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> The vast majority of my office time was in cubicles, which are pretty good.

I remember watching "Office Space" circa 2000 and it looked pretty soul crushing, and working in pre-FAANG big tech around 2006, it felt very mechanical and depressing. I get your gripes, but I think some is also rosy retrospection.
This is a great question. Don't they want to be as safe as possible? Hiring a "ton" of C++/C engineers quickly is a recipe for disaster.
>>By the time he saw me, it had healed on it's own.

In other words, you didn't actually need surgery. The system worked as intended.
What happened to Joel Spolsky’s blog-famous push for private offices in Fog Creek Software, when he moved to StackExchange did they carry that idea on?

If open plan offices are so bad for “productivity”, why don’t they get selected out by market forces?

Is it Price’s Law, the square root of the number of employees do half the work, and the rest doesn’t matter if they have offices or cattle desks, high or low productivity - what most of us do doesn’t matter enough to matter?
I bet 'Likely to be litigious' score is part of that Score. Physicians and hospitals would kill to see such a score before they start treating new patients
Same here. Just went to an emergency room with a fever and was charged $700 for 5 minutes with a doctor who told me to go home and stay in bed. I have insurance and had to spend several hours on the phone to get charges reduced to 240.
I'm disappointed Tesla's safety-critical driving systems are developed using C/C++ instead of a safe language like SPARK Ada. I hear SpaceX also uses C++ for onboard ship software.
I can't think of any article that deserves to be regularly reposted more than this one.
I wonder how it works if you're wearing a shirt that says "Don't touch me unless you are in network with xyz insurance plan #".
An Ode to the Shell
Not complicated. It means, "you probably wouldn't want to work there."

Interviewing is a two-way street. If your potential employer is intensely interested in your leisure time then that's an interesting signal, because it's unusual (I've never had a single follow-up question to why I took nearly a year off) and could point to a bad culture (lots of possibilities here, including the company being a modern sweatshop or doing very close monitoring and metricization).
On the flipside, in these cases where people self-report "I likely would have wrecked myself", we can reasonably expect that they are paying less attention to the driving situation while using AP than if they were driving a car without AP. So we expect them to be strongly biased towards underestimating their own abilities in the situation.
Um. I think they post-dated me! But I didn't go anywhere with it.
It's not necessarily just to idly chat with other people, but has more to do with where you get your energy. I find I'm most productive and energized when surrounded by other people. Conversation is a part of it, and the ability to collaborate on the fly is great. If I'm heads down on something it's fine to be isolated every so often, but if it's for more than a few days my energy level is sunk and my productivity actually decreases dramatically.
Getting a mesh flattening algorithm to work for real-world triangulations of optical surfaces, based on curvature flow.
The revenue for their charity is most likely dependent on government subsidies that are contingent on the financial status of the patients they're helping.

Even though they're determining eligibility for "their own" charity, they're likely determining eligibility for "other charities", if you follow the money.
I could see a specialist in less than a few days in DFW or immediately if necessary.
Nice post! I would add "per month" to the original headline as "200k per month" sounds much more impressive than "200k in 2 years" which the current headline says.
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> can be linked a user account

Which is still not PII. More importantly, 3rd party advertising cookies CANNOT be linked to a user account if you don't have code that stores them in your environment. CAN has a very limited meaning, whereas it requires all the preconditions to be true (i.e. I'm storing both 3rd party cookie ID, AND session ID, AND the tables have a correlation), it does not mean "COULD if more code was written".

> and from there someone's name, address

Only if you ask for AND store those. If you're asking for example for a real name and address for an e-commerce transaction, and you're passing them to the card processor, and not saving them anywhere, not even in logs, then you're not storing PII, and you CANNOT link tracking cookies and session ID to data.

Don't get me wrong, I'm still using Firefox containers, and uBlock Origin, and pi-hole, so I totally don't like to get tracked, even if anonymous. But the tendency on HN to label anything that could be used to track a user as PII is actually damaging, because it creates false expectations about how the law actually works and how much somebody is protected.
> The only thing I can do is put on my trusty noise-cancelling headphones

That's not literally the only thing you could do. You could quit.

I'll never again make the mistake of hiring on somewhere without first seeing the working environment. Too many times...
That was before the WWDC 2019 announcement that all kexts are now deprecated and will be disabled soon. The Little Snitch team has been quiet about this.

Panic got some special exemptions to be in the Mac App Store previously, but they are not allowed to talk about it in detail. Perhaps LS is going a similar route and it will be revealed when Apple releases the next version of macOS.
+1

I'm not a manager and I found a lot of value in this. I now ask my manager and my peers for immediate feedback anytime I lead a meeting. I've also adopted the habit of providing unsolicited feedback.
That depends on what they are talking about.

Extroverts think out loud, so they need someone to talk with just to think. So long as the other person is an extrovert that is okay because they both work the same way.

Extroverts - because they talk and ask questions are often the first to know. If the company has decided some project isn't doing the introverts can waste a lot of time continuing on a canceled project. Also extroverts can sometimes discover a quick/easy need to fill - a 10 minute script at the right time can sometimes be more valuable than a years of effort an introvert puts into the main project.
Under COBRA, you have to pay the employee portion plus a 2% administration fee, which means that for the average family you'll be paying 3x to 4x as much.
Dennis Muilenburg was fired. The current CEO of Boeing is a finance guy if I remember correctly.
Correctness of Automatic Differentiation via Diffeologies and Categorical Gluing
I would count Simulink RT as formally sound and safe, because you can only wire matching boxes together. Graphically. It's the standard in Automotive, flight stuff also I heard.
Steve Yegge's classic platforms rant gives some insight into why Amazon was ready for the cloud: https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611
That's ... content-free.

Email was great, is still great, but these days is a chore.

We'll fix all that! But we're not going to tell you how!!

Give us your email address and we'll let you know when we have something ready.

We won't misuse your email address ... promise.
It's likely because other companies/people are tracking your site as a competitor in Ahrefs/SEMrush.
Yeah, all of the talk about "increased collaborations!" seems to be hand-waivey, pseudo-admittance of "we don't know how to communicate effectively!"

I work in a private office now. I almost never work from home, and it's never to "be productive", almost always because of some personal scheduling issue. I used to work in open-office environments and would try to work from home as much as possible. One of them was even at a company around the corner from where I am now, so it wasn't even a commuting issue.

We have weekly meetings scheduled to force the issue of getting everyone caught up. But mostly, I just take a daily walk around the floor, see folk and get caught up on everything. The meetings mostly become "catching up the one person who was out the rest of the week".

We don't do daily standups. Ugh, what a boondoggle Scrum became after The Suits found out about it. Who needs it, anyway? Just talk to people.

If you have to make up organizational excuses to get people to talk, you're making excuses for people who don't talk. It's not acceptable to be a team contributor and not know how to communicate effectively.
I was in such incredible pain for so long that I finally realized why people kill themselves. I had asked my wife to cut my arm off with an axe at one point.
Except that Waterfall was never really advocated: https://davesquared.net/2008/01/contentious-myth-of-waterfal...

It was conceived as a straw man which was being dissed so vigorously that people started believing it was real.
Deepnote Emerges from Stealth: With YC, Index, and Accel Leading Our Seed Round
I want to thumb this up, but if the page isn't going to bother to explain it...
An AR _hotel_, specifically. If done well, it could create an entirely new kind of vacation experience, especially in areas that do not naturally get a lot of tourist traffic.
Respectfully disagree on the "write it out first" advice. I'd argue "think it out first" or "talk it out first" is sufficient.

I found while scaling my team tended to bury themselves in miles of docs that really did not serve the customer or the company. A janky kind of working prototype of a solution is worth a ton more than a well thought out doc.
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A lot of people say you should just not pay crazy charges from hospitals and wait until they reduce or drop them. I bet hospitals want to track people who do that. They want patients who will pay whatever kind of charges hospitals dream without questioning anything.
It does compare badly versus employers in the oil & gas, defense, tobacco and casino industry. A shame.
Zero Knowledge Proof – Legal Fishing Example (GitHub Repo Included) – SnarkJS
I don't experience my thought as either words or pictures. I experience my thought as ideas. Ideas are independent of both, since the same idea can be expressed with different words or pictures.
I think it's better to believe that the problem isn't hard and see how far you get, than assuming it's AGI complete without being precise about why. And we only really get a sense of why we ought to strongly believe it's AGI complete if we try to make progress on the problem.
Malicious warez hosted on Bitbucket get more than 500k downloads
From the HN guidelines:

"Please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills."

Yes, I can see that your account was created in 2011 :)
Boeing identifies new software problem on grounded 737 Max
This is a personality characteristic. For me, meetings and sales are definitely a production that tax me enough. I want to quota how often I do them. (Sales, preferably never.) Some people get positively powered up by sales or meetings though.

I’ve even had medications turn meetings and such social interactions around for me. So I know it’s not a universal truth one or the other way.
Speaking of medical billing insanity...

I recently had a MRI, and in the process of filling out the usual new-patient form at the imaging center, they wanted me to sign a blank LCD touchscreen. No indication whatsoever what I would be signing. Is it even a contract if you never saw the offer and thus no "meeting of the minds"?

After explaining that I wasn't going to sign a "blank check" contract (and would always need to read the entire contract before first), they eventually figured out how print the actual document. After several minutes reading the 8 page (!) contract, I found a clause I haven't seen before. After more or less normal stuff about agreeing to pay for the service, in a section about sending the bill to a collection agency if I didn't pay, they wanted me to agree to 1) pay for the collection agency and any other fees associated with recovering the debt, and 2) pay their attorney fees if they decided to take me to court over the debt.

I wounder a judge would actually enforce that clause. Agreeing to pay someone to sue yourself seems unconscionable. I told them I wouldn't sign their unreasonable contract (that wasn't the only problem) and they sent me off to have the MRI scan anyway.
The insurance is there to pay for the $20k+ heart attacks, premature babies needing NICU at probably $100k+, hemophilics needing $500k+ medications, etc. Also, if you're young, you're subsidizing healthcare for the old. If you're not poor (per government definition) and don't qualify for health insurance premium tax credits, then you're subsidizing them too. And if you're a male, you're subsidizing childbirth and other women specific costs. And who knows what else.

In other words, it's the same as a tax to pay for healthcare for the country, except it goes to insurance companies, and you have to deal with in network and out of network. Except this tax goes up the older you get (but capped at 3x what youngest/healthiest person pays).

Presumably, if you add up all the insurance premiums paid for every year of a person's life, it should theoretically add up to close to how much the insurance company expects to spend on you (plus some profit, capped at 20% by ACA).
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> So it is entirely possible to be fully insured and still be forced into unpayable medical debt through factors completely outside of one's control.

It's frustrating to me that this point is very often overlooked in the discussions about health insurance in the US. A lot of people who go bankrupt over medical bills are fully insured and suffer for reasons entirely beyond their control like the hospital an ambulance decides to route them to when they're unconscious.
> And in general, they cannot engineer a formally-verified, fault-tolerant system to control complex systems, complex heavy machinery, and intricate business logic.

You wonder why they're not using D or even Rust or Ada to get systems that are more provably safe?
Most of the reason for immigrant children doing so well is the fact that immigrants are often more driven, ambitious, and at the top of their peer group. So the USA gets a biased sample of immigrants from countries like Nigeria. None of this is happening in a vacuum, and interpreting it as such is misguided propaganda.
>SEO is still one of the few free ways to get customers.

If you have to hire and manage a team of content writers it's not that free.
Did the Chicken Come First or Is It Turtles All the Way Down?
On flat terrain a bicycle can coast a very long way without peddling. If your bike comes to a stop quickly then you have something out of alignment or loose.
Hopefully Congress passes medical price transparency and this game will end, and price competition can truly begin. If a hospital has to publicly announce they charge Blue Cross Blue Shield 20% of what they charge cash patients, they'll be in an untenable position and have to make drastic corrections.

I expect a lot of service providers to become untenable after price corrections, go bankrupt, get bought out by more efficient providers who remove all the unproductive staff.

Course this is all premised on Congress doing something useful, so...lol.
I will add credit unions are chartered banks...but unlike "banks" they are not owned by shareholders, they are non-profits made up of the members (account holders).

Ideally in 2008 all the "banks" should have gone bankrupt and the vacuum should have been filled with credit unions, instead lawmakers gave the banks $2T as a reward for ruining the US economy so they could float their own debts instead of declaring bankruptcy and enough so they could buy up their competitors to further consolidate the marketplace.
Modes of Thinking: Lateral, Divergent and Convergent Thought
I understand what you're saying, but it's really more that we didn't know just how bad it could get. Cubicle farms were "soul crushing", because they came about from the same management practices that eventually led to open-floor plans: treating people as cost centers rather than people, micromanaging measurable real-estate costs at the expense of unmeasurable productivity.

And while one can theoretically make good software in open-floor-plan-environment/current-whipping-boy-programming-language-of-the-month/etc., the existence of such things is a big sign on the door "we probably don't care about craft".
It’s pretty easy to observe escooters are roughly equivalent to bikes in terms of speed and visibility, and generally in terms of behavior as well. The biggest variable seems to be whether they ride on the sidewalk: I rarely see bikes on the sidewalk anywhere, but scooters seem to use it in many cities.

Just as with bikes the main problem is cars. Road networks designed as car sewers make life miserable for any non-car in close proximity. The single most important way to fix that is to lower the speed of the cars. Practically speaking you can only do that if you have a network of both streets (low speed shared use) and roads (high speed exclusive use), such that cars can get to a road and then go fast, rather than going slow everywhere.

But in North America what we have is worse, we’ve designed everything to be a “stroad,” where houses, shops, schools, everything, are directly attached to high speed car sewers and nothing else. That’s the most dangerous configuration you can make. The cars need and want to go fast, but they never know when someone is going to pop out of a driveway or into a crosswalk or there will be a bike in the road etc.

The number of scooters isn’t really creating anything new, it’s just highlighting the problems of Stroads by putting a lot more people into the life experience of a cyclist.
The design of S3 was formally specified, but not the actual code.
> But it does serves as a proof for the user, that no matter however the server is storing the password, it won't be linkable to other's server way of storing the password, in case of reusing passwords.

Oh but there is, you can just try logging in with it (either for real or by running the login protocol on a dump/leak).
genuine question: why Kotlin when Scala already exist[s,ed] ?
I think the reasonable alternative then is to walk, not to dangerously run through intersections when it's not your turn.

Edit: I will admit that I rarely come to a complete stop at a stop sign. It definitely is a considerable inconvenience to get back up to speed, but a lot of safety precautions are inconvenient.
Installing VirtualBox 6.0 on Ubuntu 18 Tutorial
It was dull, gray, and lacking in character but it sure beats sitting elbow to elbow cafeteria style trying to get work done.
Crypto Savings Rates
Rasterizing to the Terminal
Why did you go to an emergency room for a fever instead of urgent care or a nurse practitioner working out of a grocery store?
Flashing the OpenWRT “factory” (as opposed to sysupgrade) image in the web UI should probably work fine, but don’t quote me on it.

That’s how I flashed from stock to OpenWRT on 3+ Archer units anyway. Make sure not to keep settings.
Anti-Putin blogger murdered in a French hotel, hallmarks of Russian hit squad
A year ago I checked the websites for all of my subscriptions. I unsubscribed from any site that made it difficult. Was on principal.

It was unfortunate this included the ACLU.
Rotary Torque Sensors
Seems like proper application of the downvote button is called for.
> HIPAA pertains to PHI and PII (protected health information and personally identifiable information, respectively). The fact of your office visit is not either of those if it's not linked to health information (labs, medical records, notes, itemized bills).

False. Directly from HHS, emphasis mine:

https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/laws-reg...

“Individually identifiable health information” is information, including demographic data, that relates to:

* the individual’s past, present or future physical or mental health or condition,

* the provision of health care to the individual, or

* the past, present, or future payment for the provision of health care to the individual,
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ML for automotive sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.

It seems like ML is statistically safe for everyone else, until that moment when you become the “statistic”.
I've worked in a variety of settings, and my favorite is a small team in a conference room/tiny open office. 3-8 people.

People tend to be respectful of each other's concentration at that number of people. And since you're in the same team, most interruptions are likely to be useful to other members of the team. But if we wanted to just bother 1 specific person, we would just use instant message.

Our manager worked in the same conference room too. But he would step outside for any calls he had to make.

It also gave an exiting "small startup" feel for me, even when working for a large company.
It's a mistake to only consider fatal accidents. I fell while roller skating last year and hit my head. I had to be rushed to the hospital for brain surgery, and spent over a month there recovering. It took over 6 months to get back to work.

Obviously this experience has nothing to do with E-scooters, but it does point out how easy it is for a minor accident to mess up your life.
Peak? This is the most heavily regulated market in the US, and fully 40% of all medical spending is from federal, state, and local governments.

This is peak political corruption.
“The hospital and its services are under no obligation to provide accurate pricing until ipso facto, and the pricing can often be changed because it doesn't stand up when placed under scrutiny”

That’s what’s driving me crazy. No other business can make up charges repeatedly and when found out, say “oops” and change them a little. In what way is this not fraud?
I thought that was true, but I had a vendor just last week state out loud, “We use a waterfall methodology.” It is alive and well, even if the smartest thinkers in the field never subscribed to it literally.
> This sounds like another example where his hard core coding tests filters for code-grifters.

There is nothing taught in Computer Science at college that can't be learned online.

I appreciate that Elon is hiring for skill and knowledge and not a paper that says you graduated from some expensive school and therefore are automatically more qualified.
I wonder if those stats should be normalized for velocity. Bikes can go 20MPH, scooters less, pedestrians 1-3.

Velocity means less time in the intersection. But it also means less time to observe their approach, less time to react and less likelihood to even know you are going to have to react.
Until the police enforce other rules the reality is only car traffic matters. Bike lanes and the like are a cheap distraction to shut up a few noisy voters and look green.