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This is what I found frustrating about embedded and computer architecture jobs. Your knowledge base is difficult to attain and many jobs require you to disrupt your life by jumping on a plane and fly to $country_of_manufacture to diagnose issues while fighting jet lag. For that you’re rewarded less pay than your software engineering peers. It’s not worth it unless you greatly prefer to work closer to the metal.
This is precisely the sort of randomly insightful comment I’ve come to love from HN.
Why automotive chip shortage is a big deal and when will it end?
I'd take London anytime over NYC
I totally feel you...
For me, using Nix is "just" that easy :)
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NFL players are working out and practicing on what most would consider “their own time” from Feb through July.
I just moved back to Sweden from the US, and at least for my part of industry there seems to have been a notable shift (covid?), where roles/salaries that previously required moving to SF are available remote in CET hours.

You pay hella more tax on them though, but I mean the reason I left the US was also like.. related to all this. I want the things those taxes pay for, it feels incredible to be back somewhere with functioning healthcare, functioning child care systems.
I did run BeOS for a period and it felt a pretty decent system to me. In fact it was my preferred platform for a good while.
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I’ve spent past 2 years interviewing at all sorts of companies (from FAANG to small startups to fintech) while working at my current place, and just recently accepted an offer.

Only counting those where i got all the way to the final rounds, my sample size is roughly 15-20. Not even once have I encountered anything even remotely similar to the Criteria Cognitive Aptitude test, and neither have I heard of it from friends of mine who were interviewing as well. I had a couple “take home programming challenge” things as a filter before the initial interview, but they were either leetcode-like or project-based, not some diet coke version of IQ testing.

With that in mind, it seems blatantly wrong to say that “this is everywhere these days”. Out of curiosity, what type of companies did you encounter that tested you with a cognitive aptitude test? No need for company names if you arent comfortable sharing, just curious about what type of companies those were (e.g., small startups or big tech or non-tech big companies or etc.).
Every clinician I know (I work with a lot of infectious disease doctors) have been cut to the bone with stuff like this.
African history is full of wars and empires though, for millennia. Africa wasn't always behind technologically; these letters I write English in are developed from Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Fibonacci learned decimal numbers in Africa. But most of Africa spent the first 250 years of the Industrial Revolution being colonized, which really impeded its development. Even before that, most of the great African empires had collapsed under the onslaught of the slave trade: not just for America but also Arabia, Turkey, Europe, and China.
I know. There is a lot of different scenarios. It is the worst one that bugs me. Human nature in action.

Perhaps a trusted middleman would be a solution: "just don't tell me about anything that is totally beyond my control".
It's also the sort of thing that someone would say who wants waste the time of an evil government to delay them from carrying out their plans.
GC rich regions as in hairpin loops? How would the sequencer deal with those?
I’m saying that without minimum wage laws, you’ll soon enough see corporations depressing wages to the point where a great many workers will be as desperately impoverished as the Bangladeshi, working 60+ hours a week in dangerous environments for wages that leave them literally starving.
Eh, if AGW leads to more events like the triple digit heat waves in a region that has less than half of all buildings AC-capable due to the mild climate, it's pretty awful.

A lot of local water also comes from snowpack built over winter, which has been decreasing.
Yes, real snow tires have near-magical traction in snow compared to anything else. For anyone who lives in snowy areas, definitely get a set for winter.

Fortunately I live on the California coast now, but when I had to deal with snow I had a set of Hakkapeliitta snow tires (from Finland), they were incredible. I wouldn't want to risk snow driving on any generic all-weather tires.
Down with Determinants
I'm trying to solve this by crowd sourcing curation.

Most votes != Weekly news letter worthy

I separated them by making a "deeply important" flag. That flag gets set by efficiently estimating a referendum (elected mods, statical sampling, referendum).

https://efficientdemocracy.com

I need feedback.
Its just a new religion, and the believers in it violently aggressively hate the non-members, which is scary to see.

We as a race haven't eliminated a coronavirus yet, and we probably are not anytime soon, and hatred is starting against anyone weak enough to get bullied, because someone has to be made to pay. Gonna be a rough winter.
Well researched and nice writeup!
I know something about the work I've in front of me; still, I thought, it's good idea to seek others opinion on this important matter. Otherwise, it's really easy to fool oneself by taking our existing ideas too seriously without cross checking them with others.

Anyway, thanks for your comment.
Everybody draws the line somewhere else, but I hope you agree that "stealing your attention" is different from requiring an active action to be able to continue onward towards whatever task you were trying to accomplish (even if you might consider both unacceptable).
> “Markets can stay irrational until irreparable damage is done”

If we don't address this in regards to climate change then we have bigger problems, but thank goodness California is more forward thinking than most other states.
Oracle hiring random college graduates with a pulse to manage devs for the state healthcare exchange was an eye opener
It might be the scale that’s important though. An energy consumption map would be similar to population density but the scale probably changes over time (more energy efficient devices, etc).

Also it would be interesting to see outliers - what areas don’t scale with population as much and why (policies, etc)?
264 cited references https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-021-00219-y#Bib1
Update: there's been interest from a few people so I've started a Matrix chat here for anyone that wants to help out or provide feedback: https://matrix.to/#/#mwmbl:matrix.org
To tie this into tech a bit, Peter Thiel is a Girardian. There’s at least one interview out there of him expanding on his views about Girardian mimetics.
There’s been a few articles on it.

Chivo -> Chivo transfers are not done with Lightning, or ok the blockchain itself. Govt is not obliged to back the amount of “Bitcoin” in all the wallets by any specific amount.

There are, I believe, gateways to both LN and the BTC blockchain itself. So you can transfer funds to/from Chivo with a real Bitcoin transaction. But sending to another Chivo user is just handled by Chivo centrally.
Stay away from social media in general, is what they said.
Rank-transforms are pretty common: they show up in a lot of non-parametric hypothesis tests, for example.

The neat thing about ranks is that, in aggregate, they're very robust. You can make an estimate of the mean arbitrarily bad by tweaking a single data point: just send it towards +/- infinity and the mean will follow. The median, on the other hand, is barely affected by that sort of shenanigans.
Read other groupthink. Pick a topic and read multiple views. Even horrible ones. Then you can understand, synthesize, and rebut views.
The best bullshit detector is to simply keep running through the implications of whatever is being suggested. If you see something marked 80% off look for a similar item that’s five times as expensive. I think the core issue is people have a lot of false and conflicting ideas floating around so they get used to cognitive dissonance.

Many groups have a vast vested interest in convincing people of obvious falsehoods. The phrase used is “Diamonds are forever” rather than the more honest “Diamonds are flammable.” Simply repeat it often enough and it’s the falsehood which sticks around like a lesser form of brainwashing.
Till this day I still miss the hardware mute/unmute button.
Hey I am also a coder and designer.
My strong suggestion; actively seek the ‘seam’ where art/design and code meet.

You’ll have more success (and fun) doing things where you can leverage your creative skill alongside your code learnings.

One source of deep admiration for many Ruby programmers was the artist/coder “Why the Lucky Stiff”. They created digital works of art that were a serious of small coding projects most of them fun, a couple highly useful.

The seminal book “Why’s Poignant Guide to Ruby” (http://poignant.guide) is still a beautiful read. Pair it with the website Try Ruby (https://try.ruby-lang.org) and you can plug in the examples from the poignant guide as you read along.

I’d recommend learning Hotwire and Rails 7 and then making small Rails apps to create small artistically interesting sites.

Ruby and Rails is highly attractive to people who value asthetics and beauty, and helps you integrate your creative impulses with how you code. Most languages don’t account for or attempt to address beauty in how you code. It’s by no means necessary but has been delightful for me finding a language and community that often highly values deep inner creativity along side coding principals.
If you use all your energy on Hummers (or commuter tanks?) you won't be able to keep building power plants. You have to invest a lot of your energy produced in building more energy production capacity.
It doesn't matter that it isn't perfect; the point is to call out the flaws so the problems can be addressed properly. For some reason it is taboo to mention the issues caused by the current system. The reality is that people who are attempting to articulate the flaws are driven by a sense of fear and remorse that society seems to be decaying and eroding at an alarming pace. I only wish to produce the best system for the generation of my children.

I strongly suspect that the current system of capitalism has conspired to lower the overall well being of American workers on several fronts. For one, it is impossible to compete with countries that do not have the same moral compass/laws for treatment of their workers as the United States. There is an obvious cost associated with this. Many jobs have been shipped overseas, along with supply chains and the ability to produce important materials and equipment.

Entire cities have no opportunity, and no way to improve themselves. Heck, in a crisis, could the United States military even build the equipment it needs to compete completely in the United States?

The point is that, the way system has been working in the past several decades has pulled the rug out from underneath the average American, and the country as a whole. It must be recalibrated. I would tend to suggest that, if managed properly, we would already be at a point where the people in the lowest rungs of society could have home ownership.
It’s precisely like that.
CFS quotas have been broken for a long time - with processes being starved far below their utilisation of their quota. I think every serious user of k8s discovers this the hard way. Recent changes have been done to improve the scheduler for quotas but I’m surprised twitter was using them at all in 2019. Java GC also suffers badly with quotas. Pinning cpu is probably the best compromise, otherwise just use CPU requests with no limits.
> I work in finance doing infrastructure for retail banking. I am using two monitors. Tell me how VR is going to help me for deploying networks and clusters...

I imagine DevOps as really close to mode of operation to programming – you google stuff, write things in text files, have terminals open, etc. This type of work trades short-term memory for screen real estate – you need to see a lot of stuff at the same time (everything is one saccade away). That's why you have two monitors. One head-mounted display can simulate any number of monitors, while your desk is free to be used for physical stuff that matter. You can pack these monitors into your bag for work-from-home scenario and you don't have to do any additional setup – everything is right where you left it.
Advertising is mind rape. Not a single person who looks at ads has consented to giving corporations their attention, much less have their minds violated when they insert their little brands and offers.

They are not entitled to our attention. Advertising should be illegal no matter what. Disruptiveness just makes this unacceptable practice even worse.
> How many kids lost (and continue to be deprived of) the single safe place they could learn or get a decent meal when in-person schools shut down?

Given that we're the ~only country in the world who insisted on kicking kids out of school long after it was shown that schools pose miniscule risk, this strikes me as a profoundly disingenuous remark.

Kids weren't deprived of education because someone refused to get a vaccine; they were deprived of education because we overreacted.
You can create smtp credentials for use in any email client. The api is optional.
It may be controversial but I believe 3 things can be done:

1. Government grants for open source alternative development. Aka fed oversee and what not can apply for grants.

2. Label all social media and phones common carriers.

3. Require common carriers to be subject to FOIA and audits by citizens. This would include source code. They can still profit from being centralized for the time being, because of networking effects that likely won’t change.

My final thought is that social media shouldn’t be tied to ones public identity.
This is the ugliest hack I’ve seen since I wrote a php script that would output a Perl script that would create an excel file.

I have nothing but respect for the author, but if this is needed, maybe Postgres needs to invest some work?
If “submission” is added automatically, why would it be used for BDSM content when so much of the content in search results would be off-topic?
Ask HN: Setting up initial infrastructure
I am setting in basic infra for a new startup. We use G-Suite of products for email, Github enterprise for code, slack for team communication and openVPN for office. We also have accounts in AWS, Azure and GCP.

Ideally, we should be having a single system that manages user identity, authentication and authorization. I should be able to create a user in a single place and they get access to all of these in the right way and when they leave, lock out access from a single place.

I am wondering what do you folks use to create and manage the initial setup so that it is done right.
What’s 2/3 of the Average?
The key point is moderation is a requirement if they are going to offer these services in new places. Hire locals that speak the language to remove problematic content or don’t do this at all.

I don’t think being technically literate has anything to do with it. We in the developed world are just as susceptible to misinformation.
And it's usually not the frontend/backend developer deploying the app, but a dedicated person in charge of deploying / maintaining the infrastructure.

But it helps to have an idea on how they work.
Why can't he just use an index?
Thanks for the detailed feedback! I think most of most of the problems here are because we have a really small index right now. Increasing the number of documents is our top priority. I agree that some kind of feedback when there are no results would be a good idea.
Yes, you are correct. I was still thinking of the content being "free", but it's not if you provide something to get it.

Of course to actually impose income tax on these transactions would be nearly impossible. For the business, they would at least have expenses to deduct against the barter income, but for the private individual it would hobby income, with no deductions available. Also, how would FMV be established? The attention of a high-wealth person inclined to spend money is obviously worth more than that of someone of more modest means who spends very frugally, yet they both receive the same content in exchange. And if the FMV ends up being on the order of a dollar or two, it's not worth anyone's time to track it and report it.
Patience, as most virtues, are like muscles that must be trained and maintained.
It’s very much “custodial”.

Non-custodial would mean you held your own keys etc.
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Buy them a ten year old "outdoor" camera and get a new battery for it.

Olympus, Nikon, and a couple of other companies have made numerous models of dust/water/drop proof cameras and even a ten year old digital camera is going to have pretty decent picture quality.
I’m in a similar but worse boat - my net worth is only now reaching $375k after 3 years in the market. Most of my friends and coworkers are pushing 750k to 5-7 million.

The biggest takeaway is, of course, in-flow over spending.
Hi,
I recently found similar behavior in an app for our company.
A simple threaded cpu benchmark shows:

% numactl -C 0,5 ./ssp 12
elapsed time: 99943 ms

cpu.cfs_quota_us = 200000 cpu.cfs_period_us = 100000
% cgexec -g cpu:cgtestq ./ssp 12
elapsed time: 420888 ms

cpu.cfs_quota_us = 2000 cpu.cfs_period_us = 1000
% cgexec -g cpu:cgtestqx ./ssp 12
elapsed time: 168104 ms

Also interesting was in our app some RR thread priorities are used, and those do not get controlled via the cgroup cpu.cfs settings.
Toyota work behind the scenes to maintain the residuals of used vehicles. It's not all upfront factory quality. I had a Toyota engine rebuilt at 90k miles and 6 years by Toyota at their cost. They quietly extended (just) the warranty for the head gasket on my model because of premature failures which damaged the cylinder head.
Does salt work on hilly terrain?

In my experience in Seattle what I've seen a lot is the snowmelt washes salt downhill, so you generally just get back to square one.
This chap needs a decent editor. The tone is dissonant. Maybe, there's some decent stuff in here, but who'd know? In the same sentence we encounter "Nobody wants to be the disagreeable, anti-mimetic guy" and then, "grab a beer or a bite to eat". I don't know for sure, but the person with whom I want to "grab a beer" doesn't know wtf an "anti-mimetic guy" is. Write it up, or write it down, but FFS, just write it for the reader you're trying to reach. Don't try to fit in so many buzzwords (mimicry?). It's rare that ideas are new, so you're better off just trying to express them more clearly, and move on from there.
Where does that line end? Smoking-related diseases? Obesity related presentations? Extreme sports injuries? Drunk driving crashes? Drug overdoses? Unwanted pregnancies?

There’s a whole lot of reasons people end up in the hospital, plenty of which someone will conclude “well, that was more stupid than I’m comfortable paying for”, and having to do a full circumstances checkup to figure out which price and to whom to charge seems…problematic.
Even after all these years using the internet, it still manages to make me to say ‘whathefuck’ once in a while.
I keep a backup postfix server in a different location from the primary. It all kicked in once about 3 months ago and worked beautifully.
And then let the algorithms amplify the most infuriating of those arguments.
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You worked on improving your poor abilities rather than accepting it as just.
Ads in the subway just shouldn't be a thing, period. You already pay for the ticket.
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I have never played BG3. Plan to make a purchase when it's done. I kinda dislike the early access model.
I am not an antivaxxer, but 0.2 per cent is 2 per thousand, and 100 per cent of the population won't get covid at the same time, even if the entire population was naive to the virus.

The worst problem with covid is probably not the raw death rate, but that the ICU patients often take weeks to either improve or die.

ICUs are not designed for long stays; prior to covid, median ICU stay was fairly short (I found a figure of 2 days and mean of 3.4 days [0]). But for example, my GP, who died of covid in early 2020, stayed on life support for six weeks before his body finally gave up.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4792682/
Colour grading is fairly low down my "make or break" list.
Hi,

I'm the author of the website mentioned by zebracanevra that does just that.

When a user requests the documentation for a package hosted on npm, a lambda function (Vercel/AWS) runs the analysis process using the TypeScript compiler.

The TS compiler is slow though and this process can take several seconds to finish for packages of medium and larger sizes (you can see the exact time at the bottom of a generated documentation page).
No, inflation is spiking because the Government expanded the money supply by about 25%.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL

Now sit back, and watch every economist who doesn't pay attention to the money supply make a complete fool of themselves in public.
This looks cool...would be great to generate a pdf invoice and email to client.
I ran Cheetah and Puma on my 9600/233. I tried really hard to convince myself that it was useable. Though to be fair the UNIX underpinnings were a revelation and it felt like living in the (gorgeous) future. Just a very slow one.

I then used a B&W G3 until it went out of support. It indeed became better with every new release, which was quite impressive.
I doubt regulators will care about the adult content moderation policy of all things, outside of enforcing stricter age checks.
How am I being patronizing? I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt by assuming you're just confused about the definition of some terminology that people commonly get confused about.

If you are aware of the definition, and are conflating the terms on purpose to make a statement or something, the derailing of this conversation is on your for being deliberately confusing.

> there are many views about that freedom. Not just Mr. Stallman's.

Sure, but since the conversation is about the FSF, I think it's obvious that I'm talking about the FSF's definition of the term "freedom" (especially since I linked to it)

> Yes, I'm aware of Android (ask yourself -- where are we having this discussion?)

Did you actually read what I wrote? I wasn't introducing you to Android, I was using it as an example to highlight the consequences of using a non-free license on a project. Something I felt would be helpful since you didn't seem to be aware of the FSF's definition of free software.

> No, I don't think "The tech industry would be 99.999% owned and operated by Microsoft today if not for the efforts of the FSF and Stallman" is a reasonable view of the history.

Ok, fine, maybe take a 9 or two off the end.
That's the whole point - it's kind of obvious actually.

Yet the commenter above was treating like a bold proposition that needs mounts of evidence to support.
Agreed, but supporting people who don't work shouldn't be mandatory either.
You seriously underestimate the continuous growth of computer power. And quantum computers after, which are perfect for simulating chemical reactions.

What was unthinkable 50 years ago, playing chess better than a human, it's now trivial for a $100 device.

And it's not necessarily required that to simulate the growth of a human you'll need to simulate the entirety of chemical reactions in all 50 trillion cells and all that.
> An AR/VR set isn't just goggles: it's a wearable computer plugged into your eyes, which are plugged into your brain.

This is a powerful sentence and your whole comment nicely expresses why the tech is so important. Thank you.
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