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> Do you want him in the office, where he is guaranteed to spend 0 hours taking care of kids

Almost all of the casual conversations with my kids are more interesting than the casual conversations with my coworkers.

The puzzle of the rare effective and profitable office conversation is kinda like the rare and effective advertisement; we simply accept that 99% of it is useless and force enormous amounts of engagement to promote those casual successful interactions.
Still nearly $4 here on west coast
What long range forces? Almost all probes that go a long way away can (and are) used to test general relativity.

The energy levels needed to brute force more interesting physics is quite possibly beyond being achievable by humanity.

I don't know enough Quantum Field Theory to calculate it on the spot but I have read that to detect any gravitons at all we would need a planet sized detector orbiting closely around a black hole
The delta in utilities, in a place like Texas, during the summer months, is certainly not trivial. Relative to a tech workers salary, sure, a hundred bucks per month isn’t that much, but it’s costing me a lot more to keep my house cool through 100F days all summer long than it would if I let the thermostat go to 80F during the workday.
Thinking long term, housing is expensive because of mandatory office going, so removing the pressure from that side should in theory affect prices
> You're blaming Nvidia. You should be blaming SoftBank and Masayoshi Son: bunch of fucking hucksters misleading people and making bad investments.

You shouldn't be blaming bad investors. They pay for their decisions with their, or more often somebody's else, money.

Blame the collective ownership of means of production, which in form of public companies have dominated the Western world for the last 30+ years.

When people think of of selling their business, which is their life's work, as a raison d'etre, something is really messed up with the business culture in that person's coutnry.
>The problem with error code return is tediousness

Tediousness is only relevant at the time of writing the code, which is the least important part of programming. You read code 100x times as often as you write it, writeability is simply the wrong aspect to optimize for.

>How do people using Go and other languages that don't have exceptions solve this reduced readability problem?

Readability isn't reduced, it's enhanced - the control flow is explicit, there's no magic in the form of implicit returns.
True. But f.e. search for Higgs on Tevatron pretty much started after top quark discovery, ca 1995. And Tevatron was covering one energy range after another in search for Higgs, and would have found it if not being closed, around today date. We knew what to look for.

With DMwe're shooting in the dark, so to speak, in hope something will turn up
I was beginning to suspect this, as well. But I of course was nowhere near prepared to handle this responsibility on my own. I live in a 2BR 4th-floor walk-up apartment in Brooklyn, NY, constructed 1913.

The rack consisted of a dual-processor Xeon 1U with a Tesla GPU, two 4U hard drive racks, and a UPS unit.
Facebook and Dolby Join Amazon’s Voice Interoperability Initiative
Making time_t unsigned would break the ability to refer to times before 1970.

Existing code that deals with 32-bit timestamps almost universally assumes that (time_t)0 is 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC. Updating that code to guess a different epoch would be more work (with more inevitable bugs) than keeping a fixed epoch and using 64 bits.

It's already 64 bits (and signed) on a lot of systems.
>Conceptually, Sequoia takes an identity-based approach to its public keyrings, where the keyring is designed to be "more like a per-domain address book than a PGP keyring."

I think this is the future for encrypted messaging of all types. Ultimately the user needs some sort of conceptual model that will allow them to do reasonable things. Making the identity a thing in and of itself removes a lot of unneeded conceptual overhead.

That is as opposed to the current practice of simply ignoring the identity issue and leaving the whole thing as a responsibility that the user has no idea of how to deal with.
Speak for yourself, I have good coffee at the office. Hell I spend way more on coffee now just to go sit somewhere that's not my main room.
I mean, the former NSA chief, Keith Alexander, just got on the Amazon board.
I live in Austria and it's the same. Houses in the urban forests are really picturesque and a marker for high quality of life but unless you're a 10%er millionaire they're out of reach. Everyone else is cramped in concrete blocks but of course, that's rarely shown in photos or articles.
You dismiss my pointing out of genocide with whataboutism[0]. Nothing the US does comes close to ethnic cleansing on the “bad guy” scale.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
> Softbank has to prop up Uber and WeWork with something.

Softbank has a chainsaw prince as a main creditor. This is a very compelling reason to get cash in any way possible.
I suppose I wasn't clear. You did misinterpret what I said, I intended to convey the exact opposite.
In any case having WFH gives them the option, as I said they could have lots of OTHER reasons they want to live there, but removing that constraint provides an additional degree of freedom.
XML documentation is part of the package and development experience when using an IDE. It’s way different than trying to find some random Wiki page online. I don’t consider them equivalent.
I've had this exact idea. I made it as a hackathon project but haven't worked on it ever since. One of the things I wanted to do was to use publicly-available treatment cost data (I think states like California require reporting of this) and aggregate it by type of treatment to allow users to comparison-shop between medical providers in their area.

The issue I was facing (and the reason I stopped working on this project) was the lack of standard, openly-available medical codes, since most hospitals mark treatments with CPT codes, which are proprietary and require a license to use in software. If anyone has any solutions to translate these codes to human-readable names without licensing the entire set of codes from the American Medical Association, I'd be open to hearing those ideas.
Amazon Raised Prices to Profit from the Pandemic
Yes it's stressing and time demanding. But you are absolutely right about how the maintainers treat other people.
At least it is open source. There are quite some closed-source projects that ran into troubles and basically disappeared.
I am not sure how they will react since the fork gained some attention now. However it's not my intention to let them look bad in any kind or act like I am better. All I want is a working solution where contributions by the community are acknowledged. But my attempt to openly point that out (issue youtube-dl dying?) basically got ignored and closed.
With JS and Typescript, I find myself going back to logic error handling in the catch block, because there is only one Error type. You can't have multiple types of exceptions. So you have to set the error.type attribute and then do logic.
> There’s a largely apolitical organization that is supposed to bring antitrust cases under a structure set up by congress.

And yet here we are, living in a world where anti trust action is long past due.

That would be great if they were taking more action against blatant violations of anti trust law.

But that's not happening enough. And since it is not happening enough, we should support any possible wins that we get.

You should not be advocating against these anti trust enforcement acts. Instead, you should be arguing that more anti trust enforcement is done.

> you’d prefer that the politicians remained high level

How about, we all just support more anti trust enforcement, because clearly there isn't enough of it happening.
Not applicable to mass scanners. They simply can’t afford scanning all ports for all hosts.
Nice to see my neighborhood (Vauban) featured here :) It's an awesome place to raise kids as it provides an almost village-like environment, being right at the edge of the city and hence the edge of the black forest. But it also comes with the immediate benefits of a nearby regional hub and with plenty of next-door daycare/kindergarten institutions, playgrounds and a ton of other kids. This was one of the main factors that made us move back here after two years in SF.

As elsewhere, affordable, or even available housing is now an issue, in particular for families. Prices have been on a sharp increase over the last years, and although the there's quite some construction (and plans to add a whole new district) it's not keeping up with demand.
This argument doesn't hold water because it applies as much to the choice of phone as the choice of app store. There have been phones that come with malware preinstalled:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/more-pre-installed-malware-has...

A user who acts without knowledge or advice buys that phone and is infected. A user who acts without knowledge or advice buys an app from a store operated by the people who made that phone and is infected. It's the same scenario.

So how do you justify forcing the people who do know what they're doing to choose which app store they want to use based on which phone they want to buy, instead of allowing them to choose independently?

> There's a reason fake Fortnite APK links have been plastered all over the internet and are successfully tricking less knowledgeable users into installing things they did not intend.

There is a reason, but it's not the one you're implying.

The problem with having a single dominant app store is that it has given people no experience in how to be safe in installing apps from other sources, so then when an app they really want gets kicked out of the dominant store, they mash whatever buttons they think will get it back. Whereas if there were multiple major trustworthy stores, the users of an app whose developer is having a dispute with one the stores could safely and easily switch to another well-known store.

Meanwhile the users with iPhones can't mash buttons to get somewhere stupid, but they also can't do anything to install Fortnite on their phone right now, which is still worse for them than having it available in a trustworthy store other than Apple's -- which would keep them from getting the point of wanting to mash buttons.
Adding on to this, it shouldn't be very shocking even for Americans. Half the US states consider scooters to just be electric bikes, and have no restrictions beyond speed limits, and helmet laws.

It's a shame scooters are illegal in NYC, it seems like it would be a great place for it.

Edit: looks like NYC legalized in July 2020
Dan Luu gives a good summary of benefits of monorepo: http://danluu.com/monorepo/
I run there, which is time I still spend at home. And I enjoy the walk home as I live in a beautiful city. I normally go walking throughout the day for longer than that anyway.
Instead of treating interviews like an exam where you measure someone based on number of correct answers, use it to gauge their problem solving ability. Can the candidate articulate their thought process? Is there some evidence of strong fundamental knowledge/theory being applied naturally in that process?

As an interviewer, I don't really care if a candidate happened to know the answer to an algorithmic puzzle or has a deep knowledge of academic minutia. I want to know three things: can this person reliably and meaningfully solve technical problems, can they communicate their findings to the team, and finally – do they strive to learn the details or do they just skim/superficially solve problems? Obviously expertise in a job-relevant domain is great too - but I'd consider it a bonus; the difference between a senior and a junior/mid-level hire.
The visual map of where the money came from is incredibly helpful. Thank you!

Direct link for the lazy: https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/5dad2b1e508f04886d0245c3/5f3...
We had a bug tracking system that malfunctioned starting at (time_t)1000000000 (3 days before 9/11). Apparently it converted the time_t value to a string and truncated it to 9 characters. Its concept of the current time jumped back to 1973-03-03 and advanced from there at 10% of the normal rate. The bug was corrected fairly quickly.
Nope. Maybe there is someone with a fix which can be merged. So far most people filter formats to their needs but that's not an option for basic users I guess..
Why would you be excited?

Nvidia can (and do) build their own ARM ISA CPU's offer them in the market so we already have access to Nvidia's take on the architecture. Do they have established expertise in ISA design or microcontrollers?

Maybe I'm missing something?
Interesting that you compare them to mixins, which the react team considered harmful and removed.

What problems do hooks solve better than composition or hoc?

I really haven’t kept up with react, when I last used it 6 months ago I started with the same boilerplate I made in 2017. Could it be things are being added to react that are unnecessary for most small and medium sized apps? I got that feeling when I saw react router 4. At least v6 is moving back towards a simplier api.
This happens to me in interviews when either I'm too exhausted to be interviewing or I'm just having a really off day. It should be obvious from my Github and general OSS contributions I can code and do meaningful things but sometimes I just can't code on-demand.

Unfortunately people tire me very quickly, I have a limited budget of people time per-day and interviews frequently blow that budget early in the day yet continue into the afternoon (talking particulary onsites for bay area companies here).

I would say 9/10 I manage fine but there have been occasions especially when I have been in between jobs and taking lots of interviews when I have just bombed because a particular company stacked all the code heavy interviews late into the panel.

Separately from that speaking as a hiring manager for several roles I don't think coding on demand is a good metric. I don't expect people to do it once hired so it's not useful as a measurement of their fitness for the role either.

Design heavy interview questions on the other hand I find very useful. They generally are less specific and speak more to experience, knowledge and taste. Things that are very relevant in an engineers real-world productivity. They are very punishing vs code on-demand interviews for new grads though so if your pipeline expects to take a lot of new grads you may need a different approach.

However in my experience questions like "How would you architect a replacement of Amazons S3 service with similar durability" or "Given a smart grid reporting metrics from every home in the US how would you store this data for analysing both long-term trends and intra-day anomalies" yield by far the best signal to noise ratio.
True... I can’t glean your point, though. Are we disagreeing somewhere, or are you amplifying/concurring? Am I missing something so egregious (a call to race war or similar) that he’s an incitement danger on the order of a Richard Spencer? I don’t even agree with him on every tech subject.
which phreakers and pirates built the internet?
Back when Google was still at Perforce, I used to go to perforce.com to read about how your engineers would never ever wait for Perforce, while waiting for Perforce.

The Perforce servers were… large. And backed by large, extremely expensive SANs that worked with RAM as backing store. Yet, it was slow as molasses at Google's scale.
Freeman was a climate change denier. They don’t mention that though.

Wow I was very surprised to find they do mention it in some capacity. Very unexpected for them. But my sentiment was correct because they say he “had some doubts” or something like that. Which is as close to a lie as one could possibly get. And I did read it myself, I’m not responding to comments “correcting” me.
I was often shocked by this as well, until I did an interview where I was asked a similarly trivial question, and I became that person. I completely flubbed the interview, locked up, and, whilst I could write code that did things, I just couldn’t wrap my head around the question, and no amount of effort would chill me out. Obviously I didn’t land the thing. Some things like fizz buzz are gonna be so trivially easy that anyone should be able to do it, but try to understand where your candidate’s headspace is.

(I was also a TA in a course that did these sorts of trivial challenges, and going through that experience really made me take a hard look at how I perceived those 1st year students)
People who has no business voting voting. Imagine how many people would vote - not from the informed voter perspective. They'll most likely vote for the candidate they remember in a positive light. Imagine how much more sway would a big ad campaign have.
I would be ok if a blank ballot would be the least effort option with no strings attached, but with a "wasting your vote" being a stigma and a part of the culture I see no need in any mandate. I just really don't want people who can't be bothered to go to a polling station on a holiday specifically made for voting to caste their vote to vote at all. Some times gatekeeping certain things is ok. There must be a balance.
QAnon running scared from death threats would be out of character, wouldn’t it?
I think the other piece to look at is market cap.

Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet/Google, Facebook, Tencent, and Alibaba are huge. I'd focus enforcement efforts on those. They're also high-growth.

Of all of those, Amazon/Google/Facebook are the most antitrusty.

Of those, Google is causing the most immediate anticompetitive harm (not harm in general; Facebook leads there; anticompetitive harm).

It seems a natural target.
Is exposing a scam artist the same as doxxing?
This is what I came here to say. As usual, arguments (just in the general) are polarised: it’s either in the office 40 hours a week or work from a beach in Thailand and nothing in between.

How about the sensible reality where we have an office, that we can get to, but we aren’t expected to turn up there every day just because? Where I work from home a few days a week to get that tricky stuff done – heaps harder in a distracting office – but then I go in a few days to connect with colleagues, catch up on the conversations, overhear things across the partition?

This saves my sanity, money, and time, and saves my employer ~50% of their office space. Win-win, surely?

(Not that I disagree with the sentiment that all processes should be made WFH-friendly. I think that’s very sensible. But it doesn’t mean that I necessarily must WFH the whole time.)
So that people think they are American vessels obviously.
Gravity is poorly tested at the smallest scales: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1408.3588.pdf . Perhaps space based experiments could help. I also think astronomy would greatly improve.
Pity its genesis was anti-nuclear, but looks like mostly good stuff since.

Ban those cars!
Everyone's talking about recommendations. I don't use GoodReads recommendations at all. It's a social network with a focus on books where people will actually read and discuss books and book reviews. It's also a good way of chronicling what books you read. I wish they'd focus more on that part.
£100 is trivial if you're getting paid £100,000

If you're making £12,000 a year though? That £100 might be your entire budget for Christmas presents.
I second that. But yes you are right it's my fault that I haven't done that already. Be assured that I will include some information regarding what you said in the readme.
I wonder how many people used to work with the people they sat next to?

That was a rare experience for me back in the old W-2 office days.

My boss was in another state, another timezone, another shift, sometimes another country. Ditto coworkers, internal and external customers.

I had a few office jobs supporting field circus techs where by definition we never worked physically together and they had no idea if they called me at work or home.

There are a lot of 3 to 5 person companies out there where people labor away shoulder to shoulder for hours; but not that many.
Importing and managing keys and encrypting messages is something I do via CLI because it is easier to do what I mean, not what some developer thinks I mean. The CLI is more expressive and I don't think to the detriment of usability.

It's just for most people, they're not used to working with a tool that merges communication and text processing with a CLI interface.
Swift Playgrounds on a Mac
Can’t comment on Korean, but Japanese beginners worry far too much about politeness. It doesn’t help that the textbooks all start with a relatively stiff level of grammar, but Japanese students often become neurotic about it.

If you’re a beginner, no reasonable human being is going to think anything nuanced about your choice of words. When was the last time you judged a non-native speaker of your own language for this level of subtlety?

My advice is to do whatever it takes to be understood. You’re going to sound like a rude idiot. Make peace with it.
I write code like this all day long and the way you phrase the question might have stumped me.

First, I would feel like if I have to ask questions if you then I’m missing something obvious you want me to be able to deduce. And if I take too long I’d fail your test.

So I’d jump in merrily and work up a quick and dirty version before even realizing that the output has ambiguities. Hopefully at that point I’d ask how you want them resolved, but maybe I decide you want to see me to make my own decisions and I’d come up with my own way to handle them.
> C code is being replaced by Rust fast.

One of the key areas C is used that Rust cannot be used easily is in limited embedded devices. That looks like it'll be the case for at least 10 years and probably much longer than that.
He didn’t deny it he thought it wasn’t such a big deal and might even have some positive effects.
I don't like the idea that telecommuting benefits only the ones who can afford it.

Living hours from your workplace because you can't afford to be closer is not privileged. Wanting to cook at home because it's cheaper than restaurants it's not privileged. Wanting to Save the costs of gas or public transportation isn't either.

There are good arguments for and against but it's kinda bad to assume.
Experian: 34.63 billion market cap

Google: 1.024 trillion market cap

Experian is also really evil, but it's not obvious to me how they're anticompetitive.
I've been working for home for about four years now. One of the biggest unexpected benefits has been the ability to do asynchronous household tasks. Placing a load of clothes in the washing machine takes very little time, same goes for putting them in the dryer. The time for those machines to do their work is time I'm working for my employer. When I would go into an office, those tasks would consume a large part of evenings or a day on the weekend. Same goes for cooking if you make things that are mostly hands off. Half an hour before lunch I can throw previously prepped ingredients into the Instant Pot and air fryer which will make lunch ready right as I start my lunch hour. Of course sometimes I'm in a meeting and can't even get to the kitchen to start those tasks but being flexible is part of the deal. On those days, I eat lunch half an hour later, which still isn't much trouble.
> If you don't, then like in many south-German cities (located in mountain valleys where space is scarce), you're living in a place without any green in sight

While this is generally true, the newer districts like Vauban also feature city-owned housing that is specifically targeted to be rented by lower-income families. If you're a student there are again lots of options all throughout the city.