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In defense of common lisp: The language is ansi standard and hasn't seen core changes in decades. This means cl pagckages can be "done". It is very common in cl to have projects that haven't been touched in years, because it is highly unlikely to break, hence, "it just works". As for this specific ML conversation, I am not in this field and have nothing valuble to say about who uses what and how viable/appropriate any of the approaches(languages) are for ML.
Putting aside locale, and other important things universal code should have in the first 75% of the new version:

What is your argument that it is silly? Have you done a survey of usage, or researched its history. Don't be so quick to criticize code, especially from a huge, old, project (that might even be older than you).
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You're probably giving a more thoughtful answer than my rant deserved :)

What I was trying to express was said better by Marc Andreessen "It’s Time to Build" manifesto. Read that instead: https://a16z.com/2020/04/18/its-time-to-build/

The Bay Bridge only got built because the old one proved seismically unsafe, and that took 24 years, with a 2500% cost overrun, according to Wikipedia. No other bridges will be build in the SF bay, despite huge needs.
Ones in India.
> If your primary reason for responding to an ad is based upon salary

This never get's any less ridiculous the more it is repeated. It's like some sort of stockholm syndrome thing.

I'm responding to a JOB ad, the thing where you trade your time for money. There are many criteria I use to decide if I'll be happy somewhere besides money, but they are all irrelevant if I'm not properly paid because, you know, that's why I'm taking a salary job instead of doing my own thing.

It's funny how no one makes the same advice on the other side. Oh yeah, this person is incompetent, but it's not really about the work right? We are a big family, let's make him a VP because he's really fun to get a beer with.

The same logic also never seems to apply when security is escorting you out because of layoffs and treating you like a criminal. (never happened to me personally but it surely happens to A LOT of people. Like 10s of thousands in the last month)
Not having a persistently visible scrollbar means there's often no visual signal that something can be scrolled, or what the boundaries of the scrollable view are.

It's especially bad with flat UI design, to the point of being a dark pattern: in the Windows 10 and 11 setup process, there's a screen for opting out of various privacy invasions and other anti-features. Several of the options are completely invisible and undiscoverable until you start turning off the ones that are on screen, changing how tall those options are and revealing that the list is scrollable. Abuse like that is reason enough to always mistrust and hate auto-hiding scrollbars.
"One of the most common complaints about heat pumps, experts said, was that they would stop providing heat on very cold days. But advances to heat pump compressors have made them more efficient, cost effective and successful at providing heat in colder temperatures."

Yeah this is a key issue that shouldn't be glossed over like this. We need more data about how much they have improved.
why not use https://github.com/yjs/yjs ?
People have done studies on sex-differences on trans people and the results is quite interesting (https://health.clevelandclinic.org/research-on-the-transgend...).

Basically, transgender brain has some sex-differences that resembles the gender that the person identifies as, and that is before hormone therapies has been applied. If they did such study on antibiotics then you would likely have to do multiple ones, including if the person have taken hormones before or after puberty.
All that matters is we did it before the USSR.
>I feel like the disillusionment it breeds is intentional.

Absolutely. Demoralization of the proletariat is priority number one for the bourgeoisie. You don't have to spend huge amounts of resources fighting them if there is no one to fight in the first place.
Google Has a Stalking Problem
https://github.com/iperov/DeepFaceLive
Speaking from the UK. We had 2 days of hot weather. A reasonably insulated house or one with decent thermal mass is fine.
Heat pumps are more use here for the heat, we don't have extreme winters, so the basic premise of the article from a UK perspective is wrong. Plus the name 'heat pump' doesn't indicate a direction anyway.
Are you a locally/globally known company or raised funds recently?

I'd still apply to a unicorn, or a company who I know just raised $20M,because I know they can afford it and already pay at/above market.

Salary is not the primary reason, it's a bare minimum requirement, and if it's not completely obvious that the company is willing to pay enough, I won't click on it, let alone apply.

> with the better candidates responding to the ones without salary ranges.

They responded but did the better candidates accept an offer and work for you now?
Or the hiring engineers are holding candidates to insanely high standards that they themselves couldn’t be held to. I did a 4.5 hour interview with Capital One where I had to design a full system diagram from a text description. I thought I did great on it because I’ve done it several times in previous roles for real. Then with a different interviewer I had to solve a Python challenge which I passed and then was asked to explain the Big O value for my algorithm which again I did successfully and then I was repeatedly asked if I would change anything with my solution. They probably wanted me to find a log n time solution with low memory usage in like 45 minutes when the algorithm itself was hard to figure out. Then I had a behavioral interview where they use sneaky questions to subjectively decide if you’re going to be a jerk based on your previous work situations which I don’t even remember after a few months. All of this was live over video after already successfully completing a coding exercise. I mean the caliber of person for these basic jobs would have to be insanely talented, invest tons of time interviewing, and then they don’t want to pay you a lot.
Salary is great criterion to pick an employer.

Underpaying employees is a clear sign that a company tries to exploit them. So it creeps in work life balance, unlimited responsibilities, abusive management etc

It is also a clear sign that they do not value the work that these employees are doing.

So if a company pays pennies for example for ML engineers, you know that they don’t have vision to grow there, they are just checking boxes.

On the other hand if employees are greatly compensated that means that the company is looking for the greatest talent out there, so they are seriously invested in the area, aka you have good potential to grow.

Also companies that compensate great have no incentive to abuse their super stars. Exactly because they have invested a lot.

So money is the first and only measurable criterion to reject an employer before even finishing the interview loops.
I'd say the author is being generous to the agency and Isaac.

There is easily a version of this where the agency has landed on an excellent strategy for milking 7K for 6x their spend.

At best (generously assuming the agency's retro is all true) the CEO, Isaac has been greedy or naive in taking on work they clearly weren't set up to deliver.
Yes, definitely. I just wanted to point out that you should really include maximum amounts in job-based contracts. A professional should be able to accurately guess how many hours it will take.
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is there any case where it does make sense to take gender "preference" into account? besides pronouns?

seems to me that those who insist that gender and sex are distinct also heavily imply that biological sex is mostly meaningless, so its unclear what they actually expect anyone to care about
> There is actually no particular law against insider trading at all, not even related to equities…

There actually is. See, well, a whole lot of 15 USC Chapter 2B [0], notably provisions like 15 USC Sec. 78p (prohibiting certain trades by corporate insiders, and creating civil liability of those conducting such trades to the issuer of the security thus traded) and 78u-1 (authorizing civil penalties by the SEC for insider trading made illegal by the Securities and Exchange Act.)

What Bloomberg probably meant to say is that there is not a distinct crime of insider trading, but that illegal insider trading is generally also the crime of securities fraud.

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/chapter-2B
"Thank you for considering us, but we were able to fill the position with a more-experienced candidate whose salary requirements were more in line with..."
>And... before you say, perhaps your salary ranges were bad, they weren't. Our salary offerings are very aggressive to the developer's benefit.

Tell us the numbers. Otherwise I call bullshit…
For me, salary is a prerequisite, not a final selection point. It's one I drop potential jobs from my list of consideration because while happiness is indeed the most important one, being underpaid is definitely not going to make me happy.

I just have a salary range I am aiming for, especially because I compare it to my current job where I have a permanent contract. Like the OP said, it's super annoying to go through the process and then get a low-ball offer.

I recently turned down a job at a very big company for that reason. When I said no they said it's a really good career move working for them and I would rise up fast. They have candidates begging to work there. But no I'm not taking less than I'm getting right now (after standards of living correction)
Example.

Hi, my rates in our contract are going up from $xx/hr to $yy/hr to adjust to market rates effective ______. You know that I have not had a rate revision for several years. The new rates are reflective of the additional skills, knowledge and experience I bring to the table. As a long-term partner, I would be happy to lock these rates for a period of ___ years and include an inflation/cost-of-living adjustment from year ___ onwards in our new contract. Let me know what you think. Thanks.

a. Your client already knows your capabilities. So, no need to rehash that, I think.

b. If there are new skills you will be bringing to the table in the future (eg: you can now program in Rust), that can be stated as part of the value you bring.

c. Don't worry about the client being shocked. If they like your work and your increases are reasonable and worth the value you bring, they are likely to accept your proposal.

d. Some of these elements in the proposal are negotiable. For example, you are proposing a rate increase, but also proposing to lock those rates for a longer period. You are also hinting at an inflation-adjusted rate down the road. If the client likes your longer-term rate lock at the higher rate, you can decide to knock-off the inflation-adjustment clause.

Remember that every negotiation begins with what you are comfortable with and ends (successfully) with what the other party is comfortable with that you can accept.

Good luck.
I’m dealing with this right now where it’s clear one of the engineers is burned out and needs to be cycled off the project for awhile.
I don't know why you'd be surprised by this. If you were giving away milk, you'd get a better response from an ad that said "Free Milk" than an ad that said "Free Expired Milk," even though the milk you're giving away is expired.

You're concealing relevant information in order to sucker in people who have no interest. It's the central mechanism behind "linkbait" headlines. It's just a dark pattern.

People who were not interested in a job with your salary range responded to ads that omitted the salary range. They heard you out because they had already committed their time to reach out to you. This basically shifts hiring costs onto the applicants in that they have to waste their time discussing a job they would never take because you held back the information they needed to know that it was a job they would never take.

Somehow, you've found a way to rationalize this as passion.
> fulfilling

Let us not forget duty.
That's a fair point; there's something to be said for novel technology being developed by industries/organizations adjacent to but not directly involved in the industry of that technology. This seems to tend to yield better results than funding the industry directly.

My guess at why, would be that occupants of the industry have an interest in maintaining the status quo, while players adjacent to the industry have an interest in novel, disruptive technologies in adjacent industries.

For example, over a decade ago, the US paid hundreds of billions directly to telcos to fund the buildout of a nationwide fiber network.

Perhaps if that money had gone to a different group, then a nationwide fiber network would exist.
Biden shared a video statement on twitter.com/potus

He thanked everyone for their concern. The last thing he said was "I'm going to be okay."
Here's a link for those who can't read Reddit because of ad and tracker blockers: https://www.hackster.io/news/building-a-raspberry-pi-hud-hea...
Ask HN: What GO web framework do you use?
Hello HN , what to use to be fast and easy like java's tomcat server ?
So many half baked or not maintained frameworks...
What do I use in production?
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As long as you have backups
Fundamentally, despite the claims, Gran Turismo isn't a very good driving physics simulator.
Ok don't use the word "ideally" and say "minimum". But nothing wrong with getting what you want exactly. You can't have it both ways where you don't disclose your number but expect employer to. Decide what works for you, tell them that and shut up. Simple.
Interestingly, I just went back and did not have that same experience. Seems that something changed.
> Ah - now I'm fairly convinced you haven't actually bought real estate.

Also false. Maybe stop with the ad hominems?

> There is no such thing as a "standing offer" to buy a house.

There is in my proposal. Go back and reread it.

> This is fucking already how taxes work.

Not in California.
This is absolutely brilliant.

In windmill, https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill (self-hostable AWS Lambda, OSS AGPLv3) we infer the jsonschema of your script by doing static analysis but so far we were not doing validation of the payload itself, if your script failed because of incorrect payload that was your problem. Now without any additional effort I will be able to add validation and great error reporting "for free".
I got a solution.

> Position pays 100k+ depending on experience.

Solved.

Or potentially

> Position pays 100k-130k+, depending on experience

If a company isn't getting applicants, boost that baseline.
I have worked in and out of consulting and agencies for many years and I have a simple rule for hiring them when anyone asks:

1. Are you going to be one of their three biggest clients? If not, find a smaller agency.

2. If you can't find an agency small enough to be one of their three biggest clients, you want a contractor, not an agency. Put them on retainer for more than 50% of their time.

Firms will bend over backwards for their largest clients because they do a poor job of tracking that it is costing them money when they need to fix a mistake. They just see one of their biggest clients is unhappy and they will lose them.
It's interesting though. The container orchestration at work has kind of moved past the initial scary phase, and kinda past the first honeymoon phase. In the beginning, it was like "Oh we can use all kinds of technology in there, how amazing!" - by now we're much rather becoming very, very efficient a smacking problems with the 3 boring old sticks dev has. Something like deploying and monitoring low-volume spring boot applications based on postgres has become extremely streamlined by now.
The labor we workers offer for sale on the labor market is a resource though.
The idea is that you pipe `yes | fsck` to answer yes to all questions.
One of the many reasons I wish we hadn't chosen MySQL. Our internal dashboard has loads of "reports" that are basically tabular displays of queried data with optional filtering and sorting on every column, plus pagination. It's near impossible to make any of them performant due to not being able to optimize for a specific use case; because of the myriad of combinations of filters and sorts different users might apply. We've tried to explain this many times over, even bringing in a DBA consultant who said the same thing, but we're still met with "why is this so slow?" on a regular basis.

Materialized views wouldn't be a silver bullet, but it would certainly help by allowing us to "cache" all of the joins and pre-processing into indexable views.
You're actually bang-on, if you intended 'M' to denote thousands[0]. Otherwise the Peacekeeper[1] is the closest I could find to a per-unit cost of $170mm, and that offers ... quite a bit more bang.

[0]: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/29/how-this-us-made-176000-anti...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGM-118_Peacekeeper
I've noticed posting of salary ranges that are above market rate but when you speak to the company the real range is lower and when you go on glassdoor current salaries are much lower than their real range.
No, but inequality and cost of living certainly does.
> Of the top reasons people are happy at work, salary is way down on the list. [0] It is important, it makes it possible to pay bills, but it isn't what makes people happy.

I want money so my family don’t struggle in the future. My child can go to better schools. We have better food. We can have a house at better places. When you only work to pay your bills you gonna have a bad time. What happens when you get fired? What happens when you want to change your perspective and go to school again.
Root causes here probably aren't about chromosomes but about hormone levels so something else that is more about amount of N. That's how you look at things without making it about "male" 9r "female" (since, to use hormones as an example, those vary between individuals and within an individual over a life).
JWST cost each American $3/yr for it's mission life. They just would have wasted it on gum or an energy drink.
Tech debt is basically owing Don Corleone a favor.

You don't know what you're going to have to do or when, but you do not want to take that obligation lightly.
Would that be the same planet where you can refresh a query every second that takes 2.4s to complete? How does that work?
I think we can all agree that you have to be pretty fucking stupid to fall for some hot girl randomly reaching out via whatsapp and offering you investment advice.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BlockchainStartups/comments/polf7m/...
That's convincing :)
Good to know, thanks!
There's a reason why there are two lists of different company sizes.

K8S and general cloud migration grows the overall cloud market, and Google-Cloud benefits from it a lot.

For all companies these projects help with building communities and recruiting, which is a top priority for such companies.

But the most important point is that an alternative to open-core is needed, and open-foundation has all the mechanics to fill in the gap.
Considering it’s a 20+ year project in the making and has an expected operation of 5-20 years… I don’t think it’s entirely ridiculous to look at it this way.
IANAL but I believe the legal theory is they stole proprietary information from Coinbase (information about an upcoming listing) and used it for personal profit. The "victims" in this view are NOT users of the exchange (or the broader cryptocurrency market) but rather shareholders of Coinbase.
Suppose a Japanese bank had a technical problem that only one person could fix and it had brought down their whole system and they were losing tons of money.

Culture would take a backseat and the Japanese execs would start talking compensation real fast.

Clearly whoever is in charge of hiring at Oracle for your wife’s position is betting that your wife will not mind waiting to discuss compensation and/or they can find someone else if your wife does bring it up. Simultaneously, your wife is betting that she cannot find another position if she brings up compensation at a point that she thinks could cost her the offer.

If your wife was indispensable to Oracle HR, and she wanted to bet on that, there is no reason she cannot start talking compensation whenever she wants. Or if she has alternatives that are willing to talk compensation, then she can skip Oracle HR and move on to better options.
Dont mold your interview process after a FAANG, if you're not going to offer FAANG money and incentives.
I think the biggest thing that could’ve been done differently here is hiring through a platform. If you hire through a platform there is a third-party that controls that both parties behave as they should. All agencies and freelancers have tons of incentive to do good work and make the client happy. They basically live off their reviews. Also those platforms have escrow, milestone payments and many more useful things. I know people hate the 30% extra, but in my experience those 30% are actually worth more than the 70%.

A good book on these kind of situations is "Skin in the Game - Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

WebAgency never had an incentive to make you happy…
Money does not buy happiness, but money enables me to do things that make me happy
I'm trans and I'd generally like more follow up studies to determine if various medically-important sex-dimorphic factors are downstream of endocrine differences. Otherwise I won't know which profile fits me better and I might get worse medical outcomes.

Personally, I much prefer to learn about sex dimorphism in analytical/academic contexts, rather than in emotional/social ones. I actively seek out and read papers like this in my free time.
In a regular taxi service for an area, the taxis are required to have ADA availability (and licensing for them needs to be available). For example https://www.understandingtheada.com/blog/2012/01/24/licensin...

> Therefore the court ordered that the Commission to propose a comprehensive plan that provides meaningful access to taxi services for passengers using wheelchairs. The plan must include targeted goals and standards as well as anticipated measurable results. Furthermore, until such a plan was proposed and approved by the court, all new taxi medallions sold or new street hail livery licenses or permits issued by the Commission must be for wheelchair accessible vehicles.

Some additional information - https://drhandicap.com/insights/can-taxis-refuse-service-bas...

While this is more expensive for the taxi company to have ADA vehicles, that cost is spread out across the entirety of the customer base.

The difficulty comes with ride share that aren't licensed and displace taxi services resulting in difficulty spreading out the cost across all taxi rides... and that the ride share drivers (and companies) don't provide sufficient coverage is compared to the requirement for licensed taxis.
Most candidates overestimate their ability. No one would like to hear that they should get the lower end of the range because well they didn't deserve the higher range.
> What motivation does the capital class have in my pizza being late?

You're asking what motivation do businesses have for taking your money and not investing enough to provide the service that customers want in return?
I don't see why this is exculpatory at all — she was not supposed to be reading Slack messages, she was supposed to be watching the road, per the law. Uber did not give her permission to break the law when convenient.