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I am building a space settlement game starting in the 1960s on the Moon
Yeah, being even slightly queer or non-white is majorly disruptive to leading a reasonable, hate-free life in the midwest IME (I specifically have experience with Chicago). I think people that talk about how diverse, open, and respectful places like Chicago are are either white/straight or have never lived in a coastal USA city (that is, NYC, SF, LA, Seattle, etc).
They aren't human generated. I generate them programmatically and don't store them on silicon but on paper.
Man, we do both in my house.

When I was a kid, I mostly had pile-of-legos and not sets. I did very little following of the directions.

My kids *love* just messing around with piles of LEGO (and even Duplo) and making their own creations: mostly weapons. And they also love working on the 3000 piece crazy-complicated sets, presorting everything and figuring out where to put each piece step by step.

There's a whole lot of creative, unstructured play (not really heading towards mastery of sculpting or design), and a whole lot of concentrating replicating a model. It'd be kind of neat if they'd decide to do something inbetween.
I interview 50% or more of the senior engineers we (A YC-backed company that is post-IPO and still growing rapidly) hire. I assure you that our interview process for engineers at this level is weighted towards significant involvement in projects.

We consider it unacceptable if all the projects a candidate wants to talk about "began before I was hired, and shipped after I left." And that's what you get if you are an aggressive job-hopper your entire career, not just at the beginning.

I am never against someone wanting to negotiate the compensation they deserve for the skills they have developed. And certainly, for many skills, job hopping is the strategy for maximizing your pay for the skills you are able to learn and refine in 1-2 years per job.

But if you don't develop the skill of taking a major multi-year project from inception to completion, there is a skill you don't have that we will not pay for by hiring you at the top two levels of our org.
Meh... you're just looking at one threat, and one that isn't remotely likely in my reckoning. I don't think I've ever been phished. It's very easy to spot.
Says who? Who are you to say that what amuses one person has more value than what amuses a different person?
I believe this is what happens with any open world MMO. There's no storyline to finish, there's no ending, and game devs have incentives to keep players playing forever (the more hours a player plays, the more likely he will spend more money).

There's only two ways to keep players playing: new content and/or grinding mechanics.

Grinding mechanics are way, way easier to create. You can even reuse sprites and just change names - a lv10 tree, a lv50 tree, a lv100 tree. Real content is hard to do, requires imagination, development, testing.

So most open world games will have a high grinding/content ratio. But, as lame as it sounds, some people do like it. I'm guilty of playing a RuneScape-like game for mobile (Ancients Reborn). Things are slow and you need hours and hours to raise skills but, even though it's arguably boring, I find it relaxing. And there's pvp and talking to fellow players to keep it fun. So, in the end, I agree with you it sucks to have a game some players pay to not play it and others have fun cheating it, and it's a cheap design choice, but there are some people find it relaxing to watch a little toon chop down a magic tree.
> If you teach CS well and make $65K, almost all your students will make more than you do at their first position and many will make 2x-3x

"Many" is a weasel word that adds a different flavor to your original assertion that "your undergrads are making 3x your income at their first gig." What you're saying is still crazy hyperbole. I simply cannot imagine what your source of data is here. A randomly chosen google hit shows that the average starting salary for a new CS undergrad is around $68k, which seems about right.

It is still, if we're being honest, probably a bit humbling for a junior professor to be making the same as a new graduate. But you had to lean into the "2x-3x" hyperbole...

>> These sorts of careless lies...

> This rant sounds extremely personal. Not going to touch this.

Oh, touch it. Young people trying to gauge the profession, higher education, and its' costs are going to read your comments. They are entering what is often a lucrative profession but they are not going to be making three times as much as their teachers. Why make stuff up? It's not helping anybody.

> Total comp out of a top CS PhD programs lately is around 200K-300K range with some outliers.

> Total comp out of a top MBA program lately is around 100K-200K range with some outliers.

This would be a lot more compelling if you provided citations. The salary numbers someone else provided for the Stanford MBA program, numbers which you were dismissive of, included range, median, and mode, and those numbers were higher. But the numbers I (and I suspect, anyone involved in the profession) are likely to be most skeptical about are the numbers you're talking about for CS PhD new grads. Those people will often gravitate towards postdoc and teaching positions, while the Masters students will often gravitate towards FAANG jobs.

To be honest I would be delighted to learn that newly graduated CS PhDs from top programs are making, on average, as much as those entering industry with a Masters, since it would probably signal a lot more money being put towards research. I'm pretty sure the numbers you're talking about would have them making twice as much as the new Masters grads, which, again, great! I would be delighted to learn it's true.

[0] https://www.naceweb.org/job-market/compensation/computer-sci...
I know some people working there who are remote. (For example one lives in New York but works for a team that is located in Cupertino.) From what they’ve told me it all depends on what you can talk your manager (or a hiring manager) into. If you’re good enough and they want you badly enough, you can get what you want.
Admittedly, it is not much better given that the same data forms the basis for the search, but this site is arguably faster once loaded and links directly to the package insert without the expansion sections on DailyMed (I don't like them personally).
Check yourself first, after searching for anything new that stimulate your intelligence and searching for news places too. You're alive! Keep living
Please watch this video from Juice media on how carbon capture technologies are a complete sham https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSZgoFyuHC8&ab_channel=theju...
The homelessness and drug use I hear about in SF really boggles my mind. If california were a nation, it's GDP would be higher than the entire nation of india. Why in god's name can a place as rich as SF and the bay area not address their problems? Seriously? This isn't hard. Look at Portugal. Are you really telling me this couldn't be done on a smaller scale in California? Do they simply not care?
I had the same when deleting my account 3 years ago. LastPass is hot garbage and LogMeIm are the perfect home for it being a dumpster fire of a company.
It's only a game within the game. Outside the game is the metagame and social status as mentioned. I saying I read about some pro sports was if you're not cheating you're not trying hard enough. So it's considered an unstated rule in a sense.
Forget delivering food, just a week ago there was a discussion on here where the predominant attitude in the comments was about how CTOs shouldn't be programming, and CTOs who program are wasting their time when they could be doing much more valuable things like the "setting direction" and "vision" of the company.

As someone who is now a C-suite exec, I was aghast reading that discussion. If you're a CTO who doesn't code, so be it do what works for you, CTO is such a broad title that there are plenty of companies that don't need a CTO who codes. But the shock was at how adamant people were that CTOs have better things to do than contribute to software. Not only have I worked with excellent CTOs who all contributed source code to projects, many CTOs I admire and look up to do the same, such as John Carmack, Fabrice Bellard, Cal Henderson.

There are domains where a CTO absolutely need not code, and coding is not the end all be all of building a technology company by any means, but it's hard to imagine many situations where CTOs who do code are doing it at the expense of a more valuable skill, and furthermore I can think of many companies that would benefit from having CTOs who did actually contribute source code.
From Oklahoma and I agree - feels like they think the midwest is some sort of alien world...
Also a hiring manager and I agree: The job-hopping mentality is greatly exaggerated online.

I go through a lot of resumes, but hardcore job hopper resumes are still very rare. Numerically, they'd have to be overrepresented in the applicant pool due to changing jobs 2-5X more frequently than everyone else.

It's not a big deal if someone has a couple short jobs on their resume or even a series of short-term engagements. But what may not be obvious until you've done a lot of hiring is that it's really hard to tell the difference between someone who changes jobs every 12 months for a pay increase compared to someone who changes jobs every 12 months because they get PIPed and managed out of every company they work for. Some people are really good at interviewing, but will show up at your company and proceed to ride your performance management track until they're pushed out, at which case they hop into the next company and move on.

So at minimum, job hoppers get much more intensive interviews and reference checks. But more realistically I just give priority to candidates who have track records of accomplishing bigger things over longer periods of time at companies.
Also, it can do this: https://locserendipity.com/RxInfo.html?q=atorvastatin
I think at a certain size though a large enough company starts to approximate a conglomerate of smaller companies. Sure, maybe you can't change the entire company, but you could change your smaller org.
How would that matter for any of the uses suggested in the article? 12 and 20 have the same number of divisors.
“The team was surprised to note that the water bears did not have distinct gaits for each speed, like horses as they transition from a walk to a gallop. Rather, their locomotion closely resembled that of insects and arthropods, scurrying along faster and faster with no change to the basic step pattern.”

So they expected them to walk like horses and not insects? That seems odd.
Seniors and leads aren't going to get a lot of depth in a short period time, either. Seniors and leads do a lot of non-deep work that, depending on their responsibilities, may involve "lead" activities that take away from deep-diving uninterrupted.

Also I don't think seniors and leads with short stints are to be trusted (from recent experience with such people).
In many areas there is zero or just one local mapper.

And vandalism and malicious editing remains rare.

That would be enormous effort for minimal benefit.
I quit smoking some 15 years ago (after some 10 years of smoking) for about 3-4 years and then learned of e-cigarettes (pre-July) and, intrigued, got one, then, cautious of relapsing filled the cartridges with pure, unscented glycerin. In 2 weeks I was back to smoking real cigarettes at the good ole pack-a-day rate.

Took another 5 years to quit again. This time for good.

I have no idea what was the mechanism second time, but I “just quit”. Cold turkey. I have zero interest in even one drag now.

I sometimes would take a friend’s cigarette and hold it in my mouth, pretend-smoking, inhaling and exhaling, making all those sweet smoking lip maneuvers, as if I am making rings or pushing smoke through my nostrils. No desire to light it at all
I suspect that SWE is becoming a bi-modal field. We often talk about SWE salaries pushing mid-> high six figures, but this is only true for experienced professionals working in very successful companies benefiting from large stock appreciations.

If the stock market was falling/flat for a few years SWE comp would not be as high. By definition, most SWEs will not work at Netflix. The current situation of stable, well paying, and public tech companies is unlikely to persist indefinitely.
edit: Sorry, meant "work to live".
> How many openings are there for each person who passes

Think of the SoA as a union, if that helps.

> what are working conditions like?

It's a boring office job.

The job is what it is. A safe and well-paid job that guarantees you'll never be a pauper or a prince. Not dissimilar from university teaching.
The question of whether race or location is the causal factor seems to just be different dimensions of the same thing, no? Given that they pretty much correlate though most of history.
Actually, originally no; stocks paid dividends.
Post the project on https://www.reddit.com/r/forhire/ or https://www.upwork.com/services/ and get some quotes.
> to grab a million tons of carbon, a direct air capture plant could devour on the order of 300 to 500 megawatts of energy per year—enough to power some 30,000 American homes.
Still using 1password6 not trusting the cloud store.
I got the same. When do we start as actuaries?
Bit besides the point, but how many of you do still run nginx inside container infrastructures? I've been having container hosts behind a firewall without explicit WAN access for a long time -- to expose public services, I offload the nginx tasks to CloudFlare by running `cloudflared` tunnel. These "Argo" tunnels are free to use, and essentially give you a managed nginx for free. Nifty if you are using CloudFlare anyway.
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Are these on top of a cash bonus?
This is absolutely not the experience if you live in Wisconsin. Well over 80% of people here are white.
I considered becoming an actuary after college (passed first two exams on first try) but decided to become a software engineer instead. You should expect to make six figures with a near guarantee of employment for your entire career. The job conditions are fairly standard for a white collar worker, but you won't have crazy working hours like a lawyer or a banker.

If you could take the tests in parallel the process would be a lot quicker, but the tests are sequential (you typically need to take 7 to be fully certified) and are only offered every 3-6 months. I didn't think the first two exams were particularly difficult, but did prep for about a month for each beforehand. I would argue that time management was more important since you had only a few questions but were on a strict clock. So if you actually wanted to pass the test it was more important to find shortcut methods to get to the correct answer quickly.
I was with you until that last part. Sorry I'm not really willing to believe John D. Rockefeller Ⅲ and co. could have my best interest in mind when talking about how we should maintain humanity under half a billion in perpetual balance with nature. Sounds more like a world where they will own everything and there will never be enough of "the rest of us" to effectively demand equality https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED050960.pdf#page=10
A small note, but actuaries do a lot more than capital reserving, and even then the regulatory aspect (while important) is not the only consideration.

I am not an actuary, but I have done a lot of actuarial work in a small insurance company, and the work included

- pricing (are we under of over charging for this product?)

- reinsurance (analysis so we can get a good price, as well as making sure what we sell remains within our reinsurance coverage)

- portfolio monitoring (performance/profitability/etc)

- risk aggregation (do we have too much exposure to a single risk or type of risk)

- loss forecasting (primarily for reserving, but also for a 'true' indication of performance, as claims experience is necessarily very laggy)

- product development (for example, what does a travel insurance product look like in a COVID world? What can we reasonably offer and how do we assess the pricing/reinsurance/risk appetite)

Moreover, none of these tasks required nor employed any memorised formulas. You either use a model someone else built, or build one yourself, and then analyse and test as much data as you can so that you can provide good advice. Importantly you have to be able to show exactly how you produced that advice, and be ready to justify every single choice you made while doing so. A large part of the actuarial training seems to be ways of working and thinking that enable this (at least this is my impression from the actuaries I work with).

There are actuaries who just calculate '"Solvency II" formulas for "quarter end"', but there are also actuaries developing advanced risk models for catastrophic weather events using large data sets and machine learning, or shutting down products because the market has shifted and it's no longer viable. In every insurance company I've worked at, actuaries are some of the most influential and respected people there, and do very interesting work (along with some really mind-numbing work!).
>Global human elimination of SARS2

Yawn. This will never happen, and no one even cares. Long covid is just 1% of 1% cases that are psychosomatic and way overblown.
> . If a person's own writing shows that they lie, rewrite reality, or otherwise engage in cognitive distortions, they're abusive. Period. Instant kill shot.

If you haven't dealt with someone with NPD or BPD, I'd like to clarify this a bit. I'm sure that any of the prolific commenters on HN could be found to have contradicted themselves and/or distorted reality occasionally. This is about patterns of behavior, and it's usually coupled with minimizing any specific examples of the behavior while never engaging with the fact that the problem is the pattern of behavior, not any one example.

I've dealt with someone with eBPD who was unable to get through a 45 minute therapy session without contradicting themselves. They also habitually selectively report facts to distort reality[1]. If the estranged kid(s) really were the ones with personality disorders, I suspect the emotional responses to being cut out would be something along the lines of "Sad, relieved, guilty about feeling relieved."

1: Here's an example with details changed: "Joe drank too much last night and we got in a car crash." Reality, Joe was in the passenger seat, and the driver hit a deer that jumped out in front of them. On confrontation: "I never said Joe drove drunk!"
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Does your product have any images or localized text that could balloon the size?
> is this subconscious bias that kids are the property of their parents.

Nothing exemplifies this better than the cliche

> I gave you life. I can take it away.
I think you can forgive people for wanting to look for solutions that don't require millions/billions of deaths, as that's the only way you'll see the level of change necessary. It will happen naturally over time as economic levels rise and reproduction rates drop below sustaining. But that will take centuries and lots of resources, so I'm doubtful that is what you are proposing.
I’m not an actuary, but worked earlier in my career for a “chief innovation officer”. Being young and dumb I feel for it, and in truth we had an awesome team that did some really cool stuff with lasting value.

But once we had a few wins, the chief innovator guy got promoted away, and he was the guy with political power. The various fiefdoms goobled up the innovation budget like thanksgiving turkey. The IT idiots “innovated” by buying high capacity toner. The data center people bought new air conditioners.
Pretty sure Axie has its own blockchain
Why life is faster and depression is lower in bigger cities
> My perception is that everyone knows job hopping is normal and companies will be happy to have you for that 1-2 years if you’re good. It’s not a black mark on your resume.

A few short engagements are no big deal, but serial job hoppers are a warning flag for deeper investigation.

I won't overlook a resume for having a job hopper signature, but we will be going very deep into their accomplishments at these companies. It's often hard to ramp up at a company and deliver something significant from start to finish and production follow-up in 12 months.

Most of the job hoppers I interview end up citing projects that they contributed to, but can't really pin down much significant that was really their own contribution. It's not impossible, but it's far more common to find significant contributions in 2-4 year engineers.
Yeah uptown got hit really hard. Maybe the other commenters don't live in uptown but I do and the crime issues are pretty wild since the riots. My neighbor was carjacked at gunpoint by a group of teenagers in our parking lot. You have to be very aware of your surroundings now. I'd say about half of the businesses have closed permanently around me.

The Walgreens on 27th and Hennepin gets robbed at least once a month. One time they just shot up drive through windows and the employees left while they robbed the place. Luckily the glass is bulletproof on them. The cops don't seem to really respond things.

One of the weirdest things was this summer where they were doing construction on 28th and Hennepin and there was a cop posted up there during the day. I asked him why and he said "because the construction workers were being assaulted and their tools were being stolen". And this is in a nice area right by Lake of the Isles.

Deny it if you want, it's just like a political mess now because the DA will no longer bring a lot of prosecutions to trial it seems like.
No because it's irrelevant here.
I passed one of the actuary exams (P) after college after taking <$many> applied stats classes. I'm glad I did because it gave me a very good intuition for conditional and bayesian probabilities. I'm sure I wouldn't pass it if I took it right now, and I would never want to study for the other exams, but I think this one was a real win that taught transferable skills.
> the median remote work is probably better than the median in person work

What makes you say that?