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Ask HN: Just hit 3 mo. at new startup and the work is disinteresting
Just hit three months at a new full remote startup I joined. The job provided a nice 30% pay bump from my last job, decent benefits and seemingly cool work based in Elixir (which is what I've been working on the most over the past two years). However, after "ramping up" they aren't even using elixir for beam and the work is wholly un-interesting. Curious if I should stick it out or go back to leetcoding / interview grind and land something new for the beginning of 2022? I'm 27 with 4yrs experience and what's scaring me is that staying here would make my engineering rigor / ability worse. New job would need at least a 20% bump from my current comp - also considering actually taking the plunge and going for a faang / growth stage.

Any advice or recs for hybrid work startups / companies in NYC are also appreciated!

cheers ;)
Yes. It's like always saying "Europeans," when the subject may specifically involve Greeks, Swedes, Celts, etc.
Agree. If Ocaml add 10 more users, it would more than double its users in the world. Also it is never too late to remind everyone again that JaneStreet uses Ocaml. If Go were any good JS would have used that.
>I would speculate, in retrospect, that the
absence of tools for self learning that is prevalent in the proprietary
app ecosystem conditions users, perhaps inadvertently, into not
questioning things and conforming with the status quo.

I just want to claim that this the reason why MS Edge and Google Chrome do not have native bookmark tagging. Any feature that makes bookmarks easier to search cuts into the bottom line of Bing/Google.
Almost all my life when working on-location, I've wanted to nap after lunch. I usually got through that by just being a little foggy and less productive after lunch.

When I started working from home, I did nap during that time. My productivity over the course of a day didn't change much, the only difference was that no one cared if I napped after lunch. These days I don't nap much, but that's largely because my work is even more distributed in chunks throughout the day. I think I've changed my daily routines to a degree that I don't get that post-lunch fatigue as much anymore.
I continue to be rather impressed by raku's 'Atomic Int' type plus the atomic operators (and while normally I dislike emoji in identifiers, them using the atom symbol to make the atomic operators stand out when debugging actually seems rather neat in this scenario).

See the example near the end of https://raku-advent.blog/2021/12/01/batteries-included-gener... for what I mean.
Bands are never "sold" in Japan but assigned to MNO. Those bands are all in operation (some sort of).

I found a research from MNO to use 4.9-5.0GHz for 5G near airport: https://www.soumu.go.jp/main_content/000777475.pdf

tldr: they need 5MHz guard band and emission adjustment for small cell near 5km from airport / for larger cell near 20km from airport.
I think you missed the part where I said this was not moral or virtuous. Don't go looking for virtue. You won't find it.

If the managers you advise are working towards evil (say, they're having you find zero-days to deploy against human rights advocates in the service of murderous autocrats), by all means, stop working for them! But that's very different from the managers not being able to process your feature request until Q2 and asking you to fill out a Google Doc. This is not evil, nor will it benefit humanity to send in some patches to the other team's code and get it shipped tomorrow. Don't go looking for virtue there, either.

To reiterate my point - I'm not saying it's good that the things I'm claiming are true. But I'm saying they are true, and you'd better start by acknowledging the world as it actually is if you want to effectively improve the world as opposed to just ineffectively keeping your conscience clear. Expecting to find virtue at a for-profit business that isn't deliberately opting out of the system (and a startup that decided to be acquired is deliberately opting in) is misjudging reality. But in the same way, so is expecting to create virtue by making your employer a little more efficient at migrating VMs.
Yes, a thousand times. The vast majority of compromises happen because of software exploits or social engineering.

This is not an argument for using shitty cryptography, but it is IMHO an argument for being more afraid of the implementation and the human beings using it than the crypto.
> Does anyone have experience trying this out?

Everybody in finland?
There's a widespread legend that poor parents in the US would put a dresser drawer on the floor. Sometimes the baby came before all of the preparations had been made. Sometimes folks were just poor, or smart, or both.
It has a link to opensea where you can buy the NFT. So I can pay the website money for nothing in return.
I’ve been worried the potential 2022 IPO of Quora will be a SPAC.
> That you continue to repeat this, despite it being clearly disproven above, is telling.

Where are the airpods? Not even the last model, even 2017 Airpods.. you know just to provide some aftercare to the customer after screwing them so badly
Some kind of a legal notice? Its not that hard to imagine the legal options a company will have if someone is using their IP, right?
It is very funny to see the number of pro-blockchain anti-regulation types complaining about Trademark violations and DMCA takedown notices here.
Just wait until 50 years from now, when some researcher breaks the underlying crypto algorithms & all the teenagers start pirating Olive Garden franchises.
I got my first dev account deleted due to an app that processed emails, without sending spam or collecting them.

I remember their final email telling something like "don't create another account".

Well, I created 4 more and played by their rules. Still very profitable.
There's no 'we' here.
It's a compromise, and flight crew does try to use it this way. That said, consumer devices were regularly found to radiate in all kinds of crazy bands, and would not pass requirements for non-interference in aviation, but pass for home/office environment. The planes where you have wifi internet etc. are certified that they won't have issues with home/office rated equipment. Aviation is really a different regulatory domain and a lot of stuff was designed with the idea that there aren't hundreds of unknowable quality transceivers active in the passenger/cargo area.

P.S. The uncompromising option is to pack sedated passengers in pods in racks, and believe me, it's not that uncommon dream among the flight crews.
Perhaps not efficiency. Accomplishment. With limited budgets.

I'll take shipbuilding, tank manufacture, aircraft construction, and logistics for World War Two,
from a prior activity of about nil, as an example of accomplishment.
From the list of the box contents:

> Condoms

Given you've received the box, isn't it a bit too late for that?
It's working for me. There's a number of settings to configure how auto-complete works: make sure "auto_complete_include_snippets" and "auto_complete_include_snippets_when_typing" are enabled.
> And very ineffective, compared to a global observer like PRISM. Tor makes no secret that real time traffic is vulnerable to correlation attacks.

I am not talking about correlation attacks, but total deanonymization.

Completely deanonymizing 1 in 300 connections is not "ineffective." You'd catch a lot of regular Tor users, which would likely be your target anyways.

> And VPNs are way, way more vulnerable to such attack.

I cannot run malicious VPN nodes for other users of my VPN. It isn't vulnerable to the attack at all.

> "unacceptable" is as strange word to use when there are no practical alternatives.

A trustworthy no-logs VPN is a perfect alternative.
“ Starbucks did not pursue legal action, although it did note to the press that it was "evaluating" the possibility while reinforcing that the "Starbucks" name is a protected trademark. Upon the episode's broadcast, it was acclaimed by television critics.”

The store only lasted a few days. Who knows what would’ve happened otherwise.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumb_Starbucks
Maybe my area is low then. There's 12 other 5Ghz APs in my area.

I also wonder if it's luck of the draw with some of these cheaper routers? My C7 is also a newer variant, a v5 I think.
Another important factor:

Buying pointers to actual Olive Gardens will give you entry into the exclusive club consisting of owners of pointers to actual Olive Gardens.

A potential name for your exclusive club: the "Bored Olive Gardens pointer owner Yacht Club."
There is really no good option for this unfortunately, you will probably run into a lot of issues getting some extensions to work and you still won't be able to use some X11 programs such as those using XCB. Implementing X11 actually needs a large number of extensions to really be functional, probably significantly more than Wayland needs. Not that you should implement Wayland; I don't think this method would even work at all with Wayland. It's probably the right choice though if the goal is to just get a few GTK and Motif programs working and you don't really need them to be fast or use OpenGL or anything. Past that you will probably need to implement a full X or Wayland server that implements protocol-level compatibility.
The shortened time between doses is concerning. Would it be more appropriate to stop calling them vaccines and instead "mitigants" or something? Obviously they're essential to keep people out of the hospital, but if we're administering 3x/year, I suspect people will assume they're ineffective* if you have to keep getting doses.

*ineffective in terms of the class "vaccine", which I would guess most people remember as 'fire-and-forget' solutions (even if that isn't technically correct).
I'm torn between laughing at the absurdity and mild annoyance that the one down the street from me was already taken.
Sounds like the sort of situation where I prepare a fastforwadable PR and then force git to create a merge commit anyway.
There's trace.moe for anime. I haven't seen one for movies. (I assume trace.moe works on anime movies, though)
A real breadstick will just spoil eventually, or be gone once eaten. I recommend gifting him the NFT of a breadstick instead, it will never spoil, and with that he will be able to show everyone that he owns a breadstick (somewhere). With that the possibilities are endless, other restaurants could use that to verify that he does, indeed, own a breadstick, and give him real breadsticks for free!
Why stop at a pointer to a pointer? We can make an array of pointers too, so we can aggregate the value of multiple NFOVs in a basket (of breadsticks, if you will). In theory we can aggregate an infinite number of NFOvs in a single basket (like an unlimited basket of breadsticks).

After all, the only thing safer than not-owning an Olive Garden would be not-owning fractions of multiple Olive Gardens - diversification is the root of wise investments.

Moving all of these NFOVs around is productive economic activity of course - we're engaging in the noblest of endeavors: providing liquidity to markets. We're heroes!
Had this happen, freeway speed, car stopped no lights.

I managed to get on the brakes but slammed into the vehicle still.

(Was in my 20's, so still youthful reaction times, drove lot, did SCCA events so at least an avg driver)
Or say, a fleet of supposedly self-driving capable vehicles mayhaps?
twblalock's response in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29641795 is very well and I support that view.

However I want to add an important aspect: The company acquired the company and the deeper they integrate you the more the corporate culture will take over.

If you don't like corporate culture with all it's ups and downs you don't have to have a false sense of loyalty, especially not to the past company. The past company is gone as the owners gave it away.

Thus either accept the change and use the benefits of structure, some saftey and predictability a corporation can give or seek a challenge more to your liking.
People on YouTube do all the time. So do stand up comedians, books, blogs, reviewers, etc.

I mean I'm not a lawyer and still enjoy this crap no matter what the legality is. And honestly the "is it legal" fight is for the courtroom, not here.
> you told us to migrate to your platform, and it literally does not work for our app

You were told to migrate to their platform.

They were not told to change their platform to support your app.

That the request has come from you, an individual engineer, means that it is going to be prioritized far below a request that has come from, say, their skip level's skip level.

You are being told, politely and indirectly, to mind your own business.
Japanese business school philosophy seems to be fire the leaders first, then the followers. It's a sort of 'both' solution spread over a couple of fiscal cycles.

If you ever get bought by a Japanese conglomerate and your boss gets fired, rather than being relieved you should be worried, because you're next if things don't improve. I can't fault that logic, but it does seem to make at least some westerners a little complacent, cross-purposefully.
Goto-definition is powered by an index using the syntax highlighting, you can right-click on a symbol or use f12. Going backwards to a previous location is done using the menu Goto > Jump Back.
In places I've worked in, there's very little pair programming culture. If a dev needs help, maybe the reaction is "push your code to a special branch and I'll take a look later" or if it's really urgent "use screen sharing" instead. A lot of that comes down to different environments: some use Emacs, others use Vim, yet others use VSCode, and remote control isn't really effective because of all the different shortcuts and UI and customizations. That's before even different personal preferences for different tools: I want IDE-like integrated error messages right beside my code, they want error messages in a separate terminal window, etc, etc. Simple screen sharing and dictating things to do is good enough in that case. And if both persons are at least somewhat familiar with the language, you wouldn't be dictating token-by-token.

How do you solve that problem?
Trademarks are primarily about consumer confusion. Arguing that it's clearly not sanctioned by olive garden isn't that hard. And they're not competing with olive garden in any markets.
I was happy to see someone else bring up Nathan. I didn’t even realize how you described him the first read through. Ah yes the business consultant who got okay grades at an okay Canadian college.

Nathan Fielder does indeed have a status as a parody artist of course. A family member is working for his new show. Says it seems way crazier than Nathan For You.
I’ve no objection to this in principle, any more that training hunting dogs, shepherd dogs, huskies, riding animals or work elephants. The important thing is that the animals are well treated, which I accept may not be the case.
The persistence of affront at the removal of the headphone port never ceases to impress, even on a time scale of many years.
Harvard Professor Charles Lieber Found Guilty of Lying About China Ties
A TI89 has that too, and probably way more features.
apparently co2's density is only slightly higher than the other gases, so they all mix. Otherwise all of the atmosphere's co2 would be at ground level too, wouldn't it?
Thanks for sharing. This collection of manuals is very interesting.
If you were in middle school and under the age of 13, you legally could not consent to opening your FB account, so FB is required by law to remove it if you can prove your identity + your age at the time.

I would say go here [0] and under 'Other' write that you're this person and you were under 13 at the time and would like the account removed because it wasn't legally made. (or however much they let you write).

[0]https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/209046679279097
MythTV. I spent so much time fiddling with it.

My setup would automatically record the 1 hour block of BBC World News and transcode it to make it suitable for the PSP so I could watch it on the train to work.
What're you gonna do, file a lawsuit to hardfork the Blockchain?
Another social experiment I've wanted to try is to start an alternative blockchain and sell popular NFTs on it. Not only are NFTs abundant, but the blockchains they can reside on are abundant.

Imagine someone buys the Mona Lisa NFT for millions, and then you go and also buy the Mona Lisa NFT on another blockchain for $3.99.

Or better yet, make a blockchain that simply mirrors NFTs sold on OpenSea. Couldn't get what you wanted on OpenSea, come to SecondSea and buy the same NFT on our blockchain.
Edward Witten reflects on High-energy Physics
Probably that blinkered commercial justifications have been shown to contribute heavily to negative outcomes, and that funding by government for military purposes is historically a key channel through which these outcomes are generated. The example of IBM during the Holocaust is given.

Yes, there are counter-examples like the internet.

In other words, engineers should consider what they may be contributing to ethically before doing so. The justifications "If I don't do it, someone else will" and "But the building blocks are already public" and so on are tired and morally invalid.

To a nontrivial extent FAANG have similar stigmas.
Unpopular opinion: Instagram is a fantastic product. I have been deliberate in choosing "i'm not interested" for anything I don't enjoy, and now I have a curated feed of fine art and finance memes. If/when it goes away I will be bereft. The improvement to my daily life and psyche is huge.
> the hackers working for spy agencies are exactly the same nerds

They’re really not, but I can see why you might think that.
Can we go further and ditch the reals, relying instead on rational numbers or even IEEE floats? After all, the computers that we use for predicting empirical results all run on integers.
Condoms will hopefully prevent a second box arriving too soon.
If you're interested, I'll sell you a handle. A handle is a reference or pointer to a pointer. It was Locked, and now Unlocked and now Released. You can still buy it but don't try to use it, it will probably SegFault
You can sell a parody.
I don't think DMCA is for trademark protection which is what this would be infringing.

It does raise some interesting issues though. If Olive Garden is successful in any challenge of this where do the NFTs go?

Are all the owners of the illegally trademarked NFTs responsible for destroying them or transferring ownership to Olive Garden? Given that their continued existence can imply that Olive Garden supports NFTs, which may damaging to their brand, how do they legally exercise their rights to remove their association with these NFTs?

I wonder if the law regarding trademark counterfeiting could be stretched to cover this case.
I will argue that it is not true. Not using OSS or deciding not to grow your own food doesn’t mean that you give up any freedom for convenience. You still have the freedom to change your mind and start using OSS or grow your own food tomorrow. Having the choice to use OSS or not makes you more free than being forced to use OSS (or non-OSS) software. It might be true that the majority of people don’t know or have any interest in fiddling with OSS software. But that’s fine. Most people also don’t know how to build their own car or grow their own food. That doesn’t mean that they are giving up any freedoms.
So did they really make $16,000? Either way, it's amazing what some people will pay good money for
This is dumb. Precheck is supposed to mean you're more trusted to not try to sneak contraband into the sterile area. It's not supposed to have anything to do with your behavior once you're there.
Interesting enough this big or feature is on Windows as well. For some reason Sublime always opens / switches to first desktop no matter what. Really drives me insane.
First of all any article referencing Brian Herbert as an authority on Dune is suspect as a result. Those atrocious fanfiction additions are best used as cat litter box liner, period.

Secondly, if you read the Appendices of Book I of Frank Herbert's Dune series, you'll see that he more or less invented the concept of 'planetologist', which in the late 1990s became a recognized academic discipline under the umbrellas of 'planetary sciences' and 'earth system sciences'. This was in response to a sense that the academic study of the subject had been too fractured, i.e. disciplines such as oceanography, geology, ecology and atmospheric chemistry and physics were actually highly interrelated, to the point that the historic divisions didn't make as much sense as they once did. This is now seen in, for example, the scientific study of Jupiter's moon Europa.

As far as the current impacts of human civilization on Earth's climate and ecology, see the original Dune book:

> "The thing the ecologically illiterate don’t realize about an ecosystem is that it’s a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche. A system has order, a flowing from point to point. If something dams the flow, order collapses. The untrained might miss that collapse until it was too late. That’s why the highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences - Pardot Kynes in "Appendix I: The Ecology of Dune"

Finally, am I the only sick of these stereotypical images of 'native indigenous cultures living in simple harmony with nature' a la Avatar? One real refreshing aspect of the film and the book is that the Fremen were often more technologically advanced than offworlders, having superior stillsuits and so on, and they had their own long-term agenda - i.e. slowly terraforming the planet to make it more suitable for human life. Note also that the infantilization of native cultures was often used as a justification for enforcing 'civilization' on them, as well. Enough already, they were people with goals just like all other peoples.
Disclaimer: this is just my general impression after googling around for how much CO2 buildup/concentration might be a factor/cause of SIDS after becoming a parent. It's by no means any kind of reputable research, just the googling of a dad.

The relative differences in weight/density between CO2, nitrogen, and oxygen just aren't big enough to matter much compared to the other forces that mix room air: convection, currents from forced air HVAC, air leakage, etc.

Air is already 80% nitrogen, and when we exhale we only drop the % of oxygen from 20% to 16%. And consider the fairly small lung volume of the kind of infant who would be sleeping in the box.

I'm sure you could get CO2 buildup in the box in very controlled lab settings, but in general practice as a crib it doesn't seem to be an issue.

And in case you were wondering about the general case: is CO2 buildup an issue for infants? The answer seems to just be: no, and it doesn't even depend much on how much you run your HVAC or if you have a fan or how hole-y your crib is, etc. Room air just mixes enough normally that it's not that big of a deal.
What the DOJ doesn't know can't hurt it.
Well keyboard support is a given for a conceit like this.

Mouse input is uncommon for an old console, I'll give you that, but four controllers is very usual.