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Yes and yes. But embryo are also people
Nuclear can absolutely load follow. It's just not used that way today in the USA because the nuclear generation capacity is below the base load, the cost is completely sunk, so you as the plant owner might as well run it at 100% and sell all of the electricity into the grid.

If nuclear was a much larger component of the overall generation capacity in the USA we'd see them load following up and down over the 24 hour cycle.
None of these come even close to the Joe Rogan example. To me it's indistinguishable from his real voice.
You'll find in the UK that it's quite common practice to use the vagueness in the law to pin a different charge on somebody. Being rude to a police officer isn't a chargeable offense, yet it'll be treated as such. The police have no requirement or training available to actually understand the nuances of the law, nor are they updated when the law changes. The British police is mostly under-trained and under-funded, especially as you break out of the London bubble.

One of the major issues with UK law is it's vagueness and openness to interpretation, which is all of course by design. You don't tend to notice erosion until the ground beneath you collapses.
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For your second paragraph, that is a bit more complicated than simple economic theory might say.

For one thing, someone has to cook the fries, sweep the back room, and help customers. Unless you invent insanely cheap and powerful automation or raise the wage to a point that it's uneconomic to open a new store (and please take the employers who say "if you raise the minimum wage, I'm going to take my marbles and go home" with a grain of salt), it's hard to actually get rid of minimum wage jobs.

For another, remember that you will be injecting money into a sector of the economy that tends to spend it immediately. Minimum wage workers are likely to buy more fries and day care, causing more demand for other low-wage jobs.
I agree, it was just some sarcasm on the 'trite / curt' part of your comment.
> Coding is like math homework

Agreed, unless they want a good polished solutions, meaning it has been refactored, has decent comments, is well tested, etc.... then it becomes a lot like design where the sky is the limit.

My wife got her first job in the states because of a take home design challenge. Other companies were wary of her because of her foreign degree and no US experience, and she was able to show off in the design challenge they gave her (she spent more time than estimated, but not incredibly much more than that). In this case, it really worked out for her.
Had no idea. Honestly I've done volunteer work for them for years now and never heard this brought up in any way.

Definitely not forced on you and not any sort of requirement to join/volunteer.
Reminds me of this comic:

https://heeris.id.au/2013/this-is-why-you-shouldnt-interrupt...
That's not creepy and McCarthyite at all. No sir.
Tesla’s Autopilot was engaged when Model 3 crashed into truck, report states
One could argue that it wasn't "inadvertent" at all, and OpenAI is such an organization.
Iraq is in the running for the biggest mistake in US history? I have a one word rebuttal to that sentence. Slavery.
If you live in the United States, one thing to consider is that the GRE (Graduate Record Examination, standardized entrance examination for graduate school) requires the test-taker to type an essay on a QWERTY keyboard, with no possibility of using a different keyboard layout short of a documented disability. Further, spelling counts on this essay, so typos made due to unfamiliarity with the keyboard layout will bring down the grade.
So you're saying that by increasing the cost of the burger by ~5% some of their employees could double their salaries? That's great!
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The odds might go even further up if you all get together and shoot the abductors instead
> It's a pretty standard thing to do in an interview...

I'm not interested at working for standard companies. :) But everyone is different. If whiteboarding is someone's thing, the more power to them.

> walking out of an interview after someone's already blocked time for you because you think whiteboarding is silly is even more silly than whiteboarding is

If there was a misunderstanding where they blocked out time in an interview for whiteboarding, I wouldn't be rude and refuse in person.

What I do is ask in the phone screening or the first engineering interview about whether the technical interview would involve whiteboarding or brain teasers. If the answer is yes, I politely end the interview process. That way their time is wasted minimally.

However, I have no qualms about walking out of an interview that involves brain teasers.

> If I were the interviewer I'd be concerned that you can't be even a little bit flexible with things that you personally don't like.

Interviewing is a two-way street. How about you be a little bit flexible and not make me do something that you personally like? No?
Yeah, I didn't think so. I'll just work for companies that don't do whiteboarding in interviews, which are a dime a dozen.

Yes, that was a bit crass, but it amazes me how people in the position of interviewing believe that interviewers should care about whether they're concerned over something.
If you operate a business, you are not a utility. If Twitter is not a media company, then they are not subject to FCC or government regulation. Furthermore, you are not required to use Twitter, nor do you pay to do so.

The first amendment does not allow you to walk into Walmart with a blazing Tiki Torch yelling "Jews will not replace us".

If the "audience" does not get what they want they are free to move elsewhere and seek it.

Move to gab and speech away. Start a blog, post on Brietbart or the Daily Stormer or Fox News or the Blaze, or the Federalist or r/theDonals. Their comment sections are open, have at it.
I regularly see people going around with their faces covered in Portland. For example, guy in dark clothes on a bmx bike riding down east bank esplanade.

I assume that these folks have warrants. But I am not aware of any deployed facial recognition in Portland.
Its actually not such a stupid answer.
Its completely inhumane etc but it worked well for Saddam Hussein (among others) who conducted a purge on taking office in 1979 and then never had his leadership questioned again.
Dissimilar groups produce higher quality work, in my opinion and experience. It takes longer, because of the discussion that needs to happen. But, again in my experience, quality of product is far more important than speed of production. If I worked on a factory line making widgets, maybe this would change.

But the quality of the outcome, again in my experience, is higher for groups that are dissimilar overall in background and viewpoints. Teams structured in this way are able to view things from different angles. They are able to challenge each other in ways that groups from similar backgrounds with similar view are simply not able to even think of.

>How far can I take the concept?

What does that matter? Honestly?

>Should they even speak the same language?

It's helpful? What does this have to do with 'fit' actually being current business manager code for 'implicit bias'?

And my point wasn't that dissimilar groups work better; my point was that looking for 'fit' is just a way for groups to embrace their own biases about 'insert trait here' without feeling guilty, and leads, in my opinion and experience, to groupthink and circlejerky ideas.

My experience has taught me that any business more concerned with fit is not a place for me. I have yet to be challenged intellectually anywhere that 'fit' has been part of the interview process.
Consider what happens to the actual resources in the different cases:

1. You spent the money on consumption. By definition, consumption means that whatever you buy ends up being less valuable after you are done with it (otherwise we would consider it investment - note that unsuccessful investment is also a form of consumption under this definition). Consider an extreme example, where you commission a massive yacht to be built for you, then use the yacht recklessly and sink it. All of the time of many people, all of the materials that went into building it have been wasted. In aggregate, we are all poorer as a result.
The fact that the yacht company now has more money just means that they now have a relatively larger claim on a smaller overall economic pie than they did before.

2. You invest. Instead of spending money on yourself, you instead use the resources you have a claim to that the money represents (e.g. the people and the resources that could have resulted in a yacht for yourself) to create real value for others. This makes the overall economic pie larger (and also changes the distribution of claims on this pie that people have).

3. You donate money to other people, burn the money - neither consume nor invest. The overall economic pie is unchanged, but the distribution of claims on this pie by various people has changed.

Of course, there are caveats and nuances, but in general option 2 makes society richer in aggregate, option 1 makes it poorer, and option 3 merely changes who gets to decide what to do with the resources that we have while neither growing nor shrinking this resource base.
You actually don't need to honour the links.

If a client gets a 410 when following a stored link, they can always find the new url for the resource by following links from the parent resource (this is recursive, all the way back to the root url).
I'll bite, but how do you know it converges to 1/e if no one has figured out why?

Your description sounds close to the wikipedia description of the first round of that movie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13_Tzameti), so hopefully it's not just the wrong probability to analyze, but naively, the setup sounds like it would have slightly above 5/6 probabilty of survival for the first round. But some aspects of the question setup also almost remind me of the classic networking algorithm of slotted Aloha, which does yield an optimal utilization (packet survival) rate of 1/e in each round (for an altered question setup).
That's an interesting breakdown. The size of Rust binaries is probably the largest reason why Rust is not terribly compelling for me.

Seeing that it's possible to make that more reasonable is enlightening!
> I would like to see a complete ban of all air and water pollution that can be sourced to power and heating plants.

Does that include the natural gas heating furnace in my basement, or just commercial stuff? Because in my area electric heating costs about 3x more than NG.
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> Is there a reason there's no naming and shaming going on here?

No, there is no rule, unless you signed a contract stating you will never disclose any interview information, and even then, they'd have to find your post, find out who you are, and then take you to court over an extremely shaky premise.

Just name the damn company people! You're giving companies far more credit than they deserve in these situations. I'd argue you owe it to other people who may follow in your steps to know when a company is exploitative, deceptive, or just plain corrosive.

edit: now with less snark
If everyone thinks they're the magical special worker who can command the top tier of their sector's pay scale, then no, unions don't work. However, that's statistically impossible. Most people are, by their nature, average. You might lower your ceiling in the union, but you also might raise your floor. This is of course assuming that a union is even involved in wage negotiations at all. It's also possible that you just have a trade organization that can exert pressure on the organization in other ways, and focus more on "quality of life" issues that most tech people are actually concerned about.
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First time hearing of Grocery Outlet. Is it comparable to Trader Joe's? Or maybe Aldi?
One interesting question: is the tipping point for switching to automation in the range of the minimum wage? Does increasing wages move you across that tipping point, or is it cheaper to get rid of employees no matter what the minimum wage is?
That's fine, and probably works, but the other pages look better finished and the menus jump around, etc., which gives a "in progress" feel to the site IMO.
I’m so torn! I agree completely with you and I want to give the charitable interpretation and I want this to set a good example for other CEOs. That’s how I was feeling reading the article, but all of a sudden after I finished I started thinking this is nuts. 500 people is not that many to be that far out of touch with employees. It’s one thing at Walmart or McDonalds, but at a healthcare company with only 500 to have 20 execs making millions and employees at minimum wage in the first place, and for the execs to not know what their pay ratio is -- meaning not knowing how many employees could be hired for the amount of money they’re each paid -- seems like more than an oversight, and is definitely one more example of the hundreds of stories we’ve heard about how crazy modern business has become. So, anyway, I agree with you and I agree with the parent comment too, it is insane.
mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20190516150040/https://www.lapha...
Really? You'd be comfortable whipping in a swiss seat tied to a hemp rope (not dynamic) and stopped by a body belay? I don't think so. A clean fall onto a static rope can kill you from the sudden stop alone. There is a reason the mantra used to be "the leader must not fall" and its not because those guys were just scared.

Sure 30 to 40 years ago (1980-1990) the equipment was good, and thats about when the explosion in free climbing ability really got going. The first 5.13 (Alex's Free Solo route Freerider has a 13a pitch) was done in 77 and the first 5.14 in 85. [1] Not coincidentally, the modern cam came into use in the late 70s. [2] Good climbing shoes came in the 80s too. Sport climbing, the use of bolts (technology) to safely climb faces that weren't previously protectable also started in the early 80s. So of course you wouldn't mind climbing on 30-40 year old climbing technology.

Normal gear has been pretty stable since then and the limits of the sport have continued to grow, but that doesnt mean its not because of technology. The boom we are in now has been due to another bit of technology, the indoor climbing gym. They started in earnest in the 90s and have allowed a new level of training.

[1] https://web.stanford.edu/~clint/yos/hard.htm

[2] https://www.climbing.com/news/10-things-you-didnt-know-about...
I wonder why Singapore didn't say such things decades ago when the confrontation between US and the Soviet Union hit up? Because today confrontation still looks very much similar: between the free democratic bloc and a communist aggressive country (or bloc, maybe). Admittedly, the current conflict involves a lot of money and trade but most of all it's about geopolitical power, not soybeans or chips.
Airspace is much less crowded, much more controlled, and military drones don’t need microsecond response—their missions are largely ISR with the occasional extrajudicial bombing with a lag-time > a few seconds anyway.
Wait, that's not a slight correction, that's a whole different thing. So nobody was fined for covering their face, but when they swore at cops they got a fine for that? That's quite a distinction. That's the difference between being fined for speaking ill of Budha/Allah/God or for swearing at the police man who asked you to voluntarily not do that.
a.k.a. "Unabomber" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski
“My mind instantly went to an app I love, Strava. I use it almost daily ...”

So do I.

And the other day, 200m into the run, I took a first glance at Strava and noticed it was way off (gps error). Ususally I would reset and start over. But, that one time I just turned it off. 30 minutes later I was back. I don’t know how far I ran (5 point something), I don’t know how fast (also 5 pint something) and obviously have no idea how my performance on sections compares to others.

But it was a great run. A bliss.

So, I’m not saying fitness activity tracking is no good or that google interviews are. I’m just saying, that, yah, every once in a while, in both, ignorance, is, well, you know...
No we don't. The meaning of free speech is clearly defined in the United States by the First Amendment. QED.
Which is generally fine. Because that is going to happen one day anyway. You want people to be paid well because then the transition becomes gradual. The most unproductive businesses and positions disappear first. People getting paid just over living expenses is the worst case scenario, because then everyone gets replaced over night as automation becomes cheap enough.
Wouldn't it make more sense to make the automated trucks more accessible in case of the AI going on a rampage? I mean how do you even get into the cab?

If it was more normal looking you could at least smash the window. But they even protected the tires.
Curious whether VC funding anticipated this long a timeline for autonomous driving and VR or if they all got swept along with the hype too. Countless billions invested with a very long time horizon.
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I understand the sentiment but there are many good organizations that do positive things with people's money, like the ACLU, etc.
Just to make it clear, the authors of that paper (including myself) are all to some extent Racket developers. Some big improvements have been made but there are still pathological cases. For the latest published on this see this paper: http://users.cs.northwestern.edu/~robby/pubs/papers/oopsla20...

But also it's important to note that it's not Typed Racket or Racket in isolation that are slow, but the inter-mingling of the two due to contract overhead.
They can pick the top 1 or 2% based on interview performance, which is completely crammable.
I understand what you're saying, and I'm all for people finding what they enjoy and defining the sport on their own terms.

What gets me about free solo climbing is the sheer level of risk involved. Even for the best in the world, there are too many variables which simply can't be controlled in a climb like that, which is evidenced by the high rate of death for free-solo climbers.

I fully support anyone's right to decide to take on that risk if they are fully informed of it. Personally it would not sit well with my morals to risk my life in such a way over a completely optional, self-serving activity given the emotional and material cost my death would bring to the people who care about me.

Moreover, I have qualms about such pure risk being an avenue for fame and fortune.
It looks and cuts like a cheese food product.
No - Grocery outlet sells name brands at a discount, but you never know what will be there. Kind of like a Ross/Marshalls for food. Trader Joes only sells its own private label.
https://youtu.be/0eqtqKDbV1Q

Here's the YouTube link.
Perhaps we could Sunset the Expires header first...
Storage formats aren't the issue. We diff and merge documents just fine, and do render them in different formats in some uses cases for specific audiences. Nor is it about a final rendered document. It is the details of workflows and collaborations that happen before a document is ever finalized where the the editing and reading experiences must match.
> Should a programming test be several hours (or several days) long? No. But an hour or two, I can't see how that's a terrible imposition.

Agreed. However there are multiple comments discussing "5 hour assignments" and "take home quizzes", which I find to be insane, frankly. But if it's worth it to you, go for it I guess?
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Sorry but this is a very poor answer. Lack of understanding of the local culture is very evident. Every country in the world cannot have a system like the United states. Cleaning up the system without understanding it would be terrible. Just like Iraq!
> Effectively what is happening is that those without power are subsidising the business by supplying them labour below cost.

How do you define "cost"?
> If you compile C with libc statically linked in, it'll make executables as large as Rust's.

Not in my experience.
You're editing your post after I reply. Grammatical corrections are one thing, but adding whole paragraphs after I'm sure you've seen my reply? It seems disingenuous.
This does use Apache arrow, that's how the data is transferred from spark to pandas and back.
I wonder if you could copyright your face and then use the law against the law. DMCA takedowns etc etc.
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Or increase the performance of Gmail (or Google Maps!!) back to what it was. Funny how the two apps ran perfectly smooth on devices 10 years ago, but they struggle with the horsepower on devices today.
ActivityPub is more about living in a small part of a very big linked data graph and letting very different kinds of apps federate amongst themselves disjointly, encouraging more diverse apps that actually can interoperate with these two disjoint groups and provide niche value without the networks being a walled garden.

Very different than an HTTP header.
> The way I see it is that our systems became so complex that we lost sight of what's good for us, as individual and as a group.

I feel ask though it's more that our systems became so complex that no one, let alone the lay in that specific tech, are even capable of understanding the consequences and what we're loosing.

It's not unreasonable for a lay person to be told about facial recognition and think "well, it's just doing a better job than what a cop would have done anyway" without realizing that it often does worse than a cop statistically and that unlike a cop, all the cameras can be coordinated so that your movements are stored indefinitely and viewable by anyone, something that couldn't happen when a person was looking at people on their beat.

Ditto with online tracking, it's the extent of the ramifications that people don't think/know about. Even then, there are no alternatives that provide the simplicity of communication that Facebook does, so even after something like Cambridge Analytica, most people don't really have options to move away from without completely changing how they socialize, and to be honest, most people don't understand just how much information they leak even still.
This was my same thought. If it takes a crane to build another crane, then why not use the first crane to begin with?
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I found it for its Datalog implementation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalog and http://www.learndatalogtoday.org/.
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This is called selective enforcement and is part of the erosion of the rule of law in the UK. When you have mountains of laws such that most people are always violating them, you can target anyone you don't like. This leads to abuse of power and is formative in the transformation of police from those that uphold the law to thugs. The thugs decide when to punish on whim.
Don't know about Dollar General, but isn't Walmart successful because they're big enough to dictate terms to their suppliers and simply squash their smaller competition with convenience?
Bay Area.