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Shit does happen. I've been there. #1 get some sort of income coming in. Keep looking for an engineering position, but find another job that gets you some $ but leaves your days free for interviews and phone calls. It would suck to give up a 4 hr shift for a BS screening interview. And at this point it does not matter what you choose. You are not looking for your one true forever job. You are looking to exchange your time for money.

Target, Home Depot are hiring. Consider 2nd shift and third shift type work. It sucks but it leaves your days open for interviews during normal business hours. Gas Station/Convenience stores are always looking for people to work the graveyard shift.

Warehouse/logistics distribution centers are ALWAYS looking for 2nd shift workers. If you can read and pass a drug test you can be hired. Double points if you are actually legal to work in the United States. Usually there will be a staffing agency who does the actual hiring.

I once worked for a business interiors company. We installed cubicles and such for businesses. The work all had to happen after hours. Paid pretty good too. Since you are in Denver that may be an option.

Consider too grocery store/bakery. Access to food that is still fine but can't be sold is a great way to stretch your dollars.

As to your engineering job search. Please tell me you are not doing everything yourself. Get IT staffing recruiters working for you! You are a easy candidate. An IT worker with skills and experience who can start TODAY! Don't be picky! If you can land ANY sort of professional work, you can stabilize your life and keep looking for that Forever job.
I guess the more woolly selection criteria are there so that racial discrimination can be conducted, otherwise the student population would be overwhelmingly asian with a large white minority?
> people aren't getting married as much.

... because people aren't getting married for the wrong reasons. Previously, if you weren't married by 30 there would clearly be something wrong with you. It is generally becoming more acceptable to either have no interest in relationships, or to hold out for the right person. This is a healthier outlook on long-term relationships. At least with most of my friends.

If you don't ever want to get married, then don't.

If you never meet the right person, then don't get married.

It seems like I'm paraphrasing your first paragraph; but I'm not: both the decrease in marriage rates and the decrease in marriage failures are caused by this healthier perspective. The causation isn't the decline in marriage rates (because it has its own causation).

Poly is another matter entirely. I strongly believe that mono and poly are sexual identities just like any other (straight, homosexual, trans, etc.). Pairing a poly and mono together in a marriage is a great way to see things end in tears. You should be able to openly and unashamedly share what you are, so that everyone involved can make a mature decision based on this crucial factor in compatibility. Poly marriages should be legal (and should be legally documented as such). Mono marriages should also be legal (and continue to be documented as they are today).
Just thinking out loud, but I would posit that high grades/scores and "personality scores" tend to be negatively correlated, regardless of race/or within a particular race (just as i would hazard that academics and athletic achievement are often negatively correlated). e.g. the kids with highest gpa's in a school are often not the most outgoing.

Has anyone tried to control for this?
HN has guidelines, which are explicitly stated. Twitter (I gather) has guidelines or standards. So you measure content moderation by the number of posts that break the guidelines that are not moderated out.
Pods will be transiting these tunnels, not passenger cars

https://www.inverse.com/article/46041-elon-musk-s-tesla-plan...

> The only solutions are tolls or quotas.

Increasing density of traffic is another solution, for example buses or trains. Elon is proposing one more way to increase the density of traffic: up to 30 levels of tunnels (considering surface density of traffic). I don't know that he can achieve it, but I'm thrilled he's trying.
I have never used it, but it's no longer available as of last month:

http://www.filemaker.com/products/filemaker-pro/

"FileMaker Pro is no longer available. It has been replaced by FileMaker Pro Advanced which includes more features to help you develop and deploy custom apps faster and more efficiently."
Why is that a useful framework, though?

I've never met people that fall squarely into "producer" or "consumer", everyone you talk to has a creative hobby or three, and might be either a "producer" or a "consumer" at different times of day, or different moods, or as inspiration strikes.

It's a wide, diverse spectrum turned into a strange false dichotomy that leaves us with weird pseudo-categories like "prosumer" (and "conducer"?) middle grounds.

Maybe there is something about enforcing that dichotomy in leaving them to different contexts, different devices it forces you to switch hats in a physical visceral sense. Certainly studies say that such a forced context switch can be good for the brain to know it's time to X where X is produce or consume (or "prosume"?). Yet that seems a strange reason to force that on users. Is it anything more than an equivalent to "It's good for you, you must eat your vegetables before dessert?"

I naturally flow between consumption and production use cases, so why shouldn't the devices I use switch to my context instead of me switching to theirs?

It's an interesting philosophical split, but I'm curious how useful it is in the real world. Microsoft's "everyone can be a creator, everyone should be a creator, your devices should support you whatever you decide to do on the creation/consumption spectrum" reaction marketing seems the better approach to me, philosophically. I'm not defined by a "consumer" or "producer" 'gender', and I don't see why I should be.

How does this philosophical split help Apple in the long term?
True. But only if the "levels" are identified correctly.

Using the language of s/w: in your design, you have to define proper layers - not too many, not too few. As opposed to trying to express everything directly in terms of assembly codes, without formalizing the intermediate concepts.

The author's point (IMO) is that if we want to learn anything about our intelligence, we need to explore an obvious path: study the intelligence of cells first.

This doesn't eliminate the importance of other levels. There can be, in turn, something inside the cell that is crucial to its "intelligence", who knows? But first thing first :)
The severity of congestion at peak demand is governed by what people will tolerate. The duration of congestion is what changes when you change capacity. Even if you doubled the amount of every form of transit overnight the severity of congestion at peak would quickly reach equilibrium at about the same level as before.

Peak demand for transit (road, rail, etc) will always exceed available supply as long as the population of people moving at peak is larger than the instantaneous capacity of your transit system. Adding more capacity will always help the overall situation because it shortens the length of the time the that demand is higher than supply.

It's like how course registration at universities tends to saturate the systems involved. Peak demands will always slow things to a crawl but additional capacity is beneficial because it shortens the time the service is degraded. Adding transit of any type doesn't make rush "hour" suck less, it makes rush hour shorter.

edit:rearranged to more clearly make my point
It does. And it's one of my favorites. But I really don't know what Apple is trying to say. It's not a song that fills me with positive feelings.
From the article: "The Musk 'Loop' would have a capacity of 2,000 passengers per hour in each direction, which is about 60 percent of the Blue Line’s current, mostly-under-capacity average hourly ridership."

So that's good, right? This looks like a situation where a high-capacity line isn't actually needed and one that's lower-capacity but cheaper to build line would save money. So maybe it's appropriate use of a technology that doesn't do what mass transit does?
Oh fuck off already! This place is full of idiots, that I am not banned already is an insult to me.
There are many ways to judge someone aside from "race", whatever race really means anyway. Race should have nothing to do with it. It shouldn't be part of the equation.

That's the point. We don't have to restrict ourselves to test scores and GPA.

Just don't be racist.
Theranos isn't the best example. DFJ invested in their seed, but the vast majority of their funds were less sophisticated non-tech investors. Using them as a poster child for Silicon Valley dysfunction is a bit off to me.

Your broader point is well taken though, there are certainly cases where investors completely skip tech DD. Eg, Juicero's absolutely comical "engineering" that killed them with obscenely high costs.
It's the ecosystem that makes it seem bloated. 32k vs 30k is nothing.
Yes, the things I want from an OS in order of priority are security fixes, bug fixes, support for new hardware, performance improvements, usability enhancements then finally new features.
That is a good point, but they're less reliable during rush hour. I could see people taking this to the loop and then walking to their address if they're close, otherwise grabbing a short cab or uber from there.
I actually can't find the book you are referencing. I do see:

"Operating System Design: The Xinu Approach" and also the books "Internetworking with TCP /IPvolumes1-3." Might you have a link to the title you are referencing here? I have read the Internetworking series which is excellent.
This has been said many times in different ways over the years. To achieve human-like intelligence one needs a human-like body operating in a human-like environment. It's the first of the E's in: embodied emergent extended enactive. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/embodied-cognition/
What's wrong with air-conditioning ? I'd absolutely refuse to work if I don't have my AC. It's my guilty pleasure.
Based on your logic, people wouldn't be taking taxis/uber to the airport. It is both more expensive and takes longer, but people do it all of the time for the comfort and the quiet (which allows them to work).

This is being built for business travelers. Many people fly in and out of Chicago on a Monday-Thursday schedule, they will use this train. All of those people will now be in a separate tunnel and everyone else will have more room on the highway and Blue Line. Sounds like a win to me.
Man, you wrote down my exact thoughts.

12 months ago, I was a married man and a well-paid and well-respected (or even celebrated) member of a team, with a clear career plan and good personal finances.

Today I'm a soon-to-be-divorced guy who's just been fired and doesn't know how he'll pay the bills in a few months. Before the redundancy I had just taken on a bigger mortgage to buy out my wife. My grandfather died in March and chances are other members of the family will go very soon.

Life can turn very quickly. A '90s Italian song went "so many years to find tranquility, stability, a honest survival - but it's all so, so fragile".
Small claims court is your friend. Judges take a dim view of employers not paying money owed.
What always gets lost in this debate though is the fact that grades and SAT scores aren't especially meaningful or important. Given that we've had Asians and Jews freaking out all week and making dogwhistle attacks against blacks/hispanics because of the Stuy admissions issue, the fact that these so-called metrics aren't inherently any better or more fair than a personality test or whatever somehow always gets lost in the mix.

That's not to say that schools should discriminate against Asians, they shouldn't, but people also shouldn't hold up tests and GPA as some sort of beacon of fairness and meritocracy.
Second the T4. I got a t420 refurb. (2 years ago) for $150. Solid machine.
It seems like for the homecam.app there's no storage of the video stream, or one would need to add another box/device for that?

I haven't bought into any home automation hubs yet, it just doesn't seem quite there in terms of being worth it from any of the vendors, and I think if it were, I'd just run a full up server for a central hub.
Read this with a grain of salt : https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/10/25/doctors-sal...
List of Chinese goods hit by the new 25% tariff [pdf]
At this point, my wish is for the supreme courts of the EU and individual countries within to all indict Trump for his various crimes, refuse him entry, and to embargo any and all of his products/services/businesses as well as those of his family members.

But, the way things are going, neither of our wishes are coming true any time soon.
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Wonder how Apple is taking this

EDIT: Interesting, didn't know Apple manufacturing policies until now.
You realize that Democrats are supporting these tarrifs on China as well. China has already won the trade war by dumping steel and aluminum and stealing intellectual property for decades. This isn't even controversal.
> It includes a broad range of components used in electronics manufacturing, specifically naming touchscreens, batteries, and electric motors. General components like transistors are also named on the list as well as more specific components used in televisions, cameras, and radio receivers. [..] Notably, the list does not include cellphones or completed televisions.

So, this will, er, serve to discourage companies from making consumer goods in the US, with buying consumer goods from China becoming relatively more attractive? Doesn't seem very well thought out.
I think generally it goes as far as a committed relationship between three or more people, sometimes cohabiting, but apart from marriage which would be called bigamy.
> No, this is jut a toy, it would never be used for real IoT or IIoT devices.

There's lots of outrageous stuff inside today's consumer products. What makes you so sure that this won't be used in a real (whatever that means) IoT or IIoT device by someone?
Probably because you don't have an SSD. It's a shame that entry level models of both the iMac and Mac Mini have hard disks rather than SSDs, because it gives a bad experience.

I have a 2012 MacBook Air, 8GB, 256GB SSD still works great, had to replace the battery, but that's all. I run virtual machines on it, edit photos and video, no major problems with it speed wise.
OK, first off, from TFA, "Harvard’s class of 2021 is 14.6 percent African-American, 22.2 percent Asian-American, 11.6 percent Hispanic and 2.5 percent Native-American or Pacific Islander, according to Harvard’s website." That leaves you with 49.1-percent white or Jewish, which I don't consider small pie.

Second, I and my maternal ancestors haven't been part of a "horde" since Padishah Babur shacked up in the 16th century.
I just stole your idea.

theft != crime
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These sorts of subjective judgements can drive you crazy. My father (who was asian-american) had a civilian job with the United States government and a part time job with the United States navy. His civilian job, which was in the most corrupt branch of the executive branch, rated him as a poor performer personality wise and as having "no leadership potential". Nobody got the message, really since after this he took a temporary leave of absence and activated his us navy job as full time - as a captain (O6), the team he led delivered the first fully digitized, network inventory system which saved the navy on the order of billions of dollars. When he got back to his civilian job those negative reviews kept coming and he was denied promotions on those bases.
I just came from a year in the Benelux, that's how I managed to save a bit, but now that I have a buffer I'd rather stay put for a while.

Still, even your €450/h is less than csomar's $100/h, which they are apparently earning in a third-world country.
What you mean is it's a set of C macros, except built-in to the compiler. Great if it's exactly what you need. And you're prepared for severe WTF moments (e.g. equality on map values is ... not the same as equality on variables of the same type containing the same thing). Also, expect the whole thing to be useless if you need slight complexity (e.g. you can use strings as keys, but not bytes (either Bytes, or []byte, but you can use [5]byte for example).

Oh ... you actually need it to be a red-black tree, or a custom hash function ? Tough.
Tesla Will Build the ‘pods’ for the Boring Company’s Loop, Says Elon Musk
I guess my earlier comment was too long, so let me provide a shorter version: this action actively harms anyone attempting to design, prototype, and manufacture electronic devices in the US. There isn't a single component in the projects I'm currently working on which isn't impacted by this. My cost of goods just went up by 25% across the board today in an effort to help "protect" American businesses.

I don't feel like I've been protected by this.

The full list: https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/enforcement/301Investig...

Earlier comment (now hidden) with a list pertinent to hardware developers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17320653
The final case is spoken. If there's no https for the subdomainusers.faggotspot.im then there's no deal.

The fuckers are trying to https the main page, but won't https your individual blogs, people.

Put your money where your banhammer is.
I read an article a while back that compared admissions process to a bouncer in a nightclub. Was the best description of why things are done as they are.

As a hazy summary - the prestigious institutions try to have a mix of different types of people - rich people bring resources, well connected families bring influence & contacts, people with high test scores bring hard work and intelligence, achievers in arts/sports/activities bring hard work and desire to win, alumni children bring culture, loyalty and resources. Its no coincidence that there are different routes in for these different types of people.

Its the unique mix that makes places like Harvard great. There are other schools that choose people with highest test scores - that is a different approach. Harvard has no obligation to do this. Given the track record of alumni to achieve, the Harvard approach seems to work much better if you consider routes to powerful & high achieving jobs to be the main outcome.
Single-gate protocols reward investment in gate-deception.
Major upheaval? I think big dotcoms efforts to forcefully push their vapourwares onto the dev community in attempt to gain developers' "mindshare" reaching a point when that becomes genuinely obnoxious.
> The airport express trains exist in all major European cities where they replace not public transportation but taxi and limousines providing convenient way to travel.

Well, not all for sure. Many cities just have their normal city train service extended to the airport. I'd guess the express airport trains are common in countries with privatized rail transport, as that is often one of the most lucrative lines.
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> Unfortunately, jealously is wired deep into our lizard brains

Not actually the case, given what we know of the incredible variety of sexual/reproductive practices in pre-modern societies.

Its unfortunate that we make the mistake of observing current cultural behaviour and transhistoricising it onto all previous societies, presuming that their social relations must have been just the same as ours. EvoPsych in particular seems to be littered with this kind of fallacy.
Who said anything about Democrats? also last time I checked the majority of the US Government is controlled by Republicans.
Does that materially change whether or not it does or doesn't make it more expensive to build products in America that rely on Chinese components?
But how does this fix the issue and what does the Democrats supporting it have to do with that?
Infantalizing "non-technical users" just means you avoid creating new "technical users", does it not? If "we" all sit in our high and mighty many-core bastions, and leave the masses to shiny, locked down "consumption only devices" outside our gates while we look down upon them, we create a nice closed walled garden, certainly. But is that really the sort of class system we need?
Where can I verify this? As I understand it, we already have a bunch of tariffs in the 5% range that only apply to commercial/industrial imports.
My personal yardstick is that code should be as easy to understand and take over as possible.

Imagine a future co-worker coming in to fix a bug in your code - that person should ideally be able to say, aha, write a fix, and afterwards nobody can tell you didn't do it yourself.

If an abstraction makes things easier to understand, do it. If it doesn't, don't. Sometimes an extra test can make something easier to understand or modify, or handling more edge cases can make it the code more robust against future uses. But it's always a trade-off: less code is plainly easier to understand.

With that yardstick, lots of hyped tech just isn't good enough, advice given goes plainly against understandability or APIs that may look nice on paper result in hard-to-understand code full of accidental complexity. This applies to a lot of software method thinking too - does it result in me understanding the use cases better or in more understandable code? If not, don't waste time doing it.

By the way, writing code that's easy to understand and APIs that result in usage of said APIs being easy to understand is really hard. I spend a fair deal of my time rewriting code that I'm not comfortable with because it's too hard to understand. If you practice that, I think you might end up as an excellent programmer. Understandability extends to user interfaces and system design - a beautiful program that requires its users to jump through hoops to get everyday tasks done is an abomination in my book.
> Btw, it may very well be that we more or less agree on this. The discussion started further up, in response to the claim that moral behaviour (not killing) was a consequence of "being an empathic person", and nothing else.

Indeed, it may be that we agree. The problem is that the discussion got so sidetracked it's hard to see what we're talking about anymore.

As an example of how we're talking past each other, I wasn't responding that empathy is or should be the only restraint. I was specifically arguing against this assertion further up:

> I think that's a good point that lots of things can override empathy. It would require something much stronger [...] Religion with a belief in immortality and eternal justice with eternal possibility of happiness gives a very strong reason [...]

This is demonstrably, patently false: religion gets overridden and fails ALL the time. It should be noted that, traditionally, the argument goes "atheists forget religion and therefore have no value systems; what prevents murder when there is no god?", yadda yadda yadda.

To clarify, things I am arguing:

- Religion is not enough or better than empathy or other secular/atheist moral value systems. It works (sometimes), but it's not better or the only way. Arguments that start with "but without religion...!" are therefore wrong.

Things I'm NOT arguing:

- Religion always fails.

- Empathy is enough.

- Atheists never commit crimes.

Things I'm NOT interested in debating, because they're wrongheaded, red herrings, appeals to ignorance and/or "not even wrong":

- "But atheist societies aren't old enough!"

- Software development as an analogy to moral value systems.

- Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Patton, Torquemada, the French Revolution, etc.