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Maybe it's a translation issue, but this article doesn't really answer the question at its root level and keeps referencing recent events - obviously Russian troops in Donbass are concealing their identity, but Eastern European troops have been wearing ski masks for decades now. Why? I'm not sure "to confuse the senses" makes sense, since for 100+ years warfare has happened at long distances.

My money is on the fact it's cold and windy often.

OMG! I'm glad I'm not the only that noticed this. The music is definitely there to discourage staying and working.

Greenpoint, bushwick, wburg, bed-study, park slope, Clinton hill, LES.

wow, never noticed that feature. thanks for the heads up!

I also feel I've seen this mentality in play in politics - the core of of bourgeois politics seems to consist of virtue-signaling or name-dropping challenging philosophers.

Dang, I am so tired of hearing about imposter syndrome. I get it. It exists. Maybe I'm more comfortable knowing that there are lots of things I don't know, even as an experienced engineer? It seems like such endless studies and banter about a relatively minor thing that is (in my opinion) easily gotten over.

Yeah this doesn’t belong on hacker news...

Piggybacking off the fizzbuzz comment, but at my job we we don't ask hard whiteboard questions - just simple ones that prove people can code, and 75% of them can't do it. If you can't do fizzbuzz, you can't do this job. It's an effective filter.

Agreed. I definitely felt like it was far more obscure and hacker-y five years ago. I remember things like Beej's guide to Network Programming were (https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/) formed the crux of the content - now there's far more "thought-pieces".

Yep, this is a huge problem in the ecosystem right now. The irony is that JS, an interpreted language, is becoming slower to compile than some of the newer compiled language (i.e. golang, which compiles to machine code and therefore avoids all compatibility issues).

Agreed. Gitlab is cool but $1 billion valuation? Seriously? Do they even have significant marketshare over GitHub and Bitbucket?

Energy/productivity. I have the time to work on things, but after a day of work and an hour at the gym my brain just wants to go straight to reading, videogames, or laying down and relaxing.

I'm struggling to consistently use those 5+ hours of free time every day for something that will move me further in life.

Eh, I can read significantly faster than I can listen. And listening is far more annoying.

Could you imagine, for example, a door constantly bleeping "Fire Exit, Do Not Open" for illiterates?

Shit, this sounds like a previous startup I left. Product-market fit acquired, growing steadily, near-profitability. Then Series C, and sudden pivot to more ambitious product. A few months/years later (I left before this, seeing the danger) most of the staff gets laid off. :\

1000% this. My experience, being close with some very high achievers in my life - some being CEOs, some being average Joe's at 9-5s - is that what determines success is not really the individual. This idea of the lone Atlas to raise the world on shoulders is false.

Innovation and genius happens when the environment is fertile and you have many great people working together to stand upon each other's shoulders. Of course, being outstanding is a prerequisite. But the highway to greatness requires more than that.

The tech industry learned this the hard way - MVP, then iterate is the way to go.

Star citizen abandoned its MVP (Squadron 42) awhile ago. That's why the combat sucks and there is still no core gameplay loop. A management fiasco that would be impressive to recover from.

Yep. I remember tons of marketing/advertising people going around enthusiastically talking about how chatbots are "the next big thing." No professional UX people or engineers were really pushing the tech that I knew.

The law is that pedestrians always have right of way. Jaywalking is a fine, but not a jail sentence. Not coming to a full stop for jaywalking pedestrians, however, is how I failed my first driver's test.

There is, and the data doesn't look good.

There's typically 1 death per 100 million miles driven.

Uber's only driven a couple million miles.

Oopsie. Fixed.

I don't think it has no value - I'm just saying it has more in common with art (like Shakespeare, as you mentioned) than Theory. Perhaps it's a confusion of terms on my part.

I disagree that it's an academic/layperson divide, because I have a background in liberal arts at the academic level. When I was at school, I was writing papers where I REALLY needed to make sure my points were concrete, well-expressed, and well-cited. It was all about transforming a hypothesis into a theory. A lot of new critical theory seems to meander into oblivion in contrast to the strict expression of other academic fields.

Maybe, like you said, I'm just not up on the academics of it.

I agree and both disagree. I'm working right now for a client that is a large corporation that didn't do any of those "fad" things - and it is _tremendously_ costly.

For example, one team has spent several weeks and thousands of dollars to get another team's SOAP integration working correctly, when it would have taken five minutes in REST.

The codebase did not follow a "elegant" practice and is an absolute spaghetti mess. Things that should take 30 minutes take one week and this add tremendously to personnel cost.

I agree though that working together is tremendously undervalued. A decently smart person can be taught anything (which is part of the replacability problem you mentioned), but how to not be an entitled ass is nearly impossible to teach in a workplace environment.

I've been thinking lately about the "sloppy reasoning" problem of critical theory. I used to really love critical theory when I was younger, but now that I'm older I'm almost ready to dismiss it as entertaining crank writing at a time when western civilization was exploring new boundries and slightly adrift. It has more in common with artistic expression than critical methodology. Still valuable, but should not be taken as seriously as it currently is in academia - at least in my opinion.

I came to this opinion when I stayed at a friends' place recently who had a massive collection of critical theory, and I had not read any crit in years. I read a few of the books, and to my own surprise, my reaction was "what the hell is this nonsense?" The ideas were certainly interesting, but had no real provable basis, and just seemed to be the reasoned expression of one author's individual sense of alienation - more like artistic expression than any real solution to the dilemma of civilization or consciousness.

This is awesome. I was just reading the waveNet paper and wondering how would go about a DIY approach...

Dual core i5? What year is it, 2004?

For all the negativity in this thread, you've pointed out (in my opinion) the one actual problem with this. It's going to be like living next to a highway in any urban area. Not any noisier than an apartment in new york, I suppose, but disruptive to quieter cities.

There's a lot of negativity in this thread. I'm really excited about this.

Even on an aesthetic level, it will be amazing to look at the city sky and see hundreds of lights buzzing about, blade-runner style.

At this stage, I think it may be easier to automate a drone than a car. Buildings and hills don't move around that much, and air traffic won't be as random as roadway hazards if implemented correctly.

These are two pretty unrelated issues, and it is a fallacy to compare the two in this context. It's not unlikely that the majority of transit in the western will be automated in the next century or two.

The technology to filter and clean water has existed since the Roman era, but its implementation is highly dependent on political and economic factors (fun fact: western civilization didn't match the Romans' quality of water engineering until the mid-19th century).

The technology for automated cars could well exist in 150 years, and its implementation depends on the cycles of industrial production and consumption. It's likely that much of the western world will have automated transit in 150 years, because everyone will eventually get rid of their 2015 toyota for a model 2077 automated Tesla-google car.

This is really important as virtual reality begins to take center stage, but most people don't have the rigs to run it.