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clearly he is using burners, and the governments are now on to him. Sucker.
Ask HN: What are some fields where you can write Go and not wear a pager?
I've been writing Go for nearly 10 years. I've mostly written network services, but also tools, and libraries for cryptography, natural language understand, infrastructure orchestration, etc. I'd like to explore some fields that don't require me to be oncall. What are some interesting fields that are hiring a Go programmer with deep expertise that will let me sleep at night?
Not giving feedback though is not "treating them like crap" in fact the opposite is far more likely to be true (as interpreted by the non-hired candidate). You literally can't go wrong doing nothing.
You're more likely to cancel when you're done watching that one show. They want to continuously give you a new reason to keep paying.
But I still would need to decide whether my ideas are worth talking about or not :)

To be honest, I'm torn between a very specific one (on enterprise IT, related to startups and new products), and a more generic one.
I've seen it in base prices.
I'd recommend starting on Friday, going through initial crisis on Friday/Saturday (caffeine/tea/sugar withdrawal), then from day 3-4 you should start feeling great (literally). Day 6 might be a bit weird so plan some lighter work around that time.
Ron Howard! Director of A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13, Willow, etc., star of Happy Days, father of Bryce Dallas Howard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70nqLIj6l_M
My wife used to work with students to help them get through interviews, and one of her pieces of advice when interviewing is to ask near the end of the interview is if they have any concerns about them as a candidate. It gives the interviewer a chance to address the concerns and gives them a chance to get feedback to make future changes. I’m not sure how well this would work for a technical interview loop, since my wife was working with law students, and the interviews aren’t the same kind of technical, but it might sidestep/short circuit typical lack of feedback technical people complain about.
I guess I'm always shocked and amazed how hypnotized people are by their ipotatoes, and how little technological perspective people actually have.

I was there back in 1990s using speech recognition software which worked just like it does today, with vastly more than 50% accuracy. Dunno where you were. Romania I guess.
Uber Posts Faster Growth, but Loses $1.1B
The only time I write anything with a pen and paper now a days, for the most part, is when I do 1:1s and check ins with my team. No computers for me. If I need to schedule something it comes after. The team member gets my full attention, no phones, Slack, email, or anything getting in the way.
Things have actually improved a lot. I'm running Ubuntu right now and drawing ~5W from my 51Wh battery on a new Ice Lake Dell XPS 13. Highly recommended.
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Extremely interesting. Thanks for the reply and sources.
I definitely sometimes just bail on looking because I hate the feature. So happy to see I can turn it off.

Maybe now that they have competition, we'll see more stuff like this.
Another bad thing about the fading menu is that it seems to get treated the same as if you affirmatively decided to watch it.

It shows up in "continue watching" and I believe probably stuff like "because you watched A..." (...here are B, C, D, and E).

Which is just silly because even if they want to steer me into watching it because I'm too lazy to tell them to stop, that doesn't mean it makes meaningful data for recommendations. They can tell whether I pushed a button or not, but which seems like a pretty meaningful signal to ignore.
Uber is responsible for the delivery experience, the restaurant is responsible for the food experience.
That's an excellent point. I think their ability to sidestep the media and interact directly with their fans and people via social media makes SpaceX feel more personable and accessible. There's no denying SpaceX has increased the enthusiasm for space related topics lately.
Interviewing is such a crapshoot; just because someone doesn't make the cut the first time, doesn't mean they weren't the better candidate.

That's one reason I hate the "just hire the best person" argument against diversity; usually "the best person" is entirely non-obvious.
Regularly backup and keep those backups off your network, boom problem solved. My point was not that I take no precautions or that you're not at risk because you're not a government agent.
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I'll second this. You only have so much mental energy and focus. Managing your self image in a room full of others is wasteful and exhausting.
Sounds like you did some napkin math, e.g. current war chest and burn rate over the average length of liquidity shock in a downturn?
why not force the companies to pay a bounty for these "useless e-waste" instead of forcing them to stop innovating? Maybe they are forced to pay $0.05 (or more) per charger found in the waste. Those that have been collected are sent to the manufacturer for repurposing, at their cost.
They're hoping to hook you on something else so you'll keep your subscription after you get tired of watching Friends.
" if there are approaches to the scenario where the conflict between honesty and empathy that conflict for them could allow the person to live more according to their values by preventing the need to make the trade-off altogether."

I disagree that avoiding the trade-off makes things better off.

But at least you've made your views known and so have I.
> CBT is not something you can start doing by yourself without an external catalyst.

Sure it is. Self-therapy is useful, getting a therapist is useful.

Why is everyone shitting on other people's vibe?
This assumes demand on the rider side is unaffected by an economic downturn, which seems like a strong assumption. Lower demand on the rider side directly impacts top-line revenue, so sure, they may get to pay drivers less, but they are also getting less revenue to pay drivers from.
All they need to do to be cash-flow positive is to stop trying to get self-driving cars to work and stop trying to invest in their Eats vertical. They already make good money on ride-hailing services.
The Netflix UI is very abusive. They have no respect for the value of your time or your attention.
That is why I refuse to fly in anything that has Boeing on the side of it. Based on the 737 max fiasco and previous incidents they it looks like they are willing to make compromises in safety for profit. The regulatory agencies including the FAA here in the USA are captured and thus irrelevant, and the attempt to fix them died https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture#Federal_A...

Unless we see fines based on a percentage of revenue or the CEO/Board of Boeing being thrown in prison, then we won’t see change.
I've worked for a couple of fabless semiconductor startups. When fixing a hardware mistake costs millions for a new mask, there are bugs in all the silicon, even the big guys [1].

[1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/26/cloudflare_crashes_...
Chernobyl shocker as fungi that eats radiation found inside nuclear reactor
Your last paragraph doesn't negate the value of SEO. IMO you still need good product / good content / some reason for people to visit your site for long-term success, but if 10 others have an offering (of any quality) in the same category & they all make at least some attempt to optimise their websites, how is anyone going to find your site at the top of page 2?
And you sometimes can't even rent movies that you saw on Netflix as recently as a couple of years ago.

"Page Eight" was a great little spy movie with Bill Nighy and Rachel Weisz on Netflix. Now you can't rent from anywhere, for any price afaict.

How does this optimize revenues for the studios?
Weekly insights/analysis into what's happening in the Kubernetes ecosystem.
You're comparing all their lines of business but the OP talks specifically about the Rides business which they said generated a large EBIDTA profit and was more than enough to cover all G&A and R&D. It doesn't look like they break out G&A and R&D by line of business so it looks like the Rides business specifically is profitable even after paying everyone's salary at the company. Seems like the meme that they'll never be profitable has been disproven.
> After the interview is done and the answer is a solid NO, as a company we have NO BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP with you.

And plenty of companies don't even feel a candidate is owed that answer after they've made their determination. Of course it's a two way street and candidates will - and have been - doing the same thing to companies.
In order for something to be "categorically false" it needs to be false for the whole category. Two thirds is....not the whole.
The Chinese doctor who tried to warn others has died
Thanks for sharing your figures. What is your most lucrative revenue source for you? Subscriptions or one offs?

And Google store just shows 5000+ installs, I thought you'd have a lot more. Is the Android version new perhaps?
This reply somehow gets and misses what I was trying to get at.

No, of course I don't believe rationality is like that. The implicit point was that many people in tech do have an attitude like this. They overvalue their "objective" rational reasoning, ironically due to irrational needs.
They would if people were cash-flow producing assets to be bought and sold.
A bug in a plane can make it crash in a fireball. But a bug in a missile is something that would make it NOT crash in a fireball.

Thus the obvious solution to quality problems is to switch missile software engineers and aircraft software engineers, and encourage them not to care about quality.
There's not very many stacks that support 1.1 but not 1.2. If usage of 1.0 is low enough that you're willing to drop it, 1.1 is going to be much less.
Sorry, but can someone explain the usecase for callAsFunction?

I have seen something similar before in Python where a class implements __call__, but I have never needed to use it.
> I meant planes and their maintenance

Planes and their maintenance are already strictly regulated in the US. Note that the two crashes were not of planes flown by US carriers. The first crash (Lion Air) had maintenance irregularities that contributed to it.

MCAS, however, is not a maintenance failure but a design failure. "More regulation" is not really a good description of what is needed to prevent future design failures like that. What is needed is regulation that can't be outsourced to the companies being regulated, as the FAA was doing.
Smart people with narcissistic/dark-triad traits can practice self-reflection and seeing things from a less self-centered POV. It's just less natural to them, but they can learn to do it. They "just" have to convince themselves that it's a good idea - which is where the "smarts" factor comes in.
Two lessons you’ll learn in your first year as a tech lead
Based on what I've seen across multiple companies, only the biggest and most experienced ones understood how to do leveling correctly. Everyone else was basically flying by the seat of their pants.

I think it's much more productive to label software engineers as being in stage 1 through stage 4 for most companies, and for 1000+ add stage 5 and for 10000+ add stage 6.
The City of Chicago now heavily regulates and taxes ride-sharing. Literally a $1.25-per-ride "congestion tax" went into effect Jan 6.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2019/12/27/21039699/...
I've always thought the best design for a star system would be a pair of positive/negative buttons, where the rating you give is the truncated logarithm of the number of times you press the button. So you can like or dislike things a little very easily, but you have to expend 10x as much effort to really like/dislike things, and 100x as much effort to express absolute adoration/hatred.

Effectively, this would be a "proof of emotional work": it's not a measure of your own subjective experience of your reaction to the product, but rather measuring your level of objectively-observable motivation to [dis]recommend the product. Which, I would think, would neatly get around all the arguments about "what it means" for something to be 3/4/5 stars—provoking a large number of people to click a like (or dislike!) button 10 times seems like a pretty good predictor of some objective property that the product has. (Whether that property is "quality" is up for debate.)
I know it's SOP for Silicon Valley to see massive losses for years while a business is established, but it seems like Uber has absolutely no reason to not be profitable within a year or less. Uber is, for all intents and purposes, a platform for user acquisition and operational cost savings for a decades-old industry (taxis) that are able to be profitable on a small scale all over the world. Car services were all making money charging sustainable rates to willing customers. If the model was just to normalize pricing a bit, gain efficiency at scale and smooth the customer experience with technology, it should be an absolute gimme to be profitable. I have a hard time understanding why their business isn't 90% smoke and mirrors.
interesting. I guess extremely old systems are a different beast than just old ones.

it's also probably very different whether the system has been continuously adjusted and fixed for 40 years, or if it's just stayed there.
Sounds like you met a very particular HR archetype and they likely took delight in the games they played with you. You're better off knowing about those sort of HR depts than not.
Awesome post ! Best of the Week !
I'd like to explicitly make a point (your description seems to hint at it) that star ratings also indicate something orthogonal to liking stuff, something like segmentation of types of content.

Let's use a food analogy - I may go to a very fancy restaurant with exquisite food, and see that it holds up to its standards and is quite okay, and deserving all its stars. And in comparison I may have a basic hotdog or a sloppy burger, and admit that it's really nothing special, the fancy stuff was better, and that hotdog deserves less stars.... but at the same time that definitely does not mean that I always prefer the fancy stuff, and I can reasonably want that hotdog right now.

So that's the same with movie star ratings. I can at the same time agree that I liked movie A much better than movie B (and rank them accordingly), and I might re-watch movie A the fourth time and wouldn't bother with movie B ever... and at the same time not be in the mood for a complex movie like A, and want a simple, cheap, stupid movie similar to B, but with more explosions.

It's clear that 1 star sucks, but "5-star movies" and "4-star movies" perhaps simply indicate different genres of something roughly like "fancy" and "non-fancy" movies; and a fancy movie that's not really good doesn't get 4 stars but much worse; much like in the food analogy if the fancy restaurant serves something comparable in quality to that basic hotdog, it's not getting the same rating as the hot dog stand but much worse because of the unmet expectations.
Agree, wouldn't recommend Clojure to beginners. As it stands today, it is a tool for experienced programmers mostly.
I think another question for me is how much their "mature" markets have any real moat. Uber intentionally killed of most of their competition, hoping for monopoly rents. But rideshare strikes me as a very low barrier to entry.

Uber was certainly technologically innovative a decade ago. But a lot of the mobile and geo stuff is now off-the-shelf or as-a-service tech. Now that they're not subsidizing rides, even in this discussion we see people feeling the pinch. Uber's going to have to extract a lot of profit to reward investors and pursue growth. I think they're becoming vulnerable to low-cost competitors who just want to get by. E.g., driver co-ops and local specialty companies grabbing market niches.
I'm too good to have narcissism!

Honestly, I think the best way to deal with that is knowing you're not prefect, you're not the opinions of others and you don't need to be the best. You just need to be a better version of you. Learn to love yourself and this all becomes a lot easier.

That's just my personal opinion.
Elon Musk SpaceX satellite business 'likely' to spin off, IPO
So this reinforces the point that ambition and hard work pays off.
There is every incentive in the world to do whatever one wants to our elections right now. It's a free-for-all of bad, patchwork technologies, zero oversight, and a political establishment that is openly encouraging nation state interference.

I am deathly afraid for our elections this year.
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Frankly, I've thought a lot about narcissism and I'm beginning to think it's a bit nonsensical, as in some ways I think it can be used as a term to demonize others to justify the cognitive dissonance of treating them poorly. Similar to any kind of generalization... you assign a label to dehumanize them.

For example, some commonly associated traits ascribed to narcissism are a desire of power, status, or admiration from others; the the self-perception of being unique, and a lack of empathy for others. Now why would someone psychologically end up fixated on these traits? Well perhaps, they've been treated poorly and are dejected from others. They are on the receiving end of lack of empathy, are downtrodden, and abused. If they had power, status, admiration, or generally were treated well they wouldn't feel like their ego's were so fragile. So they exaggerate their importance to try to gain what they're lacking, and lash out if they feel they are wronged.

So, to me, people with these traits seem to be concerned about what others think of them. Sure the "them", at the end of that last sentence makes it seem they're being self-centered. But read it again; the words "concerned about others" co-exist in that sentence - words that describe altruism. Why would someone be concerned with their appearance? Perhaps they've been treated poorly by others... and are worried they're unacceptable to society... So they focus on themselves.

I'd say don't worry about it much, it's easy to beat yourself up. I know that's not much help, but for me thinking this way helps me realize I'm not perfect nor no-one is and that there are many grey areas in life that are subjective. In all, you might not actually be narcissistic...
People open secondary Gmail accounts all the time and they are never closed. I don't think the reason your account was closed was that it was for your son.

Were you uploading a lot of images/videos? That might have triggered some alert that you were using the account as backup/storage. That has been against their policy for a long time.
> I’ve never heard anybody say “oh I made $70k last year after taxes and rent.”

Really? That's pretty much how I and everyone I know talks about compensation.
The only thing I can think of is a mind share argument: they want you to watch the latest blockbuster instead. The Disney Vault is the cynical endpoint of this line of thinking.
Companies that are that concerned about PR spin their situation with actual PR.
You're more likely to survive now, but it's definitely nowhere near an impossibility. There are tons of stories in the news on a regular basis of people who left their cars running accidentally and died of CO poisoning, mostly elderly who likely didn't realize they left it running.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/13/business/deadly-convenien...

Also, catalytic converters don't actually work until they're at operating temperatures.

https://www.abe.iastate.edu/extension-and-outreach/carbon-mo...
> Power of Attorney

Isn't this similar to the same trick those business loan sharks employ? They ask you to sign a "Notice Of Default" or similar document upfront, that they present to the court to get an instant summary judgement if anything goes wrong with repayment?
Show HN: Cheatjs – lookup the JavaScript APIs with an in browser suite of tests
I built this as I wanted a quickly navigate the JavaScript API documentation and also leverage tests. It is an interactive cheat sheet where you can find methods easily and can play around with them in a test environment.

It is not complete as I still have more APIs to add but I was keen to get some feedback! Thank you
> consists of two balls attached to pendulum rods and swinging on opposite sides of a rotating shaft

Random aside: This is the origin of the phrase "balls out" to mean going full-blast. When the locomotive was putting out maximum power the spinning balls on the governor would be furthest out, inscribing their largest circle.
I'm really curious of what the future of the internet is. The reason these services are mainstream and popular is because they are free and offer customized experiences. Without ad money how would you expect more services like this in the future. Before you say charge money for them... I just don't believe this works within the context of social applications, plus the group of people that primarily use these applications don't really have the ability to pay.
I think I've noticed another change in the few days too. This one related to closing credits.

Maybe a month back, they started cutting off playback as soon as closing credits started to roll. I can understand the motivation because sometimes credits are boring.

But other times, they are part of the enjoyment of watching the show. For example, every episode of "Grace and Frankie" ends with a different song, carefully chosen to fit in thematically with that episode. People have written articles about these song choices, made Spotify playlists, etc. Yet Netflix cut them off. (And that's a Netflix original show.)

Anyway, in the last few days, it seems like they've stopped doing this. They now have a button in the UI that will stop playing the credits, but the button looks different, and it doesn't cut the credits off by default.
Before he was bringing encryption to the masses, Moxie M. was a sailor
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Uh. I can certainly expect a business to be responsible in it's treatment of others. They exist at the sufferance of the society that grants their charter. Why should shitty behavior be normalized, ever?

And why are you stanning so hard for a process whose bloodless mind would bleed you dry and kick you to the curb for a nickel? Was Steinbeck really that right?
Yeah, but I don't think you'll get a great representation here to give you any true market validation. I would go specific if enterprise IT is the area you like, that seems like a great one to get into.
Absolutely. SEO is content & links. Good (valuable to the searcher) content earns links (over time), low quality content needs various tactics of increasing dodginess to gain links.
What you describe is not that different from Australia's preferential system afaict, aside from people at one district potentially having different ballots.

Australian ballots are not always simple, and you vote for your local representative so each district has a different one. Often you will have multiple ballots to complete, and some have the choice between above or below the line voting (where above you select some preferences and below you select all preferences, where all may be over 100 boxes).

Parties often hand out small leaflets outside the voting locations with instructions for above the line voting, which is typically a list of around 6 preferences in order.

Despite this, voting in Australia is done with paper, and we have live coverage with real-time counts on election night. Paper works quite well, computers really aren't necessary.
I give feedback on successful coding screens usually.
Take a look at official numbers for how many die of regular influenza. Then compare/contrast with the rest of the world. That's all you have to know.