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Many doors are really are difficult to first use. Recent experiences:

A door I needed to open for an elderly person who didn’t have the strength to open it (fire stop door with strong closing spring - a potentially fatal UI).

A door that needs two hands to open - one for key (spring loaded) and one for the handle. My friend with one arm complained about it because they wouldn’t be able to open it.

Teaching someone how to use a touch unlock door on a car (great UX once learnt, but multiple weird UI interactions that one needs to learn to use).

An automatic door that wouldn’t open even with face up or waving hands (I’m guessing I was close to background temperature, but who knows why? Took 20 seconds)

A door that seemed to be locked (needed to push harder? Or push handle harder? Someone else then opened it).

Many locks are very unobvious which way the key turns (e.g. on my car anticlockwise unlocks the drivers, clockwise unlocks passenger: I regularly still get it wrong).

So many shop doors that are unclear whether you push or pull.

A shop door that says “PULL” but I don’t realise I am reading it from the reverse side so I pull when I should have pushed... (I often don’t notice I am mirror/reverse reading something).
It's a tribute page, not a money maker site. They did fine.
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Apple still requires notarization and thus checks for viruses for non-app store apps.
5 - Not have kids. This is the most important one.
Wow. This is such a good comment. I remember when I was a junior engineer and knew more than many of the "senior" engineers at a job a few years back. It didn't matter at all, as seniority outranked sensibility.

I was thinking about this a bit after reading your comment. Now, I say this as having recently negotiated pretty hard for a "Staff" title, and previously had a "Team Lead" title. I think in certain situations it makes sense to have the title authority to shoot obviously bad engineering problems down, but this has been the exception, rather than the rule, in most of my 12 years of being a software engineer.

So your comment makes me wonder: would it make sense to have a system where everyone would simply be called "Engineer", but allow engineers to vote secretly after having worked with another engineer, on various aspects of their colleague's technical expertise. Engineering Managers or perhaps HR would be aware of the engineering votes, but engineers wouldn't, which would remove much of the implicit bias in engineering meetings. Rather, pay grades would be determined by votes, but no one would ever just "Leave it to Yakaaccount, she's the principal engineer". Everyone would have responsibility to be a solid engineer.
I used to work for a company which used S3 as its data backend - copying lots of files in and out of S3 is how the product worked. It was also how we enabled QA/STG and the CI/CD pipelines to interact with some of that data - sanitizing it was just a matter of removing or rewriting metadata.

We never solved this problem well.

Our first go was a naive `aws s3 cp --recursive` between the source and destination buckets - this executes all files to copy sequentially. Not good for performance when you have hundreds of thousands of files.

Our next go was to use some custom Ruby scripts to do it, executed under JRuby so that we could take advantage of Java threads to multithread the process. This also didn't work well - the Ruby SDK's `CopyObject` implementation seems to hang some threads if you transfer multiple files concurrently. Our team was primarily Ruby-based, so going pure Java was an option that we didn't pursue.

We then heard about S3 Batch Operations, and launched an unsuccessful POC, because Batch Operations don't work on files larger than 5GB. That's an immediate non-starter for our use case.

We ended up with a horrible hack after many person-weeks of work on this problem:
1) Get a list of all of the files in the source bucket, and put them on a queue.
2a) If a file is small, copy it using a native Java/Ruby threaded worker.
2b) If the files is large, fork an `aws` CLI process and have it `s3 cp ...` the file.

I'm not surprised at all that copying data took these seven engineers two full days.
It could have been any number of meteors over the last 4 billion years, on either planet.
The challenge of quitting software is clearing stating what other job you would like to do. I just recently discovered there are many police officers who were former lawyers that quit the law out of frustration and enjoy policing so much more.
Wow, that growth is absolutely insane even by startup standards.

Has there been another company since Google that grew so fast? $19mil revenue in 2yrs, then tripling and quadrupling.
The development machines used to create satellite software are likely running Windows, but the satellites are more likely to be running a real time OS such as VxWorks, Rodos, RTEMS, etc.
(Author here). Appreciate the correction. And yes I do love Krug and I think his thinking has been misinterpreted by many.
> Especially with window functions.

Why are companies so bad at hiring?
To be fair, malware could also modify the kernel and achieve the same effect, so it does provide one step towards security and protecting the user.
> use whatever works without prejudice

Does anyone else’s spidey senses start tingling when they read such “common sense” directives? If you’ve been around a while you know how these formulations play out, the dominant group gets their way, and don’t bother contesting it because hey man, we’re all pragmatists here! Don’t bring your dogma around here.

Call me crazy but I imagine the ultimate emphasis is on the third precept, frugality.
Don’t be so hard on yourself mate, you aren’t defined by your job or salary. We should try not to constantly compare ourselves to other people like this, there is always somebody better off or more successful.

Based on nothing but these two comments I’d much rather hang out with you than I would the commenter above you. So there’s one thing you win at.
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I think I saw that implied unexpected twist in NEO-Scavenger, actually. There are newspaper headlines from before the collapse (which was related to a supernatural force of belief being real causing fears to manifest). They mentioned a Chinese Supersoldier Rebellion that had overthrown their government creators, I guess paired hyperintelligence and courage are the last things you want in a populace as an oligarchy or dictatorship as they will see things going wrong and won't be afraid to risk their lives righting it effectively.
I disagree, close in proximity to 'stunning', however, finding true unique life that originated on a planet by itself organically goes a long way towards proving/disproving the fermi paradox.

I think it was maybe Carl Sagan who said (something like): if we find life in our solar system it's probably game over for us, as it means the great filter is likely ahead of us, not behind us.

Though, you can take one look at the world right now, and not see how easy it would be to just destroy it if we aren't careful (and we're not being careful).
I don’t use Fortran regularly, or much at all, any more, so I’ll defer to someone who knows. But I think that after some point, the standards committee made a commitment to backwards compatibility, and these deprecated features actually still work, although people would be unlikely to use them in new code, because they are now considered bad practice.
If you move into a house I imagine looking at it with your own eyes (and even from the inside!) is a much better UX than Google Maps, but maybe that's just me.
Yo buddy, no need to compare yourself with others. You should compare yourself now with your past self six years ago: are you a better person now?

If you've spent 6 years doing leetcode and you're still bad at it, then perhaps realise that such problem solving games are not for everyone. Like sudoku. I prefer the word game where you find the word in a grid and I hate crosswords.

We're all different and that's what makes us unique and interesting.
It's very HN that we've been trolled into debating the irrefutable, widely-known, totally obvious fact that a CD reflects light.
>being forced to improvise with limited to no support from communities, schools, or governments.

Everyone is trying to figure out how to continue life during this pandemic. Why would you expect all levels to have this figured out?
On the contrary that would make the possibility that the great filter is the appearance of a cell very unlikely.

That leaves these possible obvious filters: single cell to multicellular life or planetary resources exhaustion.
Maybe less extreme, have one child.
It's true that this doesn't list all the websites that are registered, nor do all the domains lead to a working website. However, I think that most of the invalid websites are not caused by NS entries. As for the Zone File Access Agreement, it prohibits uses that allow the access of a significant portion of the data. An immense amount of time would have to be spent scraping data to get any portion that could be considered significant.
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My wife is a kindergarten teacher, and has been back at (virtual) teaching now for 2 weeks. Whatever your political persuasion, it’s pretty mind blowing how little the districts prepared for and invested in a virtual year. It’s not exactly like this snuck up on them, we’ve been locked down for 6 months now. You’d think they’d have decided on common software platforms, provided some training for the teachers, something.

Luckily, my wife is fairly tech savvy so is hanging in there, but even just general things like how to have an effective virtual planning meeting is just not something she’s really ever had to do. So I’ve been trying to help her and her coworkers, like recording a half hour video where I just explained all the different capabilities of Zoom, and another where I explained Trello and Google slides.

Just sad how the school administration’s plan boiled down to burying their head in the sand and hoping it would all go away. Really bolsters the narrative that they just don’t care about the teachers.
Yes, that is why he used a burner account.
Even assuming that Oracle does indeed have some features that Postgres does not (even with some extension), one will still need to make the case that _that_ specific Oracle feature is indispensable to a given government project.
If a journal is so out-of-touch with the practice of science it can't be bothered to update its readers on a major change in a widely-used tool, that's a problem with the journal.
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Actually, at YC we tell every company we fund that ideally they would treat every dollar they raise from investors as the last, and get profitable from the money they raised already.

Not every company can do that (i.e., Boom, which is building supersonic airplanes) but if you can, you should.
Yes, I'm thinking about a way to implement that. It's too many domains to filter in advance, but it might be possible to redirect the user to a new site if the current one is dead.
And, unfortunately, they are expecting to deliver it 6 months from now.
As I said in my original post, everyone obviously understands that the percentage isn't 0, and understands why.

But the idea that homosexual couples have less children than heterosexual couples isn't something that really needed study.

Also, this was in the late 90's, you're probably not going to find anything on google about what I specifically saw because that's just how the internet works nowadays.
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> They justify the claim that phone vendors enforce control unrelated to security.

That's not really the claim that was being made in the original quote. I don't disagree that phone vendors also sometimes enforce control unrelated to security.

But, the original claims were that "your security and privacy aren't really protected" and "the main point of these security measures is to enforce control". Your examples don't really support these (much stronger) claims.

> And the various linuxes and FOSS Android ROMs can serve as examples of reasonably secure systems without walled gardens.

I'm not really sure how that follows? I suppose you could argue that the various linuxes have fewer malware problems but I suspect that's more a function of demand than anything else. I'm not sure how other Android ROMs are relevant? In any case neither of those examples address the issue of privacy. (As in mechanisms to help prevent "rogue" apps from exfiltrating your private data via abuse of legitimate APIs.)
The question posed in this thread was "interview experience better for applicants". I stand by the point that presenting:

* in a formal setting,

* to people you don't know,

* with a high stakes outcome (performance determines whether you get the job)

Is not neither a skill that developers need to have, nor is creating a "better experience for applicants". This is in no way analogous to giving an update at standup.

I've had applicants physically shake during interviews when I'm doing my best to create a comfortable environment. Some people just get really nervous. And when hired those same people have become comfortable quickly and performed well in their day jobs.
Even if it violates conservation of momentum, that doesn't really mean anything, since this is all happening on a quantum scale. It would definitely violate physics if you didn't need to apply a constant energy source for this to work, i.e. just one laser beam that spins in there virtually indefinitely while providing thrust. However, that is not the case.

This device presumably requires a reasonable amount of energy comparable to other existing drives. So what might happen here is a potentially unexplained quantum effect. Quantized Inertia seems like a really reasonable idea. Why wouldn't it be quantized? It doesn't even make sense for it not to be quantized.

Anyway, I hope this thing works.
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His strategies worked at first, at least before he had really delivered anything of value. It started to unravel later when he couldn’t deliver on all (or really any) of his promises.

I think he was operating under the assumption that he could build rapport quickly and then hire a team underneath him to get the work done. That might work at a hyper growth startup that values growth over profit, but we were a mature and profitable company looking to keep headcount reasonable. Most of his plans were so over engineered that they would have take 5-10x the engineers to actually finish on time, so they ended up being half-finished projects that requires constant on-call attention.

That was the tipping point for a lot of us in the old guard. There was an exodus around that time, including myself. It’s not worth fighting those political battles day in and day out while walking on eggshells in every Slack channel.
Like all companies Apple does well when it looks after its users.

In the case of both the App Store and third party repairers that involves protecting users against bad actors. I have downloaded dodgy apps in the early days of the store and have had repairers use counterfeit, defective components for my Mac.

Unfortunately protecting against bad actors inevitably comes at the cost of openness.
Thank you so much for offering to help, but we are looking for someone in California. Although UpCounsel looks very promising, and I've already started talking to lawyers on that. Thanks a lot!
Hum... ok, let me digress...

If there is an observable change in nerve terminals by proliferation, and neuron grow ratio is slow but (I assume) constant and known, could we "go back" in time and estimate an interval of time when the fasciculation started?

(Could support/reject the theory of an previous event that triggered the disease like a neurotoxic poison or so)
This is knowable without a scientific study...
>The history channel is not complete trash. They have good experts on there and their productions are beautiful

The History channel uncritically presents any wild ideas that get them viewers. Here are some of the things they presented during an episode on Native Americans and aliens:

* Native Americans are descended from aliens

To start, I'm going to gloss over the unsavory implications of saying something that could be re-worded as "certain ethnic groups aren't fully human". They gave absolutely no evidence for this, no explanation as to why native Americans in particular and not Europeans or Asians. The entire thing reeked of the "noble savage" trope. Plus the ignorance in assuming that there weren't dozen of different native tribes.

* Alien spacecraft use native reservations as refuges from the government because of existing treaties

The evidence they gave for this was an eye-witness who claimed to see a craft that was being followed by a government helicopter, only for the helicopter to break off its pursuit after the craft crossed onto native land. So, these crafts can travel between stars, but can't outmaneuver a helicopter? Also, call me cynical, but I can't imagine that the government would deign to respect native treaties in such a situation. What could the tribal government even do to protest a violation of such treaties? Who would take them seriously?

* Native Americans can telepathically summon/control UFOs, allegedly due to their alien heritage

I'm an American and yet I can't summon predator drones. I can't even summon an Uber without a credit card. Seriously, what kind of authentication system is that?

* The aliens gave the natives medical knowledge

Except when it really matters, like during those smallpox epidemics. They couldn't even share knowledge about variolation?

>Yeah, the guy who invented Newtonian physics believed in an all-powerful Creator-God who created the world in a week or so. It would be fun to see you sit down with him and explain to him that the basis of his worldview was, in your opinion, 'woo'.

And yet you never see chemistry textbooks based on Newton's alchemical theories. You do see textbooks on Newtonian physics because the work that Newton started was empirically tested over centuries and when its predictions failed, new theories were created and empirically tested to supersede them.

>Actual science also doesn't explain very much.

Science explains the ebb and flow of the tides. It explains the dance of eclipses and the never-ending cycle of the seasons. What explanation comes from a psychic who claims to channel the spirit of a 10,000 year old alien who lived in Atlantis?
Not sure if its the exact same sentiment, but I've started to describe my work as "hard in all the wrong ways".
The node.js has a big blm banner for example and claims that white surpremacy and police brutality is global issues when it's really just very US-based.

I just don't see how that has anything to do with javascript development.
Ask HN: What “seeds” can I plant early and reap the benefits later?
Recently, I was pleasantly surprised by a small investment portfolio I created years ago (and forgot about), which has grown nicely over the years. It got me thinking, this is one of the things that, simply by knowing it and putting just a bit of an effort, one can reap the benefits in the years to come.

What other things should I start on early and let them grow "for free"? A few things come to mind:

Planting a tree

Investing early and properly

Learning a language

What else do you recommend?
Everything reflects light, but not everything reflects it clear enough to read documents through. I haven't held a CD in ages, so it it's possible that folks don't remember exactly how reflective they are. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I believe it is not /willing/ to as opposed to not able to judging by GDP per capitia.
"I expect scientists will be working hard to propose non-biological processes that could explain these results."

If scientists don't attempt to explain a dramatic claim using other mundane explanations I'd be very suspicious of calling them scientists. Occam's razor is a useful tool. Be very suspicious if dramatic claims aren't tested. Otherwise I have a bridge for sale...

"I also expect some new Venus probes real soon now."

Maybe. You should also expect a lot more telescopes of all descriptions and varieties to be pointing at Venus. Multiple compute clusters are likely digging through old and new imaging data even as I write this.
The problem here is that print "statement" can't be upgraded to a log "function" easily as the programmer grows in experience.

A print "function" conversely is quite easy to upgrade to a log "function".

In addition, "print" is almost always a code smell in professional code. The moment you need to localize, change destination, etc., "print" goes right out the window.

I have lots of beefs with Python 3. Changing print to a function is NOT one of them.
TSMC likely wouldn't buy them in a million years, lest they lose their valued neutral status.
Such a microbe may have adapted to thrive in sulfuric acid. Unlikely, but it would be fascinating if it turns out to have happened that way...
Your phone is a little portable wannabe Orwell's telescreen, with more sensors than even Orwell could have imagined.
Thanks for the feedback! I'm thinking about ways to prevent loading broken websites. I'm not sure it's possible to filter for only a certain type of website though, I think there are way too many sites for that.
? I’m confused how your comment relates to mine. Did you post on the wrong thread?
“The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the crown. It may be frail – its roof may shake – the wind may blow through it – the storm may enter – the rain may enter – but the King of England cannot enter.”

Except in a "State of emergency" in Victoria, Australia, in this present day.
I was a big flash junkie. When firebug came out, my first thought was “why isn’t there a swfbug”. It was amazing. You add a script and your page has a built in debugger. I made my php pages have a special url param __firebug=1 and it would load with firebug.

Firebug had other nice things where you could respond with server traces. Made it really nice to debug server perf too.

I remember how mind blown I was when I read the firebug source code. At that moment I wanted to a competent enough programmer to write that kind of code. Jquery was another huge eye opener too. I did write a react like dom differ back in the day but js was too slow.
The page has been redirected.. I not a wikip expert, but here's the history page, to see what happened:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gell-Mann_amnesia...

The talk page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect

Seems like it was merged/deleted earlier this year, no sign of discussion about that though.
Is the extreme danger for Earth or for the life form? What is it? Is it the risk of some extreme replication?
I think my favorite is by Genesis. There are a few others with 3D models. The only point I was making is LUCID isn't the first to do it and so it's not nearly as special as the article made it out to be.

Give me an option to put graphics, underglow, and a sweet body kit on my next car then I'll agree it's like a NFS game :)
At best very indirectly by having to compete with "lotto tickets" in theory for start ups and total compensation but in practice not really since the sensible default financial assumption when factoring in equity stake at a random start up is "worth $0 because it will probably fail".
Essentially it's the fermi paradox. If life is out there, why aren't there signs? The universe should be teaming with life but isn't. There's a few reasons why... the Great Filter is a hypothesis that basically means almost all life hits a wall where it dies out no matter what. No life so far that we know has ever made it past this filter.

Here's a good read on the subject: https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html
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