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I just completed a successful job search, including landing a great senior level IC role at a large tech company. I do not have LinkedIn (or GitHub etc.).

Based on what I've read and heard from hiring managers, I optimized two things: CV and video call setup. My CV was customized for every application, a single page dense with information but designed to be easy to skim and pattern match to the role requirements. For video calls, I had a high quality camera, microphone, lighting and background arrangement. There are tons of guides for YouTuber setups, which I followed.

I have no control experiment (it could be due to a hot job market or my experience profile) but I was honestly quite surprised how effective it all seemed.
You can do it as a service, but that is highly competitive and basically trading time for money. Best ways are to productize it:

- build a on-demand data api for a specific type of data and charge a premium for it. Good example is https://serpapi.com/ who do Google data, charge ~10X markup on proxy costs

- proxy solutions make good money. To scrape at scale you need proxies, and lots of users pay $1-5k per month. Lots of proxy solutions doing +$100k per month.

- build a tool that uses web scraped data, analyses/filters it and displays it to users. Lots of the biggest web scrapers are doing this, ex. doing product monitoring products for e-commerce companies, etc. Lots of competition there, but you can do it in new markets, like NFTs, etc.

- hedge funds will pay huge money for web data, if you have 5 years of continuous data so they can backtest it.
This is still an issue on iPhones today. When you have a notification icon and start to pull your Home Screen to make it blurry, the border of the red circle gets inexplicably dark. Whatever happened to Apple’s famed attention to detail. This has been the case since the iPhone 6 was new, if not earlier.
A quick Wikipedia search yields these quotes from her: “ Palestinian Arabs [are] people who breed and bleed and advertise their misery” and Jewish people have “ squeamishness about the shootings and beatings meted out to the breeders”. Wow. Repulsive is absolutely the right word to describe her
Use vax status in giving out ICU and other care. This whole thing is only because doctors won't have a backbone and won't refuse or include vax status in triage for unvaccinated patients.

Like, I actually do not get this idea of "oh ur fucked if you get hit by a car" because it should be obvious that 80 years old grandma whose anti-vax has a lower value to life than I, a boosted young person does.

We have to do value to life calculations all the time every day, even if it is unpleasant for us to say things like this outloud.
Web3, Silicon Valley’s New Obsession, Looks a Lot Like Its Last One
I'd recommend going through https://www.mathsisfun.com/ website.
I'm currently using it for brushing up my algebra and finding it really well phrased.
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I have never got a job via LinkedIn, and when I did have an account years ago when it first started, I closed it because of the crazy amount of spam I used to get from it.

It's a social media account. Instead of posting about how great your cats are, you post about how great this article that you wrote is.

I guess if you MUST have one, just put a link to your own site with CV and stuff that you want - then its there for normal people to see, and those that insist on using a social media platform to decide if they should hire you or not.
To me that's still better than no changes at all. I think the change to 8 was the biggest, after that they are manageable.
Accept the fact that the work you’re doing now is probably going to be replaced within 18-24 months when a new CTO wants to make a mark.

Your relationships on the other hand, will hopefully last a lifetime.

Act accordingly.

Edit: A practical advice – I haven’t worked a 40 hour week since I became a dad. Well worth the pay cut.
Also quite popular in mines because it doesn't create sparks.
Easy enough when using w3m
> An extensive stdlib ensures decent performance: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31548680/why-is-python-3...

This example is about a language issue, not the stdlib. And it's only slower on purely computational code, which Python is known to be bad at anyway, as a tradeoff to avoid overflow issues.

> An extensive stdlib ensures stability: i'm not even sure how, with good version pinning it should always work, regardless of the it being std lib or otherwise.

Version pinning is a bad practice because it slows deployment of security updates. It also only works for end applications, as libraries cannot reasonably pin their own dependencies.
It's a very interesting article, but some of the word choices leave a very bad taste in my mouth.

> As Vietnam did, China cares deeply about national unity and immunity from foreign intervention. We fought bravely in Vietnam but lost because Hanoi, despite its military inferiority, cared far more about the outcome than we did. Hanoi was prepared to sacrifice everything to reunite its country. We were not willing to do as much to keep it divided.

> What sacrifices in lives and treasure are Americans prepared to make to assure unilateral self-determination for Taiwan?

The article makes it sound like Taiwan is unreasonable for "unilaterally" not wanting be invaded by a country with overwhelming military superiority and a totalitarian regime. Maybe Taiwan should defer to China's opinion on whether China should invade Taiwan?

I mean, if your opinion is "China can and will invade any smaller neighbors it deems to occupy, there's nothing the US can do to stop them, and we shouldn't waste our lives trying", fine, go ahead and say so.

But stop using language like "divising" and "reuniting" to pretend this is anything other than a totalitarian regime planning its next military conquest to appease the masses.
Someone is tracking the changes here: https://munvoseli.github.io/xkcd-countdown/
Try KF-94s, there are several high quality korean brands on Amazon. These are the ones that are curved instead of beak shaped in front of your mouth and nose, giving you extra room to exhale. These never fog up glasses if you fit them properly.
If they do that, the economy will crash leading into an election year, with an actual risk of Fascism.
If they admit the real cause then they have no choice but to act.

Powell has one real mandate: preserve the asset values and thus the power of the current ruling class.

He only accepted problematic inflation when it was no longer politically possible to deny it. He's now making non-committal statements regarding continued QE and fed balance sheet reduction.

The fed is backed into a corner. They either pop the asset bubble and lose their jobs, or let inflation continue unchecked until their bosses(politicians) lose their jobs.

They have a politically powerful generation(boomers) going into retirement. They'll do what it takes to keep them happy. Those folks are already looking at significant inflation in health care due to the mismatch between supply and demand there. Covid is only making that worse by causing early retirements and discouraging young people from going into health care.
this doesn't affect demand enough to die on that hill.
It escapes during exhale since it naturally pushes the mask away and the fit becomes looser. During inhale air pushes the mask toward the face and the fit becomes tighter.

Most problems are during some, even light such as walking, physical activity when more air is needed. Inhaling is limited by the mask, but it cannot hold a strong exhale. I imagine sitting in a subway or a train should be fine. Hope to get on a train trip in 2 weeks so I would rather postpone my second covid, that's why I'm going for those inconveniences.
I didn’t claim any of that at all with my five word sentence.

But I would certainly claim that vaccines and masks are doing more than zero to help, the studies and science are openly accessible.

Even if vaccines and masks just helped stop 10% of infections it’s a gain.

What’s your improved proposal to stop an aerosol-borne virus with that kind of R0-value in places you can’t exchange air effectively?
I think there’s been a few of those on hacker news. Let me dig one up
I just don’t care about things which are of no consequence, rather than frothing with rage about possible minor breaches of protocol. Try it.
It isn't even unethical. You could make the case that you shouldn't take the name because it misrepresents the identity of the game, but the gameplay itself?
I can't imagine the negative environmental impact if everyone used disposable masks.
I am a unionized software engineer and we will be bargaining for COLA to address the issues you highlight.

When workers don't have democratic organizations of their own, their interests fall by the wayside.
> they are expecting people to just get sick and die

Or are they expecting the vast majority people to just get sick with flu-like symptoms at the worst, like we do every single year? Covid is never going away, at some point we have to accept that and move on.
Damages.

Offer two licenses. One GPL and the other commercial. Make the commercial license as costly as possible, even Oracle grade by charging per core. Include language stating that the licensing agreement falls back to the commercial license if the GPL is violated and the violation is not remedied according to the provisions set in the GPL.

Any licensing fees collected get poured back into the open source project.

If another company is stupid enough to ignore these terms, I'm sure you can find someone willing to sue on your behalf for a fraction of the damages owed to you.
For me, Haskell is already there (maybe you find its ecosystem not vibrant enough?) and OCaml will be there with multicore OCaml.
I live in London. Lots of people did get fined. I remember someone local back when I lived in Palace that got fined for loitering at a train station for a bit.

Why should joe public be fined for breaking the rules, and not the political elites for breaking the same rules?
Surgical masks as good as N95 against respiratory virus
Protection was and still is marked at a percentage less than 100% but still useful.
The people being ridiculed were saying there was no point because it’s not 100% without realizing that the lowered percentage or ratio of spread when BOTH parties are wearing even an ill fitting mask. The difference is not negligible. It’s really a math equation between two social parties in the end.
People wearing masks often lower their protection even lower because they wear the same mask every day or after every exposure without washing or by constantly touching it.

In general, I disagree with the “ridicule” but instead, trying a new or different way of explaining it.
sigh I didn’t say that the dividers help. I in fact explicitly agreed with you that they’re useless.

That being said, the virus isn’t magically going to fill the entire space equally from one infected person. There is a distance factor involved, and the closer you are unmasked the higher your risk. So only unmasking at your table cuts your risk pool down to the tables immediately proximate to you, rather than everyone you walked by, and anyone you shared the bathroom with. It’s not as safe as staying home, but it’s better than being unmasked the entire time.

Oh, and the risk isn’t going to hang around hours after the fact, unless if you’re in a completely unventilated space. Commercial restaurants change their air over a recommended 8 times an hour.
There are multiple metrics to describe what “works” even means. You are right that battle tested code can be more stable and fulfill its goals more than new untested code or code written without a customer. At the same time it’s also true that any sizeable codebase, especially production code, will accumulate bugs over time, will almost always slow down over time, and will eventually once large enough become crufty and smelly and unfactorable and difficult and, maybe most importantly, expensive to maintain. Big systems are hard.
Why would there be a ban on this type of research, in the US, since 2014?

https://osp.od.nih.gov/biotechnology/gain-of-function-resear...
I believe the better question is why US salaries are so high
I think that is mostly due to USA having for profit hospitals so they don't care about who occupies the bed as long as they pay. Other countries seems to have much less hospitalisations for similar number of cases, probably because they judge that most people don't really need it so putting them in a hospital is just a waste of resources.
If you don't want people to rip you off without giving back, then use GPL and not Apache license.

People in favor of the Apache license are people who like to "pay you in exposure".

Turns out you can't eat exposure.

Well you wrote that code, you want people to use it, right? Then attach no strings!

Turns out I also need to pay rent and and buy food.
> Using C instead of Rust is similar to rolling your own crypto because openssl is too hard.

Probably, yeah. At least in a world where openssl is actually so hard that doing stuff yourself seems like a reasonable idea, because theoretically secure doesn't do anything for you if the thing is too hard to actually use - there's a reason PHP utterly dominated webdev even when it sucked for security.

> Rust is competing in the domain of easy to use languages.

Then it loses. If you meant to write that Rust is not competing for easy to use, then it loses separately, because technically superior but too high of a barrier to entry still loses (there is a reason we aren't all exclusively running software written in Ada on OpenBSD).
I'm not sure those are counterexamples.

The discussion is about large standard libraries vs. package managers. C and C++ are even older languages that had neither. Back then, the idea of having a large abstraction layer between the language and the OS wasn't even thinkable -- that idea didn't really appear before the 90s.

If you don't know the size of Java's standard library in the 90s, it's maybe risky to imply that it must have been small. :) Kidding a bit. But to give a hint, it included two different incompatible GUI frameworks by 1998.

JavaScript is from the 90s, but wasn't a standalone programming language until Node.js, which was released in 2009.

C# is the newest non-Go language you mention with a large standard library. It was released in 2000 (so in the 20th century if we're being pedantic), and even it has moved a lot of stuff into Nuget packages that used to be built in. For example, the entirety of ASP.net.
I tend to think that actual difference between last 2 years vs previous 13 was who the money went to. This time they gave some cash to the poor ($300 stimulus checks), which they never did before, and poor immediately spent it. In the previous 13 years, money was printed almost exclusively for the rich, and they already have everything they want to consume so they invested it, driving up valuations but not consumer prices.
Is it normal to wear a mask when you are not sick? Or is it only when you're actually sick. My understanding was, that it is something to wear if you are actually sick. Treating everyone, regardless of symptoms, as being a spreader of disease seems wrong.
I saw a picket line in Korea while I was there on business. It gave the impression that unionization is pretty robust there. It wasn't at a tech company, as far as I could tell. But I would not try to cross that picket line.
GS isn't known for their scientific prowess - signal that they believe there is money in large scale ESS. Not sure if it's validating the technology at all though. Compressed air has been around for a long time at this point.
> Over a long enough time the efficacy drops to zero.

And in the long run, we're all dead.
lol math wiz wants to go into banking, he must be procrastinating. What?
The last major coronavirus pandemic probably started about 133 years ago.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7252012/

Since then both SARS-CoV and MERS jumped from animals to humans. They caused smaller outbreaks rather than worldwide pandemics. There was no suspicion of a lab leak origin for those viruses.
I believe you have it in reverse. "fact" checking is there to show a minority of people that the information they are about to consume is against what is believed to be true by the scientific community and the public at this point in time.
I frankly see it the other way around. I want measures to relax precisely because I think about groups and not specific people.

The psychological damage being done, in a society which doesn't have the tools to deal with it properly (and with this I mean pretty much the entirety of western society) is not even being taken into account. Quality of living for a good deal of society has gone to hell, I can't even take a walk in the park without a mask on (I happen to be Spanish). It's madness.

Public healthcare psychology is not even brought up by GPs anymore unless you risk suicide, and even then there is a waiting period of several months. Suicide attempts are at an all-time high and the amount of depression and anxiety backing it up can't be overstated.

I feel like we are pretending we solved the trolley problem all of a sudden.
Again, go read the methodology.

If I buy figure out the cost to obtain 100 grams of Cheetos at ten convenience stores in urban areas I can very much tell you the price change with two significant digits. We get it, you don’t like the way they measure inflation. But the CPI is not some hand wavy number, and your comments across this thread indicate that you also don’t understand what it is and how it is derived.
Python comes with Tk
It’s amusing too because many highly trained people were perplexed about the FCS — until last year when we discovered that those mutations actually do happen spontaneously in nature, in Coronaviruses and are stable:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187350612...

People forget that we're looking at the "plane that landed" from the famous WWII picture. A bunch of low probability things had to happen for SarsCOV2 to emerge naturally -- but given a long enough timeline and trillions of viral replications, sometimes it will.
Could stagflation be on the horizon?
The dividers, insofar as they impede overall airflow, might make things worse. Would like to know whether there's a study on that.
What goes into building and burying large scale underground structures like those air caverns?
Quite easy to read the MCU text with the autofocus camera, with the others not so much.
I think human behavior needs to be taken into account when it comes to safety measures like masks. I'm sure you can design 100 lab tests to prove that masks work, but the real world reality is always going to be different: people don't wear masks (even fitted masks) correctly.

Here's a short anecdote about how well-intentioned rules often work in the real world among non-trained people. While going to school to become a programmer, I worked in the food service industry. We were told to always wash our hands when shuffling between tasks: for instance when going from cutting potatoes to going to the register to handle peoples payments, we'd wash our hands thoroughly. This system was easy enough for anybody to come off the street and learn quickly and was strictly followed. One day a health inspector came by and started freaking out about this normal kitchen practice and started screeching that everybody had to wear gloves at all times. Of course anybody who understands reality knows how this turned out in the real world: pulling off and putting on gloves correctly for each task is a pain in the butt. What happened in the real world is people would put on one pair of gloves for hours, and go from working on the food to different tasks, including handling cash without changing gloves. As long as they were wearing the gloves at all times, they felt like they were doing the right thing. The reality is that people were just complying with the letter of the rule, but spreading far more dirt and bacteria around because of the rule.

I don't care what laboratory theory says: the real world reality of how untrained people follow rules is different. In real-world practice, masks are (IMO heavily dehumanizing) medical theater. I think masks work great when used as they're intended: by trained health care professionals doing one task in one room and properly disposing of them. Everything else is politicians ruining our lives covering their asses so the media doesn't have some clickbait headline to rip them.
how can i connect with you? do you have an email to share? mine is daudmalik06 (@) gmail
Those evil nazis and their matinees! If Spiderman has the decency to wear a mask, then they should too! But really, I'd almost assume that was a sarcastic post you made... if it weren't that NOT conforming to a "papers please" mentality now got you labelled as a "nazi" by the good boys and girls who do what the authorities tell them.
did you pinch the wire to conform it to the bridge of your nose?
Randomized Control Trials are not the one and only way to prove something.

> Conclusions: Parachute use did not reduce death or major traumatic injury when jumping from aircraft in the first randomized evaluation of this intervention. However, the trial was only able to enroll participants on small stationary aircraft on the ground, suggesting cautious extrapolation to high altitude jumps.

https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5094
p100 all the way. They don't last as long, look freakish and are hard to breathe through. BUT! If you are around a TON of people for 20 minutes it works perfect. We have family that do surgeries p100 all the way.
> I am utterly puzzled by how you can see this killer feature as a downsides.

It depends on the usage that you make of the language. I don't use Julia as a general-purpose programming language, but only for doing numeric computations. For that usage, the multiple dispatch feature is not necessary (all my variables are matrices of the same numeric type), and indeed it has downsides. For example, the infamous "time to first plot" is so large in Julia precisely due to the need to support multiple dispatch. If this benchmark is becoming faster is only due to a huge and complex effort in optimization. I would prefer if this effort could be spent in improving support for sparse matrices, for example.

I acknowledge that "time to first plot" may be a useless benchmark for many, even for most, people. But you can also acknowledge that multiple dispatch is a useless feature for a few graybeards like me, for whom multiple dispatch is the main reason why Julia feels slow. Indeed, when you use Julia as an interpreted language (e.g., write a Julia script), execution is very slow due to the complexities introduced by multiple dispatch, that force essentially to recompile all libraries upon each execution of my tiny script.
Hmm. Thanks for pointing that out — that’s really bad reporting. These designations mean something.
What's next? Factcheckers probing religion? Give it a break. No one has the absolute truth. How about a film for my window: "That is not a car jacking outside, fact checkers say".
This is basically just an ad for FusionAuth.
What is the role of face masks, however effective, in a world where a variant of Covid-19 is endemic? Sooner or later we're going to catch it much as we catch influenza which year in year out, kills up to an estimated 650,000 people every year.
To explain it a different way, I think, is that releasing code under a permissive license where the end user is a large corp, doesn't make the world a better place, it just reduces the labor needed to achieve an end.

OSS saves on headcount.
For me, fogging my glasses means I have a leak and the air is being forced out gaps around my nose. Maybe under extreme weather conditions a perfect fit would still fog, but that's not what the op is talking about.