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It's not like Uber or Lyft are super innovative ideas. They probably got VC money because it's a way of exploiting people's lack of employment and math skills to profit off cheap labour and zero maintenance cost for hardware (taxis). One result for "the math for uber": https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hidden-costs-driving-uber-joh...

Or even: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/04/02/technology/ub...

As for the other startups in SF, I like this quote:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/17/get-rich-quick-...

> My idea was to pitch a tech startup and get obscenely rich while writing a book about how to pitch a tech startup and get obscenely rich – the Silicon Valley way.

> To save money, I took to cooking my own meals most of the time. This was when I discovered that it was much easier to launch a tech startup if you could afford to always have food delivered and never had to deal with mundane chores such as doing laundry, washing dishes or buying groceries. As one Twitter wag observed, San Francisco’s “tech culture is focused on solving one problem: what is my mother no longer doing for me?”
> questioning whether this form of interviewing has some kind of bias.

In the case above—the bias is toward experience. I don't think that's a bad thing.

Context is important, however. I haven't read any Slack postings, but if they're asking for tangible experience this kind of gatekeeping makes more sense than textbook questions. If they're hiring for an entry-level role then a different approach might be merited.
In good old days of i440BX it usually took just a BIOS update (and some socket rewiring for the latest CPUs) to add support for extra RAM and CPUs...
I grew up in America. I went to MIT. Three(!) of my high school teachers didn't know what it was.
You're saying a larger number of rich people than non-rich people benefit from government spending?

Can that possibly be true, if wealth distribution is unequal?
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>buried lede some 500 words in on what "packaging," actually is and why it's bad,

His primary audience is not HackerNews. I assume that most of the people subscribed to David Simon's blog are probably working in Hollywood and thus do not need so much explanation as to what Packaging is. He even explicitly calls out the fact that we are not the intended audience for his rant in the first substantial paragraph of the piece, and implicitly through his repeated references to the Writer's Guild of America.

So I find this criticism rather unfair. Imagine a Facebook group for bird watching complaining about how a Medium post ranting about the evils of object-oriented programming didn't sufficiently explain what it is to people with no experience in programming.
He neglected to mention usenet, where he made his original announcement about his hobby OS. The Usenet alt groups were one of the first examples of what's seen in FB/TWT/IG today. What's changed is who has access and the methods of access - everyone and everywhere.
Its where all nerd Minstrels in the USA go
Yeah, living near where you work is totally the same as living there; they will miss losing 2 hours of every day of their lives due commuting so much.
Are you describing china or western europeia countries like portugal?
If we follow your analogy, Apple provides both hardware and software value. In the case of Tesla, IMHO, the value is mostly hardware as in the core technology, not, IMHO, in the car/controls/screen/ that they put around.

Again, as a thought experiment: Would customers not like a Mercedes/BMW/Lexus/Audi/Jag... with Tesla battery/drivetrain/superchargers but in a Mercedes/BMW/Lexus/Audi/Jag... car shell(for lack of a better word).
I think I would love that, especially since (disclaimer: I do not own a Tesla), the Model S and 3 that I've sat in, seem very spartan from a luxury vehicle standpoint.

Moreover, to my other point: this will free Tesla to innovate like crazy on battery, charger, motor and drivetrain technology and perhaps attain a monopolistic lead , while in the car business I the competition is beginning to creep up.
From a traditional car manufacturer's standpoint, this may allow them to stop spending on battery/drivetrain/superchargers/... technology and focus on making the car shell.
https://www.scmp.com/tech/start-ups/article/2159878/y-combin...

I don't think there is any explicit pro-china bias, but without necessarily even being conscious of it, when you are trying to, or actually are doing business with China, you want to tell yourself as positive as story as you can about China. And when you are faced with horrific facts about China, then the tendency fall back on self criticism and creating some equivalency. How can we criticize China for concentration camps when America have the largest prison population.
The area around Penn station reaches trampling risk densities five days a week.
Nice! The comments on that thread are valuable, thanks for sharing. Do you happen to have an instance of it still running somewhere, or screenshots? I would be interested in some specifics of how you approached it since people seem pretty favorable in that thread.
I buy the lead-removal wipes in bulk and hand them out like candy. I also notice all the ranges near me keep lead removal soap in the bathrooms.

.22 ammo is the worst in this regard, just lead everywhere - which given that it's usually used in bulk given how cheap it is...
This is super fascinating, thanks for sharing.

I did an olympic triathlon a few years back, and while I consider myself a decent runner and a strong cyclist, the swimming absolutely kicked my ass to the point that I'm not sure I'll ever do another triathlon to avoid it. Seems to take another level of strength to be great at it.
I don't think that's true. I've never lived in NY but commuted in from NJ for multiple years and always had to file both states.
Is there any reason we don't require the government to create software that largely does the taxes for us? They have the W2s, etc. and it seems like they could fill most of the forms out. We'd just need to set the deductions.
Most cars at dealerships don't have "dead" written on the windshield. I'm not sure what that means, but it doesn't sound that great.
You have to do estimates, it's how a business works. Not knowing when something will be delivered is too much to ask a company to deal with.

Also, "always do the simplest thing" is one of those phrases that can be twisted and morphed to support literally anything, which makes the phrase useless. It feels good to hear and say, but the reality is it doesn't help you out of a jam.

Sprints are exactly what you're describing, except with accountability built in. That shouldn't scare people, but it does, and that is what causes burnout. Fixing the fear around accountability is how you fix burnout, not eliminating the thing that your boss can use to justify your job.
This story is disingenuous. For people with "simple" tax situations (no itemized deductions, etc) the forms are already very simple.

The scenario they paint with chasing down form after form simply does not happen for most people. For most people it's one page.

But the idea that your taxes can be pre-computed by the IRS is fantasy beyond that, unless the tax code is significantly changed.

Sure they know your W2 income and some other standard stuff. How do they know your self-employment or business income? How much you gave to charity? How do they know what unreimbursed expenses you had? How do they know how many kids you have? How do they know your marital status?

I guess most of that could be addressed by just eliminating all deductions and allowances but even at that there are a lot of things they simply cannot possibly know until you, the taxpayer, tell them.
Are you seriously arguing that because he buried the lede and changed voices, you doubt his ability to think clearly enough to opine on fiduciary duties? I appreciate fine writing as much as the next person, but the standard you seem to be applying is hardly correlated at all with clear thinking - it's correlated with lots of training and taking care to write in that style.

On a tangent: your original comment is missing a possessive comma. But I would never make the argument that such a lack of attention to detail brings your entire line of thinking into question. I'll take issue with the content of your post rather than the form.
It’s not about political disagreement. It’s about having a permit for something that’s not allowed to transit the border. Assuming nefarious intent by default is, for better or worse, how border controls operate almost everywhere for almost everyone. You have to demonstrate that you’re OK to enter, they don’t have to demonstrate that you’re not.

As far as forgetting that you’re carrying, numerous examples say otherwise. Random data point: the TSA confiscated over 4,000 guns last year, of which I imagine approximately 100% were inadvertently packed by innocent people. Whether it’s intentional is immaterial; Canada doesn’t want guns crossing the border, and they couldn’t care less if you’re doing it by accident.
I use rspamd. Works really well for me.
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I read it as a proposal to declare 36 weeks a year off-limits for days off, because, you know, there are those well-defined special weeks where vacation days are supposed to be spent.
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And what about what’s best for the person being fired? Or are they just a cog in the machine, unworthy of empathy or decent treatment?
Engineering does not have to lie. All this takes is design and specification upfront, a well-defined feature set, and room for error.

Also, avoiding scope creep is paramount.
> What is curious to me is that elite marathon runners "jog" at what I would consider being a sprint for myself. So, I wonder if sprinting would be an anaerobic or aerobic exercise for myself?

As a rule of thumb, if you fail because specific muscles are burning and not working anymore it’s anaerobic (muscle limited), and if it’s because you’re out of breath and it’s more of a generalized pain it’s aerobic (cardio limited)
Unison is not a superoptimizer. Superoptimizer is evem slower.
I love articles like these. It's an amazing skill to be able to do what was done here.
A missing piece is how to handle things like major production issues occassionally popping up and decimating a planned sprint. The idea that “nothing can be added to a sprint” doesn’t work if things break badly enough.
So why are you penalising those with off street parking ?
Ah! Interesting point. I'll probably eventually do that. It's not exactly a high priority in life right now, though. Thankfully I eat a lot of oranges. :)
The goal is to capture the fact checking process and enable any reader to review it for themselves. Certainly some publications currently have an excellent fact checking process, but very few make their fact checking open and transparent.

As for "how do you replicate work like calling sources to verify statements before publication?" Good question. Currently this is only designed to open up the fact checking which involves public primary sources. I think that a platform that focuses on doing that subset of fact checking really really well can add a lot of value to the public discourse.
Agreed, if hiring processes involved less questions about CS/algorithms, and more day-to-day skills like "use git to do <x>", "how would you unit test this?", or "given these use-cases, how would you design the API?", a lot of places would be hiring better engineers and building better products.
There are patents and then there are trade secrets.

I would guess that Tesla's trade secrets are equally or a lot more valuable, and perhaps pertain to manufacturing processes, than their patents.
> Indeed, GNU Unifont looks awful to many people, and even we only talk about bitmap fonts, Unifont is not the best-looking one.

And this is subjective. I have used Unifont in xterms for years now, and it's very readable and unambiguous to me.

So it's good to see it getting some positive notice.

> It's also a good choice for a dot-matrix LCD/LED display.

Only a high-resolution one.
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That's the cost of having a functioning society. I don't have kids, yet I still pay school taxes because even though I'm not participating in that particular aspect of society, I still benefit from it.

Public biking infrastructure wouldn't be possible without the roads and right-aways we already have for cars and pedestrians; someone only using a mile of roadway on their daily commute is benefiting from the entirety of the transportation infrastructure that everyone has been paying into equally despite their level of use.

The guy biking or even walking to work every day I'm sure orders food occasionally, buy groceries, pays for utilities, or otherwise participates in commerce, all of which require roads and vehicles. He's getting a massive benefit from something he doesn't directly use.
> The point of our machines is to help humans, not the other way around.

While this is true, significant amounts of friction are caused by being unwilling to adapt to the medium's nature. What would writing look like if we had tried to encode sound waves directly onto paper? Instead we adapted our communication to the medium.
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Well what are you going to do, give out the tens of thousands to anyone who shows up and fills out a form to run for office? There has to be a minimum threshold for the relevant managing agency to determine which candidates are serious. Meeting that minimum takes money and influence.
Real Estate agents are hopelessly conflicted. I don't use them so the seller's agents ends up working for me too. They tend to slip into a mediator role more than a fiduciary.

Lawyers would get disbarred it they operated similarly.
> via the exploited code

Their scanner doesn't show any exploitation happening, and they don't say that it does.
We do something very similar to this where I work. Week 1 is not a vacation for us. Each developer has work assigned for the cycle but it might be high level or vague. We spend the first week designing the feature and nailing down requirements. We also do allow very important stuff to get added to the cycle. We have very brief standups at the begging of each week, but we also communicate throughout the cycle over slack.

It works very well for us as a small team of five developers.
I actually think checked exceptions make handling error propagation much easier than Option types. In a language with checked exceptions, if you want to propagate the error, all you have to do is declare that intent. With Option types, there is a need for boilerplate unwrapping code in almost every place where you want to use the value.
> Presumably, when you originally made whatever living arrangements you are in now, you factored that minimum time and was probably okay with that.

Yeah, and he probably factored in the five minute walk to work too. It's not possible to optimise for every possibility.
What about "would you give up your account name" "No" "Ok fine, I'll have to find a new name. Have a nice day sir.".

This story pretty much sounds like “All animals are equals but some are more equals than others”[1] to me.

[1]Georges Orwell Animal Farm (his best book IMO)
Try something in Devanagari script such as "क्षत्रिय" and see how it looks with Unifont. The results may vary, depending whether some kind of shaping engine (like Uniscribe, Pango, HarfBuzz, etc) gets involved in the process, but I'm confident it will be far from correct, and most readers would struggle to recognise it.
Would you allow card drivers to opt out of paying for the metro or busses then
Just wanted to confirm what you are saying, that is that the standard-ish car size in Europe is represented by the models you mentioned: the Clio, the Citroen C3, I'll add the VW Polo, Skoda Fabia or Seat Ibiza, cars like Audi A4 or BMW Series 3 are seen as large-ish.
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> What would be really nice is some sort of "pseudo-commit stack" whereby you can do this workflow, but every mini-commit goes into a stack that you can unwind to whatever point you want if it turns out that you've been going down a blind alley.

I use branches for this, and private remote repos. I thought that stash was magical and cool until that time I stashed in the middle of a merge and dug into the details of stash...

If I hate the state of my experimental branch, I kill it. If I want to keep parts, I cherry-pick them over to another experimental branch. When I want to keep fractions of patches, I manually copy deltas across with git-difftool (which was the only real reason I was stashing anyway). And when I finally have a branch that I'm happy with keeping, then I use "git merge -i" to collect the mini-commits into a sensible history
And if I choose to do so (which, in my career I have rarely done so), that is my decision. Not my company's or some random busybody.
It's a huge pain on the ass to setup right. Soft faults where the process is still running but is deadlocked don't get restarted for instance.
Another major benefit of Honda and Toyota is that I can use any service shop I want. They usually always have the necessary parts, and I can shop around to get the best price. With a BMW, Audi or a pricier high-end brand, the service costs are a lot higher. With Tesla, I don't even know if you can get them serviced outside an official Tesla center. That's a no-go for me.
I have yet to see an implementation of Agile that's not misused as a pretext for micromanagement.
I agree with the lead being removed. More lethal is actually better for small arms, though lead doesn't play a real point in this area. The 5.56 is very frustrating for combat troops, though. In many thousands of demonstrable instances, it takes more than one round to bring an enemy combatant down. This was not the case when the US still issued .30 caliber individual weapon systems. Massive difference in power between the two. The 5.56 is OK out to about 100M if the operator puts the projectile in a CNS region.

The .30 will reliably put opponents down very well, even with the required FMJ rounds. The .30 stuff is far better at hard barrier penetration than the 5.56. The .30 turns cars and walls into concealment rather than actual cover. The 5.56 suffers here unless it's a crew served weapon that can chew through barriers.

I understand the reasons for going to the 5.56. I lived through the transition from the .45 to the 9MM, which was and is lamented by the USMC. The 9MM is analogous to the 5.56/.30 issue. NATO compatibility is the sole reason, but the troops suffer from the lack of power these rounds offer. In the gas-operated weapons used, recoil difference is negligible, since the system soaks up the recoil pretty well, and when the adrenaline runs, recoil and noise are not really noticed anyway.
IMO, a lot of it is subconscious. A resume that’s well laid out and makes it easy to find the most important points puts me in a much better mood than one where I have to dig through a wall of text to learn anything meaningful about the candidate.

So what’s there and how it’s written is crucial. But presentation helps. It also demonstrates that the candidate is thinking about how they communicate and what points they’re trying to get across to their audience, which IMO is a critical skill.
I'll bear the Oasis in mind if I see it.

> I've put a lot of work and streamlining into not carrying a bag at all.

I mostly have to carry a laptop so getting rid of my bag isn't an option. When I do leave my bag at home I might put a slim book into my pocket (I've got "The old man and the sea" to read at some point) or I'll read the news on my phone, listen to music, or just sit and think.

I did streamline my wallet though. Thin nylon all-ett wallet, one card, some cash.

> How do you turn pages?

I mostly free my other hand (it's rare I'm doing something particularly involved with my "spare" hand while reading). This is mostly in the form of "put down my up of tea for a moment". If I'm in the kitchen I might put the book down on it's back and use the reading hand to turn the page while also holding it open.
That's not what this driver does, you need to re-read the article.
#NoProcess seems ideal for small competent teams. We need to get out of the estimation hell for normal projects.
It seems like you're making an implicit distinction between deciding to be a Christian and accepting God

> But the Christian is not in the same position as either Plato or the atheist. Within the Christian's position,

Yes, the position they just chose. It's like saying after you've made a choice, you can either take it or not
> With Option types, there is a need for boilerplate unwrapping code in almost every place where you want to use the value.

Disagree, in my favorite language you just add "?" to the possibly-erroring function et voilá, error propagated. Even better, since errors are functor-like (map) and monad-like (and_then), I'm mostly never unwrapping myself.

This has the advantage that it's explicit, instead of exceptions implicitly returning early (sometimes to great amusement).
"investigate further" is the sticking point.

You're swimming in the ocean and notice something beneath you. Is it a friendly dolphin or a dangerous shark? Do you hold your breath and do a deep dive to figure out which it is? Keep in mind the deeper you go the greater the chance that you'll drown.

It's a strained analogy but I think it gets at the problem. What if you dive a little bit deep - some minor test - and still aren't sure? Go deeper - a more invasive dangerous test - or go back to the surface?

And what if you dive and are pretty sure it's a shark? Swimming all the way to shore (i.e. cancer treatment) is very risky but the shark will almost certainly kill you. How sure are you, really?
In this particular case, I'm guessing -- based on the URLs -- that in order to have the Instagram username "sussexroyal", it's also necessary to be located at www.instagram.com/sussexroyal . This is a design mistake. The URL identifier does not need to be the public-facing identifier, and it shouldn't be. You can have the Duke of Sussex as sussexroyal at www.instagram.com/y6llflk9 and the guy in Sussex who roots for the Royals as sussexroyal at www.instagram.com/y2q9g6uo .

There is no need to have the public-facing identifier be the unique identifier, nor is there a good reason to do it. ICQ got this right, way back at the beginning. But somehow everyone forgot.
Ah but one can argue you have revealed your preference, namely that you have no preference, that you'll take the highest base on offer! :)

And note that the other party can check if you sent those other thoughts out if they wanted, so it's socially risky for you to do so ("Ew what a creep, he blasted out all four bases!"). This stuff is fun to think about.
I'm not an expert on HDCP but I don't think this is exactly correct. The standard doesn't rotate through new generations of keys; instead, revoked hardware keys are burned into all Blu-Ray disks burned after the time of revocation, and compliant HDCP implementations are required to check their own hardware key against that list before allowing playback. I don't know whether a hardware manufacturer could remediate the vulnerability that caused their key to get revoked and distribute a new key via a firmware update, but that sounds reasonable.