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Every time. This refrain is so worn out. Here's another professional tip, since apparently they're all equally weighted: there's no reason why someone has to fritter away life, potential and shouldn't strive to find fulfillment and enjoyment in their trade. Sartre was probably right too--having the right people around makes all the difference, more so if you're knee-deep in the shit.

I've experienced both ends of the spectrum: the work is the easiest you could imagine, but excruciating only because of the handful of vile people I worked with, on the other hand I pushed myself up against my limit every day but it was worth it because we were in it together.
Why does she need to pay more taxes because she owns vacation homes? If they are generating income for her then income tax would make sure she's paying her fair share. Certainly whatever income she used to buy those homes was also taxed.
I think the legal requirements is declaring pay ranges for which the companies agree to hire (IDK if they must reveal current actual pay). A range can conceal enough for a particular employee not to feel exposed.
I think a company with a mature code review culture wouldn't be able to benefit much from this kind of interview.

The candidate wouldn't have to figure out what the code does, because there would be a PR description and/or walkthrough video explaining the code.

There wouldn't be any bugs to find, because code reviews aren't a great way to find bugs. The bugs are found by automated and manual tests.

There would be no stylistic feedback to give. The linter already enforced everything enforceable, leaving only things that are a waste of time to fight about.

There's no point in giving architectural feedback, as the architecture was already socialized and agreed upon before the code was written.

Now on to what code reviews are good for. The changeset is probably a small piece of a bigger picture, because the code is being shipped incrementally. The candidate has no comprehension of the bigger picture to weigh in on downstream issues.

The candidate has no broader understanding of the codebase in general, to suggest reusing an existing pattern, or avoiding a common pitfall with a private API.

The candidate can be well-versed in the OSS framework, and suggest better ways to write some particular boilerplate, or avoid a framework pitfall.

I fear an interview structured like this says more about the company than the candidate. If your company's development lifecycle is mature, there's not much a candidate can weigh in on.

The most useful case that jumps out to me is gaining an understanding of the candidate's familiarity with a framework. A contrived diff falling into lots of common pitfalls could cover more ground than having them write something in the framework. But having them write something in the framework shows you a lot more than just their awareness of pitfalls, so I'm not convinced this is better still.
It’s not possible to know what other factors would’ve or wouldn’t have come into play, who would’ve done what else in this alternate history of yours. It’s just speculation.
This, I swear I had people interviewing for senior roles who couldn't FizzBuzz. I don't give LeetCode challenges to people but I do give them the first Project Euler problem which is summing ints that are divisible by 3 or 5 with the incredibly complex edge case of only adding numbers divisible by both values, aka 15, once. There was someone who applied who was really struggling so I hinted at modulo, then they mentioned they didn't really like to use if/else branches to avoid complex code.
Unfortunately its not just the land. Construction prices are through the roof still compared historically.

Agree though that it would be nice to build simpler homes.
I don't really get how moving hands smoothly to write something versus tapping keys poses any large difference in memorization? For the us generations that grew up learning cursive and associating it with school it may be easier to remember that way, but if someone was raised by only typing from an early age it probably makes no difference. We're analog juvenoial dinosaurs living in a digital age we've only partially adapted to.

> this incredible ability of our brain to learn concepts from the small movement of our hands, probably sculpted by our evolution

There's no way that's true, it's only been around for 5000 years and for most of that time it was excluded to a narrow circle of scribes or scholars. Literacy has only been available to the masses for the past 200 years which is absolutely nothing on an evolutionary scale.
> My initial point was to inform the OP about peer-reviewed

"Peer-reviewed" is meaningless if it's not scientific, fact-based.

> articles on current waste

See, you start with the assumption that it's wasted. You can only come to that conclusion if you assume that bitcoin serves little or no purpose.

> Honing any process to use less energy while achieving similar or better results is not an unreasonable goal.

Energy usage is what brought humanity from stone tools and caves to the moon, using energy is a good thing that advances civilization. Energy production can be problematic, which bitcoin doesn't do. Proof of work is one of the core innovations, there is no system that has better results.
Antidepressant efficacy: reduced negative/enhanced mnemonic discrimination
Real question: If we trust them with this information, are Passkeys any better than regular passwords? If so, why and how?
Florida is my primary residence, my insurance is ~$4k/year (up from $1800/year most recently) on a ~$400k home ~40 years old. 90 feet above sea level, far enough from the coast that wind speeds never exceed 40mph even with a near direct hit from a hurricane (2017). My insurer is the state high risk pool ("Citizens"). They are phasing in mandatory flood insurance for all properties they insure over the next several years, even if no flood risk [1]. The risk repricing causes are: rampant litigation [2], climate risk [3], and the drastic increase in building costs [4]. The new prices are not unreasonable, the old prices were underpriced.

If you limit premium increases, insurers will leave when they can't price the risk appropriately. And they should. Long term, prices signals should be sent to communicate where it is too expensive to obtain insurance (regardless of peril insured), destroying demand where it is unaffordable to do so.

[1] https://www.citizensfla.com/-/20230803-flood-insurance-requi...

[2] https://www.axios.com/local/miami/2022/10/03/florida-propert...

[3] https://www.axios.com/local/miami/2023/09/20/report-real-est...

[4] https://www.wptv.com/money/real-estate-news/new-homes-in-flo...
It was worse before - management culture is becoming more employee-friendly over the years. Probably the expectations of autonomy as an employee are growing faster than the culture is evolving.

Working for somebody is by definition a tradeoff of freedom of making decisions for stability and not having to worry about attracting capital, labor and customers, which is very hard and often under-appreciated by folks who haven't tried themselves.
>Because humans aren't programmable either

Apparently you have never met a human

Or heard of "brainwashing", "indoctrination", "education", etc

Humans are programmed all the time. All over the world. For all kinds of purposes.
If they outlaw encryption but everyone encrypts, they can either do nothing or arrest everyone.

I'm Spartacus.
I feel as though you’re comparing the best possible manager to the worst possible customer. I assure you managers are very capable of being fickle!

I’ve done some contract work in the past and I think the trick is getting the right customers. I was hired by mine specifically for my expertise. They didn’t micromanage me or make me subject to my whims, they had a problem and recognised that I had the skills they needed to solve the problem.
That is basically my sentiment towards C, while using C++. :)
I don't consider well sourced any article that attempts to summarize burnout causes that doesn't mention pressuring workers to work long hours to meet impossible arbitrary goals imposed by leadership, or leadership pressuring teams to perform under veiled and not so veiled threats of dismissal.
Is there a requirement, when a RISC-V extension is proposed, to also provide a software implementation? Then somebody could just run the code and link the software version instead.

At least for stuff like vector extensions and tensor units, which could easily be emulated in software, this would seem to be a desirable trait. And I mean, it is hard to believe that most of this stuff isn’t proof-of-concept tested using software implementations first.

In particular, it could be nice for people who want to develop on RISC-V, when really good desktop chips come out, to be able to actually compile their whole project and run it before sending it off to the exotic hardware.
https://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/ling525/Moore1978Part2.pd...
Voting is one thing I don't think should ever be fully electronic. Hard to commit actions at scale with smaller paper ballots, in most places at least.
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When watching single-celled nematode embryos under the microscope as a PhD student, I was often struck with a sense of the cell and its innards (microtubles, for instance) being very much like a crystal growing.
I have worked on 3GPP implementations and honestly, not as bad as Bluetooth.
These redevelopment plans are fairly common in Urban Asian countries.

Single family homes are redeveloped into 7-8 floor condos and 4-5plexes are frequently redeveloped into 12-15 floor condos. The residents are paid handsomely in rent for a few years and the new apartment is usually more luxurious and larger.

It's a win win
everyone understands the base rules. you aren’t doing anything more than rudely restating the current state of things.

if you don’t want a replicator, that’s fine. just get out of the way please. there’s work to be done.
Just to add some detail regarding the "blob optimization" phase.

The algorithm that recovers the camera positions from the reference images also gives you a sparse cloud of points (it places the pixels from the image in 3D space). Use that as the center of the initial blobs, and give each blob an initial size. This is almost certainly not enough detail, but a start.

Then you run the "training" for a while, optimizing the position and shape of the blobs. Then you try to optimize the number of blobs. The key aspect here is to determine where more detail is needed.

In order to do so they exploit that they already have derivatives of several properties, including screen position of each blob. If the previous training pass tries to move a given blob a significant distance on the screen, then they take that as a signal that the backpropagation is struggling to cover an area.

They then decide to split the blobs either by duplication or by splitting, depending on if the blob is large or not.

If it's small they assume there's detail it can't fill in, and duplicate the blob and move the new blob slightly in the direction it wanted to move the source blob so they don't overlap exactly.

If the blob is large they assume the detail is too fine and is overcovered by the blob, hence they split it up, calculating the properties of the new blobs so that they best cover the volume the source blob covered.

This process of training followed by blob optimization is repeated until the error is low enough or doesn't change enough, suggesting it converged or a failure to converge respectively.
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For every bikeshedder there are those of us who just set it to the defaults and disable one or two rules and call it a day. I run mypy in strict mode and vanilla ruff with only the line length rule adjusted and it’s been great and sensible
Sure an LLM could follow a constraint - but there is no guarantee it does

And even if it follows a constraint while using it, there is no guarantee it did while it was being trained/populated
> Are the molecular vibrations in a rock actually computing something?

Not directly, but without them chemical reactions would not be possible. "The molecular vibrations", Brownian movement, or, more formally, temperature determines how fast the reactions could occur. It's a physical equivalent of a clock signal in a computer.

Without temperature (t=0), "molecular vibrations" do not occur, so all chemical reactions stop, making active computations based on those reactions impossible. This is a physical equivalent of a halt state in a digital computer.

> What's more, that rock might itself be a processing element of a larger computer and its own processing elements might themselves be computers, so in fact life exists fractally at all levels of magnification

This is logically wrong. Water is a chemical substance. It makes life possible, but it's not alive by itself because it does not meet the formal criteria. Just like a single transistor is not a CPU.
> Right. If everyone hides in encryption, they'll outlaw encryption.

Besides using encryption, I also have surveillance-evading conversations and activities; I even hide thoughts in my head.

At some point we might want to recall that not being snooped on is a natural state.
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Anyone who likes this kind of thing might find Freeman Dyson's paper A Model for the Origin of Life [1] interesting. It's a purely statistical model, dealing with the most abstract properties of the component molecules. The summary from the paper:

A simple statistical model is constructed, describing the transition from disorder to order in a population of mutually catalytic molecules undergoing random mutations. The consequences of the model are calculated, and its possible relevance to the problem of the origin of life is discussed. The main conclusion of the analysis is that the model allows populations of several thousand molecular units to make the transition from disorder to order with reasonable probability.

I got on to this from the bit of his Web of Stories interview talking about it [2]. I listened to the whole interview recently, and highly recommend it.

[1] https://www.icts.res.in/sites/default/files/LivingMatter2018...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxlYsAzM_8I
And you can't possibly know what would have happened without government Anti-trust pressure on Microsoft.
I don't know if that applies to solo developers. There is no "moving fast" when you're responsible for every little tiny piece of the thing, especially in an app like this that is necessarily maximalist.
These are sweet:
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Housing and Universal Healthcare would make a lot more people free to explore other opportunities.

We really really need to divorce healthcare benefits from employment. If we can do that, we'll be so much closer to being able to actually get universal healthcare.
Sorry if a bit of a hot take, but I don't think startups or any startup-like activity and raising children go together. Heck, raising children is like a bit of a startup in and of itself. But things like grad school or a small intense startup are things that require dedication and are best done before or after the family stage.
most of the major insurers pulled out a of Florida a long time ago. If you want to figure out what's really going on with climate change ask the actuaries at insurance companies.
> > Like any internet voting system, it has inherent security vulnerabilities: if there are malicious insiders, they can corrupt the vote count

Malicious insiders can always corrupt the vote count. This isn't unique to e-voting systems.
> Would you allow employees to subcontract and outsource their work?

No, but I do encourage them to use the best tools possible. :-)
Here's a link: https://coastal.climatecentral.org/map/16/-80.1391/25.7865/?...

It's just a question of time. The chance that the property will be flooded every year before a 30-year mortgage has been paid off seems to be about 50%.
The book doesn't cover things added after it was published, correct
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> If you make these titles attractive, why wouldn't you expect people to optimize for them?

There is a cultural component to it, and it travels. People coming from a corporate culture attach value to these titles in a way we traditionally did not in Silicon Valley. The interesting thing is seeing how they then breathe power into those words; I remember one senior-ish person who proceeded to attempt pulling rank on her peers on the back of the new title. In most cases, it didn't work. But in some cases, it did, including with people who were otherwise insensitive to titles.

My broad takeaway is trading titles for money is a deal with the devil. Eventually, the thing you're giving away gains animation.
Yeah, if I ever do achieve it I suspect that’ll be the path to doing so.

It does surprise me there’s no political will to change things. Having to provide healthcare is a burden to employers, it prevents workers from pursuing their entrepreneurial dreams… you’d think both sides of the aisle would want change. But alas.
The use case here is a process saying "I don't trust my future self not to do something stupid".

Mseal alone doesn't seem enough for that. There are plenty of other API's that would also need locking down - and many future API's too. This looks like a big maintenance burden forever into the future.

Perhaps a better model is seccomp BPF. Allow a process to install a seccomp BPF filter on itself. The filter could prevent calling mmap, mprotect, mremap and friends. The filter could also prevent the modification of the installed filter.

That seems far more general and far more powerful and requires less kernel code with only a handful of uses.
> I wonder what the ramifications are if a significant number of people drop home insurance all together.

As long as there's a mortgage, people will be required to carry home insurance. I have heard of the wealthy self insuring because the premiums were so high. For them it made sense to invest premiums instead.
A quick search indicates that it is not illegal in the US as a whole, but maybe California?
>Overall, it feels like no one in this cares to cater to the developer and startup crowd, or they believe there's not much money for them to pursue there.

Is this then a good idea for a VC or YC funded company?
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Allow me to play the tiniest violin for you. Funny how the tables have turned and you don't seem to mention the absolute unprofessionalism coming from recruiters who offer jobs and rescind them after candidates relocate, perform layoffs to pad the bottom line, and ghost the everliving fuck out of candidates like it's their job.
Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded. - Yogi Berra
Good news is that cannabis started of heavily regulated and as the market & unstanding matures the regulations are being reduced (eg: CO/WA). New markets are heavily regulated (eg: NY), mostly because the regulators are still figuring things out and near-zero bureaucrats will play fast&loose -- more enforcement means they doing their job. Other markets that are easing in adult-use-rec alongside their existing medical -- and giving proper attention to the medical side -- have less of these issues (eg: ME). It's not like there was ever going to be zero issues -- but these things take time to settle out and laws move very, very slowly.
They could simply advertise the instructions. Especially the correct server address. There's no need to panic. Sure a few voters would still be duped, but that's on par with the status quo. I don't see the issue.
Work was fun for me (at least to some meaningful extent that it isn't anymore) for 20 years. You can't count on it to be fun and you're not entitled to it being fun, but rather than giving up there should also be accountability for the fact that it's terrible now when it doesn't have to be.
> 80% of the state will be ocean

I played with simulations and nothing crazy serious is expected even after 200 years. Can you point to the source of your claim?
How is this related to crypto currencies in any way?

Any web API can allow multiple clients so I'm a bit lost at why you're so excited about this.
i was in a similar spot. did not want to do anything, i felt useless, it was terrible and like i was in the bottom of a hole with no way out. i found myself in tears often. i tried exercising (i run everyday) and being more active but it was still not clicking.

after much deliberation, i talked to my doctor and i got on antidepressants, SSRI's. i did not want to take them but i was willing to try anything because i could imagine ending my life, something that was profound and pretty eye opening when i discussed it with a third party.

i took them for 6 months and weaned off of them once i noticed they had gripped my personality in a weird way and were starting to turn me into a different being: someone who didn't want to end their life, but someone who was finding very little pleasure in life.

maybe try LSD, it works wonders when you want to change your mind, but you have to respect it and work with a therapist/sitter who can help guide you. its amazing what your mind can do.

someone told me if i could make it through my rut, then i could emerge on the other side, stronger than ever. they were right. in and through, it's the only way. put on a kettle and make some tea for your depression, sit down with it and talk to it, understand it, don't force it out. in and through. it's the only way. you can do it. don't give up.
If you are interested in reading more about it, the keyword is "abiogenesis" -- or, as was the case in the books I read 2 decades ago, "prebiotic". Reading about it, it is quite obvious that it is hard to think draw up a straight frontier between living and non-living, except for some fairly arbitrary definitions that tend to be wrong in many edge cases. I'm not sure it adds much more to it except that "this is the current scientific consensus".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis
"Sir, there is this approach where I feed in requirements and get back results, can I use it?"
I'm honestly not sure if the logical error is on me there. If a majority of people honestly believe that humans are causing serious harm to the planet and still set a high bar for a certain level of lifestyle, environmental impact be damned, I think that's the error.

As far as shipping goes, it can definitely be comparably affordable to ship in products. Though you still have to factor in costs of everything from making and maintaining those vehicles, the oil and gas that moves them, and the costs on the area that actually produced the products.

My point isn't that everything should be magically fixed with more rural living or a perfect balance of density in cities. I'm simply trying to raise the other side to point out that things aren't simple or clean enough to actually run the math on whether dense cities are better or worse at reducing impact on the environment. There are simply too many factors and hidden costs along the way to calculate accurately.
Camden NJ has a pretty successful story about removing their police department and replacing it with a new one:

https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racia...