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Someone once stated, and I kick myself for not remembering who, that becoming an adult is the process of integrating all of your life experiences (and using them).

On the happy path, most of your benefit is from your experience in the defined position, yes. But things don't stay happy for long, unless you're really good at denial.

I started up with a volunteer group about 7, 8 years back, and quickly found myself leading initiatives because my work experience translated to cat herding (for very small herds). A few years later I caught myself trying to apply wisdom going the other direction. And once I started noticing that, I became aware of all the times I borrow from a very well-run hobby group I belonged to in high school. On reflection, that used to be a conscious act that had faded from my notice.

A substantial amount of the intractable problems you have to tackle anyway are people problems, not technical problems, and any experiences in retail, QA, getting a PhD, organized sports or hobbies, or even chronic illness, give you a lot of experience that you can and should use.

There are technical problems are a battle between you and 'nature'. There's a tenacity I haven't always applied to all things in life, but I refined it by being an endurance athlete. I will fix some tech problems if nobody else will, even if it's the last thing I do. And if a production issue goes unsolved for long enough, I'm one of the last three people in the room who haven't tapped out. And it's not uncommon for one the other two to be an athlete, or former military.
This reminds me of a blog article (http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-co...) that coïncidentally was published in 2013. Or to put it another way, exhibit A of anecdotal evidence.
We, the HN members, could try to have a discussion about this.

I’m not sure it would be fruitful though.
People would move as long as there are similar quality free services. I don't think they could get away with it. Maybe they can charge for archival storage if you break a big threshold that implies you're a power user with $$.
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Yes, it has a low-pass-filter that you can turn on or off. See

http://amigadev.elowar.com/read/ADCD_2.1/Hardware_Manual_gui...

and more generally:

http://amigadev.elowar.com/read/ADCD_2.1/Hardware_Manual_gui...
I welcome the challenge to be forced into learning new things that are outside of my expertise.

I'm a backend dev and a few years ago the company pivoted and put almost all the engineering team on building a new React app. I'd never done React. It took me some time to learn it, and I'm still bad at making things look pretty. The skill will be valuable when I look for another job. Now I can apply for Full Stack positions and not just the backend positions.
Slaves who worked in Roman households were effectively a highly-skilled and educated minority, who could indeed hope to earn enough to buy out their freedom. It goes without saying that this was not a meaningful possibility for the vast majority of slaves, who were forced to work under far more strenuous conditions.
Perhaps it is that I spent my entire career in start ups (and in post exit companies that aren't quite startups anymore) but, I would disagree with both of your thoughts.

I have never taken an "how to give an interview class" although I think I got handed a packet once. Also I'm glad I didn't have to go to some interview training class, it would be written by some HR person that doesn't have a clue. The legal stuff is already well-handed by the standard HR (don't be an asshole or racist, or sexist, etc) training.

In every team I have ever been in, the interview responsibilities rotates through each team member, even newer ones unless they are maybe recent college grad super greens, then they would still go but maybe have somebody else sit in.
In the small shops places, everybody interviewed each candidate.

This actually makes a lot of sense as the candidate is potentially going to be their new teammate and member of the work community and it makes sense to give the people that will be day to day with this person input on the hiring decision.
they are starting to do better, but from folks i know who have gotten offers from Amazon/Netflix/Google/Apple/FB, Amazon is consistently 10-20% less than the top (usually FB after several rounds of negotiation..)
> Many economists, both mainstream and M.M.T. ones, did not think that the March 2021 package would be inflationary.
But homebound consumers, flush with cash, spent their money far more heavily on goods than they typically do, and it took them longer to shift back to services than just about anyone expected. That roiled supply chains, pushing up prices for cars and furniture and precipitating the heady inflation that now has America in its grip.

So they spent far more on goods than anyone expected?

Well, maybe services were hindered a bit buy some pandemic.
No, it's the maximum base pay for all positions.

Beyond entry level, most of the compensation at Amazon and other FAANGs is in the form of stock awards (RSUs). So a senior engineer might have a $160k annual salary and $300k worth of RSUs vesting that year, making for $460k total compensation.

In an environment of rising stock prices, this is a cost-effective way for a large company to pay high salaries because the stock that's worth $300k today was only worth, say, $150k when it was originally granted, and that's the price that Amazon effectively paid in its earnings deductions at that time.
Housing prices are high because the supply of housing is very low relative to demand from people who have the ability to pay a high price.

If you took the same amount of high earners and dropped them in an area with five times as many equivalent utility houses, then prices would not be high even though there are the same number of high earners. Hence high housing prices are not a result of a population of high earners simply existing.

As an example, I can afford and am willing to pay $5 for an apple, but I will not because I can easily find an equivalent one for $1.5.
No, its just the maximum cash base that amazon will pay anyone, at any level (perhaps without a VP approval, or something). RSU's and cash bonuses are not included, so it does not reflect total comp. E.g. someone might have 160k base and 500k total comp, including their RSUs.
He is saying he had a much better experience on iPhone. The average American is buying iPhones 60% to 40%.
I agree.
The real shining light here is that a determined amateur was able to get free, volunteer help from inside the community to weather the publication process.

Those who read the review / revision process in this article and were dismayed / convinced the process was flawed should realize this is precisely how review works in many fields. It takes a year to get a paper reviewed and revised, and a "25 page" (TFA) statement of revision is par. Not "all" will have the stomach for that, but once you are part of that process, it's normal.
> How does UBI work if everyone just decided not to work anymore?

If too many (which with any reasonable near-future level of productive capacity, and any level of UBI, is a lot short of “everyone”) people don't work with fixed nominal or dedicated-revenue-stream-based UBI, inflation erodes the value of UBI decreasing the lifestyle sustainable on UBI alone until enough fewer people opt out of work to stabilize things.

With inflation-indexed UBI you get a positive feedback UBI -> price feedback loop, so don't do UBI that way.

But mostly “what happens if too many people don’t work” is irrelevant to real-world UBI proposals: these tend to target a poverty-level income, replace existing means-tested poverty-support programs, and remove barriers to outside income that come with existing means-tested programs.

As such, they structurally incentivize more people choosing to work than under the status quo system (and a move from under-the-table to above-board work.)
Lenovo X1 Carbon is my favorite with Ethernet and Wifi and 14" screen, super light and battery lasts, good for travel and local development.
That's just it though, he can be interesting. I worked with him for 6 years. I wouldn't have stayed that long if he lacked all merit. He has an obvious natural intelligence, and some creative ideas. Especially in the early days, he had a charisma that allowed us to raise more money. We did some really interesting work. However, it was more important to him to be seen as a visionary than a successful entrepreneur, which is part of why our projects never seemed to take off. Which is why I eventually left.
If Amazon and a standard tech company both gave ~200k offers with a 100k base they would look like this:

Amazon: 100k base, 250k stock over 4 years (5-15-40-40), ~175k sign-on over 2 years

Other: 100k base, 400k stock over 4 years (25-25-25-25), ~25k sign-on immediately

Essentially the lack of stock over the first 2 years is offset by the sign-on
Wow that intro meme ha.

I used to obsess over the Carbon X1 when it was new. I have a smaller Carbon now but man nice computers. I also like that I can take it apart pretty easily to replace stuff. The keyboard is nice too.

Never got into the red mouse thing though.
i dont think they do it on these models. i have an AMD Ryzen Pro Gen2 P14s and replaced the wifi+bluetooth M2 card with an AX210.

the mediatek card was garbage; not just slow (ping times were 3x normal), but caused my machine to insta-reboot under git clone of a large repo in Windows 10, and simply dropped the wifi link in Manjaro during same op, so it's unlikely to be driver related.

kinda bizarre that they don't offer this card as an option on AMD builds and force mediatek upon you. the AX210 is a great card which supports monitor mode & packet injection.
Can you share more or point to further reading? I originally came across the Big Five because a psychologist was using it to debunk the idea of "grit" as being a predictor of success. (The claim was grit was not a new concept and essentially just a repackaging of the conscientiousness Big Five trait.)

It would be interesting (and another example of irony) if the Big Five itself was debunked.
Yeah, my wife actually intentionally hasn't gotten certified to allow her to legally physically retain children because it's such an obvious litigation minefield.

School is frequently viewed as a day care more than a house of education unfortunately.
Holy hell, red flags abound

Lemme guess the CEO/CFO/CPO/CRO all come from wealthy backgrounds and post inspiring tweets/linkedins whilst the company piledrives into the ground?
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He was still doing frontend. He didn't think of it that way because modern view perverted the meaning beyond all recognition
> Additionally, Fredrickson references a textbook called Differential Equations, Dynamical Systems, and an Introduction to Chaos, a book Sokal says “is aimed at upper-level undergraduates in mathematics, physics and related disciplines.”

> “If she had studied 1/10th of what she said she studied,” says Sokal, “she would have seen right through Losada.”

The author making the bad claims seems to have a pretty decent math education. Or she's lying about what she studied...
I doubt there is any concerted effort to keep the field small. That would be like saying tech companies don't want people learning how to code so that they can maintain an advantage.

If anything, governments and companies are encouraging people to study cryptography so that they are able to hire more experts in the future.

Now, once you get gatekeeper organizations and special licensing organizations like contractors licensing or beauticians licensing, those are examples of groups trying to keep the pool of experts small.
I don't buy it. Rogan got a public backlash for spreading misinformation. It's rather easy to verify. If they come for someone I like, there's probably a good reason for it and I'll have to re-evaluate if I should keep liking them.

So far "they" came for only one entertainer I've enjoyed, Louis CK. And well, I can't really be upset over it.
I've rarely gone to theaters in decades but I have close friends who I was in the school film group with who are pretty adamant about how they prefer to watch a movie in a theater with other people.

It's also a (relatively) cheap and low friction option for a date, going out with friends, etc.

I honestly did wonder if the pandemic would permanently shift movie theater going as a behavior but the box office results suggest not--and that's with things not yet back to normal in much of the US.
MAME is an amazing open source libre project.
This is a perfect description of Bulgaria. I would only swap "gated communities" with social bubbles.
I'm not following - what would Google be charging for? Didn't they stop scanning email for ads a few years back?
That would be very convenient indeed, but for whatever reason, that didn't happen. I keep running into many places where Uber is hard to find or non-existent, Turkey, parts of Mexico, Russia, I'm sure there are more.
FWIW I voted you down because you made a post that was more or less guaranteed to start a flamewar, and only tangentially related to the OP.
Long discussion of these issues here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28639952, but the short version appears to be that Intel removed "S3 Sleep" from recent chips, at Microsoft's behest, in favor of a mode that is supposed to be able to wake up while nominally sleeping in order to get emails, texts, and that sort of thing. Except this mode doesn't seem to work properly and instead seems implemented in such a way as to frustrate people into choosing AMD or Apple.
TBH I don't care much about ProMotion screen or getting a 2TB SSD. The reason I want a non-MBA laptop is for the ports. I want more than one USB port (not counting the one I have to use for charging), and I want SD as well. For this, I'm willing to pay a bit more than the cost of an MBA.

But I'm not willing to jump up to $2,000 for the privilege of being able to plug in two peripherals simultaneously (without having to rely on a hub/dongle).
Im curious how long till words play will be the „Farm Land”
So I guess that's where I'm limited here. Unlike you, I have no idea what Thiel wants me to do. I also have no preference as to what some billionaire that I'll never meet says. I just read the words on the page and didn't attempt to fill in any blanks.
I’m thinking the latter as it seems so crazy to use a specific word and then argue against its understood meaning. Why would I want to bother with that confusion when I could just call it “reform police” or whatever.

Gaslighting is very mainstream and seems so commonplace in even banal, insubstantial things like debating whether “defund police” means to remove funding from the police or something else.
Does that even matter though? The KJV was written to best fit in with Christianity in that period of time and situtation. You won't find a Bible or any religious text without bias from those who are translating it.
Why don't they raise the salaries of the Amazon delivery and order pickers instead?
Personally if I were in charge, I'd start by slowly phasing it in via distributing it from the proceeds of a land value tax (the most efficient tax, Henry George called this a citizen's dividend). Then the UBI amount is anchored and there's no possibility of runaway inflation.
> I’m trying to say this with utmost respect. But $12k x 330M is $4T/year.

I don't disagree, it sounds infeasible. But it's such a massive stimulus that I think it's really hard to model the real outcome. I just think it's probably not accurate to try and model it using a single iteration of the current budget.

Ultimately I think we have to collectively decide whether or not our society can support a basic level of civilized existence for all members, or if there is a core requirement that some people are going to need to suffer so that a plurality will be able to live comfortably. Same for health care -- can we simply not afford for everyone to have a basic level of health care? Must someone else suffer so that I can get adequate care for myself and family?

UBI and things like it are just a means to that end.
I absolutely accept this, in a world were deep technical explanations aren't exactly in fashion, it's the only explanation which fits the available evidence. However, it also runs contrary to the official / media friendly version of what Boeing say happened.

I wish we had a good source, the best I've found is the 737 technical site, I wish it was available in an official report.
It's a large combination of factors that affect this... first off, houses and apartments in top tier tech cities in the US are far more than 200k/500k, the labor market is more competitive, and in some states (like California), non-compete clauses are not enforceable, so switching jobs is relatively low effort/cost for the employee.
This will happen as long as the ruling class is prevented from taking their cut of the pie due to it still being illegal at the federal level.

They’re mad and bothered that lower classes are able to establish marijuana business in select states, so they have their posse (police) do their bidding.
There were at least two counterparties (one selling the shares, one eventually buying them), one of which was exceedingly unlikely to be Melvin.
The last point sounds like a security vulnerability of some sort? It shouldn't be hard for Mojang to issue unforgeable tokens.
It is indeed incomprehensibly large compared both the rest of the world and compared to the cost of most necessities (food, clothing, electricity, whatever electronic gadget...)

Yet, everything changes if you consider housing, medical expenses, childcare, pensions: ta-dah the ratio between income and expenses is worse than in Europe.

Then count your real working hours over a 30-years period and redo the math.
FOSDEM 2022 was on this past weekend and it was fascinating to see the spectrum of talks about Matrix use cases. https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/track/matrixorg_foundation_...

You have everything from Drone C2, to chat, to networked photoframes.

It definitely has a lot of growing and a chunk of bugs to get ironed out but I truly believe that a federated open source chat protocol is the only option for the open future of IM, and Matrix is the best we have in that space.
Previously you could not make more than ~$160k in salary at Amazon at any level. Now they are raising the cap.
Also "illuminate", "shortcut", "building a tangible architecture", and "dismantle and replace". :)
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> While the stock vests in year 3 and 4, you get an equivalent amount of cash in year 1 and 2. It’s not uncommon for that cash to be 6 figures, almost doubling your salary for the first two years. I wouldn’t call that a pittance.

This was my experience ~8 years ago. There was an initial signing bonus, a retention bonus after a year, and then the RSUs start kicking in. The bonuses were prorated monthly. It was a little different than what other companies do, but it didn't feel unfair.
The only people who say this are those who don't work at the major tech companies. I worked at Google and Microsoft and know plenty of people who work at Facebook, AirBnb, Uber. Neither myself or anyone I know is overworked, or is unable to take plenty of time off for vacation, or doesn't have access to absolutely amazing health care plans.

It's not Goldman Sachs we're talking about here.
Given that I don’t at all ask the kinds of questions in that book I think it’s unlikely.

My questions are usually: “tell me about a time you x”

“Who helped you, what did you like about them”

Or “nobody helped you? Was that by choice, how did that feel”.

You get the gist.
Once you get proxy url as shown in the bash script, you can post to it whatever info they require (most of the time, it is just an email or zip code etc). The web gui pop up is just browser window opened by your OS. If you happen to use BSD/Linux, you are most likely will not see the popup. It is surely the case with OpenBSD.
You really believe that the “rest of the industry” would not like to do everything they can to make more money? You think the rest of the industry are saints that believe in being “open”?

And Apple didn’t start off with some magical majority share. When the iPhone was introduced, there were already 1 billion phones being sold every year. SJ said specifically he would be happy if he sold 10 million to capture 1% of the market. Did Apple do something magical that any of the incumbents couldn’t have done? How did Apple stop RIM, MS, or Google from creating a better experience?

How is the iPhone - where Apple supports phones back to 2015 with OS upgrades and 2013 with security updates - more “disposable” than Android phones where you probably don’t get two years worth of updates?
Are you saying it's the case that running a game on Proton on Linux is a superior experience to running it natively on Vulkan?

That's surprising to me, but yes, if it's better than a native graphics API, it's probably better for everyone if developers stick to DirectX.

On the other hand, I don't think you addressed my point (with my assumption that games run better natively on Linux in Vulkan). If gamers are just going to skip Linux entirely without Proton, how is that better for Linux gaming, than if gamers migrate to Linux using Proton for an acceptable emulated experience, then there are more Linux gamers, and developing for Vulkan has some incentive it didn't have before.
I already pay for google to manage a custom domain's emails at $5/email. What does "private" mean in this case? Am I missing a free tier option?
Well, hopefully I'm fair to him, and note his strengths as well as his weaknesses. And as I point out at the end of the book, my version of events is not the only version of events that could be told. If he also wrote a book, a fuller picture of events would emerge, though still not the 100% pure truth.

As I said elsewhere in the thread, I worked with him for 6 years. I wouldn't have stayed that long if he lacked all merit. He has an obvious natural intelligence, and some creative ideas. Especially in the early days, he had a charisma that allowed us to raise more money. We did some really interesting work.
All time classic: Coding Horror by Jeff Atwood (SO)

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And to be honest, if you know anything about Shopify you'd know they're a famously Rails-heavy stack. Thus working on erb templates is pretty much guaranteed. Although apparently this wasn't 'interesting' enough
>So we are going to raise taxes on the middle class to give free money to people that choose not to work?

1. UBI aims to streamline redistribution of wealth and remove a lot of bureaucracy around it, reducing a lot of the cost of the current system

2. Why the middle class specifically? Upper class could shoulder most of the costs (if there are) easily

>I would not be ok going to work to pay people that have decided that they are fine living on the UBI and don't want to work anymore.

Then don't work. We already have taxes for things which are way less useful for society. You could choose not to work and live on with the bare minimum. That's the freedom UBI brings. Now probably you'd do something or another out of boredom which would end up being useful to society anyway. You'd just do it for free instead of having to convince someone to pay for it.

EDIT: A better way to put it is to see UBI as an investment into people instead of as a cost. You give them what they need to live so that, in aggregate, they can innovate more and worry less about making ends meet. Notwithstanding the fact that this is something we can do, for somewhat cheap and would help a lot of people.
Wow, if 350k is what they raised it to then what was it before? I thought Amazon engineers were rolling in money compared to non-FAANGs.
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How many 20 year old PCs are 64bit? AMD didn't introduce Athlon 64 until 2003 and good luck running IA-64 with anything resembling a modern OS.