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One paragraph halfway down has this information-dense summary:

> In its complaints, the FTC said the restrictions constituted an unfair method of competition under Section 5 of the FTC Act. In each case, the FTC has ordered the companies to cease enforcing, threatening to enforce, or imposing noncompete restrictions on relevant workers. They also are required to notify all affected employees that they are no longer bound by the noncompete restrictions.
I did contact some band-saw blade makers and the smaller dimensions I'm looking for are a different ball-game for them for so I only got "sorry, no can do" answers.
Well, if you take Montague semantics seriously then a "word sentence" is precisely a very broad generalization of a "number sentence", mostly differing by modality (accounting for "possible worlds", time, epistemic state, indexicals, attitudes etc. etc.) The basic "algorithmic" approach to language and words was already known to the ancient Indian grammarian Pānini. It's incredibly sad how few in the supposedly advanced West are aware of the countless innovations India brought to so many fields of science, art and culture.
> should pay more or less based on how much much people like doing them. Justify salaries based on supply and demand, and value creation.

Reread your sentence and think real hard about it because you're saying the same thing, you're just conflating the premise. Gaming devs ARE based on supply and demand. As one of the other comments points out, the demand is outsized relative to other developer positions (e.g. SaaS dev). Simple supply and demand tells us if the demand is higher, then the price goes down. There ya go.

> Therefore, I deserve more money than you

No one is saying this.
I don't understand how its rational unless you assume staff have negative value. They don't, they have positive value, nothing gets done without staff. More staff means you output more work and make more money. Staff should be the last thing to cut.
He's a weird guy, twisting himself into pseudo-impartiality doesn't make someone interesting. I'll concede his guests are pretty good and varied but even Rogan has great guests and he doesn't do weird stuff like this.
Or maybe the MBA graduates are just fixing the sinking ship that engineering teams created with over-promising technology and demanding growth for their teams so that they could get bigger budgets: VR, meal delivery, AI, etc. ?

I have an MBA man I wish I was one of these master of the universes deciding to hire and fire 17,000 people at a company. Do you need the Stanford MBA, Harvard, Wharton? Does Berkeley suffice these days or do you still need the private Ivy League degree first?
Part of the ‘suckless’ brand is that the software is simple and easy to extend with minimal out of the box features.
The biggest thing hurting PWAs in my opinion is that SPAs and web apps in general is done as a cost-saving measure.

This means that while they can be good, they very often aren’t because they aren’t getting the budgets and caliber of engineering talent they’d need to be good, and so it’s much more common that they fall somewhere on the less-great side of mediocre.

Users then associate this degraded quality with web apps and disinclines them from using them, even on platforms where PWA installation is promoted (like with Edge/Chrome on Windows and Chrome on Android).

Safari’s limitations play a part too but even if Safari vanished tomorrow PWAs would continue to get lukewarm reception so long as companies aren’t putting the same kind of resources they’d put into a flagship native app into their PWAs. At the end of the day, if you cheap out you get a crap experience.
> IFTTT Support

> Third-party Apps

> Free Account: Up to 64 sites, doesn't show the full text of the article

> Premium Subscription

> No desktop app

Really?
It'd be crazy if they didn't. Especially after the covid bubble and running headlong into economic uncertainty.
They got sucked into the "new normal" that never was, and was never going to be.

We are seeing a massive return to the old normal, which means people are going back to offices (not WFH) people are going back to shopping in person not online, people are going back to eating in restaurants not using Grub Hub or ordering online. etc etc etc
It's not really maximizing shareholder value though. In this case its like cutting off your leg and claiming you lost weight.
Would I also be expected to feel sorry for her had she taken up sex work and drug dealing to afford different luxury goods, a Porsche Carrera say? The Porsche's lower price tag and resale value would have arguably made it a more prudent investment than an elite university English degree with private accommodation.

> People who come from a middle-class life can end up in bad situations as well.

There's little indication that any of the bad situations she ended up in had external causes. May then one's sympathy with the self-inflicted hardships of the privileged not at least be conditional on a little readiness to assume some responsibility?

When she writes:

> After almost a decade of struggling with heroin addiction, I’d gotten arrested just a few days before I was supposed to finish my last semester at Cornell.

It sounds like the system conspired to rob poor struggling Keri of her Cornell(TM) degree right before the finish line. The reality is that she was a drug dealer caught with $150'000 worth of heroin in her possession (she brags about it elsewhere). But to her the real story are the minor inconveniences the prison system temporarily put in the way of her completing her degree and one of 50 states banning her inspirational and recently released life-story. She does not disagree with proscribing certain books for prisoners but appears offended that the somewhat arbitrary lists different states have drawn up do not completely match the arbitrary list she personally would have drawn up (and fail to fully reflect her own tastes in the ravings of murderous psychopaths).
Lex prioritizes eyeballs over truth. He knows what he's doing, it's just not exactly the character he portrays in his interviews.
read: NYC officials have not found an EV garbage truck manufacturer willing to pay a sufficiently high bribe.
Agreed.

He is presenting the list as "too be finished by X date", which within itself sort of implies trying to do it quickly, or at least that he is taking time into account while reading.

But it's not unreasonable that he make it through this list and enjoy everything. Half an hour a day really isn't much.

Phenomenal and related mini-doc on the subject of reading time and frequency: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIW5jBrrsS0

I should also add, page count is very much so dependant on font size.
What did you notice exactly? I live here and I don't see what people like you are talking about.
"Amazon had about $35 billion in cash and cash equivalents and long-term debt of about $59 billion at the end of the third quarter ended Sept. 30."

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazon-secu...
Works fine with uBlock origin, at least with my filters.
> It’s so hard to eat healthy, I honestly cannot fathom how people do it.

When I started taking semaglutide, I finally understood it. I'd eat a salad... and be full and more than satisfied! I'd look at a muffin right after lunch, and go "eh, better things to do with my time" instead of immediately having an overriding desire to eat eat eat. Before, I could eat half a pizza and still be hungry (way out of what my body needs); now, a slice is more than sufficient and satiety lasts well into the next morning.

GLP-1 agonists makes eating healthy trivial and automatic, instead of a dieting state where you're thinking about food literally constantly throughout the day for months or years on end.

Too many people are convinced that everyone has the same subjective experiences of hunger and craving, but it's simply not the case. Some people implicitly hold this idea because it's a convenient ideology that allows people to morally congratulate themselves for having a functioning satiety circuit.
> never work with structured operations on structured data in their string representation form.

Still people insist on writing their code as text strings mumbling "something something but my vim".

As long as people think strings are some "universal format" this madness won't stop.
I think you might have your wires crossed a bit.

A ROB / Reorder Buffer is just RAM from my understanding. Since writes are all out of order, the ROB holds the "future values" of things for sections of code that have already executed (due to out-of-order scheduling), that are waiting for "earlier" code to execute.

Ex: If line#105 has been out-of-order executed, and knows that "MemoryLocationX = 100" happens there... the ROB holds it until line#90 through line#014 are done executing.

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Consistent instruction size would decrease:

* uop cache (AMD / Intel require a uop cache, where "decoded" instructions stay). This is more optional for ARM... and I'd personally expect this to be the "biggest cost" of x86 instructions.

* Decoder (due to the complexity of x86 instructions, the decoder on those chips is probably bigger).

The ROB / Reorder buffer is "after the decoder", probably just interacting with uops directly. I doubt that instruction set size-or-complexity has anything to do with ROB sizes.
How can a company be more profitable with less workers if the workers are the source of the profits?
Gas Stoves and Childhood Asthma in the United States
Sim Wong Hoo has died
> But given Lex's flexibility with the truth

Sigh. Ok, hit me. How is he flexible with the truth? By talking at length with people from all political sides? What an unacceptable form of interviewing!
That's not even close to true, I suspect you're severely biased as to how you use a mobile device.

Only about half of my most used mobile apps are used online let alone 'a thin front end for remote backend'.

Bear, Obsidian, Camera, Activity / Health, Things, Photos, Pixelmator, Hue, Music, iMovie, Home, AiWriter, Prompt, Water Minder, Yomu - I use all of these primarily offline / locally.

Even the apps that are very much for use with online services aren't simply thin wrappers - they're proper applications that fetch remote data when online, store and process locally - Podcasts / Overcast, Reeder, Mail, Working Copy, 1Password (7), LunaSea, Audible, Plex etc...

And if I think about what the apps on my phone that are closer to "thin" clients - IMDB, Goodreads, Banking, LinkedIn, Amazon, Slack etc - all of which are pretty janky compared to those previously mentioned.
Software engineers can estimate the most arbitrary things like a popular podcaster's reading list for the year down to an average daily page count and monthly burndown.
We really need general regulations on non-competes. Bare minimum, it should be required that a company pay you a full salary if they want to block you from seeking employment elsewhere with your skills.

If a company really cares that much about stopping competitors from taking advantage of your skillset, they need to be willing to pay up.
Yeah, I do. Lot's of technical stuff for work, plus various MOOCs. Working through FastAI and Deep Learning on Coursera atm plus some math stuff for fun.
There are probably easier and less chaotic ways. If you get like a nice AI enhanced VR world and some AI generated new drugs and such you can just have everyone live out their existence in a parallel reality in some kind of an oblivion. I’d much rather have that as a rich person than billions of dead and everything destroyed
This is going to sound harsh, but I mean it in the most sincere way possible and I hope you'll take it with that in mind.

This community's standards are old and evolving and contested. There was no vote or debate on the guidelines you cited. They are just the same boilerplate you'd expect from any watered down open community. If you believe the members should have a say in the standards of the community then you should object to the diktat of these guidelines as much as I do. I've been here in various guises for well over a decade and I can tell you the standards have changed from something that was closer to Reddit or Digg for programmers into something that is trying to be as corporate and anodyne and bloodless as possible. The worst part is it isn't even the official mods doing it, it's the school marms in the comments. So, for you to come in and suggest that I'm out of order with my style of comment only suggests to me you are some arriviste with no sense of the cultural history of the place. The changes around here already look like a form of digital colonialism and then here you come acting as some kind of warrant chief disciplining the discourse. You change the culture and then tell the natives they aren't a 'culture fit'? That's pretty offensive. Anyway, it's not your particular fault exclusively but, without cultural memory, someone arguing forcefully or rhetorically on HN may seem like a dangerous new precedent when it's really just an obsolete local tradition that some of us quixotically try to protect. I don't know if you've noticed but there is a deficit of diverse political opinions around here. I'm old enough to remember when that wasn't the case. Allowing wannabe mods to enforce the new rules is a form of giving up on the fight over the culture of the place. Civility is not a universal standard. Go to any subculture and query the standards of civility and I bet you'll get some surprising answers. No, civility is the rule of the people who get to decide what's acceptable. This is contested space. I find comments like the parent's to be quite offensive and can give deep reasons for my opinion. In short, I found it uncivil. You may not like my style of participation, but at least understand why. I post my comments not to fight or offend but for the silent lurkers to see other possibilities and to be of good cheer in the knowledge that they are not alone in their sense of alienation from official tech culture.
I like how the article is saying how it's doable and more defending someone with such a reading list. I'm not a big fan of fiction myself and almost exclusively stick to non-fiction (history, biology, engineering, and technology related topics) but would advocate someone trying out this list or similar. The books mentioned are pretty standard core in my opinion.
My SO reads a lot and is a member/host of multiple book clubs so good for folks who are into this.
I'm ambivalent about this being based off Fridman, would folks react differently if it was Paul Graham or some other known figure?
> I interviewed several Uber/Amazon engineers and they couldn't solve a simple problem (very easy problem that most bootcamp grads could do).

I don't know you personally, and I don't want to start a flame war here, but if there's one thing FAANG senior engineers are good at, it's solving simple coding problems in interviews

If you're saying they can't actually proactively get useful work done on their own, or quickly ship quality products, or talk to customers, I could understand. But basically the only thing that you can be 100% sure of is that almost everyone at those big companies passed some arbitrary coding tests
Hope to get some feedback here
> Agreed on all points, though I notice everyone says they are so expensive and hard to maintain, but nobody cites anything

Because it's a complete fabrication -> every ton of conducting wire could replace 100 tons of battery in busses and trucks. It is also over 10 times cheaper per ton, so in material costs it is less than 1/1000th of the cost.

The only issue is that the city needs to pay for the wire, but it does not know how to charge a large array of private companies that might want to use the wires, there is lack of standardisation and metering.
Yeah, I mostly agree that, as a plan to read in 6 months, the list Lex provides is reasonable, if a bit snobby.

It's the "do each one in a 7 day period" that is silly (I say, having read 13 books in December and ~45 last year)
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I dont think mental jousting is completely devoid of value depending on the topic. The benefits are just difficult to measure.

Even if you haven't changed opinions, you may have helped take down strawmen or aid others in steelmaning.
Whole heartedly agree.
It’s illegal for doctors to get kickbacks in the US. The most the average doctors gets is lunch provided to go to a lecture from a drug company.

A free lunch isn’t enough to convince anyone to sit through an hour long lecture they weren’t already going to.

But if you’re worried that your doctor is one of the small percentage of doctors who is paid to give those lectures, you can look them up. All payments are publicly available. You can easily find exactly how much they were paid, when, and for what.

(The $20 in provided lunch is also required to be reported).
Yes, I had one, and it was awesome. The thing went high enough to disappear from view, then gyro’ed safely back to earth.
Is Byron Donalds, the other candidate, part of the a “QAnon crew?”

It’s far more informative to understand this as a war between the GOP’s increasingly important working class, cultural conservative wing, and the existing business-friendly ideologically flexible wing.
Maybe for you - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34254339
I disagree there’s simply not enough FANG level high paying jobs to fill all these employees into. Many will end up at startups and other industries with a paycut. Few companies are willing to pay a HR or Recruiter 300k/year comp.
He didn’t say that L5’s at Amazon are stupid. He said that there are lots of L5’s at Amazon who are bad engineers. It doesn’t even have to be a majority rather than a noticeable minority.
You just summarized entire das Kapital...
We've just seen the great results of this efforts.
A book a week is not difficult for anyone who enjoys reading and can devote even a modest amount of time doing it. Reading The Brothers Karamazov in a week is harder, but fine as a stunt. A ~300 page book in a week requires the average reader to read for about an hour a day. The equivalent would be running about 5 miles a day: hard if you don't like to run, a completely reasonable goal if you do.

The only weird thing about this, to me, is scheduling out your entire reading list in a sequence. For me, the joy of reading is in reading whatever I want to read next, or putting down a book to finish another book first. It would be like scheduling out your meals six months in advance, trying to predict what you'll want to eat for lunch on the third Tuesday in April. But, different strokes for different folks.
This is silly. Anyone who's been to grad school can you tell that of course you can read a book a week, or more.
Why could we not build reward functions? If anything that sounds easier than the language model
>And if you still want to use your Android phone after 5 years there's a good chance that there will be a LineageOS build for it.

There's a chance, but unless you checked for support in advance, a "good chance" seems like a bit of a stretch. Unless you mean unofficial builds, which are either too much work for most users, or not especially trustworthy.
>I've had to call the embassy for visa/passport issues.

Why on earth would you do this? Your country's embassy is a local phone call, in whatever country you're in. Your embassy isn't in your home country, it's in the country you're now present in (geographically at least, but not legally, but the phone number is still a local number).

Also, this stuff can usually be handled online these days.
Well, in theory some people will go back to their home country with skills, capital, and connections developed while in the richer countries, sensing opportunity in a faster growing market. I know I've read articles about this with Indians coming back from the states.

That said, many of these countries have issues with hilariously poor governance and civil society which handicaps growth and strangles the young's ambitions, so I don't blame anyone for leaving and not coming back either.
Nope, first try:

Explain the following C++ code:

int sum(int n) {
int result = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
if (true || false) {
return 42;
}
}
for (int i = 0; i < n * 2; i++) {
i++;
}
return n;
}

This C++ function is called sum and it takes an integer argument n. It has a local variable result which is initialized to 0 but is not used in the function.

The function has two for loops. The first for loop iterates over the range 0 to n-1. On each iteration, it checks if true || false is true. Since true || false is always true, it immediately returns the value 42. This means that the first for loop will only execute once.

The second for loop iterates over the range 0 to 2n-1. On each iteration, it increments i by 2 (since i++ increments i by 1 and i is incremented again on the next line). This means that the second for loop will only execute n times.

After the second for loop, the function returns the value of n.

What is the result when n=5?

If n is 5, the function will immediately return 42 when the first for loop is executed, so the function will not reach the second for loop or the return statement at the end. Therefore, the result of calling sum(5) would be 42.

What is the result when n=-1?

If n is negative, the first for loop will not be executed at all because the loop condition i < n will be false from the start. The second for loop will also not be executed because the loop variable i will never be less than 2n, which is a negative number in this case.

Therefore, the result of calling sum(-1) would be -1, which is the value of n that was returned at the end of the function.
Well, the blades were wood, and not super sharp. I'm not sure it would have killed me. I'd sure regret getting hit by it, though.
It is never too late. And please don't beat yourself up when you fail. Simply sigh, dust yourself off, and try to do better. Given that you have to maintain this for years, you will sometimes fail--it's inevitable.

There is increasing amounts of science behind this stuff, but it's also buried behind a gargantuan pile of crap.

Good luck.
2017: https://ihpi.umich.edu/news/your-cell-phone-10-times-dirtier...

> One of the worst places to use your phone is in the bathroom, Martin and Whittier both agree. When toilets flush, they spread germs everywhere, which is how phones end up with fecal bacteria like E. coli. “Taking a cell phone into the bathroom and then leaving with it is kind of like going in, not washing your hands and then coming back out," Martin says. "It’s the same level of concern."
He's just a grifter, I don't know why HN falls for his schtick. I have liked some of his guests, but come on.
I’m curious how good/advanced is this built in malware protection compared to some 3rd part, like Malware Bytes or similar
> They have Amazon on their resume

the parent comment talks about "these companies". what happens when less prominent companies take a cue from fangs and start booting people out, only with crappier severance and crappier resumes? this is far from the last layoff.