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> If you want good coders look for resumes with startup experience. You don't survive as a senior developer at a startup without being being able to write code under pressure.

Lots of code that's written under pressure isn't good code. It's code that barely works and is hard to maintain. For a startup that's trying to get an MVP out quickly (and may not be around in a couple of years), that may be just what they need. But a huge company like Google needs developers who can write software that's reliable, performs well and is maintainable for years after the original developer is gone.
It is not known what the durability is for an optical disc format that does not exist. There is no optical disc format that stores the required amount of data.

LTO tapes do store the required amount of data and if you want them to last extremely long you should make new copies every 10 years or so. Just like you should for optical media. Sure, some discs might last 50 years. But some others won’t be readable after 15.
You touch it with a needle.
> their bad work could cost the company multi-millions

That's such patently absurd bullshit. Google has a code review process. Almost any large tech company has this today. The review process is to ensure that it's a team effort when a major screw-up happens. You don't just let some new employee merge untested and unreviewed code.

You know who I always see harming the company with outages and downtime? Seniors and managers that cut corners. I've had managers before that put in place all these safe guards that go out the window the very second a deadline is threatened. They merge untested code. They route traffic haphazardly. They fuck around with DNS or user accounts on a whim. Because no one is there to tell them not to. They believe they are the exception. The rules are for the minions below them. If you're working late on a weekend cleaning up a huge mess, there is a good chance it's because some manager-turned-arsonist fucked around with the process. They cut corners on the planning, the implementation, or the roll-out.
I'm the author of PhotoStructure, which doesn't _currently_ import the iPhoto SQLite db, but I've got family members, friends, and enthusiastic users that have asked for this feature, so I _will_ get to it (I need to build out face detection, geo, and multi user auth beforehand though, so it may not be until later this year)
Mobile Cambrian seabed dwellers with asymmetrical legs probably didn't last very long.
Sure, but ICBMs aren't airplanes.
Interesting. In medicine they tried to solve this issue by having multiple assessors in the Multi Mini Interview (MMI) [1]. Applicants spend 8-12 minutes with different interviewers in short succession and have a couple minutes to prepare between stations. Each station and assessor has a different question or goal (e.g. critical thinking, communication skills) which are unlinked and it is supposed to remove cumulative biases or the risk of the interview panel having deciding a negative outcome in the first five minutes. It ends up being a lot of behavioural interviewing but seems to work out.

[1] https://students-residents.aamc.org/applying-medical-school/...
Touche, you're right. I should've worded that differently in the moment.

I was trying to come from the perspective of the author, where he tries to argue about difference of appliances through technological means. E.g. using a laser for communication vs using a wifi like transmitter setup.

Both are EM waves but the practicality of the environment with degradation and radiation and the medium that are common for us (gases in the air) make the approach of how to reach the target vibration (in the sense of targeting a specific antenna length on a specific wavelength) harder when trying to use the sub infrared spectrum.

As I wanted to say, I think finding the right material and medium will be a huge challenge in this regard.
i'm working on calculating thermodynamic properties from equations of state [1], and yeah, looking for criteria on how to distinguish from a low pressure, a near critical pressure and a supercritical pressure is not trivial, specially when you don't know the critical point of a fluid (the case for all molecular EoS). one property i've relying on is that the second virial coefficient minimum density is always lower than the saturated gas density.. until a threshold near criticality. a lot of assumptions about a thermodynamic model fail at near-critical points. Understanding and exploiting those properties helps on building more accurate property solvers for any, existing or new, equations of state.

[1] https://github.com/ypaul21/Clapeyron.jl
> 7 interviews is not that high of an investment to lower the risk of a bad move

To me it seems that for this to be true, either my time must be worth very little or I must be really risk averse.
Just drive to the nearest new luxury condo and count how many low-income folks just moved in.

If you don't build these things, you'll have to compete in a bidding war with rich people to rent an old, renovated shitbox. Guess who will win?
I've used ngrok every single day for ~8 years for work and didn't have the slightest clue how it worked. I'll still be paying for it but I learned a lot reading this.
> There's an argument to be made that it's in the public interest to allow for at least some units to be made available that are affordable to someone on a teacher's salary.

There's an easy way to do that - raise teachers' salaries, and let them choose whatever housing they want, not what you've arbitrarily designated as "affordable" (via a political process). This raises observable costs, but has plenty of less obviohs benefits.
Sorry, you put a lot of buzzwords there, but buzzwords do not constitute any proof. It's certainly true in low-skill businesses like , i dunno, agriculture that production scales linearly. If nonlinear interactions occur it would be interesting to name them, instead of attributing it to some kind of magic ether. I dont like this completely vague explanation because it's exactly the rhetoric that people mock when they want to attack diversity
The key quote is this:

> 300-500k in upfront costs.

So before building anything just the application process will cost you up to half a million, that's an enormous hurdle.
The depth of a road (thickness of asphalt and granular layers) is determined largely by the loading (i.e. how many big trucks will be travelling on it).

The width of a road (# of lanes) is determined mostly by how many vehicles per hour are travelling on it, which means mostly cars.

The width of a lane is determined by how many large vehicles per hour are travelling on it, which means buses and trucks.

The grade of a road (how steep it is) is generally determined by the lowest weight-to-power ratio, i.e. fully loaded transports

The grade of asphalt used is determined by annual average maximum and minimum temperatures, how many heavy vehicles will be using it, and how many vehicles total will be using it (lower grades of asphalt can be used on smaller streets, lower quality binder can used in areas with less temperature variation, and asphalt with higher quantity of coarse aggregate and larger compactive effort has to be used if it's a truck/bus route)

The frequency a road is resurfaced is governed by a few things, frequency of heavy road users is a big one (but at least in my local area, the number of freeze-thaw cycles is more important)

All that is to say: road damage is largely caused by trucks and freeze-thaw cycles, but cost of the road is largely governed by how many lanes of traffic there are, which is caused by cars. Remove all the cars from your street and a two lane non-divided highway with a passing lane every couple KM would suffice in most places.
allez-oop is what French circus acrobats would say before a jump, parents now say before helping a kid up: allez means go, and oop is this sound too.

In English both hop and up.
Ask HN: What is the newest MacBook Pro with Linux support
I'm currently running Debian on a MacBook Pro Early 2015 and am in general very happy with it, but it is beginning to show its age in terms of running multiple JavaScript heavy web apps. I'd like to get a newer MacBook, but without butterfly keyboard or touchbar. I'm curious to find out what is the newest MacBook with full Linux support. Any tips? Note I'm not looking for a non-Mac machine.
After recently making it through 2/3 interview sessions for a very niche technical role, I was told I was exactly what they were looking for, but that I wouldn't be allowed to proceed to the final round interview with the manager until they had found a "diverse" candidate to interview... ended up accepting an offer from another company 2 weeks later
to begin with, that's logically false [unless u mean it's undecideable which is a vanishingly small probability]

i also have no interest in replying to flame bait
Will it look like a beam of light?
"they're concerned about indigenous moths"

Love thy neighbor?
They're not geometrically symmetric, but they are symmetric in the more general sense of applying an invariant transformation.
I find it odd that you almost never hear about the car's role in the housing crisis. And in the US it has been a massive factor since WWII.

First, it allowed the building of suburbs, which just wasn't feasible before. This in turn led people to push zoning laws such that building anything other than a SFH became illegal.

Second, it contributed to the dismantling of street cars and other forms of public transportation.

Third, all these cars new housing developments needed roads and this typically led to the destruction of poorer and usually more ethnic neighbours.

Fourth, driving everywhere is like living in an insulated bubble. You don't have to deal with your fellow man. Things like Skid Row (LA) or the Tenderloin (SF) don't touch you because you can just drive around them in an airconditioned bubble. I honestly think this contributed to making people care less about the plight of their fellow man.

Fifth, voters routinely complain about the cost and taxes of public transportation but think nothing of all the subsidies governments provide for driving (eg building roads, having gas stations, building so much parking, having cheap or free street parking even in densely populated cities with good public transportation like NYC). Yes there are fuel taxes. No they don't pay all these costs.

Lastly, we seem to be comoletely comfortable with the cost in death and crime of car ownership because of the personal convenience. Tens of thousands die in motor vehicle accidents every year. There are crimes like being a serial killer or kidnapping that almost require having a car. Do we really wonder why such things exploded post-WWII?

The affordable housing crisis is depressing because it's another stark reminder of just how little a fuck people give to people who aren't in their tribe. The many barriers erected are simply aimed at making poor people go away. That's it.

And the problems are at every level of government.
Okay, but how does a cheater use invisible walls and automatic aiming? Are they patching their local binary of the game to give them features other players do not have? I know playing against a cheater sucks, but I'm really curious on how the cheats occur. I'm guessing this is like anything else where one clever person figures it out first, and then the rest of the cheaters just use the trick without knowing anything about how/why it works. I guess I'm getting at the point that I might be impressed with the original discoverer, and they kind of have a HNer's mindset
Tomatoes grow really nicely in New Jersey with much less artificial irrigation. But New Jersey real estate is much more expensive than the California desert.
> Want to become a doctor? Study for 12-15 years.

Yeah, and all of those years are filled with constant punishment. In my experience it was common for medical students to have depression, severe anxiety, panic attacks before and after tests and exams. Binge drinking was extremely common after. At least two students committed suicide.

A glimpse into US medical school life:

https://web.archive.org/web/20101218031844/http://www.medsch...

Definitely not something to be emulated.
Regulations such as zoning are enormous social experiments.

Experiments should have control groups! Where are the control group cities?

Why do experimental social regulations have to be universal? Would life without them be great? Would it be terrible? I doubt that mankind evolved to require so much micromanagement in all aspects of life.
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Airbnb Suit over Host’s Spying on Couple Goes to Arbitrator
The perk of working in the US is that salaries can be significantly higher, especially at FAANG companies. A good friend of mine in Spain told me her total compensation. She’s earning about 25% of what the same role would pay in the US, at the same exact company.

Granted she would likely work more hours and have far less vacation. American work culture, especially in big tech, puts the company over personal obligations or personal well being. Do consider that trade off.
Am, modulated at 10 to 20Khz would sound GREAT! We just don't do that. Typical bandwidth is 5 to 8Khz these days. Earlier AM broadcasts were wider, out to 10+Khz.

I had an AM Stereo modulator for a while that did 10Khz and on the better radios was quite good. Commercial AM, with a few rare exceptions, isn't a good representation of what one can get at those frequencies. Nor are the radios sold today. They are frankly, terrible!! Get any older AM radio, 80's era and older and it's quite the difference.

Shortwave is modulated at about 3.5Khz, and is enough for speech and the gist of other material.

Noise is the primary reason we do not use those wavelengths. Power requirements go up too, if the signal is to reach max distance. There is a compromise in play, bandwidth vs propagation.

Finally, we also use an emphasis curve where higher order frequencies pack a real punch, with lower ones getting a less due to how sensitive we are to noise at various audio frequencies. Higher pitch noise stands right out, with our peak sensitivity around 3.5Khz.

We can, if desired, transmit a pretty great audio signal at the Khz frequency range. We just don't, because a narrow bandwidth is a better use of the spectrum.
Living with Gusto Despite Progeria, a Rare, Fatal Disease
Casino capitalism, literally (2021)
I don't see how you said links to pro abortion.
Governments only want other people money (so called taxes/donations), and, sometimes, be elected.
Thinking that governments can not provide themselves affordable and usually free housing is somehow contradict reality.
Try Ultralight web engine or K-Meleon on Goanna, they are really lightweight.
https://archive.ph/mkTv4
I think might have misunderstood. I know low income people are not moving into fancy new condos. I'm just not familiar with older fancy condos being opened up to low income residents. They just stay high rent, but with "charm" since they are older.
Based on this interview, Karaganov appears to be a typical geopolitical policy wonk. These so-called experts care nothing about the immense human suffering caused by the leaders who take their advice. I have nothing but contempt for them, including similar experts in positions of power here in the USA.
I've been hugging Hacker News to death the past few hours waiting for Solar Witch to come back online. Something like this is the reason why I come to the website so I hope if there's not enough hours left of daylight, where OP lives, that the mods can at least give him or her a redo.
Not to mention that cities subsidize suburbs in many ways:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6qyyrTeI

https://www.reddit.com/r/urbanplanning/comments/qrn9i7/in_wh...
My wording was imprecise (in that such displays don't really operate at a given Hz) but the factory that provides DaSung has multiple sized displays that can display a movie without an perceptible shuttering or frame drops. Unfortunately reviewers are bad at objectively analyzing these metrics for e-Ink reviews but I'll see if I can't take a stab at this when I get closer to having everything in a single enclosure.
"The handcrafted optimizations just concern speed"

That is the goal here. Efficient execution on mobile hardware. Mobilenet v1 and v2 did similar parameter sweeps, but perform much worse. The main novel thing about v3 is precisely the handcrafted changes. I'd treat that as an indication that those handcrafted changes in v3 far exceed what could be achieved with lots of compute in v1 and v2.

Also, I don't think any amount of compute can come up with new efficient non-linearity formulas like hswish in v3.
Not to us, and that's the interesting bit in this EM range.

It will be more light like than microwaves are, but less light like than light is.

And what we can learn from using that range is still new ground because it's hard to make devices that emit RF in those ranges.
For a more dynamic moldable approach, look at Moose.
https://moosetechnology.org/
This doesn’t duplicate one of the best features of Ngrok: the local web server that lets you inspect and replay recent requests. This feature makes writing webhook code so much easier, because if your code doesn’t work right, you can inspect the request, fix your code, and have Ngrok replay the request until it’s all working properly. That’s even in the free version! And the paid version is also pretty cheap, and you don’t have to maintain, nor pay for, a cloud instance
That's how long they can milk the employees with demanding work expectations until the backloaded vesting kicks in.
The coolest thing about ngrok is that it has a request log in its web UI. And, it allows replaying requests! This is extremely handy for debugging webhooks without having to trigger them at the source every time you change something.
Our company does 5 interviews for a developer position: pre-screen with recruiter, hiring manager, pair programming, tech deep dive and one with one of the founders.

Having been through the process as a candidate and now involved in it as an interviewer, I can’t say that it doesn’t make sense. It is also quite expensive for us as there will be 7 different people involved but that is 7 people who have a say in assessing the candidate.

This allows for a good assessment of the candidate from different perspectives and also to reduce bias from any individual interviewer (conscious our otherwise).

Hiring the wrong person is expensive, even with a probation period. You have to pay a lot of commission to agencies. We have small teams and onboarding someone ties up valuable resources. Hiring someone means other good candidates might have to be turned away after that.
Your eyes cannot see THz radiation, so no. It's invisible to the human eye. Like microwaves.

But yes, it is possible to produce a beam.

Also: to be fair, the challenge in finding efficient sources is really only one of the challenges. Not even the biggest one.
Thank you. The Boox Note Air screen is about a gen or two behind the bleeding edge of what can be bought and corporates can get a gen beyond that.

I don't think it's likely we'll ever be playing FPS games (at least competitively) on eInk displays but they can get to the point of usability for most purposes.
I think nullc is subtly pointing out that if Democrats are afraid to publicly oppose these policies, it will of course seem like all the push back is coming from Republicans.
There's probably a more unix-centric / idiomatic way to do it, but using GNU Parallel along with Redis made automating tasks to process tens of thousands of systems extremely easy, repeatable, pausable, restartable, etc. And the fact you can do atomic operations on queues prevented any potential worker collisions.
I just noticed a research paper called "A Silicon Valley love triangle: Hiring algorithms, pseudo-science, and the quest for auditability" Feb 2022 Mona Sloane,Emanuel Moss,Rumman Chowdhury
Among the most successful seabed-dwelling form factors are crabs and lobsters, which frequently have distinctively asymmetrical legs, and gaits.

Crabs are such a successful shape, crustaceans have evolved into it five separate times.
What kind of battery life do you get with yours?
If your kids are young, I'd strongly reccommend an ~10x or so binocular microscope. Its a lot easier for younger kids to recognize what they are looking at. I tried higher magnification microscopes with my kids, but they were young enough that it mostly just confused them.

Its also nice to be able to put the microscope in a case and take it with you while exploring. I used a little flashlight for the stage light, and it worked well.

It's sort of like exploring the night sky with a pair of binoculars before getting a big telescope. Its helps to get oriented first. Then, if your kids are into it, you can upgrade your equipment.
Affordable housing is such a loaded term that means different things to different socioeconomic groups. Are we talking about project based housing? Section 8? New construction for applicants with x% of the the median income? In any event almost no one working a full time job will qualify.
A better question is to wonder how we can at least visualize externalities. On the one hand it is impossibly hard, on the other it is easy to improve over the current lets not talk about them approach.

I had pondered itemized bills so that we may at least make that data available but it wouldn't be very useful compared to what it costs to gather the data. It just wouldn't fit in our attention span. The shooting from the hip approach taken by De Aanzet is good enough to expand the attention all the way up to HN and beyond.
Sometimes I feel like most of my headache is in just getting that first request to hit ngrok. Then I’ll replay it dozens of times as I figure out the functionally.
The Caribbean mangrove forest that defied destruction
There is zero technical reason why housing can't be cheap as hell in this day and age. It's all due to government restrictions. And I'm not talking about shanty towns either - that's what you get when legal housing is too expensive to build!
Sounds like a way to end up with shoddy, dangerous housing or incomplete or impossible to complete projects.
Well, actually it's much easier at lower frequencies. After all, your cell phone operates at around 2.5 GHz (if it is a 4G phone).

But yes, there are huge challenges involved in using higher frequencies for communications. We will eventually use 120 GHz, and then probably 290 GHz, for comms, but it will be a while. The technical challenges are... not trivial.

You might be interested to know that the Japanese television broadcasts of the 2008 Olympic games in Beijing made use of a wireless link operating at 120 GHz. It was really just a demonstration of feasibility, not a fully deployed system. But still, pretty fantastic. And that was 14 years ago...
It's been my experience that the farther you let an undesirable process proceed, the higher the chance that it will reach its undesirable conclusion. The enforcers will make decisions based on sunk costs; there will be more loopholes for the grifters to exploit; the time demands of due process will let them manipulate to their benefit; and there will be higher consequences for disrupting the status quo (e.g. there will be people actual living in the buildings already).
Perl has retained stable backwards compatibility and no breaking changes for 20+ years. What's wrong with Perl?
I've also noticed that attitudes towards the homeless are completely different between those who walk and those who drive. I'm personally willing to pay whatever it takes in extra taxes to get them shelter and deal with the current crisis in my city, but I've noticed that people who drive are often far less willing to support action here.
A victory of common sense.
It's not really selling the whole let's compromise with Putin thing.
Would never have thought it a thing; thanks for piquing my curiosity. It was rewarded in this article [0].

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Basque_whaling