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I can't believe the amount of comments here that boil down to...

"Yeah tech interviews are bad... If you don't know how to do em! Everyone's an idiot except me, because I always do them right!"

and

"Well if you can't reverse a binary tree by taking "a day" to study [by having memorized every question rather than thinking through and actually solving a problem] then I guess you're not a real engineer. If you make a syntax error, you're not a real engineer. Nobody would make that problem on a test. You're just making up excuses."

Maybe some of you do an OK job and reading between the lines and seeing if someone is a good developer (something I have literally never seen or heard of in practice), but it sounds like you're just interviewing people who are naturally good at test taking / memorizing academic questions and then auto-failing everybody else and just not talking about it here. I guess those fall into the assumed category "fake leaches who do nothing for a living" / "other" category you summarized in 1 word, even if they have a decade of experience.

"Oh, no that's not true. The interview process is bad, but _I_ know what I'M doing so I'M not the problem. It's everybody else that's wrong."
Microsoft even removed the default web browser setting from Windows 11. Instead of a single setting for the default web browser, customers must set individual “link associations” for the http:// and https:// protocols; as well as file associations for the .html file type.

This is just horrible. They are so desperate to get back market share that they resort to "purposely bad ux in new versions" tactics. What is their goal? Get more users on Bing? Get more tracking data via Edge?
It's the PM culture that everyone has adopted from Google for sure. Along with their grotesque hiring methodology and inordinate respect for the likes of Kubernetes. Clever mediocrity is not the same as genius.
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For anyone else like me wondering why hydrogen is difficult for airplanes (not mentioned in the OP article):

from https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210401-the-worlds-first...
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Hydrogen has higher energy by mass than jet fuel, but it has lower energy by volume. This lower energy density is because it is a gas at typical atmospheric pressure and temperature. The gas needs to be compressed or turned into a liquid by cooling it to extremely low temperatures (-253C) if it is to be stored in sufficient quantities. "Storage tanks for the compressed gas or liquid are complex and heavy," says Finlay Asher, a former aircraft engine designer at Rolls-Royce and founder of Green Sky Thinking, a platform exploring sustainable aviation.

And there are other challenges. The energy density of liquid hydrogen is only about a quarter of that of jet fuel.
The title is super misleading. It don’t not block other browsers from opening links, it prevents “microsoft-edge://“ links from being intercepted. While still hostile towards users, it is not as bad as the click baity title suggests!
Anything Tesla is tough because of the mobilized army of fans.

Electric cars are really amazing in some scenarios though - I was a passenger in a Tesla in a winter accident that would have been a rollover event in many cars… we ended up in a flat spin and in a ditch instead.

Volvo has always made safety a key value. I remember picking up my dad from a police station after he had been in a 50 car pileup in the 90s. His Volvo was unrecognizable, but he walked away, only needed help from a policeman to cut the seatbelt off as the buckle release wasn’t accessible.
Air travel also requires extensive infrastructure, only at airports.

Are these train plans outlined not bullet trains?
And this is why I don't use anything MS (nor Apple, but that's a different story). Even with some of their apparent open-source friendliness, they're still the same MS of old.
No, it's really not the same, and it's not pedantic. Driveway shoveling guy does not get a wage. He's selling a service in exchange for the market rate of said service. It's really not the same as working for a boss for a set wage, because he gets all the profit, and is free to hire someone, for a wage, to replace his labor.
They won't care about anything you say if you don't grab their attention first.

Ancient Greece in a little cartoon in a history textbook is boring, running around ancient Greece being spoonfed a little classics is fun and visually appealing.
The ones you take before dropping out and starting a job, obviously.
Young Investors to Financial Planners: Thanks, but No Thanks
This is an industry we will be trying to improve for several hundred years from now at least. Very good chance electric airplanes are not feasible today, or tomorrow, but this is a long game. Maybe it won't be typical batteries, and very likely not lithium ion batteries.
100 x this. Most companys ban all kind of software. So Excel is the only solution for really all kind of problems.
good bader meinhoff
Or it comes straight from some patent trolls that fund his campaigns.
Hoenstly for me the issue is I want someone to create the "killer" note-taking app.

I don't want to be restricted in how I am taking down information. Sometimes, I want to draw on a tablet, sometimes I want to write markdown, sometimes I want to do workflowy style outlining.

I shouldn't be restricted in that way!

So far, the only one I've been able to settle on for about 1.5 years now is Obsidian.
That all skips the interesting middle values of the problem parameters :) .

Seriously, for long time already it's not a rocket science.

Existing technologies - with engineering efforts - are capable to bring humans to any point between Mercury and asteroids. We'll likely develop something better, and Solar system would be all reachable without major breakthroughs. Certainly not of the kind "rocket fins on Earth, tip on Mars".
God I'd love it so much if 'idea people' could use some sort of no-code tool to get their idea 80% of the way there, so I can start cracking on the remaining 20%, or even not at all.

This would really clear me up for valuable work instead of having to rehash the same quick fixes for broken data modeling paterns.
Chrome is testing next-gen web technologies that will boost browser games
Yes and no. I suspect the main feature this is used for is the start menu search feature to push traffic to bing. This appears to be unavoidable and really pisses me off on a regular basis.

I can’t think of another reason in the windows UI to disable this. I’m sure there are some but at no point should those should require Edge. It’s a web page dammit!

This is basically devolving into the 90s again.
its 2021, and Micro$oft still has not changed its ways. And we are letting them interact deeply with the Linux Kernel???? lol...
Software == a NO-CODE tool
He is using you like this and you are still worried about burning the bridge? If the CEO can only afford 1 developer, I don't think you need to worry about burning this bridge.
Research shows the spread of Transeurasian languages due agriculture
It depends very much on what functionality you needed.

If you needed a GUI for database CRUD operations (which is a lot of business processes and a lot of webapps now), then you could do that with nearly zero code, as the built-in behavior was all that you needed, but if you needed some interesting custom script and just a button "run it" and a textbox for results, then of course that would be nearly all your own code.
I'm always amazed at people who believed that MS would change its ways. It is in the DNA of MS to make everything proprietary and controlled by them. In the last few years they have just prepared the way for MS 2.0: make every company of the world slave of their closed cloud products. It is already happening.
Once upon a time I thought electronics were complicated.

Now as an Adult, I realize that roofs, cables, screws and nails are some of the most complicated subjects in the world.
How exactly is improving train infrastructure decreasing the quality of life for you?
I mean, points for being right. We should create Star Trek teleporters so we can use them to avoid motorcycle accidents.
I have a few GB of mail folders. I can search them more or less instantaneous, using Kontact (KMail).

Full-text indexing isn't dark magic at all.
The HN title makes no sense.
It should be either "Work begins on MAD Architects’ cracked Denver residential tower" or "Work begins on cracked Denver residential tower"
Not enough bandwidth, and it wasn't stable.
ICUs around the world at full capacity aren't a result of the media or people having negative thoughts about Covid.
They've changed the sidebar algo/design in the past six months or so and I tell ya, I used to actually use it, but not anymore at all. It's basically been remodeled into the same "front page" business case as Soundcloud, Amazon, and any other "choose from a variety of things that may or may not be sponsored (but almost always are) and only ever relate to your watch history by chance."
At this rate, we can't anything out of this pandemic.
Researchers wait year to report vulnerability with 9.8 out of 10 severity rating
> won't be joining any existing company

Good news and the most underrated and overseen comment in this thread. Nice man!
None of those credentials translate into an understanding of the current state of patent law.

Like all other areas of US law, its a heaping pile of high-court precedent built on longstanding traditions and understandings of what the Founders had in mind 300 years ago. Since it's built on 300 year old legal theory, some of it makes no sense in a modern context -- but that's what we have.

What is true, and what Massie surely understands, is that tinkering with these rules has seismic consequences, that are all of good, bad, and unpredictable. There are extremely strong opinions and lobbies on all sides of this. Any reform to the US patent system will happen slowly, carefully, and incrementally. Congress is too spineless to actually enact anything like this, and the Supreme Court is extremely reluctant to make any decisions on this.

Most likely, reforms will continue to occur at the margins, according to Federal Circuit appeals decisions. One day, the Supreme Court will review Alice, etc. and we might get a nudge one way or the other.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/apple-safari-getting-mobile...

Most likely, someone found a legitimate Windows 11 bug that will be patched out within a month. Meanwhile, Apple premeditated releasing extensions for their own mobile browser while blocking FF/Chrome from doing the same until some point in the future. I know it's fun to hate on MS but Apple is far and away the worse offender here.
The people of Michigan voted for the leaders who decided to neglect the mess until a lawsuit was filed. Why shouldn't they be liable for the damages?
Does macOS open some links in Safari even if you have the default browser set to something else?
Ah, but did you try to put them in parallel? I've heard Apollo-13 crew were in position of necessity to improvise.
Also, the environmental impact of planes is not accounted in the cost.

Not to mention the ethical implications around sourcing oil-derived fuel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_war
> without the benefit of HTML + CSS

Are you referring to ease in complexity of creating components compared to the alternatives? Because I end up with the same choice when sieving frameworks to use crossplatform. But I've been looking nto Flutter recently, although it's still in beta, it has potential.
He may not be a Luddite, but he is a sitting congressman, so some level of corruption/bad faith should be assumed.
How long will this take, exactly?
> annual organized bus trip to Disneyland for Caltech students

Huh, I was in Page House in 1977, and never heard of that. I do recall the whole House trooping off to see the premier of Star Wars :-)
Please... A 10 second search on the internet will tell you where to get those guns.

I guess action movies don't make any profit from promoting violent behavior. I forgot that movie studios are non profits who donate their money to charity.

Do you also think that Doom and other video games are making kids violent and making them shoot up schools?

Do you think rap music will turn everybody into a violent gang member?

Will watching Elvis shake his hips on TV turn you into a sexual deviant?

I think what it comes down to is, you don't like cars because it's trendy these days to say cars are evil. But you like action movies, and video games, so it's all good.
Oracle. Oracle are that hostile.
I work in a company that has switched to MS products and they already told everyone that the systems would work only on MS Edge.
Why can't one overwrite the Edge binary with what's effectively a small proxy that does nothing but pass links to a preconfigured browser or browsers?
They can't meet demand. That's the key issue. If they could meet demand they would be in a better position. Their demand is only about 20% of total EV marketshare and dropping, if they can't even handle 20% with a first-mover advantage that puts them in a bad position.
Lack of vision.

Inability to make hard decisions due to lack of interest and engagement in company’s domain, market, and customers from the corp team.

Hiring people that didn’t fit into the companies values. Just hiring anyone you could…

Not actually defining the values…

Long story:

I was the CTO and we were doing well. I had a strong vision of how the company and market operated. My work accounted for the lions share of the company’s revenue.

Nevertheless, the COO ended up becoming the CEO. It seemed like a good idea at the time: nerds like me at the company all wanted to remain technical! Let this other businessy person we trust run things and keep the lights on.

Big mistake.

Several fundamental company decisions required ruthless leadership, but the CEO was strongly oriented towards consensus based decision making. Much of the time being consensus based is the right choice. But when it comes to fundamental questions of values and culture, you need someone who truly cares to lead with vision.

One such area was “do we take the company in CTOs direction into X market” or “let’s just flounder around and do interesting stuff in a million directions”. I had my posse of incredible, very growth-oriented engineers that really believed in my vision and wanted to push the boundaries. But 2-3 more lifestyle company oriented people didn’t like us. We were providing the companies growth (monetarily and otherwise). the lifestyle folks were content, so they didn’t want to join up with us. They also complained (despite our growth numbers) that we had “all the fun”.

That created a significant culture issue. Of course it escalated to the Corp team. Many times in many ways over a long stretch of time. The CEO could not resolve the issue whether we’re going to be a lifestyle company vs we’re going in this high growth direction. One or the other meant losing a lot of people.

He always put it to the team for discussion and consensus. But fundamentally you were never going to get consensus on the issue. Furher the CEO wasnt engaged with customers, didn’t know the market or domain, and thus didn’t personally care which way thing went.

This lack of decisiveness was deadly or the higher growth crowd (my crew), especially as we were micromanaged and told what to do/not do constantly by the CEO/Corp team the more others complained. We started to strongly feel like the CEO fundamentally didn’t get it. Instead they were trying to appease everyone. We were being punished for being the financial and marketing lifeblood of the company. That just destroyed our morale.

In the end I got tired of dealing with it and left to greener pastures. As did many of the folks on my teams.

Like I said, earlier on I should have fought to be CEO, and just committed to being far less technical. I should have kept the COO a COO (he’s really good at that) and made these fundamental values decisions myself.
Here in Europe they are trying again via the Unified Patent Court, which will be free to declare software patents valid using the "as such" or the "technical effect" loopholes, without any possibility of appeal to the CJEU.

They are trying to bypass Brexit with a dubious secret "interpretative declaration":

https://ffii.org/unified-patent-court-committee-refuse-acces...
Docker BuildKit Caching in CI
I worked for a defence contractor for a few years until my conscience caught up. I regret that. I suspect some people never get there.
Yes. microsoft-edge:// is a specific scheme, not http.
All that gear was really appealing, but we spent a LOT of money for good sound back then.

By contrast, any fool with a couple hundred bucks (in 2021 dollars, even) can wander into Best Buy and have pretty darn great sound in his/her living room.
Any Svelte UI component libraries with good i18n and a11y support?
When the OP said other fields, I think they meant other than technology.

Drug companies can be pretty user hostile. Epipens and their price hikes comes to mind.
For a few years now I’ve wished for this kind of thing. After I sketched out a couple of concepts, the approach that looked most viable was to build a folding keyboard case where the lid opens up into a tablet stand. This hugely reduces the scope of the design problem, because PCB mounting holes for mechanical 60% keyboards are more or less standardized, and tablets are obviously commodities. Even so, this is easier said than done. I didn’t (and still don’t) have enough experience designing things with hinges; I don’t know how to make things thin, light, easy to build, yet still strong enough to throw around; and I could never decide what to do about mice.
The ironic thing is that moving back to "first to invent" works in favor of big companies who can afford armies of patent lawyers to argue over who was, in fact, "first to invent". First to file is much more egalitarian and more favorable to startups, small companies, independent inventors, and suchlike.

And yes, I get that "first to invent" feels more fair in a certain sense. But from a pragmatic point of view, first to file makes more sense. It's also more consistent with how most of the rest of the world works, if I recall correctly.
No, my point was that even similar redundancy helps. The example of 200A vs. 100A fuse is just an example of something which is not suitable for the problem - like, a tractor on the Moon helps little if you have a broken leg, you need to have medical supplies for that. But with big rocket you could, of course.
Oh wow I didn't know the JIT had been removed from rubinius.

I was a (pretty minor) contributor to rubinius back in its llvm heyday and it was a pretty transformative project for me, in terms of enabling my understanding of VMs, garbage collection, and language architecture. Even then llvm felt like a pretty heavy weight for JIT uses, but there really wasn't anything else out there then that could perform at its level. I think nowadays there'd probably be some better choices out there. Maybe cranelift.

I wound up spinning a lot of that off into my own attempt at a "VM built in itself" project that never got to the point of JITing code it did run its own "glue language" (compiled by ruby code into vm bytecode) that was used to build somewhat functioning ruby (passed like 70% of then-current rusbyspec I think?) and python support without the VM itself being aware of the language semantics. It was a really fun time in my career.

Later I used the basic understanding of LLVM it gave me to take part in the effort to port Swift to linux even, which was also a really good time for me.
>But there is a problem now. As a family, thanks to the incomes of the kids, have enough to survive (and thrive), but he continues with his efficiency-only approach, instead of the just-buy-it approach.

...

>(Also, while writing this it was very helpful. I think while writing this, I have decided that I will let him continue, as my inconveniences are much slight compared to the damage it will do him and his, I guess its called "agency")

You've distilled some thoughts on living with tinkers in my life, many of them has enough income later in life to just buy it, but finds joy in being resourceful. That said, it is very annoying to live with "ghetto" rigged contraption that means a lot to them but is just unsightly to you. It's an admirable and annoying combination of being resourceful and miserly vs DIYers who are willing to spend a little extra cash to buy new materials to put together a custom solution that both satisfy needs and general aesthetics for everyone. That said, I think the zero-waste repurpose aesthetic is what many fallout scavenger workshoppers enjoy about their handiwork, but don't realize others aren't deriving the same level of joy from living with their creations.
Hiring for Expertise You Don't Have
> no one is skating under the radar at MIT

Funny you should say that.

A past CEO I worked with was a CS grad from MIT. He would laugh about the fact that "he could code, but no one would want to use the code he wrote."

I've also heard another anecdote about an MIT grad who had excellent grades but who somehow couldn't get any work done on a relatively straightforward project.

So yeah, even MIT graduates CS students who aren't the best at code. CS being "Computer Science" means they need to understand the theory, but even an MIT grad isn't guaranteed to be capable and talented in writing code in practice.

If there were a "software engineering" major (or certification?) which, among other things, required the student to write nontrivial code, and it was judged by experts, including using subjective design criteria, then maybe we could start using that degree or certification to prove that, at least at the time of the tests, that person could code. But the devil is in the details even then...
I disagree with this. As someone who started visiting the main site when I was a teenager, Lowtax's comedic writing was what drew me in. AFAIK he retired from writing for the site a long time ago, but in his prime he was cranking out hilarious essays, absurdist listicles, and entire parody web sites pretty frequently.
All of that was very cool and impressive and extremely user-friendly.

However, I found the lack of a command-line to be restricting.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was the first person to use the term Anarchism to describe the political philosophy that we (anarchists) believe in. He was born the same year Thomas Payne died. So while Payne wouldn't have described himself as an Anarchist, we definitely recognize that he was in many ways espousing Anarchist philosophy.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/william-m-van-der-we...

>Nicholas Taleb

I'm not familiar, and Google doesn't seem to bring anything up under his name or under fractalistic societies. Unless you mean Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the author of Black Swan? If so, I'm also not familiar with his work outside of knowing about that Book.
Cofounder here! Not quite. In Hightouch, you define your model (SQL) and create a sync (point-and-click or JSON/YAML).

The syncs are declarative, not imperative. They don't map 1:1 to API calls by design. You tell us what you want the destination to look like, and we figure out how :). Kinda like how a database creates the best plan for your SQL query before executing it.

Here's an example - https://i.imgur.com/05T5iKK.png. This sync maps your users table to Salesforce "Contacts" and the mapping interface also encodes the foreign key relationship between Contact:Account in Salesforce. Under the hood, we do all the lookups, caching, batch API calls using the bulk API, automatically handle rate limits, and only send changes from your database.

This is one of our key design differences compared to iPaaS tools like Tray, Zapier, Workato, Mulesoft, etc., which tend to just map actions to API calls 1:1. Data integration being declarative is something I'm really passionate about personally... wrote a blog with more examples at https://hightouch.io/blog/the-future-of-data-integration-wha...