throw827474737 (u/throw827474737)

throw827474737 commented on Ask HN: How Bad Is the Current Market? Pt3 · Posted by u/71a54xd

ll_mama · 2 years ago

It's definitely not ChatGPT or AI (or at least not just that), it's remote work as well. I'm seeing a lot of companies hiring worldwide remote talent at a huge discount. This time its different from the outsourcing we have seen in the past. Because you now have experienced remote US and EU developers living somewhere where their cost of living allows them to be very competitive on rates and salary. An US developer living in Asia, can charge 50-100$ per hour, which comparatively to the US, would be 100$+-500$ per hour. And that is happening a lot now.

I have lowered my salary expectations, and am doing quite well while consulting now.

throw827474737 · 2 years ago

> living in Asia, can charge 50-100$ per hour, which comparatively to the US, would be 100$+-500$ per hour. And that is happening a lot now.

Numbers please.. you mean only now due to the WFH move upper management realised they don't need to watch butts in chairs and can hire anyone from all over the world and look at that economic advantage, though that had been always possible before, and was even often attempted with varying success, but now no concerns anymore? Doubts..

throw827474737 commented on Contiki – OS for networked, memory-constrained systems en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con... · Posted by u/JNRowe

zserge · 3 years ago

The wiki page says it all, but I'll highlight - Contiki has been written by Adam Dunkels, the one who invented Protothreads (coroutines using Duff's Device), uIP, lwIP and a TCP stack that fits into a single tweet - http://dunkels.com/adam/twip.html

throw827474737 · 3 years ago

> Protothreads (coroutines using Duff's Device)

You sure? iirc they were just "stackless" threads with true cooperative switching (so like a true context switch by changing PC but not having to switch SP and keep multiple stacks).

If you would be right I could stop being salty about something I have ever been salty since 15 years or so: I "invented" (no not really, people did this before, but in the context of the raising meshed tiny sensor network hype at that time) in my thesis, then a researcher with connections to SICS took that with him and to this group, and half a year later Contiki appeared with the same approach (just more polished and a much better PR to contend with the much uglier TinyOS).

throw827474737 commented on The Disappearance of the Ashtray clivethompson.medium.com/... · Posted by u/mooreds

PaulRobinson · 3 years ago

As an ex-smoker, I'd ask you to consider it as about the most addictive thing going.

Think of something you really, really like doing. Something that calms or pleases you every time you do it. Like, playing a game, or reading a book, or eating your favourite food. Now imagine someone telling you that you don't have to do that, it's just a choice. Imagine being deprived of it and being guilt-tripped into it.

Sure you can wean yourself off it, but it'll take effort - uncomfortable, painful effort - and you might fail.

And meanwhile some idiot on the internet is saying it's all just a choice.

It is an addiction that was designed to be addictive by the manufacturers. It has never been a "mere choice". That first cigarette or two, maybe, but addiction is awful and horrible and doesn't deserve to be denigrated and reduced by flippancy.

throw827474737 · 3 years ago

As an ex smoker, I found quitting smoking one of the easiest things to do, just knew and decided it is time to stop now.. so I'm always surprised why is that. Also recently just going interval fasting for first time in my life because becoming a bit fat, not any problem, at all strangely.

I wonder why that is, I wouldn't think I have a super strong will or just cannot be addicted, if I consider gaming or other procrastination habits..

But what definitely please shouldn't be done here is to put it into a category of "the most addictive thing" where really just heroine, true aclohol addiction, and similar drugs belong. Heroine/alcohol is nearly impossible to fight through with just own willpower. Objectively!

throw827474737 commented on Ask HN: Will Google become a better place to work with a new focus on chatbots? · Posted by u/amichail

smoldesu · 3 years ago

Can we stop with the "Will $X change with AI" posts? I get that it's impressive new technology, and there's value in fielding technical responses, but all we can do is speculate. The same thing happened with Twitter, and HN's submission quality was not better for it. At least speaking for myself, it was a waste of time.

throw827474737 · 3 years ago

HN is not about giving just destructive feedback, but yeah, reading that question just made me full face palm. Why, .. on so many levels. Please stop, and go speculating with yourself a bit.

(What would be funny if this is an AI trying to get learning material (: )

throw827474737 commented on Negative-weight single-source shortest paths in near-linear time arxiv.org/abs/2203.03456... · Posted by u/Anon84

vsskanth · 3 years ago

Not very knowledgeable but are there any implications for path planning for self driving cars ?

throw827474737 · 3 years ago

None, very irrelevant and where it applies very minor problem vs all the others ;)

throw827474737 commented on Plant-based meat is turning out to be a flop bloomberg.com/news/featur... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew

helsinkiandrew · 3 years ago

I've been vegan for 35 years and the thought of eating a burger that tastes like meat turns my stomache. If you're a meat eater that wants to reduce consumption of animals then do that in the other (healthier) meals and have a decent animal burger once a week/fortnight. If you're eating burgers much more regularly then you're probably better off getting more variation into your diet and than eating highly processed vegetable patties that aren't as satisfying.

throw827474737 · 3 years ago

Hmm.. I'm a vegatarian, once vegan, since let me count.. oh why does that matter at all?

Taste like meat? Not at all, likely, don't remember, but I usually find them taste just nice, pea protein with spices, so what's the problem? Also what does thst have to do with how regular?

I hope they don't go out of business, being concerned for animals and environment I think every alternative that some people enjoy is great.

throw827474737 commented on My grandfather was almost shot down at the White House (2018) nones-leonard.medium.com/... · Posted by u/plondon514

etothepii · 3 years ago

Indeed but CGPGrey explains it in excruciating detail on YouTube. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qD6bPNZRRbQ

throw827474737 · 3 years ago

Thanks for all and that link, but yeah I was assuming 18==19 already and meant to understand runway numbers, maybe should have left out that detail.

Actual question still sticks: Takeoff on 18 southwards basically makes you follow the river immediately. Where did this guy encounter his left/right decision, to get back towards white house? he must have made almost a uturn then?

And even assuming the article is a bit inaccurate and he took of northwards (thanks for pointing out the patterns pilots have to fly if doing that @ others): I still cannot imagine how that plane flew and where it matches the description of: "When I reached 1500 feet I looked down. I was crossing the river. It went right and left."

???

throw827474737 commented on My grandfather was almost shot down at the White House (2018) nones-leonard.medium.com/... · Posted by u/plondon514

itslennysfault · 3 years ago

Honestly, I'm surprised by "follow the river" as a flight instruction. That sounds like the directions you'd get from someone that doesn't understand cardinal directions. "Turn right at the gas station, then turn left at the big oak tree" or something.

I have no experience with flying, but I assumed it would be a heading / cardinal direction and not "turn right at [landmark]"

throw827474737 · 3 years ago

Hmm, can someone just paint me that path into Google Maps?

Washington National has no 18, but only a 19, and I guess everyone takes off southwards as directly north is the White House? Also the river is like parallel to the runway and then the natural extension of it, so "follow the river" there is super clear, no turn needed?

I must be looking at the wrong airport?

throw827474737 commented on UK Police to get new powers to shut down protests before disruption begins theguardian.com/world/202... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

TapWaterBandit · 3 years ago

I have little sympathy for climate change protesters because they fundamentally don't understand the very real challenges associated with addressing climate change and why it differs from similar protest movements in the past (against various forms of discrimination, against Vietnam war, etc).

Protests against Vietnam war or Jim Crow in the US South worked because there was a clear and actionable plan to address the issue. Withdraw from Vietnam/end segregation. These were government implemented policies and reversing them was as much about STOPPING doing something as opposed to doing it.

The whole "Stop oil/fossil fuels" is completely different. Fossil fuels are the lifeblood of our whole economic system. Fertilisers created using fossil fuels deployed en mass are the only reason we don't have mass starvation in many parts of the world. It is a indispensable part of operating our extensive transportation networks as well as generating our power.

Even under the most optimistic projections by 2050 the global use of fossil fuels will be at 50% its current levels. And this is assuming full scale adoption of nuclear power/renewables (which I support 100%).

From the image in the article if we were to "stop oil" tomorrow we would be looking at catastrophic collapses in living standards. It can't be done, it won't be done, and there is no support for it. The only option we have available is slow plodding changes to the energy grid. We don't know if it will be enough or not but these protests will do absolutely nothing except harm.

These protesters are a waste of space but that would be forgivable if it weren't for the fact that their actions are leading to law changes like this which can be used to cripple protests that can actually work like the ones that helped end Vietnam and segregation.

I'm sure there will be responses to this with claims I'm a "climate change denier" when nothing could be further from the truth. Climate change and environmental degradation of varying types are serious and important issues facing us. But that doesn't mean any petulant and poorly thought-out action supposedly taken to address the problem is worthwhile or productive. These protests fall into that category and should be unequivocally condemned.

throw827474737 · 3 years ago

Not sure how it is in the UK, but in Germany, where there is also a lot of outcry and hate towarfs them, the protestors (once you dig through) actually have very few and most simple demands: partly even promises that have been given for years by politicians, it is borderline ridiculous. They would be quite easy to fulfill even. Still, nothing happens.

Given that the issue of climate change is so profound and long existant (I mean, against it any crisis like Vietnam or tofay's pandemic just pale) I can only sympathize with them - and imo it's hugely unfair to blame the state becoming more deep state on them, don't do that.

It is on our all's huge lethargic laziness I really feel more and more guilty for, both deep state and climate change nonaction.

> We don't know if it will be enough or not...

Strong disagree, the way you envision what we can only do we know definitely it will not be enough. Period. Sorry to agree to your last paragraph, but that is almost climate change denial ;)

throw827474737 commented on What does the land under Antarctica’s ice sheet look like? ubique.americangeo.org/ma... · Posted by u/bryanrasmussen

jl6 · 3 years ago

Note that this isn’t necessarily what the continent would look like if all the ice melts.

The lack of ice weight would allow the land to rebound upwards:

https://polarjournal.ch/en/2022/07/13/what-greenland-and-ant...

throw827474737 · 3 years ago

We will see soon! (: