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Ethical companies don't exist. The only point of a company is to make money. If the company lets ethics get in the way of that it will be replaced by a more effective company.
Sorry, jargon: Individual Contributor, meaning someone who works on things directly and doesn't do any management.
I also grew up in northern Virginia; what was the equivalent to Stanford there (There was the obvious pull of the federal government, but post 1989 the growth was almost entirely outside the beltway).
Thanks for the update and thank you for working on this!
Looking forward to the upcoming releases!
MiniZinc uses the \/, /\, ->, <-> as the logical connectives.
> brilliant people convinced that supply and demand is just "far too simple" or "totally disproved" etc. etc.

These silly people - Keynes, Marx, few Noble laureates...
It’s called leadership he created ex nihilo. Prey tell, sir, who have you ever led to be so prudential in your judgment?
Isn't there a risk of amnesic shellfish poisoning[0] in that area? Looking at the wikipedia page for domoic acid[1] Pismo Beach is even mentioned by name. Could that be part of the reason why there's an abundance of shellfish on that beach, i.e. because people leave them alone rather than risk permanent brain damage? I'd read it is a likely explanation for the incident that influenced Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds[2].

Don't want to spoil the article's analogy, although you could perhaps make a new one connecting abundance to toxicity.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesic_shellfish_poisoning

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domoic_acid

[2] https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/...
> The Bay Area has amazing weather, unbelievable scenery, world-class recreation, and tons of music and culture. If the jobs of today leave, the jobs of tomorrow will replace them simply because the area itself is one of the best in the country.

That's not necessarily true. Maybe the jobs go and never return, but the recreational desirability leads it more in the direction of an Aspen: more of a place for recreation than business.
Why an Omnichannel Strategy Is Critical in 2020
Making every customer touchpoint work in harmony takes work, but a satisfied customer is worth it.
Interesting analogy, because a growing trend in Seattle restaurants is eschewing tipping entirely for a fixed % gratuity included in the bill. I agree with the other commenters in the thread - if you're peeved because you didn't get something your permissive license didn't require, choose a new license.
Especially "do whatever I want with your website". Internet libertarians can be remarkably socialist -- or kleptocratic.
Wow what a great take. Kudos for doing the right thing here. Very excited to see how this pans out.
> And all his data , some very important and irreplaceable (including personal photos) is held hostage with no explanation #googleaccountdisabled

The final response from them just says it was a ToS violation: https://twitter.com/miguelytob/status/1315988742545514496

So all of his husband's data, including "very important and irreplaceable" personal photos, are inaccessible due to a presumed ToS violation. I wonder that violation could be...
FWIW, I still use ltib (originally a Freescale open-source build environment) and it's mostly great. Fewer layers of abstraction, builds all the source modules using essentially the "linux-from-scratch" system, with .rpm intermediaries that get installed to a rootfs.

I played with Bitbake, but the learning curve seemed much worse than ltib.

Edit: s/yocto/Bitbake/
This is why I decided to stopped doing engineering manager roles. Working on the crap stuff all the times is no fun. And the longer you do it the more your technical skills fall behind. I'm fine with the technical roles along with mentoring the new engineers.
For password managers specifically, one thing you can do to be a little less reliant to the "password manager app was compromised" attack is to pepper the passwords in your password managers. So every time you paste/auto-fill a password from your manager, to you delete a bunch of characters and add a bunch of characters. Of course this requires some memorization and to some extent introduces back the very problem that password managers attempt to solve. Then you tune your pepper algorithm as much as you like: even sharing the same pepper algorithm for everything is not that bad, since it would require an attacker not only to compromise your PM but also know one of your stored passwords. And you can give yourself tips on your pepper using the comments/notes section of the password manager.
The average joes watching Youtube are doing it on their smartphones, iPads, or Chromecasts now. It's why Microsoft is letting Windows fall apart because cloud services accessible from any device is the future.
That's a funny sketch, but there is literally a standardised minimal set of English just to deal with this potential problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_English
It surprises me that more of the folks he interviewed didn't try to figure out the contours of the formal presentation of the problem by plugging in concrete examples; isn't that the default "brute force" attempt you'd expect from someone trying to work out problems like this? It's the same thing you'd expect from someone solving Leetcode problems; you don't attack the general case immediately unless you've memorized the problem before, you usually try to play around with concrete examples until you've got enough of a handle on it to try and code up something a little more general.
I can't help but think that this is due to a combination of selection bias via the applicant pool and interviewer bias.

It's kind of ironic that his logic is flawed here - "I interviewed 120 master's program applicants and none of them knew about contrapositive equivalence - therefore students are no longer learning basic logic rules in undergrad."

I'm making a big assumption here, but the way this reads, the author sounds like the kind of interviewer who would get frustrated if a candidate wouldn't immediately know the answer to a question or if a candidate asked for clarification, and subsequently write off a candidate before the interview's over. If that's the case, it's not entirely surprising that 100% of his interviewees would fail this question.
Whoever owns the platform controls it. If you are sufficiently upset with that you can create your own platform.
My job is the main reason I live in San Francisco. In my opinion Colorado is much more beautiful, Boulder has a lot of the advantages of living in a big city but also so many fewer disadvantages. Personally I’m not a big fan of the kind of nature of the bay area has to offer. I grew up in the Northeast and the southeast, and I miss the huge deciduous trees and the fall-time colors. The Bay Area is pretty, but doesn’t hold a candle to the beauty of Michigan or Colorado or Tahoe in my opinion. Obviously different people have different preferences, but for every person who believes the bay area is the perfect place to live regardless of their career, there’s at least another person who doesn’t particularly like it and has their own idea of a perfect place to live.
It's completely possible he rediscovered it independently, and free from the religious trappings.

> Yet he presents it as if he "discovered" it. This is pure intellectual dishonesty.

You might want to contemplate your accusatory nature on this topic as part of your practice.
That said, the post content was a little trite
There's also the issue that while it's deadlier than the flu, it's not that much deadlier, so people are genuinely looking at death rates and making different value judgements on if various restrictions are worth it.
Well, this is interesting but not surprising.

I have conducted hundreds of interviews and I am astonished at low level of knowledge or understanding of some things that are completely obvious to me.

I don't typically ask questions outside typical tech topics so that I don't bias against people who did not go to CS course.

Some of questions that I almost never get correct answer to but feel completely obvious to me:

- Under what conditions linked lists are faster than array lists (Java)?

- Why can't one process take a pointer, send it to another process to have it dereference to same data? When does this work?

- Is Java pass by reference or pass by value language? Why? (I ask this senior Java developers and never got correct answer)

- Can more than one processes listen on the same port on the same interface and IP address?

- What does `volatile` keyword do in Java, exactly?

- Explain what is a breakpoint and how it stops the program.

I would assume at least some of the things should be familiar to somebody who spent years programming in the given language.
That command temporarily installs vlc and launches vlc from the command line. If you already have vlc installed, you can do "vlc https://dash.nixcon.net/dash/master.m3u8"
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I’ve been trying to explain to YIMBY-type folks for years that while, yes, supply and demand are both important, it’s extremely rare that the price of an asset will crash due to increased supply. It’s almost always due to decreased demand. E.g. the price of taxicab medallions in New York did not fall because the government increased the number of medallions; it was because Uber and Lyft decreased the demand. People sometimes reply, “but that’s the same thing!” I don’t think it is though. Obviously if the number of available medallions went up, we might see a similar effect, but that’s not what actually happened: the political situation restricting the supply never went away.
...mysterious, unknowable and fragile.
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>How can "would score high" and "accepting of divergences from their beliefs" not be disjoint?

Simple: the scale, as I keep saying, is total bullshit. Someone's opinion on nudism or sexual dimorphism doesn't influence their day to day behavior or tendency to throw people out of helicopters in the way the author of the scale thinks they do. Hell; the Nazis were pro-nudist and an awful lot of them were screechingly gay (and all of them accepting of their screechingly gay comrades) ... in the 1920s and 30s, when that sort of thing was a lot less popular.
I would argue that authoritarian government helped, as it's hard to bootstrap economy with open markets and democracy (bribery).

Democracy would work better if peoole would be paid better but also put to jail more. It's unfortunate dynamic od if not me then another one (will take bribe) is a weakness. Authoritarian govs require bigger foes (nation state) - see Irak, Libia etc.

It makes me think that USA legal bribes might be a genius move. At least there's way to fight malicious actors in legal way.
>> Most things are getting commoditized/cheaper.

How about the price of food. Only Ramen and maybe fresh produce have stayed low. Also any kind of internet connectivity, housing.
This is also a depiction of Moloch: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/Rubens_s...
I think this piece really speaks to a fundamental internal conflict playing out across the challenges of our time: when issues critical to the future of humanity are ignored by the people in power, the political systems in place refuse to regulate those in power, and your average citizen is too concerned about their day-to-day struggles to enact the systematic changes required to hold politicians and plutocrats accountable, what are we to do?
Regulate the financial ad markets, not ads, just the future value of ads and bidding process.

More strictly regulate the data brokers as well, and ad dealers.
A small perspective insight from a game developer:

We (Beamdog) are using nim in production for Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition, for the serverside parts of running the multiplayer infra.

nim is uniquely good in providing an immense amount of value for very little effort. It gets _out of my way_ and makes it very easy to write a lot of code that mostly works really well, without having given me any serious traps and pits to fall into. No memleaks, no spurious crashes, no side-effect oopses, anything like that. It's C/++ interop has been a huge enabler for feature growth as well, as we can partly link in game code and it works fine. For example, our platform integrates seamlessly with native/openssl/dtls for game console connectivity. And it all works, and does so with good performance. It is all now a set of quite a few moving components (a message bus, various network terminators, TURN relays, state management, logging and metrics, a simple json api consumed both by game clients and web (https://nwn.beamdog.net), ...).

We're still lagging behind and are on 1.0.8, but that is totally fine. It's tested and works, and there's no real incentive to move to 1.2 or 1.4 - yet!

Usage for our game has expanded to provide a few open source supporting utilities (https://github.com/Beamdog/nwsync) and libraries (https://github.com/niv/neverwinter.nim/) too. The good part about those is that they are cross-platform as well, and we can provide one-click binaries for users.

OTOH, There's been a few rough edges and some issues along the way. Some platform snafus come to mind, but those have been early days - 0.17, etc. Some strange async bugs had been found and fixed quickly though.

Good and bad, at least for me, nim has been a real joy to work with. If I had the chance to message my 3-years-younger, I'd just say "yea, keep going with that plan", as it turned out to save us a lot of development time. I suspect the features we've put in wouldn't have been possible in the timeframe we had, if it would have been all written in, say, C++.
The sibling post was rather unjustly flagged. I'm often on the other side of the fence on this but in this case I think it was unfair.
Much of this was driven by white flight.
> Do you think that being banned from Facebook does not also restrict an individual’s ability to associate and speak freely, in 2020?

It does not affect their civil liberties, no.

> One of those is clearly not like the others, and perhaps the law should favor “yours and mine”.

Section 230 does. And repealing it would harm them.

> The right to speech does not mean that you are also immune from libel laws.

Correct. And if we were discussing writing section 230, that would be valid. But we aren't. We're discussing changing established law. And if the reason to change the law is to restrict civil liberties that at protected by the first amendment, you encounter a constitutional problem.

Much as some laws are unconstitutional to enforce, I simply argue that some are unconstitutional to ignore.

If you want to imagine the negative impacts of such a change, a forum on baking could no longer remove content that was not related to baking without being liable for content posted by users.

As far as I know, the owner of a physical bulletin board isn't responsible if I post a libelous poster on it. Why should a virtual bulletin board be any different?
A friend of mine once told me "Yes, the price of a house here is extremely expensive. But no matter what happens the prices might level off for a while, but they always resume and go up".

He told me that in 1994 and it has been true. Even with massive apple layoffs in 1995. And when the bubble burst in 2000. and the housing crisis.

I think people will move out of the bay area. But I think they will do it the way they always have - sell their house, cash out and retire elsewhere. The others will sit on their low prop 13 ponzi taxes and stay. And people will take their place because elsewhere winter sucks and humidity sucks and rain sucks and salaries suck and yes for some even their traffic sucks.
'malloc' gives you a pointer to a fixed length block of memory that you can use to store data. 'ls' lists files in a directory. That's totally different, functionality wise.

'malloc' gives you a pointer to a fixed length block of memory that you can use to store data. A table saw cuts pieces of wood. That's totally different, functionality wise.

'malloc' gives you a pointer to a fixed length block of memory that you can use to store data. S3 gives you a url to a variable length block of durable storage that you can use to store data. That's... more similar to each other than the words "totally different" would suggest.
Truth table in 94 lines, no external libs: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29963269/boolean-express...
Just to be clear, that was not my intention as the GGP! I assumed I had to be missing something, but I couldn't figure out what!
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That doesn't follow. If I have to make a consequential decision involving finance or some other important commitment, I research it first. I'm not generally moved by the specter of opportunity costs or indeed sunk costs.
Other languages that are spoken in multiple countries might be technically standardized, like the RAE does with Spanish.

But that doesn't mean people outside of Spain follow the standard. (And depending on class and what part of Spain you live in, there's a good chance you don't follow the standard either, I'd imagine.)
Imagine what the world would've been like if all software developers were competent enough to understand the abstractions they're using.
I don't think you're likely to get blame shamed for suggesting that opioids (especially heroin!) or crack or meth are likely to lead to a bad time. There are, though, quite a few people who reduce a whole wide range of totally different substances down to the single term "drugs" and portray everybody involved using junkie stereotypes.

I don't mean to say that any substance is completely innocent: in fact, I believe that pretty much any action significant enough to have a positive result can be used in some way to create a negative one. Volatility is dangerous, and drugs often cause volatility. But total reductionism is going to get pushback.
Don't usually make this kind of post, but I had this conversation 8 years ago and was just thinking about it a couple of days ago.

One of the most powerful cognitive concepts I learned growing up was that of arbitrariness, which allows you to step back and see things at a general level, rather than case-by-case. It's unfortunate that, I agree, many people would say "random" to mean the same thing, because I think the difference between arbitrary and random is significant and useful to know.
On one hand, fair. One the other, when have we seen life not adapt?
Not only that, but for example if I work on some open source project with company paid time my commits will be from "Dying Kneepad" <dyingkneepad@company.com> and if I later commit to the same project but on my own spare time (and not representing the interests of the company) I will commit with "Dying Kneepad" <dying@kneepad.com>.
It was shot in segments but edited to look like one shot.

Back then, there were no such studio cameras to continuously record to film reels over a certain length.
Maybe it doesn’t need ‘updating’, because British English isn’t a deprecated anachronism that needs to be patched and brought up to date, thank you very much.
I did the same in my university days. A semester-long parking pass (4 months) was around $900, daily parking was $12. A ticket was $25 if paid in the first 7 days. They checked cars and ticketed twice a week, on random days, but always twice a week (I assume this was a contract stipulation). I parked there four days a week, I'd usually get one ticket a week, sometimes two... still cheaper than paying daily or for the pass. They'd only tow if you had overdue tickets, so as long as I paid them immediately it was all good.

Sometimes it pays to do the math.
The repo only contains binaries for Windows (no source).
Just tried the guided youtube video since I'm not familiar with the technique, immediately triggered a panic attack, anyone ever pass out?
How would using GPL help here? Having the source code doesn't mean you have access to hardware like Amazon
What's the point? NYC could have issued more supply to reduce the price. The fact that they chose not to until the demand for them dropped has no bearing on the supply/demand relationship.
> extremely rare that the price of an asset will crash due to increased supply

The history of commodities such as crude oil and natural gas are potent counterexamples. For that matter, semiconductors fit the bill as well.
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Nix (specifically nix package manager on MacOS) sits in a weird spot where it is absolutely indispensable for me personally but I am absolutely hesitant to recommend it to others without extreme caveats. I really wish the UX of it were much better, which ideally then would lead to higher adoption and less frequent 'osx-isms'.
Maybe it is different in Software engineering than in Hardware, but if you have a team developing hardware and they encounter a problem they cannot solve they have to turn to their manager. So the manager also gets technical crap/difficulties to solve. The 5% he cannot solve goes one level higher, so basically the higher you get, the more distille/purerd crap you get.
I like your description. I've complained that my current company likes to throw people at problems, instead of solutions. Sounds like writing might be the root issue. Documentation is not a priority, and if there is documentation; nobody reads it.
This means any emergency has to have half a dozen "experts" on a meeting to resolve the issue. It's very frustrating.
> I’ve been trying to explain to YIMBY-type folks for years that while, yes, supply and demand are both important, it’s extremely rare that the price of an asset will crash due to increased supply

I don't think anyone in the YIMBY movement (as far as I'm aware) believes there would be a crash in prices. I think the position is that increased supply with help stem the rapid growth in prices.
We're talking with Tim now about this.

Offer him money and do it in public.
- The pictures they make these days are all MTV. Cut, cut, cut, cut. The opening shot of Welles's Touch of Evil was six and a half minutes long.

- Six and a half minutes?

- Three or four, anyway
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> I got a few vague and wordy excursions into things that are true and things that are false, but never the clear, straightforward answer. Not once.

Sounds like he made a point to shut down that line of reasoning.
> I'm not sure why no one's saying this, but the virus is adapting to masks

Based on what? Countries that are supposedly “taking it seriously” experiencing recent rising case counts? This assumes a couple of things:

1. That there exists a place on earth where everyone practices perfect mask usage.

2. That said people are using ideal masks. And no, that cotton mask you carry around in your pocket all day and wash once a week doesn’t count.

I think the problem is people are ascribing magical properties to the kind of masks that most people are using, which are generally cheap, not N95, and reused over and over.
And the Marginal Revolution (MR) post Thoughts on Peter Burke’s new book "The Polymath" [1]:

> 14. Here is a good piece Beware the Casual Polymath.

It is somewhat ironic that HN comes across as uncivil compared to the typical free-for-all in the MR comments.

[1] https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/10/th...
Things that are that price point end up just getting acquired by auto manufacturers since the tech isn't used anywhere else, and they can run the price down by owning it and producing it at scale / having some competitive advantage temporarily.
Chemist may become first woman in Congress with a natural science PhD
Or computer science grad who worked at a quant hedge fund and who probably wouldn't have been hired if he couldn't program, who went on to found an intensely computer-focused behemoth.
"But the other countries are smaller, so of course they're spending less in aggregate!"

Is the one thing that seems to be enough to shut every discussion down for a certain political group.