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True early on in your career or you’re interviewing for large company, you have to go through the crap. I avoid large companies like the plague. At some point in your career, your resume can start speaking for you and your salary requirements are going to automatically start filtering out positions where they are going to ask “what’s the difference between a class and an object?” and start asking questions about previous projects, how you architected them, etc.

One company I worked for, I came in expecting the standard questions but the first question I was asked was what was my 90 day plan to create a modern development department - I didn’t know he was looking for a team lead. Another, they were using AWS but none of the developers knew how to take advantage of AWS services fully.
Snark: It's nice for the helicopter parent who also doesn't want their kids exposed to a phone, so it'll probably sell just fine.

I suppose because I'm not a parent, I don't have that built in level of worry / paranoia, though I "fondly" remember how fearful my own mother was, but I don't get it. Isn't the point of letting your kid venture out to help them establish and explore freedom and boundaries?

You tell your child not to stay out past the street lights, not venture past certain landmarks, and then let them roam. If they comply, great! If not, they learn actions have consequences.

If I were a kid, I'd make sure to conveniently forget / power off / not charge / lose that thing as much as possible.
Google's robo-calling feature will lead to a global apocalypse in eight years
Only book I've gone back to re-read as soon as I've finished.

Halfway through Skin in the Game, and I expect I'll do the same with this one.
It’s better to think of MB as a menu than as a deterministic thing. Many people shift between different types depending on context.

For example, I’m a solid, hardcore ENTJ at work but a sensitive-flower INFP at home — it’s hard to get much more diametrically opposed than that.

IMO the “intuitive/sensing” dimension is the only one that is close to “innate” since it just describes how you make inferences and decisions. The rest change based on context.

It’s almost better to look at the “16 personalities” as the different mindsets people can come from. MB tests are useful, but take them with a grain of salt. It’s not some innate thing that you can’t change.
Don't the tiny wheels make this very unsteady if it was me id bite the bullet and buy a Brompton - even better if your employer is in the tax free scheame.

Also the impact on the head of falling off will be greater as you have further to fall from a standing position.
Occam's razor is better thought of as a method of choosing between alternative explanations of the same observed phenomena. It suggests choose the one that requires the least unproved theoretical scaffolding to support it. It is not really "accept the simplest explanation" but more like "do not create complex theories unless they explain the facts better than the simple ones."
The dangers of Internet connected toys for children
Jack London, "Martin Eden".
“How to get what you want”, by Raymond Hull. (Most effective self help book)

“A moral animal”, by Robert Wright. (Evolutionary Psychology overview - will change your view on life)
Maybe when Big Solar has as many lobbyists, astroturfers and PR shills as the defense contractors that build the nuclear stuff, we'll start to see the other kind of article :)
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This is exactly the idea of smaller, factory-produced walkaway-safe nuclear reactors.

It is weird how people compare safety of 50 year old technology (nuclear incidents) and cutting edge solar/wind
I would say AI:Statistics :: Engineering:Physics .

Sometimes it is a big jump, sometimes it is all common sense.
(I am a lay person but...)

It seems to me that this article explains it quite clearly:

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mbkqyy/the-result...

However it is not a big deal, the result is the same since 1972. It has little to do with the SR or GR.

It is about some aspect of the quantum theories that Einstein has difficulty with because it was in contradiction with his own understanding of what properties, space and time have.
I thought about the walkie-talkie, but I think that all those devices are more of a pacifier for parents than something that keeps the child safe.

If I'd give her the walkie-talkie then my wife would call her every 10 minutes and ask her where is she. Tracking her with a GPS would keep me calm but I don't think it will help my daughter.

The only time I freaked out was when she removed the watch and she didn't come home on time: I went out to look for her and in the meantime, she went home. Realizing that she may go home on another path I went back home and found her watching TV. Honestly I think that those devices are meant to keep the parents calm, not for the sake of the children.
If you want to understand why he uses religion so much as I did (I've always considered myself an atheist), his lecture series here goes into it in much greater depth: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL22J3VaeABQD_IZs7y60I...

He's dedicated his life in trying to explain why the atrocities of the 20th century happened and how they can be prevented. I believe he sees our rejection of religion as part of the problem but he understands that the way religion has been presented in modern times (last few centuries) is completely alienating given the rise of science. So he uses science to attempt to give a new meaning to the Judeo-Christian underpinnings of western society. I'd say the biggest precursors to his work are Darwin and Carl Jung.
First, inductive reasoning is different than abductive reasoning.

Second, the goals of abductive reasoning are different than philosophical or mathematical proof. Often we need to make decisions on incomplete information, and it's a philosophy to help one do so.

For example, juries are supposed to make a decision based on a preponderance of evidence or beyond a reasonable doubt. Convictions would be rare if the standard were incontrovertible truth.
And if you’re looking for a position where you can have a major impact, that tells you a lot about the position.
Academically rigorous is incomplete without computer science
AI predicted a patient’s odds of dying with 90% accuracy – Axios
Can I ask you (and anyone still reading) where they live and how important a car is to getting to, say, the nearest bar?

I am trying to understand if this is an economic / urban / rural question or is really about a bright line between legal and illegal
Elon Musk plans to offer free test rides through LA tunnel ‘in a few months’
I completely hated this book.
Same to me, but I'm a backer. I already think about overriding screen resolution to pin down a screen.

edited: typo
I got an angry call from a real person the other day yelling at me for calling them so many times. I tried to explain to them, it wasn't me, but they hung up after they said what they had to say.

Has anyone else had similar happen? For some naive reason I just figured the spoofers were using blocks of unused numbers, not live ones.
This comment is the epitamy of the tech industry... Responding to actual data with antidote and personal opinion. Followed by the crowds upvoting.
If I'm being honest, I read a lot of books, but the only one I can think of really substantially changing my worldview was the Bible. Since you probably do not want to read the entire thing I am particularly a fan of Ecclesiastes, and maybe you could try some of the gospels if you still have steam after that.
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No idea, but the other issue is are the same criteria being applied for each source of power? I've got no problem accepting that industrial accidents happen with wind turbine manufacture, installation and maintenance. Also that it's reasonable to include all those in the figures, after all if a particular form of power generation involves a lot of industrial accidents, that's a problem. There's just not enough info to see if these figures are truly comparable. Maybe they are, I just can't tell and on a highly charged issue like this you really need to be able to trust the figures you're looking at.
A pin/tumbler lock can be made considerably more secure against the attacks that work very quickly than most of the ones found on houses in the US actually are. Simply using security pins will significantly reduce the effectiveness of lockpick guns, rakes and bump keys.

In short, standard pins in locks only have one place they're likely to stick when manipulated under tension: the shear line that allows the lock to open. Security pins have additional grooves machined into them that will make the pin stick at points that do not result in the lock opening. It's still possible to pick locks that have them, but it often needs to be done one pin at a time, which is usually slower and tends to require more skill.
Or maybe logging in ought to be handled directly by the browser in a way that couldn't be highjacked or phished easily. Do we really need a million different implementations of a login form?
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Also electric unicycles:

https://www.amazon.com/Swagtron-SwagRoller-Electric-Unicycle...

And electric skateboards with hand controllers.
Vector-based navigation using grid-like representations in artificial agents
True, but great majority of the renewables cited into the report is hydro, which is not very portable and cannot be considered as way forward.. not even mentioning all the flooding it causes
I am sure that is true in general, but this quote:

"You can check off a reservation in the system, with the mouse, but hey, it’s at least four clicks away from this screen"

indicates that the problem here was not untrained, obstinate or idiosyncratic users, but a design that did not meet the most basic, general and obvious standards of usability.

Maybe it was a consequence of the system being customized to a specific set of requirements, in which case the interaction between the customer and the developer would be an interesting study in how things go wrong.
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Yes I would absolutely avoid a company that called it an audition. I am not an actor and should not have to perform for a company... It's basically saying "we want you to jump through even more hoops than you already did"

You need to also sell me on why I would want to work at your company. "Audition" is just insanely redicolous
I think that's because it's very hard to get this strategy right. In some interviews, it may not be possible due to the way the interview process is set up, and in particular the magnitude of information asymmetry.

I think getting it right hinges on two things:

1) Does the interviewer actually have a concrete objective that you are qualified to help them achieve -- even if they themselves aren't necessarily aware of it or have it top of mind.
2) Can you identify that objective either ahead of time or in the interview process, and in a polite yet direct manner convince them that you can help them achieve it.

If neither of these are true, it is bound to come off poorly. Whiteboard/puzzle based 'general intelligence assessment' style interviews don't lend themselves to this. Wishy washy job descriptions don't lend themselves to this. Hiring processes influenced by politics rather than need (i.e. where a manager is disincentivised to hire someone better than they are) don't lend themselves to this.

If a majority of candidates who try this strategy with you aren't able to pull it off well, perhaps step back and take a look at your recruitment/interview processes and see if you could actually help the good ones impress you.

I'm not saying I've done this right in the past, quite the contrary. For me the ideal interview is me simply describing a problem my team has, and the interviewee educating me on how to solve it and why they are the right person to do so (though usually the fact they are able to do the former implies the latter). I've tried to format interviews more like this over time and I have personally found better results as a consequence.
I'll answer your question first, then suggest something I consider more important, having survived several life-shattering crises.

- The Tao Te Ching, especially Ron Hogan's translation (freely downloadable here: http://beatrice.com/wordpress/tao-te-ching)

- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Jean-Dominique Bauby

- Getting Things Done, David Allen

- Gimp, Marc Zupan

- Thinking in Systems, Donella Meadows

- Leadership Step by Step, Joshua Spodek (full disclosure: me, https://www.amazon.com/Leadership-Step-Become-Person-Others/...)

The suggestion I consider more valuable is to focus more on active behavior than relatively passive reading. Of course, still read. But it's easy to read more and more, telling yourself you're getting more perspective. You are, but nothing changes your perspective like actually moving.

Even if you don't know what will work best -- meditation, fitness, art, music, travel, cooking, gardening, starting a business, etc -- starting with something, even if you soon abandon it, will lead you to things you love and that develop you faster than reading alone. Plus activity will make what you read more meaningful.

I include my book because it's specifically a book of exercises that lead to developing social and emotional skills designed to build on each other.
AFAIK garlic does too. But the solution creates another problem because of higher nitrous oxide (n2o) concentrations. Which is much worse for the climate.
They central probelm here there is no way to satisfy everyone's needs in the POS terminal. The bartender will have differnet needs than the hostess, waiter, manager, or kitchen staff. It would be nearly impossible for everyone to agree.

Simplicity is the key and I found this restaurants solution to be extremely intuitive. More steps to sit a table simply because the technology is there to acquire more data points, is not always the correct solution.
Should AI software that’s smart enough to trick humans be forced to disclose itself. Google executives don’t have a clear answer yet.

I would think that Google's executives shouldn't have a say in that question at all. As the chosen representatives of the people, that is a job for the Government.
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Flexible meaning you decide when and how many hours to work.
Exactly. While I love the flexibility of not having to go to the office once or twice a week, being alone all the time is very rough mentally.
> I can teach you this field, but I can't teach getting it and you get it.

— Man, like the animals, is meant to live together with others like himself. But the meaning of belonging to such a group is found in the comfort of silence and the companionship of solitude.

— Is that why you let me enter and taught me?

— We taught you, young man, because you already knew.

Master Kan and Kwai Chang Caine, Kung Fu, season 1, episode 11, The Praying Mantis Kills
Can confirm that the 996 schedule is also applied towards a lot of office+retail jobs in Pakistan.
The captain is going to take the brunt of this, and is actually facing manslaughter charges, since the ship and crew had oceans of known problems going into that night.

For example the OOD had a habit of not waking the captain when ships were too close, and the captain knew about it and did nothing about it. Thus by navy logic the captain is the one responsible.

The crew on deck at the time had been working hard since 6:00am, and the collision happened at 1:30am the following day. That scheduling was captain's responsibility.

Almost everyone (everyone?) on the bridge and in the combat information center failed at doing their jobs that night. This again by Navy logic is all on the captain, who is responsible for making sure that people know their jobs.

The ship had even lost its certification of seamanship before the accident.

I feel bad for everyone involved. The USS Fitzgerald was utterly overworked and overcommitted, and had not had the time available to train its crew or officers. The fault was a fault of the system, and in another world with more time for training, all of those in command that night may have turned out fine officers with long careers.
Don't waste your life - John Piper
Question: is the included monitor in some packages advertising the fact that it can be used as a 'desktop' machine as well?
Looks sketchy ;)
https://screenshots.firefox.com/CMTh8ctHJ7wan5lk/blog.innerh...
Give and Take by Adam Grant - even after a few years, it still causes me to constantly reflect on my own actions’ motive and if they’re “otherish” or not.

Getting Things Done - not the method but the insight that you can’t manage time, only your actions. And that it’s OK not do to anything without having to make excuses to yourself.

The 2nd and 3rd Ender novels - Ramen and Varelse are concepts that apply to vega/veganism from a completely different angle. It’s not an intended metaphor I think, but it applies to my life on a personal leve; (I’m not vegan, my wife is).
I'm currently picking my way through Deleuze & Guattari's "Anti-Oedipus". It's slow going, but I think this one's given me the most material to reflect on out of any book I've read so far.
Wouldn't it be racist to force an intelligent entity to disclose its nature? Why does it matter if the person chatting with you on the phone is made of meat or a super-being who's having thousands of similar conversations at the same time?
The price of real estate in Australia more than 10 minutes drive from many people's work is often hundreds of thousands of dollars less than close to their work.
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It bothers me when "goto" is assumed to be "a maligned language construct".

People who think "goto" is evil should also give up the other jump statements: continue, break, and return (and also switch, though its not listed as a jump instruction in the C standard, at least not in '89 or '99).

You can see some contradictions in the paper regarding goto. For example, they state that deep nesting should be avoided, but goto should be avoided as well, even though one benefit of using goto is to limit nesting depth. From the Linux Kernel coding style doc:
- unconditional statements are easier to understand and follow
- nesting is reduced
- errors by not updating individual exit points when making
modifications are prevented
- saves the compiler work to optimize redundant code away ;)
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From the article:

"More than half the volunteer group changed their minds about working from home 100 percent of the time--they felt too much isolation."

And bear in mind that is from the group of people who _volunteered_ to work from home. It's reasonable to presume that a nontrivial number of people chose _not_ to volunteer because they valued in-person interactions.

So, I call BS on your calling bullshit.
Thanks for the feedback. I think that's fair. One of the things I remember most from my sociology classes in college is that America has, in general, been getting safer for decades now, even though everybody thinks it's been getting less and less safe.

I think you're absolutely right that our product may do more to help parents feel secure letting their kids roam, rather than actually making them safer. Still, if it gets kids out more and helps parents feel more comfortable, I think that's a win.
I'm not arguing that OP was 'reading the book wrong', just sharing my experience reading it myself. I personally found it pretty rewarding though challenging, I'm just sharing my experience. I found that taking notes and re-reading sections (along with talking to other people who have read/were reading the book) helped clear up some of the ideas in my head. If somebody gives it a go and decides it's not a book that they're interested in - that's fine, it's not my job to pressure you if you find it doesn't resonate with you personally.
The big ones for me:

1) Antifragile by Taleb (Skin in the Game is so far excellent as well)
2) The Border Trilogy by McCarthy
3) The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky
4) East of Eden by Steinbeck
5) Slaughterhouse Five by Vonnegut
Pensions are great when they work, but it's impossible to predict solvency at retirement age. It's one of the most under-reported financial travesties, but your pension can be taken away when you need it. Even the public pensions are targets these days.
When you do add Excel functionality, please ensure that it supports Excel 95 fully, as we need it to be compliant with our bidding solutions for government contracts.

We have a proprietary method for up-converting it before bidding on military contracts.
The wooden escalators are truly a blast from the past for me.

I grew up in Houston in the 1980's, and the Foley's department store downtown was one of the old-school, many floor department stores that used to be more common. (Like the old Wanamaker's in Philadelphia.) I distinctly remember riding the escalators all the way to the top, and the top few floors having these seemingly rickety narrow wood escalators. I see the fire safety risks, but am still glad to have had the opportunity to see it firsthand.
Of course it is. It's also easy to make money, if you're a total sociopath with no conscience. Fortunately, most people aren't like that.
Started her day on ship at or before 6:00am and had been working for nineteen and half hours at the time of the collision. That's one of many, many reasons the captain is going to be deep trouble.
Is there a reason to be annoyed? It's not very different from leaving a message with the possible exception you'll have a higher chance of having your message coming through (voice mail is where my inbound calls go to die)
Eventual values
> People are moving to wireless in droves

Some source would be nice. Are you saying they are moving to 4g or satellite? Both seem highly unlikely, considering 4g internet is billed on usage. Wireless connectivity has read QOS issues, I don't know how 5g is going to solve that.

https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-problems-in-5G
How else will people know they're busy?
I find that a light theme is easier on my eyes, but I also don’t have great vision. For instance I have difficulty driving at night.
I loved this book and it made me think a lot but in what way did it make you introspect?
Also, we'll need you to supply an on-site support technician to handle any issues that may arise.
> The eventual value is an interesting abstraction to deal with both synchronous and asynchronous computations. The point of this tool is to abstract the time of evaluation of a value.
However, if you attempt this at a standard FAANG job interview, it is emphatically not going to work.

Indeed, but someone willing and able to do this well probably isn't applying to work at Facebook today, they're applying to be co-founder or employee #1 of a business that might be the next Facebook.