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>Is there data showing the talent in those tech hubs is better than what you can find elsewhere?

There are great engineers everywhere, but this line of reasoning misses why talent hubs exist in the first place. It's more likely a qualified individual will line near a talent hub along side other companies that demand those skills. A better question to ask is how much time & effort will a company put in finding a qualified candidate outside of the talent hub.

For example, Apple has a similar problem with regards to manufacturing in China.[1] Do talented tooling engineers exist in the US? Of course. Is Apple going to spend 5 years trying to hire 100 tooling engineers in the US, or spend 6 months hiring the engineers it needs in China?

[1] https://twitter.com/mariocavolo/status/1747599350438437364
Hey, hyperpaper creator here! That's exactly what it is– a pdf planner that you can customize to your own needs, with lots of contextual links.

Happy to answer any questions, and thanks chrisweekly for the kind words and shoutout
No because the desire to know and control what's going to happen is primarily driven by finance needs, and they're also the people who pay you.
"Fiduciary duty to maximize shareholder value."

The most mendacious and destructive idea to have ever been been conceived. Customers, employees and governments can screw themselves, only the wealthy matter. Propped up by the concept of a corporation as a legal entity with the same rights as a person, who happens to be a sociopath.
My mistake; I was quoting a different document, "An Engineering Leader’s
Job Search Algorithm", linked from an HN comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39338314
It's not setting the fire which causes taxpayers to lose money, it's writing off the loss against taxes you would have otherwise paid on profits made from other movies.
ooo, tell me more. what is your workflow like on the surface to enable this?
You're right, sorry. That figure is energy output per month. Edited the post to make that clear. Added some extra statistics too from the monitoring software's report.
> Because existing cities are where the jobs are located. That’s why people move there: to have a job and a shot at a better life.

I don't know, I live in a big city but I mostly work from home despite the office being 20 minutes away by metro. Because today's hotdesk flexi hipster office is a nightmare for actually doing work.

I moved here because I love living in a big city. Always having stuff to do. All the things to discover. Amazing public transport so I don't need a car (I absolutely hate driving). 20 bucks for a monthly pass and my shoes cover my entire travel needs for a month. Literally all the shops I need right around the corner. I can roll out of the disco at 6am and into my bed. It's amazing. I love being in the middle of life.

A lot of my friends love having a huge house in a quiet village but I don't understand that at all. I come from a quiet suburb but I've always hated that kind of environment. Even though I was happy there when I grew up.

Also I have pretty niche interests. It's just really hard finding a makerspace or a BDSM club in a small town. Here I have many to choose from in both categories :)

Also, small towns tend to be very big on the 'family values' mindset which isn't something I fit into, if that wasn't already clear from the above. In a city people know where to keep their opinions on how other people live their lives. In small towns they'll constantly gossip behind your back. I've lived in one for 10 years and hated that.

Anyway my point is, there's many reasons people want to live in cities that have nothing to do with their personal chance at jobs or money. It's really a very different type of society and environment that's really desirable for some people despite the crazy house prices.
> That they actually incurred the losses they claim to have incurred, so they get a tax break. The taxpayer is defrauded.

Did they not incur such losses? Did they claim to delete the movie but actually kept a backup? Granted, the loss is self-inflicted, but that's not a relevant factor in the tax code.
From Pigeons to Artificial Neural Networks
Sorry, on re-read, this sounds kinda abrupt. My bad.

I think at the end this is a business decision. The executive team has considered options and decided that closed source is the right path for the company.
Yes I thought the same, it was a weird reaction to a post about cloud environments that was not criticizing or attacking ffmpeg in any way. It seems somebody got rubbed the wrong way by it.
When you assume you make an ass out of both you and me.

Politicians are insincere and self serving is a common observation not an ideological statement either. The person I quoted would be just as on odious if he belonged to some other political party, read it again.
> is the artist to be prohibited from destroying the painting

Perhaps not prohibited. But we could make it so they lose all IP rights.

Copyright is intended to promote the creation and distribution of new works. It is not a natural human right, like ownership of your physical things.
That's not a very good analogy, you can understand code without having to run it.
Where’s the so-called “attack”?
In the startup world and in much of the tech corporate world in practice predictability is valued above all else. It's because investors, perhaps reasonably, value and therefore demand predictions.

But as we know that is fundamentally difficult. So many tech orgs make up a "hero-hustle" culture to compensate. "We're top 10% and we work all the time, this is the best we can do!"

Strong leadership is strong leadership, building the right product development culture is really hard.
Maybe step away from the keyboard for a bit?
Interesting that they included Cryptonomicon, which is arguably more about IT than mathematics, but they failed to include Stephenson's Anathem [1]: a book about people who live in monasteries called "maths" [2], who spend their whole lives doing mathematics (including at least one scene where the monks demonstrate a basic proof to a novice), in a book which is at its core an apology for mathematical realism, and approaches Platonic metaphysics through a mathematical lens.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathem

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matha
It is zero when the hard drive holding the only copy is degaussed.
Exactly. You want the tax break? The work now belongs to the taxpayers. Seems fair to me.
It sounds like a Staff title may be in play, although it wasn't made clear whether this would be a promotion.
Are these all free to use, or is it a mix of free/paid? Looks nice!
Yes, this is why it's good to ask the recruiter whether they actually have any direct contact with a hiring manager, or whether they work at the company (tons of them have also been laid off in the last year). Recruiters are usually third-parties who's only job it is to accept CVs from applicants and pass them on, just one more stupid layer that gets you no further than cold applying. Often, those jobs a recruiter comes up with are reposted by other third-party companies on the same site without any text changed in the JD. Some recruiters will ask for MS word documents so it's easier to remove your contact information and add their logo.
Space tech startup True Anomaly set to launch its first satellites
It would require additional lead time definitely. But on the other hand, if someone is willing to pay $1000 for Taylor Swift tickets, they're probably also willing to participate in a pre-sale without guarantees or concrete dates before things are booked.

The idea also applies to things like GPUs and Playstations where they expect to sell out. Start the price high and decrease it over time as you get additional supply. Announce ahead of time that this is your plan along with what the eventual target price is, so people willing to pay the premium to get it early can do so, and others know they just need to wait and the price will drop.
I really agree that some control engineering applications can feel like magic.

When I learned programming, I thought "Wow, I can tell a computer anything I want, as long as I take the time to program it."

I have a similar feeling about control theory, just that it feels like you're "programming" the laws of physic, modifying how reality works.
I don't think there is a way to do that on a standard browser setup (nor would I want the browser trying to assume this kind of output should be collected every frame itself). Not to mention even if there was it'd probably not be worth the extra bytes in this kind of demo.
You might like Joplin or Logseq, which are open source.

I hope one day the folks at Obsidian will make it FOSS. I don't think it will negatively affect them at all.
"Why deleting finished programs should be a crime."

Be honest, at least some of you have finished a project before deciding to axe it instead of publishing it. It is any creators right to decide not to publish something.

If the issue is the tax treatment of these circumstances, then fix that.
If you spent a bunch of time and resources making a movie, and then decide to shred it, did you not lose money?
This odd lots episode, featuring the author of Flying Blind, might be of interest: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ocRb-WdbfcQ
If I burn down my house and claim insurance or tax losses, they’ll laugh and send me to jail. Explain how a corporation doing the effectively the same thing should get a write off. It’s a sham.
I don't think they need to claim that "no one would pay even $1 for the rights to the movie in its current state" but rather the lesser "in our judgment, the best thing for us as a profit-seeking studio is for us to not release this movie".

Damage to the Batgirl franchise brand, damage to the studio reputation, damage to the relationship with the stars, legal fees, etc. could all be reasonably factored in to the studio's judgment to scrap the current WIP.
Fear and Loathing at the Super Bowl
We aren't arguing that it's tax fraud by definition, but that it should be considered fraud. If the tax code incentivizes destroying something then that seems like a defect of the tax code.
They shouldn't be able to call it "buy"ing it should be referred to as "rent"ing if they can pull your purchased copy at any moment
Destroying a movie to claim the tax break is analogous to burning your house down for the insurance money or to claim a casualty loss. Yes, you really did lose your house. No, you are not entitled to claim it as a write-off.
Go to your nearest retirement home. Sit down and strike up a conversation with someone there. Genuinely listen to them and show interest in what they have to say. When you leave reflect on the vast loneliness of society and how one person can impact another with even the smallest of gestures.

Thats the most succinct advice I have on being a better manager. Not a self-indulgent medium article.
I want children, I'll never be able to afford it.
> just call some people you know...

Probably all unemployed too
You're right, it's just part of the absurdity of Rand's vision. In the real world people do work and create something, but some bean counters figure out the heirs who own the majority stake of a company can make a few more bucks by destroying the thing, so it is done.
Sounds like good training for the average Marine, but it doesn't apply to the higher-level scandals:

* the 20 years of coverup and inaction about prosecuting 1Lt Duncan D. Hunter for 2004 Iraq friendly-fire deaths of other Marines and Iraqis? He eventually got prosecuted much faster for congressional finance abuse.

"Marine friendly-fire deaths involving Duncan Hunter were kept hidden. His congressman dad denies interfering." https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/military/story/202...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_D._Hunter#Military_serv...

* the pattern of fatal accidents involving the Boeing V-22 Osprey:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Boeing_V-22_Osprey#Accide...

You made interesting comments about how to frame the narrative when people disagree-and-commit.
> Choosing to not care is much harder as we have all had years of education conditioning us that we need to achieve more and to be the best.

Very much so. I enjoyed reading Coddling of the American Mind as well. Not 1:1 but related to the conditioning, lack of maturity, and in some cases, learned helplessness.
> Luckily, most of the world didn’t catch on! They’re still teaching phonics in most of the world.

The need for heavy-duty phonics instruction depends somewhat on the language. For example, languages like Spanish and Italian are quite phonologically regular, so once you learn what sound each letter makes, it's easy to read. In English, the mappings between letters and sounds is much more complicated, so teaching the various rules and exceptions is more important.
There’s a lot more to Spring Boot than DI and configuration.
You think nobody leaves a good job for a better one and jumps through hoops to do so?
Oh! Awesome! I’ll check that out, thank you.
I think you have typo in your url.
Some perspective from the other side of this situation: I was a hiring manager at a company that paid well but not FAANG level. We had an office near a couple FAANG offices. We had a lot of applications from people who wanted out of FAANG.

Some problems we encountered when working with FAANG applicants and a few ex-FAANG hires:

* Non-transferable knowledge: Many of them had a lot of experience working within the abstractions and structures of their FAANG company, but struggled to work with foundational concepts once removed from their FAANG infrastructure. Some of them spent years trying to rebuild copies of the FAANG tooling they were familiar with just to accomplish jobs that didn't really need it.

* Experience mismatch with the current team. An extension of the above point: Some candidates were high level at FAANG but less experienced with day-to-day operations than our in-house Senior/Staff devs. This put us in an awkward spot where we'd have to pay them more than our current high level engineers to bring them in, but they'd be operating at a level below them at least to start. We opted to promote from within in these cases.

* Compensation cold feet. Many would tell us they just wanted out of their FAANG co at any cost and knew it would come with a compensation cut. But when it came down to offer time, they'd get cold feet about leaving money on the table. Even in cases where we paid within ~$50K of their FAANG comp, some of them just couldn't let it go when it came time to put in their 2 weeks' notice.

* Boomerang FAANG employees. Some people would join us, then miss the structure of blending into a big, highly structured FAANG company. They'd bounce back to the same FAANG or another FAANG within 6-18 months.

* Higher rate of candidate ghosting us than with any other cohort. It was rare for an average candidate to ghost us once the interview pipeline had started, but for whatever reason the FAANG applicants had a very high rate of getting half way through the pipeline and then disappearing without a word. Many times they'd appear again a few months later asking for a second chance, only to repeat the process.

I'm not suggesting these apply to you. Only trying to provide some perspective. Anything you can do to alleviate these concerns early might help an application process.

Of course, if your goal is to secure FAANG level compensation and Staff+ titles, you might just have to accept the reality that continuing in FAANG is far and away the easiest way to get there.
> Agile itself has no real original ideas

Core to the 12 Principles, and thus Agile by extension, is the idea of no managers. Each of the 12 items exists to get you thinking about what developers (and the business people!) need to do if there is no manager acting as the guiding force.

While no managers is not a novel idea in a vacuum, it isn't something organizations usually think about. It's just the unspoken expectation that there will be managers once you have enough people to form a team.

> hopelessly naive about the way people, and companies, actually work.

Indeed. One of the 12 principles is quite explicit that it will not work with any Random Joe; that you need very specific people who are motivated to make an organization function without management helping them. Much as you want to pretend you are not Random Joe, you are, and it literally tells you that it won't work for you.
Agreed. If only to enable others to reproduce and improve on the work.
By the way, here's my simplified/annotated version of the code https://gist.github.com/DavidBuchanan314/13f4c4e8d9573108ff9...
Not a short story, but possibly Permutation City by Egan?
Not an accountant, but tax write-offs aren't some sort of no tax glitch that you make them seem. You can only deduct losses that you've actually suffered, not imaginary losses. If you spent $10M into making a movie, you can't value the movie at $80M and then use that against all your other revenues to pay less taxes. If this were true every company would be making fake movies to destroy and pay less taxes, not destroy actual movies that they spent millions on.
I think the tax writeoff should only be available for doing something like that. It's insane that corporations failing at ventures is so incentivised that they'll fail on purpose, and we shouldn't be offering tax breaks for behavior that serves no public good

This kind of law is especially offensive in the context of rhetoric about social programs, wherein we create all sorts of onerous means-testing on the logic that someone, somewhere might actually be incentivized to use social services to ameliorate various forms of poverty and destitution

In both cases, there is a balancing act wherein allowing too many false positives can create perverse incentives, and allowing too many false negatives fails to accomplish what the policy set out to do. I think a massive corporation taking a loss for making something unpopular is not an outcome we should be trying to prevent with government programs at all, but we are consistently prioritizing it over preventing outcomes like homelessness
You make a good point. When somebody says something should be illegal, the clever route of discussion is to repeatedly point out that it is not currently illegal — a fact that both of you agree about, since that is the premise for making the statement that it should be illegal.
It was common saying 30 years ago when we were preparing for IT Olympiads in Eastern Europe - if you do even number of errors chances are your program will work ok.
https://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_bias_of_professionalism_... is an interesting one to ponder, if you can avoid being triggered by the nomenclature. It speaks specifically to white supremacy in the workplace, but can be broadly applied to other biases which might affect one's ability to manage a team successfully. Even more broadly, it suggests a framework for analyzing one's response to aspects of a coworker's behavior or presentation that might not be directly applicable to their performance. For example, do you think Hypothetical Ted is dressed in an unacceptably unprofessional manner because he actually is, or are you just unable to consider someone who's overweight anything but slovenly? (Per the word of several large and highly-competent friends, people like that are out there.)
Boeing defense and Boeing commercial are (probably) separate entities.

But I do agree in general that the US Gov would want there to be an American civilian aircraft manufacturer.

Otherwise it’s just Airbus, right?
>50GB/movie remuxes do look great though. I wouldn't say a waste of space. Storage is cheap anyway and getting big bitrates is also satisfying. This seems like the FLAC vs 320kbps "debate" where people claim to not see any difference, except with movies it's a much more noticeable gap between average and top quality.

Also the compact versions rarely have enough channels and bitrate for a good speaker setup.
There's "a serial con man getting justice" (nods head) and "a serial con man getting justice" (shakes head).

Now, had this been about someone being conned out of a shitload of money, sure, maybe I can begin to understand the stabbing. But at this point, the only thing we know is that this person told a ton of tall tales - that's absolutely not worth being killed over.
> How do you even prevent that?

Keep the working copies on computers in a special lab with no external network access.

Restrict access and physically search the people leaving the lab.

Not fool proof, but it will reduce leaks by a lot.

But yeah, once you send out thousands of review copies, there's no stopping the leaks.
I love the hardware and the feel but the software is terrible and the difficulty of putting templates on the device (you hack around and use ssh to copy a file in) really limits the usefulness. The subscription model is also pushed heavy with basic functionality you would expect not working unless you pay. Overall I regret buying one and I almost never use it.
> I made a perfect score on the ACT test reading component.

This seems a bit out of place. How are ACT scores relevant to phonics-based instruction? Typically the ACT happens a decade after a kid learns to read, right?
> 2. Photos really don't belong in hiring in the US.

The author of the post is in Sweden, not the US.

As weird as it sounds, profile photos are prominent features of resumes in many European countries. It shocked me when I first started hiring in our EU offices, but that's just the way it is. I was surprised because we've often been told so many different ways that Europe is ahead of the US in matters of discrimination, but then I got there and resumes were full of profile pictures and even discussion about their marital status. I had our recruiter over there start erasing these things from resumes and they thought I was crazy.
I think that's a very tech-centric (and specifically FAANG-centric) mindset, most people are not getting RSOs or options and aren't under any impression their fate is entwined with the stock price.

on the other hand you are right that the idea of corporations as independent, self-directed profit-seeking entities with no other social responsibilities or responsibilities to their employees etc has finally subsumed us totally. Corporations are living entities, they are are social organisms. Just like a single bee is not (itself) a living organism (cannot reproduce or shelter itself, etc), but rather the bee colony is the life-form there. Corporations are living systems of rules and incentives - memeplexes.

Paperclip maximizers already exist, and the outcome we have given them is "stock price goes up". Until something is changed about allowing the existence of unrestrained paperclip maximizers, they will continue to maximize and do their best to eat society and turn it into paperclips.
I mean, they could probably get sued for that. The test itself says it measures general intelligence.
Most of the dynamics and kinematics involved are thoroughly discussed in the research work that has been published by the authors of the original Cubli! For example: https://ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/mavt/dynam...