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Money isn't everything, peace of mind is worth lots of money. If you need more money, then consider jumping to another job for a substantial raise or asking your supervisor for one after citing why you deserve it.
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This … isn’t the advice I would give.

I would personally never say negative things about a previous employer regardless of how carefully worded.
Hey people, first, congrats for the great work on GCC for RUST, second I have a basic question here from someone who is not experienced with low level languages. Would it be possible (and beneficial to the community) to have a "compiler as a service" in the cloud (either GCC or LLVM based) that would have the most powerful hardware setup available to compile RUST? Really cheap/free per seconds of compilation... so anyone would be able to compile Rust faster and also ANY improvement would de added to this Service... and once new and more powerful hardware is available it could be shared and used by the community. I know we still have to work on improving the compilation times, but maybe having a shared compilation pipeline that can be used by everyone could somehow alleviate the pain a little. Thanks
This is interesting food for thought.
Because FAANG was coined as a term for super high growth stocks, not for anything to do with technology.
Is this seriously what people think? That sounds totally nonsensical. Do people just completely forget how far we’ve come to get today? Just totally romanticise anything in the past? Get real…
>How could an index that includes things like the price of gas be an accurate measure, if society's needs are constantly in flux?

The basket can and does get adjusted.
For what it's worth, his experience mirrors mine. I don't itemize down to extreme detail, but my wife and I actually do more cooking at home now in the last 1.5 years than we did previously yet our average grocery bill is actually down about $12 a week this year. Honestly, it's kind of shocking.

And before you ask: No, it's not because we switched from buying prepackaged/processed food to raw ingredients. We just order-out less.

Some of it might have to do with the fact that I live in Chicago, a major logistics hub, in a middle class neighborhood that has price-sensitive consumers and multiple major grocery stores.
> Can you think in terms of how data is stored in memory?

If you're using a modern OS, you don't know this. The kernel remaps everything and pretends to give you a linear chunk of memory. You don't know what's in the various caches and what's been paged out of ram completely.

Everything is built on layers of abstraction. C is an abstraction layer that fits poorly into what modern CPUs and operating systems actually do, but everything is programmed to cater to C's assumptions so people don't need to rewrite their programs.

Higher languages don't necessarily use the data structure you think they do and they can switch the implementation details based on the size.

"Simple data structures" are only simple because you pick one specific layer of abstraction to work with.
I couldn't care less about my root directory. The only things I care about are the motherboard firmware and the /home directory, and nothing prevents `rm` from deleting those.

The `--one-file-system` or `--preserve-root=all` flags are more useful than `--preserve-root`, but they're not defaults. (For a good reason: compatibility.)
Downloading something that makes your computer freeze up is not unthinkable today. Occasionally someone would post (here on HN) a link to a huge PDF on GitHub. As soon as I click it in Chrome on Linux (Windows doesn't seem vulnerable to this) the computer becomes so slow it's not even possible to close Chrome any more. And AFAIK I'm not alone: I already mentioned this here in the past and people confirmed.
Liberals read, conservatives watch TV
>an employer is asking for proof that you've actually put the effort to be an engineer before they dump a river of money onto you?

But that's the rub, knowing the acronym to ACID isn't proof of anything other than you read about it recently. Asking about the ACID test is like asking what Chipper Jones' batting average was in 1994 when interviewing to be a baseball player in 2021.

20+ years ago, I could recite all that shit from memory, but after building countless systems from the ground up which are still in use today, I can only remember reading about it but I can't recite the words of the acronym.

Hiring in IT is fundamentally broken and has been for decades and probably will be for decades. This is an example of it, that is the discussion.
We were all naive in believing that a company that embraced open source could still manage to exercise such ruthless control. We believed that access to source code would save us from any face-heel turn, but that turns out to be a consolation prize at best in the face of such a leviathan adversary.
Perhaps reduced cost to the homeowners for heating and cooling their homes with a reduction in pollution due to lower energy production.
Twitter takes aim at climate misinformation during COP26
> I don’t see why the shell must be both nice to program in and a concise textual interface.

Because people just want to have one consistent tooling for everything, and it should be effortless available everywhere. Especially portability is a huge problem.
Title is bullshit
And a third benefit: leave refactoring to the time when you have enough information to refactor.

As c2 wiki has it[1]

> * The first time you do something, you just do it.

> * The second time you do something similar, you wince at the duplication, but you do the duplicate thing anyway.[...]

> * The third time you do something similar, you refactor.

E.g. I've seen a lot of Incidental Duplication being refactored out, leaving the code apparently cleaner, but in practice, really much worse.

[1] http://wiki.c2.com/?ThreeStrikesAndYouRefactor
I always found it funny how most economists claim that deflation would be disastrous because customers would keep delaying purchases while waiting for prices to drop further. And yet everyone keeps buying computers even though we've had almost continuous deflation for decades.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this exactly the case where you don't want an unbalanced tree? A degenerate tree is bad enough; a degenerate tree implemented as an array in this way is catastrophic. So it seems to me that if you're refining the topic further in some sort of talk, the topic of balancing should precede the topic of physically representing the tree as an array.
I'm starting to suspect that any single measure of inflation is pretty meaningless. I'll grant that the CPI measures some kind of inflation, and I'll grant that the Fed does keep CPI in check. I don't think CPI captures the the typical inflation that I see in housing, education, and other costs over the last 10 years. I don't think CPI is capturing the cost increases in food and other goods over the last 2 years.

I think we need some additional measures of CPI which capture "opportunity cost inflation", "basic goods inflation", and "non-productive asset inflation". It's easy to claim substitution for city center housing by living further away from the city, or moving to a tier-2/tier-3 city - but this also comes with the opportunity cost of jobs. Similar claims can be made for deferring education/medical costs or choosing cheaper alternatives.

Opportunity costs add up over prolonged periods of time. A generation who had to substitute out high quality opportunities due to inflation will eventually be poorer for it.
Seriously. State run espionage is 100x more likely
Honestly, Google was always evil. The founders come from an elitist Stanford background. Eric Schmidt is definitely evil and always has been. He’s a well known misogynist. Hell, all of these people were palling around with Epstein/Maxwell/Edge.org during their supposed “not evil” phase. The very substrate of the company was unethical from the get go.

Edit:

Hey Googlers you can flag this but it’s true:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/comments/llvdoj/thick_as_th...

https://www.businessinsider.com/profile-scott-borgerson-tech...

https://mobile.twitter.com/xeni/status/1231068297505886208

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/jeffrey-ep...

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/jeffrey-ep...
An Oracle story. Read queries can also write to disk due to the way Oracle handles consistency. Information on which transactions last changed particular rows in a table gets stored with the rows. Read query then looks up those transactions to see whether they were committed or not. If not, read query skips rows they touched (and looks up their previous versions). If they were, that transaction info gets cleared up, so next queries don't have to look it up again.

This is simplified explanation, but the point is the process executing a read query is often best positioned to do this maintenance work. This decision trades off a little latency for throughput.
Guess it depends on what you mean by garbage...
I loved altavista - especially the 'near' keyword. But it didn't have as large an index as google. As the web grew, it just fell further behind.
The thing that killed most folks was the virtualized machines. They price on host, not guest OS. Got a 4 core virtual machine on a 128 core host... 128 cores need to be licensed. Those small web apps became crazy expensive where physical hardware is discouraged.
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... not, the primary motivation is to help people and to share content. 3B1B might give a very tall soapbox.

If you spend this much time, for three dozen views (which is not uncommon for videos further down -- and a view doesn't necessarily mean a person watched it all the way through), you've probably wasted a lot of time.

I don't know what the solution here is, and I'm not faulting anyone (I don't think anyone expected 1200 submissions), but the amount of dissipated effort makes me sad.

I almost made an explainer for the contest, and I'm glad I didn't. I think I would have made a good one, but I think for the expected number of views, I'm better off tutoring people 1:1.
Is this just doing the same as the ages-old SUBST command, or is there some enhanced functionality?
It’s a fun theory, but a lot easier to be rich by making 10x the median wage, rather than making the money you have go slightly further.
Do they still have the bug?
No, mirroring also includes copying non-verbal cues. And sometimes, suddenly not mirroring is also effective to draw attention and make a point.
Yep, this is how I left my first job. Interviewed at another place, said "not a great fit", left. When I got there I was perfectly happy to explain how the CEO was literally grabbing people by their throats if they didn't meet quotas.
You absolutely can host all of OpenStreetMap yourself, and plenty of people do. https://switch2osm.org/ has instructions on how to get it into a (queryable) Postgres database and serve maps from there, but there are many other possible workflows.
"Let me check what I am allowed to say about Alice."
> 6 months is a perfectly reasonable amount of time to judge a job and leave it.

Most jobs I've ever had in the UK came with a "probation" period of 6 months, where the employer could terminate the position with a one week notice (or even shorter if I was the cause of some particularly nasty problem), and after 6 months a review would be conducted to decide if the position was going to be offered on a more permanent basis.

I think it's only fair that employees can have the same option to walk away if they find they don't really fit in the culture of the organisation.
Felony obstruction of Netflix's business model? :-)
I'm not going to run down an article that uses that exact quote, but you get a great sense of the acquiescence in WaPo pieces like this[0]. They hilariously glamorize rioters vandalizing, trespassing, and attempting arson on a federal building, all the supposed hallmarks of the Jan 6 "insurrection". An "insurrection" that had the same level of agent provocateurs and subterfuge and flame fanning by government agents. Simply put, if a riot is left-wing then journalists glamorize it. If a riot is right-wing then they'll demonize it. It's that simple. It's not difficult to track this mentality out of universities and into newsrooms.

Reporting on lockdown/mask/covid protests has been so egregious and lopsided as to put Poe's Law to the test. Peacefully protesting business closures and weird, shifting mitigation mandates are apparently the worst kind of racist (journos' favorite smear). [1][2] If by "simple steps" you mean people losing their jobs because they can't Zoom into work from their pajamas or the "simple step" of showing medical papers to get sushi or the "simple step" of not seeing a dying loved one because of a bonkers government covid policy -- we might have different ideas of simple.

I'm not conservative, so the persecution complex insult doesn't really work on me, but I agree. Partisans love to feel persecuted because it gives them a sense of purpose. Conservatives are full of hypocrisy, just like liberals. But leftists and liberals are certainly not against abuses of power. They simply want state power to come down on political enemies in the right-wing.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/08/08/trump-sent-...

[1] https://www.salon.com/2020/05/04/anti-lockdown-movement-powe...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/08/opinion/sunday/anti-lockd...
Yeah I'm not opposed to adding highlighting to them, and we are investigating how to do it, but it was less clear-cut than the bidi characters (which are totally invisible when rendered). I think we'll want to make it a bit more configurable and probably a separate option to the one which highlights the bidi characters.
Sounds like he may have had ADHD. I wonder how being medicated with stimulants might have impacted him.
I’m a Canadian who lived in LA for 6ish years. I moved to Taiwan a year ago (time flies!)

Saying the culture is different from my Canadian/British upbringing is an understatement hahaha. I’m still getting used to all the holidays being different (almost forgot about “Tomb Sweeping Festival” this year). The biggest one I’ve noticed is people actually show up on time when you make plans with them. In Los Angeles I’d have 25 people say they’d meet somewhere, and maybe 5 actually show up. Traffic was the main excuse in LA, but with public transit being so great in Taipei I've noticed people flake much less often.

All in all if you’re even remotely considering moving here, even for just a year to pick up Mandarin, I highly recommend it. I doubled my lifestyle and halved my costs compared to LA, and the people here are even more friendly than Canadians.
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Normally, the burden of proof is on whoever made the original claim [0] to substantiate it with credible links or evidence; you can do it for them if you want.

However, The claim that 'every single cryptocurrency' is bad for the environment regardless of popularity is still unsubstantiated.

I am only asking for relevant sources rather than attempts to avoid giving out any relevant sources by answering a question with another question.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29065284
Data trading for ad revenue must be regulated like finance, aviation, medicine, and power. The giants who've cheated us must be broken up to their smallest viable constituent parts, and their future interactions be through a framework of radical accountability.

Considering that more than 50%(70? 90?) of IT is 100% based on those ad revenues, sounds very reasonable, yeah. Bees against honey. All those, who cry the most about evil giants, will stand in the lines demanding to fuck off from Google the moment something will REALLY start to happen with those revenues
Hi HN!

Since my last post [0] describing my experience working as a robotics consultant gathered some attention last year, I figured there might be some interesting discussion that can happen this year too around the topic. Happy to answer any thoughts you might have, and as always I will appreciate any feedback!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24280204
youtube-dl works right now, so not sure if this is a fair thing to say. But you might have more insight than me. Maybe they realized that becoming a famous project is only a detriment to their mission
I built a search engine in school. I was lazy and stupid with the scraper and ended up writing a bug that caused it to loop on certain sites. That lead to the entire Duke law school site being DOS's during their class sign up period. Sorry for ruining scraping for everyone, but this is why websites don't want people scraping them.
>A gallon of milk or a carton of eggs is about where it has been for the past three or four years, because a gallon of milk or a carton of eggs doesn't go up by 3 cents each month, it jumps by a dollar once every three years.

because it's averaged out across multiple stores across the country?
At the time it was arguably true. But it seems every company gets increasingly amoral at it becomes more powerful, and eventually becomes evil. I think one reason is the relentless pressure for growth by shareholders. Another is the simple fact that power corrupts.
Genius, being on HN twice in a week :D
I have a ton of public code that I link to in my resume and not since my first job out of school has any interviewer looked at it and asked me questions about it.

Even the people who want you to do a coding project would not take my existing code over rewriting from scratch for their purposes. (And yeah on the one hand that's fair, but also I did not go through with those interviews.)
Tried that before, doesn't matter. Customers say "my address works for everyone but you, it must be your problem. I'm not getting another address just for this, I'll use <competitor that works>."
> What is the "basket of things" composition and how many Americans have a spending profile anywhere near that?

The BLS isn’t hiding this information, it’s publicly available. The burden of proof would be on you to provide research on why that methodology is incorrect.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm

> The CPIs are based on prices of food, clothing, shelter, fuels, transportation,
doctors’ and dentists’ services, drugs, and other goods and services that people
buy for day-to-day living. Prices are collected each month in 75 urban areas
across the country from about 6,000 housing units and approximately 22,000 retail
establishments (department stores, supermarkets, hospitals, filling stations, and
other types of stores and service establishments). All taxes directly associated
with the purchase and use of items are included in the index. Prices of fuels and
a few other items are obtained every month in all 75 locations. Prices of most
other commodities and services are collected every month in the three largest
geographic areas and every other month in other areas. Prices of most goods and
services are obtained by personal visits or telephone calls by the Bureau’s
trained representatives.
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> But how can I be familiar with S3 without any data engineering work?

... you don't need to be in data engineering to use S3.

And can you be familiar with it? Read the docs, write some code.
Or TortoiseGit?
> (edit: France has legislated 35 as full time - overtime must be paid for hours >35. They are currently considering revising this to 32).

That's great. The parent poster should consider moving to France, where, I understand, there are far fewer tech jobs that pay near what can be earned at large tech firms in the US. I'd be willing to bet money that trade will not result in 25% fewer hours for the same US pay.

> Even if you insist on a pure game theory perspective GP's ultimatum makes sense, though - it sought to address an imbalance in investment by saying either invest more in me or allow me to invest less in you.

Given that the parent poster apparently didn't even submit his ultimatum to his employer, and his employer apparently didn't fight to keep him...

Even in this very difficult environment, most of the people in my network who are hiring in tech/digital media companies are remaining very selective about who they hire. Yes, it sucks to not have the desired staffing levels, but it sucks more to hire the wrong people or keep people who are toxic or ask for way more than they're realistically worth on the mistaken assumption that just because there's a labor shortage, they can demand anything.
I have no wish to invalidate the frustrations and concerns you have with the faculty at your institution, but I hope you realize they are just that: concerns with the faculty at your institution.

The small university I work at has faculty who are quite the opposite. They push for faculty development, and for support for the staff who support them.

I suspect that part of the difference is that this is a small university—basically a liberal arts college with a vestigial graduate program—while I'm guessing the institution you describe is a larger one.
Of course there is plenty of progress to make. You have to look at the whole value chain, not just the last step that happens at the restaurant. Bread and meat have to be made, preprocessed and shipped. Plenty of things along the way that are subject to optimization.
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My mind is continually blown when I read about the sheer volume of innovation from the animation industry over the last 3 decades. I would love to learn more about these scalable solutions you're talking about though, since I'm not familiar with them. Do you have any pointers?
My company reviewed and increased nearly everybody's compensation to make sure they stayed.
>took offers from other companies with a much higher salary.

Seems like paying at least market rates once they are trained up would solve that problem. Once someone develops a skill, a company can't expect to keep them at intern or junior salary levels.
I always judge life by looking at how regular the releases are rather than the frequency. If they release ever year or two or three years consistently for the last few years then that's a good enough sign of life to me. Everyone goes at a different pace.
No. I mean the support USSR received from USA after the German attack.
A third of trucks used by the Red Army where US made
A third of soviet airforce was US made. US also sent a lot of high octane fuel needed for the airplanes.
A significant amount of food.

It is very likely that the USSR would not win if not for the US material support.
> I'm curious way people hate on wxWidgets so much.

Because it just looks bad and outdated on most platforms.
One caveat with any online service is data export could be modified or removed in a future (forced) update with no practical recourse.
Fake resume got 90% response
It is... but the book knowledge version of fundamentals and their actual implementation are completely different when you start asking questions.

Even more so when those "fundamentals" are implementation details you don't think about much in your day to day job. Actively recalling knowledge that has become part of your intuition and understanding of the world is hard.

I know enough about many things to do basic implementations safely; everything else is paged out to google. The finer details of database transations? Usually not my job, but I used to know more about them and could relearn that information quickly if needed.
Great - now The Economist needs to add a skimpflation factor, probably by doing something like buying a real Big Mac and then weighing the patty, and the wait time. (Although really everything about the experience can be skimped on, like taking away ketchup.)
This is very useful to know -- TIL, thank you!!