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Tesla incentivized the massive library of tutorials on YouTube, Tesla blogs, and such with their referral code program.

It's a huge asset, and strictly better than not having that fan base out there explaining and demo'ing every little new feature that Tesla releases. I'm not sure how you consider that a negative.

Car companies have always strived for a loyal following of ardent fans to talk ceaselessly about how much they love their vehicle. Tesla does it better than most.
How does this compare to Dat (https://datproject.org/)?
Free trade is optimal... assuming you're optimizing for the greatest number of goods manufactured at the lowest price. Given that all the developed economies have been demand-constrained since World War 2, that might not actually be the best variable to optimize for.
>name an mechanical engineer a wrench guy or a carpenter a hammer guy //

Isn't it more like "we need a Snap-on 12mm operator", or "a Picard hammer user".
So you are admitting that if a country is highly developed and have undergone a demographic transition they have low growth. You just proved my point, thank you.
> But it's the reality of the industry right now.

It really, really isn't. Thanks for the reminder of why I would never live/work in SV. I have never encountered anything like this in many years of working and taking new jobs. Mostly they look at my resume, we talk about stuff I've done, there's maybe a couple simple technical questions specifically related to things I've done and things that the position will involve, and that's about it.
This is seriously f'd up. When I was hired by IBM years ago, they also had a test called the IPAT (Initial Programming Aptitude Test) but, guess what?, there was no programming in it! Instead, the test was designed to see if one had the basic reasoning and logic skills which would be necessary to solve a wide variety of programming-related problems -- not one stupid, specific problem in a particular language. That's just asinine.

Making sure that developers have the "needle in a haystack" solution that you're looking for almost guarantees that you'll weed out the most talented folks -- the ones who are programming generalists that can reason about and solve any kind of programming problem.
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That is incredibly sad to hear. I wouldn't hire you based on your inability to adapt and learn new things. You may get through the coding questions but with an attitude like that (without lying) you aren't going to get threw the interview. Not to say that you ACTUALLY wont... I really hope you do but just keep in mind they are looking for more than a robot.
If you have a mortgage, your rent payment is locked in. If you rent, you're subject to annual increases in rent (which can be steep, and higher than inflation).

There are many factors that determine if buying or renting is better for your scenario. Below is a calculator the NY Times publishes which lets you adjust variables to provide an answer based on inputs.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-calc... (NY Times: Is It Better to Rent or Buy?)
All these go to bed early stories sound great until I remember that the majority of my social life happens from 9PM-1AM
Interesting that the color of the light appears to be the issue here. When researching LED bulbs I read a ton of complaints about the flickering causing people headaches. It's hasn't caused me any issues though.

If you're curious about the flicker, it's visible by filming an LED bulb at 1/8 speed. I posted some videos here a while back.

https://productdork.com/t/led-lightbulb-recommendations/272/...
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I see a lot of talk about 400k a year. That's a silly number.
> This study doesn't really say anything new.

Nitpick: This is a report from a regulatory body. It is not a clinical study. Rather, I would expect that they have read a number of studies, and collated the results into this report.

Meaning, it is not meant to introduce new facts, it is meant to introduce a new recommendation and explain the basis for it.
If you're going to be tetchy about base 2 and base 10, recall that cards are labeled in base 10 so Munroe's math is wrong to start with.
I hope someone accurately attributes SomethingAwful.com to these early iconic internet memories.

Image macros, the lowest form of comedy on SA, became memes and is still the lowest form of comedy.
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I can recommend https://tabnine.com/ with https://github.com/rust-analyzer/rust-analyzer .

While rust-analyzer doesn't always resolve type (unlike Jetbrains Rust plugin, which always does but sometimes incorrectly), it still makes writing code faster and doesn't have RLS quirks (which come from the fact that RLS has to compile the code before offering suggestions, so code has to be correct at some point, which is not good if you are prototyping)
I'm skeptical that cpu usage is really the problem with multicore CPUs. I would think it is much more about concurrency.

I'm also a bit surprised there isn't more of a transition to modern C++ for problems where so much time is spent fighting the garbage collection. Ownership and memory management in C++11 and up really isn't a big deal. Keep your allocations to a minimum, make sure you are moving instead of copying. Shared pointers are there, but I actually never use them.
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I completely agree. No one sets out to create bugs in their software. I'd give the engineers working on this the benefit of the doubt versus a grand conspiracy of product apathy.
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The issue here is that goods produced or imported into a FTZ should not qualify as American made or origin.

The foreign company should not be able to claim a tax exemption on re-importing to the u.s.

The simple solution is to have the manufactured/imported goods in a FTZ not qualify as American made. Because they're not, if they haven't been subject to all America's rules and regulations
I found his commentary constructive. I didn't realize we had gone through several periods of "this design is the most popular". I think he's expressing that people hop on bandwagons rather than understanding the concepts or disciplines behind the design. Design taken as seriously as architecture.
Well, since nobody actually knows what "invert a binary tree" means, you've got a reasonable excuse...
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I think Affinity Photo is a great Photoshop alternative, but Designer is more geared to illustrators than actually designers.

The simple fact that working with groups is practically unusable in Designer is a major deal breaker for me. There have been feature requests in Affinity's forums for years to fix that which Affinity has ignored.

For example: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/1640-ad-is...
This is the paper linked in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19864830
My 2012 MacBook Pro Retina has been more stable on Mojave than on any previous OS. It used to crash at least once a week; at the moment `uptime` tells me it's been 21 days since a reboot.

I attribute this to improvements in the reliability of Airplay: my machine used to be prone to crashing after connecting via Airplay (either sound only or mirroring) to my old Apple TV.

I'm sure other things have been broken along the way, but it seems to me like Apple is tackling hard problems at the OS level and making progress.
What’s the bit error rate on a card like this? Does anyone know how long 1TB of data would actually last, with zero bit flips, in a drawer? Presumably the primary market is JPG/MPG capture, where a few flipped bits don’t matter.
The SEC isn't there to protect the government. It is to protect investors from false statements that can mislead them. Ex: lying about the fact that he was bringing the company private.

How can you be in favor of him doing that? Is that good governance having a CEO telling lies and mislead the public to increase in his own wealth?
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You need some Elixir.
UK hacking powers can be challenged in court, judge rules
Have any tricks you want to share? My MBP 15" gets 2 hr tops unless its plugged in. Even with "mere" web browsing
I actually started writing Rust using Rocket (https://rocket.rs). It felt a lot like using nodejs/express which helped me get going and the docs are superb. I think using it quickly helped me learn the language and now I’m writing just about everything in Rust.
This is kind of a funny article. It starts off by describing the problem that is created by these interviews, and then sort of waves its hand saying that companies like them and they are here to say. It's probably more of a blog post than a journalism article, but it would be more interesting if they either got to the depths of why they are failing some people and considered some alternatives that might work for both companies and people who are more senior.
Here's my YTMND story.

My freshman year of college, 06/07, my roommate spent a boatload of time on his laptop at his desk; he'd sleep in, skip class, and stay up late, spending all his time on his laptop. I peeked over his shoulder a few times, and he was just browsing YTMND constantly.

Anyways, at the end of the year in the start of finals week, somebody started knocking on our door at like 7am or something, some time that's ungodly early for a college student. As soon as I stumble over and open up the door, somebody says, "This is the FBI, we have a warrant to search your room" while naming my roommate.

Turns out it wasn't a prank, the actual FBI was raiding my dorm room to find my roommate. They took me into a lounge "to ask some questions" and I was too young to have fully developed my "don't talk to the cops" senses, so I went along with it. They asked me a bunch of questions about my roommate (what classes is he taking, what's his major, what are his hobbies, how does he spend his time) and when they asked about his hobbies I had to say "well, he mostly spends a lot of time browsing You The Man Now Dog online".

The fbi, of course, asks for clarification. I don't know if you've ever had to explain the idea behind YTMND to the FBI when you're a 19 year old college student at 730 am on a wednesday during finals week, but let me tell you: it's not fun.

"It's a website where people make other websites that feature a tiled image background, a looping sound clip, and some kind of word art over everything."

They look at each other, shrug, and continue with the questions until we get to "Have you ever seen your roommate do anything inappropriate near a child", which is probably the closest i've gotten to an actual record-scratch moment in real life. I explain that i've never seen my roommate outside of our dorm room, let alone off the college campus, and there just aren't that many kids around. After that, they conclude the questioning and let me know that they believe there's evidence of federal crimes on my roommate's laptop.

So we go back to the room, the other agents have finished confiscating his laptop, it's around 745am, and my roommate rolls over and goes back to sleep. So I'm like, "dude, do you want to explain to me why the fbi felt the need to come to our room at 7 in the morning and take away your laptop?"

He says, "Oh, I was posting links to child pornography on YTMND and so now they think there's child porn on my laptop."

I say, "Did it ever occur to you that that was a really fucking stupid idea?"

He goes, "yeah well I know that NOW", in the most incredulous tone of voice, like he couldn't believe the FBI agents didn't understand that he was doing this as a joke and not out of an earnest love for CP.

Later that day he called his parents and left without packing up his stuff, and I never heard from him again; he did not continue to matriculate and I have no idea how his whole saga wrapped up.

But now it's impossible for me to think of YTMND without a) wondering what the fuck my roommate was thinking and b) remembering the time I had to explain the idea of stupid internet memes to federal agents.
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Its a great product, I'd think every home would benefit. But I'd like to know a lot more about how safe it is, especially when they get damaged and/or in a fire.
London companies are quite fond of this bullshit too, unfortunately.
Just throwing out there, the CFO is a gay gentleman with several "sugar babies". He hosts coke filled wild parties at his penthouse in San Jose. Might give an insight to the character of the person probably demanding all the cost cuts.
Patch status for the new MDS attacks against Intel CPUs
In theory is was going to be a bit better than TSMC 7mm, with only 7+nm equaling or exceeding it.

In practice, it's slower than Intel 14nm, denser (better be!!), and consumes less power. And has pesky yield issues, Semiaccurate is convinced it'll never be a profitable node.
Amazon’s Away Teams: How AWS's engineers develop their internal tech
I forgot to add: I think it's premature to worry about pay, my experience has been that every remote position I've considered has offered at least a median salary for my experience and title, considering my locale.

Based on my research my current compensation is well-above similarly titled and experienced engineers in my locale. I live in a major metropolitan area.

This is, of course, a sample size of 1. The point is that there are companies out there that will pay remote workers well.
Facebook Lays Out AR Ad Ambitions
Can Knowing Your Genetic Risk Change Your Physiology?
A bummer about the new Macbooks not having SD card slots, besides the inconvenience for camera/audio device users, is that the SD card slot offered an extremely convenient way to add extra storage space for not a lot of money.
nope, never touch it again
True, however you may as well try to!
No one is talking about a labor shortage! The problem is a consumer shortage. Automation only makes it worse.

Aging population with a shrinking population means less people to buy goods. Automation means less people employed. This is bad for growth. Economic expansion requires increases in production and consumption.
I actually think that this metaphor proves the opposite point you are trying to make. Mechanical engineers are definitely segregated based on the types of systems they work on, in much the same way that we would describe the "back-end" "front-end" split.

You don't hire a "mechanical engineer", unless they are truly a new grad. You hiring an HVAC Engineer (have friend with Mech. Eng. degrees who do this), or a drilling engineer (again have Mech. Eng. friends who do this), or an engineer to work on mechanical control systems for chemical plants, etc, etc and you won't find these engineers boldly saying "Yeah I spent 15 years working on HVAC systems but how hard can these avionic systems be?"

So yeah, we don't name mechanical engineers "wrench guys" or "hammer guys", but those fields definitely don't presume that there isn't an incredible depth of acquired knowledge and lore that one needs to be effective in them, and that can only be acquired through experience, and which is generally not transferable to other fields.
This is actually pretty cool and not nearly as intrusive as other kinds of advertising.
It's an arms race situation. Once you give me an information channel like a "word document", I've got an endless variety of ways to encode other things into it. I can encode bits as English sentences or other things that will be arbitrarily hard to pick up by scanning.

If I were Google, I wouldn't try to pick up on the content, I'd be looking for characteristic access patterns. It's harder to catch uploads, since "new account uploads lots of potentially large documents" isn't something you can immediately block, but "oh, look, here's several large files that are always accessed in consecutive order very quickly" would be harder to hide. It's still an arms race after that (e.g., "but what if I access them really slowly?"), but while Google would find a hard time conclusively winning this race in the technical sense, they can win enough that this isn't fun or a cost-effectively technique anymore (e.g. "then you're getting your files really slowly, so where's the fun in that?"), which is close enough to victory for them.

So, I'd say, enjoy it while you can. If it gets big enough to annoy, it'll get eliminated.
The only time I prefer watching TV is when I want to have breaks in between while doing my chores. So I would watch 'The Office' and go about doing by work by mentally disconnecting myself when ads are running. New stuff is always Prime or Netflix.
Though I get how annoying it can be for kids shows, with toy ads and disney ads (each spring time I swear it is annoying), not that I wouldn't take my kids to disney
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> Can I write some function integration in C/Go/Powershell, etc? Sure, but when I do, I am not nearly as efficient as when I am using my daily languages/frameworks.

Should you be so efficient though? At the end of the day the only thing that matters for most employers is that you get the job done and the product out of the door. If your general programming knowledge with other languages frameworks allows you to quickly asses a problem and write a fix you create value, even if it not the most idiomatic solution. Of course everyone should write the best code in the most efficient and idiomatic way possible. But we don't live in an ideal world. As long as you take responsibility and apply your general knowledge together with common sense and best practices. Just don't go cowboying around a codebase just because you think every language is the same.
Nuclear startup companies need more than words of support. They need financial backing and they need it now. There are on the order of 50 startups in North America trying to commercialize new nuclear technologies. A few have billionaire backers, a few others are receiving government grants. All are under funded.

In a world where a web service can be prototyped in weeks and complex hardware can be prototyped in months, the investment community is not taking nuclear startup proposals seriously. We get it - you want to make money as fast as possible.

If we want to see operational Generation IV nuclear power in the next decade, investors need to recalibrate their investment timeframes. This means we have to wait longer and make larger bets. The human mind is tuned to yearly seasonal cycles which is fine if projects can be tested on that time scale. But for something as complex and risky as nuclear power, we need to think in five or ten year cycles.

To all the people with money advocating for climate protection and low cost power for the developing world - enough talk - nuclear startups want to get to work, and they need financial backing. Next time you fund a company focused on fintech, weed, or low-paying gig economy jobs, consider that you could be investing in Generation IV safe nuclear. The contrast is stark between companies that shuffle money around or capitalize on addiction versus companies that produce the most basic resource of energy.
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Last interview I did involved coding up factorial, solving the 25 horses logic puzzle, and debugging some intentionally awful code (that no-one would ever have written in the first place.)

As soon as the logic puzzle came out, the job was a no-go for me.
> and we don't have any stupid tests

What's your hiring process look like?

What does Rally Software make? Edit: Ah, ok, found it. Nice.
I am sure all these methods were validated as significant predictors of job success using longitudinal data, right? It's not like the bad old days where managers and HR people would just ask questions they thought were relevant to the job (or flip a coin).

https://www.forbes.com/sites/work-in-progress/2015/05/21/why...
I'm no UX expert, but my guess from experience is that most people use their computers in bright environments; and dark backgrounds combined with glossy screens have much more glare in bright environments than light backgrounds on such screens.
This is tricky. If you believe that glycemic variability (or avoiding insulin spikes) is a major factor in longevity, or if you believe the same for periodic or intermittent fasting, it will in fact "interfere with your normal life" or "make it hard to go out eating with others" as the researchers described. But those challenges are still the right thing to do if you subscribe to that science.

I think the researchers are imaging hardline discipline and re-structuring of normal dining affairs without any element of "obsession", even though the latter is probably required at some dosage to be effective, in the same way you obsess over, say, technology X when you need to be good at it.
I type ip addresses by hand a dozen times a day, at least.
In the grim future, you'll have a bot that can talk to your family and friends, like this with text to speech, using your voice:

https://www.theverge.com/a/luka-artificial-intelligence-memo...
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From my experience, "Solutions Architects" are closer to "Sales Engineering" vs pure software roles. YMMV.
My main problem with programming interviews is that I can’t use external references to do them, which is totally not how I work. Even if I know how to solve something off the top of my head, I generally do a search to make sure there aren’t better ways of doing something that I don’t know about, and also to build confidence in my chosen solution. This is how I have discovered most best practices over my career.

If I’m given a task to solve some weird algorithmic CS problem, the first step would be to go to google and research the problem. If it’s solved, I implement that solution.

When there is no solution, I will put pen to paper and work it out myself. But that could take an unpredictable amount of time, and doesn’t help if someone is constantly watching me work or forcing me to explain what I’m thinking, because I think much faster than I can explain, and some lines of thoughts lead to dead ends, which can make people grow impatient with pointless explanations of things that will never work.

Of course, in an interview you can’t just use Google to solve everything, because interviewers will snigger and say “tHiS gUy DoEsN’t KnOw sHiT”, never mind that this is probably how 99% of developers work given the amount of questions and code reuse that is out there. It’s just not realistic.
Good question, i think all spiders also do this (tarantulas are not technically spiders themselves),
but scorpions do it differently. Scorpions lay a small.... it looks like a mucus dildo, they call it a spermatophore.... on the ground and then guide the female over it during a sort of mating-dancing ritual.

Yeah I understand that a lot of people get the creeps with spiders. I remember a friend back in highschool telling me "it's the way they walk, it creeps me out"

But what's also true is that everyone ended up being curious about my tarantulas and would spend a few minutes checking them out, even if their first reaction
to the concept of me having pet tarantulas was disgust or fear.

I wonder to what degree arachnophobia (even mild) is a product of society. This article is a good example, if even when someone is about to tell you something new and interesting about spiders they call them terrifying, of course most people will internalize this.