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By publishing one single script - not likely. By publishing 1000 scripts - yes, you can, by polluting the public space and making it so much harder to find real supported code that can be relied upon. It's like throwing garbage on the street. One can won't do much, do it many times - and your neighborhood is a dump.

Same argument as with spam. Sending an email is not a crime, and sending an email to somebody you didn't know to ask them maybe they want to do business with you is not that bad. Do it couple of millions of times, and it breaks the whole system.

> What's actually harmful is the blind trust most developers have on adding dependencies without proper vetting.

Now comes the victim blaming. Nope, the fact the people should verify stuff does not absolve the guilt of those who put garbage into the public space. On the contrary, they are making the problem so much worse. And yes, there are means to deal with the problem, but again "you can clean up" is not an argument that absolves the guilt of somebody who throws trash around. They are doing bad thing, and should feel bad about it.
> There's currently an excess of unemployment benefits.

If unemployment pays better than working, then workers aren't getting paid enough. The solution is not to cut unemployment benefits.
>Old Company said if I stayed I could achieve a 25% increase [within 2 years]

For existing employees, this is rather high, but as you did, you should discount this. To get that boost with your current employer, you need to (i) be irreplaceable for a critical service; or (ii) show proof of external offers.

HR/Finance will sets wages at low-mid market so that the 10 other high performing/underpaid employees in your situation will stay and only you will leave. HR's fine with that bet, and people with initiative like you are the victors.
I make a point of checking at least once a week - I have to get out of my car when leaving the house to close a set of gates, so I grab a big rock from the yard to wedge down the brake pedal and walk around the vehicle doing a brief inspection.

It's annoying at first, but quickly becomes habit.
Note the blog info is actually from 2014.
According to VisaJourney, SF, Seattle, San Jose, Sacramento, etc… times are averaging more than 500 days between filing and decision, with Seattle over 700.

My family-based AOS is at 385 days with no scheduled interview yet (SF field office, Biometrics were done in December)
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Not a joke. Why would you have to equal the power of reactors that couldn't be built in 50 years? More than enough land in TVA's service area to meet needs with solar, battery storage, existing nuclear (~8GW), and hydro (from the opinion piece guerby posted in a comment above):

> Hopson said TVA's May 2021 "strategic intent and guiding principles" [1] notes the utility has solar commitments to date of more than 2,300 megawatts of solar capacity expected to come online by the end of 2023. Including those projects, TVA expects to add 10,000 megawatts of solar power by 2035 — a 24-fold increase from today.

> That 10,000 megawatts of solar power would be equal to more than eight would-be Bellefonte reactors.

> So, folks, we ask again: How about Bellefonte? Be bold. Look to the sun.

10 years is about how long, historically and ignoring outliers, it takes to build a nuclear generating station with a handful of generator units. As time has shown, these reactors can't get built, but solar (and batteries) can, very easily. This is without discussing interconnects between the PJM, MISO, Southern Company, and AEI (Missouri) grid systems that are possible but not currently implemented for importing or balancing power between those systems.

I don't think folks grasp just how cheap wind and solar have gotten (1-3 cents/kwh at utility scale), and how rapidly battery storage is coming down in cost. The US total installed battery storage capacity reached 1,650MW by the end of 2020, but by 2024 will have almost 12GW online [2]. Nuclear, gas peaking, and most of coal are already dead economically.

[1] https://tva-azr-eastus-cdn-ep-tvawcm-prd.azureedge.net/cdn-t... (Page 6) ("We are adding significant renewable energy to our
system. TVA has solar commitments to date of over
2,300 megawatts of solar capacity expected to come
online by the end of 2023. Including these projects, we
expect to add 10,000 megawatts of solar by 2035, which
is primarily based on customer demand and represents
a 24-fold increase from today. Additionally, TVA is also
supporting our many long-term local power company
partners in the deployment of up to 2,000 megawatts
of distributed solar to provide increasingly clean, local,
renewable energy generation as a fully integrated
part of the larger power system. These projects have
the potential to add as much as 12,000 additional
megawatts of solar in TVA’s future.")

[2] https://www.energy-storage.news/eia-us-battery-storage-insta...
And that would be absolutely true as well. If colleges were/are so horrible that 1% of people contemplate suicide, it is quite obvious that something needs to change.
How is it "horrible"? It's not confusing at all
I wonder how many leaks we've all heard about started with a simple Shodan search.
Taiwan, South Korea, Japan.
I think their argument is that if IG makes the rest of their users much more happy, that happiness outweighs the cost of making a small portion of users suicidal.

First of all, it's not clear that this is the case -- that Instagram makes some teenagers so much happier that it outweighs the downside.

Second, any product with the capacity to make some population of their users die or harm themselves (1% suicidal maybe leads to 0.01% of people actually attempt suicide; not counting other detrimental effects like eating disorders or depression) should be regulated for safety. C.f. cars, guns, tobacco, alcohol, food, medicine, etc. Such a product should not be under the control of one private company.

I.e. it should not be Facebook's choice to create winners and losers for those who use Instagram. We need regulation from some independent entity that is not motivated (or as motivated) by Facebook's profit. The best candidate would probably be some independent government agency.
And with a gag order to boot!
>> self-improvement

I don't see mindfulness as being for self improvement. Its most precious function is for self observation and self learning. It is intended for one to 'wake up' to be able to see oneself as one is. In our 'normal' state of functioning, we are completely divorced from most of our own internal perceptions most of the time. Do you realize that you have a foot right now? Likely no, but when you read that sentence, you are able to remember that you have a foot, and you can feel it and sense it. Mindfulness is intended to grow the experiencing of oneself to encompass all aspects of ones own reality including the physical body, intellectual activity, and emotional states. At the extreme end of the practice, one may perceive these things singularly and at all times.

Where self improvement involves changing oneself and trying to achieve, mindfulness involves acceptance and not trying to force something.

>> Without executive function

...however, some people are damaged and will not be able to realize self observation. We do not expect those without feet to run.

Edit: formatting
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You spent a lot of time explaining this and I agree with everything you said. But that's a really long-winded technologist's way of putting it. I'd personally phrase in a simpler way: music is useless and has no value. It serves no purpose besides entertainment. It can be made trivially for literally zero cost by anyone who has working hands or vocal cords, no technology or investment is required. NFTs certainly don't and can't change this. (Disclaimer: I am a musician and I've spent a lot of time working on music apps. It's a hard sell out there for everybody)
Just tonight a friend told me that he was starting a small business. I encouraged him to look into financing some of his business by selling equity to his own Roth IRA.

I have no idea if that's possible but he'd be nuts not to do it if it adheres to the law.

The friend's name is not Peter Thiel.
Huh, DJT didnt seem to have an issue executing snowden for a long time until right before election. Im not saying establishment democrats don't hate Assange, but that your argument is purely one sided and bias when in fact this hate is across a spectrum of politicians. Establishment Republicans hate Snowden and even Trump hates snowden. It is just surprising right before an election he mentions a potential pardon when he had 3 years to consider a pardon.

[1] https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/ct-nw-nyt-tru...
[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-said-considering-pardo...
[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/16/tr...
> We actually got featured on the Today show for it a few months ago. AMA?

How did you get featured on the Today show? Who initiated that?
How the tables turn. Have we forgotten that Snowden revealed all the phone companies handed over data/back doors to the NSA except TMobile?

There is no perfect carrier; the best you can do is pick the one least likely to sell you out or get hacked today.
> You can also have specialized "sleeper cars" that get you to your destination overnight, fresh and ready.

Trains have had this capability for decades, and that is a very mature technology, with the upside of also carrying far more people at a time than a car-based system would.
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I wonder if there are any HR types monitoring this thread. If so, I wonder what they will bring back to the companies that they work for.

I voluntarily participate in an employment contract. I like what I do and am good at it. I could work harder but I work what I consider a “fair” amount. Many weeks that is less than 40 hours of my time but sometimes it’s more - if there is an emergency or a crunch time for a reasonable goal, esp if the goal date is not arbitrary.

I really don’t like the idea expressed in some threads here that “I should stop caring about my employer’s goals”. If you don’t care about their goals, then the ethical decision is to quit. They’re not asking you to compromise your principles; they’re offering to pay you in exchange for supporting their goals.

I think a lot of the ideas on this topic are a little bit muddled. If your employer sets unreasonable goals then you’re not doing you or them a favor by trying to meet (much less actually meeting) those goals. If they try unreasonable shit and it works then they will keep on doing unreasonable shit until it bites them, and make everyone miserable in the process.

But not killing myself to meet the unreasonable goal my manager agreed to is not the same as just slacking off all the time. I’m a professional and consider myself ethical and I don’t see a huge ethical difference between stealing and accepting pay for work I didn’t do.
AT&T's (corporate) store service is absolutely terrible. I have money, a working phone (or the SIM from a broken phone), and want to upgrade. Why can't I hand you the money and get a new phone without 20 minutes of tapping around on an iPad? And god forbid you have a business account, then it'll take thirty or forty minutes because they have to look through your account to see if there's anything to fix, and then sometimes there's some flow for a business account that doesn't exist in their iPad app so they have to go to a PC. It's like the Apple Store problem except 10x worse since there's rarely anybody else in the AT&T store when I go there.

I kept my last phone well after I should've probably replaced it because I didn't want to go to the store. Maybe they should try some secret shopping, it might show the flaws. Impulse buying a phone (not that it's something you should do, but probably something they want to encourage since nobody buys new phones anymore) is absolutely impossible right now.

(What I'd really prefer is if they'd just allow me to give them money and just hand me the new phone, but inevitably there's some account crap that happens where the new phone won't activate properly and I have to get another phone to call 611 and figure it out.)

Edit: It might just be because of my families phones being on a business account. We've tried to upgrade (or just buy the darn phone without a contract/loan) through the Apple Store before but they won't do it because their POS system can't handle AT&T's business accounts, and even unlocked devices need to be notated there for some reason.
Example #4

A CTO of an American company, to get a bonus of $7 million, lays off a ton-load of the company’s CRM people who knew how 20 years of architecture duct tape that ran the company was strung together.

CTO then proceeds to hire a cheap, offshoring body shop to design the company’s new website, which talks to the CRM. However, there’s no more CRM people at the American company because they’ve all gotten laid off and the offshore web contractors also now have to become customized CRM experts, which is insane scope creep.

The outsourcing company can’t deliver and litigation is sought, while the US company takes zero responsibility for the fact that all the CRM people were let go and there’s no chance in hell that web developers at the outsourcing can ever learn the highly customized domain-specific logic that fast that extensively. Meanwhile, CTO gets fired and a severance of $1 million for all the extreme damage he did to the company.

And that’s Hertz vs Accenture, or at least how I heard it to be.
There seems to be a bug in the Season # parser. I am seeing `null` values. Random example:

https://www.redditdiscuss.com/watchmen/

Edit: Maybe this is a better example as it has a valid season number in the actual discussion (but it shows as SnullE6):

https://www.redditdiscuss.com/lucifer/
Last Monday I bought 2 iphone 13 pros. One from Apple and the other from Verizon. (The Apple Store app on my phone wouldn't let me upgrade a number that wasn't attached to my iCloud account. So I stupidly bought it from verizon)

We got the 13 pros in the mail on friday and neither me nor my wife liked the phone and we decided to return them.

The return with Apple was easy and smooth. At the verizon store the manager immediately challenged me on why I was returning it. I said it was too big for my wife, he then asked what phone she had and then pulled up a chart showing how the two devices were effectively the same size. He claimed my wife was lying and that she would be fine with the 13 pro. I replied with thanks but my wife didn't want the phone so I'd like to return it. He then put me in a queue and told me the return would have a $50 restocking fee.

The entire return experience was so terrible and hostile I almost walked to another carrier's store and moved all my lines. I may still do that.

The overall experience did renew my desire to NEVER buy a device with verizon again.

I can imagine that ATT and Verizon are largely in the same place, they're the behemoths in the market and no longer have to innovate for market share. So the way they increase margins is by fleecing their customers with "activation fees" and "restocking fees".

Its great to hear that TMobile is stepping up the customer service game. This may be enough for me to switch.
If your bar for a consumer product (intended for leisure!) is to be better than an actual global catastrophe, there's nothing I could add to make it clearer that something is seriously wrong.
Where does non-repudiation fit in if multiple people get the same 2FA code?

You're trusting teamFA, Slack, and each team member's Slack accounts. This seems like a security nightmare.
The solution is not to browbeat Apple into approving your app. The solution is for us, all of us, to collectively refuse to contribute our software to Apple's platform. Stop developing for walled gardens.
Most buses are filmed continuously now, so for the most part you just need to be like "yeah, go get the video." But there are still a lot of reason you'd probably rather not be a bus driver.
> The problem is I'm iPhone <...> If you have just one Android person on a group text, it throws everything

Heh, for me it would be a reason to ditch something like that immediately. Lock-in irritates me.
> By far, the common method of specifying what year you were talking about was to mention what consuls were serving during that time.

This system is still used in monarchies around the world. For example ”year” a given law is passed in Great Britain is not the gregorian year number but the year of the reign of the monarch.

I was going to write “survives in…” but remember a similar system apples to Japan.

Not that any of this matters to the ordinary person on the street!
Here in India I've heard both: 'queen' and sometimes, 'minister'.
damn. it's truly amazing what you can do in a web browser in 2021. ELI5?
What is concentration? Is to have your attention totally directed to one thought. The goal of meditation is to have no thoughts, which is totally different from mindfulness, which is just attention on everything you do.

Samadhi or illumination is attained without thoughts, mostly with a help of a 'koan' like: 'we know that all things can be reduced to unity. What unity is reduced to?'

Then the mind cannot answer and will start to evade and even give illogical answers, then the mind, when tired, stops looking for answers and go quiet, and that's the goal of meditation.
No, the motor basically aligns the satellite for the optimal phased array 'aim' (and can rotate and tilt the dish).

But after an initial aiming, the motors basically lock in place and the dish stays still. The phased array then tracks individual sats in orbit.
Just know that we see you. We understand that this is your mentality. That's why we don't promote you, that's why we don't hire you, etc.

Saying yes to everything some random PM wants from you is of course not the way. But neither is "lying flat". Hard work is in many ways its own reward.

After decades in the industry, those that have put in the time and effort far outshine their coasting peers. There are benefits for your career should you choose to put in the effort and ascend.
This is not at all close to what I'm advocating for.

The page says:

> Open Source is rewarding- but it can also be exhausting.

> The linking project’s code is provided as-is, and is not actively maintained.

Basically the attitude here is "I'm tired! Leave me alone!".

The attitude I'm advocating for is "This is feature complete! We only update this project for bug fixes or security patches."
I see his point though.

More and more I am associating mindfulness as one of many over-marketed self-help practices to cope with the stress of modern life.

This mountain of books and methods to find calm or happiness appear to me as a stigma of how insane some aspects of modern life can be. Somehow, our society create a problem and sell you a way to deal with it.

Sometimes I am even thinking it is one of the built-in mechanism helping to keep the system stable.
This was how you could get rich. Maybe I'm overly cynical, but I feel that these days VC and founders know all the right tricks to play to remove value from the contributors and reallocate it to the investors.
Dang, would you mind adding [podcast] to the title?
This is the fault of the people who elected these representatives.
Well first off it is entirely possible that there are people who have been introduced to the concept of love languages in a way where they never questioned them critically, and merely pointing out that I think they are "bunk" might start someone down that path of questioning.

On top of that, however, I specifically compared love languages to other things which people might have already examined critically. Since this is HN, probably the most cogent item from my list is zodiac/horoscope, as techies tend to be fairly dismissive of it already, and therefore might have the realization (after reading my comment): "oh wow, I've been believing in love languages this whole time but been dismissive of zodiac, even though both have the same amount of evidentiary backing (~ 0)". However, I actually think "learning styles" is a better example because it is something a lot of people believe in (something like 90% from the surveys I've seen), even though in reality there is almost zero experimental evidence for them as well, despite many biased attempts to do so. My opinion is that love languages are very similar – people believe strongly that there are certain actions/behaviors that they are most receptive to when it comes to romance, but that fundamentally people just want to be loved in a much more generic way and that if the particular way in which love is expressed matters that much to you, you are probably focused on the wrong thing (missing the forest for the trees).

To really spell out why this is bad, let's look back at learning styles: someone believes in learning styles, which don't exist[1]. Specifically, they believe they are a "visual learner". As soon as this belief forms, it almost instantly becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy – they think they are a visual learner, so whenever they are faced with learning something in a non-visual way they don't try as hard, and therefore do not learn the material as well. They are effectively self-sabotaging by having this constrained picture of themselves in their head. There is no reason to believe that people who take love languages seriously will not suffer a similar fate. Imagine someone who thinks of themself as a lover whose primary love language is "physical touch", so when someone demonstrates love in a way that is not touch, they say to themselves (maybe not in an explicitly conscious way): "hmm, this isn't as compelling as it could be because I'm a physical touch lover – I wish my partner demonstrated their love with more touch".

In essence, I feel that all of these things, love languages included, are artificial and mostly arbitrary labels (some more arbitrary than others) which only serve to constrain your breadth of experience and openness to new things, resulting in unfortunate self-fulfilling downsides with no clear upside.

[1] https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/features/edu-a0037478.pdf
for me, I was doing fine till winter hit.
then it became a slow slide down hill..
slept less -> less energy -> exercised less -> less self control around eating -> put on more weight -> back to the beginning...

it starts with sleep and then exercise. after that its a feedback loop.
I'm determined to break that loop again and this time when winter comes back I'm going to put something into place that keeps my routine up through winter.
Honest question, is there any evidence that the effort of the early engineering team of a startup has a strong relationship with a high value exit?
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A minority of managers care about those things. Most managers do not care about tech debt or advancing the careers of people.

Most managers exist because most people believe a team has to have a manager, and that creates opportunities for many people.

Many engineering managers dislike software engineering, and sometimes even dislike engineers themselves.
I recall a rather flippant and sensationalist video with a YouTuber interviewing some present day hunter gatherers on more philosophical matters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAGjuRwx_Y8 "Asking Hunter-Gatherers Life's Toughest Questions"

I got the impression there was some language barrier stuff going on, but the answer to many questions was... "meat"