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> The tech/startup world has realized relatively quickly that 100 hour workweeks are detrimental to productivity, retention, and overall success.

Not that quickly ;-) My first job at a start up was 1992, I think. I didn't take a single day off (even national holidays) for 18 months. 12 hour days during the week, 8 on the weekend. After that, I took a year off to pretend to do a master's degree (but really just hung out in the gym and lifted weights). And then I went straight into a job where I became much more sensible and only worked 90 hour weeks.

I remember reading Jamie Zawinksi's writing at the time. There are some remnants of it around the internet, but because of this: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/11/watch-a-vc-use-my-name-to-s... he's not keen for people to link to it. I still remember with great fondness the post about trying to answer a survey of how many hours a week he worked. He said something like 120, but the computer field only had 2 digits. JWZ was incredulous that this could happen given that the guy who wrote the code surely worked more than 100 hours a week.

Back in those days, this was the way we thought you were supposed to do it. Even though Peopleware was written in 1987, we all read it and promptly ignored its advice (BTW, when was the last time you saw a programmer's desk of the recommended size? ahem....)

Even today (getting pretty darn close to the 30th anniversary of Peopleware) how many teams believe that crunch is not just necessary, but desirable? Hey, the fact that we don't crunch is one of the biggest selling points of the group I work with. Lot's of great programmers are willing to give up salary in exchange for a no-crunch life.

Lately there is general acceptance amongst programmers that a 40 hour week is a good idea (this is not always shared by entrepreneurs). However, my experience is that before about the year 2010, the concept was ludicrous -- even ridiculed. I'm really happy to see the tide turn, but this is a fairly recent phenomenon.
He is known for his footnotes and acknowledges that he is known for his at times excessive (much to our joy) footnotes. :)
In my opinion the bigger problem is, when people are not aware that they're in a bubble. They existed, even before social media and internet searches. E.G. when I was a kid/teen, I got most of the information about the world from one local news paper and one evening news show on tv. Yes, their "newsfeed" wasn't generated by algorithms. But still, it's someone that decided for me what is relevant and what not. Nowadays I have access to much more sources and different point of views as long as I am aware that they exist and know it's up to me looking them up. Similar thing if your part of a strongly opinionated subculture. It is hard to even realize how limited your horizon might be.

So I try to embrace the bubble when it is useful for me. I appreciate that when I type "something something python" into google the top results are relavant to my work and not about snakes or comedians. But when I'm want to form a politcal opinion I use duckduckgo and activly look for contrary positions.
Its becoming more of a business than a public good. College prices are out of control - you need to get into large debt to do anything. Very little support for people who needed to work to support themselves after (or during) high school. Grants are awarded based on parents income regardless of relationship with parents (mine disowned me after I came out), unless you get a judge to legally separate yourself from them.
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Pick your degree and major carefully.

I wanted a degree in physics but it doesn't pay as much as a programming job would. So I took computer science instead. Teacher/Education degrees are good to get because of a teacher shortage but don't get paid as well as most other jobs.

When I went to a university it was 1986, I learned Turbo Pascal which is nothing compared to modern IDEs now. I learned Turbo C in 1987 and that helped me learn Ada, COBOL, FORTRAN, Visual BASIC, and many others. Once you understand the concepts you can learn almost any other language.
Are they capable of critical thinking if you choose an area of discussion that they are knowledgeable about? Can they make clear, reasoned judgements within the limits of their knowledge? If they can't, then you have a point (which is really sad).
> Most PhD programs have negative return on investment

If that's what you're looking for, you shouldn't even be considering a phd.
>Plenty of people can envision a $100B to $1T valuation at some point.

$100B sure. $1T ... maybe if you wait a while to let inflation catch up.
Pretty sure they are just trying to bring as much knowledge as they can inside Intel. Plus it's good for publicity amongst the computer vision crowd.

I expect little to change.
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Keep in mind this is CS students at least 2 years in.

I wasn't keeping that in mind. Thats makes a lot of difference. Pretty sure I studied under the same rules.
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The other thing that Google Maps could add, while we are talking about unsolicited advice and the human element of making traffic decisions, would be sports games. My commute at around 7PM is usually clear, unless there is a sports game, in which case it is a nightmare for a very specific period of time before the game. Further, a big team generates a sold old game which generates more traffic than a mid-week game against an out of division team. Would be fun to program although rather complex.
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I was out on the road with them, so I respectfully disagree.
Lots of options in this space, huh?
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Intel might find that these benchmarks achieve the opposite of what they intended. I had no idea that viable ARMv8 alternatives to Intel's architecture were on the market. There are likely others who were similarly ignorant. Intel has just informed all of us that these options are out there.
> So your argument is that Native Americans should feel unwelcome in this community?

You're putting words in 5F36B5F62640's mouth.

And to be absolutely honest, anybody reading this can see that you're the one attempting to make people feel unwelcome in this community.

Edit: The commenter has now upgraded his comment but the original with added emphasis is quoted above.
It depends on the company. For example Google supports free and open source projects and might like that you contribute to some of them and see if any of them fit their business plan.

But yeah you don't want to use company email. When I worked I used my Hotmail account for Microsoft and other tech support and programming websites, so my company email wouldn't get spammed.
>What am I missing here?

Their impact on oil prices today, and in the foreseeable future, is inconsequential.

And sure Uber says it 'actively aims to reduce the number of cars on the road' but that's just lofty marketing speak. They just want to sell you a taxi service. But Silicon Valley startups can't just sell you useful services and products, they need to change the world.
Stop with the ad hominem attacks and start posting something of substance. If you have examples of these 'repugnant' views then share them, I haven't seen anything that matches that description when read in context.
Game AI uses minmax decisions, so it does simulate the opponent to pick _their_ best move, then it picks the move that removes their best options. That's why it's so unsportsmanlike when losing and why it doesn't go for points when winning.

It doesn't have a specific profile of the opponent, though, instead it thinks they're another AlphaGo. That's an area they could work on.
That explains the long shifts, but not planned overtime.
not at all true. Singapore is known for having draconian laws (such as no gum chewing) and it's government is high corrupted oligarchy. I've read about the previous leader Lee Kew that ruled with a iron first and died recently . He was the one that revitalized Singapore in the late 1970s to where it is today and its rampant corruption was an effect of his harsh rule and greed
I did both computer science and philosophy at a top tier college, the computer science courses were far easier.
Alexa isn't a great indicator for enterprise software. You wouldn't expect them to have any visitors, despite the sites for all their brands having many many visitors.
> Intel is transforming from a PC company to a company that powers the cloud and billions of smart, connected computing devices.

Sounds like they want to go the same route as HP and IBM. I.e. transform themselves from a company that does cutting-edge research and makes universally useful products into a corporate blob with no specific purpose and niche products of dubious quality.
So in the eighties, would we (the US FBI) have been cool with MI6 assassinating all those people in Southie funding NORAID?
It was the GameCube that used PowerPC. The original Xbox used a Pentium III.
First off, in my opinion I don't really care what anyone thinks. I care about what they do and what they encourage other people to do (I can't find anything about moldbug treating anyone in any negative fashion nor encouraging others to do so). However, in the context of racist thoughts:

1. (Least bad, though still racist/bad) Believing that other ethnic groups are "better" or "superior" rather than "different". So if you honestly believed that the ethnic groups are inferior due to their genetic traits (I do not consider being predisposed to slavery, jail, being poor etc something to consider a group inferior for especially since it wouldn't be that clear cut anyway. It'd actually be something like "predisposed to aggressive behavior, which leads to jail" or something anyway).

In the case of hard evidence of a genetic predisposition to something directly negative it is possible for this opinion to be technically correct but still racist and morally wrong.

2. (Worse than 1, implies 1) Believing that actions should be taken to the detriment of the "inferior" ethnic groups and/or benefit of the "superior" ethnic groups. This would include things like enslaving people, not hiring them, promoting/demoting people based on ethnic group etc. There are a lot of items in this list including everything America did to the detriment of the Africans.

3. (worse than 2, implies 1 and 2) Actually carrying out actions or encouraging others to carry out actions that are to the detriment and/or benefit on a particular ethnic group.

In my case, I'd be willing to work with a 1. but would respect them less than otherwise. A number 2. would be dicey, i -might- be able to work with them if they don't talk about it and aren't going around regularly talking about it to others but it would drive me crazy. I would not agree with censoring/banning people from number 2. I would quit/not hire/stay away from someone with number 3 and would support banning them from communities though still not censorship (I am hardcore against censorship).
This is a terrible thesis/headline position that doesn't even reflect the author's own experiences. He posits that the STEM label don't work well, then proceeds to use another label in its place. What his experience should tell him is:

"Critical thinking and the ability to learn and adapt independently is the most important ability in a professional. These abilities are more pertinent than one's conferred degree. Find people with these characteristics wherever you may find them. Independently acquired skills outside of one's undergraduate studies may be correlated with an increased likelihood of possession of such aptitudes."

Not judging people by their labels cuts both ways. Plenty of liberal arts majors lack critical thinking, and vice versa and any combination thereof.
> What programming language would a library for this have to be in for it to be especially useful? I'm doing it in JavaScript for now, since I can think of immediate cases where I can embed it.

I think JavaScript is a pretty good start as that can be made into a browser plugin and a command line tool relatively simply.
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> A well-­rounded liberal arts degree establishes a foundation of critical thinking.

So, not those liberal arts majors who are protected in "safe spaces", who have "trigger warnings" on their classes, who complain about how they feel threatened when someone wrote pro-Trump messages at their school.

Look, there are a lot of good, high-quality liberal arts schools that are teaching students to think for themselves, and giving them a good breadth of background to orient them to the stuff that they encounter. But there are unfortunately also a lot of liberal arts schools that just coddle the kids, and turn out little better than 22-year-old high-schoolers. The first is valuable; the second a waste.
Document ready is hardly the most fundamental “tool” for scripting, and it has always been easy to resolve in a cross-browser way: stick your scripts before </body>.
As a carless person who's considering moving to SoCal -- specifically the San Gabriel Valley -- in about a year or so (only because upcoming legislation next spring is likely to force me out of Texas), articles like these are much appreciated. I've been thinking a lot about how I'm going to get around if I move there. I'm used to public transportation not being super awesome (I'd call the public transit where I live half-decent, emphasis on half, and I get around fine), and worst comes to worst I can take Lyft or Uber everywhere, but more transit is always good, and I'd like to know what I'm getting into if I move.

So thanks for posting this.
Your comments are effectively trolling HN whether you mean them that way or not. Please stop.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11818239 and marked it off-topic.
Moral statements are usually stated in way that implies objectivity. For example: "It is wrong to rape babies" or the nemedse reply [1] (writes that things are universally bad). Plus, objectivity gives you credibility. That's why people are citing scientific studies, get 3rd parties or submit evidence, instead of saying "I just made it up" or "I pulled it out of thin air" etc.

It's like I said "I like pepperoni pizza," and you're trying to say "no one kind of pizza is objectively better than the rest, so you have no right to choose pepperoni pizza over any other pizza

This is misleading. "I like pepperoni pizza" or "Jazz is my kind of music" are positive personal preferences. Those are not binding to anyone. It is stated in a way that expresses your positive preference as opposed to criticism of others' preferences. When you start to criticize others' preferences, that's where questions of objectivity come in.

People here are saying something more like "People who eat other types of pizza are idiots. Pepperoni pizza is the the most delicious pizza. period.". Then you could ask: "Who are you to say that and call people idiots? You might like it, but it doesn't mean others do and that pepperoni pizza is in fact the most delicious pizza.". That would be a reasonable reply to an arrogant person.

But in fact I do have this right, being that I'm the one choosing which pizza to eat.

Again. You're mistaking expressing positive personal preferences with criticism of others' preferences.

BTW, rights (to express yourself or write on this forum freely) are also related to morality. You are stating "I do have this right..." as if you saying something that's objectively true. Like "I have arms or legs". The same way you think you have rights is how most people think about morality - it's something objective and is not a matter of what anyone else thinks. Concept of natural rights confirms this (inalienable rights that can't be given or taken away by anyone and you have them, not because you think you do, but because you objectively do).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11818411
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> 150ms is such an absurdly short amount of time that I'm left wondering what booting is in this context.

Clear Linux was announced about a year ago, and it does boot absurdly quickly

https://clearlinux.org

https://lwn.net/Articles/644675/
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>but there's nothing inherently troubling about a highly-valued, late-stage company raising so much money.

Maybe not troubling, but interesting. There's definitely something interesting there. For one thing, nobody wants a representative of the Saudi government to sit on their board and yet they took their money. Clearly they didn't have a lot of suitors willing to dump money on them and clearly they had some (major?) need of capital.
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That seems to catch the basic gist. It could potentially end up forcing posters to follow the format. Question is, how can I help?
Relative to the cost of living and housing I would say bay area is way underpaid at this point
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I can relate to you about the "Frustrating lack of knowledge aspect" I've tried to engage people who are in the Psychology department where I hang around, about other topics such as stuff like VR and they dont even care about it. No matter how much you dumb it down or try to make it sound interesting,
There is already a bike share at the Santa Monica end of the newly opened Expo line talked about in OP.
The real difference is more about the underlying software ecosystem. And granted - this is slowly converging.
I don't think so. I think they genuinely want to be a computer vision leader, and provide a vertical computation/vision/connectivity stack like no other for developers to pick up.
Just as a separate question: why are you so bitter about btrfs? ;)
> What is not seen is the vast sea of English majors not going down that path, but rather ending up in a career that is far less challenging.

It's almost like they went to school for something completely different ;)

I don't see why selection bias matters though, as it's not terribly relevant to the author's point that humanities students bring a different/valuable perspective to the table and shouldn't be written off as technical hires. To me, the real goal should be encouraging students from both STEM and humanities backgrounds to learn from each other and cross streams a bit. No more Physics for Poets or Shakespeare for sysadmins.
The original Xbox was x86. The Xbox 360 was PPC though (some of the early 360 demos were actually running on Powermac G5s - http://www.anandtech.com/show/1686/5 )
A humorous (albeit terrifying) anecdote:

My girlfriend's brother is a doctor, and falls asleep very easily. He told us that during his residency, he once fell asleep during heart surgery while holding open the patient's chest (with some kind of crowbar-like medical instrument whose name I forget). Fortunately he maintained muscle tension so nothing bad happened. The surgeon noticed he was sleeping and told him to take a walk.

He also falls asleep driving, standing on the bus, at the dinner table, etc.
What city do you live in? I've traveled all over the US in the past year and haven't experienced this. I can imagine in a relatively remote, low-density city with sub 50k population it could become an issue at the most off-peak hours.
EMH is probably undecidable given like what you said "Self-referential systems are known to be deep pools of unmanageable complexity." An entangled web of horrible horribly reactive code/systems that percolate from some perverted sense of fundamentals to the furthest farthest markets an "efficient price." Knowing what we know about "markets" and the implementation of these markets, HFT, market makers, and the clusterfuck that is all the "financial" industry that tries to capitalize on little tiny arbitrage amounts..Yeah, the markets efficient, if efficient is a synonym for reactively retarded. The market is an elephant with the tail of a donkey that has nerves that propagate at the speed of light. Efficiency really doesn't mean much if the quality of the information that is efficiently transferred is between a retarded chameleon and a groundhog with a bad hair day. But as long as everyone agrees its an elephant and believes the myth that elephant prices make sense...
>Why the downvotes?

I think it's your first sentence. You can't just throw that out there as if everybody knows what you're referring to. I certainly don't. I don't follow the company religiously, but I have no recollection of anything majorly evil done by Uber.
I think buying up the whole value chain is an effect of monopolies, not the cause. DeBeers, for example, got their start in diamond mining. I suppose they could have stopped there, but when you're the only supplier, it becomes very easy to buy up those of your customers that are making money so you can capture more of the total cash.

So I don't think Uber needs to buy roads. All they need to do is have a broad enough base and deep enough pockets that they can drive everybody else out of business. Or, possibly better, keep a few sickly competitors forever on the margins. That way they can pretend they're really competing.
I remember a video where the early Steve Jobs is talking about the company he built. One of the things he mentioned was that Apple stands at the intersection of art and computers. He then mentioned that every person at Apple is not just a software developer but also a poet, a musician, and other liberal arts type professions. It is for that reason, he believed, they come up with an incredible computing experience.

Personally, I always complain I wish I knew what a normal person would want. A technical person very quickly falls to an abnormal and complicated approach of doing things.
No mention of modafinil/armodafinil (provigil/nuvigil)?
Yep, NZ per-capita incomes are lower than those of North America and Western Europe.

The real drawcards of New Zealand are societal, environmental, and cultural.
> "a new kind of society based on free association (rather than labor & money)"

I'm all for that, but for that to really work you'd have to change what people understand about ownership of material goods, and I suspect that'll be a hard battle to win. Perhaps a good place to start would be experiencing life in an ecovillage, some of them work with a minimal reliance on money.
> For one thing, nobody wants a representative of the Saudi government to sit on their board and yet they took their money.

Says who? If you want to expand in the Middle East then having high level officials with skin in the game is a plus. I wouldn't put it past them to ban the competition and pressure their allies accordingly.