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I don't blame you. Here in the Ozarks hiking and camping in the forests is something we locals do in the cool months, from the beginning of October to the end of March the next year. After that we hang out at the lakes, streams, and swimming holes.

I only venture into the forests in the warm months when I must and I try to wear clothes treated with permethrin when I do. I not a big fan of wearing poisoned clothes but that stuff does work very well.
That's fair enough, but binary is the lowest base anyone can use...
Such competitions do not usually result in a comprehensive "solution" by themselves - pushing the state-of-the-art is more common. Also the value is not going to be derived solely from the algorithm but more from its deployment to real world applications and the surrounding infrastructure to make it possible.
click through rates != ROI

Pepsi cares about making you read the word "Pepsi" over and over until you buy one, but you don't buy them from pepsi.com, you buy them at every restaurant/store you go to.
If you want to be cynical, maybe it is just people sticking their hands out. Why aren't these companies "donating" like the National Association of Realtors, Boeing or Comcast?

Here's a list of companies and organizations[1] that actually push their politics aggressively. Maybe a couple of those take advantage of their market position less than the big tech companies.

I do think strengthened anti-trust legislation and actions would benefit the economy, but I don't think these companies are the worst offenders. It is a harmful perverse incentive to punish companies because they are not playing politics enough.

[1] https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=s
Very nice! But is Python the right choice for this? It seems like the macro rewriting abilities of Lisp (especially Racket) would be a perfect fit for this project. And he's already using S-exps, so why reinvent the wheel?
I use Angular and Svelte professionally. Reactive to me is reactive programming via the rx package that spans many languages. However I only use those frameworks if the job calls for it.

Call me a blending edge buff, but once WebGPU rolls out you can blur the distinction of web site and native program. But I would not utilize such on statically rendered website. But I would use it on a portable version of Photoshop, Blender, AutoCAD, or Minecraft.

Can you do the above today, inefficiently yes. But once WebGPU (gpu multi processing via a compute shaders with shared instructions) hits in combination with WebAssembley Workers (shared instruction cpu processing with proper floats across X cores) it will be an entirely different story.

What is insane to me is that these UI frameworks run in combination with the DOM on the main thread. That they are not designed from the ground up to run SSR and it is an afterthought.

Or in the instance of third world can even be managed by a Service Worker that drip feeds updates and presents th em on the site they are on next time they visit.

1 million and one ways to skin a cat. No way is better, it depends on the client's budget and use case.
But if you look at the things that were considered "science fiction" back in the day, like video phones, or augmented reality glasses... stuff like Facebook's Portal or Apple's ARKit or Microsoft's HoloLens really do fit the bill. The basic science is done in academia but there's no academic team that would create something as idiot-proof as Facetime.
There's no minimum in the US
doesn't he run thiel fellowships for that?
Please share the link if you publish it
I suffered the opposite experience. I can’t learn in an academic setting. If I’m faced with a problem (read: motivation) I’ll learn what I need to solve it.
I see someone else has watched "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles".
Looks like hearsay to me, but if he made that remark, it was a stupid thing to say. While there is no wider context, the remark itself still doesn't indicate that he hates black people.
This article only says one truth: OOP is not as famous as it used to be.

The rest of it it's completely mistaken. The writer has no clue about OOP.

Let me tell you the problem with OOP. Everybody said "use objects" you will re-use them over and over, not only for this project but projects in the future as well.

But we already have libraries and I still yet to find someone (or enterprise) reusing its own code.

Every respectable programmer knows he must refactor his old code again because it's not so good anymore.
Your first is really fascinating. I've seldom heard anyone talk about potential negatives from Moore's Law. It seems like you're suggesting that the rapid improvement of computer tech over the time since 1970 sucked all the air out of the room. All the brains, capital, and hype went there.

I'm not convinced it's enough but it is pretty interesting.
If anything, the "best and brightest" folks in Hertz management who drafted the policies that both the phone assistant and the person behind the counter had to try to navigate (and who both acknowledged the policies they were struggling against were dumb) are the ones who failed big time here, not the every men that GP is insulting.
> If my living and food expenses are covered, I'll prefer full autonomy over no or minimal autonomy.

Where are you living and what will you eat?
I've never visited the US, so I'm curious about what you mean.

The vertical gap between the floor and where the cubicle wall starts is huge. Like, knee height. So weird.
Government spend can't create a Google. Google depends on huge compensation packages to pampered engineers who get sushi for lunch and Segways for entertainment. A government facility of this nature would be political suicide.
It wasn't "basic" research though, as the basic research in AI happened a few decades ago. Google is industrializing Hinton's work, but hinton created most of it in toronto.

That said, industry can definitely do basic research work (e.g. Pharma does). But what google is doing is acquiring any company that might be a real threat to them.
When I first read about unikernels I thought its a great way to remove a layer forced upon you by cloud providers.
Most public clouds run some form of hypervisor, on top of which you run your VM and applications. I only want to run my application, and I don't get to choose to remove the hypervisor, thus I can only remove the kernel: a unikernel is like running an application on a hypervisor:
your hypervisor is your "OS kernel" and your unikernel is your application ... and we gained back what we lost compared to a bare-metal deployment.

That is a simplified view, and there are other advantages as well: you probably don't need to exit to your hypervisor quite as often as you do with syscalls, so you benefit from reduced overhead.
One disadvantage is that memory allocation is almost static (unless you do ballooning which is tricky to get right), so you "waste" some memory compared to a bare-metal deployment where unused memory can be used for the page cache instead.
Then salaries in our industry need to decrease if we don't want to be held to a standard of overburdening ourselves.

The salaries in our industry have a precedent which was set by individuals that overburdened themselves. That might have been irrational, but if we want to change that, then we need to accept less pay. We can't have the same rewards as they did while doing less work, even if the amount of work they did was unreasonable.
They beauty of Nodes is that we are not limited by layout or connections. We have successfully used redux for centralised state management with change triggers distributed down the graph.
I don't use Google Play that much, so I wonder: doesn't a sign of official verification (à la Twitter) exists?
I understand that. My point is that it reduces the blast radius of any one part being compromised.
Have you already played GunBorn.io game?
I don't think I did. The title is not a quote, but it seems to be a reasonable summary of what he said, directly from more than one quote. What is it that you are objecting to, you think the formatting of the title makes it look like a direct quote? Fwiw, in that case I don't agree.
We seem to be in agreement that AT&T is exploiting a bad situation. The top poster asked why they don't come up with a more effective solution to eliminate spam calls for good. All I'm saying is that it's naive to assume any phone company will implement such a solution unless forced to do so.
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I did the same thing recently when a flight home from a weekend trip was diverted due to weather to an airport 150 miles away. All the rental cars were taken, of course. The next flight out was 8-10 hours away, I was dead tired and had important work obligations coming up. I made sure the Lyft driver knew what I was asking. He phoned his wife to tell her he'd be late getting off his usual shift and off we went. It's certainly not something I'd do often, but I'm glad it was an option then.

As a related aside, I have a friend who frequently takes Uber/Lyft for trips from the CT suburbs to Boston since it often beats flying and the Acela train on both cost and time, especially if he's traveling with family members.
Don't worry, I've seen plenty of bigoted and racially insensitive comments made by Trump's predecessor.
CS isn't anymore of coherent subject than, say, math. And (much like math), the useful/practical parts that'll get you 80%-90% there in solving arbitrary practical problems aren't all that difficult to learn.

Just learning your data structures and how to implement them will serve you very well for many/most tasks.
You can tell the app where you want to end up after doing a bunch of trips, so the driver could just set his overall endpoint back to O'Hare and Lyft would try to give him rides going that way.
I have used it for shader graphs and shadertoy like raymarching scenes.
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That's really a function of cost and building owners being cheap. I have seen very nice stalls in the US, but I'm sure it was more expensive and everyones just kinda used to the status quo so nobody pushes back against it.
nylon did not. you’re probably thinking of teflon, which also did not, but is at least a common misconception, unlike nylon, which is widely known to have first been used for women’s ‘nylons’ in the 30s.
Thanks for sharing this classical perspective. When I'm kicking off a system for a complex organisation, I start by focusing on what processes/changes occur in the organisation. I find that users can intuitively reason about what they are trying to get done, which leads to clear pipe-functions, from which one can infer and discover correct inputs and outputs. If you begin with a focus on inputs/outputs/data structures, you tend to end up with a lot of disagreement and omissions. The idea is to get to a more suitable Pure Function Pipeline Data Flow sooner.
Yeah, I don’t disagree. I do disagree with your handling of other paywall workarounds.
> pretend everything you say to a coworker is on a public ledger

Very succinctly put. I probably could have distilled my post down to just this. If there's any one takeaway from this thread, that's it.
I am far from an expert, but for biodegradation you need bacteria, earthworms, etc.; which would die, too, if you killed the harmful worms and bacteria; meaning you would need to mix in other ones. That whole process of killing almost everything and then colonizing again seems like quite an overhead.
It's not though. For example, the hardware/software purchases in month 1 are an expenditure, but would likely be a depreciation expense over a period of time.
Related: Twin Your Toilet with another one somewhere in the world

https://www.toilettwinning.org/latrine/1/
pedantic nit: Desert Bus simulates the drive from Tucson to Vegas, not LA
Microsoft isn't a part of FAANG so they don't get mentioned often
> Perhaps there is a reason for the industry not to like him since he's competition

You're commenting on a man who accused a cave rescuer of being a pedophile after he criticised mr Musk's brain-dead proposal to rescue the stranded kids.

The problem does not lie on strawmen such as this silly idea tha the industry does not like him.
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Knee height? I live in the US and have never seen this. I would say closer to ankle height.
Hospitals don't expect that and the reason is obvious: the medical field is highly regulated, and you need to go through nearly a decade of grueling education and training before you earn your medical degree.

Programming could not be more different. Not only is our field as unregulated as fields can go, but the hiring pool is also full of self-taught developers. Therefore, yes, it is in fact reasonable to have people go to great lengths to prove their skills to potential employers.
try: none of it is a real advance.
I lived in So California for around 14 years and spent a lot of time hiking in the Sequoias and Tehachapis and the only tick I ever saw was one that jumped on me while hiking around Castiac Lake.
Why? Isn’t photo storage the thing most people care about for cloud storage?
Image recognition and organization is also pretty valuable to most people.

It’s only not a good business model now because Google makes all these services free. These services could make money on their own if they had too.
Although the causes of the Scorpion and K-129 losses are not known with certainty there is evidence that both were lost to battery explosions. Bruce Rule has a lot of interesting data on this

http://www.iusscaa.org/articles/brucerule/

As another person upthread noted, though, it is difficult to ever know with certainty not only due to the technical limitations but also due to the opsec limitations.
But they did retaliate against the organisers - some of whom have since left.

Most I got for mine (leading an actual strike) was a written reprimand -probably forced by the hr manger of a certain BT division (not the one I worked in)

Did mange to change company policy and get several k people a better pension later on.
I can't agree. Do you know which application who rely heavily on events is anywhere and it is programmed in OOP all around the world?

Windows management systems. Everywhere. OOP works like a charm.

Also, all that stuff you are saying about "expression-based" triggering, it exists and working fine...

Also you are mixing OOP with files and folders and I can't understand why...
Maybe AI can help with Lyft/Uber. I'm sort of tired of being dropped off in alleyways.
Also during war patents are shared between all companies in one country or ignored all together. I think this is an under appreciated fact of why wartime creates all sorts of innovation.
It should be very difficult to prosecute, convict, and land someone in prison. I say that as a victim of a violent crime. It’s a huge parasitic drain on the entire country. It’s peddled under the guise of justice.

The Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner is setting a fine example we all need to take note of.
What politics?

I’m 100% behind the idea of deplatforming trolls, even if they claim it’s a political message. “Don’t Troll” has been a good rule since Usenet days, and I don’t see why it should be otherwise.
You're making a lot of assumptions there about which your mistaken. I don't need to defend myself here. If that's what you want to believe, that's fine.
You’re probably not literally the only person is unconcerned, but the overwhelming majority of the population seems to suffer from the availability heuristic, which means they’re concerned simply because it’s in the news, and it’s in the news simply because of its emotional affect.
I wonder if the timing on this is just a level for trying to get backdoor encryption accepted by the major players.
> These large companies have been abusing their monopoly or near monopoly status to push their own politics aggressively.

I don't think there is evidence to support this statement, but even if there were, pushing a political agenda is not an anti-trust issue.
> But how does it compare to

Wattaboutism does not address the man's problems, including all the problems he brings onto himself, the company he runs, and its investors.
No wait, Raspberry.
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The sentiments you presented there are extremes, just like your own position is the opposite extreme. The reality, as usual, is somewhere in the middle:

1. Even the best designed and well thought-out coding quizzes are not guaranteed to be a good predictor of the candidate's abilities. And that's when we're talking about the best. A great deal of coding quizzes currently in use are things interviewers came up with because they had to come up with something. So I guess the real sentiment is: coding quizzes need to be crafted and used better.

2. If you use take-home projects in your interview process, you'll invariably be filtering out people who value their free time, regardless of their skills. Put yourself in your candidates' shoes. A typical hiring process is already quite involved. Your candidate has to set aside the time for a recruiter chat, phone screen, a meeting with some of your team, etc. And the vast majority of devs don't get any overtime pay. The bottom line is that free time is extremely valuable. If you're asking your candidates to spend a weekend coding a project for free, be prepared for a whole bunch of them to lose interest and go looking somewhere else.

3. Yes, it's quite reasonable that a candidate with 15+ years of experience doesn't have any side projects to show. I've lost count of things I've played and fiddled with, and then abandoned, because they're simply not good enough to publish. Not to mention that your responsibility for your code doesn't end when you publish it. You're expected to maintain it, keep it documented, bug free, etc. A candidate might not have anything to show because they're "not good enough", but they also might be a mature and responsible dev.

I don't doubt that you've done a lot of hiring and that you're able to find candidates to suit your requirements, but don't fool yourself into thinking that there isn't a whole bunch of bias baked into your process. The fact that this bias isn't hurting you right now should make you question whether today's market really is as competitive as you think.
> Tech companies have failed to buy enough politicians over the years.

I doubt it. Facebook getting away with a mere $5B fine from the FTC is a sign that the big tech companies aren't in much danger IMO
The other hack is to “pony express” in stages: use Lyft/Uber to get part way or to a mid point, where you are confident you CAN get a rental, a train/bus, or another Lyft/Uber to keep going.

This is especially useful if you can’t find a driver that will take you all the way.
I'd rather not risk being charged for whatever loss of use number they come up with as well.
i think the train station in Newark, NJ has them. Something about people ODing on the floor and no one finding out.
Slightly tangential but might this be another argument for people "owning" their data while companies "own" the processing procedures of it. If people "owned" their data it would presumably be much easier for them to give it out for research purposes
Yeah the toilets in a Nordstrom are pretty much stock UK grade no gaps for pervs to look around the door..

Another difference not mentioned above is double-doors. Toilets in public/institutional buildings in the UK (and probably elsewhere) have an air-lock type arrangement with two doors (inner and outer) with the result that nobody can see into the inner sanctum when people enter and leave. US toilets have just one door.

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-some-public-restrooms-have-one-...
Earlier discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20510022
The alternative would be to create a tech or hard science company which doesn't choose advertising as their core business model...It's just that Google, Facebook/Instagram, and Twitter, some of the largest companies in the space, are inextricably tied to that model.

The main problem isn't tech companies or monopolies, IMO; it's the tech companies that survive only by cannibalizing both non-paying users and non-paying non-users who happen to visit just about any website on the Internet (because odds are any given website is using Google Analytics or has some sort of Facebook or Twitter integration). It creates bad incentives.

Wouldn't the world be a better place if the Internet had true micropayments? Culture would no longer dance to the whims of advertisers and executives at huge companies. There would be a more direct connection between creatives and consumers. Then again, we've tried instantly collated online mob rule in the form of social media karma. The nearest equivalents, in the form Patreon supported Instagram models and YouTube stars like PewDiePie and Jake Paul, on the face of it, don't seem to point us in the the best direction.

A huge irony is that the public wants free stuff, and historically has railed against micropayments. However, while they complain, it would seem that microtransactions are going strong, though they are arguably exploitative.
It's probably using the colloquial version of the word (which I hate). "Exponentially" = "hugely, but I want to sound technical." Or the still frustrating but more acceptable "exponentially" = "by orders of magnitude."
Especially if you have it with you.
Agreed. This is all very short sighted.
At the highest price tier, yes.
Why do they not certainly in the UK Doctors have both good leave entitlements (and fabulous DB pensions) and can legally work on the side.

And the pay for a senior Doctor is what 4 to 5 times what a senior developer would get
I was not aware the Castillan forces were commanded by the brother of Nuno Álvares Pereira. He's less known nationally than the mythic Brites fe Almeida.

Why don't the history teachers drop these snippets during classes?
This. It's an iterative improvement on a data structure that in reality isn't useful as used on benchmarks and the benchmark performance is a totally artificial environment with little practical significance. It warrants a blog post more than a paper. Nobody is going to get rich or famous off of it. If someone wants to write it up as a blog post, I'll give them the code.
You seem very certain that today's tech companies aren't doing any real research, or if they are it won't have a significant impact. How could you possibly know this? It can't be learned from reading the news.
At least for Hertz, they can charge you a grand total of $10 here (if you call them to change it) or otherwise $12/day per their T&C: https://www.hertz.com/rentacar/reservation/reviewmodifycance...

"This fee of $10 will be applied if you return your car to a different location from that which was scheduled, or if you return more than 12 hours after the date and time previously scheduled, and you notify us of an extension of your rental by the return date and time previously scheduled by calling 1-800-654-4174.

If you do not notify us of such a change, the Late Return Fee of $12 per day, (maximum of 5 days) will apply."
This also applies to engineers, it is a universal concept.
Measure twice; cut once.
That's a very interesting point! I wonder if allowing free use of information could result in the same benefits during peacetime.
It's a personal anecdote of an individual's experience. When you are at your wits end with an illness and doctors have no answer for you, then it's natural to want to try stuff with very little science behind it. It's all you have. The alternative is to do nothing.

Also, Chronic Lyme is notoriously difficult to diagnose conclusively. The diagnoses that we do have are not widely accepted.
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Buy the fear on this news. Various governmental bodies (Congress, the FTC, etc.) have shown that they're more talk than walk on the issue of antitrust litigation
Its more a early 1960 and earlier thing
PBS's Journey to the Microcosmos on Youtube may be up your alley.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBbnbBWJtwsf0jLGUwX5Q3g/vid...