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Ask HN: How to gain a meaningful experience at work?
It's my second job and our team work on some HR software.
Mostly I wanted to see microservices in the wild and how several teams cooperate and coordinate themselves (quite poorly).
Also the product domain touches on a lot of legal stuff which is good to know anyway, even if I won't ever work in this domain anymore.

But reality is harsh. Scrum ceremonies eat up more time than I feel like they should, and they don't even work well enough IMO.
Our team unsurprisingly works on one specific service, which is 90% black box to me because nobody has the time to introduce me to the domain. The rest of a system is even more opaque.
Dedicated devops team handles all infra/CI/CD, and I have no idea how and where the app is deployed, I only know we use k8s and docker for that.

It feels like an eternity before my team would consider me knowledgeable enough to discuss anything significant with them, e.g. data modeling, service interaction etc.
And even when that would happen, I'll find myself in the same position where I left previous job - a big ball of mud you only can throw away and start from scratch.

Overall I don't care because the pay is way over than a junior dev would normally get.
I'm more worried "n years of experience" line on my resume would mean nothing. How do I prevent that?
Yup, what Freddex said. Plus you can also tick the Android filter.

Additionally, if you see the non-mobile view of the site (Which should be the case on a desktop or tablet) you can hover/tap the axis and switch to "Inches per ounce" which will sort the tablets by how much size you get per ounce of weight.
Rules of Acquisition
I don't think this logic checks out. "If you have a lot of fire, it will burn down a house. But you can also have a little fire in a house and it doesn't burn down. Ergo, if fire can exist without a house burning down, fire isn't the cause."

To me that's the same logic, but maybe I'm wrong.
More relevantly, there are a lot of people who have negative wealth and excellent quality of life.
Mentioned in the article. It’s based on the article author’s work.
Whenever I access a organization that primarily deals with computer security, I mostly judge them reversely based on the complexity of tech used (well, modern TLS is probably the one exception).
A simple static site that probably would look fine in elinks is what I am after. Anything that requires javascript or increases the attack surface are big warning signs to me.

To me, this site loads fast, uses very little eye-candy and gets you right to the list of tools with clear links that are easy to overview and go through so it seems like mission accomplished for highlighting them.
> Would it matter if there are ultra-wealthy people if the non-ultra-wealthy had a good standard of living?

Do you think that is possible? Because I only see the situation getting worse and worse from here.

What we should ask ourselves is, is a system where 10 people can own six times more than 3.1B compatible with the goal of solving poverty and granting a decent life standard to everyone?
otter.ai is very good. $10/mo for 6000 minutes
Buy and use a standing desk. 1 hour of gym will not fix sitting 8 hours a days. I did that as an experiment in covid home office time and after a few months it fixed all my back and neck problems.

For many more details I can recommend

Starret(2016): Deskbound: Standing Up to a Sitting World

https://www.amazon.com/Deskbound-Standing-Up-Sitting-World/d...
If invading Mexico would cripple the US economy and present an existential threat to the leader, then the leader will probably decide not to do that out of simple self-preservation. If you have a different view on how hard the sanctions would bite, then that changes the calculus.
Just a guess, but it has the feel of a flawed source database of what's been copyrighted.

Something like a source where if one file in a collection is actually copyrighted, the entire folder/files/collection is assumed to also be copyrighted. And then, each file then goes in a database with a hash, etc.

That would account for this issue, and the earlier one where files with just a one/two/three digit number in them triggered the copyright hammer.
>Hancock's biggest X is Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, with its megalithic, T-shaped seven- to 10-ton stone pillars cut and hauled from limestone quarries and dated to around 11,000 years ago, when humans lived as hunter-gatherers without, presumably, the know-how, skills and labor to produce them.

>This sounds romantic, but it is the bigotry of low expectations. Who is to say what hunter-gatherers are or are not capable of doing?

Thats a great argument, if they could back it up. Perhaps SA should mount an effort to reproduce Gobekli using tools of the stone age. Id like to see them just move a 10 ton block. Until then its just hand-wavy dismissal and use of the 'bigot' card. not exactly solid reasoning. just an opinion of course.
Great site! The visualization style is very nice to get a feel for the distribution of the market, so to say. I noticed you can even switch axes, for example changing the y axis from screen size to storage.
Let's say we start out with everyone having enough bananas (money) to be healthy and well for a week. When a few individuals in the group hoard (and not share) stratospheric amount of bananas, the rest of the group runs through their existing bananas and there will be far less bananas available for everyone else in the group (or if the gov prints bananas then loads of artificial bananas with far less nutrients per banana, resulting in the same net lack of nutrition for everyone else) Today's means of exchange is money and this money is based on artificial scarcity, just like nutritious bananas are not infinitely abundant, so if someone hoards huge amounts of bananas to themselves, the rest of the group will suffer as they eat thru their existing store of bananas.

If 10 monkeys hoarded as much bananas as 3.1B monkeys we would seek to exterminate those monkeys and wipe out their genetic footprint from the face of the earth (this latter part would be genocidal, not recommended, but some would harbor the thought) because it would be clear that they're causing a huge imbalance in the system, and a great deal of suffering. But if the monkeys are Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, we put them on the covers of magazines and consider them an extreme example of success.

Obviously, we're being manipulated to think that such extreme hoarding is what successful people must do and that it is a good thing. "Greed is good" and all of that.

Added later in response to the "pie is not fixed" and the "economy is not a zero-sum game":

There are limited resources on this planet. You can't have massive population growth with 10 people holding as much leverage to consume those limited resources as nearly half of the population and still have a balanced system. We can talk about systems that exist in non-equilibrium states but massive imbalance when it comes to the allocation of finite resources coupled with population growth is equivalent to massive suffering

Yet another clarification:

It's not just the actual consumption but also the leverage/power to consume and the power to give, which holds political power over the rest of the group, as they can use that as a carrot for politicians and non-profits. They have the power to do so much good as well as the power to do not much good, or even anti-good. It causes suffering for a few to hold that much power.

Try to transcend the metaphor and build your more accurate picture of what is being conveyed rather than just dismissing that there is anything wrong with the current picture.

One last thought on this:

The basic problem is that there is a massive imbalance of power/leverage due to the massive wealth gap. In socialism, the ruling class has that power. Neither capitalism nor socialism lead to fair and balanced allocation of resources/power/leverage. We don't have to settle for either.

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we’re working with users to identify what those are. mostly when you understand the moving parts of the system you can drive them from first principles. but of course as we grow we should try to do better.
You might also checkout https://rsocket.io/
And yet, that is what happens. How do you explain it?
There is power in the combination. When you think about needing sagas, you probably need sophisticated state management. Redux is a popular and battle-tested choice. Just as React is a popular and battle tested choice.
I'm of Irish/Scottish/British descent.

Despite having a lineage that hates itself, it also means that I don't tan; I stroke. My mother was actually allergic to the sun. She had to be hospitalized, a few times, because of it.

I live in an area with tons of folks of Mediterranean descent. Every summer, they end up looking like alligator purses, come May.

I get really sick of them insisting that I "just need to do it in stages. Just go out for fifteen minutes at a time. You'll tan; I promise!"

For me, it's:

15 Min. -> Nothing

15 Min. -> Nothing

15 Min. -> Nothing

15 Min. -> Bright red, peeling and screaming
I think with the rise of FIAT based currency, you might have a hard time making a case that things are "less equal" than they were 50 years ago. Much of the wealth gap fear comes from a lack of understanding in how wealth is created resulting in zero-sum thinking.
I think this one helps:
https://travisdowns.github.io/blog/2020/07/06/concurrency-co...
It’s next-order effects over time. In and of itself, someone having more resources than you or I doesn’t affect our lifestyle, happiness, etc. But wealth in our society leads to concentration of power, and fear of loss (among others, some speculation here on my part) leads people of means to pursue policies to preserve their positioning regardless of the consequences for others in society. These self-reinforce over time unless Something Is Done About It.

Last century, Something included unions, progressive taxation, and wealth redistribution, and that seemed to work for a while. Previous means were much bloodier.
Salaries didn't increase at the same rate as productivity did. Until you fix this imbalance, you will have raising wealth inequality.
It’s not immediately obvious from this link, but the point I guess is that shared workers are now supported, per the dupe “Implement SharedWorker” https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=230382
> If you open a modern phone, there's actually loads of space.

Can you give an example? I thought that at least the high-end ones are designed to fill up every corner.
Skin and eye damage from the sun is permanent and cumulative. The trick is doing things in the sun without exposing yourself to it too much (and not letting the exposure discourage you.)
I agree to an extent, though it depends on to what degree do you consider economy to be zero sum. Are the resources required to make everyone physically and mentally healthy finite or not? If they are finite and cannot be scaled to provide for everyone, then someone must be left out. In that case you could print money (or transfer it from billionaires) and come to a temporary state of affairs where everyone can afford wellbeing, but if the labour and resources that provide said wellbeing don't scale accordingly, it just results in inflation on that sector and soon enough someone will be left out again.

Same reason why you can't solve housing shortage by just giving people more money so they can pay their rent.
It does matter: wealth represents resources. Huge wealth inequality allocates resources, and therefore decisions of how to allocate those resources, into a small number of hands. Take Bezos' rocket and mega yacht. Is that a useful way to to apply the huge amount of materials and labor it took to create? What could we have done instead?
How is this a problem though? So what if I pirated movies in my cloud storage?

Should my HDD manufactures also scan for pirated movies?

Should samsonite suitcases check for pirated physical dvds?

Should my smarttv check for pirated movies?

Google isn’t even responsible legally, they are choosing to do this.
I'm not convinced. The article makes a valid point that including debt into the statistics makes it harder to make comparisons between segments. But then it uses that point to claim that we should not attempt to make any comparisons at all because everyone is a unique snowflake etc etc:

> The second lesson of this story is broader: that when you’re talking about poor people, aggregating wealth is a silly and ultimately pointless exercise. Some poor people have modest savings; some poor people are deeply in debt; some poor people have nothing at all.

That seems like just muddying the waters to avoid some uncomfortable conclusions.

By the way, buried in the center of the article, the author actually admids that the essence of the findings - highlighting the extreme wealth inequality - is correct:

> Now $1.7 trillion is undoubtedly a lot of money: there is an astonishing amount of wealth inequality in the world, and it’s shocking that just 67 people are worth that much.
I don't know why but when I read this from the article:

> Because WebSockets is effectively a blank canvas, there are a lot of choices to be made when designing a protocol on top of it, and no one way of doing it has yet gained momentum.

It immediately reminded me of Flash.

Flash was basically a blank canvas where you can do just about anything. Turns out that's not a very good model for a number of reasons -- one of which being it turns everything you do into a snowflake and you need to invent your own patterns and abstractions instead of leaning on an extremely well thought out but more limited approach that's been vetted for many years before Flash was a thing.

I don't think WebSockets are really bad but it makes me internally wince whenever I see tech stacks trying to push using them for everything, even for transitioning between pages with no broadcast mechanism. Now I see part of the allure though. If you're a language or framework maker you get to make decisions at the protocol level instead of sticking to decades of standards which is the awesomeness of HTTP.

I'm all for sprinkling in tiny bits of WebSockets when it makes sense, ie. doing actual pub/sub things like showing notifications or showing messages like "4 new people commented on your post, click here to show them". In the same way that it felt ok to use a little bit of Flash back in the day for specific functionality instead of throwing out everything and trying to make your entire site in Flash.
Product Chart – Interactive Product Comparison Charts
I'm very careful not to break mine, for the same reason :)
Before becoming a parent we had a much-loved cat, but, for me at least, the experience isn't remotely comparable.

A talking cat sounds cool though :)
Career Evaluation: Five Options for Developers and Technologists
The methodology note contains the calculations for the statistics in this paper's talking points: https://oxfamilibrary.openrepository.com/bitstream/handle/10...
> This isn't doing the cultural perception of science any favours.

But they're acknowledging the limitations of the study. As it is, it's a jumping off-point to do more research on the subject. They even mention confounding factors in the abstract.

I'm curious what alternative you'd propose, other than more funding on larger and more complex studies.
I would blame a tea shop for serving me a beverage so hot that it was undrinkable to the point of severely injuring me, yeah. If I spilled a cup of coffee on myself I would expect a light scalding, maybe a bit of redness, and laugh it off. I wouldn’t expect to need skin grafts.
Surprised that the Grand Canyon isn’t easily visible with this map. Is that a resolution issue?
@ nickjj Thank you for the input! I have converted your comment into the first issue: https://github.com/TruCol/checkstyle-for-bash/issues/1
> You either have to host everything yourself, or ask the user for consent first.

As a user, I am very very glad that this is the case.
No one can earn a billion. You only get that rich by being in the right position to siphon off money from the work of others. If you make a great inventions, its still the thousands of employees doing the actual work, you are just in the right position to take a bit from each and get really rich. If you invest your money, you are in the right position to set the terms, and you will choose terms that even after accounting for the risk and opportunity costs and so on some additional money ends up in your wallet.

So even if everyone could live well because the amount of money siphoned away is not to much, there would still be some unfairness in the system that I would want to see go away.
Well there can't be that many people in the "many people" you reference because I've never heard that before. On its face it seems pretty ridiculous, if for no other reason than historically monarchies and a thriving, growing middle class have usually been mutually exclusive.
Wait, in fur? Hair is dead right? Or do those animals have something flow back in from the hair? Does our hair do that? Is our hair where our vitamin D is made?
This has always been the case. Most operating systems are based on UNIX technology and SCO once tried to sue almost everyone based on that. These things don't happen often in practice because big companies want to support customers, not to sue them. And in case someone like SCO appears, big companies have deep pockets to make agreements with them.
we use event sourcing under the hood for its fault tolerance and scalability (and tracing/observability). it’s abstracted away for you by our SDKs.

in other words when you use us you get the main benefits of ES without the downside of having to code it up yourself, which is a common pitfall of homegrown ES systems.
Learning from Incidents [audio]
Artybollocks Generator
An unsophisticated person looks at this and says golly I better get tan!

A somewhat sophisticated person says something like the above.

People who change the world will wonder there’s something there. especially given the sober and candid examination of possible confounding factors and mechanisms of action.
The AGC (Apollo Guidance Computer). This means we won't go to the moon anytime soon ;-)
One problem is that this pareto curve appears in every human political system ever, which lasts for a few decades or more. It looks to be inherent to human societies. When left unchallenged, the wealthy become the defacto oligarchs. Only the oppressively incompetent, lazy, and corruption-competition of representative democracies seem to slow it down. In the govt being so slow, oligarchs get little direct control in their lifetime. Additionally, public scrutiny of the ultra wealthy (say 10 men) is relatively manageable, further hindering the indirect control.

Ofc, maybe this is just my wishful thinking.
I am a "sun convert". I used to avoid it like the plague because I burn so easily. However, I started reading the dangers of low vitamin D and some of the positive effects of the sun (mood, circadian rhythm, etc). I am convinced now that the sun is a net positive when exposed in moderation (I do avoid burning like the plague, however).

During the summer months, I now get 20 min full body exposure daily and I supplement D3 on the days I can't (and months I can't - I live in a colder climate). As my body has built up tolerance, I've even developed a light tan and I've found my skin no longer burns as easily. Best of all, I just look healthier and my mood is better.
Do we even know who the 10 richest men are?

The wealthy are all using tax avoidance schemes and corporate structures to hide their wealth.

I can certainly say, that if I was truly wealthy (and had the mindset to go with it) one of the first I would do is hide information on my wealth. Perhaps I'd even hire others to pretend to be wealthy, and take the flak, so I could go about my business.

I'm sure billionaires/trillionaires would value their privacy at least as much as I do. And they've got the funds to buy it!
100 Years of the BBC
breaks every 10-20 minutes to get up and move
Related story: A Maine (US) hermit lived in the forest for nearly 30 years.

https://www.gq.com/story/the-last-true-hermit?printable=true

And the related HN post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8205993
I'm sorry but you seem to really hate MQTT, could you expand that?! I've been using it through Google IoTCore and has been pretty good.
You're conflating fiat, which is always zero sum when it changes hands in a transaction, with utility and value, which usually is positive sum. When I buy a phone, I am losing $500 to get something that cost $400 to make, and the phone company made $100. But I gained about $2000 worth of hidden value from that transaction because my life got way better and easier! That's why it wasn't zero sum and that's part of the explanation for wealth creation.
This
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30070369
Know Your Crypto-History
> For example, claims that "wealth inequality result in X deaths" seem clearly manipulative. It's not "inequality" of wealth, whatever that actually means, that kills them. If everyone had at least enough wealth to be physically and mentally healthy you could still have massive wealth inequality. Ergo, if wealth inequality can exist without the associated deaths then wealth inequality isn't the cause.

> Do you agree with my assessment? Why or why not?

It’s a pretty obvious logical fallacy, though I appreciate the way you asked for more viewpoints.

The article itself argues the disparity is so vast that you could tax the 10 men to the point of them still having 8 billion more than when the pandemic started and solve a lot of global problems. It’s like saying someone having cholesterol problems couldn’t be from eating 10 cheeseburgers a day because when they dropped to eating 1 cheeseburger a day and the problems were fixed they were still eating bad food.
I am experiencing something similar on the App Store. Apple’s almost completely useless App Store Connect analytics report a significant percentage or occasional spike of unit downloads via web or app referrer with no way to dig into what site or app is linking to the app. I don’t want to add any external analytics for privacy protection though and google isn’t much help anymore.
Google's styleguide has incorrect bash being used, they are using string comparison operators for numeric comparisons (see the various `$? != 0` and $PIPESTATUS).

[[ -1 -eq 0-1 ]] && echo true || echo false
[[ -1 == 0-1 ]] && echo true || echo false

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Bash-Cond...
>The most valuable asset of the average human, by far, is their human capital

Yes, and if you are a doctor saving lives with a high income and high negative wealth that human capital is being parasitically extracted via the rent you pay, via student loan repayments, via eye watering malpractice insurance rates and laundered via the financial system to make somebody else even richer.

Dont you see how this makes it even worse? The greater wealth inequality grows the less you get to keep the output of your own human capital.

And yea, maybe you can still do all of that and live a decent enough life. That isnt the point.

This isnt a revolt against productivity. It's a revolt against parasites.
Anecdotally I tried this once and not one of the 50,000 users that visited replied.
If copyright holders had their way, smart TVs would definitely block playing pirated media. To add to your list, why should HDMI care about encryption and stopping piracy?
It's pretty obvious that the target audience for VR exercise is not 'people who harbor a decent level of fitness'. You're looking at the wrong baseline.
Ask HN: Recommend a biography?
I saw a recommendation in another thread [0] for a biography of von Neumann [1].

What are some other well-written biographies of interesting people? Bonus points for books that provide some insight into important moments or changes in history.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30404053
[1] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/56155133-the-man-from...
How do you use worktrees with an IDE ? Do you have one project per tree ?