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Just wow... I work within IT, and this post totally changed my point of view on Apple - from being optimistically positive to chaotic neutral. I will still consume much of their hw/sw - but I will not have desire to work for them - or think highly about them - until the stories that comes out of Apple change.
A great way to justify not doing anything.
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I posed the exact same question below. I have the exact same thoughts, and genuinely curious on the process they have.

I'm not that opposed in general to whiteboarding if you feel like you can't assess the candidate.
However I do feel that it sometimes feels like credential and experience similar to what you describe in the medical field: if a doctor had 5 years at an inner city hospital, I don't think they would doubt his credentials to the point the want to make him put cell structures on a whiteboard?
ASML would also sell those tools without prodding by the EU. ASML would dearly love to sell them to SMIC and other Chinese foundry too, if the US would let them.

Lithography machines are a functioning market that is interfered with for geo-strategic reasons.
That’s true. But, it doesn’t make things any better knowing we have the choice between a bad party and a worse party. First past the post, the Electoral College, winner take all style contests, and campaign finance law all work together to keep them both in power.

Believe me, I’d love to get rid of the ultra right wing party and the slightly less right wing party.
There's some real potential for abuse so I'd probably have to oppose this one, but I think when you're dealing with people willfully spreading a deadly disease, that's probably already actionable under current laws in most if not all states.

On face value, deliberately endangering others for no reason is a pretty clear sign that someone might qualify for court-ordered psychiatric evaluation and temporary institutionalization, especially since it's already a criminal offense to expose someone to infectious conditions like HIV without their knowledge.
Not sure why you refer to the US immigration policy, this is how it works essentially everywhere. In the UK, for example, you get around 60 days to find a new job or you have to leave the country. https://iasservices.org.uk/tier-2-visa-termination-employmen...
I am not saying that the immigration policy is not broken or broken, I am simply stating the fact that other countries literally do the same.
What is the question, again?
This is very impressive on city streets. Unassisted highway driving on Teslas has been a thing for a while (it works beautifully)
Ooops, edited my original comment. Blame tab completion for never making me type the end of the name! Thanks for the correction.
These sound like very valid issues. It might not be good for every candidate, but having a conversation about the code seems less stressful to me than having the interviewer bring out a whiteboard and essentially say, "Please perform for me!"

You say:

> One issue was the syntax was so weird compared to the type of code I'm used to writing and reading from others in library code that it was hard for me to comprehend the logic without the benefit of looking it up.

From the point of view of an interviewer, that's feedback I'd be interested in. One problem I've seen in some of our code is an engineer using a completely valid but very obscure method of doing something, and then the rest of us having difficulty maintaining it. I would want to hear, "this looks hard to maintain." But I understand that in an interview, it can be difficult to assess what the interviewer wants to hear and that can be nerve-racking. I personally think take-homes are a reasonable compromise, but not everyone does.
The caffeinate command is built into macos.

Edit: This keeps the computer awake until 6 PM each day.

caffeinate -u -i -s -t $(($(date -j -f "%a %b %d %T %Z %Y" "$(date +"%a %b %d 18:00:00 %Z %Y")" "+%s") - $(date +%s)))
Apple disagrees with you - or at least they did when it was a Mac App Store Story.
I don’t mind being reminded every 2-3 years how great State Machines are. I was first introduced to the concept back in 2002 and my mind was blown. At that time, I was in my 20s...now I’m pushing past 40 and I’m starting to think my life is a state stuck in an event loop.
(wp: "Popularly known as the "Butcher of Uganda", he is considered one of the most brutal despots in world history")
If you are not outraged, you aren't putting yourself in the author's shoe - they created an app that has been in the app store for 6 years. They marketed it and got a large number of users. And now suddenly Apple removes it because it doesn't like the name of the app. Do you want Apple to be the arbitrator of silly things like the name of the app or even your company?
If you're hiring a senior engineer, it doesn't really make sense to filter out the older demographic. Do you expect a 25 or 30 year old to have 15 years experience in a work environment and 10 years in using XYZ stack/language/tech?
At this point it should be required annual training material for members of Congress.
The paper says that short-term peaks are linked to health issues (from page 2):

> epidemiologists are increasingly recognising that exposure to high intensities of PM over much shorter periods of time—hours rather than days—is linked to a range of health issues .Indeed, Lin et al. found a significant association between hourly peakPM2.5andmortality rates across six Chinese cities. Similarly, a systematic review of 196 articles found a positive relationship between short term PM exposure and cardiovascular, respiratory, and cerebrovascular mortality

https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4433/11/12/1326#
I Miss Facebook
I stopped using Facebook some time ago.

I miss watching the events taking place in the lives of family and friends.

I wonder if there is a way for Facebook to become a community that is not mined for data or influence peoples thinking.
Found More info on the site here : https://www.adaptivemobile.com/blog/simjacker-frequently-ask...
Doubt it, seeing as how caffeine isn't a controlled substance.
And when that something doesn't work just deploy the 5 standard excuses.

https://youtu.be/6Y4PEqvk0Jg
If it was me, I wouldn't have lasted so long. No way.
I worked for mid size companies, and I found envs quite toxic, but this is a whole new level for me.
I'm glad I decided a long time ago my life worths more than working at any $faang.
Prisons have to be resistant to the attempts of their occupants to escape, or to cause damage or destruction. This doesn't really seem compatible with warm and inviting.
In the UK it is overwhelmingly about fashion and recreation. Middle age men love to chop wood. There is usually an affordable alternative which is objectively better at heating a house.
Sure but they could also just ban you completely at near 0 cost... and what could you do about it then? It’s not something an individual can manage.
Slow as molasses, power hungry, and almost certainly backdoored by the CCP. No thank you.
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Nice find! Almost as interesting as Orwell is George Bernard Shaw making the list.
This feels like a case where the market will dictate what works and what doesn't.

It sounds shitty/shady to you (or at least that's how you're framing it here - apologies if I misunderstood) but if people are still buying those homes, then they must think it's an acceptable contract to enter into.
Would this have been OK if Apple acknowledged the popularity of the app and acknowledged pointing it out after 6 years?
>Saj Huq

>cyber innovation lead - Plexal

>Saj Huq leads cyber innovation at Plexal and is director of Lorca, the London Office for Rapid Cybersecurity Advancement. His work at Lorca involves facilitating collaboration between startups, scaleups, government, academia and a cross-section of industry to understand their needs now and in the future.

https://www.plexal.com/workspace/offices/

This company is a land lord that markets office space to tech startups. It's a UK version of WeWork. They have a focus on Inclusion.
> what they really love: money

Money is just a currency. What they really love (and need), is all the goods and services that can be purchased by money, which include the things that keep their children and themselves alive.
This rings so true!
I interviewed for a few different teams at Apple and got an offer from one (they make you choose a team before you get an offer).
There were echos of nepotism, scapegoating, and toxic treatment even during the interview process.
Based on the answers I got during the “ask us some questions” portion at the end of each interview, it seemed like a very political and tense environment for a few of the interviewers.
Thank you for sharing, this validated that I made the right choice.
I’m sorry you had to go through this.
This is not "getting away with it":

>"When you leave your Mac idle, it smartly goes to sleep to conserve power and reduce wear and tear. But this can also stop a big download short or prevent a lengthy compile or render from finishing. Instead of having to periodically wiggle the pointer to keep your Mac awake, launch Amphetamine and rest assured your Mac won’t sleep until you want it to. Amphetamine sits unobtrusively in the menu bar until you Control-click it (or press Command-I) to kick it into gear. That’s it. Your Mac will stay awake until you end the session."

https://apps.apple.com/us/story/id1470456860
This is pure censorship and nothing but a ridiculous, culturally damaging move from Apple. Forcing developers to pick from particular, puritan subset of the human language and banning apps relating to whole segments of the human experience will do nothing but hamper creativity and expression.

It is also extremely hypocritical, Apple distributes and profits from existing works of art that depict and describe drug use, among other topics, through Apple TV, iTunes, and Apple Music. Apple has no concerns with profiting from art after someone else approved it whether some other movie producer or record label. As long as some other large institution vouches for it then Apple will look the other way. But if every institution operated like Apple, most of the best works of literature, music, and film would never have been approved.

Honestly, I can not fathom why so much open source and free content is produced for Apple's ecosystem. Everything from the desktop MacOS operating system to Apple's app store policies is counterproductive for developers and anyone who disagrees with Apple's rules. The opportunity of the App store makes sense for commercial and profit driven apps but there is no reason to give charity to the most valued company on the planet.

Finally, I really doubt there is any legal ramification for Apple here. Apple can ban any app they want for any reason which is fine. I just think anyone starting to get into developing should consider anything but app development for this reason. If the product has to be an 'app' then try to make it a web app. Anything besides putting your life in Apple's hands.
Apple doesn’t give a scheise about developers anymore. IMHO this is going to devalue the platform in the long term, but they seem to think differently.
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? There's no skill gap at all.

Any employee at my office in Waterloo could transfer to Mountain View without any problem at all. Google would be very happy to make it happen. The only limitation would be the US immigration system.

If anything the skill gap would be the other way around. The hiring bar is high at Google Waterloo.
>I'm pretty sure if I just declared myself to be a sales partner (idk the term?) of Cisco, IBM, Oracle, etc and just resold their gear, I'd be in hot water legally because my actions would reflect on them.

This is pretty much how local governments buy IT gear. Put out a "I want a router" low volume RFP that the tech companies don't want to bother with, and some local vendor will resell to you. Ideally, they're getting a volume discount and sharing some of it with you at least.
Reality steals his stories, duh
Yeah - I’m not expecting it to end up as slang.

Just that as a lay term people think of meth as amphetamine in the way that people think of champagne as wine.
It is bad for them to apply such a policy so inconsistently, to the point that it's subjectivity.

It's also bad to name apps after drugs that are widely abused. It's just too extra. Call it something positive and pro-social like "matcha" or "oolong" or maybe "dark roast" or "espresso" or something.
You can sense it when you walk into an Apple store. I met a few unnecessarily rude salesperson and wondered how or why they were still there.
when i am sick at work, then i can take a few days off. (with or without pay). whatever work needs to get done, will be done by someone else, and i join back in without penalty when i am ready

when my kids miss school, they have to catch up the work they missed. if they already struggle then they can't afford to get sick because they will fall to far behind and may not be able to catch up.

so yes, school is forced labor and it's a prison
Yes, I really do believe there is no fighting a $2 billion (and counting) behemoth, other than by shunning it. If enough developers and users - in any order - leave their platform they will reconsider their stance. That is, after all, what it means to have (at least the semblance of) a free market where people make choices based on things like this. The same goes for the other digital empires, whether those be Facebook, Twitter, Google or any of the others. Absent regulation - and is regulation really where we want to go? - I do not see any other way than to "choose with (my) wallet".

This is also why I do not use any of these platforms, instead having spent the time to rig up my own alternatives: Google-free AOSP-derived Android on mobiles and tablets, Linux on laptops and servers, Searx for search, Nextcloud for "cloudy things", NC Talk and Jitsi Meet for videoconferencing, Exim and Dovecot for mail, Peertube for video, Airsonic and MPD for media streaming, etc. I've been doing this since the late 90's of the last century (minus the mobile stuff since that simply did not exist back then...) so I can state with certainty that this is not just hollow rhetoric, it is a viable alternative to submitting to the whims of companies like Apple (et al).
If you do something truly amazing you MIGHT get an honorary PhD.

But the PhD isn't all about the research you do. In fact, most PhD research is ignored. The PhD is training for doing independent research.

If you can already do independent research why do you need a degree? Isn't the pursuit of knowledge reason enough to do the research?
> there are plenty of downright ABUSIVE forum posts from just 6 or 8 years ago

Reminds me of another post from today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25600274
> It is generally accepted in the security community that hiding source code does not provide security

Yes. But with not enough eyes carefully reviewing the code security vulnerabilities will remain also in open source code. And once a bad actor finds it it will be easier to implement an exploit.

It's not opening the source that makes the software more secure. It's enough reviewers or white hats looking at the code. Security vulnerabilities in Linux (both kernel and user space) show that regularly.

Of course with closed source your external reviewers are zero, so that's not the solution.
Yes, if the health of that business supports the health of my life, which for many is true (I'm fortunate to work online so am not directly affected). That line of argumentation is just emotional manipulation disguised as moral superiority.

A lot of people will die or be placed in the crosshairs of death indirectly because of unemployment. The same can be said about the people who can't get treatment for non-COVID related illnesses due to hospital restrictions.
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Apple wrote a story about the App. They approved it and approved of it.
As far as I can tell, every home for sale or rent in america requires a kitchen. So basically everyone is in competition with them.
Better buy some swaps to lock in your exchange rate.
skepticism about age of consent laws is a time-honored libertarian tradition. it's not even strictly foucauldian. and as a nietzschean, foucault didn't believe in moral authority.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_petition_against_age_...

More or less the entire French Intellectual establishment argued at that time for "the decriminalization of all consensual relations between adults and minors below the age of fifteen".

While I agree that seems extremely stupid, it is based on a morally tenable argument that people under that age could give consent. That may be incorrect but if accepted as a premise would justify their position.

So if Foucault believed this and his moral arguments derived from that, it would seem unwise to dismiss all his moral authority just because you believe he was wrong on this point.

I personally think he is totally wrong and that even people at the age of eighteen struggle to know their own minds clearly with regard to consent. However I do not as a result think Foucault is impossible to take a moral lead from.
Is there a viable (paid) FV alternative for seniors?

Loved one (senior) spent hours on FV. I noted thru FB that FV kept this person going during COVID. I want to buy/suggest alternatives to FV.

Person does not play video games. Not even casual mobile games. Eye-hand coordination is not great. Person has iPhone and ultralite Mac. Spends a lot of time on FB

What are good alternatives ?
Good propaganda is definitely a hack, but I do not believe that’s the connotation of the newspapers. And they certainly don’t call it a hack when the Koch brothers or the DNC do it. It’s just called campaigning, pr, issues advocacy, etc.
It's a "controlled substance", which means it is illegal under many circumstances. Most illegal drugs are actually illegal in that way.
I won’t reply using my real accounts on HN or Medium for fear of retaliation by Apple... I think it’s still valuable and entirely understandable.
In my experience hiring engineers, people who are raised or cut their teeth at Apple... bring the traits outlined in this article with them when they leave.
It's the distinctness and uniqueness of those examples, as well as that they're surrounded by trees/nature, that make them so beautiful. Brutalism as intentional art, not as an unintended byproduct of cost-saving or simply not caring.

The depressing nature of a lot of brutalist architecture (especially that created by governments) is the uniformity, homogeneity and the mass-produced faux-utilitarian feeling it evokes, as if the inhabitants are all interchangeable peons with no individual spirit. It's a reminder of the depressing local conditions that lead to that architecture coming into being in the first place.

https://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2016/jan/13/brut...
It needs to be a woke version where Julia is the strong female lead sent to root out corrupt officials like Winston.
I wonder if Windows ARM will be so mature that by the time these groups get x86 parity with Intel, it won't matter outside of specialized high-performance applications like gaming because we'll be migrating to ARM by then anyway.
Exactly. Had the west not interfered, the USSR would recover from the 80s crisis. Instead, they took advantage of its shortcomings and managed to break up the union: Gorbachev is considered by many Russians a traitor, but he was not the only western investment in toppling the Soviet Union.

Let's remind that full-on opening of the market was not what the west promised, but it's what they pushed for once the reforms passed a point of no return and they wouldn't take "no" for an answer. Propaganda is what won the cold war.
> So why do you prefer it to be policed by individuals rather than relying on law enforcement?

Precedent. Once this is written in to law, it opens the flood gates to a whole lot worse.
To me, they looked like buildings. Neither looked horrifying, they were just normal buildings. You would have to make prison intentionally bad looking from outside to make some effect. And i wild still strongly preferred to go to school rather then prison.
I'm a "top-tier" candidate (at least, tech companies offer me a lot of money to work for them) and I don't think I'm alone in not really caring much about the process, as long as it's sufficiently technical that I'm not worried about working with people who can't program. If the full time job at the other end is interesting enough, the 6 hours of whiteboard/takehome/code review is just an annoying cost of doing business.

And, if we're being really honest here, there's a ton of informal backchannel talking that goes on, so your interview "performance" regardless of medium is affected by that at many places. I think if you aren't actively working to make your interview process objective, it's being strongly affected by many biases and informal relationships.

That's all to say that on the balance, taking up "some" or "all" of a candidates time isn't that interesting of thing to think about because the process is so broken in so many other ways and this one doesn't have a huge impact.
That's pretty much empiricism.
LOL. The man in the box is so strange when you think about it that way.
They were probably just wearing them wrong
Dear author,

Please follow-up on your last paragraph.

Sincerely,

A less courageous soul
It’s unfair to compare CLASP [1] buildings with centuries old stone buildings... The CLASP system was a stopgap measure for cost-effectively building schools for the baby boomer generation given the economic constraints of post-WW2 Britain.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consortium_of_Local_Authorit...
Did you mean that the amplitude of the sawtooth can change by up to 1 volt (due to imperfections in the differentiator and amplitude compensator)? And if the PWM is based on comparing the sawtooth with a fixed voltage, and the sawtooth amplitude changes with pitch, does the PWM width change with pitch?