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Well I didn't have any formal tech education, just what I picked up on the job and through my own curiosity.

But I mean you don't teach a car mechanic metallurgy and aerodynamics, except to the extent they'll need to apply that knowledge towards specific goals. At some point the discipline is mature enough that people genuinely don't need to, and can't, know every level of it from the ground up.

I think coding is approaching or already at the point where "cs/fundamentals of computation" should be a different degree from "professional software development."
That's incorrect. They are given legal standing and privilege because they serve a useful /economic/ function (tax base).

The social function is downstream from this, and it's also what creates friction to actually /change the law/ to withdraw those privileges -- you do it at the risk of hemorrhaging that tax base which funds the governing apparatus.
Yeah but then I want to move to the US or Switzerland or Germany and the US$66k is suddenly a lot less? I have no idea why a skilled senior SWE contractor would go into that kind of deal, the market is much hotter than that, $66k is entry level rate for a contractor even if you work at local companies here.
On one hand you decry the actions of meaningless gun control by those acting in bad faith but then as soon as it's democrats doing the exact same thing it's "baby steps" and laudable. Can you explain why you're doing this?
I've had good software engineering managers who couldn't code anything beyond simple shell scripts.

It's possible to be a great developer manager without having been a developer yourself, but it's much harder and much less common.

In my experience, the managers who excel despite not having an engineering background usually get promoted through the ranks quickly, so you may not see them much anyway. Being able to effectively manage people without completely understanding their work is a valuable (and rare) skill.
In my experience tinkering with plain vanilla neural networks, training quality is quite sensitive to the width of the first couple of base layers. In particular, using a rhombus / "diamond" shape works best.

Here's my intuition. The output of the first layer is mostly a linear matrix transform. These linearities form the basis for the more complex features. If the network doesn't have enough of these base linear features, it can't compose the higher-level (and lower-dimensional) features later down the line.
Hum, I think not, you are talking about math, like "hey, you p.v. produce 130% of your yearly consumption!!!" vs "yes, sure, but self-consumption is only 50% because at night I need energy and I miss it, while in the sunny day I have much more than my average needs".

Or to be less vague: I understand you think a country can run with hydro storage, I think definitely not for most countries: yes we can regulate our network frequency with pumped storage, when energy demand goes down (for instance also because p.v. and eolic produce much) we pump water in altitude and we release it when demand grow. It's nice and it does work very well: ONLY if our storage in altitude suffice for FAR more than our normal needs. Enough more to have water during a drought period + high energy demand, enough to survive days etc.

If you live nearby a waterfall or a quick/big enough river you might get 99% of your needs out of it to power your home. But at a nation scale is much more complicated and 99% would be still not enough...
There's nothing wrong with doing an old thing in a new, more automated and efficient way. In this case, taking something that's normally done by national banks, and doing it instead on a peer-to-peer network, implemented by a handful of developers.
I'm surprised Erdős was so far down the list. He very famously didn't die until he left[0].

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[0]: Erdős had a notoriously quirky way of expressing himself in ordinary conversation. To "die" in Erdős-speak is to quit doing mathematics, while to "leave" is to actually pass away.
How Startup Employees Get Rich (without getting lucky) [video]
Lacework raised $1.3B in November 2021 but needs 20% layoff to extent runway
> I don't know much about chickens, but I've heard they are extremely stupid, so it may have no impact.

They are instinctive rather than intelligent, but strongly exhibit stress symptoms when kept in tiny overcrowded pens. A screen in an otherwise bare box might not provide sufficient stimulation and reward, e.g. the 'pleasure' of finding food when chasing small bugs across the floor.
It's hard to tell given the private stock and all, but the article mentions that there's reason to believe the company hasn't taken quite as much of a haircut as comparable ones that are already on the public markets:

> In March, Fidelity, required to publicly update the value of its holdings, marked down Stripe by 20%. Most unicorns—startups valued at $1 billion or more—are trading on the secondary markets at 20% to 40% discounts to their last official venture capital rounds. But Stripe’s shares remain hard for new investors to obtain and in high demand, with recent transactions implying a valuation of as much as $165 billion, per New York–based EquityZen, a marketplace for pre-IPO shares.
> With Python 2 -> 3, my understanding was that everything had to be updated recursively.

You can mix "Python 2" and "Python 3" code, but the problem is (was) that the semantics in Python 3 surrounding string handling changed so much that in reality this was tricky to accomplish, and Python's dynamic untyped nature didn't help either.

But it was definitely possible to write libraries that worked with Python 2 and 3; I've made a few. It was pretty tricky though, and often led to bugs.
That was my first thought - would they leave the set_fs solution in place if C had a native solution for resource blocks / RAII+drop.
The San Antonio DevOps Meetup: A Retrospective (2019)
I used the website google.com and found this: https://reflexer.finance/
Svelte Origins: The Documentary (Trailer)
Bad interviewers create a stressful experience, so I'd find it a bit cathartic to give my 2 cents after the fact.

But the big question mark to me is who are you proposing giving these ratings of the interviewer to and what might be done with this information? Could this conceivably be used to penalize candidates who don't like the interviewer on a personal level?
I came out of "early retirement" to work with the tech team at TED (the TEDTalks non-profit)

It's a for-real media tech brand with a mission to incubate and spread good ideas. I love it. Find the TED jobs page -- we're hiring people in NYC and remote.
I work at a startup using .NET Core and deploying to AWS.

It's a mix between Windows, MacOS, and Linux. When you join they ask if you have a preference between a Windows laptop or a MacBook.

The people on MacOS and Linux use either VSCode or Rider I believe.

Everything seems to run fine. It's kind of amazing to see, considering where .NET started.
Exactly, that's how XMPP does it too. Since authentication to the OS vendor APIs are generally linked to the developer's account, that's basically the only practical way to do it.
Are you hinting at something?
I think the law is not well-defined because, as you mentioned, any visit to a country that doesn't provide that same data protection rules should be blocked based on the current law.

Also, I still find it weird that the EU (GDPR) laws apply at the client (visitor) rather than at the source (server). The question is: is the server providing a service in EU (sending a webpage) or is the client "going" to a server in the US?
Aluminum, and other metals, aren't good to stuff into the holes in your skin.

Source: sense
Not as simple as you think: http://neilb.org/2020/12/04/perl-and-camels.html
>Does your work make at least a small contribution to a better world? If so, where do you work?

I sell used video games online. I make the world slightly better by giving thousands of people each year a bit of fun, nostalgic escape. I also create a good, well paying job for at least one employee so far.

My dad worked in the rockwool/glasswool industry for 30 years as an engineer. He made the world better by helping people insulate their homes.

I'd be very hesitant to say that the average for-profit company doesn't make the world better. I'd be even more hesitant to say that social enterprises, nonprofits and other well-meaning organisations that sell themselves on being ethical are typically effective. And based on the experience of people I know who've worked at the Red Cross and Headspace, to say that a single employee in one of these organisations can actually make a difference (or even achieve anything) is incredibly rare.

Outside of companies that monetise addiction (this includes things like social media and mobile games) or spend huge amounts lobbying the government it's actually really hard to make money these days without providing something people value. It's very easy to burn grants and donations for no gain, though.
> I hold that in the moment a scientist or otherwise poses a statement in the form of "X exists in and of itself", they are doing philosophy, not science.

How far do you take that stance?

If a biologist says a particular bacterium exists, are they doing philosophy, not science?

Edited to add another interesting case: creation "science" organizations like Answers in Genesis say that the theory of evolution is a philosophy not science since it describes non-observables in the past (events in the past are inherently not observable now). When a paleontologist says a particular animal once existed in the past, would you say they are they doing philosophy not science?
Saito Enables Web3 Crypto Support for Third Party Tokens on Dapps
Ah, headlines foiled me. I read disabled in Alder lake all together.
> A simple solution is to do a b2b company only

“Simply change your entire business model or build a different product”

> Another thing I used to do was to just sell to everyone except European customers

“Just ignore the entire EU market for whatever you’re selling”

This isn’t a serious post right? Or I guess, it’s actually a classic HN counter-post.
> warehouse workers could be granted RSUs, but they don't (afaik) because reasons.

They were until a few years ago.[1] IIRC, Amazon rolled out an ESPP that was exclusively available to employees not compensated with RSUs.

[1]: https://www.npr.org/2018/10/02/653597466/amazon-sets-15-mini...
If you’re feeling a little cold, block someone’s 5G signal :)
Email would be preferred. SMS shouldn’t be the default. If I lost my TOTP tokens, I should be able to go through a tougher path with an email verification step to get in to redo my tokens. What I don’t want is for them to send me an SMS to verify me. What if I’m in a different country? What if I don’t have cell service? What if I don’t have access to my phone and that’s why I’m rotating all my stuff?
Depop, a global marketplace with a payment system that can’t convert currencies
Ah, the traditional "solution" to people finding a massive security problem in your software: Make it try to kill any tracing programs and failing that refuse to run if you can detect any debug-type tools running. That will surely prevent people from bypassing your utterly trivial client-side protections! /s
> In warmer parts of the country/world, I think range anxiety/concern will tail off pretty soon.

Even the warmer parts of the country get pretty cold (it was 20 degrees all over the southwest when I roadtripped in January). If you live near a coast maybe it's mild enough that you won't notice it. I'll hazard a (probably ignorant) guess, but I would think most of the reliably-warm world is either too poor for an EV or they don't have reliable electricity or both.
It may not fit your use, but the node.js version has a text file per tiddler (.tid) and there is also a "show only one tiddler at the time"-mode. To test the latter, just open https://tiddlywiki.com/#%24%3A%2Fcore%2Fui%2FControlPanel%2F... and click "zoomin"
How does you stopping selling in ~30 EU countries, help you with being tax and law compliant in the other 150+ countries?

You still have to know and understand your legal/tax responsibilities when selling to businesses in Singapore, South Korea, Australia etc.
Idk if you're on Linux, but what worked for me with Linux+Nvidia was enabling CONFIG_SGI_GRU
I don’t understand your comment. Differential equations don’t give rise to physical systems.

Some nonlinear DEs exhibit chaos. That’s a purely mathematical property. Whether any particular DE is a useful model of a particular physical system is a matter for the imagination, and either backed up or refuted by experiment.
Does anybody have any references for this statement: "In an unsigned and undated letter, President Tessier-Lavigne’s administration lied repeatedly to WSCUC investigators."

I'm trying to understand what's meant by that, and I can't find anything referencing it online.
Having to store digital crap securely turns out to be a far bigger problem than most people realized.

Maybe still less than physical commodities, but let's not pretend crypto is "free" and easy to store and takes up no space.
21 million per year, which wouldn't even make him a top 10 paid NFL quarterback and people are complaining about his pay for running one of the biggest companies in the world. If anything he is underpaid compared to other large tech company CEOs. People really just want to be outraged.
Tech lead, to me, is a guy who orchestrates projects at a very technical level that includes some shallowing coding for proof of concept and helping developers when they get stuck.

A lot of companies mistake tech lead for "senior dev" or "dev manager" or some chimera of both.
Maybe they should. Maybe, they, should.
Proud to be an Apple customer and fortunate to have the privilege.
Tiny robot crab could scuttle through arteries to clear blockages
That was always stupid and there were always demonstrations of said stupidity. It’s one of those snarky contrarian takes people repeat ad nauseam. See also: correlation and causation.
There is a switchover point in Leaf model years where they went to more active battery cooling and cars after that point are seeing a lot less degradation as we would all expect. It's relatively recent (like 2020 or 2021 model year) so it will take a while for the highly degraded Leafs to stop being a complaint of the used market. That said, even the most highly degraded Leafs have gone to the used market for resale as cars. They are still plenty useful even with degraded ranges. Nissan expected more of the batteries to need recycling and/or move to secondary uses by now and so far the majority of batteries are still in primary use and the cars are defying that expectation and remaining cars actively on the road.
[TVTrope Warning] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EarthAllAlong
colour me unimpressed. VMWare cheerleaders haul out openstack as their touchstone example of how hard VM's are in linux but forget that VMWare pales in comparison to what Openstack is, which is an entire full-stack cloud hosting provider with accounting, DNS, tenant metering and network delegation, and support for k8s.

Start comparing VMWare against Proxmox, which is an out of the box solution anyone can use and includes every single feature of ESX and many vsphere features youd easily lose your shirt for. https://www.proxmox.com/en/

heres an independent performance test. KVM is easily faster than ESX.

https://www.spec.org/virt_sc2013/
Uh curious how your hens feel about the fake owl watching over them.
Thanks for that! I'll rebuy it and give it a try with M+KB.
Even if you don't want to directly support splice() for every possible filesystem or file descriptor, I don't understand why it couldn't be "emulated" in those cases, by having the kernel just pretend it was given a series of read()/write() calls. That might not be as efficient, but surely it would be better than just breaking completely.
No. All communications in WhatsApp are encrypted end to end, whether between 2 persons, or inside a group [1].

I believe you are referring to Telegram which does not use encryption by default.

[1] https://www.whatsapp.com/security/WhatsApp-Security-Whitepap...
Not really, having analytics on the Google search page itself is usually enough (they see the time it takes for you to go from Results page -> Website -> Back to results page).
> If you want an EV from a "mainstream" manufacturer, be prepared to pay enormous dealer markups and be bullied into upgrades.

Tesla has plenty of things about them to criticize, but one thing they did well was the buying experience. They cut out all the bullshit that dealers put you through.

It took me five minutes to purchase my car online. When delivery day came, just had to sign a couple DMV forms, add my phone as a key, and I was done.

No bullshit upselling, no haggling on the price, just get online, fill out the forms, and done.
Here's a different thought experiment.

A sponsor organization maintains a stable coin pegged 1:1 to the US dollar. The token is bought and sold on the open market to keep the peg.

Because it works so well, demand for the stable coin rises for years on end, resulting in the issuance of trillions of dollars worth of stable coin. Eventually the stable coin market cap hits 50% of all US dollars in existence. Numerous audits prove that the dollars are indeed responsibly held by the sponsor.

Now, what specifically are the assets being held by the sponsor?

This might seem like a trick question, but it's not. In what form would a stable coin of that magnitude keep its assets to ensure sufficient liquidity that the peg is never broken and can't be attacked successfully?
I'm trying to track down the truthfulness of the claims that Stanford's administration lied to its accreditor.

If that isn't independently verifiable, I'm going to ignore the rest of this complaint, as (based on several details) it looks like a person with a personal vendetta is trying to make a larger case than exists.
These "jungle people" don't need to clock in to a single desk to get their food/do day to day, or have their leisure conversations captured by a friend-wielded listening device.

They seem like the natural frontrunner, in my eyes.
I’ve always assumed it was because it came after IM chat clients were already popular? I think ICQ for instance was measuring hundreds of millions of users before the first jabber/xmpp announcement?

I vaguely recall there being something else as well as ICQ but we’re talking back to high school for me so well out of the range of good/clear memory.

I think messenger also came into existence at around the same time as jabber so concurrent development presumably meant completely independent protocol, so it wouldn’t even be subject to embrace/extend/extinguish - this was the height of MS monopoly so presumably it meant essentially “everyone” instantly had messenger?
Party > Policy
It's ok to be happy staying there as long as you are OK with being salary capped. The salary wasn't even my biggest issue. My biggest issue was my title and compensation didn't match what I was actually doing day in and day out which was everything.

If I decide to slow things down as I get older I may go back to just straight coding. I love it.
> they just did something better than everyone else

Wow, HN's ability to dismiss and diminish major accomplishments continues to astound me.
That's a little disingenuous to compare yourselves to obsidian price structure. With Obsidian I can connect it and sync via github/Dropbox/etc, and there are no feature limitations with the free product at all, whereas yours prevents the creation of new notes if you exceed the free note limit.

Not the same at all.
How about someone on any other country that does not use USD?

Aside from some smaller countries in South America and others that fully adopted the USD for their economy, you can not get exchange other assets for USD without significant overages.
That's exactly what XMPP was originally created for - a single open protocol that would let you interface with all the others.

But it's very hard, technically, to maintain interfaces to a changing set of evolving third-party protocols, and provide a good user experience. Especially if those people don't want you bridging to them. Open networks tend to fare better in the long term, but generally the user experience of an app bespoke for the target protocol is nearly always better.
It already exists, but the way combustion cars are built is just completely opposed to how you build an EV. You end up with a really crappy EV (specifically, in range) that still costs $20k+ now. In the future maybe that'll be $10k, but that's still a LOT to stomach for something that is going to underperform a dedicated EV.
For those looking for high impact career pathways, I highly recommend going through 80,000 hours guides, they have a job board they update every week or so as well. More longtermist focused but also plenty of global health, environmental, nuclear stuff too.

https://80000hours.org/job-board/
Laws in physics are written based on testable hypotheses and measurements to confirm. This is a constant process as the hypotheses improve and the measurements improve laws will change. This is the way.
I never realized until seeing this 3D globe that literally an entire side of the earth only had water.

I've seen drawings of Pangaea before but never in a 3-dimensional sphere.

Just interesting to see and entire 1/2 of the earth with nothing but ocean.

I wonder how common this is on other planets.
Must be nice to live in country stable enough for you to able not to follow the news.
I'm not sure why the comment was worded "some exchanges" but notably, this is the only way that a DEX (distributed exchange) can work. A DEX exchanges crypto directly on the blockchain between wallets/accounts via smart contract. These are literally just dapps (distributed apps) and no company needs to be involved; they are the most open exchanges of all.
Email has grown without fragmentation, because interoperation is seen as a basic requirement by the users and operators.

Also strictly speakng MIME and other content layer things aren't part of, and didn't need changes to, SMTP. This is of practical importance because it means email server infrastructure doesn't need to know about email content format evolution, only end user email software does.
Such a silicon valley HN comment holy shit.

https://www.vmware.com/company/customers/index.html#
Starred. We need people to vote this up. I think a lot of people would be interested it’s just not making the front page.
You have to be in a very functional organization to enjoy life as a tech lead . Otherwise you just end up a manager who knows how to code.
I don't know what you mean, for instance because Gemini follows all the regulations, I can hold USD cash in my account and it's even FDIC insured. Wiring back to a checking account is an option, but I can keep liquidity at the ready without dealing in stablecoins.