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> If they can't do what they need to do to protect themselves, then their lineage will fail.

They're not living in isolation from the rest of society. Their actions are affecting those who are trying to take precautions. This is analagous to the situation where a portion of the population is not vaccinated and herd immunity to certain viral diseases can no longer be maintained.

>>> I'd much rather this sort of thing be policed socially amongst individuals

>> There's a significant risk of becoming a victim of aggravated assault when you confront individuals or groups who insist on flaunting guidelines.

> That's already happening

So why do you prefer it to be policed by individuals rather than relying on law enforcement?
The first time I installed a minimal Gentoo (~2005 or so) I could boot to a shell with 17 MB of RAM used. This was after tuning the kernel to make it as small as possible and removing everything I didn't need, disabling all superfluous init services, etc.

It's quite possible that it did use more than 17 MB temporarily before going back down, but I would expect that it's probably doable in 32 MB + swap.

Configuring a minimal Linux system with Gentoo or Linux From Scratch is a great way to learn how things work (especially learning from mistakes like disabling ATA/IDE in the kernel and having to figure out why it no longer boots :p).
Honest question: How do hospitals hire doctors (industry hire)?

Do they quiz them like they did to the residents on Scrubs? Do they pull up a list of symptoms and ask what they would test/try next? Do they show them x-rays and ask them to spot the coronavirus?

Seriously? Or do they look at your degree and experience and conclude that if you worked at General Hospital in Atlanta for 5 years you can work at Metro Hospital in Philadelphia?

I honestly don't know how other professional industries hire industry-hires (not college grads/interns) but I only hear about quizzes and riddles and online tests and shit like that in programming.

Hell, do they do the same shit for electrical engineers? Chemical engineers?

I really want to know if they do and if not, how is it Boeing can hire a EE without a whiteboard puzzle but can't hire a CE without that bullshit?
A worker coming in sick can be a safety violation if they don't wear the appropriate protective equipment (generally gloves and a mask). Picking food of the ground is a safety violation that could get a restaurant shut down, and moreover would open the restaurant up to civil torts. A restaurant is not going to risk permanent closure to save a few cents on food that falls to the ground, especially not in places where they grade restaurants on food safety.

As for using leftovers: this will shock you, but a large portion of menu items in even fine establishments use leftover items (that were not served to customers). Soups, stews, curries, etc., generally involve perpetually renewed bases, where the previous days leftovers "seed" the new day's mix. The meats in pastas and other starch-heavy dishes are usually trimmings from entrees in which the meat is the star. Meatloaves in restaurants always use leftover meats from the day before. Nearly all breads in bakeries involve the reuse of the sourdough starter, and indeed the concept of sourdough itself is premised on the reuse of the the dough.
my biggest complaint about schools at least in the US is they all are specially designed. they usually have an architect involved. it’s style is specific to the land it’s on. and each one is so expensive to build. then the community can show off its fancy school, great, it’s a snowflake

i would rather the state appoint an architect group to design like 5 model schools that are modular. and then any time a city needs to build one you just get to play some lego on the modular design. this would make school construction faster and cheaper and maintenance easier
Very naive view. They will be “strongly incentivized” to sign once the company can threaten to pull their listing off and vanish 50% of their customer base. Nothing new here, standard growth playbook.
This is not a rhetorical question: How does other industries hire high knowledge well educated candidates ? How does doctors, mechanical engineers and space flight engineers get interviewed and assessed ?

As have already been reiterated in each and everyone of these threads (about leetcode/hackerrank/whiteboard coding) this is what the companies seem to think is the most proven, and produces most consistent results. But I would love to understand how other industries does this as well; does a propulsion engineer start to draw up a de Laval nozzle and calculate the exhaust gas velocity on a whiteboard? (again genuine question)
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Opioids are often prescribed for good reason as well but there's still an opioid epidemic and referencing them in your app's name or icon probably isn't a good thing to do. Some amphetamines are schedule 2 drugs in the US so possession is illegal in most circumstances.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_Substances_Act#cite...
Music is becoming more generic because musicians can rapidly reach a wide audience and iterate quickly, so they see what works and what doesn't and continue down the path of sound that produces the most money.
> Can I recover my losses if the countermeasures destroy my business?

Do you place more importance on the health of your business over others' lives?
Small but important note: they're only strangers if you want them to be.
Imagine we had some kind of credit card that was linked to VTI (and the market didn't have these silly business hours). When you charge the card, it automatically sells shares to fund your purchase.

Would you use that card? How does it differ from the scenario you described for Bitcoin?
I should be clearer about how a "transpilation platform" would differ from something like LLVM IR. First, a transpilation platform is focused on interoperability between the source high-level language and the target platform, including high-level language constructs like passing hashtables back and forth. Second, where feasible a transpilation platform attempts to output human-readable high-levl code in the high-level target language.
Apple knew a supplier was using child labor but took 3 years to fully cut ties
Because the education system wasn't in fact designed to produce factory workers for a regimented system.[1](http://hackeducation.com/2015/04/25/factory-model)

This is the problem with attributing purposes for which our ancestors never intended.
This is fairly obviously true, FAANG's are large companies so lots of strange things happen even if they on average are great. I worked at Google for 10 years, and had 10 great years there with very little negative to say. That was true for almost anyone I knew. But there was a mailing list "yes at Google" for these kind of stories so other can see that it does happen even if most of us thought it was great. Most of the targets in the unfortunate stories were woman or minorities.
Sorry, I'm confused. What's the difference between "how" and "why" here?
> In other words, academia is sowing the seeds of its own demise

This is first order thinking. Yes, if an increasingly large quantity of academic research is becoming bullshit, eventually the ratio of good to bad research will reach an inflection point where policy will be set that reduces research funding.

This reduction in funding will have many effects, but the largest will be that as funding becomes a scarce resource, a higher curation of both researchers and topics will come into effect. There will be less research and papers overall, but the largest decrease in research will be those that are bullshit.

Finally, as more and more research will be fruitful and useful, and fewer and fewer bullshit papers are published, an inflection point will be reached. There will be more funding allocated to these exciting new areas of study, and more research will happen. Of course, with funding no longer a scarce resource, less curation will occur, and a few more bullshit papers will be published... And the cycle will have advanced one wavelength.

It's been happening for years, centuries, as a basic economic cycle, and looks something like this:
_/T\_/T\_/T\
Uhhh, no.

Seems like someone conveniently overlooked the US’s First Amendment.
Hi there! I'm in the "Left" bubble. What are some of these points the "Right" bubble has that I should be taking a good look at?
And it is thus important to recognize that our cultural perception of book banning, book burning, etc as a bad thing isn't something intrinsic to humans, and its not something we got for free. It took years of effort from major authors and members of the literary community to shift that perception. And we need to fight that fight again for applications, and especially for platforms which give their users and developers no other recourse, on behalf of the vast majority of users who don't have the knowledge or context to understand why it matters.
Napoleonic forces invaded Switzerland and established a client state. Napoleon and 40,000 men quite famously crossed the Alps from Switzerland (base camp at Martigny) as part of the Italian campaign in 1800, as depicted in [0] and [1].

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

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonaparte_Crossing_the_Alps
Schools are one of the most universal community hubs that the largest majority of a community will interact with regularly. No one wants a cookie cutter community center.
Had a similar idea to mine the booking.com data for cheap hotels. Kinda like Scott's cheap flight but for hotels.

I started the project but life got in its way.
A megacorp is not your dream job
True.

The end result is that the merge of the two ends up in the dictionary. Perhaps it's time to update the definitions but I doubt that 'amphetamine' will be defined as slang for 'meth' when in fact 'meth' is slang or short for 'methamphetamine'.
For purporting themselves as worldwide champions of freedom of speech it's kinda funny to see how Americans react when that freedom of speech involves sexuality, cursing or substance use.

Show as much violence in a movie as you want, but two swearwords and the rating is bumped up.
It would be cool to tie this data into a personal CRM so you could e.g. get a reminder when it's been longer than 6 months without texting a person
I'll just leave this here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_proposition
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I agree and disagree. I agree that bad stuff can happen wherever. But some companies do set incentives that lead to bad culture.
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Side question? Do you actually use the camera when doing a Zoom (or other) meeting?

Most of us don't where I work. Not only we don't necessarily look our best, and neither do our rooms, but most of the times the screen is used for other purposes. Usually screen sharing, a powerpoint persentation, or some work document.
This is not some useless academic distinction. You are measuring an analog signal. You do not worry about aliasing in all digital systems, even if they are representing something you might typically make into an analog signal. Why would you want a digital square wave? Who knows. But aliasing is not in the digital signal.
High-end office builds are also efficient rectangular prisms far more often than not, yet they don't feel like hospitals, schools or prisons.

I've spent extensive time in all of these except prisons, and I can tell you the difference is stark. What explains that? Is it all just down to expensive trim and interior decor? I'm sure that plays a part, but that was never my main impression. Instead, it comes down to the layout and light and feel: it's clear when a building, however regular and rectangular, is designed to support and empower the occupants and when it's designed to control and direct.
People with green cards don't need to be afraid of being fired: they're permanent residents. The people who have to worry are those on work visas.
That is why every gov is trying to copy 1984 in this dramatic and catastrophic covid19 epidemia. They dont have to pay any fee to the original author.
Not terribly insightful, but this is definitely my favorite comment that I made:

> Yeah, TIL Mathematica knows what a goat is, and can recognize one on sight.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24489614

I had fun writing that. :)
Does anybody have good data on how size improves usage and efficiency? I would ideally like to see statistics of how large a turbine hits what power output during a year.

I imagine a very large turbine like this could run almost always in an off-shore wind farm but at what power output?
This is quite important for comparisons to other sources of energy. Even nuclear power plants don't run for much more than 85% of days in the year (at least Temelín in Czechia)
I'm confused. You are saying that you have had CTO interviewers that did a gig role for 3 months as a CTO? Did they also have another job at the time or was this their only job?
I've noticed that Doordash can sometimes do the opposite: if I search for a particular dish or genre (pizza, grilled cheese, pasta, Chinese take out, etc.) I'll often get restaurants that I can't pull up by searching for the name. I thought they were punishing or something, I just now realized they might be doing it to hide from search results or to hid the fact that the restaurants are listed...
Trademark issues aside, I wonder if this would be a problem if the app was named Adderall.
One correction to your previous citizen of the world comment, the US Bill of Rights lists rights for all people, not just US Citizens (outside specific voting rights).

Ok, US manufacturing has nearly doubled in actual value since 1990.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/OUTMS

It doesn’t employ as many people, but that’s progress. Making more stuff with fewer people is the only way to grow wages over the long run.

The law of comparative advantage has remained an economic bedrock because none of the criticisms you cribbed from a web page have stood up outside of exceedingly narrow circumstances.

1. Producers always have a very good idea of their costs and where they are lower. Minor Exceptions don’t make a difference, a market doesn’t have to be perfectly efficient to be efficient.

2. Producers know transport costs, that’s a trivial calculation. Clearly CA works better the lower transportation costs are, and it’s harder the higher they are. But if you have free trade in gravel, it doesn’t rebut CA that gravel is frequently too cheap and heavy to transport, so while African gravel can be produced cheaper it’s not going to be shipped to America.

3. Monopolies and economies of scale just drive costs/pricing. Again it’s costs that drive CA, so not rebutting anything.

4. CA takes into account all costs, even such as tariffs. Protectionism is a way of eliminating the magical benefits of CA by increasing the costs of foreign goods and services to local levels or higher. So now the local economy is burdened with all the low value work that could have been cheaply exported, and has fewer resources for the most productive and valuable work.

1-7, really none of are coherent arguments against CA, it’s as if you don’t even understand how it works. An economic participant never needs perfect knowledge of costs, exchange rates, etc to enter into profitable transactions. For one example, interest and exchange rates are easy to hedge for relatively long periods. If you find a significantly cheaper assembler in China, hedging is just one of your costs, and if exchange rates move against you in such a huge amount that Chinese assembly becomes too expensive you simply move assembly when your hedges expire.

And 8) is just a rant about Guatemala. Whatever government runs Guatemala, the benefits of CA are available if it allows free trade. If Guatemalan workers can improve their living standards by taking on another countries low value work at a lower cost, both will benefit.
Yep, 10 years ago I wouldve used “30”. It’s a useful mindset at any age. You aren’t done until you say you’re done.
> (we were competing with another internal team to beat them to the punch.)

What this intentional? I worked at a company that similarly had three projects that were "competing" with each other, unofficially. It was more like three different teams working on a spellchecker, all with different upper engineering management VPs or directors vying for more influence in the organization. Many other teams standing by were not choosing what project to integrate with because we didn't know which would be completed first (or if they made a choice, it was because VP / director told them they had to).

In any case, it seemed silly, and worse, it revealed a lack of vision or leadership in upper management to just choose one of these projects instead of having multiple people working on the same thing, which would inevitably lead to two projects being canned and some number of engineers feeling demoralized and quitting.
In their environment that they clearly indicate is their environment from the outset? Yes..

They are not telling the author they can't call his app whatever they want. They are saying they will not sell it in their app store under that name.

And that's the bargain you enter into when you sell in a walled garden ecosystem.
Uhhh, no. I don't think this name, nor any name based on a psychoactive compound, is a bad or inappropriate name on that basis.
Ask HN: Professionals that are not programmers, how do you interview?
Programmers jobs are often criticized for asking riddles and puzzles, quizzing people on whiteboards, employing 3rd party online quiz boards, and issuing take-home assignments.

Do other industries/professions do something similar?

If you're an electrical engineer do they have you solve circuit diagrams on whiteboards?

If you're a chemist do they quiz you on o-chem problems on a whiteboard?

Is there a medical equivalent of hackerrank where you gain reputation points for diagnosing people properly and lose points when you miss that it's lupus?

If you don't employ these gamified challenge how do you make good hiring decisions?
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The USA is also one country, one culture, one language, 300 million people as an initial market and a continent. Each of these lower the barrier to entry. The last point point about being a continent is that I can ship across the USA for far less than I can ship from one side of the EU to the other. The USA has economies of scale that Europe still does not have.
> if I saw "free speech" being championed by anyone other than the fascists.

How about the ACLU? Are they fascist?

Perhaps you're only seeing alt-right associated with because of the particular filter bubble(s) in which you are located.

I strongly encourage you to dig a little deeper, reflect a little more, and think a little harder on this topic.

Free speech is the font from which all other rights spring and are defended. It is sacrosanct. Thus, folks like the ACLU try to defend it everywhere for everyone, not just the folks that pass purity tests.
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> and decided it wasn't worth the $0 it was making to leave it up.

Then apparently they made a poor decision - the app apparently has been downloaded 500,000 times. That means it adds value to the users who use it, and that means it creates more value for Apple's platform. Apple shouldn't forget that developers add value to their platform, and moreover, with Apple charging them, they are also clients too!
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So just what the holy heck is going on with 3M mask production?
I don't think it has to do purely with visibility outside the company. Visibility within the company is just as, if not more, important. A common theme I've noticed regarding this in stories from Apple is people covering up/scapegoating failing projects by lying to management, creating fake reports, fabricating data, etc. The con seems able to be kept up for a long time because there is only one person you need to fool or convince to not care.

At the less secretive companies I've worked at, where there are many-to-many dependencies and interactions, you'd never be able to get away with something like that because people will freely talk/collaborate/associate with people without going through management. Or people would just look at your source code and see that it's all smoke and mirrors.
“The passionate state of mind is often indicative of a lack of skill, talent or power. Moreover, passionate intensity can serve as a substitute for the confidence born of proficiency and the possession of power. A workingman sure of his skill goes leisurely about his job, and accomplishes much though he works as if at play. On the other hand, the workingman who is without confidence attacks his work as if he were saving the world, and he must do so if he is to get anything done.” - Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind
Would mostly be a good thing but yes could also lead to pushing of journals to be one of those selected
Do you expect to see a box on a shelf of any retail store labeled, “Amphetamine” with a colorful picture of drugs?

It’s entirely reasonable for the retail store to tell the vendor to rename the product or else it will be removed from the shelf.
That isn't really true. Steve Jobs was no nonsense, but was most often merely direct rather than rude.

One thing which Steve Jobs did do was go to great length to assemble highly qualified teams for missions that were clearly stated and understood and which all involved agreed were worthwhile even if there might be quibbles over details. The Apple that rescued itself from near death with colorful and fun designs and then released a BSD derived OS was very different from the modern Apple where contributors joust for top status without much if any existential threat.
I'd argue that's a pretty essential skill in the modern world. Reading and writing are arguably the two of the most important skills we can learn since from them you can eventually do anything else.

Paperwork specifically is also pretty important. Sure you could argue that they could postpone teaching that until later but teaching how to fill out paperwork is basically just teaching how to do homework which will be essential for teaching mathematics at any reasonable scale.

Of course now things are digital but it's still the same skills but in a different shade.
Buying the property came with the HOA strings.

If you didn't want those strings, then go buy a property somewhere that doesn't have an HOA.

Same with this case, I sympathize with the author and I personally think this is a stupid thing for Apple to do, but the author (hopefully) understood the bargain they were entering into when they chose to enter the walled garden.
The concrete are still rather ugly to me.
The company has offices and design centres in Copenhagen in Denmark; Oulu in Finland; Sophia Antipolis in France; Grasbrunn in Germany; Budapest in Hungary; Galway in Ireland; Trondheim in Norway; Katowice in Poland; Sentjernej in Slovenia; Lund in Sweden.
I drove by a cop over the speed limit yesterday. He didn't pull me over. Therefore I can always drive over the speed limit and it is "approved".

This is childish, nonsensical argumentation. The app has always been in contravention of the rules of the app store.
Ask HN: Travelling to Ireland During Covid
Ireland has open borders due low covid and 14 day quarantine, is it true ?

Another question: once I've stayed one month in Ireland, I can travel further in Europe even if I originate from north america ?
In the US, we have Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and countless other programs. Yang got mildly popular this election season with a basic income plan.

I'm hopeful.
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I wonder if app store moderation is run on a quota system. It would explain why we continuously have stories about app X getting banned under a very loose interpretation of a guideline if moderators are "poor performers" when they don't find offending apps.
Perhaps change one letter of the name to APPhetamine?