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The frames / joule suggestion is pretty funny. I forwarded along your comment and it appears to be fixed now, though.
Interestingly after reading other comments I think I agree that it isn't very intuitive. I say that as someone who switched from windows to mac about 6 years ago and don't really want to go back.

I think Windows is more intuitive when you first sit down in front of it. You click an app and it opens, click it again and you get another one (usually). All context for the app is on the window for the app, physically connected. The start menu allows you to get to almost everything, things are in 5 different places on a mac (dock, spotlight, apple menu, etc.). I think all of that adds up to make windows vastly more intuitive (discoverable?), especially for a first time user.

Where I really love my mac is in the first tier of shortcuts and features below the discoverable level. I find the hotkeys to be more reachable and intuitive (easy for my brain to remember the associations) than the windows equivalents. I love spotlight and find it to be much better at opening programs than windows search, though this seems largely fixed in windows 10 I think. I really like the swipe gestures on my touchpad, enough that I bought a magic trackpad for use when at a desk. Swiping between workspaces is glorious. I'm a consultant, and jump between client meetings all the time. I set up each client in a workspace and just slide over to that workspace when I'm ready for that meeting or work session. Then I can jump to the next client without cleaning up and just do a full cleanup later in the day of all of them at once.

I have no idea how I lived before cmd+left and cmd+right go to start and end of line without taking a hand off the home row to reach over to home / end. As I say this though I realize the arrow keys are just below home and end, so maybe it's weird that I love this. Better on a mobile keyboard I suppose.

I'm not someone who could never see going back to windows, I like it plenty, but the M1 has probably locked me in for the next few years.
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At a certain point -- probably the moment it becomes a business unto itself -- this kind of data collection should be subject to all the same rules we've come up with for credit bureaus. It should be a legal requirement that I can get the entire profile they have built for me.
Something like booting macOS on an iPad Pro?
Good idea. I'm writing some db scripts, and I think I'll do this.
>It is absolutely within possibility to ban Belarus for an overt Chicago convention violation.

EU did the same thing in 2013 by forcing the Bolivian president's plane to land in an effort to catch Snowden. They have no moral or legal standing here whatsoever.

https://euobserver.com/justice/120734
Not sure about the first sentence, but how is "most of us are just working to prop them up and keep them rich" a conspiracy theory? Isn't that the whole basis of capitalism? I am asking honestly. The social order being a mostly immutable pyramid has always been the natural model of how things work in my mind.
Public Library Insights One Year into the Covid-19 Pandemic
I use a standing desk. No chair 4 U!
>The problem was 100% insufficient ecosystem support.

The root cause of which is insufficient Microsoft support. If they had stuck with it and kept investing for 10 years and kept up their investments in physical stores where people could go to buy non malware laden products and get tech help, I think they could have been a 3rd option in today's market.
Sometimes. Now, do you have an argument that in this situation, binaries matter?
100% true. bill hwang is a recent example he was on paper >$20 billion. though levered to the gills and it blew up. But there are a lot more examples that aren't big headlines.
I'm extremely skeptical that usable fingerprints can be captured from any casual photo that is sent through a chat app

The CCC in Germany did this once with a picture from Ursula von der Leyen, but IIRC they contacted the original photographer who provided an extremely hi-res image
> Apple does not believe this opinion, nor do they have to

Hopefully if they lose this case (due to the market reality of being a duopoly) then they will be forced to at least entertain it.

Android's way of handling sideloading or multiple app stores is far from the only way to do it. I'm sure Apple could find a better middle ground between what we have now (incredibly locked down, anti-competitive, with arbitrary rules and Mafia-like enforcement of prices) and a total free-for-all.
Yeah, at my company, our CEO and half of our C-level execs are women, but less than 20% of our engineers are women.

To your point, every team in my org also has one or more... but it's not enough to have one in each team. More than half of the population of the United States are women, and far less than half of our engineering teams are comprised of women. And when talking about people of color, the stats are even worse. It's less about whether we have any and more about whether our team composition reflects the population accurately.

To your other point, one of the reasons our teams are composed inequitably like this is because of exactly what you described: we have to take ANYONE who is qualified and accepts an offer, because otherwise we'd never even come close to our hiring goals! (Not that we ever meet those, anyway...)
Just wanted to note that the phrase "most citizens actually prefer for it to work the way it does currently, rather than not at all" is a classical example of false dichotomy. Nobody proposed to destroy justice system in this thread, isn't it? Then why do you employ a false dichotomy?

> There is no way he can refuse cooperation with them.

There's always a way. They were already in great position just having him there.
And regarding the latter, there must be very serious investigation following Snowden's actions and if what you say is true, it's extremely hard to believe the investigation has found nothing about it. But it seems so.
Corporations have a fiduciary obligation to maximize shareholder value.

Raising taxes on your profits is surely not in the interest of your shareholders.

It doesn't matter if it isn't worse for you competitively. It's worse for your profits.

If you could have more competition AND more profits, you would want that.
The engineering manager's responsibilities vary significantly from one org to another.

In some orgs, engineering managers are responsible for all of product delivery - figuring out what needs to be done, hiring people to do it, making sure things ship on time, and making sure the app is always live. In other orgs, they are only responsible for hiring and share that responsibility with HR/recruiting.

In some orgs, they are both inward and outward facing - they manage their team and represent engineering in the broader organization. In other orgs, they have no interaction with those outside their direct reporting chain.

Some orgs expect managers to report only on a regular schedule. Others have a more "pop quiz" approach to communicating status.

The broader the manager's scope, the more concurrent communication threads there are - "balls in the air," so to speak, and the more tools they will have to interact within any given hour. I don't think another tool would help unless it removes the need to interact with others for these managers.
Why not accept absolutely anything in the email address field, and just require an emailed link to be clicked before marking the email as validated?
I cannot send a message to the email address they provide, but not because of anything wrong with the email address itself, but because that email address is version 6 internet, and I have version 4 internet.
Creating one. But when you consider just how many customers are using gmail and outlook addresses, and not to mention, GSuite/fastmail/etc. addresses under custom domains, it makes more sense why rejecting @gmail.com@gmail.com is worth more than allowing some crazy e-mail feature that is effectively not used.
Index N represents "skip N elements". That gives you very easy additive/subtractive behaviour, unlike "how many numbers are there from 7 to 17?" scenarios.

Sure, 17-7 gives you 10, but that's not the final answer, you have to add 1 to get the right answer, 11. Sorry, no, you actually subtract 1 and the right answer is 9. Wait, no: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, okay, 11 in total, so you have to add 1, got it right the first time.
> An Ebola outbreak next to a BSL 4 lab in the United States would be a significantly stronger piece of circumstantial evidence than a coronavirus outbreak in a transportation hub city in East Asia.

So lets change the example sense you will fixate on Ebola as being rare. Bird flu was a big thing people were freaking out about a few years ago and it even made a real appearance in Georgia.

I stand by what I said if a new bird flu variant showed up in Atlanta, the media would be showing alot more skepticism and be looking at a lab leak far more seriously by the CDC just based on the geography. If we found out a few CDC workers had bird flu symptoms before the outbreak started, that the government started destroying evidence and blocking investigations, and a few researchers just "vanished", we would be looking at bare minimum a cultural understanding that there was a Jeffrey Epstein level of corruption and conspiracy in front of us.

Lets rewrite what you wrote.

"An Coronavirus outbreak next to a BSL 4 lab in China would be a significantly stronger piece of circumstantial evidence than a bird flu outbreak in a transportation hub city in the Southeast United States".

Unfortunately at this point its become political, the "its a lab leak" is a point that favors conservatives/Republicans/Trump, so a large amount of the population would refuse to believe it no matter what at this point even if proof was uncovered, and at best are heavily biased to disbelieve it.
I still remember this article which seemed to conflate lab escape with bioengineering:

"Tom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus conspiracy theory that was already debunked"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/02/16/tom-cotto...
Ask HN: Not able to clear FAANG EM onsite rounds
Hi!
I just failed Google onsite EM interview. Last year, I failed another BigTech onsite interview.

I think I'm getting tangled in some of their trap questions. I might be wrong to call them a trap, but I believe it is. My two Systems Design interviews went really well. Sharing one scenario based question with you -

Interviewer: What you will do if you found your team is struggling?

Me: I will talk with - all the stakeholders and team members - to find out what's blocking them

Interviewer: Let's say - I'm your manager and I tell you - your team is not able to ship. What you will do?

Me: I'd still talk with my team and understand what's holding them from shipping. It could be missing devops pipeline, maybe requirements are changing, maybe priority is not clear, maybe scope is not clearly defined.

Interviewer: Let's say PMs are always changing the requirements. What you will do?

Me: I'd get an agreement from PMs: once stories are refined or in the sprint, then they can't change it. For any updates\changes, they'd have to create a new story and put it in the backlog.

Interviewer: If they'd still change it then?

Me: I'll express my unhappiness and ask them - why they continue to change it when we had an agreement? I'd be tough with my follow-up but still respectful and keep the tone conversational. I might escalate it to their manager and will also keep you update about the situation.

Something similar happened to me, when I was interviewing with a startup. I cleared their 7 interview rounds. Their recruiter told me - they want to do one more round. He also said - the feedback so far has been positive and encouraging. In that additional and last interview round (although, he told me it's not an interview; just a conversation) - the interviewer, my would-be-manager asked me similar questions like the above, and I was rejected after that.
Undecidability of the Spectral Gap
Like food delivery? Isn’t the gig section sufficient
IMHO "open" systems that are too complex are not actually open.

What is closed source anyway? It just means you get binaries. Binaries are not actually obfuscated. You can disassemble them, and there's even some decompilers on the market that will create functionally equivalent C code with auto-generated function and variable names. Nothing stops you from decompiling and reading a closed-source binary... except the complexity and difficulty of understanding it.

Open source systems where the source and installation/admin procedure are absurdly complicated are not actually open... they're just using a different obfuscation technique. If it takes days to install or the source is write-only code, it's no different from closed source software.
Uber's crazy YOLO app rewrite, from the front seat
Closing an airspace is re-routing with the implicit threat of a fighter jet.
yeah, and that's a hill I'm willing to die on.

Imagine the average non-technical person talking to some customer service agent on the phone and having to figure out if her email is JANEWATSON@gmail.com, JaneWatson@gmail.com, janewatson@gmail.com, or Janewatson@gmail.com. Could you imagine the horror and complete security nightmare of multiple people running around using the same gmail address with different case. Those Jane email addresses above would be four different people. We'd be receiving mail intended for other people all day long.
No the problem is developers confusing validation with verification. You can’t validate your way to a correct address and it’s wrong to try.

If your goal is to catch typos you’re better off with very lax validation plus a library that suggests corrections like “gmail.com” for “gnail.com” (both of which are of course technically valid domains)
The standard is beyond a reasonable doubt, not probable. So that's the correct way to describe the evidence.
I actually find MacOS applications far more discoverable than equivalent windows or Unix tools. That's precisely thanks to the consistent menu structure, which always includes a help menu with a search option, including both the help files as well as the menu itself. Having help show you where to find a particular option so you can learn it for next time is precisely what I want.
It does mentions three months reduction of labour cost, which is a lot more than 80 hours.
crossed the 2000 word limit so adding the remaining text here as a comment -

I do not have any problem working as an EM from the last 5+ years. I've always shipped. I think the interviewers are looking to hear something else, instead of what I've been telling them. Maybe, I need to calibrate my response or respond a bit differently. Happy to share more of my work\interview experience, if asked.

I hope some of you, who have cleared these EM interviews or who are currently interviewers at FAANG can guide me a bit as feedback is a gift.

Thanks a lot.
Ross/DPR ruined it by acting like some anonymous drug lord doing (fake) assassinations with (pretend) Hells Angels. Violence is the scourge on (certain) societies that needs to be dealt with.

This guy was just selling drugs consensually/non-violently (AFIK) and probably happened to be far up the chain.

The police pat themselves on the back and 20 other distributors they didn't catch are getting a minor pay raise and life goes on.

The only hope is this guy can find real productive work in the 5-7yrs he actually does in prison, and doesn't become a hardened criminal with street rep from prison.

The other risk is potential power vacuums that results in violence that wouldn't otherwise be there but I doubt it in Liverpool (unlike Mexico and for example: CJNG, aka Jalisco New Generation Cartel).

Note: I feel the need to point out I'm not some hippie activist against the police. It's just obvious and rational that DEA is burning through money while the real work of addiction and access to drugs is much harder problem than arresting replaceable dealers and needs a new whole new approach. It's been obvious for decades and some governments are finally realizing it.
Highly misleading title, this was not a raid, they issued a notice as they were putting "manipulated media" tags on well known politicians, it was seen as Twitter directly attempting to shut down democracy in India
Isn’t it just not very nice to ignore a Request for Comments
For a couple glorious years I had a 2-letter email address at a single-letter .com domain. It was rejected a surprisingly small number of times.
yes, this is why people calling states with no income tax as a "regressive" tax structure seems like a psyop.

Income tax taxes people who work for a living. Property + capital gains tax both tax assets appreciation and rent seekers (unless the investment is a high risk venture into a startup or something ambitious).
No, they're not a Putin proxy. What they're doing is literally pissing against the wind. A recent example: Hungary has bought vaccines from Russia and China which are not approved by the EMA. Now their recipients are basically not recognised as vaccinated and will face travel issues.
The iCE40 from Lattice is pretty popular for its open source (reverse engineered) toolchain.

As far as hand soldering an FPGA, you’re gonna have a hard time finding any that aren’t BGA simply because of all the IO. They exist, but probably not in dev board form as they’re really limited in IO and cells.
If you have a real, actionable, complaint against these people you should take action through the legal system. Complaining in a random comment on Hacker News where the accused isn't present to defend themselves comes off as incredibly petty, and hearsay at that, because there's no way to verify your complaints.

Why do companies, like you, think HN is an appropriate venue for airing these kinds of grievances? If you think he stole your IP, sue him. If you don't, but you still feel wronged, you need to write better licensing and employment contracts.

You know what whining on HN does? It makes potential readers like me remember that you run a petty organization that seeks extralegal justice when it fails to protect its IP.

You're equally pathetic. That's all I'm going to remember when I see your brand from now on. Great comment.
I think the author is stretching the words "valid" and "invalid" past their limits here for the sake of hooking you into the article. Yeah, in some countries it's a valid social practice to spit on the floor in public, but in most, it's not.

let's say I'm a dev at google, and I'm writing some aspect of gmail. Is !"£$%@gmail.com a valid email? No. So the word valid is clearly not being used correctly here.

At the core of smtp these emails are allowed, but in practice they almost never are, and so the opposite is true. All the cases he described are, in practice, invalid.
Thanks!

I really do need to play with GraalVM.
Did you open and play back a video first? If you just open QuickTime Player and don't interact with it, it does stay open if you switch apps. If you open a video, then close it, the app closes if you switch to a different app. I just tried it again and that's how it behaved. (I'm running Catalina still, so they may have fixed it in Big Sur.)
Which raises a subsequent question:

Why does the middle class clamor to raise taxes on the rich, which won't appreciably benefit themselves, when they could instead push to lower taxes on themselves, which will benefit themselves?

Maybe different in Europe, but in the USA tax increases do not find their way back to benefits for the public.

I mean unless by "public" you mean the next country we want to "liberate" and bring "democracy" to...
It's not really a conspiracy. You just need to know the right people intimately.

I live in a country with a thoroughly dysfunctional banking system which, by most accounts, fall right in the middle of the global income bracket.

Yet I know a ton of people in the upper-middle and lower-upper class and they all have the following characteristics of their wealth, which _do not_ appear in most wealth statistics:

* One or multiple bank accounts in offshore tax havens, with the US being the most important

* Multiple properties, whose real ownership is hidden by being assigned to family members, friends, and relatives

* A lot of overseas trips to buy things that are normally horribly expensive due to to import restrictions.

* A deep, thorough understanding not only of tax law, but also personal connections with people who work in tax agencies to understand when to avoid (legally), when to evade (knowing the tax agency won't pursue evasions under a certain currency amount) and when to get into convenient tax amnesty regimes.

Again, these aren't phenomenally rich people and they're easily hiding away 50-85% of their net wealth. By most metrics these people's income would, in theory, put them in median American lifestyle. Yet it's obvious that their standard of living _easily_ puts them in the top 2-5% of a developed country, with the addition that labor costs are so cheap that they can afford services even pretty wealthy people in other places cannot.

This is a classic in Latin America, and I have no reasons to believe it's any different elsewhere; the instruments are just different.
> Social security is effectively a boomer ponzi scheme relying on infinite population growth to sustain itself. It falls apart the first time a generation realizes they can reap more than they sow by having/investing in fewer children, but the bill comes due.

Likewise, not true. I find your comment to be extremely offensive, too.

I have 2 rare immune-mediated neurological diseases affecting my peripheral nervous system plus type 1 diabetes. I worked nearly full-time at university, while going to university full-time, while still making good grades in undergraduate, in electrical engineering. I had to do this just to keep medical insurance so I would not die.

Anyways, I was extremely sick from age 18 on at university. I was misdiagnosed, and my health problems were blamed as "diabetes complications". I found out that I had a very rare neurological disease, that very likely caused my type 1 diabetes, when I was 22.

I was declared disabled by the Social Security Administration at age 21. I am sure I am not the only one, and some people incur costs that cannot be paid for by just "saving up". This especially applies for medical care. In my case, I really had no chance whatsoever to do this.

By the way, I am off of disability now.
I just bought a friend's (used) Specialized StumpJumper FSR Carbon whatever-thinggy and it doesn't have the bar ends, which saddens me, so I'm adding some immediately.

The thing is: even if it's a mountain bike, there's some moments where I'm riding on a regular, flat, land (path or road) and I do really prefer to have the bar ends then. If I find it way more comfortable: doesn't even have to be for climbing. Just anything that's not "going down" and a bit repetitive: I simply prefer the position with the bar ends.

The argument I've heard against them is indeed what several people mentioned in this thread: you wouldn't want one of the bar ends to hook something and be the cause of a bad fall.
Well, my country is the US, and I am speaking from experience. I'm definitely not saying it's a good thing. It's just important to acknowledge that "the college experience" of elites and the elite-adjacent doesn't represent the common post-secondary case here.