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Top 10% of FAANG is, what, around 30K-40K in raw numbers? What's the top 10% in Big Finance? I'd bet it's far lower number compared to that. So it's not apples to apples comparison. If you compare what top 10,000 FAANG engineers make 10 years into their careers vs what top 10,000 finance folks make 10 years into theirs, I'm pretty sure FAANG will come out ahead.

FANG equities don't require making any "bets". They're as good as cash.

Lack of clear boundary between work and home, mainly due to lack of commute but also due to spending all day at home. Lack of in-person social interactions at work. More procrastination leading to less productivity and having to work longer hours to make up for it. Etc etc.

Because the commute worked as a great buffer to get into "work mode" in the morning and then transition back into "home mode" in the afternoon. Without this well-defined separation, I never get the productivity boost for work in the morning, and nor do I get the "work done for the day" feeling at the end of the day. Commute and getting out of my home is absolutely essential for me to remain productive and happy.

You just need to ask any PhD grad student why work from home is harmful for work-life balance. Once the boundary between home and work gets blurred, stress from work starts seeping into your personal life. Burn out rates among software engineers will be through the roof if WFH continues for a few more months.

I never liked WFH, but even I didn't realize how much I enjoy working from office. It has made me absolutely resolute not to EVER consider remote work as an option ever again.

Fully agree. Working from home is pure hell. I can't wait to go back to in-person office, once the vaccine is out. And if my employer mandates WFH policy even after vaccine, I'll look into renting a personal office space at least 2-3 miles away from my home. Just so I can get my commute and structure back into my life.

a) It really is. b) I didn't say point (a) is why modern C++ is amazing. But it is one of the motivations for learning modern C++.

Because:

a) Modern C++ is amazing. b) The highest paying software jobs require C++.

Google and Facebook -- two of the biggest software companies are incredibly C++ focused -- especially in backend/infra. To a lesser extent Microsoft and Amazon are the same. And as others mentioned, trading farms love C++ too.

Essentially, in 2020, the highest paying software companies in the world all are heavily invested in modern C++. Knowing modern C++ is the biggest advantage you can have in the market. But you won't know that from reading the HN comments section.

Thanks. All pretty valid arguments, and probably enough to outweigh any potential slight performance/latency issue.

Is there a reason that site needs to be HTTPS? It doesn't have any user login feature, and it's read-only. So what are the arguments for making it HTTPS?

Not OP, but Googler here. We use an internal Linux distro for all our development. It's very similar to Ubuntu (so the default package manager is apt). People who have a Macbook use it as a thin client to ssh into their Linux desktops. So OS X package manager isn't really needed or used.

>This is an incredibly poor take.

No it isn't.

> It's well known that academic software doesn't follow great software engineering practices.

That doesn't make it acceptable. Also, it's also "well known" that vast majority of academic work has zero tangible effect on society. This isn't one of those works. It's possibly the most important piece of academic work that has happened in recent memory. So the bar for this is MUCH higher than typical academic research work.

>. That it isn't fully deterministic (with a fixed random seed) doesn't make thee research invalid and shouldn't discredit research that builds on the model.

It does make it invalid, when the difference between runs is as big as 80,000 estimated deaths which can lead to dramatically different government policies.

> This is another level of crazy.

No it's not. Academia is way behind the industry when it comes to modeling the economy and the real world.

This is older news. Latest news from today is Google is also working on a nationwide testing website.

Here's updated tweets from Google Communications. Their effort is in addition to what Verily was already doing: https://twitter.com/Google_Comms/status/1238989460127338497

Here's the transcript from the press conference: https://www.rev.com/transcript-editor/shared/CmrNxLAP9wohLWA...

I searched for "Sunday" there, and they only mention they'll be able to provide details of when the testing website will be available by Sunday evening. They didn't say the website will go live Sunday.

I don't think the President ever mentioned it being next week. Also, see this from Google communication: https://twitter.com/Google_Comms/status/1238989460127338497

This effort for a nationwide testing website is different from and in addition to what Verily was already doing at a smaller scale in Bay Area (although I imagine there will be lots of overlap and shared code etc.)

Found it strange that some parts of media decided to focus on the semantics of Google and Verily being different subsidiaries of Alphabet. This is an almost meaningless detail.

Perhaps I'm missing something, but why wait for symptoms? Why not test him anyway? Is there any downside to testing? If not, then seems outrageous not to test the PM whose wife has recently tested positive.

Just apply. Google is actively hiring all year round.

Googler here. We have the same Code Search tool internally, this is honestly one of my favorite things about working at Google. Great to see this open sourced.

`find` has one of the worst user experiences out of UNIX tools. I prefer to use `find . | grep foo` to find files.

Everyone should read "The End of the Beginning" by Ben Thompson [1].

[1] https://stratechery.com/2020/the-end-of-the-beginning/

> an average software engineer at Google making $160,000 USD

Average software engineer at Google makes well over $200K USD.

I find it quite impressive that Bram still finds time to not just maintain Vim but also adding drastic new features like this, while doing a full time job at Google at the same time.

Problem with bisect is that bisect.insort() insertion is O(n), whereas C++ set.insert() is O(log n).

C++ also has the `sort()` function that allows you to sort any unsorted container. But that's not a replacement for a sorted container like `set` or `map` though. Because `set` or `map` allows you to insert elements at O(log n) runtime. If you have to sort every time you insert using the `sort()` or `sorted()` functions, the run time becomes O(n log n).

Disappointing that Python sill has no support for a sorted container in its standard library, akin to C++ `set` or `map` classes.

So you have a problem with a fast-food restaurant trying to sell fast foods?