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What American technology would you have them use instead? Something that would already be installed on both ends? Something that would be trivially simple to use? Something that wouldn't run afoul of Internet monitoring technology that's being used by secretive spy organizations?
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An oven is not a PC, just turn on and cook my food. And any energy savings with some wifi controlled monstrosity (if thats what were getting at) is better met with more sustainable energy sources that produce more power. Cutting energy is never going to be a solution of the future; producing more will be.
Oops. Having been arrested in Russia maybe should count in one's favor instead

But I guess that will never happen :-(
> Do you not have the ability to lease a static IP from the ISP for a nominal amount?

and this is why IPv6 isn't coming anytime soon, at least not within the next few decades.
Sharp knives are far better than dull knives. They don't slip. Don't require too much force. With the added benefit of when you cut your finger off they can sew it back on from a clean cut :D
Is HN employing TikTok style algos now?!

Literally have been discussing with our devs what we can use that's as off the shelf as possible for a HN style community.

They said it would be best if it was built with RoR. I see this post randomly when I can't sleep at midnight.
Exactly. Essentially, there are a lot of frauds in the industry.
> Users don't really know what they want

Users do not care about "immense developer productivity"
> It does feel coordinated. I know corporate law is kind of irrelevant in a context of war, but it feels more than ever like a cartel.

You don't need a cartel to coordinate. If someone shoots a gun and everyone ducks, their ducking was coordinated by the gunshot. They didn't need to get together and have a discussion to all duck together at the same time.
I am not affiliated with kagi the search engine except as a user, but I would just like to say kagi found it too and I was surprised and impressed.
I'm fairly convinced that a larger part of recruiting by the big companies is to evaporate the hiring market for every other company out there.

Yes, developers are doing amazing things at a lot of these companies. However, the most amazing thing they are doing is not working at another shop. This is particularly true for the companies that have a habit of "moon shot" projects that are not likely to see customers.
In my original comment I linked to and quoted a source providing more information, including:

> Court records show that police at the Indianapolis and Louisville airports did just that. After multiple reports of stolen vehicles that ended up being located on Hertz’s lots, those agencies reportedly said they wouldn’t take new reports from the company.

Should I infer you didn't fully read that comment?

Alternatively, the linked-to article in "the company does not withdraw the theft report, a Hertz spokesperson told The Philadelphia Inquirer." links to https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/hertz-530-million-lawsuit-c...

> In 2015, the regional airport in Louisville, Ky., put a limit on the number of theft accusations it would accept from Hertz, according to documents supplied by Malofiy. In 2016, Indianapolis Airport police also began to turn down Hertz complaints. Hertz said those issues were addressed.

There are more details of the plaintiff's claims in the link in "The number is part of the evidence in an ongoing lawsuit in which more than 100 customers are suing Hertz for $529.7 million" to https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/hertz-530-million-lawsuit-c...

> According to their filings, for years Hertz has falsely reported that its cars were stolen as part of its regular business practice, "ensnaring its customers in accusations of car theft, throwing them in jail on felony charges, prosecuting them, burdening them with criminal records that impact their livelihoods, and separating them from their family and loved ones."

> Why would Hertz claim that its cars were stolen when legitimate renters were driving them? Believe it or not, the filing claims this is a cost-cutting measure. In some cases, the company simply misplaces a car or a rental contract and doesn't know where the car is. Rather than upgrade its malfunctioning inventory systems or conduct its own investigation when cars are unaccounted for, Hertz simply reports these cars as stolen, the filing claims. The plaintiffs say the company is "effectively using the police, criminal justice system, and taxpayers to subsidize inventory control for a private corporation." The unfortunate renters who happen to be driving those cars are collateral damage.

Your argument appears to be that Hertz follows standard industry practice, and even if the plaintiff's claim is true overall no worse on average than any of a number of other activities, so nothing anyone should worry about.

Is that an accurate summary?
Interesting take, but when it comes to celebrtiy positions on complex economic topics I have to ask - What does Ja Rule think?
Pay top dollar for software developers and then give K8s away to the world? Doesn’t sound like a wise use of stockholder assets.
You can look at the oil futures markets to see if other speculators agree with your predictions.
For what it's worth, it's very easy to make at home or buy at a farmer's market without any industrial stabilisers. In larger cities, you can also get the same product (cream cheese without the various gums and other additives) at Mexican/Hispanic grocers where it will be called queso filadelfia.
No of course not. That's why I emphasized uncritically. I'm saying that ignoring the fact of it being such a political football is a fatal mistake, because everything anyone says in public is going to be twisted by people who don't actually GAF about safety policy.
would you say the same thing if Russian citizens were instead from North Korea? The "democratic" Russian Federation is 31 years old (20 of which were under Putin). There has been 0 full generations who saw a functioning or even a fictional democratic process in action.
That's consistent with the way, children react to languages and faces. When we are born, we are open to all languages. When we grow up, we only remain receptive to the language structures to which we had been exposed previously. Of course it's always possible to learn a new language, but it is easier with previous exposure.

(citation needed)
Not really a valid comparison. Doesn't work for xkcd/diceware style "correct horse battery staple" passwords. Doesn't work if you through HaveIBeenPwned password searching into the mix. Doesn't work if you do the standard password variation mechanisms such as employed by Jack The Ripper.

And once you get to those longer passwords with all random characters and which cannot possibly be memorized by 99.999% of the population, you're well into password manager territory and then you've got a different threat model you've got to be concerned about.
After learning kiswahili in Tanzania I went to Uganda for a vacation... At the bus terminal a bwana eventually pulled me aside and told me to quit speaking kiswahili there, because only the thieves spoke it there. I wasn't sure if I should be offended or humiliated. Anyway I went with english/spanish/swahili mixing after that cause brain. Either way skinny dipping in the blue nile was great.
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Hold on. US industrialists (so called fascists) enabled Hitler. Without them he would have never won any election and started all those wars and purges.
i gave up on celery and switched to huey
>Discord is one of the few websites on the Internet that doesn't embed any cross-origin resources

What do you mean? You can literally link to an image and Discord will replace that link with an inline image. And with opengraph Discord will embed youtube videos and twitter image and videos right into the chat.
MIT Lincoln labs shares a similar origin story.

The idea that postdoc researchers are on the whole a bunch of hipster urbanites is laughable.
There has been a lot of progress on fixing memory leaks recently: https://www.paulsprogrammingnotes.com/2021/12/python-memory-...
> But Jenkins vehemently opposed BART’s extension on the “human aspects involved in such a project.”

You don’t say? http://radicalcartography.net/bayarea.html

That little spot of blue there in Marin County is Marin City, the remnants of the World War 2 ship-building company Marinship’s company town.

> In a 1960 letter to a bridge district board member, Jenkins argued that the only hope for BART to succeed was with entirely new housing and business developments along its routes

Thirty-thousand people would have lived here — now it’s a ghost town: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marincello

I particularly “like” this Marincello opposition piece with what I assume is Mt. Tam being encircled by a menacing and dangerous invader whose color-coding is entirely arbitrary, I’m sure: https://99percentinvisible.org/app/uploads/2013/11/marin-sna...

As mentioned in the article, here’s a map of the NWP electric interurban rail system that ran passenger service in Marin until 1941: https://i.redd.it/zrvygksiojm51.jpg

One of its electric powerhouses still stands near the junction at Baltimore Park, and it’s in that beautiful Beaux Arts architectural style that was still popular in the 1910s.
An Ode to Giving People Money
Yeah but they're built like that by design to make it easy for post workers to stuff mailboxes, not a quirk of location and ease of importation like the other examples.
Even the Indian hiring market is on fire. Very hard to recruit right now, we have had open positions for months. We have been taking endless interviews, those who are good have multiple offers and shop around. We have seen lots of attrition also since if you jump ship you will get a bump of at least 30%.
Interview Ukrainian cyber firm who’s offering bounties for offline Russian sites
Statistical Armor
Maybe not if you account for long covid.

Many people got lost many year of life but don’t even know it.

The fact that it affect heart muscle that have almost no regenerative capacity is chilling.
Traditional stock valuations are completely out the window in this market, and will probably continue to be like that until the next major crash resets everything.
That is loaded by Discord's server, not the local client. They likely are mainly referring to 3rd party scripts.
Why do you need to set up a bundler and build process? If you were sourcing content from third-party domains, they weren’t being bundled anyway. All you’d have to do is swap out the third-party URLs for your own.
To be fair, you'd also be shocked to learn how many top developers will rarely need any of those tricks. Even more shocking, to learn that FAANG developers are just as guilty of many of these "sins."

Take the uploading to s3 point. If you are saturating your network... going multithreaded will do nothing. If you are not, find out why.

The other examples are also lacking a lot of details. 30 seconds of latency can be bad, of course. But so can adding concurrency to a team that doesn't understand it well. (Really, this one sounds like it just needs more context. I'd normally push to remove extra calls moreso than jumping to concurrency. But, each has its place.)

Edit: And the logs... this is just a result of not putting cost as a tracked item for teams. Too many folks fall afoul of a hoarder mentality when it comes to logs.
No, this is expressly untrue. In the frequentist paradigm parameters are fixed but unknown, they are not random variables, and have no implicit probability distribution associated with them.

An estimator (of a parameter) is a random variable, as it is a function of random variables, however this depends only on the data distribution, there is no other implicit distribution on which it depends.

For instance, the distribution for the maximum likelihood estimator of the mean of a normal distribution is normally distributed, however this does not imply that the mean parameter has a normal prior, it has no prior, as it is a fixed quantity.
It's a great concept, but languages like Rust (https://www.rust-lang.org/), Zig (https://ziglang.org), Vlang (https://vlang.io/), etc... are already running with a similar idea to being easy to interact with C and are viable alternatives to it as well. Vlang even created its own OS, Vinix (https://github.com/vlang/vinix), to show its capabilities in this regard.

Seems to me, Cello would be more for those C programmers that didn't want to try the various alternative languages that are now out, and happen to agree with its developer's interpretation of preferred higher level abstractions and what they should look like. The point of these alternative languages is to offer features that C doesn't have or to implement them in easier or clearer ways.
My advise is to just pay someone to run your celery server for you.

Celery is hard to maintain, but the benefits are definitely worth it, and it’s the most mature cross language stack. I can have a celery job sent or received from any major language.

I think the only reason people pick another option is that that start of by only using python in the first place.
You're supposed to bundle a slimmed-down Java runtime with your app these days, so end-users don't have to deal with updating a system-global "JRE" (which technically doesn't exist anymore, officially).
The hardest problems are people problems. e.g. unrealistic deadlines, poor documentation, getting blocked waiting for other team members, inconsistent requirements, lack of accessibility testing, etc.
What amazing problems are you solving? Most of what is coming out of these companies is toxic and barely moving the needle — many times actually making software development worse with ever more bloated “pet project” platforms that get released to the dev world allowing for lesser skilled devs to churn out copycat glitchy web-based products.
>It is conceivable to get paid $70+/h at Series A startups as an intern and $140-150k + 20-40k in options as a new grad.

conceivable? Sure. But what use is "conceivable"? I'd rather know what is "normal" i.e. common.

I think it's more pertinent to represent the median, than say the 80th-90th+ percentile.

For example, I almost interviewed with Vercel recently (accepted an offer from different company, instead of continuing to interview)-- Series D currently [1].

And sure-- this is only one datapoint-- but I think it still illumniates that $70+/h as an intern may be "conceivable" but I doubt it's "common"...

0-1 years of experience there at Vercel pays about $70k-$100k -- And that's in Boston / San Francisco. I would have expected more, given those locations.

Meanwhile, my first programming job was also about $100k, in San Jose, CA (4 months exp. before getting laid off). And then later, $80k on contract, fully remote (2 months on contract. Then got hired on salary by a different company at $105k, still 100% remote.).

Now I have about 3 years of SWE experience and making about $170k TC fully remote ($140k base plus some equity).

https://www.levels.fyi/company/Vercel/salaries/Software-Engi...

[1] https://vercel.com/blog/vercel-funding-series-d-and-valuatio...

[2]https://www.levels.fyi/company/Vercel/salaries/Software-Engi...
>While a developing mammalian brain grows by just getting bigger — “inflating like it’s a balloon” — the zebra fish brain almost turns itself inside out “like a popcorn kernel, so those deep centers are up near the surface where we can image them.

Makes me wonder: How big is the hidden cost of destroying rain forests and other habitats? Every species that we lose is the loss of genetically encoded knowledge that could be very useful at some point.

Could we protect the environment by making investment fonds eligible to the profits from genetic knowledge on the territory they own?
Celery is not great. At my place of work we begrudgingly are using it right now, with plans to replace it with something else this year. I am at the very least amazed we got this much use out of it. Considering replacing it with a much much more simple version that just uses google cloud pub sub and some simple python routing of the messages to functions.
What do Indian devs typically make at a decent offshore outfit?
FYI, The Economist's review of the same book.

https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/a-new-biography-exp...
> Maybe a bigger question is: why are these big companies letting fungible labor take such a big piece of the pie?

there's a lot to dig into in this comment, but I think this is the biggest thing you are missing. the leadership of big tech companies generally does not look at revenue as a fixed-size pie to be divvied up between themselves and their subordinates. instead, they try to grow the pie as fast as possible so they can justify their own salaries and bonuses to the board. if this means paying way over market for labor, so be it. they'll keep doing it as long as they grow revenue by more than they spend on SDE salaries (modulo some organization dysfunction, of course).

the point of the $300k salaries is not to hire engineers that are 3x better; it's to hire armies of engineers very quickly. this is where the absurd algo interviews come in. a large company hiring at this pace does not have the time or the manager incentive alignment to make holistic hiring decisions. some terrible engineers that test well do slip through the cracks, but they can be PIPed out before they cost too much money.
To all those armchair heroes lecturing the Russians about protesting, I advise to go to Russia (borders are still open) and try to demonstrate on the street. BTW there is currently a law punishing "fake news" with 15 years in gulag.

Or go fight for Ukraine (they accept anyone).
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So I assume you also think the US should destroy all of its nuclear weapons today?

You will never, ever keep people safe from something by plugging your ears and pretending it doesn't exist.

The fact that viruses can cause so much damage is exactly why we need even more research into dangerous viruses, not less.
> I have no idea what the solution is

I would think that the solution would be the same as with any time you buy a house and are not happy with some small part of it: rip that shit out, sell it if you can and put the proceeds towards buying one you like.

People seem very defeatist towards smart devices, and I know they are becoming more prevalent (especially TVs) but I think we still have options
Almost all VPNs accept crypto. As do some VPS providers.
FYI Czechoslovakia ceased to exist in 1992.
Seconding this question.
> I literally give almost no fucks how bad electron apps are, because I'm painfully aware of what it was like to try to run a linux box as a daily driver as an employed software developer before Electron - Hint, it involved booting a windows VM. You want to guess what's more of a resource hog?

Yeah it's totally cool that we all get to suffer so some masochist linux desktop users get some apps
In my experience, healthcare is poor at most tech companies in the US. Every now and then you get a "we cover 100%" claim - which again is usually 100% of the premium for their selected plans for you...the same as any other company. It's tailored for the typical college grad and not much more. I've declined company insurance 100% of the time over the last 25 years, since I prefer Kaiser. Ofc it's not unusual for companies to only pay into the cheapest providers, when providing employees benefits.

If you have any serious medical issues, you carry your own insurance. Luckily, the salary generally makes this feasible.
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Early sugar probably wasn’t refined enough to be comparable effective sweetness-wise to modern sugar?
What ever happened to holographic lenses? I thought they were supposed to revolutionize lens design. Create a complex lens, take a hologram of it, and you can cheaply print infinite copies of it. I understand there was some light loss, is that why they never took over lens manufacture?
But ... it is on fire. We offered senior SWEs in Ukraine about 4kUSD around september, in February they were asking for 6kUSD, and we would have gotten them, if it werent for the war which made senior management back out.

Perhaps the fire is cushioned/spread out by the different rates in different countries, but some markets are definitely on fire, we heard the same thing but worse (alt. better) in Poland.
Interesting, I’ve always thought HD was for High Definition, not Hybrid Digital. I don’t think we have similar radios in Europe.
> it will not allow me to do so without connecting to their app on my phone over Bluetooth and giving them permission to read my web browsing history.

In your words, it beggars belief. So if you don't connect your phones to it, how do you operate it? Do you have some dedicated throwaway device?
If you think this is a strawman, then you’re even more deluded than I thought. Best of luck, you’ll need it.
I had the opposite issue with low humidity, dry nasal passages and bloody noses, sore throat, can’t sleep etc. until >~25% humidity is restored
It’s possible, though not quite as clean as you’d like:

from IPython.display import display, Markdown as md
display(md(f'*pi = {math.pi}*'))
The fed is raising rates, so a round of layoffs is incoming. I doubt those 750K/yr salaries are going to be worth keeping.
Given whats going on in the World now, Orwell's "Notes on Nationalism" is a pertinent read. We must be careful that we don't get carried away by Propaganda and start demonizing "the other side" reflexively.

Summary on Wikipedia : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_on_Nationalism
Unfortunately, the only folks willing to stick out their necks publicly on this issue are the ones who’re already running around headless. Not sure what fixes this. I can’t imagine anyone reputable with a platform wanting to be the first one to jump into the side of the pool currently filled with schizo posting about how Russia is actually saving the world by blowing up US backed biological weapons labs in Ukraine.

We seem to be sorely lacking in elder statesmen/graybeard type figures who are willing to step into a muddied discourse and create a reasoned discussion from the insanity. There’s obviously a huge demand for such figures (see: the early days of Fauci) but we’re only getting grifters, blatantly political operatives, and those with huge conflicts of interest.
>>> I'm a bit disappointed that people with little connection to Asia are still making a big fuss about wet markets and exotic animals.

Well people with little connection to Asia got corona, heck almost everyone across the world got corona and Asia, particularly wuhan's wet market has the first documented cases. So someone not connected to Asia making a big fuss is ok
Others above have been suggesting Huey as an alternative. Do you know of any reason that it falls short of Celery in a mission critical situation?