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Ask HN: How to handle naysayers on your team?
I manage a team of 4 developers and we got a new team member joining our team (internal transfer). Within a week of joining the team , he started playing devil's advocate role and being negative with the team. So my question is how to make him understand our culture and gel with the team?
How is that 42 year old ‘849 patent not expired?
They probably should be, but I don't know of anyone working on this. Do you have citations?
It’s a throwaway, I’ve been using HN for close to a decade. I’ve worked with multiple YC companies and currently work at Google on a team with multiple YC alumni. Refusing to acknowledge facts or listen to reason, becoming insecure and digging in on a completely irrational argument, then digging through my profile in an attempt to turn it into a pointless pissing match is all you’ve done here, and I think that describes discourse on reddit pretty well.

Didn’t mean to hurt your pride, just trying to share some rational ideas in a time of unprecedented hysteria. Think what you want.
Disease prevention has been in DARPAs wheelhouse for a while now. While in grad school, a couple groups at my school worked on a project to predict the future evolution of influenza, so the vaccine order in March will be relevant to the strains dominate in November. https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2016-06-13a
The last time I heard an update, it was that prediction was very difficult as unpredictable random mutation was dominating strain evolution.
Congress already had the judicial branch confirm they have the power to hold people in contempt, but they didn't use that power in this case.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurney_v._MacCracken
There is no way in hell it has the kind of viewing angle to pick up my hand more than a fraction of a second before I touch the phone. Not that it matters, since the camera and the accelerometer can do all those things already.
> Oregon seems to be taking a "wait and see" approach which is ridiculous because no one can "see" anything without adequate testing!

You still see fatalities and the symptomatic without testing.

It's just not preemptive detection, "wait and see" in this context just strikes me as "wait til the hospitals are overwhelmed".

Which is still dumb imho.
Shouldn't the increased tourism be a net win for the local economy though?

I agree its unfortunate if airbnb units increase rents, even a small amount. Finding good data isn't all that easy, but this study [0] from last year suggests airbnb was responsible for about 20% of total rent increase amounts in the areas studied. But, ignoring other potentially beneficial effects is one sided - if tourism was always bad, people should also be against building or operating hotels that could be apartments instead.

[0] https://phys.org/news/2019-08-airbnb-affect-rents-housing-pr...
Scientists are leading Notre Dame’s restoration–and probing its mysteries
yes, I was working in the airline industry at the time (the logistics side) and there was a bunch of stuff, across multiple vendors, that had to change or it would've broke. It would've effectively grounded airlines
I remember hearing a story on NPR years ago years after Y2K with someone knowledgeable on the subject that addressed this question. He gave basically the same answer you did: a lot of effort went into avoiding disaster and a lot of people treated it after the fact as if it was hype or hysteria. I recall the interview because it changed my significantly thinking on the subject. (I wasn't in the industry at the time of Y2K.)

He also noted that a lot of American firms worked with Indian firms to resolve it. Indian engineers were well suited to the problem, according to him, because they had been exposed to a lot of the legacy systems involved during their studies.

He said an interesting consequence of this was that many American companies concluded they could use lower wage Indian engineers on other software projects so it helped initiate a wave of offshoring in the early 2000s.

I couldn't find the story I heard in the NPR archives, but they do have a number of stories reported right around that time if you want to see how it was being discussed and treated by NPR at the time:

https://www.npr.org/search?query=y2k&page=1

I did find this NPR interview with an Indian official from 2009 that notes Y2K's impact in US-Indian economic relations:

But I think the real turning point in many ways in the U.S. relations was Y2K, the 2000 - year 2000, Indian software engineers and computer engineers suddenly found themselves in the U.S. helping the U.S. in adjusting itself to the Y2K problem. And that opened a new chapter in our relations with a huge increase in services, trade and software and computer industry.

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120738...
You can’t optimize for both public transit and personal cars. It’s one or the other, otherwise everyone will opt for personal cars. Also, personal cars consume so much public resource such as land that it doesn’t leave any room for anything else.
Get rid of excess baggage that is disruptive to the team.
Canada Asks U.S. for Assurances Shared Border Will Stay Open
This is not a complicated test to make or run. Most microbiology grad students could make it and every university lab could run them.

Lack of testing does not appear to have been a technology or supply chain problem, possible supply chain probs in future...
Are there any papers or such that have any details about what allows k/q to be so fast? Or would those be considered implementation secrets?

It's always nice to be able to read about the technology and design underpinning something, but in this case at least it'd be understandable if that were not available.
That Canadian electric company scenario happened awhile back and I don't think the system has seen much use.
It was directly the reason I wrote oK. I wasn't satisfied with learning k4 when I knew that somewhere out there Arthur was tinkering with k5, and the only way to have it was to build it...
Definitely can be done with a little bit of impedance losses depending on what you care about. I once wrote it for block floating point on hardware that didn't support it. You can use custom literal suffixes too.
Thanks for saying this. Before I read your comment, I thought they were selling opened box or used Steelcase chairs, but 100% authentic. There's nothing on the site that I could find that discloses that parts of the chairs are not authentic. If that's the case, it's super shady of them.
Ask HN: An AI that recommends where to look for remote engineers?
I'm working on an ML algorithm that would predict how long will it take to hire an engineer with the given skill set in different locations.

Looks like I have more or less figured the learning part - feeding it with the local recruiters' contact lists and LinkedIn scrapes.

However, I'm worried that I might be building a solution in search of a problem :P.

Would you pay $50 per job for this kind of intelligence?

Thanks!
This says more about you than 'enough of the population being seriously disturbed'
The measles virus is much better studied and it behaves like the aerosol described. It's contagious to the point where any sort of contact in an enclosed space is practically guaranteed to infect anyone who isn't immunized from a vaccine or previous exposure (and sometimes even then).

Based on the numbers South Korea has put out for numbers of infected vs tested and the extensive contact tracing they've done, it doesn't seem that this virus quite reaches that level of infectiousness. I think there's more to the story, like HCoV-19 may have a half life long enough for experiments to detect on surfaces and in an aerosol, but short enough that it doesn't present enough of a viral load to infect anyone relatively quickly.
Each method has its own innate complexity, the complexity of "whats this method do? when do I use it? Why would I use this method instead of a different method in this class? Now I have to dive into this method to read its implementation which pulls me out of the reading context I was in before"

Also, your point about the meaning beyond the code can be served by a comment, which drops the constraint of "don't make it too long" and "write in camel case", and also allows inline code reading!

There's a time and a place for everything. I reccomend "A Philosophy of Software Design" for a book that elaborates on the idea of "less and longer methods tend to be better than many concise methods".

What you want to make short/simple is the API, rather than the implementation!
JavaScript, and thus Typescript by extension, lived for many years without classes. The addition of classes is relatively recent. It stands to reason that classes are not heavily adopted since since a lot of the foundational work happened when classes were not even an option.

In contrast, I cannot image being able to get far in Java without using classes. The concept of using classes is central to that language.
It is insofar as the FDA and CDC are controlled by the president and both agencies could make emergency exceptions.

On a phone call the day after the C.D.C. and F.D.A. had told Dr. Chu to stop, officials relented, but only partially, the researchers recalled. They would allow the study’s laboratories to test cases and report the results only in future samples. They would need to use a new consent form that explicitly mentioned that results of the coronavirus tests might be shared with the local health department.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/coronavirus-testing-de...
That's one thing that can happen, but it's not the only thing.

What you're describing is a push model. Somebody on high creates a vision and assigns goals. Workers are just seen turning that into outputs. It's a common way to work, especially in "known problem/known solution" projects, but it has its flaws. See Cutler on "feature factories", for example. Or Blank's "Four Steps to the Epiphany".

But what if the solution or perhaps the problem is unknown? Push systems don't work. Instead, I favor cross-functional teams that pursue outcomes (as opposed to outputs). In that context, the vision is a living thing, created collaboratively, as is the plan. Problems are explored, and solutions discovered. The speed at which a team can learn and test solutions is limited by communications latency.

And of course experts aren't born that way. Even if you're in a "known problem/known solution" space, sustainable companies need to find ways to turn novices into experts. Again, that's about learning, which does not work well in high-latency environments.
The Wuhan situation is emblematic of our habit of running societies at 100%. Everything is 'just in time', there are just enough hospital beds to minimize costs, markets leveraged to the max, no slack in the system, no redundancy or robustness, critical supply chains for vital goods can come down without preparation etc.

It makes you think of systems thinkers like Donella Meadows and her writing on ecological systems, growth and leverage points. You can go straight from lack of sick leave, to viral spread at the workplace, to shutting down trade routes, to lack of masks in the hospital, to doctors themselves being infected, reinforcing and multiplying the situation and so on.

The question will be if people after this finally go back to the drawing board and we ask ourselves if we need to make systemic changes to how we organise ourselves because even after this situation is over, there's the chance we get something ten times worse in the future. As Russ Ackoff said, an architect designs the house before they improve the rooms but I sadly doubt we'll be wiser this time.
So going down to basics you have a system that effectively ruins people for the f.. of it and without ANY repercussions for guilty. Dress it any like you want but the result are what matters. USSR also had nice constitution.
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Damn, really? Has it been kind of a waste then? Seemed like a good way to handle smart grid data, for an old school utility that can't feasibly roll its own large time series storage solution.
I used to have a job that relied on FOIA requests to perform my duties. Like any inter-organizational relationship it took a mix of formal requests and personal contact to get what we needed. And the ease at which we could get our FOIAs filled depended on the gov department budget and morale. You can define policy then structurally drain departments of The resources necessary to execute that policy & their mission.
You’d probably lose the extra salary to overpriced and subpar health insurance, education, housing, and retirement.
The rights are not necessarily waived but are subordinate to military regulations (UCMJ) in order to promote "good order and discipline". Discipline is a critical factor in the effectiveness of military units. The courts have typically trusted rulings of military courts since civilian courts are not necessarily well equipped to understand how a ruling would impact the military.

Here's a good overview of the context for limiting the rights of military personnel: https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1131/military-perso...
> I cannot image being able to get far in Java without using classes

Well you literally can't write a Java program without writing a class.
I do hope the push to WFH helps normalize remote work - that’s something I’m optimistic about.

I think it’s a stretch to say a virus pandemic will be the catalyst for climate policy change but stranger things have happened.
In social contexts, I view niceness almost entirely as positive. In business contexts, I think you have to be much more paranoid.

In business, if the goal is to make money (usually it is), you generally want to avoid niceties and get to the real questions like: is this other party honest, reliable, has a solid history in their relationships.

I see it as a red flag when someone trying to sell something or make money off a relationship with me is focused on how much I like them personally. Salesmen, in particular, try to connect to customers on a personal level with the minimal effort required to do so. And then leverage the positive feelings into a sale. I believe this is unethical and a risk. Especially for people that consider themselves kind.

In the context of business, I prefer someone who is upfront about how they plan to make money from or with me and then accurately explains the value or roi they provide. I also have more information about my business than the other person. Maybe I share something that makes the partnership a bad idea from a business standpoint. At this point, I respect people who walk away and stay in touch for when that relationship would make sense.
> But even when you work in the same building you still have to find a time slot that fits for a meeting.

That is definitely not the only way to work. A cross-functional team sitting together and focused on outcomes can be much more organic than that. Think of the writer's room for a show, for example. That can sound weird, but Devin's "Artful Making" does a good job explaining the parallels between knowledge work and how theater/TV/movie people work.
He needed a ride from Libbey Bowl (a big park in the center of town) to some other location in Ojai (which is a small enough town that giving a stranger a ride isn't completely weird). My buddy and I drove him to the place he wanted to be dropped off while he talked for a bit about being a time traveler. He was wearing a ton of different bracelets, and when we commented on that he gave us each a bracelet (in the same style as those yellow Livestrong bracelets people wore in the 2000s). Both bracelets were identical black bracelets with red symbols, that looked kind of like they were off of Led Zepplin IV.

I'm not sure how old he was. I've never been very good at estimating people's ages, but I'd guess maybe in his 30s or 40s?
Here is a report into the negative effects of airbnb.

https://upgo.lab.mcgill.ca/publication/short-term-cities/sho...

Here is the small pox rash over Montreal:

http://insideairbnb.com/montreal/?neighbourhood=C%C3%B4te-de...

Repeated ad-infinitum across the globe by a company that figured out:

1. how to put pictures on web sites

2. regulatory arbitrage of residential housing
Going through your links:

#1 provides no numbers and no details beyond a claim that "They lack machines to ventilate all those gasping for air."

#2 does not even go that far: it speaks of "a huge turnover issue and leaving hospitals at near capacity" (near, not above, contradicting #1)

#3 is from an intensivist in Seattle, Washington, not from Italy.

I chose the Washington Post link because it provides numbers: "Lombardy has just 737 intensive-care beds available for coronavirus patients. More than 600 are filled. [...] The region is racing to bring more beds online; it added 127 on Thursday."

(Lombardy is the region with most cases.)

This is consistent with the claim in your link #2 that hospitals are near capacity (and not above it, as suggested by your link #1).

The point of all this pedantry is simply that I don't think saturation can be invoked yet to explain the high Italian mortality rate.

Addition:

Here's a slightly older Italian source (March 11) which puts nation-wide ICU capacity in Italy at 5090, with 887 in use:

https://www.linkiesta.it/it/article/2020/03/11/italia-corona...
That’s part of it. Depending on your settings, it may also make an emergency call, but it will always lock Face ID and Touch ID.
Before you write off 50 million people as "seriously disturbed", you should find out their motives. Not the cherry-picked mockery of them you see on social media, but their more common motives. To make such a crude judgement as you did, you have to be ignoring some huge factor. If you conclude that factor is "they're stupid" or "they're evil", then you haven't found it. This applies generally to many controversial ideas. Being unable to see it from any other point of view doesn't make you right.
So this is a good feature for fighting against DRM.
I wouldn't think the length of imprisonment would be longer than it would take to see a judge in most cases.

The cycle I'm referencing is usually fail to pay your fines, at some point dependent upon jurisdiction and familiarity to the court, arrest warrant is issued, if caught you are arrested and taken to jail to be held until you see a judge, accrue more fines, possibly repeat.

I'm not making statements that this will happen, only that it absolutely can and does happen to people.
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Can't count the number of downvotes I've received for pointing out that the official Chinese numbers are hugely underreported. This article is just the tip of the iceberg.

This is why I don't entirely trust their claimed recovery. Because an authoritarian government requires respect and/or fear in order to rule, face becomes a priority above all else. You simply cannot trust such governments. This wouldn't be the first time that the Chinese government has lied about something significant, and the Soviet Union is also an appropriate precedent.
It is in fact relevant to your claim that it sounds like somebody came up with it as a career advancement technique. Rather than it being part of a decades-long dialog about how to build software.
You don't get to decide what is proper for other people's purposes. They do.
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Ah neat!

Very recently I picked up an FPGA dev board and started playing with implementing my first toy soft-CPU. For fun, and definitely not for profit, I decided to design my own ISA for it.

I decided to see if I could make a RISC-y MISC (minimal instruction set computer) design. From what I could see a lot of MISC-based computers had quite complex instructions.

While my resulting ISA is likely quite crap, being my very first ISA ever, it's been quite a fun exercise so far. I programmed quite a lot of asm back in the days, but thinking about which instructions are needed and why was something else.
ROI or opportunity cost. I can continue to pay 3-4% on a few hundred thousand for a few decades. Meanwhile I have a few hundred thousand “cash in hand” that I can allocate to other assets/investments. I’m betting that my other investments will return more than my 3-4% cost. And since we’re talking decades I can choose when to unwind this allocation. As I near retirement then yes, I expect to pay off the mortgage just like I’ll move out of broad equities and in to bonds and dividend focused equities.
"In the case of the Earth-Sun system, tidal friction can't transfer angular momentum from the Earth's spin to the angular momentum of the Earth's orbit about the Sun, because the Earth is not orbiting itself; the mechanism that transfers angular momentum from the Earth's spin to the Moon's orbit about the Earth simply does not apply to the Earth's orbit about the Sun."

This argument cannot be correct. Suppose the sun were a point mass. It would still have tides at Earth, just like the real Sun does, but the interaction would not be able to cause any change to its spin. So, by conservation of angular momentum, if the Earth loses rotational angular momentum, that MUST be transferred to orbital angular momentum.

The mechanism of course still exists. The Earth and Moon orbit each other; the Sun and Earth orbit each other. The bulge on the Earth induced by the Moon accelerates the Moon, and the bulge on the Earth induced by the Sun accelerates the Sun.
I like it. Can most/all dogs be trained for bomb sniffing, and is there any age cutoff?
The problem is determining what determinism determines and how it determines it. And that's a precondition before you can even consider superdeterminism.

There is nothing in classical physics that suggests the universe is deterministic on cosmic scales. There's plenty in physics which suggests it isn't.

If you want to propose any form of determinism, be it superdeterminism, a bulk universe, or any of the other popular variations, you have to start by proving that causality is infinitely precise and absolute. Because otherwise your causality is partly random and therefore not truly causal at all.

Our experience of causality suggests that real measurements have limited precision, and predictions can only be made on limited timescales.

So anyone who is proposing superdeterminism is claiming that this can be fixed - by hidden variables, with noise-free super-realistic precision, which allow a universe-wide predictive horizon.

Free will is a side issue here, because the problem doesn't go away even if the universe has no observers.

The problem isn't whether free will hides super-predictive hidden variables, it's whether it's plausible that super-predictive hidden variables exist at all.

If you believe they do, you have a first-order universe in which these mysterious entities operate with effectively infinite precision behind the scenes, to create a second-order universe which has limited precision in practice.

Of course that may be happening. But it seems like quite unlikely.
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