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The "we're like family" phrase can mean many different things in the work environment, so don't read too deeply into it.

That being said, it's often a sign of poor management; managers will use "we're like family" instead of addressing problems that they need to address. It can create a very stressful situation if you're a high performer, because the expectations and handholding quickly get unreasonable.

(The song "Surface Pressure" from Encanto explains the situation exactly.)

For example, I once worked with a manager who used the "we're like family" excuse when incoming tickets were incomprehensible and missing critical information. He was just copping out of his job, which was to set processes and make sure new employees knew the processes. Instead, his expectation was that I would handhold the organization through the ticketing system.
To reinforce, an task I had when interviewing was to solve an issue with a webapp written in a language I had never used and a webserver I had never used.

It wasn't that hard if you know the fundamentals (http, ssl). It was sorta fun and I got the job.
Let me present you a full 212-page RHEL 9 docs PDF on everything Podman, updated as of this month:

https://docs.redhat.com/en-us/documentation/red_hat_enterpri...
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I'm not even joking about this -- since frog legs are a thing people eat (taste kinda like chicken), I'm now incredibly curious what this would taste like if you "caught" these in their frozen state and cooked them.

Are we taking syrupy sweet meat? Or just a hint of it?
Like I said, when it works right. A 2 hour ride and three mile walk is very obviously not a viable commute.

As for safety, you’re orders of magnitude more likely to get into a car crash than have anything happen to you on the NYC subway. Yes, incidents happen but they’re dramatically inflated in the public consciousness.

Your objection (and most of the others I see) aren’t objections to the fundamental nature of public transit, rather they’re objections to shit public transit or to urban life in general (whole lotta city car parks that aren’t clean!). Which is entirely understandable. But there are plenty of examples of functional public transit serving millions of people in cities across the world. Those people aren’t all secretly wishing they were in a car.
I’d love to read any analysis you’ve done like this, or any reading you might recommend.
Really weird for me to see someone talk about 2015 like it was "early days" at Palantir, having been there mid 2009 to early 2014.
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You may wish to reconsider your hypothesis after viewing this chart:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/children-born-per-woman?t...
Yes it's AI generated, at around 0:09 you can see "Created by Real Magic AI" on the bottom-left.

There are other giveaways:

- the polar bears move very unnaturally

- the semis don't obey perspective and are clearly just static images (with spinning wheels) sliding across the scenery

- the smiling girl and woman look "off," with unnatural smiles

- the Coke bottles move weirdly in peoples' hands, sliding up and down

- the whole thing looks like AI dogshit
I spent millions building a product with no revenue
Did they? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_Chicks_comments_on_Georg...

(Wikipedia suggests the term itself originates from black communities, which is not synonymous with Democrats. I think it's fair to assert the practice without the name is much older).
I think more generally nothing beats being able to communicate with a customer in the way the customer prefers. If that's email, that's what you do. If it's a phone call, that's what you do. But I think as time goes on the number of people preferring a phone call will continue to decline. Time will tell I guess.
This is a colossal failure for humanity, primarily due to home ownership as an investment vehicle, plus regulatory capture pushed by the car companies and oil and gas companies.

There is no technical reason we can't have livable, quiet and spacious apartments, where multiple apartment buildings share a huge, enclosed backyard (almost park-like, even), a setup with tons of small shops, pharmacies, easy access to everything, etc.

Plus you can also have access to large parks, in a suburb you'd never have access to those, just your limited backyard.

But most places will never have that...
> if you leave or the company goes under, you may find yourself with nothing or worse

Untrue. Alimony, child support.

> Men, particularly young men, are having trouble adjusting to this.

I see just as much anecdotal evidence that men are often (who knows what the percent breakdown is) the ones no longer seeking relationships, and articles authored by women lamenting the availability of highly desirable male partners.

> 24/7, room and board only

This seems like an overly negative view. All the work isn’t done by one partner, income is spent by both, the female partner often spends a higher percent of the income statistically (not implying anything by this, they may just be the one shopping for groceries), they share in what the income buys and the lifestyle of the couple, they also keep half of the asset appreciation, etc.
This only somewhat matches my experience as a SWE at Google. (Though I can see how things may well look different from SRE!)

In my view, there was both too much time spent doing big designs with many of the details eventually becoming stale during implementation, when the real goal was to lock down some key decision points, and also a lot of iterative design and execution actually happening, with less fanfare.

Another thing I saw is that there are many different kinds of projects at big companies, which sit at different points on the continuum between detailed up front design being necessary and useful vs unnecessary friction.

I guess it's a YMMV situation!
I mean, your statement says it all plain as day. What used to be the norm - having kids freely and often - is now a discussion. While some people may try to blame that on civil rights, listening to stories from the extended older family as a kid paints a picture that we (as humans) will have as many kids as we feel we’re able to support, and as often as we feel safe doing so, when left to our own devices.

And if that’s the case, then the question answers itself.
With respect, it doesn't matter. Suburbs cost far more than they bring in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IsMeKl-Sv0
You can just buy a RATGDO device and use it with your opener!

https://paulwieland.github.io/ratgdo/

It's a reverse-engineered device that you can attach to the opener. It works perfectly, and provides local control and monitoring.

You can also use it alongside the official myQ client, if you want to use in-garage delivery from Amazon.
"What complete knucklehead thought that... git blame Oh, oops."
Bear that damaged luxury cars was actually a person in a costume
It's probably on the list that you've tried, but I've had most luck with Nuitka (in standalone mode, not onefile). Unlike pyinstaller, it really is the executable it claims to be, not just an elaborate zip file containing python.exe and your source files.
Check out the study, it's linked to in the article:

https://www.iseecars.com/most-dangerous-cars-study#v=2024
A big problem is that America is huge, and relatively sparse at that. You have to drive just to get to the pub!
I'm your average skilled introverted engineer. But after more than a dozen years of experience and problem solving, I'd go with #2. I feel i'd be able to explain myself much more easily, have to do much less work, and probably have much more ways to impress the interviewers with face to face. I have also been on the receiving side of take-home tests and I know how hard it is to impress someone with those.
Unless you're wealthy enough to live in the core of a major metropolitan area, it's all of the states.
That's why I've a manager
If you can't tell the difference, you didn't actually learn it.

Doesn't mean you have to like it, but they are different.
I think so, extreme ideologues like communists, islamists or any other hardcore ideologues fight among each other and in their own tribes all the time because they are actually divided quite a bit on the implementation details. Once the thing they rage against is gone, they will have to rage against each other. The anti-jewish Trump supporters already begin dropping out with disappointment.
I got a lot of feedback that zotero was too clunky for people to use
Unless the Tesla induces unsafe behavior, of course. Does the car make it easier to break the speed limit, drive distracted, or drive under the influence? I don’t know.
Don't worry, they will stick a label on it and it will go back to the shops. It's a good lesson for the supplier making the mistake. And besides, one might think it ís a harmless milk substitute..
I have reasons to believe your belief is incorrect. Thread's app downloads, number of posts etc. match the MAU numbers.

In all my circles is unreliable argument.
Bluesky released a statement today about data use [0] - saying they will not use your data for "Generative AI" (surely in response to X's recent change to say they will).

As you imply, this is a bit meaningless for people who don't want their posts used for AI, because anyone can grab all data pretty easily (at least for now).

But, AI aside, this is so much better for a lively ecosystem - 3rd party apps, bots (the fun and useful kind), research, etc. A lots of things simply died when Musk decided effectively end the API program [1].

[0] https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3layuzbti6s2x

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-data-api-prices-out-near... == https://archive.ph/ikPOk
I am genuinely surprised by the comments in this thread.

Privacy concerns are real but the importance of that matter in your project is overestimated here by an absurd level.

What I read is not a constructive criticism and the suggestions laid down are not realistic nor business relevant at all. I feel like this is some sort of mass wishful thinking.
If kept in pristine conditions (perfectly sealed to prevent evaporation leading to dehydration, deep freeze), is there a particular chemical needed for life that we might expect to break down first?

Since chemical reactions happen in the freezer just slower...
For the average American with no criminal record it’s relatively serious. It depends on the state but you’ll usually spend the night or weekend in jail until you can make bail. It can have career repercussions and America’s lenient approach to road accidents goes out the window so if anyone gets hurt except you, there will be a felony charge up to manslaughter.
i've been playing around with a similar concept over the last year as well

when i'm at my PC, I keep a google meet on all day. instead of slacking me, coworkers can go to my google meet link (which never changes cus it's a recurring event on my calendar) and talk to me immediately. far better than huddles because there's no "are you available for a huddle" friction. if i'm online, then i'm online and the permission to just come talk to me is implicit.

I also use it for family and friends. my wife, kids, sister and parents can always just go to my meet link if they want to pop in to chat. i've shared it with friends and former coworkers too.

additionally, every day I start a private youtube livestream (and sometimes public) and embed the stream on my website at kenwarner.com/online which is linked with a :large_green_cirle: in the header menu so people can quickly see that i'm online. when people find my website (usually from twitter interactions) sometimes people will join the meet to talk too. much more chill than most (text-based) interactions on twitter. even if the conversation started (on twitter) with some kind of disagreement, people act like human beings again (for the most part) when it's a video chat. it's fun.

i've often thought that it'd be neat if there were a service similar to calendly.com/username like you've done to let people talk/videochat any time. if enough people had such a thing, you could build a social media platform on top of it too. the digital public square today is still mostly text (twitter/threads/bluesky/etc) and the image/video platforms (ig/tiktok/youtube) are all still oriented around a one to many broadcast model. i'm a creator and you're an audience member. with monetization of the audience in mind. omegle was a sort of person to person videochat platform, but it was all random connections. this would be more directed in terms of who you decide to talk to.

hadn't thought of this idea as just targeted at business use cases, but it makes sense. hope y'all get some traction!
I remember some car collision data that showed that men were more likely to get into any collision and women were more likely to get into a fatal collision. A comment I read about the study suggested the conclusion that men take more risks while women take bigger risks.

It's interesting to think in that context about this. Could Tesla drivers be taking bigger risks because they think the car's software will save them from the negative consequences of their risky decisions? (As an extreme example, one such driver opted to drive in the back seat instead of the driver's seat. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-highway-patr...)
Systems Design is IMO the most useless part of those interviews.

Interviewers are just trying to find someone who would design a system the same way they did. They used a queue? They want you to add one. They used serverless? Better say the word "Lambda" somewhere. They hate serverless? Ooops better stick to regular servers.

In the end yeah, it's about following a script, but also reading the room.
Rust protects against undefined behavior. This is enough that programs either panic in a well-defined way, or continue to run well enough that logging works.
This is why we need the Department of Department of Government Efficiency Efficiency so we can ensure the governmental efficiency of the Department of Government Efficiency.
It ain't working then because these heavy cars tend to have more fatalities.
Ok, but please don't fulminate on Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Hiring processes should focus on problem-solving, collaboration, and growth in relevant areas.

Agreed. When I think about the best engineers I've worked with-- and the worst-- I have identified certain characteristics that I want to look for in a candidate, and certain characteristics that I must avoid.

In particular, there are certain people who just can't entertain any thought or design idea that they themselves did not have. This makes them very hard to collaborate with, except in the cases where what we need to do just happens to coincide with what they are thinking. Related, there are certain people who can only think about exactly one way to solve a problem, and there is not room in their brain to honestly consider any alternative approaches. These people tend to be really bad team players. A good engineer will understand that there's no one right way to do certain kinds of things, that everything comes with tradeoffs.

During interviews I present coding problems where there is more than one way to attack the problem. Whatever approach the candidate does, I propose an alternative approach and ask them to talk with me about the pros and cons of the alternative approach. I also ask for them to extend upon the alternative approach and make it better. For a significant fraction of candidates, they just can't entertain any other way of doing the thing, there just isn't room in their brain to consider alternative approaches.

Ability to really listen and give an honest consideration for other people's ideas is a vital part of the kind of team culture we need to succeed, so I look for that in interviews. Long ago I abandoned worrying about leetcode in interviews, and nobody in more senior management has made me stop yet, and this is at a big tech company.
Nobody needs to take notes, we’ve known what this is for a hundred years. We spent most of the last century trying to get rid of autocracy in various places, there’s entire libraries worth of books detailing this playbook at this point.
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> I am far far far better off than either my grandparents or parents at this age

Perhaps you have more disposable income and savings because you don't have the expense of supporting a stay-at-home wife and two kids?
This is probably more rhetorical than anything, but why does it need to be interactive?
I'm a little sorry that they didn't engage with it. How am I a burden? By who's values? Is this your opinion? How do you know about my contributions? What are or aren't they? The stain I'm making on the universe, will that buff out?
The point is that using Florence or Cologne in an English text doesn’t sound weird at all even though they are (were) French names.
Sure. But PyPI provides zero details on the process, I don't use 2FA for anything else in my life, no one is paying me to care, I find making PyPI releases tedious because I inevitably make mistakes in my release process, I have a strong aversion to centralization and dependencies[1][2].

I tell people to "pip install -i $MY_SITE $MY_PACKAGE". I can tell from my download logs that this is open to dependency confusion attacks as I can see all the 404s from attempts to, for example, install NumPy from my server. To be clear, the switch to 2FA was only the triggering straw - I was already migrating my packages off of PyPI.

Finally, I sell a source license for a commercial product (which is not the one which got me started with PyPI). My customers install it via their internally-hosted PyPI mirrors.

I provide a binary package with a license manager for evaluation purposes, and as a marketing promotion. As such, I really want them to come to my web site, see the documentation and licensing options, and contact me. I think making it easier to express as a dependency via PyPI does not help my sales, and actually believe the extra intermediation likely hinders my sales.

[1] I dislike dependencies so much that I figured out how to make a PEP 517 compatible version that doesn't need to contact PyPI simply to install a local package. Clearly I will not become a Rust developer.

[2] PyPI support depends on GitHub issues. I regard Microsoft as a deeply immoral company, and a threat to personal and national data sovereignty, which means I will not sign up for a GitHub account. When MS provides IT support for the upcoming forced mass deportations, I will have already walked away from Omelas.
What nobody has figured out how to do yet is re-create that physical reality in the digital world. Policing is a reality few people want to talk about, and nobody wants to point out that graffiti (trolling in the digital world) is vandalism and not free speech. Nor do they want to face the reality that while graffiti is pretty easy to spot in the real world, it's much more difficult to detect in the digital world. All those problems are in play before we add in the problems brought by advertising and the fact that online communities legally look similar to media.

Online communities have existed for over four decades now and we still haven't solved these problems.
I use Z-Wave for everything. I looked into Home Assistant, but went with a Hubitat C8 Pro hub bridged to HomeKit on my Apple TV. A Z-wave multi-relay and tilt sensor kit is under $100, and just works.

Home Assistant is more flexible, and has nicer dashboards, but it's also way more of a PITA to get everything working consistently. Hubitat, OTOH, has just worked, with very little tinkering. I had some issues early on with it running slow, but later firmwares resolved all such issues.
Not all recalls involve disposing of a product. Apparently in this case it does. I'd have thought they could just send out some correction stickers to slap on there, but I suppose food labeling laws could be too rigid to allow for this, or else concerns about stickers being misapplied.
per day though. I think others are right that it has applications in space. going with the butter example, 5 people on a year long mission is almost 11kg you don't have to bring up to space.

on an environmental perspective, if applied to everyone, its almost half a quadrillion kJ removed a year, plus supply chain logistics, waste, packaging,

I still think its probably a ridiculous pipedream, but even pipedreams are meant to be dreamt.
If you read the article it implies driver fault not car fault. Tesla receiving the highest ever crash safety ratings echos that.
Given how often people seriously say things like the top level comment being responded to around here, an explicit /s is almost necessary since it can be hard to distinguish from the usual cynical dismissive comments.
> The problem ends up being, that I don't have any guarantee that the other side will spend any time on it.

This is a key thing for me. I consider it a moral obligation to give material feedback to anyone who does a takehome test for me - to invest at least some serious time evaluating it. Likewise, I would never give a takehome test until the candidate has at least had a phone screen with someone at the company and there's some level of investment on both sides.

On the other hand, I know a few junior devs right now who are submitting resumes and getting sent takehome tests off-the-bat. And, of course, after spending hours on those challenges, they get only form-letter rejections. I understand why companies do that - there's a glut of junior devs right now and any early-career role gets flooded with resumes that you need to somehow pare down - but I still consider it unconscionable.

I understand why you might not want to risk dealing with that.
What would happen if you'd prompted it with much more text, e.g. general advice by a chess grandmaster?
Oops. I looked at my installation and it's indeed a HA integration (HomeKit Bridge), not HomeBridge.
> 99.9% of drivers

I think you've just made that up; however, I am willing to stipulate that 99.9% of Hacker News posters will never tow anything. I always forget how out of touch the audience here is.
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I feel your pain. I've got similar amount of experience in my own area, I've been part of several successful software projects, and I have several popular open-source projects that I'm maintaining, but it all seemed to not matter a whole lot as I slogged month after month through interviews with rejection after rejection.

All I can say is that perhaps all those places that reject you are not actually the places where you really would like to work.

At one point I managed to get a job at a company which from the outside looked like a really cool place to work in. However all these interviews painted a very different picture of the work that I was actually assigned to do. I felt like I was being paid a senior engineer salary to do the job of a junior engineer. I was utterly bored and I complained that it's too boring and way below my skill level. This ended up getting me fired. Strangely, I've never had so many work-mates expressing to me how sad they are that I'm leaving. Several of them left the company not long after me.

Currently I'm in a happier place. Not getting as big of a salary but having an opportunity to work on a way more interesting software. And how did I land this job... after a single short interview they told me: would you like to start tomorrow?