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So, good article, but another point occurred to me while reading it that wasn't covered. I think that writing a good email explaining the rejection, might be a good exercise for the company doing the rejecting. "Well, why are we rejecting this person, exactly?" Of course, this will only be true if the email is honest (if diplomatic). It could serve as an institutionalized review of whether candidates are getting rejected for the right reason. Building feedback loops into a company's internal process can be a very powerful thing, even when there's no bonus or penalty involved for the person doing the writing.

I wonder, does Triplebyte have any kind of annual summary of why candidates are getting rejected?
Just FYI, "to wear (out)" has an irregular past tense, and past participle forms: "wore" and "worn". So:

1) These disk, because of constant throughput, wore out.

2) These disk, because of constant throughput, are worn out.
Oh, mics are still dangerous. I play a lot of restaurants where you get odd hums... one way to "deal" with that is to remove the safety ground on your guitar amp.. of course, there is then a possibility that there is a difference in potential between yourself as grounded through the amp and yourself as grounded through a microphone... you don't need a carbon element or a tube amp to get badly shocked that way. I and a lot of my dirtbag musician friends still will touch a mic before using it.
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Are Apple and Microsoft's map services built on OpenStreetMap? Or are they just contributing for the heck of it?
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What is the cause in your opinion? Undersupply? Or an economic stable equilibrium that sucks for everybody besides owners?
Maybe good oral communication skills are part of these particular requirements? We don't know the details of the interview. But I don't understand why it should be wrong to ask a candidate a question that he should be able to answer and see how he reacts.

For some jobs it may even be appropriate to ask questions that the candidate cannot answer and see the reaction. Does he admit that he does not know? How does he phrase it? Is he making things up to cover for his lack of knowledge? And so on.
What is "latent demand"? There are empty apartments in SF right now and if you have the money you can rent them.
Good catch. Also the FCC is a joke now.
From what I have heard Toyota’s approach is to prefer taking over the driver in difficult situations instead of the other way around. Uber could benefit a lot from this.
They're not doing a full pivot - rather they're shifting from "car-ride-hailing," to the all-encompassing "mobility" and diversifying their revenue across a number of transportation means.
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>have the potential

At least you're honest. Low number statistics so far but AV's have been worse per car per year compared to human drivers. And you certainly can't trust Uber's engineering department given they literally raised the detection threshold because their computer vision sucked.
Sure, the point is a landlords looks at their tenants, sees their tenants are getting a sudden, big, "basic income" boost and boosts the rent of their tenants because the tenants can pay it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_room_occupancy

SROs used to be pretty commonly available. We tore down up to 80 percent of them over the course of two decades, probably because Baby Boomers were wealthy enough to not need something that cheap. We never rebuilt them.

I think rebuilding them would be a step in the right direction.
I dont think that's it at all. Even in "undesireable" places the rents approach what a median income earner can afford anywhere. It's akin to why we have minimum wages. Without them people will work (out of desperation) for pennies because they have to.
Because Assad was going to let a Qatar pipeline go through Syria in the first place? Hmm I wonder which foreign powers destabilized Syria and have been trying to overthrow the current government for close to 7 years now.
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Their reckless (compared to Waymo) behavior with self-driving car testing is certainly more than negative press. It seems to reflect their entire culture.
I'd imagine public ashtrays be pillaged, as they are now to recycle the half smoked tobacco rests. Bad idea.
> Apple came out with a revolutionary design in the iphone

The first iPhone was revolutionary and ahead of its time, but copying a user experience, a grid of square icons, fancy animations and double touch is a lot easier than copying Waymo. You can't just copy Waymo by looking at it like you could by looking at an iPhone. Waymo's code is all in a black box of compiled code and how it works really is anyone's guess besides neural network and all the captors and millions of hours of simulations and drives etc.
I'd formulate the "don't overgeneralize too early" as "make concious decisions about where you solve specific and general problems". It's fine to solve a specific problem knowingly, and while considering the cost of solving a general problem.

Saying "let's cross that bridge when we come to it" is the idea (rather than "whoa we never saw that bridge we should/shouldn't have crossed")

There is also a human perspective to this. Solving general problems is FUN, (at least I tend to think so). The generalization is the fun part of the problem solving. Some people think seeing the working product is cool, no matter how elegant or general. I don't mind if everything is half-finished forever so long as the half-finished product is elegant and general (exaggerating but you get my point about the different personalities). This is also why you need different perspectives (and probably people) on a team.
I sleep biphasically during most weekends. Partly because I work and work-out a lot during week days. By the time it's Saturday, I'm both mentally and physically exhaust. So, I need more resting and sleeping a few hours after lunch works well. In order not to make my sunday night hard to sleep, I sleep a bit less (6 to 7 hours) and then sleep a few more hours (~3 hours)
Sure. My point is not that insomnia doesn't exist, only that waking up in the middle of the night is not necessarily an indication of insomnia.
Doubtful. For many types of apps, the moment I catch wind that it’s a web app, I close the window. I have no need for anything that adds to my already sky high pile of tabs.
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The YC experiment will be rather interesting, giving people guaranteed monthly payments of ~$1k for 3-5 years makes them a very attractive population for loan providers.

Once they are accepted into the program, you could offer to immediately buy them out, for say, $24k in cash for signing over their rights to the monthly payments.

If YC backs out once they've taken the buyout, they're saddled with debt and likely forced into bankruptcy. It would leave them worse off than before.

If YC doesn't back out, the loan provider can pocket a hefty profit.
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TL;DR: Hyper sensitive employee throws a tantrum after someone makes a play on words. Good riddance.
I'm not saying that Kalanick et all aren't going to be very well off in any event, but all this cash they raise at eye popping valuations is going to have liquidation preference...and that's scary for a company with serious cash flow issues like Uber.
This is definitely the best one in this thread so far.
HN, Twitter, Tildes, BBC News, The Guardian and then The Telegraph (these two to try to balance each of them out a bit), The Q Community[1], if I'm in a good mood Reddit but I'm doing that less and hoping Tildes takes off. Then there's a bunch of stuff that I'm ploughing through at the moment, so lots of inquiries into patient safety or culture of NHS trusts and effective corporate boards. So, lots of stuff from NHS England, NHS Improvement, and on the gov.uk site. And then I'll have a look at Bailii to see if there are any recent useful cases about English benefits or family law.

I used to listen to a lot of radio, and I haven't for some time, and I'm going to start doing that a lot more.

[1] It's a QI in health thing I'm involved in. https://q.health.org.uk/
I am starting to get sick of environmentalists complaining, doing nothing to solve the issues their so "passionate" about, and then harassing / criticising any solution that gets proposed.
Here at Mapbox we're doing navigation on OSM with traffic data - we collect our own telemetry, and use it to guide OSM-based routing. There are numerous Android/iOS apps using our API that you could use, or you could build one yourself.
There is a good reason for this "ugliness": it makes it easier to distinguish the things that you typed in vs the things that Lisp printed out. Nowadays we can make these distinctions with fonts, but back in the teletype days this was a really useful feature. Yes, the teletype days are over, but teriminal.app still exists and there are situations where interacting with Lisp directly through a terminal is useful, and so this feature can still be useful even today. Like the parens, it takes a little getting used to, but once you're used to it, you'll miss it when it's not there.
I had come across this library - [1] - a while ago that claims to be the open source equivalent of Vizier. Does anyone know how well justified the claim is?

[1] https://github.com/tobegit3hub/advisor
For a long time the tools were either proprietary or GNU. Sadly gcc worked well enough that its policy of not exposing anything that could be abused by proprietary software meant that any tooling that surfaced had to work around the free compiler. Remember the day emacs got full featured refactoring support based on GCC? Stallman singlehandedly killed that for exposing too much. Good C++ tooling only started to turn up when Apple made its move from gcc to llvm/clang and we actually got competition in the free compiler space and a compiler based framework to build tools on top.
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Nice theory, but I am no longer capable of driving.

As the American population ages, this is increasingly becoming an issue. If you need to drive to maintain your independence, you lose your independence when you can no longer safely drive, possibly because you simply don't see well enough anymore, even if you are otherwise competent.

My sucktastic eyesight is part of why I no longer drive.
You can't trust this because candidates do get petty when they get rejected and invent or omit details. That happens often on glassdoor.
Several important differences between self-driving and smartphones:

1. Driving automation is orders of magnitude more expensive

2. Improperly-tested vehicles are much more likely to have fatal consequences, meaning a 90% perfect smartphone is OK, but 90% perfect driving software would kill people

3. It's much, much easier to clone an iPhone than Waymo hardware + software
as anecdotal as it might be I've been shat on by a seagull and let me tell you it isn't pretty.

Dublin has a real problem with those pests.
> Hardware instructions can take a variable amount of time to complete, depending on their inputs--particularly branches and memory instructions. That means that the set of operations that are ready to execute is a fundamentally dynamic property, and software can only make a static decision.

Everything on the Mill CPU architecture is statically scheduled, because everything has a fixed latency.

Loads / stores from L1 cache are also a fixed latency. If you're going out to DRAM, then you'll have to wait a lot no matter what architecture. Branches are also fixed latency, assuming the target has been prefetched.

So then it is a question of how good is the prefetching, and they've got some techniques to improve that too. They've also got techniques to help with cache pressure and effectively double the I-cache size without the usual power and latency penalty.

Details are in the papers and videos, if you are interested.
The ills you speak of is called FUD (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt).

HackerNews is an echo chamber for pessimists guised as realists.

You see this in threads ranging from FB, Uber, Bitcoin, Tesla, people showing off weekend projects, etc.

It's a common phenomenon and in mainstream culture we call them "haters".
Both are hard and are open problems.
I went through TripleByte 2 years ago and got much the same feedback. I was left with the same feelings, on top of the feeling of having wasted a bunch of time. TripleByte only makes sense if it can fast track you to enough companies to make the investment worthwhile. And, even then, I think, at the time (maybe still now), they only let you skip technical phone screens. Never mind that their process is more or less equivalent to the standard tech on-site (which, IMO, means it should at least count for something at the client companies.)
Does anyone know the details of the UBI within the Cherokee reservation in North Carolina? I don't understand why y-combinator chose the particular methods in the article. I can see how the control groups are losing engagement.

Not many articles, but it seems to have been relatively successful.

https://www.demos.org/blog/1/19/14/cherokee-tribes-basic-inc...
Ditto school debt, health care, and child care. If these costs were not (increasingly) the burden of proles, we could all do a lot more with what we have/where we are currently at economically.
Way too many people die in traffic, but per mile an unimpaired human is actually not that dangerous. In the US there are about seven deaths per billion(!) miles and that includes drunk drivers. It's not trivial to beat human drivers.
All Hackintoshs violate MacOS license. You cannot run MacOS on anything else than a Mac or it's just pirating the software.
This is a great tool! I have used it to check government websites. Government websites typically have a monopoly on the service they provide. As a citizen you can not easily choose to take you business elsewhere.

For a government website you could argue that there should be no third parties using the information about the visitor's interaction with the government. But a lot of government websites still use 3rd party scripts that specifically use information about your for ad targeting.
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”But sometimes three is not enough; there is now a proposal circulating for a fourth kernel polling interface”

I’m not convinced. Can anybody explain what’s the set of desirable properties of polling interfaces, and why we need at least four different interfaces to implement all of them?
Sure, that'd also work.
Everything that came out after that last fatality points to Uber trailing everyone else in terms of functionality and sacrificing safety to appear further along.
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Imho, housing technology is stuck in the last decade. There is no reasonable government that is trying to fix the problem (housing requires transportation and common infrastructure). Hong Kong is an example of how to let everyone live together.

The west could leverage by doing that plus having an option to have a country side home and car for the weekend. Instead we have busy highways, old buildings, slow common transportation, etc...

New York is a good example but it blows my mind why they don't invest more in the subway, modernize the buildings, etc... Plus it cost a fortune to live there.
I definitely prefer the old logo. The new one is extremely generic and does not convey any feeling via the logo.
Uber's self driving cars killed a woman...
> aggressively event-based systems

I'd be interested in reading about your observations on how event-based systems kill local reasoning.

Is it simply a bad design that requires the publisher to understand who/what all the subscribers are doing with an event?

I've found that designing the semantics of individual events, and constraints on their interpretation, is the hardest part of event based systems so I could see that becoming an issue.
Some days I feel better, some days I feel worse. I can see many people who are less successful than me in various ways and I see others who are more successful.

I say being satisfied is a matter of being satisfiable.
The branch predictor should mean that in most cases the latency of branches should be constant. And if its wrong that's just as much a problem for an OoO machine as it is for the Mill.

For memory accesses yes, that's a big problem which is why there's so much effort in the design devoted to making software memory speculation feasible. The Itanium put some effort into that too but generally at a much higher overhead and the Mill's solution for dealing with memory faults in speculated accesses was frankly brilliant.
It's not just about the compiled code, which shouldn't be impossible to reverse engineer, although very difficult. It is more about the data, which will be the uncopyable advantage.
Have you thought about leaving the US? I moved to the Czech Republic (US citizen) and you can live well here - without the car and lower income. Very good public transportation, it's safe, not a lot of violent crime, and the prices are quite reasonable. (For now - everything is going up in price, but I can still live quite comfortably)
I gave up trying to land the front page on HN. It just doesn't have the same quality of traffic or discussions from 5~6 years ago when HN was at it's peak.

What's more there are a lot of false positives in the comment sections from a demographic that isn't 100% representative of your target market.
yup, sounds right.
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evolution also made a path for mothers to heat the nest

still it's a interesting common point
It's okay to put our own human priorities first. If those other species want to complain about us amongst themselves, good for them.
As is usual whenever the basic income thread comes up, I have to reiterate that I don't think just giving cash to people will work. You have to invest that money in the production of basic goods and services, and then distribute those evenly.

A better experiment than $X cash per month to N families would be to spend that $X*N on corn that would otherwise be exported, and labor and transport to distribute ration packs to the experimental group. The control group can get some coupons for up to $3 off a 5# bag of corn meal. You can then also see how fast the price of a 5# bag of corn meal goes up to $2.99 .

Or spend up to $X per month on the experimental group's metered utilities, in the following order: water, electric, natgas (if available), other municipal-owned utilities, then phone/ISP, with anything remaining distributed as prepaid vehicle fuel cards. The power company can't exactly raise your rates if it finds out you, specifically, got a windfall, and the landlord can't raise your rent if you're getting paid in kWh, Mbps, gallons, and cubic yards.

I think it is very important that whatever the basic income is distributed as not be easily convertible to the currency used to pay rents and make general purchases of goods and services. Rent-seeking always happens wherever it is possible.
the speed of light is always the speed of light, you have to observe at sufficiently small scale to make this observation. light in a medium travels between obstacles in a less than linear trajectory thus has an "apparent" average velocity. conversion from photonic to electronic can be very fast such as photonic emission during valence electron demotion, but in a practical case a junction has a latency and a fuzziness due to thermalnoise and quantum uncertainty...that is where the penalties will occur...
conceptually there are 2 ends of a stick, does light actually move, or does light stand still while spacetime unfolds at "the speed of light"
> I live without a car and that complicated things.

It complicates things quite significantly. In fact, if you were to remove this constraint then the problem becomes much more tractable. This factor alone limits you to urban locations because public transit alone is hard enough to find and absolutely nowhere in the US had decent public transit outside of an urban core except for a few cities that are already expensive to start with. There are not many of these places where you are not going to be competing with either university students, well-paid 20/30-somethings, or both.

To be honest I don't think any American city is going to provide this and until Americans get over their automobile fetish I don't think any place will even try to serve this requirement. It is quite normal in Europe, but only big, expensive cities work well for people without cars.
> because the owner and her daughter were so conflict averse - rather than fire someone, they would just slowly write them off the schedule.

Firing someone (without cause) leaves you open to having unemployment claims filed against you. Writing them off the schedule so they're forced to quit on their own accord negates that leverage; underemployment claims are harder for complainants to pursue/win.

Restaurant owners being the stingy type, I guarantee you this wasn't done to avoid hurting employee feelings.
Austin, TX as well...
It's interesting how long SSDs tend to last on development boxes.

I've had a 256GB Crucial SSD running on my primary dev box and it's been powered on for 3.6 years. During that time it's been powered on 94 times. I run a ton of Dockerized apps and other things.

The "wear leveling count" is at 163 which according to Crucial means the drive is at about 95% healthy.
I get that Pentagram feels they have enough of a handle on good design that they know the right way to break some of the rules of design. But this feels like breaking the rules of design so much that it's actually breaking the rules, in a way that produces something unpleasant and ugly.

I mean... a close cousin of Impact? Black and orange? A second, unnecessary copy of the word 'library' that's so large it's hard to make out the name of the institution by comparison? This smacks of designers being so in love with their own process that they abandon the basic principles of good design -- i.e., it has to be immediately recognizable and look aesthetically pleasing -- entirely in favor of some weird brutalist experiment.

Which might be a good idea for an avant garde institution in Manhattan, but is entirely inappropriate for the Library of freaking Congress.
> But they will. The interview process is stochastic; exactly the same performance from you will lead to different results on different attempts.

I agree that's in practice true for many places. But I hope companies have the good sense to be too embarrassed to admit that their inability to be consistent is the reason to reapply.

I think the traditional reason for the "try again in three months" bit is that paper-based processes make it hard to find and re-contact promising candidates who didn't happen to make the grade this time. But if any place really thinks, "We won't hire this developer now but they would be good in the future," I think a much better solution is for the hiring company to make a list of people to re-contact next time they're hiring.
What is MS-ROM? I am not familiar with this, is it specific to SKylake?
> This whole "well I would if Macs weren't so expensive" sounds like "I just don't want to support macOS" because you have options if you actually were interested.

Mac development is a bit more complicated than running MacOS on a CI, especially with GUI apps.

And of course code authors prefer compiling programs themselves on their infrastructure. If you want to volunteer and provide a Mac Build then get the source do it and distribute it. But don't accuse people of being somehow lazy for not supporting mac, that's preposterous.

Apple is responsible for the situation. Don't shift the blame away from them.