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> What Zenkove Offers: Expert-Curated Baskets: These are portfolios managed by top investors, making it easier for retail investors to achieve high returns.

> Current Challenges: Limited Awareness: Despite the potential, I'm struggling to attract expert investors to join and bring their clients onto Zenkove.

So you're selling curation but can't curate a list of curators? It sounds like you need to go talk to people. What are they using now? Why? Pain?

My feeling is this is going to be a grind and usually I'd only would recommend trying to tackle it if you already had these insights/connections to leverage. You are a long way from what will be many people's apprehension, trust.
Will the tables in the Notion mobile app still be so painfully slow? Every time I scroll few rows down (in a table with few than 100 rows with dozen columns), the app hangs for several seconds while trying to fetch/render (who knows what it's actually doing) few additional rows. When I edit a row and return back to the table view, scroll position is lost and I have to suffer through the fetching once again.
The last time I interviewed and did a few LC problems, it was my experience that most of them were trivially solvable by some combination of implementing an iterator, doing a fold, and maybe adding memoization. Not every problem obviously, but those 3 steps seem to pretty generically cover most easy/mediums that will come up in a coding skills interview. When I got my first job, I didn't know what any of those things were, so I've also found coding interview problems to have become easier for me over time.

I've never used much Python in my day job, but the `yield` keyword is basically overpowered for LC problems.
Do these SIMD improvements still apply if you’re compiling DuckDB to WASM and run it in a browser?
None of Torvalds direct quotes use the word fear at all

Torvalds is quoted as saying “I suspect…”

The article author qualified such with the use of “fear”

We need a quiz before comments are posted; did you read the article? And ask for written context about a random segment.
Khan Academy is limited to learning by boring examples (IMHO) in lecture format and does not virally engage a learner with play. It's analogous to a free virtual classroom.
Having an immune system. Healing. Exercise causes acute inflammation which signals your body to repair itself. Chronic inflammation is the real problem. And dose, I guess.
Yep. Chatting with other practitioners is a powerful way to learn how things actually work. There are tons of things that "everyone" knows that are not well documented, and therefore unavailable to people outside the network.

This is a more-consequential example of the things you can learn by chatting with others; it is an extreme example of, "Hey, are you guys using components from Widget Inc.? Their datasheets are good, but sometimes we get a bad batch."

Those little things can save you a ton of time. In this case, it may have prevented mission-failure.

Part of the blame falls to NASA, too. If the outcome is your responsibility, then open-loop trust of a vendor for a known failure-mode may not be acceptable. Integration rad-hard testing may be requisite.

In the spacecraft environment, qualifying components is very difficult -- there's a good chance that NASA has these MOSFETs on an approved list because they've worked well before and have had few (or known) faults. They're probably not on that list anymore.
How do you know you're not the midwit? To me it seems quite reasonable that author is the one over complicating everything, and in reality coding interviews are just not that bad.

[edit: they're not that bad in the sense that hiring is a inherently lossy process of projecting something incredibly complicated, like skills, personality, motivation, and situation into a 45 minute interview where only 1 or 2 dimension can be measured. If you increase the time/cost and do hire fast fire fast, then fine, you can get a better interview process, but it's not free. Other industries use stamps and certs to do that sorting, also not cost free. Coding interviews, yes we all hate it, but it's all a tradeoff.]
Guess that's why so many people just post and share essay-length tweetstorms.
Id love to see an analysis on skill v luck for nfl fantasy. Far too often do I see someone who does not watch football and does not make team changes win a league after drafting Tom Brady in the second round.
Hopefully they are not prepping over-reactions for posterity and social-media tactics to create cult-like useful idiots like last time.

I would prefer a government who takes 20 year positions on improving welfare of citizens over a reactionary government who tramples freedoms and livelihoods without clear outcomes.

Bonus points if the solutions do not further widen income disparates by funneling money to the same Pharma giants who likely created the super bugs
Only one requires an overpaid clown (SCRUM master/Program Manager/etc) to do the unit conversion.
You learn math best by doing math. Sure, good explanations help, but sometimes dry rigorous ones are preferable since it asks you to grapple with the subject.
> there's a lot of actors who don't read Shakespeare well, and tend to hit the rhythm exactly and heavily, like a bad poetry reading - this makes the text harder to understand

If actors can't even be expected to perform it right, why would we expect students to be able to read it right? This sounds like even more of an argument to translate it for modern audiences
> What about insulation?
> I’m not even a layman, but shouldn’t the physics work the same? Or does the air flow from AC change the equation?

Insulation works great in hot climates, but only when the building is also well air-sealed and air-conditioned. Otherwise, insulation alone will just make a house work like an oven after it heats up (through radiant and convective heat gain).
> Google pays basically the same salary as a series A startup would (ie: $150 - $180k / yr)

Entry level. But with ~5 years experience and two promos you’ll be pushing $400k.

If you joined Google 5 years ago then you had at least one annual stock grant double in value.

If you work at FANG for 10 years you should be able to hit retirement money. If nothing else you’ll have invested 600k into your 401k which should be enough for CoastFire. IE it’s all the money you’ll need at retirement age.
I tend to agree, but, perhaps "being hard enough" as a function of "prevented forgetting" or likelihood of forgetfulness might be an indicator.-
It's absurd. He has no concept of market rates (and frankly I'm unsurprised that he's not getting hired if his expectations are this out of whack).

His resume even confirms this[0], because he seemingly thinks the appropriate level at FAANG would be L10 which is extremely rare. There is a 0% chance that his experience would level him that high.

The entire article can be chocked up to a massively inflated sense of entitlement.

[0] https://matt.sh/files/a-resume/resume.html
TL;DR on Section 174, Research & Experimentation costs went from being fully deductible in the year incurred to being deductible over a 5 year period.

Larger tax bills and a tightening on what roles/activities are deductible as R&E are likely what OP is pointing at with his comment.

To the best of my non-inside baseball research, Section 174 changes were simply one part of a package of revenue generating measures to offset the large tax cuts from the broader tax act they were a part of.

The changes came from The Tax Cuts & Jobs Act of 2017 that was introduced to the House of Representatives by Congressman Kevin Brady (R) Texas. The bill passed both houses of Congress along party lines. Then President Trump signed the bill into law. Section 174 changes did not take effect until 2021.
The inflation from the covid money-fountain came back to bite well after the pandemic. Central Bank sets the rates higher to purposefully chill the economy by triggering a recession, or ideally recession-lite. Making people unemployed is a key goal
I think they're using some kind of "daily equivalent average pay, factoring in exponential growth of the stock divided by actual days worked over a career" -

> Under the modern tech landscape, stable “hyperscale ultra-growth” companies are paying experienced employees the equivalent of $10,000 to $50,000 per day if we include the value of their exponentially growing yearly stock grants.

Assuming a $250k salary, that's only about $1000/day. But if you're able to bank $50,000,000 in stock grants over a 40 years career (invest early and often in a high-growth company), that averages out to $5,000 per day.

Kinda dodgy math, should been better clarified, and that's still somewhat ambitious; but I think that's the idea behind it based on a couple allusions throughout the article.
> It comes across as if it was written by a disgruntled 15 year old.

Appropriately enough, this style of blogging is at least fifteen years old if not older. It's not all that different from the format of Joel Spolsky's blog.
Why is compensation the only consideration in the entire article? I mean, money is nice, but don't you care what you are working on?
You, like tbrownaw, are arguing against something I didn't say. (Please go read the sibling thread.) I didn't say that planning, goals, etc. are bad. What I said was that story points lead to bad plans because they oversimplify the complexities of software development. A project timeline can be fine—but only if it is born out of a nuanced discussion and not by adding up a bunch of unitless points.

Developers (at least, ones like me) despise story points because they ask developers to collapse a ton of nuance and detail into a single scalar. It’s about as meaningful as this comparison of food recipes: compress the cook time, number of ingredients, cost of ingredients, quality of ingredients, whether or not some of the ingredients are allergens, and how much you like the food independent of the weather and your mood into a single scalar value and using that to plan what you will eat during the week. Madness!

Story points can enable corporate despotism. Bad managers who demand developers make up story points, and then turn around and use that to dictate what developers will work on—without engaging in a thoughtful discussion on what is feasible and what will keep the product stable—are on a power trip and are treating developers like cogs in a machine. They know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.

The good managers that I have had in the past regularly discussed with the dev team what was needed and—with the developers' input and without artificially compressing the complexities of the task at hand—set good goals that gave the dev team focus and direction.

Using story points is lazy management.
? The issue is that they knew.

In 2003 an it expert identified issues so they dropped some charges.
Did that make it feel more or less boring?
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I take your point about the aforementioned article[0][1] being a popular reference when discussing async / await (and to a lesser extent, async programming in modern languages more generally) I think its popularity is highlighting the fact that it is a pain point for folks.

Take for instance Go. It is well liked in part, because its so easy to do concurrency with goroutines, and they're easy to reason about, easy to call, easy to write, and for how much heavy weight they're lifting, relatively simple to understand.

The reason Java is getting alot of kudos here for their implementation of green threads is exactly the same reason people talk about Go being an easy language to use for concurrency: It doesn't gate code behind specialized idioms / syntax / features that are only specific to asynchronous work. Rather, it largely utilizes the same idioms / syntax as synchronous code, and therefore is easier to reason about, adopt, and ultimately I think history is starting to show, to use.

Java is taking an approach paved by Go, and ultimately I think its the right choice, because having worked extensively with C# and other languages that use async / await, there are simply less footguns for the average developer to hit when you reduce the surface area of having to understand async / sync boundaries.

[0]: https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-...

[1]: HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8984648
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This is not my experience. If they see the task as “solving the problem is success and anything else is failure,” like they might be used to from most school math classes, sure. If you set up the context properly my experience is that most kids enjoy working on hard math puzzles.
Chronic inflammation is bad. Is chronic inflammation always caused by auto-immune?
Or is it also caused by things like pollutants, poor diet, or other "first world" problems?

I ask because I used to be very concerned with particulate matter (I still am, but I used to too), and it seemed a big problem with that was it triggering inflammation.
The reason was to force you into buying a new Mac. For example, the 2014 and 2015 rMBP are literally the same hardware. Same CPU, same GPU, same wifi chips. The only difference was one had a physical trackpad and the newer used a haptic trackpad. The last officially released OS for rMBP 2014 was MacOS 11, and rMBP 2015 was MacOS 12. There was nothing in the OS that prevented future OSes from running on a 5 year old Macbook except Apple didn't want it.
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It’s really really bad out there. If you have a job be thankful. If you don’t, I wish you strength and support.
all those data sources are trailing though. Most intentionally try to (over simplistically) explain; few to none predict.
While it's true that the increase in interest rates is having some effect at the margins, a fundamental problem with the OP's thesis is that there's no _reduction_ in interest rates that creates the peak in 2022. That makes it hard for me to believe that interest rates are the only cause here.

Another, more correlated hypothesis for what caused the 2022 peak is that it's related to a combination of pandemic economic stimulus and pandemic-related changes in demand for software engineers.
He's looked at levels.fyi.

He even links to it from his resume.

His problem is that he thinks L10 is the benchmark to compare against, when the vast, vast majority of engineers (including many with decades of experience) would never make it to L10.
>At one point he’s claiming that a stable non tech company like a tractor manufacturer is paying 5k-10k

For anyone that came to the comments before the article, it claims that number is per day
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Shamelessly resubmitting my own article with a slightly more attention-grabbing title ;)
it might be obvious to others, but why the 'No'?
Most bodily functions have evolved for a purpose - fever for fighting infections/etc. But it’s not really axiomatic that we’ve evolved optimally. A lot of things evolved to get us through the reproduction stage of life but our goals sometimes diverge from nature’s goals. There are plenty of obvious things we could fix about human evolutions:

- Human spinal cord is often poorly (minimally) adapted to walking upright. It “works” just well enough but the spinal discs can only just barely support the increased gravitational load between each vertebrae so herniation occurs easily and the lumbar curvature poorly supports weight/load as well. Huge reason so many people have back pain by 40. Strengthening the materials in the spinal discs to support higher compression loads would be a massive benefit, even though it has a low chance of increasing reproductive success, so wouldn’t get naturally selected for by evolution.

- Blind spots: vertebrate eyes evolved with the optic nerve going through the retina (surface light is projected onto near back of the eye). So the area where the optic nerve passes through cant see anything. This isn’t necessary. Cephalopod eyes evolved the optic nerve connection layer to be behind the retina rather than in front of it so they have no blind spot.

So yes, a lot of things that “fix” or “improve” something may make things worse in another way, but some things could be purely beneficial with no downside for most people.
Years ago I was talking about exactly this issue and how the U.S. is producing far too many degrees than the market can receive. As usual the truth is ignored in favor of a comfortable lie, at the cost of others lives.

Don't go to university. Their value is no longer what it used to be, and they have figured out how to suppress students under a thousand pounds of administrative grift.

We need to strip all public funding going into universities to force the bad ones to go out of business. Industry will fund their own education, or they don't deserve it.
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> But I don't think any of my users noticed, and I don't think any of them care.

You're probably right (unless you make a big deal of it). But you're doing something good. Nobody needs to notice it for it to still be good.

Also, do you get benefits in not having cookie banners, or (small) performance impact?
"if you meet an asshole in the morning, you met an asshole. if you meet assholes all day, you're the asshole."
Australia GDP per capita is x5 times that of China. So I think it's fair to expect it to be much better; maybe not x5 times better but still significantly better than China.
It looks like you didn't read all the way to the end, and custom data attributes can be for whatever you desire. Presently a lot of people are putting style information right in class names so this distinction you're speaking about isn't present now and developers are already violating it in a big way. The solution in the article is at least using tag names, attributes, and attribute values in ways they're meant to be used. There's a warning about abusing class names in the CSS spec that reads like this:

Note: Because CSS gives considerable power to the "class" attribute, authors could conceivably design their own "document language" based on elements with almost no associated presentation (such as div and span in HTML) and assigning style information through the "class" attribute. Authors should avoid this practice since the structural elements of a document language often have recognized and accepted meanings and author-defined classes may not.

https://www.w3.org/TR/selectors-4/#example-f9c08b5b
Right, I wasn't specofic - Ecobee will overcool with the main AC, but it does not have the 'I have a dehumidifier in my HVAC setup, go use THAT' setting.
Is it possible Bitcoin mining could help incentivize green energy? Bitcoin miners will pay for almost unlimited energy as long as it is cheap. Miners can turn on and off almost instantly. The grid can be improved by having lots of extra power that can be shifted to different needs at any moment. There is also stranded energy, like solar not yet connected to the grid or flared methane gas (at wells or landfills).

I don't think Ethereum uses excessive amounts of energy unless you also think data centers are bad in general. The consensus algorithms are more complicated than Bitcoin. Ethereum validators will lose part of their stake if caught cheating.
What’s so hard about starting and maintaining a business? The hard part is getting people to give you money, but that’s always been true.

The business part is a no brainer. Especially when it’s a software business with no office space, inventory or utilities.
For a small survey of practical efficient methods for bignum arithmetic operations, the Algorithms section of the documentation of GMP [1] is excellent.

[1]: https://gmplib.org/manual/Algorithms
"Down-gyved" sounds more like it's gibberish from the Jabberwocky than actual English, and that's honestly true of a lot of Shakespeare nowadays.
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I've always heard the L5 ($210k on levels.fyi) is generally the highest the vast majority of people will ever get.

Is that incorrect? I know I've just heard that promo boards are really difficult to get to Senior and anything above that basically requires a miracle / someone far above gunning you.

EDIT: See above. I already addressed the fact TC is much higher. I am only talking about cash comp.

> Yes, you'll get your salary again in stock but you aren't necessarily getting left behind by choosing to punch lottery tickets because you enjoy it.
Wasn't the all of the money-printing going on functionally similar to reducing interest rates?
If you mean people hired to hire other people, then yes, strongly agree. The entire thing is built on the assumption that your company will have a high turnover rate.

That is something that should be avoided by employers as it for one increases the average compensation niveau faster than employee retention would and also constantly restarts opportunity costs as new employees take time to settle into their new roles. Yet, here we are and it is not only acceptable, but also standard procedure.
> I will add my two cents for people who believe that this might be related only to the SWE and tangent industries: It's really not. I have many friends (in Europe) who are trying to get through to different jobs in unrelated industries ranging from finance to fashion, or just trying to get promoted vertically (or horizontally), failing rather miserably.

The tech industry had it just right and then got too big? and added those hoops ad nauseam
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I gotchu
On the one hand they should have sent you a message like "don't do that" but on the other hand everybody is on a hair trigger for abuse stuff. One thing I've noted for every dumb thing I've done is that I should have asked myself "am I really sure people aren't going to look at this funny, you know, the thing I'm about to do? These cloud accounts are bad enough when you run your stuff normally, any deviation at all is concerning, some of this abuse stuff is run by AI now, and they may hallucinate you as a mass murderer and get you swatted or something haha
I haven't heard of anyone talk about Hinton's capsule network concepts for some time. In 2017-18 it seemed exciting both because of Hinton but also because the pose/transformation sounded pretty reasonable. I don't know what would count as "explanation", but I'd be curious to hear any thoughts about why it seems they didn't really pan out. (Are there any tasks for which capsule methods are the best?)
Yeah, that's one of the primary characteristics I tend to use as well - as someone ages ago on some forum put it:

avatar-mediated action vs player-mediated action.
What did the government do here? Interest rates?
I've been dipping back into native/systems programming lately and it's honestly no better over there.

I starting writing code in C again, because I really enjoy the simplicity. I wanted to use some nice-isms in C++ (function overloading, some encapsulation with struct) so I wrote C code, but leveraged the C++ compiler with a few features enabled by C++.

1) C++ programmers hate my code because I don't use the stl, containers, etc.

2) C++ programmers hate my code because I don't use referencing counting, "safe" pointers. Instead I raw dog it and wrote my own memory arenas (I alloc memory once at program start and free at the end).

3) C programmers hate my code because it leverages some C++-isms when it's convenient.

4) Rust programmers hide in fear and regard everything I do as unsafe, dangerous and borders on undefined behavior (they are like helicopter moms).