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When I had several months of 4 day weeks due to [stupid corporate vacation rollover policy change], I told my manager I wasn't coming in on Wednesdays.

It was amazing. Two-day sprints separated by a day or two of rest are really, really productive for me. I never had Monday blahs because I was never facing a long haul of 5 days of work.

Number one recommendation I have for you, regardless of your working situation: change where you are. I don't mean move to another city, I mean keep work things away from personal things physically. If you have a corner that you always work in, never do anything else there. Go get exercise -- if you aren't doing any at all now, pull up a map and find a place about a kilometer from you. Walk there, walk back. When it's raining, take an umbrella. If it's too hot, take a bottle of water and an umbrella. There's nothing shameful about hiding from the sun.
You could invest in the business and pocket the profits, or start your own business.
4 days gives an immediate benefit that is not as relevant for fewer days. It gives you a regular weekday off.

That means you have a day off to go to the bank, go to the doctors, call customer service for a bunch of companies that may not otherwise be open on the weekend, etc.

Further, the weekends carry an expectation of doing something. Such an expectation would not exist for the weekday off.

If we do move to a mass 4 day workweek, this obviously implies that the 3rd day off should not be the same for everybody, so basically it shouldn’t be implemented by just making Friday another day off like Saturday and Sunday. It would be much better if that 3rd day is divided for all employees between Mon-Fri.
The Spot has an extremely impressive stabilization control system. If the Go1 had something close, they would have shown it in this ad.

The other thing to keep in mind is that this ad might be showing the best-case operation. On the other hand, the Spot has been extensively used/tested by customers already.
> In India, jobs are careers for life, and your employer is part of your personal brand.

This has not been the case for at least the last 10+ years. I cant speak of the 'product' companies such as Microsoft, Google etc. But for anyone working in the WITCH like companies, only way to get your salary changed is to switch companies. People change their jobs every 2 years or so, especially in their first 10 years. After that, it becomes less, probably because WITCHes feast on the young ones more, making more money from them. Openings for 10+ years are very less in these companies. WITCHes hire fresh graduates and pay them very less, hardly enough to survive as a bachelor in a big city like Bengaluru. So the only way to get your salary changed is by finding another job. When a person with 2 years experience change job, they often get double of what they were getting earlier. And every job change from then on comes with a 20-40% increase. Loyalty penalty is a very real thing in these companies.

I don't think anyone in the Indian IT industry thinks jobs are careers for life. I feel like our shelf life is around 40 years of age. Only a few survive the industry after that. Sad thing is there is no social security like in US, so we are completely on our own. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that there were so many senior engineers working in US companies. In WITCH like companies, every single team I have seen are structured mostly with 0-3 years, a few 4-8 years. People with more experience expect more salary. Clients want cheap 'resources'. So, these companies hire mostly the cheaper ones.
Not caution. Willingness to accept death should it come. I'm part of the natural world, and viruses are a natural way that keep population in balance. All these vaccines are keeping more kindling for a bigger fire down humanity's timeline.
I would probably reconsider if the odds where much worse than 1%.
A monkey is walking by a river. It sees a lot of fish in a shallow area. The monkey makes its way there and starts grabbing them. One by one the monkey grabbed the fishes and put them up in tree branches.

Why would the monkey do such thing?

Well, you see, the monkey was saving the fish from drowning. What an empathetic creature!
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Put a four foot mast camera on it and I can see influencers eating it up.
My first car was a 1997 Jeep Cherokee with no antilock brakes. So at least as late as 1997.
I don't believe it's gonna happen until some Big Co follows through to set an example. And they won't because they're going to get slaughtered by Wall Street. The whole point here is to extract value from workers. Even if you make stuff super efficient using technology, which was always advertised as something which creates leisure time for society, what actually happens is extra time for extracting value from workers to feed capital. I (strongly) don't believe we will have mainstream 4 day workweeks in our lifetime. It is just not compatible with our economic system. Doesn't matter what 'studies say'. 'Studies also say' open offices are bad for engineers and yet here we are..
> Anti-vaxxers don’t approach debates in good faith.

Neither do people who make blanket pronouncements about an entire broad demographic of people, after labeling them with loaded & vindictive terminology.
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Is it? I kind of understand the argument behind not calling someone 'last', but the language like this exists for a reason. What are you supposed to call segment of a population that is 'not top tier'? The last winner? It gets silly fast. We better get over the emotional component of words fast if we are to get to an actual solution.

For the record, I did not even try to dehumanize. I just applied the language of technology adoption to adoption of knowledge. It seemed applicable.

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> Also, IMHO Amazon is going to have a really hard time hiring people with the reputation they created for themselves.

The majority cares about money and convenience. If people really cared about reputation then Riot Games, Microsoft, Tesla, Facebook, that big ride sharing company whose name slipped my mind, Shell, and lots of other companies, would be struggling to hire.
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Ask HN: How did you succeed in FAANG interviews as a senior engineer and parent?
I have an interview with AWS coming up and I was also recently rejected after a Microsoft interview but I can't help but wonder if FAANG is worth it. I have a degree in computer science that took my 12 years to obtain since I started it in the military and bounced between deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan and all the training in between. I have been working as a full-time software engineer for over seven years now which predates me even receiving my degree. It takes me a significant amount of time to prepare for these interviews and fail. I have done take home code assignments for non-FAANG companies that were effectively user stories for their product. It was essentially free labor in my eyes.

Currently I work as a senior engineer and team lead that requires a significant amount of my time. Between 20+ hours of meetings per week, technical mentoring and development tasks it leaves me little time to even eat and relieve myself. I am also a busy parent with two young children who have schedules of their own. I am left with very little time to prepare for these interviews that can last up to four hours. I applied to these companies because I was under the impression that they could be major stepping stones in my career but now I am asking myself if it is even worth it.

I am certain there is someone out there in a similar situation as me that might be able to share their story and provide some sort of inspiration or enlightenment.

Part of me just wants to quit this career entirely because of the interview process alone. I might be having a midlife crisis. I am not sure but I would love to hear the thoughts from our community.
I wish this was open-sourced. I wanted to do custom modal keybindings, because I find the current approach not to my taste. I like the idea of trackers and I will probably be using Renoise from time to time, but if it were open sourced, it would have been a great deal more useful to me. I mean, I asked for the feature on the official forum, but nobody answered. Would've coded it myself. Why keep it closed? Just why?
as a windows user as my daily non-development driver unless that percentage hits 98%+ AND can maintain that I don't think many people are going to convert
Insightful. When I moved to California from Minnesota my cars were covered with “road cancer”. People looked at the rusted body panels like “What the heck is that? I’ve never seen that.” Now one of my cars is over 22 years old and still going just fine.
maybe in his circles?
When you buy a $2k ICE car, you have to factor in ongoing maintenance of a $2k ICE car. Electric vehicles have fewer moving parts, no oil or filters to change, no emissions tests to worry about, even the brake pads last several times longer. Combined with the lower price of electricity vs fuel, the gap in total cost is not going to be that wide.

The average American drives 16 miles each way to work. (Pre-pandemic, so it's even lower now). The kind of person who'd buy a $2k car can get by with very little battery capacity.
might be worth giving qgis a try. It can work with loads of formats and can be used to run an analysis ( as well as make maps)

https://qgis.org
If knowing the business will not incur a cost due to writing off ransom payments as tax deductions, would that become a new strategy for corrupt CEOs to funnel money to themselves? Double dipping at the tax payer's expense?
And that's why we're in the process of opening up.
> outright contradictions

I don't know Nina Paley's stance on this beyond your paraphrase, but your first statement (at least) is not a logical contradiction. It is equivalent to (for all) x, penis(x) -> male(x); (there exists) x (such that) !penis(x) -> male(x).

I didn't examine the other statements.
> This would imply that education degrees make their recipients better educators.

Not necessarily. It might just be an artifact of mandatory certifications. Suppose that teacher training were completely useless (debatable), but nevertheless legally required (mostly true, esp. for public schools) and expensive in terms of time or money (definitely true). I think you’d still expect increased earnings in those who obtained the certification, if only because they are now eligible for jobs where the supply of potential employees is limited. If they leave the industry, however, that certification often counts for very little, and the pay bump disappears. None of this, of course, tells you anything about conditions across industries.

The quotes in your comment are missing some important context. As §2.1 of the linked paper says, nearly all teachers in the US are somehow licensed, but this can be part of an education degree or an “alternative certification” for those with other degrees. Those two types of training are what the paper compares, not trained vs totally untrained. Critically, both take time and money.

The advanced degree data is also hard to interpret. It could be that a masters is totally worthless. However, selection effects also seem possible: teachers with more training could be given more challenging students or courses, or, as the paper proposes, underperforming teachers could preferentially do a masters to shore up their skills. They could also have more out-of-classroom responsibilities (e.g., curriculum development or admin), which would be consistent with how advanced degrees work in many other fields.

Anyway, all this is to say that “haha teachers are overpaid dummies” is, IMO, too simplistic and not supported by the data either.
I don't comment much, my next-to-last comment were 6 words including the word "underpaid" and now my "Doppelgänger" are all comments who had "underpaid" in their last comment...
In my experience on forums, when someone makes a grand contrarian claim (“vaccines are risky”) and then cites a video without explaining why it is relevant or summing it up, the claims indeed have extremely high odds of being crackpot claims.
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Barely anyone in SF (aka voters) is a parent. SF has the lowest % of households with children in the country.
With more information coming out, and now a significant probability that the Virus was created in the lab. I am not culpable for saving humanity from the actions of rouge governments. Blame them, not me.
There are a few problems with that approach. One is that there is rarely a good time to say, "ok, we've proven that this idea works, let's now go back and do it correctly". It's a constant stream of fixes on a system that "already works". Secondly, telling management that a team was able to go fast previously, but is now going to start being slow so that things can be done correctly, is a quick way to be shown the door. This is evidenced by Amazon and that thousand line Java method that's probably existed for 10 years. Finding that time where you're mature enough to switch gears never seems to happen in practice.

I now advocate a "cut corners, cut scope, but do NOT cut quality" approach. Unit tests do not take much longer to write - but they pay dividends when it's time to refactor. I'm now back in a startup where the code was written with that "just ship it" attitude. The code is so terrible that it can take days to fix a bug. I can rewrite entire features (correctly) in that amount of time.
Plus insurance will go up, and in California the annual license fee is partly based on the value of the car.
Even worse - internal PBX down means all of the calls for that hosted service desk line would have been redirected to their on-call cell numbers instead of forwarded to the internal desk phones!

Upside - company paid for their phones and service.
Downside - their phone fell apart ringing in such scenarios (well, except at 4:25 PM apparently lol).
A speaker is a simple component that needs to be driven properly. What you are suggesting is combining the driver with the speaker bit. It's better to keep them separate. If you tried to integrate some protection to the actual speaker, then there is no way to do that without significant costs or sacrificing sound quality. Anything you do add in would probably fail at a greater chance than the chance of someone blowing the speaker
There are plenty of base-model US cars from the mid-90s without airbags.

It's not as crazy as it sounds; with the front-impact ones, wearing your seatbelt works about as well, and you don't have to worry about Takata syndrome.
Also East Coast fintech. Here's the deal: if your company can't deal without you one day a week, you are a bus accident away from killing the company.

If you're part of a team, the team should be big enough to be resilient to this change (and everyone else should do this too, and your team may need to expand by 15-20%).

If you manage a team, your team should be skilled enough to work without your direction one day a week. If they aren't, you need to step up and develop better procedures.
Yeah, the first time I recovered my smell feces took the longest to come back. Since I already recovered and didn't catch covid again, I can't help but think my current problem arises from some kind of incorrect healing. Like a nerve pathway is connecting to the wrong thing somehow.
I hope the advent of machine learning will afford us a way to filter out 50-95% of the laugh tracks in The IT Crowd. I'd love to be able to watch it for more than 5 minutes at a time again.
In the UK the (non-vanity) plates tell you which six months the car was registered so e.g. a plate AB03 CDE was registered in the first half of 2003, whereas UV71 XYZ is from the second half of 2021.

Thus most car owners in the UK can tell (unless you have vanity plates) roughly how old your car is.
Recall that "earthquake lights" were not recognized by science until recently. The sometimes giant balls of lights (proceeding an earthquake) were the source of many UFO sightings.

These Navy videos are not glitches, human error, or aliens.. or foreign tech.
I think these are meteors with qualities yet to be undiscovered!
> ... with its locked down (Apple would say safe and secure) nature being a cornerstone feature of the platform.

It has only been a corner stone feature since Apple realized they could combine marketing themselves with demphasizing their biggest competitor.

Unregulated duopolies suck.
I watched the Apple presentation on the iCloud Keychain implementation. They explicitly mentioned concurrency and having a consensus algorithm that forbids conflicting mutations on an escrow record.

I've written web apps, and I've written embedded security code. It's a lot easier to screw up and have a race condition in rate limiting code in a web stack than in a carefully designed HSM consensus algorithm (especially since the latter kind of depends on this being handled properly for data correctness, not just defending against attacks).
you just assumed a random sampling. these sorts of studies are literally the farthest you can get from random sampling- a bunch of uni students at a single uni in a single region.

Many of us went through study size calculations when we were first learning how to run clinical trials (well, probalby not many, but everybody in my cohort did). The general conclusion among quantitative scientists is that social science like this is worse than useless because of how much time you have to spend explaining to people that the world is not a simple uniform random sampling.
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That is impressive, I have to wonder how much autonomy the suborgs (faculties?) have, because how many students do you have in total, then? 160k-ish?!

Getting blacklisted on that scale sounds akin to one side of a road between a town (i.e. campus) and a megapolis getting blown-up.
One of my personal motivations for working less time in my full time job is to build a side project which allows me to quit my job completely
... who, over time, has demonstrated he's not particularly keen when it comes to social sciences.
The benefits wouldn’t disappear, people’s errand running would be spread throughout the week rather then crammed into the weekend. I would rather have a weekday free to run errands with much fewer lines than the weekend even if the lines are slightly worse in this scenario than weekdays are today.
Why are these not being marketed to do something useful.

I mean a $3,000 water bottle holder...
> Reports however that he has pernanently lost his sense of thurst.

Wow that is weird, hadn’t heard of that one yet, and seems kind of dangerous. Is he taking extra precautions to stay hydrated?
Comments a few months ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24454369
https://www.google.com/search?q=259684+BTC

259,684 Bitcoin equals
8,937,310,512.40 United States Dollar

almost 9 BILLION dollars at today's rate
It took me a couple of years and several attempts to really get there. Don't give up! ;-)
> since they selectively focus only on evidence that supports their POV whilst conveniently ignoring everything else.

Sounds like the New York Times model. I think journalists basically feel the need, in fact it’s their job to do this because they think the narrative is paramount to everything else.
If we all used generics to treat disease, how would pharma companies make tens of billions on vaccines and boosters and re-boosters, market less-effective drugs with five-figure price tags, and who would repay YouTube and Twitter for the fortune they make on pharma advertising?

Pharma profits, big tech profits, and nurse tik-toks must take priority over disease prevention.
Thats very cool!

I'm also massively in favour of having the db as the source of truth. When I first started looking into building my own SaaS I actually tried to go down the database first design, where most of your functionality runs within postgres triggers. But it wasn't near as easy to do things and writing SQL logic is much harder to test.

Figured the next best thing is to just tie the database in extremely closely using typescript into the backend (I rarely define custom types, always try to use Pick/Omit/Partial combinations all the way to the client SDKs).

I ended building generating forms based on the meta data in postgres (select fields know the values from enums and multiselect from enum arrays), so if you define a table in postgres, you just specify which fields you want to render (out of the available columns) and in what order and it pretty much gives you a UI form that is directly rendered in react. Works really well when you have a form component library at your disposal.
Great article describing the crony capitalists that rule India . Cannot believe the gall of these people profiting off death while pretending to be the saviors of the third world.
It would have been a reasonable response had OP mentioned anything about eating food without causing pain. As it is the response makes no sense because it addresses a point not raised by OP.
I asked this question myself on hn a couple of months ago, as the Chassell Elisp Introduction just wasn't working for me. Someone suggested learning CL via Seibel's Practical Common Lisp [1] and then just refering to the Elisp docs, which is a bit of a round-the-houses approach, but I'm now half way through the Seibel and really enjoying it. Pitched at just the right level for me.

[1] https://gigamonkeys.com/book/
They have a mechanism to pay external developers, and they want to use that instead of creating a vulnerability-specific mechanism.
I had the same for a year, it was wonderful. I think the key was that it was Wendesday, so these 2x2 days, even though intensive, didn't really feel like work. I never had the feeling of being stuck and just getting through to the weekend, on the opposite - it felt like perfect balance. I miss these days.
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This would be awesome! Thank you.
It doesn't really track my every move in real world either — I removed the location permission for the Google app and disabled the creepy as hell location history a while ago. It doesn't track anything at all in the virtual world because I have third-party cookies disabled and run ad blockers on everything I own.

> Have you thought about looking in to the problem yourself, or maybe just throwing some coffee money at the devs who are?

The problem with this particular thing — making a free software, non-Google NFC payment app — is that it's a regulatory hell and requires partnering with banks. No way an individual would be able to pull this off. Also probably no way to keep it open, I'd be surprised if there are no NDAs involved.
Looks like someone else mentioned PAIP. I’d add “The Art of the Metaobject Protocol” as well.
Interesting thought, but does it change anything? Each vehicle is still driven the same # of total miles and the same number of annual total miles are driven, so I'm not sure if the resulting carbon output is any different.
My anecdotal experience...

I own a Peugot iOn (rebadged Mitsubishi i-MiEV) manufactured in 2012, so it's 9 years old. I bought it second hand, and the service record shows it's needed zero maintenance (aside from tires). I have not needed to perform any maintenance in the ~2 years I've owned it.
I'm not in any way recommending this specific car (although it suits me perfectly); but it shows that even a fairly early electric car like this is 10-year capable. The only downside has been the expected gradual decrease in range.

I've also owned a Tesla Model 3 for 16 months, and it's been maintenance and trouble free. I'm not denying that some people have problems with them, however that's not been my experience, nor the experience of the two other people I know who own one.

I probably plan to keep the Tesla for many years, so hope my trouble-free motoring continues :)
Like real art and politicians "book deals" of boring books, and hundreds of thousands for a single "lecture".