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Hard question to answer since I've enjoyed all my jobs... at some point anyway :-)

I spent 15+ years in the Medical Device industry and that's probably been the most fulfilling job.

Why?

Medical Device software is extremely process-heavy, progress is slow and methodical and it can be absolutely soul-crushing if you look at it the wrong way. But:

Sometimes you hear from an ex-patient how you saved her life.

Sometimes you get to fix a problem that affected your own child.

Sometimes you take pride during a doctor visit in knowing your blood is going to be analyzed on a machine you designed and coded for.

Sometimes you simply enjoy the fact that you're putting out a very well-engineered and solid product.

And it's fun: most of my software career has been controlling things that move. When I hit Start on the debugger and several dozen motors spring to life at once, clicking and whirring in their orchestrated sets of motions, it's an amazing feeling.
Well considering I pay almost 50 a month for gsuite I’d say that.
"Search engines appear to be especially valuable: consumers surveyed said that they would have to be paid $17,500 to forgo their use for a year." So the title is using "Google" as a generic name for a search engine cf. Kleenex. Which is a pity because I really would like to know how much people would pay to stick with Google as opposed to another search engine, e.g. DDG. For me, this is next to nil!
Refactoring UI: Resolute
Maybe this is a form of loss aversion? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion
So the trick is to not answer the question immediately if you're unsure, but ask to clarify. Which, again, is a good skill in life (as an IC, and certainly as a director of engineering). If you're reviewing your coworker's code and they got something wrong, asking "Can you clarify what you meant here" will go over ten times better than "You're wrong" (and a hundred times better if they're not in fact wrong). Maybe this is a bug in human cognition, sure, but at a Google-sized company you can't get anything technical done without interfacing with buggy humans on a regular basis.

"The KILL signal? So you're calling the kill function with KILL as an argument, or typing kill dash KILL, or...?" would have cleared up the confusion immediately, because even a screener unfamiliar with the material would have said "Oh, that's not what I'm asking."

I do strongly believe that the questions as written down are not as reported in this blog post, because there are tons of other sources who have written about being asked this question in an initial screen, and they all phrase it as "What is the signal that the kill command sends."
It's sort of like the idea from Peopleware: a manager cannot create the social bonds that make a real team, but he can destroy them. You could generalize that to: a leader can't create a community, but he can destroy one.
Visually explaining Backpropagation in a CNN
My solution is that if you want to join a public community, then you should only share information with that public community that you want to be public.
GitLab VPE here.

Historically the dominant source of outage minutes is indeed features that didn't scale (70%).

However, We've made great strides in the past 6 months on QA and release management and it's yielded a marked improvement in availability. The last week has been an exception to that.

We're in the midst of a move from Azure to GCP, and once that is done, we're going to rebuild out system to be entirely automated which will eliminate a class of manual mistakes.
Also, every probability mentioned should also include in the list of conditions that the number of samples observed matches our experiment.
In my experience, the recruiters are some of the best, nicest folks I've had the pleasure of dealing with. I know that's a low bar to crawl over in the world of copy-paste recruiters, but they were good folks who made sure things worked, and when my interviewer failed to call, made sure to prod his ass.

Now, I didn't get past the phone screen but the experience actually interviewing was so piss-poor I doubt I'd have pressed on had I passed. The interviewer managed to call nearly 30 minutes late, spent about as much time talking about himself as he did asking me questions, and when he actually asked questions he would proceed to repeat what I had said as if I hadn't even said anything.
Love what these guys are doing!
I forgot to mention, if you want to check your existing daemons for these protections, either apt/yum install "checksec", or grab the script from it's maintainer [1] to check running daemons or files.

[1] - https://www.trapkit.de/tools/checksec.html
It's hard to square that with the whole 10x engineer thing.

It is true that hiring a security risk could be more damaging than rejecting a super talent, but all companies have systems in place that should reduce impact of incompetence and manage out inadevertantly hired incompetent people, because no hiring proccess is perfect.

So about rejecting a super talent to avoid hiring an incompetent person. It seems that statistically, a minority of people produce a majority of the value. Google hires in bulk, and I doubt their Cal Tech manufactured Mc Engineers are all elite people, so I'd guess they have the same problem as anyone else.

That problem is hunting for these people who will drive your buisness forward. Like YC and startups, you need to hire a bunch of bad bets for the big payoff.
European Space Agency Releases First Image from Mars Orbiter
Have you read the Gnome usability testing documents? That's a collection of anecdotes and assumptions far larger than mine.
Turkey Shrugs Off US Attempts to Link S-400 Deal with Russia to F-35 Supplies
He was in fintech IIRC, I just remember he had a math PhD because I explored his blog a bit.
I need a workaround at work, but not at home. You're probably on a IP that has heavily used the free content.
It is far from a settled question whether depression is best framed as a medical problem, for everyone.
In an effort to save electricity (most charitable interpretation of the law) the US has banned incandescent light bulbs for the standard bulb sizes. The lowest temp LED bulbs one finds in most stores is 2700k (soft white) and, since those cost more than higher temp ones, I bet most people are buying the high temp bulbs. Plus, LEDs don't have anything like a blackbody spectrum like a heated filaments or the sun has. Rather they have bi-modal spectrum with a high blue peak and a lower one[1]. Maybe the lack of low wavelength radiation is also a problem. I wish bulb packaging had to display the spectrum, not just some "temperature" of unknown calculation.

It seems like blue light in the evening is not good for human health. I wonder if banning incandescent bulbs will be seen as a horrible health problem caused by an ill informed government. Similar to the anti-fat campaigns of the past that ended up having people eat much more sugar and hydrogenated oils. At least butter was not banned in that case.

Anyone know where one can buy low temp incandescent (like the regular old ones) bulbs of the standard sizes and watts in the US? Maybe they could be sold as a special "full spectrum" bulb and one could get special permission from a doctor to buy them.

[1]https://www.soundandvision.com/content/led-vs-cfl-bulbs-colo...
It's biased toward people who have taken a few weeks to prep on the standard Google interview curriculum that has been widely advertised for a decade.
Slower alternative: "fastai with @pytorch on @awscloud is currently the fastest to train Imagenet on GPU, fastest on a single machine (faster than Intel-caffe on 64 machines!), and fastest on public infrastructure (faster than @TensorFlow on a TPU!)
Big thanks to our students that helped with this." - https://twitter.com/jeremyphoward/status/988852083796291584
Thanks for the kind words. Makes me want to write another entry. I'm sorry for the text-shadow, I tend to overuse them!
The code is available here https://github.com/claisne/claisne.io if any of you is interested.
Your answer is confusing... it sounds like you traded actively by "scalping" - but you admit that you got lucky via buy-and-hold ... So you didnt get paid on alpha - but just regular beta. Very few people have alpha....
> They don't need people to read it to them.

I'm not following. Why would someone read the resume to someone else?
The OP is misremembering (slightly) some questions.

Also, this quiz is given by non-technical recruiters just to get a guage on how tech-savvy the candidate is. If I remember correctly, the passmark is 6/10.

The questions (when not misremembered) are very precise in their wording, and recruiters are given a pretty comprehensive list of correct answers.

I'm sure a few great candidates fail this stage, but that's the nature of hiring. Google gets a lot of job applications per day, and a first stage screening like this needs to be able to be executed by non-technical staff in a few minutes. Other companies use online tests, which tend to take the candidate more time and are easier to cheat at.
keep telling yourself that. the comments on electrek mean absolutely nothing. its a tesla fanboy site, period.

there is a very real attrition situation at tesla, coming from someone in the industry.
What is the cost difference between the CPUs on the google cloud vs AWS? How would adjusting for it effect the cost/images ratio?
Make them look like a pair of Raybans instead of the current bubbly design and they’ve sold me.
Show HN: Open-source Nodejs “teacher” bot for e-learning content
No, this isn't a case of that. This is the classic Social Justice Jihadi pillorying someone with an opinion that isn't on the approved list. The man was a writer for a week and was removed because he committed a thought crime.

You're just being needlessly obtuse.
Yes, to test mobility (locomotion and navigation) we have a prototype model that we operate in an environment as close to the Mars surface as possible (representative sand, slopes and rocks etc.)
Sinclair Spectrum Designer Rick Dickinson Has Died
For the last 5 decades or so we've been stuck on linear growth. ~ +80m/yr, 12-14 years per +1b. That looks like it might be the middle straight line part of a sigmoid curve that started exponential and transitioned to linear.

There's no real evidence yet in the stats for the next transition to a drop in the absolute growth numbers per year.
Thank you for the kind words. My goal was to make the explanations as simple as possible.

Using them to get a feel about dataset is an interesting use case and I haven't tried that. It does sound interesting though. Something to do with my next ML problem I suppose. :)

Just skimmed through your article(class final exams tomorrow), it is informative. Thanks for sharing.
It's entirely legal because all of the rules surrounding the right to repair and maintain cars are related to emissions certifications, which Tesla doesn't have to do... Other car manufacturers, like Nissan, certify their fully electric vehicles as zero emission solely to have them count in their total fleet CAFE standards numbers, but that means that they have to provide warranties, parts, repair manuals, etc. in line with the federal rules. Tesla exists outside that system.

We should be pushing to have the warranties and the safety critical systems parts and repair information covered under the NHTSA safety certification rather than the EPA emissions certification, but that hasn't been necessary until very recently, and honestly, the majority of people willing to buy a Tesla aren't going to work on them, just like the majority of people buying a regular car aren't going to work on them, so it hasn't been a real issue yet. Personally, I wouldn't buy anything that I don't have a legally enforceable guarantee of aftermarket parts, manuals, etc. on because I don't trust any company to actually provide ongoing support, esp. in tech cough google chat services cough. Particularly given the dollar figures involved...
Facial recognition may be coming to a police body camera near you
I doubt the parent was being serious.
i dont think it's misleading. People say "Just google it" instead of just search it. How many people know of DDG?
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A company's "value" is different these days. People use Facebook (FB) because others are using it, and they know others are using it. Consumers go there because either everyone else goes there, or they THINK everyone else goes there. If the collective "know" shifts for whatever reason, the value can drop quick, regardless of how many buildings FB owns or how many employees FB has.

The market "value" of a company is less tied to physical stuff and tangible property. It's more tied to collective perceptions, and these perceptions can shift like the wind for real or fake reasons (misperceptions), including sheer fads. Too many economic models count physical or tangible property to "value" a company. Instead, the "value" is virtual: in people's heads.

And it's circular: if an AI company convinces investors they are great, investors put more money in, allowing them to do better things than AI co's who can't dazzle the crowd. And that could swap if this year's loser happens upon a better dazzle story.
I was going to cite crosstown traffic on a bus to get from the 125th Park Ave station to the 90s on West End and back but Google Maps is showing that if I took the 4 train to 149th to catch the 2 back down to 96th I'd come out ahead time-wise (and without road rage) versus driving. Nice, thanks buddy!
I thought Google hires into a general pool, and hiring managers don't "own" candidates like Amazon HMs do.
Please say you pronounce it "Teevee Stomp 4."

Also this is a rad idea. Well done!
To be fair we are talking about Google, not the local shop at the corner of the streets. Each recruiter must do tens of screening a day, and they have tens of recruiters assigned to each department, we are not talking about reviewing 2 applications a day during coffee break.
Agreed, on all points, and that's basically what I do usually. I typically have a gen_server with a behavior defined data access and update message API, then that gen_server is the only process that can access a Mnesia table. I've seen a lot of code that doesn't do that though, and you still need to debug the gen_server if something goes wrong. If you use the gen_server approach though it is much easier to debug.
I am actually a research scientist working on NDN (Named-data Networking). Van certainly was the founder of NDN and is often consulted to remind us about his vision for the network, but the torch really has been passed to the other PIs; most notably Lixia Zhang[1], another early-Internet pioneer. It's very exciting work, and a lot of things need re-inventing when you totally invert the networking protocol like that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lixia_Zhang
Visualizing Global Population Growth by Continent
It's easy to adjust to any sleep cycle over a few months. After a few months living on the other side of the planet you get used to an X hour shift. The trick adjust lighting and habits so going to sleep early enough feels natural.
Design for an Audience
This interesting story of a man who was rapaciously knowledgeable and wrote an apparently superhuman number of works is made distracting by the "knew everything" claim. It's distracting because the mind inevitably searches out things that he probably didn't know: was he familiar with the General Theory of Relativity? did he read Sanskrit and Mandarin? what were his views on the recent progress in the theory of fields and rings? Really, no one can know everything -- but that doesn't make his life any less remarkable.
That is a deliberate mischaracterization of the OP's comment. It in no way implies that the software is poor because of women.

The outreach program is political, and is rather discriminatory and sexist.
The person your replying to misunderstood it. I misunderstood it. The literal meaning of the title is not what it literally means. I think we should agree that it is misleading.
It is not a bug, it is a feature. Pain and suffering are a feedback mechanism that give the animals a chance to improve the situation.
but they banned Overwatch lootboxes, a purely cosmetic addition to the game that cannot be resold or traded between accounts and has no impact on gameplay. the legislation seems to just be a knee jerk reaction to something that someone told them is bad, without fully understanding the ecosystem. there are definitely some predatory systems out there, but identifying those wrong from the onset makes me think they aren't fully informed here
Thanks for stopping by the thread. I'm doing my thesis in regression trees and appreciate any love trees get in the ML space. I quite liked the article, but my only comment is that the pseudo-code for ID3 was a little hard for me to read formatting wise.
> 3. Totalitarian maintainer. Pwnies award for lamest vendor response 2017 covers my complaints there.

It really doesn't. One of the pull requests they link to as the "lamest vendor response" literally has only three comments from Poettering, one which says "Looks great otherwise", one which says "excellent! thanks a ton for fixing this!", and one which answers a question about why a local variable is named MTU.

Seriously, this is the thread itself: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/6214

There's another linked thread where he admits that they misjudged a commit as irrelevant, but explains that they can't rewrite git history, which is unfortunate but hard to take serious issue with. And a third where he says that systemd will defer to validating input according to POSIX and other common cross-distribution requirements, instead of enforcing its own, stricter set of requirements that would actually break other systems.

It's not even hard to find places where Poettering has said something that makes him look less sympathetic than this stuff. But referring to these as the "lamest vendor response" really just makes it look like they're searching for anything to take issue with for Poettering himself, regardless of the topic at hand.
Do you think the outcome of no alarm clock is because you sleep more, or you awake at a more ideal moment in your sleep cycle?
In all those examples of communities, the members have real channels of influence over the rules, they are not merely subject ones handed down by a distant authority. HOAs have boards that members can petition or join, etc.
Don't TPUs get sustained use discounts? I know they're not preemptible. That would be comparable to AWS reserved instances.

EDIT: you don't get sustained use discounts, either, at the moment. You can get either for GCP GPUs, though. Perhaps that will change once TPUs are out of beta?
Would Google have reached today's size if it had charged from day one?

I would gladly pay for Google Search as I can't do my job without it. But what additional features would they offer when 1) there's growing privacy concerns and legislation coming (so not using your personal data isn't doable and/or will be required anyway) and 2) they pretty much offer everything for free today (and it'd be a downgrade if they downscale free users and made people pay for something they already get for free!).

It's a tough spot to be if you're thinking about an alternative to ads.
https://twitter.com/khaldoonalnuaim/status/98727793803810816...
Which is a pity because I really would like to know how much people would pay to stick with Google as opposed to another search engine, e.g. DDG

The question makes no sense to me. Everyone (outside of a tiny tech savvy minority) already uses Google, and they have to be paid nothing.
Strongly agree with this! The problem for SF is that it also needs buy in from the rest of the Bay Area to continually upgrade mass transit into the city. If CalTrain had higher throughput to take more cars off the road, then replacing car lanes with bike/e-mobility lanes would be more feasible.
Nice overview, seems more accurate than most other salary reports. Do you know of a similar one that includes data scientists/ML engineers?
A pileup of 14 galaxies will become the most massive structure in the universe
Interesting project for sure.

I really enjoy the results.
>What happens when you wake up inside of an environment of complete sensory-deprivation? If scientists determine that ‘normal’ brain activity can continue outside of the body, by EKG for example, is it a form of unlawful imprisonment to keep someone “alive” in that condition without their expressed consent?

Well this is just disturbing. a real life purgatory.
It's not like there isn't decades of prior art out there on what works well...

A decade ago I was quite happy with the Gnome2 desktop. Since then, I either go with Xubuntu and XFCE or Mint, which was Cinnamon last time I checked.
$17.5k/year for Google? I'd probably go more. I can't even fathom how much it'd hamstring me professionally to not be able to use Google.
When they say the control was not given an op-ed to read, do they mean no reading material was provided, or that they were shown a neutral article?

I suspect that the increased exposure of op-eds comes from newspapers not being printed any more. It used to be that they were isolated onto two pages inside a newspaper. The editorial page and the "opposite-editorial" page. When reading them you knew you they were expressing the opinion of the writer. (I used to think the abbreviates stood for "opinion".)

On the internet the boundary between news and opinion blurs. The front of www.nytimes.com right now has opinion articles prominently featured at the top of the page. They know that readers don't browse a site the way they do a printed newspaper. If they want something to be read it has to be one of the first things they see. But more frequently readers enter an article directly through shared, aggregated, or searched for links. "Click here to read this in the New York Times" doesn't tell you if what you're going to is a news report, op-ed, reprinted press release, or paid advertisement masquerading a news. You may be halfway through the article before noticing the tag that indicates what section it's in, if you notice at all.

The effect of this is that readers are either not able or not willing to differentiate between opinion and unbiased news. Combined with mistrust of journalism after lying scandals, conflicts of interest, and fake news, readers are likely assuming everything they read is an opinion. When facts are inscrutable then the truth of what you know becomes indistinguishable from the truth that you feel.
Running a local food and cocktail promotion side gig. It's got me out of the house, meeting tons of new people, chefs, bartenders, going to events. Helping them grow their businesses and my skills in photography.
Parent said:

> If you can't answer it, or don't want to answer it

Here is how I would rank answers from best to worst:

1. Give the correct answer to the technical question asked, and some background about when to think twice about using it

2. Give the correct answer to the technical question asked

3. Why you should rethink the approach

4. No answer

5. "Don't do it"
Lol, a better question is "How much would you pay to eliminate google from your life forever." because why the hell would I ever give someone money to spy on my personal life?

This kind of thing really makes me question how capable people are of grasping how completely they are being exploited and taken advantage of. Google should be paying us for the use of our data. How did we get to this point where humans think it is their purpose to be juiced for money by faceless corporations until they die?

And now we can pay for the privilege!!! lol.
There is method called random forests, which basically construct trees on random slices of data and let them vote on outcome. It is still very simple method and it has better over-fitting performance.
Smartphone addiction is worth talking about, but probably isn't a social crisis
Your behavior in Starbucks may reveal more about you than you think