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This is a real thing. Playground monitors are often little Hitlers. My old co-worker and his wife have been dealing with this with their son. Playground monitor woman makes them line up against the wall, has outlawed running, no shouting or loud sounds, the list goes on. By all accounts, she's an extremely bitter unpleasant human being and all round miserable wretch so she just takes it out on the kids, robbing them of what little free play time they have.

Luckily my ex co-worker's wife is a bit of a trouble maker and has taught her son to organize. He successfully organized a bunch of kids to protest the unfair rules and draft their own set of rules they thought was reasonable. Last I heard, they succeeded. Unfortunately that worked with a Napoleon complex is still around but she's been somewhat neutralized.
Flying by definition means movement in x/y right? They lifted 3 feet off the ground
>> but there are also means to challenge the legitimacy of such decisions.

And how did that work? (i.e for the Iraq invasion/Afganistan).

"international law matters only when it is aligned with US national interests"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/15/mike-pompeo-...
Probably because of TiVoization clause of GPLv3.
You're assuming that most recruiting pipelines are reasonable.
In every culture, in every era, people have usually been pretty sure they had everything figured out, and that they understood life and the world completely.

I don't believe our present time is any more enlightened in this matter than any other.

(Also it seems to me that you keep using the word 'magic' as a weasel word: as if people disagreeing with you are just children who believe in silly things.)
I read a lot of different blog posts and essays but I can't even pick out wich one has changed me at all. It's really hard to say. There is good online essay writing service I still remember. PapersOwl helped me with essays when it was necessery for example. But I still can't name a best post or essays that has changed me anyway. Maybe it was post about Hawking I think
Code is copy-written by default. So unless the company has you specifically license the code in a way they can use, there's defiantly some room to go after them.
Where'd you get the idea that pilots can only hold one type rating at a time? One pilot managed to acquire 105 at one time (and is in the Guiness Book of World Records for that).

Also, MCAS wasn't put in place to allow the MAX to be type certified w/ other 737s. It was put in place to allow it to be certified at all. It's a hack to ensure the force on the stick continues to increase with increasing angle of attack, which is a certification requirement.
I think initially you get 50% more productivity with 50% extra hours in the work week. After a week or two though you’re lucky to break even and get the 40h worth of productivity. After another week or two it’s all but guaranteed that overall productivity is actually lower, you’re just destroying your health and possibly screwing up the work.
Pretty funny that the sources of horrible caustic opinions are health, wealth, and javascript. We really are the nerds.
I'm totally confident that you're a royal faggot.
The site were redesign using Tachyons CSS and it seems probably not finalise yet.

https://tachyons.io
Thanks, I suppose now that you mention it that is a bit creepy and Orwellian. Generally speaking, American airports are the most totalitarian and creepy and uncomfortable in the world. The telescreen blaring, the insane security line, the ads ... stuff like the insane murals in the Denver airport -I'll add that to my list of bloody awful things American flyers put up with.
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No one has ever presented hard evidence that another layout is faster or healthier. Any job that requires typing faster than you can think would have to be mindless and, no matter what keyboard, would likely result in RSI. I wouldn't recommend anyone take that job.
Honestly, this type of advertising usually rubs me exactly the wrong direction.

But after reading the discussion it prompted, I'm left questioning exactly why it does so.

And like you said, slick marketing on the part of the creator at the very least needs to be acknowledged.
What if you were to add up the income of not just the CEO, but all high level management or, say, those who make more than 500.000 a year? Honest question that I'm not sure how to answer myself, but I suspect the benefit to the lower ranks would be much more than the $200 a year.
That's rather the point though, isn't it? Your baby is fascinating because it's yours, but babies in the abstract aren't actually very interesting. They pass through the same developmental milestones at roughly the same rate and have the same (very limited) capacity for novelty. I've never met a baby with a unique perspective on the Israel-Palestine problem or a fabulous collection of golden age comic books. It's a bit like following someone else's baseball team - unless you're emotionally invested, it's really rather dull.

Maybe I'm just a cynical misanthrope, but I'm not very interested in the mundane minutiae of other people's lives, nor do I expect them to be very interested in the mundane minutiae of mine. It would be quite weird if all seven billion of us were innately fascinating.

An interesting question is how interestingness is distributed. A normal distribution seems plausible, but while I can think of people who are three-sigma interesting, I'm not sure I could think of someone who is three-sigma dull. Mass media would seem to suggest that a power-law distribution is more likely - most of us are really rather boring, but there's a long tail of exceptionally interesting people.
I open them in Word 2016.
I looked at learning an alternative layout last year and opted against Dvorak, as to me it just seemed illogical (personal opinion). I ended up teaching myself the Workman layout instead (https://workmanlayout.org/) which is actually really nice. I was using a split keyboard and I found it very comfortable when typing prose, but I found punctuation frustrating due to the board I was using it on. I'm currently back on Qwerty as I've swapped to a different board.

Ultimately I discovered that my typing style with Qwerty was actually not stressful on the hands (I float over the keyboard a lot and definitely don't sit on the "home" keys) and my RSI at the time was instead caused by position and lack of exercise. I now type on a Japanese layout keyboard which has some interesting differences to the standard UK ISO layout. At some point I might give Workman a go on this board too, but currently I'm actually completely happy with Qwerty again. I think a lot of these alternative layouts suffer problems if you aren't a home-row typist, and I don't actually think it's unergonomic or incorrect to type in a more floating, active way. But I play a bunch of key-based instruments too so maybe that affects my preference :)

It took me about 1 month to be close to my normal typing speed when using Workman btw.
It has superficial similarities to Pascal's wager, but it is not the same.
I think doing something and then learning that you are good at it is pretty intoxicating in general. People who make it to the upper levels of a company are extremely good at playing the games you have to play and there is a lot of external validation in it too. I am just a little tech lead but I also get a kick out of my team of a few performing well. I can't even imagine how exhilarating it is to have an influence on hundreds or thousands of people and to play with millions and billions of dollars.
> the time impact due to the low 5km/h speed or the costs of a human driver per truck

The route is fairly short so speed is probably not an issue:
https://goo.gl/maps/9yRtQV88NEzDEcePA

The route is described a bit better in a Swedish article I found:
https://teknikensvarld.se/forarlos-lastbil-far-tillstand-att...
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Isn't the slot needed for the SIM anyway? Many pbones seem to combine both the SIM(s) and the microSD in a single removable tray.
I actually got so fed up with robocallers, and really people just calling me in general that I looked into setting up a 900 number. If people really want to intrude and take up my time, they can compensate me for it.

Unfortunately, 900 numbers apparently went away in the 2000s. Such a shame, it really would have solved the problem quite efficiently.
At some point every company needs someone to handle those duties. Payroll & benefits, recruiting, onboarding & offboarding, these sort of things don't just sort themselves out on the side and quickly become full time positions that require dedicated individuals.
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Many people prefer this to an in-person whiteboard challenge. It's lower stress, and doesn't require taking additional time off from your current employer.

A 2-4 hour challenge is less time than I've spent in interviews at some companies, and would gladly have done it prior to an in-person interview given the option. That way, the actual interview time could have been spent talking about things of value, rather than having them stare at me while I white-board out problems around graph data structures and recursion and whatever other trite trivia they can come up with.
https://robotics.sciencemag.org/content/4/30/eaaw6736

http://sci-hub.tw/10.1126/scirobotics.aaw6736
Software engineers provide far more value to a company when they understand the business, so having an MBA will be amazing. However, I doubt many hiring managers or lead engineers realize this yet, so it may take some time to cash in on the MBA.

Or if you’re interested in being an entrepreneur or a project/product manager, you will be valuable as a technically strong person.
HN should institute a rule than anyone replying to a free will thread should get 2ⁿ negative points for each post, where n is the depth position in the thread.

Present company included, naturally.
Interesting — does iCloud otherwise work normally? We've used it heavily for years and never seen anything like that. They used to have an option in the iCloud.com settings (under advanced) to reset the sync system which might be worth looking for — back in the day there used to be a utility to reset the Mac sync database which often fixed problems like this but I believe that was removed at some point.
My company tends to hire more junior developers, I've been pushing for years to raise our requirements for certain teams, but its a cultural understanding problem from people at the top. Coding tests are the only strong indicator I've found for the interviewing process. I've had candidates talk their way through all of the other steps, only to find they can't code their way out of a paper bag. I really think the only accurate way to tell how well someone codes, is by looking at their code, and a coding test is a good way of not only doing that, but also comparing code from one developer to another in a controlled manner. I'll take it over hackerrank and other similar shitty websites any day.
If they had paid you for your time would it have been ok?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Gonna_Let_You_Go_(Sérgio...
You mean roses as in the symbol of the social democratic movement? Why would these people support companies?
Try it and see for yourself.
> I've heard of companies asking for proof of other offers so saying so and so offered me 2x is a very risky play if untrue.

My point is that it is also risky if it is true, but the other offer is not a job you would take.
996 doesn't necessarily mean working 72 hours nonstop. You can still do 2-3 hours works then breaks, then another 2-3 hours works.
This seemed interesting, but when I went through the "Accepted Stack Overflow" links on the main page, I thought "how would I do this in an R tidyverse stack?" and set the goal that my responses should be shorter, clearer, or ideally both, and that I would favour clearer answers to code golf, except that when posting to HN I collapse the code into a single line while in R there would be linebreaks at each semicolon or after each pipe operator (%>%). Here are three examples below:

"Customized sort based on multiple columns of CSV". In R, something like this: `library(tidyverse); read_delim("file.tsv", delim = "@") %>% arrange(.[[2]]) %>% group_by(.[[2]]) %>% arrange(match(.[[3]], c("arch.", "var." "ver.", "anci.", "fam.")), .[[3]]) %>% group_by(.[[2]], .[[3]]) %>% mutate(n = n()) %>% arrange(desc(n)) %>% ungroup() %>% select(1:4)`

"Extract text from HTML table". In R, something like this would suffice: `library(rvest); library(tidyverse); read_html(URL_GOES_HERE) %>% html_nodes("div.scoreTableArea") %>% html_table() %>% write_delim("out.csv", delim = "\t")`

"Get n-th Field of Each Create Referring to Another File". In R: `library(tidyverse); file1 = read_delim("file1.txt", delim = " ", col_names = FALSE); chunks = readChar("file2.txt", 999999) %>% str_split(";") %>% unlist() %>% map(function(x) { matches = str_match(str_trim(x), '^create table "(.)"([^(])\\(((.|\n)*)\\)$'); title = matches[, 2]; fields = matches[, 4] %>% str_split(",") %>% unlist() %>% str_trim(); return(tibble(table_name = rep(title, length(fields)), n = 1:length(fields), field = fields)) }) %>% bind_rows(); file1 %>% left_join(chunks, by = c("X1" = "table_name", "X2" = "n"))`

The third example trades off a little clarity for a little robustness by adding a regex instead of assuming the SQL table definition is one field per line.
There is no practical difference. Here you can scream into the void until you're blue in the face, but it's not going to make a lick of difference. When your government is bought and paid for by the oligarchy, it's just a management committee for the rich. At least in China people know where they stand, while people here are deluded that they have some kind of freedom.
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Because you're joining a team and should be a good fit beyond technical expertise.

I would be very happy to have answered that question and would be a plus one in my books if I can have these types of heated talks with my coworkers.
I haven’t watched TV in years... when I’ve caught some movie on TV at my parents’ or my in-laws’, I’ve found the ad breaks to be a great opportunity to... leave and do something better with my time than watch this movie with stupid ad breaks.
To be fair, even most of the United States hasn't heard of this chain. YC's location bias makes it sound wider-spread than it is.
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I challenge anyone who downvote me to provide a sound reasoning why my position is wrong and how nuclear energy on a large scale is viable and more cost efficient than renewables (with storage/distribution costs factored in already!).

Fact is: Even the pro-nuclear lobby did not manage to show how nuclear is competitive anymore. If you totally dismiss external effects and subsidies, sure, nuclear looks attractive on paper.
If you start accounting for longterm waste management, safety costs, insurance (this is a biggie! No insurance company in the world will insure a nuclear power plant. This alone shows that the technology can not be commercially viable. Calculations usually just assume zero-cost government guarantees...) and factor in realistic building costs (please look up the last reactor projects in western countries), it becomes clear that (fission) nuclear is not the solution.
As said at other places in this thread: Even China, where many of the external effects can be discounted vs the west does not build new nuclear plants on a great scale.

But sure, downvoting is easier than discussing that topic critically or providing any sound arguments in favor of commercial viability of nuclear vs renewables.
I agree with you there. The problem was you seemed to be implying that because Monsanto is a rich corporation, they control all the science on glyphosate, and we therefore can't rely on science at all. Court rulings have to rely on science to have any legitimacy. There are countless reasons why judgements based on emotions without science are a very bad idea.
> I am a software engineer and I was once asked during an interview at a large hedge fund to pick a side and debate why war is justified.

Heh, I actually wouldn't have minded that too much - but in addition to being a software engineer I'm also a former Army officer.

In any case, I think such a task can be relevant, if you're working in a fast-paced and competitive environment (esp. one with a lot of non-technical staff) you need to be able to hold your own in an argument. You wouldn't want to be the guy who is always right but gets overruled 99% of the time because you're unable to persuade others.

> ...but socio-ethical problems are way outside of my wheelhouse.

Mine too, and probably 99%+ of the world's population. But that doesn't stop most people from having strong opinions on subjects they don't understand.
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This is insane -- paying a $7.25/hr minimum wage to people you call "teammates" and expecting them to stick around is preposterous. In anything but a terrible economic downturn, minimum wage says to employees that you just want a body doing a job right at this moment, but aren't willing to invest any further in them.

Why would anyone stick around, or care to do more than the most basic job requirements? These jobs are totally disposable to employees, just as the employees are disposable to the company. If you don't want your employees to leave, don't treat them as disposable, and don't belittle them by pretending you're a team.

This guy thinks he stumbled on some grand new lesson, and it's hilariously terrible.
A great loophole to subvert bureaucracy and return the power to the whims of individuals....
My sibling and their significant other are those sorts of people - both made it very high up their respective professions by their early 30's, but when it's time for the Christmas get together, it's a pissing contest about "Oh, I'm only working 70 hour weeks, so I've had some relaxation the last little while." There's little identity outside of work, amassing the cash, then taking vacations with the money, and turning around and doing it all again.
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Social media offered everyone the megaphone and now everyone feels obligated to reiterate their own copycat opinion as a result. People can't even read longform anymore. Share an informative NYT article to someone, and they will complain about the wall of text despite it being a 5 min read that gives you much more nuance to an issue than 280 characters ever could. Signal to noise has never been lower on the internet.
A game studio I worked at had a blanket policy of destroying all fan fiction. And story plots we were sent just because someone had previously sued for stealing their idea.

Means a lot of letters from kids get read only by the secretary till the identify it and destroyed.
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I once received one of these tasks, described as requiring four hours. I had a look around the web, found the source of the exercise, complete with an expected time to complete of four hours, and the guy had completed all of two classes before abandoning it.
That is probably not a coincidence. Pentti Kanerva, who does a lot of work on hyperdimensional computing, is at the redwood center for theory neuro which Hawkins (numenta) helped found.
I was curious so I tried to match the two photos. They're clearly taken at the same location, but from slightly different angles. The shadow is different too.

https://imgur.com/Y5jF4ia
They would have failed then no?
Some companies do technical interview great, but there are a couple things that I have noticed that always make me question if I actually want to work somewhere:

- Being sent to a website to do a take home coding exercise, with a checkbox basically saying "I won't use the internet, stack overflow, or similar". I get that you need to test my knowledge, but shouldn't you care more that I know how to search for my problem and understand a fix instead of flailing around?

- (this one I have noticed in person) Being handed a thing to build, being told I have a limited amount of time. That all they want is a proof of concept, but the tooling they are asking me to use go completely against the idea that it is a "proof of concept" since they make certain assumptions about the end goal. EX: deploy something with terraform but we don't want you to build an AMI or anything like that so just manually go into each system once you create it
What?? arxiv is a _preprint_ server
Exactly. You don't implement your Baghdad style checkpoints in Manhattan. You do it in the Bronx. The rich (the people who's non-disapproval you need) get told by the official statements (that the newspaper regurgitates) how it's the best thing since sliced bread while not actually being negatively affected by it themselves. The fact that you've got a bunch of rich people who never see the downside of each step toward the police state and don't come out strongly against it lends legitimacy to each step.
> Tracing back all of the reasons why you didn't consider all these choices

It likely varies a lot across individuals.

For me personally, when I do this I see a whole lot of small choices made almost whimsically that led up to very large results. It came down to aesthetics a lot of the time. My values, relationships and knowledge were all inconsistent and in constant flux for many years, and when faced with analysis paralysis, how I forced a decision was often not discernably different from chance.

As I get older, it appears my choices have more weight, but they paradoxically also seem more predetermined. Perhaps it's as simple as that we're more unpredictable in our youth.
> Why would you replace a meal made out of plants with basically the same plants run through a blender and their ingredients extracted by some odd process?

Well I first heard of pea protein from vegan bodybuilders. Bodybuilders need extra protein. Protein without the carbs is useful. I think whey is probably a better idea, since it's been around long enough Galen recommends it for weak constitutions, but I'm not a vegan.

I have no idea what the "food industry" uses it for; presumably a replacement for soy meal, which really shouldn't be fed to people. Then again, pea protein soaked in glophosate probably shouldn't be either.
Most of the time I drive economically and up-shift very early. Sometimes I want to have some fun and fly out of corners at 4 or 5K on my small 1200cc car.

Can't do that with most automatics.
Exactly, educate the people about it and get them to want it to stop. Unfortunately, most people don't care if it never actually inconveniences them, and "there's a one in a thousand chance this bad thing will happen to you" isn't enough to get them to care.

Just look at how many people consider the existence of the TSA normal now.
Perhaps you should be more selective about wich companies you advance beyond the intro chat with.
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Apologies, I was trying to emphasise that the "cake" theme was something that literally did feature in Brexit discussions.
Can anyone from China who has worked a 996 provide an account of what the work is like?

Do they have heavy PMP-managed work with meeting paralysis or is it just sitting at your desk and being expected to magically perform, or is it just sitting around doing nothing and not being able to leave?

All of those are their own types of hell, but they're all different. What are they doing in those 12 hours?
I recently was given a toy problem in an interview - read data in some format, process it, and write the output. Expectation was 4 hours of work, which is pretty close to what it took me to get all the edge cases, test suite, requisite documentation, and VS project/solution files.

The feedback I got afterwards was "We're passing on you as your code doesn't compile/run on Linux", a requirement that wasn't specified.