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> I can't believe I'm the only one thinking this way, I know there are plenty of so-called "clock punchers/pragmatists"[0] who refuse to play the game. So I'm asking you:

> how do you pull it off?

I'm honest to a fault in every way, with my own personality.
When I'm depressed this is self-destructive, but when I'm happy it seems to invigorating to the team mates and friends around me. This seems to click positively with people in general, gives me a lot of rope ;). Confidence in your own truth, I think is the key one-liner here.

> How do you survive?

Living true is freeing, the privilege to be able to do it a blessing. But if your 'truth' is that you're a bitter, shitty person. It will kill you.

Live true but have your core-motives, your convictions, in order. 'Be a positive influence on everyone and anyone I interact with' is a good start.

> What do you tell your managers and your interviewers?

Interviews: play the game. Haven't ever tried the snowflake approach to interviews, haven't seen any evidence to give me the confidence needed to pull it off.

Managers: truth, it's a slow build before you can dump deep truth on people, but bit by bit, let them know what you're about and WHY.

Depending on the temperament of the manager, they either become mates, or they respect/disapprove from a distance.

Hopefully you can pull some value from this stranger <3
The alternative is, and always has been, a language and runtime lib that is spec'd in the open and has multiple implementations to choose from. Though choices have become limited. Only C, C++, and JavaScript seem to fit the bill AFAICS.
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The scooters that were in SF were certainly not surviving 50 days. They were 90% broken and not because of the battery.
Wonder how many of those illegally stopped cars are Ubers and Lyfts...
If it's worth blogging about, then, yes.
The pain that minimal version selection solves
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Uber and Lime will but Skip and Scoot this month.
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But not as compared to the A350 or A380
Totally agree on this. I've build heaps of production code using xsv. Far faster than csvkit and more features.
This sounds like it'd be better handled by the private sector having a decent flight aggregator with those details baked in? They're not secret.
You appear to be shadowbanned. Most of your (reasonable-looking) comments are showing up as dead to me.
If an individual prefers a style of learning - wouldn't that enable them to enjoy learning for longer periods of time and deeper? Maybe not more efficiently but overall definitely has an impact.
The bureaucracy in codebases often mirrors the same of the company in which they were developed, or in some cases the general culture of the programming language itself (prominent examples being Java and C#.) The most horrifically indirect code I've seen comes from large enterprise software, where something that is actually quite simple takes inordinate amounts of code to accomplish; on the other hand, code written by and maintained by only one or two individuals rarely accumulates such accidental complexity.
Only means to decrease total CO2 output is increasing efficiency per capita CO2 output captures this very well. Population will not shrink anytime soon and moving people around at scale is not feasible.
The amounts of hi-level waste generated are manageable and no one is claiming we are in danger of imminently running out of space. Long before this becomes a problem we will either recycle the waste or use most of this "waste" to generate electricity. While there are issues with nuclear power, the worry some people have about nuclear waste is greatly overblown to say the least.
Isochrone curve
Who cares though, they are all the same. (I forgot which company's I used, until I checked my phone now to see the app). They really didn't work much on brand recognition, I 'm surprised people have favorites
Besides SAP deployments I guess not much.

Here in Germany it is mostly Red-Hat/CentOS or Ubuntu, on the projects I have been involved.

So anecdote data.
I don't think the FAA would allow it. Imagine turbulence and suddenly 20 people get thrown a few inches into the air and come crashing back down. Not safe at all, plus that would feel scary to passengers. You'd also need to find a way to secure them into their bunks to not get thrown to the sides.
What did Bird or Lime do?
Oh man, the first company to put this in a mobile app is going to blow up.

(I guess it might take a few years for the performance to get there)
Is this a joke
On some planes, and not others. There's huge seat variation from airline to airline.
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FWIW, the Ads org is about 8000 employees (not counting sales), out of 80000 total at Google. Cloud is about 25000 (of which about 4000 are sales and supporting GTM functions). There's MUCH more going on at Google than ads... and that doesn't count the enormous teams working on things like Android, Chrome, Maps, and Youtube.
This is why we should use the term "free-fall", instead of "zero-gravity".

There is no way known to remove gravity. At best, you can cause the room to fall at the same rate as the things inside the room, causing the contents to float around.

It's the same principle that allows specialized airplanes to create the sensation of weightlessness, while very-much in almost Earth-surface gravity.
Okay, I've thought about it a bit more, and I think I figured out how to word things precisely.

A bumper sticker signals "I care".

A prius, in theory, signals "I am actively helping, a lot".

They're both kinds of "virtue signalling", but they're very different in scope.

The 'maddening' thing is not when people signal they care a little bit. It's when people signal they care a lot, but their actions contradict that.
I would argue that a strictly rationalist or at least secular morality should be applied given the sheer religious or spiritual diversity of the global population.

And regarding your latter point,it is as you say simplistic - much like the proverbial bacterium on an agar plate, our growth imperative will destroy our future if we overrun the bounds of our environment. I think we will see the issue become more important as the consequences of overpopulation (with respect to resource consumption and carrying capacity) begin to bite.
That's not true either, but that's a common misconception. Google makes the bulk of it's ad revenue from search ads. Two people issuing the same search query will see the same ads (for the most part). Hence, Google could still make money without user targeting - unlike Facebook.
I did a similar 16.5hr + 7hr a little while ago. It was still excruciating in a lie-flat seat on a decent carrier.
I’m curious what you mean by dangerous? I’m having trouble discerning what you mean.

If you mean going into a functional paradigm I’d say it’s definitely a matter if taste.

However my biggest gripe is that the ECMAScript board seems intent on being all things to all people. So they half implemented classes. And they added some neat data types. But god for bid you want to override their constructors yet if I make a class I can override my constructors as one would expect in a class based language. Though forcing the new keyword onto classes wasn’t a great paradigm to keep imo. Nor do I like how static methods and properties are treated.

Also decorators are only for classes? Why does that make any sense?

It’s really screwy.

At least going the opposite direction would’ve forced correctness on a baseline.

If they want to be an OOP langsuge with classes the Standards need to embrace it more fully and I see little evidence of that
Eureka...
I don't think this can run on real time on current hardware yet, so it would only work for pre-rendered cutscenes
If all rights are reserved on the original source code, then compiling the source code can be construed as intent for intellectual property theft, since the right to compile the code was never expressly given to you.

Looking at all-rights-reserved code on a public repository on GitHub is like going to a strip club - you may look, but you can't touch.
I think you do. I dislike the scooters for my own reasons, mainly the fact that people ride them on sidewalks. But this is not littering.

You tell me if you see a scooter on the sidewalk if that strikes you as the same as people disposing of trash on the sidewalk: loose papers, cigarette butts, plastic bags, etc.

I get what you're saying for the sake of argument, but littering is a disgusting act that makes most people feel like their city is unclean.
As a local example that doesn't even apply to multi-family/multi-unit houses, consider the absolutely insane zoning rule in San Mateo county that requires every SFM to have at least 2 covered parking spaces. Seriously, wtf.
I could see this being used in the same way that auto-tune type effects are added to singers voices. The editing of music videos could include a tool like this to make sure all of the dancers behind the main one are moving just right.

And just like auto-tuned voices, it will come off as janky and fake.
Here's a review of a similar, 17-hour flight that Qantas has started doing from Perth to London that goes into much more detail about the flight as opposed to the hand-wavy article:

https://thepointsguy.com/reviews/qantas-australia-london-ina...

The things like sleeping areas and workout areas seem like a stretch - probably upgrades similar to "Economy Plus", so most people will still be stuck with just the bare minimum, which will be similar to what's described in the above review.
Browsers have been known to implement the spec only partially.
Very impressive!

I'm a bit disappointed though that they didn't also include results for a synthetic source video with "impossible" poses (e.g. joints bending backwards, stretching, separating from the body or performing full rotations). That would have been pretty interesting (though perhaps a bit unsettling) to see.
I’ve always seen bureaucracies as process design for people that are bad at process design.

I work in a very compliance heavy environment, and we run an “agile” team that ships as often as 10 times a day. We have easy audits and no compliance issues because we invested in good process design. A company we’re quite close with has the same compliance requirements, and their shipping process involves printing, signing, scanning and filing excel sheets. It’s not like we’re vastly better at our jobs than they are, we just designed far better processes.
> That's true, but a large part of the value proposition of GC in the first place was to remove the burden of memory management.

This is a good point. I've spent a fair amount of time trying to build performant stuff on the web, and my conclusion has been that if you really care about memory management, garbage collection is not your friend.

You spend more time than is necessary trying to convince the engine not to allocate anything you don't want, trying to lay out objects ahead of time, etc... I have spent more time learning about how Chrome's garbage collection works than I would have ever spent manually tracking references myself.

And the end result is that I still have to manually track references and be careful about where things are allocated - the garbage collector for me is objectively a net negative, not just for performance but for dev time and program complexity. And I'm not even really doing anything all that complicated in any of the software I build -- it is not hard to run into these kinds of issues.

This is something that I didn't understand until I saw it in my own software, but I strongly suspect that if I could get rid of browser garbage collection I would spend less time thinking about memory than I do now.
Ask HN: What is the most innovative bounty program for ICO you've ever heard?
We are planning to launch an ICO which we truly believe it has that potential.

We need some ideas for our bounty program. Suggestions are welcomed.

Thanks in advance :)
“The idea of "learning styles" is dead in the field of psychology” - can you point some reference or research supporting this claim ?
I wonder if a main reason why they shut it down might not be financial but rather related to focus:

Firefox the browser was falling behind. While it was always my favourite it was totally eclipsed by Chrome for a while.

After they started focusing on Firefox again a number of great things have happened:

- Firefox is getting faster

- Firefox is getting safer

- Firefox is gaining mindshare

- Techies are starting to use and recommend Firefox again

- etc

All this puts Mozilla in position where they can do things like they now announce: they will make big improvements again, this time by squelching 3rd party tracking.
Drawing Spirograph curves in Python
In which case the property value should be fine. As far as view goes, I believe I addressed that further up (but to recap: thoughts and prayers for people who are so burdened by others having a place to live).
It’s terrible.

“Soooorry, this content is not intended to be viewed in this resolution - you wouldn't enjoy it! Either change to the portrait orientation or a bigger screen.

Thanks for understanding!”

And in portrait it’s text is so small to be nearly unreadable.
First if all, try 280 to 85 instead of 101... and/or carpool.
Google: free, credit card: 20% APR, human right to privacy: priceless. There are some things money can't buy, for everything else there's Mastercard.
Goodyear?
They’re not required to.
I emphatically do not think that decentralization is the natural outcome, nor that it's optimal.

On this topic I would recommend one of Scott's most well-known essays, Meditations on Moloch [1]. The meat of it is this:

> …in some competition optimizing for X, the opportunity arises to throw some other value under the bus for improved X. Those who take it prosper. Those who don’t take it die out. Eventually, everyone’s relative status is about the same as before, but everyone’s absolute status is worse than before. The process continues until all other values that can be traded off have been – in other words, until human ingenuity cannot possibly figure out a way to make things any worse.

If top-town authoritarianism is at one extreme of the spectrum, then completely decentralized systems is the other undesirable extreme, equally bad if not worse: if there is no regulation, then there is no strong coordination, and a race-to-the-bottom situation ensues (in optimizing for X). If everyone is acting game-theoretically optimally, then anyone who tries to improve the situation gets eliminated. It might be locally optimal, but it's highly unlikely to be globally optimal.

Decentralization means being a slave to no one, which means being a slave to the incentive system, which means being a slave to everyone else.

But I would also encourage thinking of it not as a dualism, a strict choice between bureaucracy and blockchains, but as a spectrum instead. This means that there's an entire world of valid choices in between. I would very much argue that the optimum can be found just by moving closer to the middle.

[1] http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
How can they just pay them like that? What about taxes and social security fees? I doubt the kids have their own company.
> They should really focus on hiring junior people who can't or won't work for Google/Facebook.

This is also antithetical to (some) startups' way of thinking, which is that they must hire only senior/"top" engineers because that's the only way to get a product out fast enough.

Similarly, mentorship (something TFA does advocate) is seen as too much of a time/resource sink, a luxury only behemoths can afford.

This attitude makes some sense at seed stage, but after a few dozen senior engineers on staff, it loses credibility.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
Allegedly Ed Helms wants to play Drebin in a sequel/reboot though thankfully it seems to be languishing.

https://www.cinemablend.com/new/Ed-Helms-Naked-Gun-Remake-Ma...
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You should then try a 20 hours long bus trip instead in order to traverse 1/10th of the distance.

I honestly do not care how comfortable and/or uncomfortable the plane is as long as it takes me wherever I want to go. I'd rather keep my wads of cash and spend them on stuff that make me happy.
More breakages are expected going forward, though. That's the whole idea of releasing early and oftenly (and having customers to pay for backward-compat). Note I'm not saying Oracle has no right to monetize Java, though it could be said what makes Java valuable is the (mostly OSS) ecosystem around it, rather than Java the language itself or the JVM.

> As a Java developer, ...

I've been developing Java for a living since almost the beginning (since 1997), but I'd seriously recommend not tying yourself to a particular language as in "Java developer". Java is but a tool among others, and I generally can work better with devs that know more than just Java, for the pragmatism and utilitarism they bring, rather than Java devs dogmatizing and bragging about the latest fad in Java idioms and libs.
That Roseanne anthem incident happened July 25 1990. Operation Desert Shield launched August 7 1990. By July a military conflict was looking increasingly likely. It was in the news constantly.

Throughout July 1990, Saddam Hussein was openly threatening war and throwing around war rhetoric at Kuwait, UAE and the US. On August 1st Iraq terminated diplomatic talks and then invaded on August 2nd. Kuwait had its military on full alert for an invasion that July. The likelihood of war had been escalating since at least April of 1990.

It's plausible Roseanne did that precisely because the cultural atmosphere was primed to provoke a reaction, as she is prone to do.
Using derived features to jumpstart neural network training
If you want to still use a "credit card" online without being tracked by the MasterCards or Visas of the world (or even individual merchants), then check out https://privacy.com/ .. It lets you generate a new credit card number for every transaction if you want.

I'm not affiliated with them.. Just a satisfied user. (Although happy to hand out referral links.)
Nothing in the linked 14-page window replacement guide has anything at all to do with safety in general or windows falling onto people. It is entirely to do with preserving the "historic character" of buildings. I don't think you can reasonably equate that to the regulations governing the design of caps on baby food.
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> If you have an account, or even a consistent shipping address, Amazon knows what you're buying.

Still a huge difference betwen that and the alternative where all three of:

- Amazon
- Google
- and MasterCard

knows what you've bought IMO.
>Not that the story should be the main appeal of a parody, just that there must be a good story for the jokes to serve. Although “Airplane!” was a joke- and gag-heavy enterprise, the film had an obvious story with three distinct acts, along with a main character who had a clear arc. “Top Secret!”, though, had major narrative and character issues.

It seems like modern style parodies seem to ignore this point entirely but it is exactly why Airplane and Hot Shots and Naked Gun worked. I can’t think of a single spoof that has worked so effectively since the 90s.
Just out of curiosity I read Section C "Plan for Safe Riding and Storage of Scooters" of the applications for Bird and Scoot. There really isn't a comparison. Scoot's is far more detailed and you can tell they have actual experience in operating responsibly at scale.

An example that stuck out to me: when asked where they plan on operating, Scoot had detailed block-by-block outlines of how they would expand and when. Bird literally just has a Google Maps screen capture of San Francisco.

For a start-up as well funded as they are, it really seems like Bird phoned it in on the application.
cars don’t typically drive down sidewalks
It does include the Tower of London though.
% of GDP can be a bit misleading as rich countries easy fall to the left of the graph. I would rather see $ spent per person
I am lost? How will they track a sale with the credit card data? Without the store's invoice data, how can they link credit card transaction it back to a product?
fake internet points
Ah yeah sorry, there's been some misunderstanding, I agree with you.
When did I give the FDA authority over what i put in my body?
Hners should browse the applications by Bird and by Scoot here. It's like night and day. The Bird pages are short and lack significant detail. Scoot on the other hand, actually has what look like questions taken directly from the application, bolded in red, and what look like responses undernearth. That is, they respond directly to the questions being asked with a good amount of detail. This is precisely what you do when applying for things, like say when applying for a grant.

For a community that waxes poetic about presenting themselves and communicating well, Scoot sets a rather good example here.
That can be a bandaid but leaves you pretty far from being able to do traditional Internet style networking with global addressing.
What about a psychologist?
Practically all singers use "pitch correction", which is essentially "autotune that's not done for artistic effect".

If done properly, it's not really janky or fake sounding at all.
I use rg on all my scripts that I won't be sharing with others. Anything that needs to be used by other people / needs to be run on any machine that I don't control, uses grep instead.
Did you notice the hands in the video? I don't think computer games can accept that level of error. I would ask again in a decade, when this technique is more viable. Until then, I feel game developers will still need humans to do the work.
Non of these companies can be sued in terms of anti-trust because since the new definition of that law by Richard Posner its very hard to come up with a story tjat would make it credible.
That's certainly what the commercials said. But since no actual instance of ignoring the law was ever presented, I'm not sure why calm thinking individuals would solely trust vacuous repetitive hyperbolic TV commercials.

And then stretch that to two other Justices.

And as we now know the 80's clamor for less and less legal review and more and more executions had pretty bad outcomes[1]

[1]https://www.aclu.org/other/dna-testing-and-death-penalty
So we ban drugs that save thousands because they killed dozens?
So ban Uber and Lyft?
This!

You can follow the 9-5 routine, however at some stage you will bomb the performance reviews. Be overlooked for promotion or terminated altogether. I suppose if you are sharp enough and productive enough, maybe you can pull it off at a B2B type company where pressure is lower.
I'm building a student community and after while I stumbled upon zulip https://zulipchat.com. I think it's the most decent organized chat out there. Channels (aka streams in zulip terminology) can have topics on each stream so it's super easy to stay organized.
False. Modern anti-trust law requires proving harm to consers and that would be incredibly hard with any of those companies.
Really Heroku?
People shouldn’t be allowed to think for themselves, they’ll sometimes get it wrong! Bureaucrats never do!
Those laws harmed consumers and would not be changed.

Lots of just causes broke unjust laws.
I've mostly given up on making Ubuntu bug reports
This could actually be caused by disk caching effects. Have you tried running cloc second time afterwards?
> Do you think a politician is going to deny access to a company if it costs them nothing and makes their constituents happy?

Yes. The politicians already do this all the time, every time a development company wants to turn a vacant lot or McDonald's into an apartment building even though that building meets all the codes and standards.

It turns out that politics is often times negative sum, and whatever good thing you are doing will stopped, merely because you havent given them their cut.