skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At my first job out of university I was hired into a company with a developmental program that lasted for the first 3-5 years. New engineers would do rotations for about a year to find a team with a good fit–but new engineers could also be fired pretty trivially within the first year.

During one of my rotations I worked on a project with a recent PhD graduate from a fairly renowned university–we'll call him Dave. Dave was terrible at...everything, really. He could not seem to do _anything_ right on the project, and struggled for months to make any progress at all. Eventually I wound up taking over his part of the project, and our manager basically told him "you're being let go at the end of the probationary period unless you find another team that will take you".

Dave shopped his resume around internally for the few months left in his probationary period and eventually transferred to a different group in another town a few hours away. I went to work full time for the team where I did my rotation, and a bit less than a year later my boss tells me he had gotten an unsolicited call from the director of the team where Dave transferred. Evidently, Dave was a rockstar there–like a duck in water. The director was calling to ask where Dave was recruited, and if we had anyone else like him or could help them with their recruitment pipelines to source more candidates like Dave.

All this to say: to this day I think there are a lot of reasons someone might succeed or fail in any given job. It has been my experience that finding the right team fit is hugely important, and often completely ignored.
Surface area in this case refers to surface area of the earth, while volume refers to volume of the structures placed on the earth.

OP is entirely correct, and no one misunderstood the point OP was making. You are simultaneously being needlessly pedantic, and less than charitable by needlessly interpreting inconsequential ambiguities in OPs sentence in a way that would have made them incorrect.

Someone else commented on the downvotes on your post being wrong, the above is why I downvoted you.
I think Tim Bray is going a great service, but I don’t see any ‘disinfecting’ going on.

I would like to believe sunlight is a disinfectant, but I have yet to see that in the corporate world.

I think the only real ‘disinfectant’ would be the CEO realizing that it’s worth making things better for its own sake, and not just because of bad press.
unrelated but no xmas lecture this year?
> Being angry at some injustice doesn't automatically make you unhappy too

I guess I was assuming that anger and happiness are somewhat mutually exclusive.
Blue states/leaders have revealed themselves in the past 12 months as true authoritarians.
I think the problem is requiring excessive polish in academic papers.

This causes two problems:

1) It's easier to polish something which is incremental.

2) It's easier to achieve the look of polish by purposefully hiding issues and smoothing over edges.

I'd personally like every paper about a technique or algorithm to include as many problems where it does terribly as where it does well -- this is annoyingly uncommon. Also, people shouldn't be afraid to discuss all the nasty unfinished bits but in practice if you mention them reviews say "well, go fix that before acceptance".
The only thing I find nice in what Mathworks offers nowadays is their caps & T-shirts at conferences. MATLAB is on Medicare in deep learning times.
Might as well call it Poison Pill. What a waste of energy on Apple's part and a perfect grounds for a lawsuit. Apple approved this app with no problems and all of a sudden there is a problem where nothing has changed. Take them to court and dispute it. I assure you they will not be able to prove that this app violates the contract that was agreed to.

What I see here as complacency on peoples' part here is ridiculous. Companies and people never stop until they are tested. Apple would have never made a small business contract for the app store had it not been for Epic's lawsuit.

There even a comment below where Apple had no issues featuring the app: https://apps.apple.com/us/story/id1470456860

This is winnable in court. Settle for Apple paying for the cost of re-brand and lawyers if they do not want to continue the dispute in court.
> the claim is the app promotes drug use, which it doesn't

You don't think it could reinforce the idea that Amphetamines could be a useful tool to preserve wakefulness?
>If Apple refuse to take actions, I will interview with major media outlets describing the experience in more details and I will release a list of all individuals involved from senior management to the HR director and all the evidence as public record.

I'd say go for it.

I like Apple products (most of them), but this is nuts, and those people must be punished, up to the level that allowed it.

Unfortunately golden parachutes mean that certain levels and above will just get a repositioning and laught it off at worst...
Its not just their store. Its my device and they are not letting me run a program in it by the dumbest reasons. We shouldnt normalize manufacturers censoring software arbitrarily.
> Sometimes, if a person looks inward and into their past they will find a pattern of people who have taken advantage of them.

If someone has moved one far enough from the original trauma in order to work towards self-development, that's good advice to them. But in this case, they are still dealing with the fallout. Your advice is extolling them to work on themselves rather than trying to bring the perpetrators to justice and seek restitution from those who did them wrong. In other words, you're placing burden on the wronged rather than focusing on those who wronged them. That's victim blaming.
Not because of violence btw.
It’s not a hard decision. You unquestionably walk away from a situation like this. If your interactions with the team are going this poorly, walk immediately. There’s nothing to be gained from trying to hang on in a situation like this. This person should have walked much earlier.

It’s agonizing how much broken US immigration policy plays a large role in forcing talented people who have decided to join our country to feel like this isn’t an option for them. We owe them much better.
I know a very intelligent software engineer who told me he had never used Exercism (despite him using other similar tools) simply because he’s a practicing Catholic and thought the name to be in poor taste. You definitely alienate people at the fringes by naming things something even slightly risqué.
I've not found remote to be an issue salary wise. If you work in stuff that's hot, people don't care where you live and will pay to get scarce talent.

I've been remote only now for 20 years, and being fully remote just gets easier all the time.
Sometimes a bit of pushing back helps. A lot of people's bite is worse than their bite.

Plus some people are frankly bullies and if stand up to them you see their true colors, as cowards.
HIV/AIDS is the other pandemic right now.
> The turbine is capable of producing as much thrust as the four engines of a Boeing 747 jet, according to G.E.

Windmills do not work that way.
the vast majority of C++ dev out there is >= 11 per https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2019/cpp/ with C++14 / 17 being regularly used by >60% of respondants.

Large libraries such as Qt now require C++17.
I'm not an immigrant, so I don't have your perspective. But I wonder the same about H1B's: I don't understand the allure of the United States (besides the money?). Our industry is horrible to its H1B's, H1B exploitation is rampant and disgusting. FAANG hires them so that they can exploit them as cheap labor that can't risk leaving.

Why not move somewhere else if you want to work abroad? I can think of so many better options.
This is fantastic. I love how if you do it long enough, the results go way down, and after a while you can no longer tell, or be certain one way or another.
macOS ships with a command line program called "caffeinate" that disables the sleep function of the laptop. With this background knowledge I was immediately able to assume Amphetamine is a more powerful program that provides the same results. With this background in mind I find the name to be clever.
Personal attacks are not allowed here and will get you banned here.

Obviously that's a bannable offense and I'm shocked and disgusted that you stooped to it. I wanted to think better of you.

We've put up with a ton of shit in your posts because (a) there's often a good point in there—even your point about the Beowulf translation would have been a good HN comment if you had cared to post it that way, and (b) I think highly of your technical comments and think HN would be poorer without them. But we can't have you abusing the site and other users like this; we've banned many accounts for less. I don't want to ban you, but if you don't fix this, there won't be a choice.

It's in your interest to use the site in the intended spirit, because poisoning HN (which is what your behavior, compounded, amounts to) is only going to ruin it as anything interesting. We have a hard enough time trying to prevent this place from sinking. I wince at its mediocrity already and it pains me that someone with the talent to really help it be good prefers instead to piss all over it the way you've been doing.
I can't actually read this because I've blocked reddit at the router.
Use Bottom-Up Dynamic Programming to Solve House Robber II [video]
Not advocating drug use has exactly nothing to do with wokeness.
You don't simply fire off a 6-hour paid project to everyone who applies. You do some screening and conversation before-hand.

It always seems strange to me that people won't bat an eye at taking a day (or more) off work to come on-site for technical interviews, yet the idea of giving someone a 6-hour project do at home, at their leisure, is somehow a bridge too far.

In real-world hiring experience: I gave candidates a choice between on-site interviews and take-home projects for a while. Zero people chose on-site interviews when given the option, so I stopped offering it.

The bottom line is that interviewing requires time. If someone isn't willing to lift a finger or allocate a few hours to an interview, how are we supposed to gauge their competency? The "just trust me" model doesn't work at all.
> Telligent

Taligent?
They say app should be fully usable after apple login. We are e-mail provider and we are not startup. After apple is connected we ask user to enter existing credentials to add apple to his account (90% of cases) or register a new one (also You need to provide password there). Without password IMAP does not work for example..
> To add a little detail to what others said, amphetamine and its salts are explicitly a Schedule II controlled substance in the US.

Though, Schedule II means it has accepted medical uses, so it is not illegal. For instance, lots of kids are prescribed amphetamines for ADHD.

The part of the policy that actually references "controlled substances" only forbids apps that facilitate their sale by non-pharmacies.

I think the GGP has a point if you replace "controlled substances" with "illegal drugs." The reviewer obviously seems to think the terms are synonymous (which is false), and banned the app under the clause that forbids "encourag[ing] consumption of ... illegal drugs."

Leaving everything else aside, this reviewer pretty clearly failed to understand and reasonably apply the policy as written. Reference != promotion and "controlled substance" != "illegal drugs" (all illegal drugs are controlled substances, but the reverse is not true).
There is a technical definition and there are lay understandings.

This has always been true. Wouldn’t you say?
Eye glasses were necessary, but not sufficient, for the invention of the telescope (and microscope).

It's about the knowledge to refocus light, which is (generally) done in an one-way fashion for spectacles, and in a two-way fashion for 'scopes.
The California aqueduct system has a total length of 444 miles and the main branch is 300 miles [1]. More important is the demographic impact of water management: Rome's largest population center was ~1 million people, the Hohokam ~80,000 as compared to the Los Angeles metro's 18 million. Preindustrial populations had very little capacity to built large infrastructure projects like these. Huge population centers consuming substantially more water than is brought to them naturally is a very recent phenomenon, Roman aqueducts and Hohokam irrigation notwithstanding. In most years Los Angeles imports 80-90% of its water. Situations like these are not possible without industrialized water infrastructure. Los Angeles used to be primarily supplied by the Los Angeles river and its population was correspondingly lower.

Human need water daily to survive, and without pumped plumbing building a population center that isn't near a lake, river, or with access to groundwater is effectively impossible. The Hohokam were no exception. Their aqueduct system did not exist to deliver water to the city center, but to their agricultural settlements. Their main population center was along the Gila river. Preindustrial irrigation systems are impressive when considering they were built without machines, and moreso in hostile terrain like the Sonoran desert or Afghanistan [2] - but it pales in comparison to the demographic impact of water management systems built over the last century.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Aqueduct

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat
You're not wrong; we've seen Amazon try to wriggle out of their bad press by simply hiring armies of posters to tweet and blog positive propaganda, rather than actually fixing issues. Sunlight isn't enough, but I still think at least it's one step in the right direction. Better that Amazon has a poor work reputation than no one know about its abuses.
Foucault is explicitly referring to norms of behavior, not the shapes of buildings:

- regular chronologies
- forced labour
- authorities of surveillance and registration
Bucking Social Media Attraction with Light Front Ends
I treat nearly every comment online like they are a user who is actively trying to deceive me and it's sad.
It was my criteria as well and the only one that failed me was https://www.holmesmiller.com/project/hmp-grampian

Which looks really nice for a prison. I suspect it is an administrative building, or just the entrance. Not the place where inmates actually live.
Aren't HOAs widely hated?
The world changing is inevitable, but the manner in which it changes is not — especially with regard to technology, which is created entirely by humans.

But that's not even the issue at hand. The actual technological change — aggregating restaurant menus and allowing consumers to order from them via one interface — is orthogonal to the discussion here. We're talking about the specific business practices that companies implementing that technology have settled upon.

I'm putting the blame on platforms because the change they're pushing involves predatory behavior without consent of the restaurants. That wasn't inevitable in any way — it was a deliberate choice made by delivery platforms to redirect money from restaurants to their investors.

> Who are you to decide that this is wrong and that people should not be able to order food for home delivery?

> You are also ignoring another already stated point: Restaurants are not required to offer takeaway.

These are both straw men. No one is saying that people shouldn't be able to order delivery. No one is saying that restaurants are forced to offer takeout. No one is even saying that delivery platforms shouldn't exist!

The point is that the onus should be on delivery platforms to get restaurants to opt in, not on restaurants to be vigilant against predatory middlemen moving in without warning. That's where this starts and ends.
There are lots of software that I won’t touch simply because if I ever had to explain the name, I would immediately be put on the defensive, regardless of how useful they may be. It’s a conversation that would waste my time.

Similarly, I would avoid naming something potentially weird or offensively for much the same reason, no matter how appropriate or funny it might seem at the time.

While rebranding might be a pain, I suggest just doing it. This not a free speech hill worth dying on, in my opinion.
This tool relies on having a Mac desktop or laptop, since they can also show iMessages. It doesn’t require a jailbroken phone.
There's a great talk titled "Lessons Learned from the App Store" by Phillip Shoemaker - https://youtu.be/tJeEuxn9mug

One of the main points is that apple has a hierarchy of priorities for their App Store: protect Apple's brand, protect the customer, then make money (timestamp 5:08 in video). Apple probably got some complaints about the name of the program (probably 100 or less) and decided it wasn't worth the $0 it was making to leave it up.
The difference between high tech and tech-enabled startups
I totally agree. I'm working on a system now that is the most complex I've ever worked on - managed K8s, OperStack, bare metal - all the provisioning, build and test infrastructure (dealing with nested virtualization, DinD, integrating build tools into tools that do things as low level as PXE boot servers). There's a huge amount of tribal knowledge required and I struggled with this.

Thankfully my manager was open to questions, and patient, it was me "not wanting to be a bother". But I had a meeting with my manager's manager and he talked about how stupid he felt, and understanding that no-one would feel like I was an "anchor" asking the "silly" questions of "Why do we / don't we ..." and persisting through that because everyone had been there.
Go on more multi-day fell hikes, 2020 I only had time for two.

Get more involved in the restoration of a local cinema (some timing..)

Improve parts of the algorithm behind https://www.cinetrii.com/
It seems like they just act when their PR team feels worried.
This could be why I haven't heard of it. I live in an urban area, but have never heard much about wood burning as a significant heat source in any nearby rural area or any area where my relatives live. And in Canada, it is basically only the 200 year old places that do it.

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11-526-s/2013002/t002-en...
>But what I read in this article was beyond the pale.

Yes, but while I believe it happened just like that, it's too beyond the pale to be representative of Apple at large.

Looks like a particularly, close knit toxic team + gaslighting above levels about the new recruit.
I agree. Which is why I use a non walled garden operating system. Maybe the same should apply to these complaints. I don’t get mad at wal-mart because of what they choose to stock on the shelf and not stock.
Write your blogs in Google Docs
Americans being American. "We love freedom of speech but fuck you if your product name mentions a chemical compound or a word I or someone else might find offending".
My philosophy teacher said that both prisons and schools end up being a panopticon because you want the same in both places: maximize the feel of power of the authority, don't leave any place without surveillance,...
>If you're 40+ and have dozens of large projects delivered in the real world for both commercial and government clients, Hackerrank and its ilk can still make you look like a beginner just because you couldn't solve one of their toy problems in the ridiculously short time available.

Is this a flaw or a feature? What I'm really asking is: is it a coincidence that some of these tests may tend to filter out an older demographic? It may be yet another one of those ways that some people can be filed away as not being a "culture fit" or whatnot.
There's a lot less barbed wire around these prisons than I'm used to seeing.
That's one reason why the European Public Prossecutor's Office was created.
> Saying you violated their terms with impunity for 6 years doesn’t mean they lose the right to correct the mistake.

Well it gives you an argument I think. Along the lines of a trademark infringement -- if you have let people use your trademark name for years without protest, that can work against you if you suddenly start demanding that it be enforced.

Not sure it would hold much weight here, since it's a case of Apple deciding what they want to allow in their own store.
There is broad adoption in places where you don't have other alternatives. It is unlikely that manufacturing water will be cheaper than just collecting it if there is enough sweet water in the area. The thing is, many places in the world just don't have the water so they use desalination whether it is cheap or not.
The former. Suffering appears to require a nervous system. So in the absence of one we have no more reason to assume plant-suffering than bacteria-suffering, and we lay waste to countless billions of those without blinking.
Have you ever set up a high-occupancy building in a structure that isn’t rectilinear? It’s a space efficiency nightmare to fit naturally rectangular fixtures and appliances to rounded walls. I worked in a beautiful post-modernist building with a terrible architectural oversight: the aesthetically charming glass panels acted as a lens that focused light in a way that heated the whole office up. The AC had to be cranked up high just to survive in there. I would take a well-lit, well-ventilated box over a more architecturally creative space that causes its occupants problems.
"Science advances one funeral at a time"

-- paraphrased from Max Planck
My parents weren't able to afford to get any other kind of heating for our home. What they could do is put in the work to find and prepare a supply of wood. To this day they still use it for heating
Hiring manager here. Top-tier candidates do this all the time.

The alternative is to have them take time off of their dayjob and travel on-site for technical interviews.

In the real world, candidates are greatly appreciative of take-home assignments that let them work in the comfort of their own home, on their own equipment, at times that work best for them.
Maybe.

But this is someone who is choosing to fight for a far right app created by a financer of Steve Bannon to remain in the store on the grounds of free speech.

How certain are you that everything in the complaint is true?
"1.4.3 Apps that encourage consumption of tobacco and vape products, illegal drugs, or excessive amounts of alcohol are not permitted on the App Store. Apps that encourage minors to consume any of these substances will be rejected. Facilitating the sale of marijuana, tobacco, or controlled substances (except for licensed pharmacies) isn’t allowed."

Taking this literally, is an amphetamine an illegal drug? It’s a class of Schedule II drugs that are legal in all 50 states.
Note that catalytic convertors are not strictly necessar. Plenty of EPA-approved designs use other mechanisms to achieve the same result:

* https://www.epa.gov/burnwise
I think the argument, however tenuous, is that naming a utility after a drug generates a positive association for that drug. It’s not even so much that Apple has to believe this as much as there’s an elevated potential for negative PR. This sort of thing is given even more scrutiny with food items:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine_(drink)

https://m.riverfronttimes.com/foodblog/2010/01/20/the-beerte...
There's a physical minimum energy required, but I don't know close things are to this limit.