren’t over crowded with boats anchoring for the day.

Also, later in August and early in the week are quieter times. Yesterday, I was the only person swimming at a nice sandy beach at 14:00.
> JSDoc can get you very far

in the sense that you write them and parse them in your brain manually. JSDoc is useful to me because IDE supports it for javascript. Without IDE support it's just a bunch of fancy comments
What if it is a Black Swan event that adversely impacts the price of gold? Isn't that the whole point about Black Swan events?

(Or is my interpretation of prophet Taleb wrong?)
Not hard.

Manufacturer emissions from production. (Costs just passed on to consumer but that means lower sales and smaller tam until they make lower emission vehicles)

Consumer emissions from use
Google cares a lot about negative PR. If you can convince people to report on the harm that gooogle has caused you might actually force them to take action.
AWS EC2 users can now use ed25519 SSH keys
Let's just say the quiet part outloud: they sell that data.
Please don't type like that, it is hell for screen readers. I stopped reading at LGBTQ+.
For the reasons you enlist, I think we'll see a big shift towards working for DAOs or other forms of value creating decentralized and distributed organizations.
They allow more independence, you only work on stuff you like and the interests are more aligned.
I once found an easter egg 'kilroy was here' type paragraph buried deep in an otherwise dry slash 'uninteresting to most people' document, so I reached out and told the person who'd left it that I found it. It absolutely made their day. I wouldn't do this very often, but it was smoothly integrated with the doc and anyone skimming would have missed it.
It’s useful to have as a shader which can help define the visual style of your game. Additionally you can highlight the model from any angle, which is a useful hint to users.

Since the model may be viewed from any direction, this would be very hard to do in post, since there’s no way you can get the model to look correct from all angles.
Doesn't the US NAVY use XBox controllers for some tasks already? I remember reading something about the USS Zumwalt destroyer and for controlling the photonics mast of a submarine that I cannot remember the name of.
No, I read it the same way.

The article is saying that the left has drummed up big claims about disinformation, and that the claims are not justified, and that the claims are mostly made by elitist leftist institutions which are in trouble.

It seems a lot more nuanced than the “left v right” framing, which I appreciated.
ARM-Based Cloud Computing: Inexpensive and Fast – DevGraph
SpaceX's contract is for $2.89B, right? NASA should offer Bezos a $3.0B contract to get astronauts to the moon - $2B up front of his own money, then $1B of NASA's money after he brings the astronauts back safely.

Hmm - with how fast Blue Origin accomplishes things, maybe add a 20-year time limit to the contract.
If you consider enjoying nature as "reckless behavior" then the shared understanding needed as a basis for a conversation may be missing. Lying in the grass looking at sky and stars, running through the forest with your dog, go pick mushrooms. That's very natural behaviour, not "reckless". Of course you can sit indoors all day, but I prefer a vaccine and enjoy nature instead.
Install NetBSD 9.2 on a Dec Alpha CPU in QEMU with X11
It's definitely true that an individual can be many times more productive than another.

However, the end state of software/SaaS is likely low margins, as regulations will be put into place to foster competition.

SaaS has high margins due to the low marginal cost to produce additional units, which is close to free, in many cases. But it's also 0 marginal cost for any competitior.

So in theory, in a perfectly competitive market, margins should be low, as two companies can produce roughly similar software. The problem comes in when you consider network effect and other factors that lead to a sort of natural Monopoly for a software company.

Likely these factors will begin to get regulated over the coming years. For example, you could require that all SaaS companies provide an API that's sufficient to allow you to switch to a competitor at a click of a button.

Circling back to your comment. My point is that pay in software is unlikely to remain abnormally high in the decades to come. Eventually supply of labor will increase, and business margins will decrease... Which effectively caps how much you can pay employees.

Somewhat related; China has realized that fostering competition rather than allowing monopolies to form is likely to produce better long term outcomes for society... which is why they are enacting all of these new regulations. The logic makes sense, but it remains to be seen in the long run.

I believe the US will follow, but it's a story that will take decades to play out fully.
Funny, I've only ever used vim for go projects big and small, and the experience was excellent

Wouldn't any visibility change require a large diff in all languages?
Vacation rentals are mostly a side effect of the government manipulating asset prices / interest rates - which is the broader issue.
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Is there a recent Rust vs ATS comparison? I found only this reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/73j4p5/a_not_so_gentl...
The prophylactics should not affect clinical trials a lot. Obviously the organizers need to track who also takes prophylactics. It would be unethical to only enroll participants (especially those at higher risk) who don't take prophylactics because they could get the placebo and then they have zero protection.

Everything else is just a question of the statistical signal detection. Those Studies are planned and designed to provide such a signal, with all we know about HIV prevalence (which is already quite low, in most industrial countries, speaking statistically and for the overall population) and the effectiveness of prophylactic treatment.

Also what I'm hearing the prophylactic treatment is not much fun either... I rather see the danger of participants getting the placebo, drop the prophylactics and think they are protected...
Node.js – v16.7.0
The kind of NAT that's widely deployed doesn't act as a firewall though. It buys you nothing from a security perspective. It's entirely possible to connect inwards over a NATing router unless there's also an additional firewall configured.

Stateful NAT does imply state tracking, which is a major component needed to implement a stateful firewall, but it is not itself a stateful firewall.
Honestly I do not understand Jeff, if I remember how Elon started, and how he had limited amount of his own money, and that he had only money for one more launch, and that there were issues with Tesla at the same time, so everything was about to collapse....

Jeff is nowhere near that situation, in comparison Jeff has "infinitely" more resources. He is richest man on the planet, he has almost 200 bn of wealth at his disposal, he can hire any team and build anything, he can innovate, and yet he behave like "patent" trolls do, so can someone explain me what is his problem?
The Zettelkasten Method (2019)
The Developers Guide to Scaling Rails Apps
Of course I'm aware of that; the point is that reflexively bringing it up because the word "German" appeared in a title related to privacy themes is an obvious cliché and therefore an unsubstantive comment.
Show HN: QR code engagement increased with 3D Hologram display
well spacex spent money on solar city bonds after receiving money from nasa.
What evidence would you expect to see for this specific event?
How to Deploy TiDB on Google Cloud Platform–Part 1
Maybe it wouldn't affect California's GDP much if agriculture were cut back, but it would certainly affect my quality of life if produce became much more scarce as a result.
They are more easily accessible via one interface, instead of sifting through search engine results.

Disclaimer: prefer text myself
I'm not surprised - Amazon successfully managed to get the Pentagon to drop a $10 Billion USD contract with Microsoft by "applying lawyers" to the matter [1]! Why not do the same here. When you are at the scale of ambition that Bezos et al. play in then why shouldn't you push your legal execs to deliver the same way you push your engineering execs to deliver...

That all said, personally I'm sure NASA will be better served by a SpaceX contract - the relentless iterative pace of the company always shocks me. Hopefully the GAO's assessment will stand up to the legal pressure.

[1.1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/joewalsh/2021/07/06/pentagon-sc...

[1.2] https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/28/aws_jedi_ruling/
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How to Deploy TiDB on Google Cloud Platform–Part 2
The researchers compiled all the negative externalities of cheap food and added them all together. However, studies like this don't even attempt to determine if there are any positive externalities.

By setting up an equation where you add in any possible negatives and don't consider any positives you are by definition going to get a result like this.

For instance, they say how much we spend because cheap food makes obesity possible, but think of the number of people that would be cutting corners on their housing/health if their food budget increased another $300 a month. They even list a negative cost of people having food insecurity but that would only get drastically worse with more limited cheap options. They say that the current food regime is bad for workers because there is underpayment of wages and jobs that lack benefits - but are these workers going to be better off if the price of McDonald's goes up 2x, people eat out less, and the jobs get eliminated completely.

I think there are a lot of obvious policy things we could do to improve our health (shifting corn subsidies to other things, for instance) but I don't get the point of studies like this.
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Excel documents almost always have issues, independent of genomics[0]. I can probably just skim through my emails and find a bunch of problem spreadsheets all over.

Fundamentally, the problem is threefold.

1) excel tries to be smart, and this works in the easy case and breaks down in the edge cases. The edge cases also tend to appear with larger data entry as various one-offs, so it’s particularly insidious

2. Excel is difficult to validate (formulas are hidden, naming things properly is a bit of a hack, no real typechecking, data constraints can be set but it’s hard to check what’s set to what across all cells, etc)

3. The typical user / target market isn’t trained to use what facilities excel does happen to offer.

Ultimately, the problem is that excel doesn’t “scale”, and by default you get the wrong thing.

And even if you know how to set things up properly, it’s near impossible to be sure it stays proper.

[0] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/88-of-spreadsheets-have-er...
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Where did the web archive go?
Always been on my list to visit as a subject of Her Majesty, along with St. Helena, Ascension, Tristan da Cunha and Pitcairn.
Very simple; at the prices you cite, the largest charge is the one you forgot about: people hours needed to maintain and setup these services. 100$ sounds like a lot but it's only 1-2 hours of development time per month; less if you are in a competitive market. And lets face it, it's never just 1 hour per month. Just spending a week or so setting this stuff up could fund years of SAAS bills potentially in terms of time spent. And a week is not a lot.

You also get this sunk cost fallacy where you basically keep on poring in more time (and money) because you've already invested so much. Self hosted commodity services only makes sense these days if you have too much money or very specific needs that you are willing to pay for. Even at their premium pricing, they are a pretty good value proposition for most companies.

Asana on the freemium layer is still pretty good value and an easy upgrade once your team grows. Same for github. We pay for neither. Github comes with Github actions too with lots of free CI minutes per month. The Slack freemium layer is pretty decent as well (more than enough for any startup). I'd consider paying for all of the above if I had to because these products are kind of nice to use as well. But I don't. 0$ / month is a pretty hard price to beat.

But even at hundreds per month, self hosting would still cost more and deliver less.