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New York Mets | Sr Software Engineer and Technical Product Manager (Software) | Citi Field, Queens | Full-time | HYBRID (mostly WFH with 1-2d/w at the ballpark) | VISA
At the Mets, we are looking to build the next generation of tools to bolster our baseball decision-making. Our goal is to unify data from the front-office to our minor league backfields. The technical work ahead of us requires leaders who can help tackle green-field projects that leverage modern tech processes and UX principles to make the most of analytical advancement. We are looking for senior ICs who can grow our team through mentorship, guide the design of user-centric tools, and ultimately help the Mets win more baseball games. Please inquire for more details. Thanks!

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Our tech stack: Javascript, Google Cloud (GKE, BigQuery, etc), Postgres, React, Node.js
I've noticed that most of us contain a psychological quirk that when we believe we should do something that we really don't want to do, we subconsciously do the worst version of the thing we can as a form of self sabotage. Partially, it's so we can say to ourselves, "See, X doesn't work after all, I don't need to do it anymore" and partially, it's because we're secretly afraid of a blow to our ego if an action we staked our identity on being wrong turns out actually to be right.

Whatever the reason, it's a habit that you need to take notice of and exterminate within you. Other people aren't stupid. If enough other people are saying do a thing that you can't understand why anyone would do, don't bother doing it unenthusiastically. Either commit to an act of radical empathy and truly understand why other people are excited to do it or decide it's too much of a bother and don't do it.

Without reading the emails, I can't tell if the low response rate is due in any part to how the email is crafted but I have a reasonably high confidence based on the blog post that the author was intellectually capable enough to have executed a better cold email campaign but couldn't get over the psychological hurdle.
How does this work well? Aren’t the good people the first to leave if you decide to make everyone miserable?
Oh, dear... Who tells him...?
Alblasserdam is 20km from Rotterdam, to someone not familiar with the legal boundaries, it would probably appear to be all part of the same conurbation/metropolitan area. I'm sure many of the shipbuilders are living or at least spending their Bezos money in Rotterdam.

Sure it is an iconic bridge...so what though? it's not like they were just going to dismantle it and leave it on the ground.
> If Ukraine wins the war, it will be paying off its debts to the US for a century, with interest.

Can you provide a source for the claim that the bulk of US military aid to Ukraine is in the form of loans that will have to be repaid? I'm skeptical because tens of billions in government spending has been authorized for that purpose.
Yah that last sentence was a bit of hyperbole and poor word choice. What I meant is that many people who had got into Civ 4 and Civ 5, etc. we're critical of the graphics.

It wasn't as much about change as it was what exactly changed. There seems to be a trend in many games where certain design aspects suck as choosing brighter colors, or a more cartoons style will bring people comparing your game to a mobile game (also happened to a lesser extent with CK3 and certain total war games). While technically Civ6 runs on mobile, it's very much an outlier as far as mobile games go, I wish more mobile ames we're that good.
Time to fork...
There is good reason to think that hedge funds in general do worse than grandma's investments. That has long been Warren Buffett's belief, one he demonstrated in a 10-year bet with a hedge fund advocate: https://longnow.org/ideas/02018/02/09/warren-buffett-wins-mi...
Save the Soil
SEEKING WORK, Brazil, Remote OK, c410.f3r (at) gmail.com

Email: c410.f3r (at) gmail.com
Location: Brazil
Remote: Yes
Résumé/CV: https://c410-f3r.github.io/curriculum.pdf
Technologies: AngularJS, Assembly (x84_64),C, C++, Cryptography, Docker, Docker Compose, Ember.js, GCP, Golang, Java, JavaScript, Kubernetes, Linux, MongoDB, MySQL, NodeJS, PHP, Polkadot, PostgreSQL, Python, ReactJS, Rust, SQL Server, Smart Contracts, Solana, Solidity, Substrate, TypeScript, Vue.js
Willing to relocate: No
A video showing work, while ignoring safety pratices, promotes bad safety practices. People that know to work save will still do, people wothout a clue will start DIY projects ignoring safety. And get hurt. I consider this to be a bad thing.
> that can manipulate elections at will and subsume every US social movement to spread its propaganda, but is too stupid and helpless to create a US front company

The first chapter of "Propaganda" is that the enemy is cunning and wicked while also weak and helpless at the same time.

It's also weird that Russia has been running out of ammunition for the last 5 years and is a weak enemy at the same time its able to fight a country supported by virtually the whole of west with NATO arms, NATO training and best of all NATO intelligence/spies with a sanction that was supposed to turn the "ruble" in to "rubble"
>I really don’t understand this notion that Ivy League universities are somehow no better than community colleges

It has not been my experience that their graduates are any better educated than less prestigious universities. Post graduation at the undergrad level their value seems to be just the prestige of the university’s reputation on a resume and the social network it offers to other graduates for upward mobility.

I am being honest, I’d consider a degree from Ivy League university a possible negative for an job candidate if I am hiring. One, it speaks to a likelihood of a possible wealthy background growing up and my three decades of experience, I have not found that to be a consistent precursor to capability of the candidate. Two, it creates a higher likelihood that a recent graduate would use my opportunity as a quick stepping stone to the next big thing sooner rather than later.
It's not called the Korean Miracle for nothing. The idea that South Korea is not a huge success because it still has adversaries is a bit much.
Parent specifically asked about the four-year market cycles and I answered that specific question.

To your more broad question, BTC demand outside speculation is driven by economic usage, despite HN's doubts. If it wasn't for that, I'd be asking the same question about its value. If you're open-minded and interested in learning, I've written up answers to that question several times. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31932743
I like your post, and I feel the same. If 100K protesters show up to protest about a police killing (BLM, et al), but 5 misbehave, does that mean all 100K are bad people? Of course, no. I would say exactly the same about the police. I write this as someone who respects the work that police do to secure our communities, but I also strongly support the BLM protests against grotestque police brutality against black and brown people in the United States.
While the terminology is imprecise, ICMBs tend to go up in a big arc making them visible to radar well in advance of a strike, whereas “hypersonic” missiles fly close to the earth, effectively hiding behind its curvature.
Maybe sort of. Some of the Intel models particularly the T2 laptops have a lot of trouble running Linux even with new kernels. I just gave up and got rid of my 2018 MBP. Easily the worst supported hardware I've used with Linux.

Right now there's a lot of focus on getting Linux running well on M series ARM Macs but who knows if that will be the case in 5 or 10 years.
Western economists have been predicting the collapse of China soon for the last 30 years.
"We discovered SEVERE thermal throttling with Apple's new M2 MacBook Pro, proving that it needs a BETTER cooling system with two fans instead of one."

The new model hits the manufacturer's advertised performance in general, and is about 10% faster than the old model in the specific benchmark he did. The thermal porpoising is interesting but I wouldn't run around shouting about how there's some grave flaw. He does because it's part of running his business, it's not a knock on him but when stuff like this shows up on HN I figure we should have the context.
frozen spinach is not even remotely similar to fresh spinach
It's absolute insanity that they don't see that the best talent can and will walk out the door if this happens. Even if the top performers are insulated from the "heat" there are a non-zero number of them that this won't sit right with and/or they are affected and they leave.

Any company who uses this kind of shadow-layoff or whatever you want to call it is scum, plain and simple. I mean that's no surprise for Meta or maybe even Tesla but as I see other companies employee this "tactic" I just add them to my list of "places I'd never consider working". Such short-sighted thinking.
This merely selects for sociopaths. A person affected by other people's demands (i.e. manager yelling at them harder) will quit first.

But that is completely orthogonal to skill or value provided.
On the other hand, the people who bought in the aughts were caught underwater with the 2008 crash in home prices. When using leverage to make investments, the lever always works both ways.

I could easily have been a billionaire today if I'd made different moves (like buying all the MSFT or AMZN I could when they went public). I know a billionaire who did just that - he borrowed every penny he could and put it into MSFT at the IPO.

Of course, I was also urged to buy bitcoin when it was $500. I didn't. Shrug.
Or to just dither the hell out of your image.

Luminance sensitivity information could probably be most-easily detected in the dark areas of an image. So just crush those areas.

I suspect the more you think about this problem the more the answer becomes: Compress your image in order to remove information density.

Still, a determined adversary might find this information discernable over a long enough series of images.
Agree 100%. I’ve been through 4 layoffs so far and while there is some correlation with performance, politics still dominates layoff decisions especially at more senior levels.

You can be at the top of the layoff list for nothing more than voicing your criticism of company strategy at some random meeting.

I’ve seen very talented VPs go from “hero” to “zero” in the span of a month when the CEO decides to change direction and concludes those people aren’t “aligned with the new direction of the company”.
Total compensation for Unity CEO in 2021: $12 million.[1]

Unity Software, Inc. has lost money for the past four years. 2021 losses were about $500 million.

[1] https://www1.salary.com/John-Riccitiello-Salary-Bonus-Stock-...
It mad wild, wild money through a massive single investment: Alibaba.

Its been searching for the next Alibaba since.
There are many better strategies.
This is exactly why I bought a Mazda after loving my previous Subaru to death. Between when I bought my Forester and when I went to replace it, Subaru had gone all in on touch screen interfaces. Meanwhile, Mazda had declared they would never, citing studies they increase road hazard more than drinking alcohol.
OnePlus's broken promises are leaving developers angry and enthusiasts upset
TIL jarred garlic exists. I don't think I have ever seen that in a store here (EU country), what I have seen is dried, powdered garlic. I'll try and find this next time I'm in a store.
That’s implying the best people choose the best pay, not the best work, 100% of the time. I quit my Big Tech job because the work sucked. There was no reasonable raise that would have kept me there, but turning DOWN the heat might have kept me there…
Interesting this came out just as I rejigged and updated a visualisation tool I made a decade ago (!) which shows sorting algorithms in a really pretty rainbow colour form. I think it gives a good insight into how these work.

https://ljs.io/rainbow/
In general, better to cook at home than eat out, from a health and calorie perspective.
Organizations that need good people will try to improve the ones they have. While some organizations have dead wood that cannot be improved and must be replaced, great organizations play the long game and try to develop people.
Is strategy even involved? The CCP often displays an impressive ability of actually following through with strategy, but I'd be surprised if this capability didn't have any glaring blind spots. Chances are these changes are nothing more than a series of purely tactical decisions, either without any strategical thought or perhaps even despite considerations not unlike yours. Might have been frog in boiling water for the perpetrators as much as for the victims.
At will employment works both ways. You can quit at any moment to get a better job.
Which is exactly what you would say if your mind was stuck in a state of closed, ignorant absolute certainty.
Tears of the Sun for me. Bruce Willis and his unit made them seem absolutely badass.
How will I connect with other UX designers if there's no search? How will I 'network' with them if there's no social media?

What do users actually do on this site? That's not clear at all.
But you could, you know, actually measure performance and manage according to it.

I'm not saying self-selection shouldn't be a part of it. Some employees should absolutely be thinking, "eh, I might be managed-out eventually for underperformance because I am not a great fit here... and I don't know that I can fix it or that it's worth fixing it" and depart on their own.

But it should absolutely be because management quality is good and everyone understands the process and what's going on. Not because the workplace has been made artificially unpleasant to see who quits: that makes the wrong people leave.
Flow batter, Glass batteries, seems like everyday there is a new battery.

The real question: Can these batteries operate at Grid Scale. What happens with Tokyo has a disaster event or any other mega city for that matter (where 70% of the population will live decades from now).

Today 96% of storage is water being pumped up a hill...
Make a water jet cutter from a cheap power washer
Apptron
I used to price annuities (but no longer have any affiliation or financial interest in the industry) and this isn’t true IME - annuities are typically priced using best-estimate mortality rates. Outside of immediate annuities, which are a pretty small chunk of the business, mortality rates just wouldn’t be a useful lever to increase profits, since the predominant decrement is generally lapse/surrender, not death. Annuities are profitable because insurers price to high target IRRs or equivalent metrics, build in enough fees or spread to achieve that IRR, and build in enough management levers (e.g. the ability to increase those fees/spread) that they can compensate for any mispricing after the fact.
Much of it is. Luck, and sales skills.
Absolutely comical.
Don't look at Peloton's charts.

Most of these make BTC look like a safe haven
Apparently open-source, but I need to login to use it still (at least going by the Windows version)?
Apps in general either directly support high DPI or if dumb can be set to an integer scaling factor via environment. 99% of people are going to need exactly one variable for gtk apps that wouldn't be needed if gtk was just a tad smarter.

Smaller changes can be handled with scale and mixed dpi by scaling down from higher res. Note the end result is again not blurry.

You spend 30 seconds setting it up then every works including mixed dpi. In fact one could trivialize this at installation and write configuration to xorg.conf or xorg.conf.d

One in general doesn't need to worry after setup if a particular app will work, if it will be wayland native or xwayland, if it will look different on different DPI displays, if it will be blurry, if all functionality will work.

All high and mixed DPI concerns are front loaded into a tiny amount of time setting it up in a way that will just work well without compromise.

A tiny amount of effort by your distro could easily erase even that by simply doing it for you.

>IMO it is actually too nice anyway. Should have gone XDarwin all the way -- i.e. to run X11, you have to manually launch separate application, and that server does not support hidpi at all.

This is an example of user hostility that goes a long way towards destroying adoption. Wherein your users and downstream projects like distros who actually care about user experience will take pains to avoid you.

Then you can call them all luddites for caring more about working hardware than plumbing.
If I had one wish, it would be that we would all give up that rude “citation needed” trope. I agree with you, yet that’s such a childish way to argue that it hurts the point. Just have the confidence to say you don’t agree!
I used to watch Technoblade all the time. His humor was really great and he seemed to have all sorts of funny ideas. He was sort of a legend amongst my friend group. I was really shocked to see that he died, it seemed that he had his tumor removed but it didn't help. Rest in peace, Technoblade never dies.
MUI | Remote UTC-6 to +5 | Multiple roles | Full time | https://mui.com/

I'm a co-founder and the CEO of MUI. Our objective in the short term is to become the UI toolkit for React. In the longer term, our goal is to make building great web UIs quicker, simpler, and accessible to more people through a low-code platform for developers.

Some things we’re proud of:

- 25% of the downloads that React receives.

- 1M developers on our documentation every month.

- Solid financials: profitable

If that sounds interesting to you, we are hiring for: React Software Engineer, Support Engineer, Full-stack Engineer: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/MUI?utm_source=Xnzy3Q3MGR.
The stock value has dropped by over half and meta is preparing for a recession. Ad sales and user growth have already slowed.
I would suggest that you interpreted Mark's statement that "there are probably a bunch of people at the company who shouldn’t be here" without considering it in the context of the other statement: he warned that a recent slump in the markets “might be one of the worst downturns that we’ve seen in recent history

He and his team is doing exactly what public company management is supposed to do during challenging times, provide better shareholder value.

The only real other strategy in cases like we're seeing is to just pull an IBM and fire 45,000 people in one week.

Which strategy would you prefer?
That same economic analysis plays unfavorably the other direction: games right now are among the cheapest $/entertainment-hour value of any "modern" entertainment industry right now. Even if you only got 60 hours out of that $80 game, which is still the "entitled minimum" in many gamers' minds, that still $1.33 per entertainment-hour. You aren't going to find that at the movie theaters or on Blu-Ray. Maybe you can find better deals in streaming: if you only pay the $20/month for Netflix and maybe get 20-30 entertainment-hours per month you can beat that. If on the other hand you like so many others are paying for more than one streaming service you probably aren't anywhere near that in your spend on entertainment-hours.

That $80 videogame can still feed (entertainment to) a family of four for months.
And for management performance, just rank those leaving in other categories than "unwanted attrition" and everything is good.
> something that can take me to any exit on a highway from my house would be an amazing improvement.

Tesla's Full self driving package can do that in production today. I've personally driven 90% of my ~25k/km on AP.

Where I used to live I was about 1km to the highway, but about 40km to anything I cared about so AP was my best friend.
Neapolitan pizza is the worst type of pizza
It's mixed in with the preservative tastes of vinegar and benzoates. From a culinary perspective, hard pass based on that alone, unless that's a desirable trade-off for whatever your use cases are. The difference is simply extremely palpable.
I was laid off once because the company I worked for went out of business. So there's that. Although maybe some would say it was my fault for not programming better so that the company stayed in business?
Perpay | ONSITE | Philadelphia, PA | Full time

Many in the USA are living paycheck-to-paycheck and don't have access to traditional credit because of a mistake they made 10 years ago or because they're new to the country. Perpay helps people build healthy credit habits and improve their credit score while letting them buy what they need through easy installments taken directly from their paycheck.

If you want to work with smart, low-ego people in a fast-growing company, Perpay's a great place. We're hiring engineers across the stack and across levels of experience.

Drop me your resume at george@perpay.com if you're interested!

Stack: AWS, EC2, K8s, Docker, PostgreSQL, Django, React, Redux, RXJS, Storybook

More about the open roles here: https://perpay.com/careers
Felt | Engineering Manager, Data | Oakland or REMOTE (US timezones) | Full Time | https://felt.com

Felt is the best way to make maps on the internet. It's surprisingly hard to make a map today, and people in 15+ industries rely on them to do their jobs. Climate change and the resulting natural disasters are forcing even more people to become map-makers, and Felt is here to meet that need. It's the first easy-to-use collaborative mapping software, founded by a team of technologists with a proven track-record. My co-founder and CEO, Sam, is a former YC founder who sold his previous company [1] and I'm an early Uber engineer.

We are on the lookout for an hands-on engineering manager for our data team. Felt makes giant geospatial datasets a breeze to work with and we are currently building our next-generation of our data stack on AWS. The team you'll be managing is full of expert engineers from Facebook, Google, Carto, and Uber [2].

We are well-funded and just raised our $15M Series A. You can read more about it our funding here [3], and our announcement here [4]. Our terms are employee-friendly terms such as early exercise, a 10-year exercise window and even a matching 401(k).[5]

Reach out at hello @ felt.com!

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/09/via-buys-mapping-startup-r...

[2] https://felt.com/about

[3] https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/31/felt-maps-15-million-serie...
[4] https://felt.com/blog/public-beta-15m-series-a

[5] https://felt.com/careers
I'd be interested in trekking through those weeds.

Anyone have a contender for worse deadly art?
If a company is collecting a lot of "dead wood" underperformers, the correct response is to start raising performance expectations and hold people accountable to those standards.

That's essentially what Meta is saying they're going to do. The "...so employees will quit" was an editorialized addition to the headline. The real story is that they're tightening their employee expectations and holding people accountable, which IMO is a totally reasonable thing to do. HN comments are always full of people claiming that FAANG employees are nothing special, so I'm a bit surprised to see the negative reaction to a FAANG company going on record to say that they're raising expectations for their employees.
> This is irrelevant since the Air is not meant to be encoding 8K video

You know, I expect this kind of remark on a random twitter thread, but I'd expect folks around here to know better.

The point of this test is: if you push the hardware to it's spec'd limits the cooling system is inadequate and the result is massive pulsed throttling.

If your claim is "well just don't use the hardware to it's full spec'd limits", then I don't know what to say other than, that's absurd. I buy equipment expecting it to meet the specs on the tin. If it can't do that, it's defective, or Apple is lying to consumers. One or the other.