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> It’s that crypto was supposed to be different

It is different. Nothing is stopping people from moving their crypto from the exchanges, and at least with crypto people have the opportunity to do that. What hasn't changed is human behavior and our affinity for the path of least resistance.

No technology is going to change that.
> "And I don't think that a job makes a person special, why would it? It's just a job. I work on a hot market, someone else does not - that doesn't make any of us special people."

Well, a job takes up roughly 1/3 of our working lives (minus 2/3 for sleep (8hrs) and "leisure" (8hrs)), so I would say that it defines us very much, and it's a lot more than "just a job". A "job" is stacking shelves at Tesco or driving lorries for Amazon. Tech is a career (and a lifestyle, given how much it seeps into one's personal life e.g. watching Defcon before bed, I doubt lorry drives watch Lorrycon talks before bed...)

As for your other point, fair enough, point taken.
I think the first obstacle for a layman to land a plane is to not panic and figure out how to work the radio (without pressing the wrong thing and accidentally shutting down the engines or something equally disastrous) so they can then follow the instructions calmly.

I’d expect most people that would fail would fail at this stage - if they can get past that, their odds improve a lot.
However, he crashed every plane he flew.
It wouldn't be better, it would be arbitrary
15 years in. Stuck at 200K, and I doubt that's going to go up much because the layoffs have started and we're heading back into "lucky to have a job" territory.
Oh wow. Sorry to hear your experience. However, I think they Failed your interview of them. Would you want to work with people like that?
I see an emotionally unstable author more than I see a toxic workplace.
The complaints about national quotas are strange. The prevailing assumption that everyone outside of the US should ideally have an equal opportunity to receive permanent residency. But that's not a goal of US immigration policy.

US immigration policy is built around maintaining a diverse pool of immigrants and focusing on family reunification. Skilled labor is obviously a plus but it's of secondary concern.
>stable career

I see what you did there, and laughed. I took a hit but now think of nothing but moving on. Thank you. I agree with the sentiment, but take a more free-market stance of allowing these things to fail, the worst part is a lot of people don't understand where they're putting their savings at all and that's not exclusive to crypto. Lack of transparency is unacceptable, but unfortunately very common.
This is pretty much the case for the entire market so I'm not sure it says anything in particular about YC companies.
Hiring cycles are more like a clearinghouse than a company choosing the best candidate for a position.

N number of candidates enter that month's job market, companies are able to offer N number of positions.

At the end of the hiring cycle, they make the N-to-N matches and execute the cycle.

A candidate can (and must) have several offers from different companies, just as companies have several candidates for each position.
So present-day immigration is a punishment for the founding sin of the USA?
I believe Formula E and various other racing series have had huge success with hiring drivers out of e-sports. If you’re fast in a sim, you only have to add the physical prowess and stamina to race. That’s much cheaper than spending a decade in minor racing series.

Sauce after quick googling: https://www.popsci.com/story/technology/video-gamers-new-rac...
This is why prosecutorial discretion exists. Yes, he could, but mitigating circunstancies can and often are considered, and local prosecutors or responsible regulators (the FAA in this case) simply decide not to file charges. Police often do the same in smaller cases. Example; if someone breaks a car or house window to save an occupant that's trapped from a fire. That's vandalism, but rarely prosecuted if it happens as far as I know.
Some places are worse than others.

I had a boss who claimed to had previously supervised both David Cutler (at DEC) and Linus Torvalds (at Transmeta) I don't know if he always was so evil (he had a life-changing injury that probably made his attitude a lot worse) but I caught him lying to me and to other workers. He used "one-on-one meetings" as a tool to gaslight people and to this day the "one-on-one" is a bad smell for me.

Other places (like where I am now) have been much better.
Did they fail because they couldn't solve an algorithm? Or was it due to something else - e.g. soft skills, solving without explaining your thought process, system design, behavioral questions.

Algorithms are only one part of an interview. I wouldn't hire someone who was rude or condescending, regardless of how fast they can write an O(n) solution.
It's likely that there's an exception for emergency situations.

In this case 'everyone on board' was 2 people, him and the incapacitated pilot.
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"I use arch btw"
As an individual developer with many open-source projects, I'm pretty sure that my docs would be better if I had $2+ billion in funding ;)
This comment appears to be an apparently unintentional example of the chilling effect on discourse wrought by delegating so much power to our corporate overlords.
How does Ferrari rentals work? Sounds like the kind of thing Ferrari don't want their customers to do.
I agree, it's surprising. Types like uint8_t* are widely used to reinterpret other structures as byte arrays which implies they are universal aliases just like char*. Not sure what makes char8_t different.
Yeah I had remembered this issue coming up on HN and found this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18340693
Keeping it relevant to the paper itself, there is something particularly powerful in amplifying if not creating this effect in the first place: sock-puppetry, known in the MICIMATT world (Military-Industrial-Counter-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think Tank complex) as "persona management"

I saw this really take off around 2010 and tried to warn people. The issue is that the forces that actually control the major political parties need to divide the people, for never forget the thing the oligarchs fear the most is a united proliteriat, and have heavily invested in creating the illusion of a consesus or narrative view from one "side" or the other, reinforcing the division at play.

Three letter grade psyops are at play on an unprecendented scale, and failing to understand that will leave anyone interested in this topic twirling at windmills.
It was actually "replace the police with herds of social (government) workers" and the governments ability to allow people to kill unborn kids in order to lessen government burden by eliminating under privileged classes.
My university used to recommend explicitly selecting "do not validate" for the longest time, even though validation through the system store (or a certificate of your choice) has existed for years.

For what it's worth, if you're using a valid TLS certificate for your 802.1x setup then you don't need to load any certificates anymore (at least not since Android 10 or 11). Users may need to enter a domain to validate, though; I don't know the specifics of these protocols.
Ah, thanks for the detailed explanation. Have been wondering this for a while.

So if I read it correctly the major difference between the two platform is the opt-in/out part.

On iOS I can sniffer some random small apps trivially, since most of them don't enable pinning; on the other hand for android it's default on ( so I have to manually patch the apks everytime.

IIRC "have to opt in to loading user-imported certificates" wasn't the case a few generations of Android ago, correct?
Yes, that's correct, it's only about searching the right directories to find and execute the program you asked for.

But autocomplete after sudo doesn't work for me on a stock Debian install anyway, not sure what one needs to do to get around that. I don't really rely on it. If I'm doing enough work that needs root I start the session with "sudo su -" anyway so not having autocomplete after sudo is not a big deal for me.
Luckily, the FAA has a regulation for that. 14 CFR § 91.3 (b):

(b) In an in-flight emergency requiring immediate action, the pilot in command may deviate from any rule of this part to the extent required to meet that emergency.
Stocks go up, stocks go down.
Do tech companies really store unbounded amounts of information, like keyboard strokes, from their users? For me this seems hard to believe, at least over the medium to long term.

Storing data is not free and if you plan to use this data for anything it can definitely be not cheap (i.e. cold vs hot storage). When you extrapolate this to the scale of a service like Facebook or Google it becomes insanely expensive. So there would have to be some pretty clear monetary payoff to justify this expenditure. I understand the worries of privacy advocates, but I don't understand the economic incentive of keeping all this data. The only way it could possibly make sense is if it were highly aggregated, but at that point you nullify many of the privacy concerns.
Only in America... :D

But seriously most likely there are laws that allow you do things in emergency and not be prosecuted. In the UK it is called the doctrine of necessity. The example given was that only a doctor is allowed to give an order to use “prescription only” medicine. But in emergency situations where there is no doctor and you need to save a life, then it would be ok to do by anybody else as long as he has at least some idea what he is doing.
What's the point of this post? Because OP is more privileged than a construction worker their complaints are invalid? All jobs should be like your family's experience in construction?
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I don't mean to annoy you, but it sounds like it took you 6 years once you actually got a permanent job (although even 6 years is too much!). The years as a student don't really count.
Configuring these is very difficult (for a non-pilot) and it might rely on airport-side equipment that not all airports have.
The storage cost on r2 is .015/GB. Might want to redo the math
Yup but I always thought what if we do like a 1 feet above the ground? We avoid death by plummeting from the sky.

There are other advantages like

- we don't need roads and we save a lot of energy and money on their construction and maintenance.

- we also save energy by going from point A to point B directly instead of following the road.

- No friction between tyre and ground

I guess the amount of energy required to keep vehicle above ground by 1 feet is more than all the savings combined.
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I once had a 3rd round interview where I was lead into a room to await a senior exec who wanted to personally vet me.

So I waited...

An hour went by and a PA came in to apologies and say the big man was on his way but still on a call.

Another 30 minutes went by and I just walked out without further discussion.

I did get the job in the end and it was a decent gig but I still wished I'd left then interview sooner.

Luckily we work in an industry where kissing arses generally isn't required. That doesn't mean you can or should be rude but it goes both ways.

Don't be a doormat.

If someone laughs when you say Scheme is your favourite language, it's perfectly fine to smile back at them and ask them why they're laughing.
In some situations illegal things become legal. Like how it's illegal to stand on the street and stop the traffic. Except it becomes legal if you are preventing drivers from driving their cars of a collapsed bridge.
Most commercial airliners have the same system. It's mainly used in bad weather when the visibility is below minimums for a manual landing. CAT IIIc autoland (the highest/most advanced) is certified for zero-visibility landings.
Warning: Every European who comes here feels extremely poor also (and many move back to Europe), so perhaps you should take that into consideration.
If OP's description is what constitutes a "toxic workplace" then any service job/Amazon warehouse/construction job is also toxic. From what I read, I would describe OP's team as severely dysfunctional and the bar for "toxic" should be higher (generally, indicating some level of malice).

I think it's damaging to dilute terms like "toxic" by using them to describe a situation that is generally stressful and widely experienced.
It is painful to me and many others to switch from innocuous technical terms like master/slave, man in the middle attacks, motherboard, mount, whitelist, blacklist, etc, to satisfy the whims of a pedantic minority.

But I know my opinion doesn’t matter to those people anyway.
You make a really good point about trading Sqlite write limits to the limited number of Postgres connections. My comment is mostly about having to run a proxy, which is another service that ends up being a liability. Regardless, if you need multi-writers, then the obvious solution is Postgres.

"Both happening on the same nodes and no isolation whatsoever. More things can go wrong and will require more tooling to disambiguate between different potential failures."

As a Postgres fan, the extra Postgres service to me is a far bigger liability than Sqlite. The east-west networking is true for Postgres replication as well, so it's a wash to me.
Empty air, a 2d empty plane would be easy too. If it was 3d tunnels it would be hard, those Descent videogames were tricky.
Anki flash cards and spaced repetition help encode concepts into your working memory over long enough time horizon.
It was less risky for the banks to lend in USD than in Salvadoran Colones. So lower interest rates.

That was true even when the Salvadoran Colon was stable for most of its history. It's been very close to 8.75 for the past 30 years.
The closest opportunity zone is 5 miles away, includes a large mall, mixed use development, upscale retail spaces, a Trader Joe's, etc.

Meanwhile, I am surrounded by vacant lots, a large mall that is entirely dead and vacant, low income housing, one tiny strip mall with a convenience store, and another with a church, dollar store, and liquor store (a mile away).

I can see though that the OZ tract is tiny, whereas the tract I'm in is about 7 x larger and includes some more supermarkets and malls further away that are very active though not upscale.

Looks like a fairly straightforward case of economic gerrymandering.
That article concludes that it's very risky to use IQ tests to measure just about anything because there are heaps of weak data around them

> As others have pointed out, statistical corrections are no magical compensation for weak data and that it is risky to reach conclusions about test validities from those currently available (Oswald & McCloy, 2003; Russell & Gilliland, 1995). The only solution is properly conducted primary studies, with larger representative samples, better measures, and so on.

Here's the important bit that basically advises not using IQ tests in the exact way that you're using them:

> Until they are available, investigators should be extremely cautious about disseminating conclusions about IQ test validities, from correlations between IQ and job performance.

CEO is a job title, not a measure of intelligence, or even job performance. There are no shortage of shitty CEOs, just as there are no shortage of shitty performers in just about every possible job.
Being an introvert I'm not quite sure I'd terminate the interview loop myself, but I'd probably stop trying to sell myself for the rest of the loop and start trying to figure out if I could ask questions that would reinforce that I shouldn't work there. My brain would go to the place where I was trying to teach myself how to better interview companies for their behavior--you're in a situation where you know you don't like this company, so what other data can you gather about that, and what questions could you ask of future companies that you interview at?
I didn't mean this as authoritarian, I meant is as the only alternative answer to the question as it was asked.
>Lobotomised Sony "Smart" TV ... popped the back off and yanked the wire antennas for its wifi radio and now it performs twice as fast.

Surgeon of the year.
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Theoretically can be. Every command you invoke without a path will need to look up PATH.

In practice well behaving shells cache the contents of PATH to speed up operations.
I've worked some construction in the past, didn't find it worse, it actually left me feeling better at the end of the day, there's something positive about the physical activity from it.

My point is, I don't think these comparison judgement are useful. Ever heard: "can't compare two people's pain"?

Think about the purpose of your comment? What's the end goal? To convince people nothing should be done about anything and for everyone to just suck it up? Seems that's a bad attitude to be honest.

If your family's construction work environment is toxic and treats them badly, you should be complaining about it and bring attention to it so hopefully we can all demand better for them. Similarly here, someone stepped up to try and raise the standards by pointing out at real issues faced in some organizations that fail on all front, fails to deliver to the business, the customer, the employees, it's worth talking about in my opinion. How else you get anything to become better otherwise?
Idk, I’ve only flown 172s and have only landed a handful of times myself, but I think you could fairly easily talk someone through landing with an at least decent chance of survival if the weather was good. I mean this is not an experiment you want to run, of course. But landing in good conditions is pretty intuitive. You can tell if your angle to the runway is good or bad pretty easily and just adjust the throttle. And those things will stop themselves with plenty of runway left. You could probably land a small plane halfway down the runway, not know how to operate the brakes, and still come to a crawl before the end in most places.

I wouldn’t take an even money wager on it but I don’t think it’s terribly unlikely to have a decent landing. Especially since the pilot likely was showing him the controls in air before going unresponsive.
I am in HFT too. Your firm, Cutler Group by any chance?
I think that's a valid approach, too. It might just depend on the interviewee which is better. The inverted phrase is a bit more direct and dominant (which I don't think is bad), so I don't think it fits everyone's personality. That said, my recommendation is simply to be polite and leave, and do it on your own terms.
VW invested before they went public and they likely got in a much lower cost and later added on top but received not just stock but also partnership agreements. And the investment for a company like VW isn't that big. A company the size of VW can take such risks.

VW has invested far more and far more aggressively in Northvolt for example.

> Your analysis merely shows that you don't see the value of a battery with roughly 2x the energy density, 2x the charging times

No I question that when they can produce these batteries in relevant volume that their advantage will be nearly as big.

And far more important is actually price. Manufactures are INCREDIBLY price sensitive. There might be some premium for extra performance but they are far smaller then most people imagine.

> I don't think it's going to be that easy for other companies to simply catch up without a lot of R&D.

What I am telling you that there is MASSIVE amounts of R&D going into silicon. Like 10x more then Lithium anodes.

Both on individual company level and huge amounts of startups as well.

> Existing battery factories won't magically turn into factories for entirely different batteries.

Actually, yes they will depending on your definition of 'new'. There are 30+ year old battery factories still operating with newer chemistry.

Most silicon startups and processes are design according to specification to be valid feed stock for typical Li-Ion production.

It is totally viable for existing factories to switch to very, very different anodes and cathodes.

Actually, yes they will depending on your definition of 'new'. There are 30+ year old battery factories still operating with newer chemistry.

This is not universally true. Tesla for example is doing its own thing for example with dry electrodes, and are far less compatible.

> Most electrical cars produced by the end of this decade will be built in factories that don't exist yet.

Most EV will produced in factories that are currently in advanced planning, literally 99% of those will not be lithium metal anode factories.

> That's the opportunity for Quantumscape.

I'm not denying that they have an opportunity. But company with huge tech, market risk and price risk is a very risky investment. They have not made profit and wont make it for many more years.

Their valuation now is of course far more reasonable then when I originally made this argument, but its still rather high for me. But I would have to spend more time on analyzing to say what I think they are worth.

I like to ask, how many years of highly successful execution is required to for the company be a solid self standing company. For QS this is likely about 8-10 years.

> If they have something competitive by 2024

They wont. By then they are in sample production of a tiny factory. You massively underestimate how much time and effort it will require to build a real modern mass production facility that can directly compete to go into modern car production line.

If they are lucky by 2025 one of their partners will make some sample luxury cars with their batteries in them. Maybe in 2026-2027 some new luxury car will actually go into series production with these.
Phones in general are terrible for opsec. Even if you've flashed a Pixel with GrapheneOS[0] you can't reliably determine if you have malware on your device. They're totally opaque. So are computers in general: They're largely black boxes which we have no insight to and can't readily inspect what they're doing at any given moment. Also: Welcome to the Internet!

[0] https://grapheneos.org/
If you can manage it, my advice would be to just start quietly looking for new opportunities on the side. You may be able to make a pivot. Putting your health first also means trying to make the safest choices so you don't have more stress to deal with.
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>and all I can think is that the writer of this post seems very unbalanced

Maybe the author wasn't that way, and going through the whole ordeal really damaged them, resulting in behavior that would previously seem unthinkable. Really stressful episodes can leave you very screwed up in the head, call it brain damage our however you like, it's a very real thing that happens.
No, he also wrote that the V2 was easier to maintain..
>Once you send

At that point you're sending anyway ... I'm not sure someone seriously concerned about keylogging to the point that they object to auto complete cares if you send 5 or 6 characters.

I think at that point you're addressing all your users on behalf of a few who are so concerned that they're not going to be happy with any "solution" outside turning it off altogether.
At least in the US, you can use COBRA to keep your insurance for a little bit. It's very expensive though, so it's still not a great option.
Source: just trust me bro.

It better be legal, or the FAA better not prosecute.
I've made worse landings with a CFI sitting next to me in the cockpit when I was starting out. Landed a bit long but otherwise looked like a soft touchdown and a straight roll. Very impressive!