I used to work at Vanguard, which has significantly more assets under management than Coinbase. Vanguard had special categories for people with a lot of assets, high net worth, ultra-high net worth, etc for people that had over $10M and $100M (iirc) in assets under management at Vanguard. Because its a traditional finance company all of the client information was stored (name, phone, address, email, etc). Now it was basically impossible for any employee to get access to this information without needing it. Even working in the tech side I could not just log into the DB and run a query for people's information, make trades, etc. Everything was logged, everything was tracked, and access was very specifically restricted to limit issues.
My point here is that Coinbase (blaming this on a "overseas" employee) and the TechCrunch founder are missing that traditional finance companies have already solved these issues. They are just immature and not serious companies.
Anecdotally, I found a new job this year, and my last one was in 2021. Salaries are across the board lower and more competitive. Seeing remote jobs offering Seniors $120-150k is pretty normal now, where I think in 2021 you would have seen $150k as a bottom. Some of the remote Series B and Big Tech places pay better though.
As a father, the idea of being told my 1 week old baby is going to die would be my worst nightmare. The fact these doctors and scientists saved this childs life is a monument to modern medical science. This is absolutely insane. Hopefully the child doesnt need a liver transplant, but this is a great leap forward.
I live in syracuse, I found a job this year after being laid off in 2 months. It was a stressful time. Instead or 5-6 hours a week hed be better off studying C,C++ and Java and applying to places locally. Syracuse does not have a ton of web work, but there is a big defense industry here (Saab, SRC, Lockheed, AFRL) so there are things. Cornell, SU, UofR, I imagine are hiring fewer software engineers now though with the potus changes.
Lockheed can be an excellent place to work. While I’m not particularly fond of building war machines either, I had the opportunity to work on Space Situational Awareness. My role involved developing software to track the movements of space debris and alert operators to potential collisions. This project has been one of the most fulfilling aspects of my entire career.
There are also quite a number of medical device and pharmaceutical companies on the east coast (based in upstate NY here), along with defense industry contractors. So, there are some more options.
medical devices i am slightly more sympathetic to, as a user of a DMD. pharmaceutical companies, only slightly higher than "defense" companies. they exist in practice so that few may benefit from the misery of many.
i applied at a web dev role at SU, in-office, making less than what i made in like 2009, with skills that are frankly below me. custom written cover letter. job been posted for months. they just hit me with the 'no thanks'
Your resume might need to be rewritten then. Schools do pay very poorly, thats an undisputable fact, but their benefit of free tuition for you and your kids is pretty good.
I would reiterate that most jobs in syracuse are basically C, C++ or Java. The only real web shop is TCG Player, I think theyre C# and god sold to ebay so its the same high competititon. Equitable might have some stuff, not sure how things are going there but they are a java shop. Out to rochester you get a few more web places. But most of the web jobs even are corpro enterprise jobs, they probably dont have a ton of need for php or javascript front end really. Theres plenty of cloud out in Rome. Rochester has more than syracuse, from syracuse its doable, I know people that did that commute.
OMSCS is basically a normal university structure, except for requiring you to do some foundational courses first (which essentially act as a competency check for the rest of the program).
I would be interested to see waymo adapt to the snow and ice, where “hit the breaks”
Is the wrong answer, and the correct is to drop the car into neutral. I believe waymo will figure this out in time, nut SF and Phoenix are idealized driving conditions.
The correct answer is to not drive so fast (or at all) in conditions where braking might lead to a skid. I'd expect an autonomous vehicle to be rather better at this given they can hook directly into the electronic stability control system in a vehicle and constantly monitor temperature (and ideally measure upcoming road temperature).
Also, shifting into neutral is really only a thing for old vehicles without ABS/ESC. In modern vehicles, you let your foot off the gas slowly.
> snow and ice, where “hit the breaks” Is the wrong answer, and the correct is to drop the car into neutral
This is only true with 2WD and no automatic stability control, and if you’re going down a slope. For every other case, ABs will out perform in snow and gentle braking will evenly distribute traction force with stability control doing microsecond evaluations.
It is also the case that Waymo will be dramatically better than all humans in ice because it is going to take the aviation approach and stay in the depot, rather than fooling itself into believing it is competent at driving on ice.
You still need to be in neutral as the ABS/stability control doesn't control the engine. 2wd makes no real difference other than rear wheel drive tends to be the most susceptible to this issue, but any wheel can lose traction.
I spend about 5 months every year driving in snow and ice - this is the first I'm hearing about dropping it into neutral. Can you elaborate on when that would be appropriate? Obviously you shouldn't be slamming on the brakes, but they do work fine in snow and ice. I don't see how rolling into things while not in gear is an improvement?
I think the OP means in a manual transmission. Auto will decouple at low speeds / engine braking won't be as severe. In a manual car, in 1st gear, I could possibly see it.
As someone who grew up BEFORE ABS, drove in the winter (in Canada), including first winter owning my own car with sport tires because I couldn't afford winter tires, spun / slid a few times even with top-of-the-line winter tires, etc.
ABS is a game changer in the snow. I used to go to an empty parking lot every winter during early snowfalls to play around and skid, start/stop, etc. Even EARLY ABS ('94 VW) means that 98% of the time (IMHO), the answer even in snow/ice is "slam on the brakes". Sure, you might have a few percent longer stopping distance than an expert who can do threshold braking - are you an expert? And the fact that you don't lose control of the steering is a huge advantage.
I remember being taught the neutral trick for emergency braking back in the 90's, and it had nothing to do with traction in poor conditions. It was simply to remove any engine power that might extend your braking distance. It's definitely bad advice in any modern car.
They mean go into neutral and lightly brake. In a 2WD car, the braking force applies more strongly to the non-powered wheels. Since those were traditionally the back wheels, this meant when going down a hill the front wheels would have more traction. Those are also your steering wheels, which means them locking up is bad. Again, this is the sort of advice that is germane in highly restricted environments which become folk knowledge and later mis applied by humans in ways that reduce safety.
(You also only get into this scenario when your stopping distance is shorter than your reaction time and perception length. Something automated drivers can manage better than humans.)
I think it's often about when you're on rural single lane roads and perfectly bad ice/snow/slush conditions where you need to keep your speed very low, and sometimes even very moderate braking can cause your vehicle to veer off the road and into a snow bank, not necessarily the need to avoid something in front of you
When you let off the throttle your wheels start driving the engine and slowing you down. In snow/ice that engine breaking alone can be more braking force than is safe and so you go into a skid. Shifting to neutral removes engine braking and allows for more controlled slowing down.
When it's those conditions though I just use a light touch on the throttle to make wheel speed match ground speed, a lot of easier than trying to shift in and out of neutral.
If you are in a situation where your car is sliding, like down a slick hill. You dont hit breaks, you put the car into neutral and steer into the way your car is sliding to try and keep the car on the road.
All of those reasons can be solved with her using a public phone. My school growing up had a phone in the hallway by the main office for those reasons.
I also grew up without phones in schools but in my opinion the problem is phones (and laptops, frankly) in class. If a student isn't in class, I don't see why they can't use their phone to talk to people or browse websites or whatever.
If they're in class, then 99% chance it's distracting them from learning. If they're not, I think personal autonomy is a good rule.
My argument against any phones from school start to end is that socialization and interpersonal skills are also learned in school.
Having a distraction box at hand slows that process.
Grade school kids aren't tiny adults: they're actively building the pieces that make them into adults (self control, emotional regulation, empathy, cooperation, etc).
I don't trust Google or Apple to sacrifice profits, at scale, to support those goals.
I agree with you. Also grew up through the full 90. To me, school is school, all of it. Not school, not school, but all time at school is: school. and imo personal devices in school is really bad news: period.
Its basically shitty parenting disguised with 'we care' and similar arguments as mentioned. Lets not forget about pedophile scare, that should convert the last remaining parents and make sure opposition is silent.
We raise kids mostly without screens (just some short old school cartoons on TV before bed if they behave well). Its harder, but kids behave much better compared to most peers (which can have 1000s of reasons and some out of our control, I know). We also limit sweet stuff, eat tons of veggies (so they do too and ie love broccoli, not sure where the proverbial hate comes from... maybe lack of basic cooking skills?). But the key is we eat same stuff, healthy food can be very tasty easily. We lay them down to sleep pretty early too.
Simply restrict highly addictive stuff, be it in food or behavioral like screens. It has no place when growing up, no matter how folks wrap it as a need. It forms neural pathways that are extremely hard to shed for rest of their lives, no need to fuck them up properly for life before they have a chance to forge their own path and make their own choices.
> The endless rationalizing of why kids need to have phones
Once again, for the people not paying attention. It's not about _need_. It's about quality of life. It's about easier, faster, better, safer.
Are there negatives to having cell phones? Sure. That's true for adults, too. And the benefits of having a cell phone need to be weighed against those negatives.
But saying "you don't _need_ a cell phone" is a straw man argument. Because nobody (that I see) says it's needed; they said it's worth it.
> Because nobody (that I see) says it's needed; they said it's worth it.
Oh, "need" is definitely the first-reach in these discussions. You should see Florida school parents go apeshit at the prospect of not being tethered to their little angels 24x7.
Granted, on HN, it does trend towards worth.
But imho that's looking at smartphones with rose-colored glasses. As people in the industry, you think we'd have more realpolitik perspectives about what modern smartphones are designed to do -- grab, hold, and monetize attention.
Here around public phones are gone since long, even inside schools. However, mobile phones that just do calls and SMS are still a thing. And anyway, the Finnish law is not preventing any of the use cases you mentioned as far as I understand it.
No they cannot. My school had multiple doors that could not see each other - more than once my parents were waiting for me at a different door from the one I was standing at waiting for them. We did find each other, but only after a lot of searching - sometimes we even passed each other as we both switched doors to wait at.
Okay, it did work out, but not nearly as well as a simple cell phone. Smart phones add additional functionality. (I can see on google maps where each kid's phone is)
To me it seems such a dystopian thing to inflict upon ones kids. All day long being monitored by a spyware spreading company, just for some small convenience and probable impacting their ability to clearly communicate where they are or will be waiting. Maybe this kind of thing is the reason why so many people are unable to make an appointment and stick to the terms agreed upon when making the appointment.
So you could not agree with your patent to meet at a default pick up point? Have we become this short attention focussed that any pre-planning is outside of our mental scope?
That is precisely the attitude that those “yokels” decided they would fully back Trump. When people are abandoned by the economic and political system, someone coming in telling them that they will get revenge, is how you get a enthusiastic supporters.
They've voted against their own interests (aka Republican) for the last 40 years and people still have the gall to be like "You can't call them stupid".
I think most people genuinely try to find the best in other human beings but you're right. They've been doing this shit for closer to half a century, at some point you need to call a spade a spade. They're morons and they have outsized influence in the US because of how our political system works.
Is Groovy/Grails still popular? I also remember Groovy++ but I believe its features were incorporated into Groovy. But maybe these are already present in modern Java?
My point here is that Coinbase (blaming this on a "overseas" employee) and the TechCrunch founder are missing that traditional finance companies have already solved these issues. They are just immature and not serious companies.
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