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Ok, so there's some new mechanisms?

That's not so much the issue - as Python package/dependency problems are not so much a problem of 'how it works' - it's an issue because nobody is on the same page. It's byzantine.

If python dependencies boiled down to 'point to a directory' well then fine, everything would work that way and we'd build tools around it, docs would be clear etc. etc..

But as someone who uses Python seldom and loves the syntax, I generally stay away from it mostly for that reason.

And lack of typing which is obviously another discussion.
That's quite a bit less than I got. Perhaps you're just better than me? ;) But I didn't know there might be another take home assignment.

> But they will. The interview process is stochastic; exactly the same performance from you will lead to different results on different attempts.

Yeah I thought about that. But "try x months later" really means that you didn't pass some kind of bar. If I would be one of the five people that passed there would be no problem if I applied next week again, right?
OSM worked great for me on newly built streets in Cambridge UK, where Google Maps had zero cartography.

The only major disadvantage of OSM-derived applications is the lack of real-time traffic information. Google Maps harvests data from phones inside cars and some car navigation systems. They also buy it from third parties.

http://opentraffic.io/ is trying to do some data harvesting, but it's still not very good. Another option would be to build an aggregator. Lots of governments publish real-time traffic data, so it should be a matter of integrating that into an OSM layer.

Lastly, there's this old technology called Traffic Message Channel which uses RDS (digital data on FM radio) to broadcast traffic warnings. It's quite popular in Western Europe. There's already a F-Droid application that is trying to provide an interface for that: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.vonglasow.michael.qz/

I cannot stress how important live traffic information is. Without live traffic, navigating on densely populated areas is a nightmare. It's the only part of my mobile workflow I can't do using F-Droid applications. I'm currently forced to use a web version of Google Maps.
Seriously, we need something written on why rejection sucks?

Rejection sucks because we all like to imagine that we are good enough and the only reason we applied is because we believed we are good enough so it stinks to be told that we are not good enough.

Doesn't matter how you phrase the email, might be nice to give a feedback, but for anyone who receives it, it stings. The only difference is that some folks have a positive mindset, they get over the sting and work towards getting better. Feedback or not.
growth isn't a huge priority for my fediverse neighborhood/instance cluster. we welcome new people, of course, but it doesn't really matter if you sign up or not.

that said, you don't actually need multiple accounts to join conversations on other servers/topics. any account can talk to any other account on whatever server they happen to be registered on.

alts are more about identity than topics, in any case. in some cases, the topics you interact with are different, but that mostly depends on how much your want to differentiate your various identities.
I was lead dev in a company, I felt strongly that I don't want to reject people without providing them with clear feedback what they did well and didn't do well.

VP hated the idea and very quickly was abandoned. We got a lot of bad candidates tbh, so it was hard to tell them what they did wrong (they bombed pretty much).

I still think, done well, it provides great benefit to candidates being considered.

Thing that worked well for me, I had elaborate set of topics/knowledge I want my developers to know and be rated on, it wasn't arbitrary selection. Still, when someone bombs, it is hard to relay they did bad.
It doesn't matter if you're not profitable, don't have the technology, or have huge risks - if people with money believe you, you can make the future you want (and get extraordinarily rich in the process). Seems to be the theme of the tech industry lately. At least the end "goal" is a bit more appealing than the Magic Leap.
Best of luck to the LIBRARY LIBRARY OF CONGRESS on their new logo.
Housing is used as an investment asset and a source of income rather than a home.

If you took all the investors out of the housing market, housing should cost just the price of construction.
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I am surprised Toyota would want to work with Uber at this point - it seems Uber's ills are piling up faster than their successes. Could this be a desperation play where if Toyota doesn't partner up with somebody, they won't have a part in a driverless future that looks like it will belong to Waymo and friends?
I might be missing something, but Linux caters to this already:

SO_RCVLOWAT and SO_SNDLOWAT
Specify the minimum number of bytes in the buffer until the socket
layer will pass the data to the protocol (SO_SNDLOWAT) or the user
on receiving (SO_RCVLOWAT). These two values are initialized to 1.

On the transmit side:

EPOLLET
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How do you know it wasn't your computer that got compromised?
I don't know if this is a fair point of view but from an outsider's perspective it seems like any company that isn't Waymo is simply burning money. What companies actually have a reasonable chance at developing a usable autonomous driving system that won't kill me while I cross a street and won't kill the driver while on the highway? Anyone have a list of real contenders free of the marketing bs?
As a writers for TripleByte, how much technical background do you and the rest of the writing team have?
I’m not sure I understand why it would be more important. If you have universal income you can then probably afford to move to a cheaper place. Whereas making housing cheaper is just going to attract more people and you’re going full cycle.
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Ask HN: Computer science post graduate degree?
What are the most promising sub-fields in computer science to specialize now? Like cloud computing, data science etc. Which field would offer the most job opportunities?
seems like the interviews portion of glassdoor would support that?

(caveats re trusting glassdoor, blah blah)
That sounds like a feedback email from a couple years ago - am I right about that? We've definitely gotten better at this over time.
> Nothing substantially changes if we substitute "short explanations are better" for "sun rises in the morning".

No, that's not true. The operative word is "explanation", not "short". Explanation changes everything. It is not enough to say, "The sun has risen every day in the past, therefore it will continue to rise in the future." You have to explain why the sun has risen every day in the past (i.e. the earth is round, it rotates about its axis, yada yada yada). Conciseness is not as much a requirement as it is a consequence of the more primary requirement of being a good explanation and consistent with all available data. In actual practice, these requirements generally eliminate all theories but one. It just turns out that those theories tend to be concise.
The old logo has an authoritative look without feeling dated. It looks great on a website, in print or on a sign. The new logo is meaningless and bland and has massive scaling issues. Interesting direction, I'll admit.
Man, ants are so friggin cool. As a kid during recess I'd prefer to just sit by the ant piles and watch them work. It's truly fascinating. I'm sure most people here know but just in case, did you know some ant species participate in forms of farming and animal husbandry? [0] Their swarming and colony building behavior is also so cool. Like, how do they know how to build their colony to maintain their ideal climate just so? [1] I bet studying this could lead to dank nanobots or similar cool tech.

[0] https://modernfarmer.com/2014/04/meet-earths-oldest-farmers-...

[1] https://www.antkeepers.com/facts/ant-colony/climate-temperat...
Great abstractions exist, that doesn't mean every abstraction is great. Most are bad.
Oddly, Toyota has committed $500B to a partnership with Uber on self driving cars.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17853248
> I work at Triplebyte, and over the last year I’ve written over 3,000 detailed, individual rejection emails.

Wait, what? That means you're interviewing on average 12 people every single working day of the year. Even for someone who's job title was "Technical Recruiter" that would be a TON, let alone for someone who is a Team Lead and presumably has other duties. How is that possible?
Additionally, we still have competition of similar units owned by other landlords, as well as competition of alternatives that are not similar at all (like moving out of the area or taking on additional roommates) that can nonetheless reduce the quantity of housing demanded in an area at a higher price.
In Seattle and SF it's more like $2000 per month.
Along a similar vein (if sticking with Raspbian, et al distros is important), you can e.g. disable swap and journaling, using ramdisk for logs, etc. as well as keeping lots of free space available for wear-leveling and a few other ideas: https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/169/how-can-...
iirc the Android app is actually native (not React Native), which may explain it. See https://blog.discordapp.com/why-discord-is-sticking-with-rea...
If there is someone here who also played Donkey Kong Country 2 in his/her childhood: Some of its tunes make for a pretty decent hip hop beat.

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I heard they also provided samples of the cookies along with the recipes/writeup at NIPS.
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> Only sad thing is perhaps some day we won't be able to have the fun of making contributions ourselves, if the big companies handle all that for us like Google does.

There will always be room for individual contributions, because there are things that the big corporations do not care about. For example, many hiking trails and agricultural tracks good for cycling are missing from Google Maps because they simply do not have a business case for those details. Yet they are on OpenStreetMap because when OSM editors actually walk or cycle those ways, they add them to OSM.

Another example is opening hours for shops. There are only three ways those can end up on the map: 1) the business itself adds them, 2) a large corporation is aware of them and adds them, or 3) an individual mapper copies them off the sign at the shop’s entrance. For a lot of small shops, only 3 is realistically going to happen.
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Just write up a review on glassdoor. Specifically calling them out for a crappy interview process. Or if you are really bold and bother with linkedin, make a post.
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That’s akin to use hacked or pirated Windows ISOs to build and test Windows-software. And nobody in their right mind would suggest that, right?

Why does different rules apply to OSX?

Also: DMG-files can’t be used unless you’ve already purchased that $1000 machine you don’t really want/need. It’s completely unsupported in any meaningful sense outside OSX.

So more roadblocks.

You know how I get a Windows ISO? I download it from Microsoft. Ubuntu? Download it from canonical. Etc etc.

Can we all agree that it is Apple who put up all these roadblocks?

No other OS vendor makes it harder/more expensive to support their platform than Apple does.

And then you can’t really blame developers for not bothering. It’s all on Apple.
When someone can’t answer an interview question about relational databases, it might be that they don’t know anything about relational databases.

I thought you all were better than this. Why are you asking questions about relational databases? Why not just have candidates accomplish the thing you're assessing with an actual relational database? I know you're work-sample-literate! But if your feedback emphasizes communication, doesn't that imply a lot about your process is subjective? After all, and to extend an analysis used in this blog post: it could be that the candidates couldn't effectively communicate knowledge about RDMBS's. Or, it could be that the interviewer wasn't effectively listening to what the candidate was saying.
One theory was nascent in the 70's, but the Freudian bullshit was the age of an old man by then, and the demon possession idiocy was millenia old. We still have remarkably bad effectiveness on the drugs and therapies, so there will come new theories and they will, hopefully, be better in turn.
>The solution to the housing problem is to build more houses.

There's way too much latent demand for housing in booming cities to just build your way out. Without rent control, there will be people not benefiting from the boom that are just bled dry by rising costs.
While we specifically designed the take home project track to help overcome the difficulties of coding under time pressure with someone watching, we do still need to see a certain level of programming during the interview.

“How to set up a test that works and then completely ruin the results by doing nonsensical things during a dumb ritual that our entire industry seems set on preserving.”

Question for Triplebyte: when’s the last time that a single hour of coding — while being watched — determined whether you’d get to keep your job? Not acquire a job, but keep it.

I’m gusssing “never.” It’s a fake ritual.
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Glad to see you guys are skipping some of the usual destinations and throwing in some new places. Even if it means my alma mater misses out.
GM Cruise is a strong contender.
This is from January...
I must be in the minority here, but the AR future is really compelling to me. The amount of money that Magic Leap was able to raise without a real product is astounding. But I do see wearable computing as the future. Of course we all hope it doesn't become a steady stream of marketing directly into our retinas, but I joined tech because I wanted to help build the future, not just watch it happen.
Is the speed of light for light-in-some-substrate sufficiently faster than the speed of light for electrical charge? Is there any speed penalty for converting between the two?
Yeah, it seems more and more that the process is to get as much money as you can and then figure out how to use it.
There's still plenty of execution risk ahead for Waymo and a narrow opportunity for a very focused competitor to catch up to their technology. I don't think Uber is that competitor and I don't think that competitor exists, but it's possible. Cruise would be the obvious candidate and they have a big war chest from Softbank.
AIO != epoll()
I wonder what this means for TRI/TRI-AD which currently work on AV development for Toyota.
Honestly, I've found marijuana functions better as a sleep aid than benadryl/melatonin/etc. It might be something worth looking into, as it's probably the most powerful 'sleep-aid' available which doesn't cause long-term dependency or health issues.

Long term benadryl use is pretty bad for your brain/body. Long term use of anticholinergics in general has been strongly linked to the development of various severe health issues, including alzheimers and dementia. Beneadryl specifically has been linked to the development of prostate issues as well.
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Calling it an affordable housing "shortage" implies that we need more housing in order for it to become affordable. The fact is there is already plenty of housing (people live somewhere don't they?) the problem is that it is unaffordable because supply and demand will never cause the rents to go down en masse. It's one of the few limited resources that people are forced to buy that essentially has no maximum price.

Everybody starts getting basic income? Rents will rise to eat up the majority of that income without some external control. The same way we needed unions, minimum wage, etc. we need a collective bargaining system for the renters vs. landowners. Rent control, what have you. It's kind of the antithesis of the American dream but what we have isnt working all that well.
The nuclear power plant of the future can be found in a science museum. All dangers of a catastrophic accident aside, nuclear energy has become economically infeasible. Just recently, half-build powerplants have been abandoned in the US for pure financial reasons, and the other projects under constructions face severe cost problems too. And this is not counting for the still unsolved problem of disposing the nuclear waste. Meanwhile, solar and wind have become much cheaper than nuclear, and counting in the construction costs for new clean plants, even coal.

The idea of putting a nuclear power plant on a float is faszinating. It solves cooling, allows relocation of the power plant and in the case of disaster, it can be dumped into the ocean, which is somewhat better than contaminating occupied land, but still isn't acceptable.

Unless there is some significant breakthrough in operating costs and safety as well as a solution for the nuclear waste, nuclear isn't the future.
Audi is already selling autonomous-on-autobahns A8 so I guess VW is a strong contender too.
In the more expensive areas you are actually paying more for the land than the house.

$500k properties are torn down to build new homes.
There is always a limit to which you can trust the government to do something right and how corruptable it becomes over the years.
AIO also can batch multiple events and operations in a single syscall.
It's possible his job is JUST to write these rejection letters. He gets feedback forms from all the interviewers, compiles them, reviews them, condenses them, touches them up, then sends them out.

That could easily be a full-time job for a large company.
I would note that a basic income directly increases the amount of land "sufficiently close to sufficient income".
When this has happened to me before with bigger companies, I finally get a rejection letter months after the fact. My guess is that it’s them hedging and not wanting to reject until they’ve filled the position.
Yes they do, see smartmontools.
I did a degree in symbolic systems (CS + philosophy + linguistics; I have some CS background but less than I'd have gotten from a CS degree), I did one software internship, and Triplebyte was my first job when I graduated. I'm sure every candidate I send feedback is a stronger engineer than I am, but I do have some technical background. Most engineers want to write code all day, not emails, but I think a technical background does help us do our jobs.
Or move to another country like Mexico or Thailand.
I am intrigued, which library? Flask? Django? Surely not as the code is great and very easy to debug.
In the experiment, it's taxable income.

There's no shortage of frameworks and differing philosophies on the matter of taxation of the UBI. But generally speaking, no, the $1000 would be considered tax-free as for all intents and purposes, it's a gift from the coffers of government's treasury.

Income generated outside of the UBI however, is taxed because well.. it's income and not a gift.
Most likely, yes. But translation services are far easier to enter than mapping.
As opposed to corporate entities, which are...?
More proof we are living in the Berenstain Bears universe, forever disconnected from our original Berenstein universe.
Right, if you don't similarly fix the housing bottleneck, then nothing stops rents from just advancing to capture the additional UBI.

I think there's a general problem here, about the "how much you got?" economy -- increasingly many critical goods are charged for in a way that effectively eats up any gain in income. For example, college and health care -- you get hit with an obscenely high bill and they just figure out how much you can really afford and charge that.
The article is about YC's experiment, and the article even quotes Sam Altman directly when explaining what the test is for:

> "Giving people enough money to live on with no strings attached"

So I think in this context we should be talking about that, and not some other definition.
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Yeah, another disadvantage of feedback is that some people really resent suggestions on how to improve - they can come across as condescending. I definitely would rather get feedback to someone who wants it even if this annoys someone who didn't, but I think lots of companies are making the opposite tradeoff - and that's part of why feedback is so rare in the industry.
I don't think legal risk is the main reason companies refrain from elaborating on why they chose not to hire. That's just a convenient thing to point to (in other words, lazy). It's more like, there's all downside and no upside. I can't think of one benefit that would accrue to an employer for doing that, but I can think of a lot of bad (or just undesirable) things that could potentially come from it.
Tesla is selling autonomous-but-don't-quote-us but that doesn't qualify them as a strong contender. The autobahn system isn't large enough to be difficult to map out, and highway driving is the easy case.
Argo AI seems to be the place where any good researcher/engineer not in Waymo has gone to.
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I use dvorak full-time on my desktop PC, but I never bothered to switch my cell phone key layout so it's still qwerty, and I send a few texts a day. I don't even notice the change anymore, I can fluidly switch between the two. I've been using dvorak for almost 20 years, it's so much more comfortable for typing quickly, as I usually do on my desktop PC.
And a lot of government policy is based on getting people to buy a home, attaching a lot of net worth to its value. Then, surprise! People vote in a way that keeps up housing costs!
I see your point, but I'm not sure how that justifies having 3 and 4 events in the Bay Area and Boston respectively when Seattle and NYC are left out.

It just feels like you are trying to meet people inside your bubble instead of trying to branch out and get more people interested in YC.
The landlords charge what they can manage to charge. Meaning that if there are people to pay for it and the government isn’t restricting the rent somehow, then they will always try to charge more. It doesn’t have much to do with the median income, rather with how popular the location is.
Ask HN: Do paid jobs really absorb and degrade the mind,at least to some degree?
What’s your opinion about Aristotle’s quote? Do paid jobs really absorb and degrade the mind, at least to some degree? Or do some jobs boost the capacity of the mind and creativity?
I remember pneumatic tubes. Only a few years ago, Costco was still using them to deliver checks/cash to their tills. I cannot say exactly when, but well into the 2000s.
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A lot of recycling in the US is done with slave labor that already violates workplace safety, so I'm not sure they'd care about adding cigarette butts to single stream programs[1]

[1]http://www.recyclingtoday.com/article/doj-iog-unicor-violati...
This just creates more problems than it solves. If you don't like Microsoft's approach to VS Code you're better off choosing another editor to use - there are lots to choose from.
Indeed - but if you want to be acqui-hired you go for one of the commercial offerings.

As an aside, Mixxx is an awesome piece of software, it's not quite as slick as Serato et al, but it works fantastically if your controller is suitably mapped, and is timecode vinyl agnostic which is a nice plus.
True. In fact rich people even give money to non-profits.

Uber is a thing that should exist. Profitable or not.