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It's quite bad atm. Senior C++ engineer specializing in system-level programming, worked across several challenging domains including database internals for the last several years. 10+ years of experience.

Applied to around 25 jobs. Ghosted by 15 of them. Out of the 10 remaining, 3 of them are limited in terms of remote - to be considered you have to reside within certain countries.

From the remaining 7 I only got the interview round with 1 of them. Did not get an offer because I was not strong enough candidate despite successfully going through 5 interview rounds. Whole process was very slow and lasted for about 1.5 month, with not getting the feedback something like 2-3 weeks after the last round. All in all very weird experience and unexpected outcome with no strong arguments.

From the remaining 6 I did not even get an invite to an interview but a direct decline.

Getting the (systems programming related) remote job while located in Europe seems like an impossible task to me right now.
Being a victim of student loans would mean the borrower cannot properly consent to the debt. If that's the case we shouldnt offer student loans.

Otherwise theyre a victim of their own decision making. Of course they have a tough decision and probably received bad information like "education is priceless". So dont ever mislead kids with that crap. Ultimately We can distribute blame and repercussions across society l, which preserves the problem, or we could hold individuals responsible.
I had two phones break on me this year, due to the internal electronics failing. Not dropped or cracked, just screen gradually losing the ability to display correctly then eventually going dark continuously.

That's when I found out my business bank cannot do payments with their web banking if I don't have a registered, still working phone. And their phone-in banking service with its large voice menu and long waiting times also does not support making a payment. Lots of other things, general help, registering new devices, but not basic banking. For that you must have a registered device, they confirmed.

I had to buy a new phone (twice, in a hurry), and only then could I make a simple payment.

That was annoying. Imagine how much more annoying it would be to be stuck outside your home for a few days waiting for your new phone to be shipped!

(Hope the courier doesn't put it through the letterbox too!)
15 years of experience might also mean they are excellent at PHP+jQuery but have never heard of Rails+React ;)
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The Effect of Electromagnetic Radiation from Laptop on Sperm Quality
I like to say that, in being a parent, I'm less happy on an "instantaneous" basis, but more happy overall; more fulfilled. I expect, to some extent, it has something in common with volunteering at a charity. It's not the actual act of doing the work that makes you happy, it's the fact that you're doing the work for a reason.

Would I love to sit around and play video games in the large amounts of free time I would have if I didn't have a family? Sure. But that instantaneous gratification does not compare to the more "overall" happiness of having a family. For me. Clearly, it's different for everyone.
I know this is going to be a hugely unpopular opinion, but life has no purpose if it was not for offspring. To me not wanting children gives me the same vibes as someone playing a sport or entering a competition and then not giving their absolute everything to win Gold.
I don't know enough about accounting to make such claims, but I believe it's very unlikely that this one field is the exception to the trend.

On average, with every additional level of education the chance to vote for right-wing parties or issues decreases significantly. And this is true across the entire anglosphere, it's held true for the US elections 2008, 2012 and especially 2016 and 2020, but it applies just the same to the Brexit referendum.
I am so surprised that, in a site visited by technical people, so many don't get that the rate of change is decreasing...

Didn't any of you study Calculus? Didn't you get the idea of "negative second derivative"?

Yes, population is still growing in poor 3rd world countries. But even there it does at a rate far bellow what was 40 years ago.
This feels kind of arrogant? People working in many customer-facing entry level jobs do emotional labor within organisations that no AI-training has even taken aim at.
If glorified chatbots could do their work receptionists would've disappeared a long time ago.
Do you have any advice for freelancing in Germany?

I’ll be moving to Berlin in January, aber ich spreche nur Englisch und ich lerne Deutsch. Ich habe die EU-Staatsbürgerschaft und meine Frau kommt aus Berlin.

I am a senior front end dev who has experience leading teams
The Brilliance and Weirdness of ChatGPT
> everything we know about Elon Musk

Care to share with "us" what is it that "we" know about Elon Musk?
Hey, don't tempt me into buying a cordless drill! (I really like that approach of extending the utility of that device, but I think I can resist)
I have been working on the map for my house's circuits for 6 years. It's about 80% done.
If the state wants babies let it act so as to make them easier to have. Medical care, parental leave, inexpensive day care even per child funding. Some have done this but it’s in disagreement with the conservative approach to governing. People get what they vote for.
Zeihan is great.
> it’s your choice, but you’re definitely missing out on something special.

I totally forgot to mention the patronizing attitude that so many people come to this conversation with. Thank for you for heads up.
There are discontinuous functions which are not steps - one of the more useful ones being tan(x) for any real x. Of course, since tan(x) is piece wise continuous and periodic, it is probably easy to work around in practice.
Why are random substack rants upvoted?
It's honestly enough to remember and point out the whole concept is based on a study that only polled parents who aren't supportive of their trans kids. Anyone with a shred of genuine interest in being fair and accurate should be able to see right through the study. It's so bad that even prominent transphobes don't seem to talk about it anymore.
When we reach 10bn people, we will already have almost no children. This is what most people don’t get.

The slowdown is already here. Birth rates are still collapsing. But people worldwide are living longer so the actual number of people is still increasing.

By the time you get to 10bn in 50 years, it means you will have the majority of that pretty old. It will mean a completely unsustainable world demographic. And it will probably mean a massive collapse in population to 2-3bn within a few generations.

No idea what that will bring, but it will be a very different society to now.
Reminds me of Kim Ki Duks comments on the animal cruelty in The Isle[0]:

"In America you eat beef, pork, and kill all these animals. And the people who eat these animals are not concerned with their slaughter. Animals are part of this cycle of consumption. It looks more cruel onscreen, but I don’t see the difference."

I'm vegetarian, but totally condone a (relatively) tiny amount of animal cruelty for art and science. /Especially/ art-- it might make people realize what they are eating.

[0] https://www.moviehabit.com/essay.php?story=kim_ki-duk01
This argument assumes that "moving fast enough to make mistakes" is actually getting us closer to a usable technology. There's not much reason to think this is the case based on the opinions of other experts in the field. Theranos also "moved fast" - straight into a ditch.
> This was already described eloquently, and with examples, 4 years ago: https://medium.com/@kaistinchcombe/decentralized-and-trustle... Why are these crypto maximalists still pretending it's a thing?

Because they don't agree with those conclusions.
Elizabeth Warren's book The Two-Income Trap argued that dual income couples priced out single income families from the best locations.

It makes sense that DINKs and childless single people are simply reacting to the same economic incentives and now pricing out dual income families.

I think high-rents is a major driver of this decision. The USDA puts the cost of your first kid at $14.4k annually edited. That is primarily due to housing.
There aren't just extra kids, there's extra old people.
> Is that what you're panicking about? This means that for the next 50 years, we'll continue growing. Lack of offspring of current generations is clearly not the problem here.

It think it can be and it might already be. The problem is the distribution of people in age groups. If you have a lot of old people and few young people, that creates pressure on the economy.

Sustainable would not just be about the number of people, but also the number of people in each age group.
Worse problems than a dying population? I don’t think so. If the population keeps getting older and smaller by definition it is dying. And not dying is the first imperative of life.
Corporations are kept in check by competition from other corporation. Uniting is called cartel and is illegal.

Unions on the other hand are allowed to join indefinitely, until they become multinational humongous forces like Teamsters.

So the balance of power is slanted in favor of Unions.
I have 2 kids, I don’t recommend it. Quality of life decline is steep unless you’re wealthy and can hire robust childcare support, and it causes a significant decline in relationship satisfaction with your partner. Maybe you end up happy in the end, maybe you don’t, it’s Russian Roulette in a different form. People who tell you to go for it aren’t going to make you whole if it doesn’t work out or be your village when you need help.

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2011-25189-001

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1741-3737.2003...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8062063/
> I get it that this stuff is confusing and can be hard to make sense of at first, but gender identity and sexuality are completely different things.

Yeah, but the comment OP is responding to was explicitly about letting kids "explore their sexuality".
USA is just 300 millions people. "West" depending on your definitions is about 1.5 billion people. Most of the west has cheap/free university education and good welfare. They still have problems with demography, because it's not economy that discourages people from having kids. Universally - the wealthier the society becomes - the less kids it has.
Goodhart's Law [1] says that "when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure".

This is a great thing to make every growing children to be trained / optimized for one or some specific things only.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
Because no one wants to work anymore either, so how can you afford kids if you don't want to go to work ;o
It's difficult to express to non-parents how good the good parts are. Speaking from personal experience, I never understood why people would want kids until we decided to have our own.

This isn't a judgment or to say parents are in any way superior! Having children is a very personal choice which everyone has to confront, and there's no wrong answer. The feeling of being a parent is just incredibly difficult to put into words.
I think it was! And their symptoms were minor - go figure!
> My first thought was that there is a failure in the system if it inevitably leads companies to become evil as they grow (maybe a failure of government?

It is not a bug, it is feature. And it is not the government, it is capitalism which endorses greed.
Unless you don’t wanna see it, that he’s a sociopathic personality with too much capital fueling his god complex and a brittle long-termism agenda?
Did you hear from marathon runners how difficult it was? Same here, it's difficult but it brings experiences you could not have otherwise, and on pragmatic side passes on your genes ;)
> Just relax and answer questions.

It is good to be inquisitive, this is HN, being curious is in our nature :)

> How these tests works is a magic

Is it not a multiple-choice with a vector given to each answer, add them up and you get an x,y?

If not, why not?
That's interesting. It appears that the resources I was looking at were mostly from last year, which had both higher gas fees in gwei and higher ETH prices in USD. This contract (at 1.2 M gas) still only comes out to the hundreds of dollars at most; perhaps it is smaller than the kind of contracts that most people were considering at the time. (Incidentally, why is it so difficult to find any good order-of-magnitude estimates of the gas usage of deploying a contract?)
The people you hear most vocally for many things (for example, video games) are the ones that are listing the problems with it. They're also the ones that are doing it the most, by choice. As a general rule, it's common for the vocal minority to be the complainers; and also to be the ones that most enjoy the thing in question.
Is this borne out in data? I ask because among my friends and work mates, the ones with kids tend to be doing better financially. The higher ranks of the corporation are populated almost entirely with people who are supporting families.

I followed that path. When my first kid was born, I applied for a promotion into project management, and eventually people management. (I moved back out eventually). The vast majority of people I know who moved up into management did so coincidentally with the birth of their first kid.
"The primal prerogative of reproduction is predicated on the primal need for safe and secure territory"

>> Never heard of that.
I recently decided to have kids.

Got my wife pregnant, concluded I needed a raise, so I started to work really hard, go above and beyond, 5 months in a row of crunching overtime, got promised a raise during this.

Then just as my kid is about to be born, I get fired.

Still happy my wife is pregnant, but now I know why so many people give advice of the sort "do just the minimum necessary and never treat the company as family".
Slightly related: how can I educate myself on the topics of JVM internals, performance optimization and non-functional analysis like these (efficiently) ? Anyone has a recommended path/list of resources that is not just spending all time googling topics?
Maybe partly, but I'm pretty sure it's grassroots. The tech community loves privacy and is willing to accept large amounts of cost and inconvenience for it, to the point of many appearing to view tech as a net negative due to the spying.
If you only care about yourself go for it. I guess it’s somewhat sobering realizing you’re gonna be alone and your genetic material will be a dead end.

I have 3 kids 3 and under and probably got 4 hours of sleep last night. Wouldn’t trade it for the world. My kids are not treated like a drain on my potential investments.

Sure I can’t do my hobbies all the time but I can take my kids fishing and kayaking. The trips are shorter but fulfilling regardless.
No, I was stubborn like mule. I wore my parents down until they caved. That doesn't mean it didn't have an impact though, I certainly picked up what they were putting down.

Now, the reaction of my friends when they came over and looked at me funny when I tried to show them my awesome Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders doll (it had wings and could fly if you pulled a ripcord! That's objectively cool. Also, dangerous, especially to taller adults in the area.), that was painful.
>The planet's population is getting uncomfortably high, so the birthrate drops. Great.

If the birthrate drops, neither you nor I nor the kids alive today will get a "retirement". It'll become a quaint little thing we once could afford.

Not so bad if all your work is tapping into a laptop. It's bloody murder for anyone that has to stand and lift and DO for a living.
Ancient acceptance of MSM generally depended on who did the penetrating, because in a nutshell penetrating was manly and A-OK while being penetrated (orally / anally / vaginally) was womanly and hence bad. MSM was an exercise of social power.
It is already happening very successfully in fact in some communities.
> There’s nothing close to chasing a toddler in a circle for an hour.

amen
Tell HN: Hover are having DNS issues
We have a few domains with them that are experiencing intermittent DNS issues. Their status page isn't showing anything (as of 13:44 GMT) - http://hoverstatus.com/ - but a support person has confirmed that they are "currently experiencing difficulties with our nameservers and DNS records propagating".
How do you find contract opportunities? Is it the same as regular job searching? Do you use a firm? Do you apply to full time job posts but say you prefer contract to hire once you have an interview?
Between the economic impact, and the social/environmental pressure of climate change doomers, anti-natalist are a symptom of our broken society, and it's very disturbing.
These seeds were sowed when cities cashed in on commercial real estate, pushing residential zoning further and further out of the city. Wake up call: nobody wants to spend longer than they have to on an unpaid, unpredictable commute into the city anymore. So while these downtown businesses are getting 1/3 of the foot traffic that they used to, all the supermarkets and shops a few miles down the road are raking it in.
Acquisition due diligence is not the same as funding due diligence. There are definitely differences in the two and different reasons for doing it. For acquisition, due diligence is part of the legal and compliance requirements. For VC, due diligence is supposed to be part of the deal vetting process, but it's usually a headache for everyone, and goes out the window when they want to move fast.
I have a better idea: instead to run tests concurrently(kinda what Musk is doing) let's run them sequentially so that less animals are used(even if it takes way more time). We can use the saved animals for some tasty burgers. Nevermind that some people need treatments now. We can give them the saved burgers.
They are clearly referring to young people that can work vs old people that need care and cannot work
I think that narrative itself is fairly dim.

Consider a much more reasonable alternative - Having children can be seen as a path to traditional success by those who have very limited financial options.

By having a child - they gain a sense of purpose that is just utterly absent in most of our menial jobs. Further - Most people enjoy many aspects of their childhood, and having a child is a chance to pass on that joy and relive it.

Finally - additional children can bring additional revenue and help on the long term. If you know you have no job security, no money for savings, no pension, no 401k, and a low social security payout due to low earnings - children can be a way to have some semblance of retirement, and a safety net in old age.

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Is there some overlap where it's also a consequence on not thinking through your decisions? Sure - probably. But that answer is simplistic.

For every complex question there's an answer that's short, simple, and wrong.
> I have an incredibly comfortable lifestyle saving for retirement, traveling and buying real estate. The moment I become responsible for another human, that all goes away.

You realize that with the deflation that will hit most developed countries, all your savings will evaporate right ? It's a mathematical certainty given the way the economy works (coupled with fertility rates of < 1.5).

Immigration might work, but race is a big deal with a large section of the population esp. when it comes to low-end stuff.
It is "cool" inside a very small, but very powerful, stratum of society. You are right that there are still a lot of places where being queer (whether of the LGB or T variety) is a huge disadvantage.
It would be interesting when we invent an AGI and it will tell us that ~ism is a dead end and only ~ism is a way forward. Not sure how well humanity will cope. And even worse, when an AGI declares a ~world religion~ complete BS.
I'll never use proprietary software like Adobe in my work flow ever again. I recently switched from Windows to Linux[1] for the same reasons and will never go back. Many of these companies are hostile to there custom base, no reason to support them. I have moved on to supporting development teams behind Inkscape, Mozilla and Obsidian. People behind these projects seem like they care about where the future of software is heading.

[1]: https://www.scottrlarson.com/publications/publication-transi...
> According to you, what is CVS accused of?

If you can't be bothered to read my comments, or the original article, what are you arguing for?

I've answered that question twice, in sentences starting with:

"The original article says that the petitioners are claiming that ..."

"The point of the lawsuit is that ..."

Are you actually claiming that the lawsuit is frivolous? Because I think you've been arguing about something inside your head this whole time, while I try to keep coming back to the facts in the lawsuit, and the legal definitions of donations, neither of which you seem to care to understand. You just keep making vague moral arguments about who should get "credit" for a donation.
The post you’re replying to discusses and measures centralisation.

I’m happy to discuss reliability but it doesn’t appear we’re having a conversation.
A lot of the responses in this thread demonstrate the same dismissal that she discusses
Specially in Germany middle management is all about contacts (they call it "B-Vitamin" because of the german word for "relationship" starts with "B") who do you know and who knows you is the most important thing...
Technical background is relegated to a second plane (to say the least) because you are "not supposed to solve the problems, but to manage the people who actually solve the problems".
We often quip that companies (particularly publicly listed companies) are incredibly bad at long-term planning. They optimize for the current quarter only (mostly). Dell was a great example of this. It essentially created the Taiwan PC industry that eviscerated it but further outsourcing every part of their production line. A series of short-term decisions that had long-term consequences.

I hate to breka it to you but capitalism is doing the exact same thing to people.

Financial security and independence is bad for capitalism because it needs people to show up to work. It needs people to need those jobs and (even better) live paycheck-to[aycheck. That's the recipe for a compliant workforce. Increasing real wages is bad because it decreases dependence and profits, which is why there has been almost no increase in overall real wages in 40+ years.

Student debt, housing debt and medical debt are by design. Your labor is extracted to very few. Centuries ago, nobles were at the top of that pyramid and we called that serfdom. What we have now is basically the same thing but we've just replaced nobles with the capital-owning class.

People once had children because of high infant mortality (and mortality in general) and to look after them when they got old. Now we need a certain amount of security to provide for those children. And the short-term exploitation of labor has the completely understandable effect of people waiting to have children, not having children at all and/or having less children.

We produce enough such that everyone could live comfortably. We produce enough food such that everyone could be fed. We, as a society, have allowed people to starve and be homeless and instead of sharing the wealth letting it concentrate in the hands of a few hundred individuals.