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How would splitting Instagram work from a technical perspective? Engineers have spent 8 years building shared code and data centers for FB and IG. I'd expect it would take hundreds of people and multiple years to untangle them.

Kind of funny that this "clean" ship is being used to transport cars.

Depends where you live. For me, an Uber Pool to the nearest grocery store is about $5. I could do 40 round trips a month for the cost of insurance and a parking spot.

You're saying it's good that the majority of people who are not in cars live in constant fear for their lives?

> but they're gonna be following a set of rules different than the human drivers around them

Hmmm... a "different set of rules than humans" aka following the actual laws that were designed for safety rather than the human rules of "whatever maximizes my personal convenience"

What do you mean by "personal"? It's on the Cruise blog.

You'd be surprised at how much fits in a good backpack or set of panniers. A bike trailer is also an option if you really need a lot, and as a side benefit you can carry your kids in it when you're not grocery shopping. Delivery is another reasonable option that probably causes less pollution and traffic than everybody driving their own car to the store.

For one obvious example, the people who legitimately need to rely on cars will spend less time sitting in traffic.

> If you don't expect and accept your local variation of whatever these exceptions are you are going to have a very bad time.

As it turns out I do expect this behavior and still have a very bad time. These laws are not frivolous, and violating them is extremely dangerous.

One example of a bad outcome is enough for you to decide that driverless cars are unacceptably dangerous? Take a look at number of collisions per mile driven and reconsider.

If you only need a car for 10% of trips, why not take taxis? It would likely be cheaper and easier (no hassles with parking in the city).

I said "most people" won't need cars. I think you'd agree that most people do not struggle to walk short distances.

Street parking can and should be removed even without driverless taxis, but I agree that the taxis reduce the amount of ammunition people have to fight the change.

It's hard for me to imagine how it could get worse in the short term. I encounter the following from human drivers on a regular basis, and I can't imagine any reasonable software doing them:

* Notice me attempting to use a crosswalk and choose not to yield

* Drive dangerously close behind my bicycle while honking for additional intimidation

* Pass my bicycle at obviously unsafe distances

* Park in crosswalks

* Blatantly disregard lane markings

* Run stop signs

* Pittsburgh left turns

Driverless cars are going to be much better than driverful cars in cities since they follow the rules and behave predictably. But I do wish cities would get on board with the clear win of reducing the need for cars. SF is small enough that you could get anywhere pretty easily with an electric-assist bike if only there were sufficiently safe infrastructure. Combine that with better transit, and most people never need to use a car for daily life.

Both are good. They're doing both. Might as well talk about both.

> Is all of the right wing conservative?

Yes. That's literally the definition: "the conservative or reactionary section of a political party or system."

https://www.google.com/search?q=define+right+wing

How is that funny or surprising? Every source that mentions political leaning of news media says they're right wing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Post

https://www.allsides.com/news-source/new-york-post

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/new-york-post/

> Just getting a specific entity from the list was a huge issue and then updating it and putting it back was worse.

I must be missing something, but this sounds like a pretty straightforward List.map

I personally have no idea what painting accomplishments exist and how much they mean, but I do have a vague idea of what RISD is, so that's more useful to me.

> In fact, I don't understand why employees at tech companies believe they have the right to police people's opinions period.

Of course they have the right to. Any website can make whatever rules they want about what's allowed. HN has rules too.

> the $25k median salary is also incorrect (it's closer to $40k).

Not according to the government:

> The U.S. Census Bureau lists the annual median personal income at $33,706 in 2018

33.7k pretax is closer to 25k than to 40k post tax.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_...

It's moderately intimidating to jump into i3 or xmonad if you haven't used them before. This looks like a friendlier way for more people to get exposed to tiling, but doesn't seem to offer anything compelling for people already comfortable with one of the others.

Fixing cars is of course learnable; we all know that mechanics exist. But computing hardware is usually built by really complicated machines. I honestly don't know whether it's possible for a person to make a CPU.

> Work output was particularly affected on Mondays and Fridays, according to findings discussed by Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon in a private meeting with Keefe, Bruyette & Woods analysts.

How would they measure that? It seems basically impossible, and the article has no details.

I don't know anything about hardware or EE. Is this something that a person could actually build from scratch?

Most interviews unfortunately have little to do with the actual work and require significant practice to do well.

> One question I was asked was "How do you make sure that a celebrity's tweet reaches all of her followers in less than 3 seconds?". I had no idea, I have never handled that kinda scale.

If you're technically competent overall, you should be able to learn enough to make your way through this from a few hours of reading and watching youtube videos. That's what I did when I was in the same situation, and I passed the architecture interviews at multiple FANGs.

Same for the coding questions. You need to spend time reading interview books and doing leetcode.

Explaining things well to a wide range of people is one of the most important skills for a developer.

> strikes me as extremely selfish, immature and displaying a total lack of empathy

We're talking about 22 year olds who have always been told they're smarter than everybody, spend more of their free time with computers than with people, and started making $200k+ immediately after college. Those adjectives correctly describe a large portion of those people.

> It's funny, we always talk about compensating leaders for the value they provide to the company. Yet when it comes to non-leaders, it's transforms into a question of "value relative to their current/recent income".

That's maybe true for founders, but not really for hired executives:

> One major consideration that goes into how much a CEO should be paid is what other companies are paying. Compensation committees benchmark CEO pay against a self-selected peer group -- often 12 to 20 companies that may be of similar size and complexity, and have similar business models, according to Robin Ferracone, CEO of Farient Advisors, an executive compensation consulting firm.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/24/success/ceo-pay-packages/inde...